Holy crap. My kids, man. They won’t freaking sleep. It looks like I’m gonna have to pull out the big guns and tell the Krampus story. Only, you know, modified so that Krampus only takes little children who GET OUT OF BED TOO EARLY LIKE YOU! I mean, fuckit, they can spend their own money on therapy or wait and use mine after I die, right?
Some progress made on the three-body problem?
Trump impeached almost 21 years to the day after Clinton. MoveOn on exactly the opposite side.
Ahh, its Winter Strike Season in France.
Damn. Survive a time in the NHL to get crushed in a paper plant. That’s rough.
Kids can be the worst, and I can be first.
Kids can be the worst, and I can be first.
With an insurance policy
Kids can be the worst and I can be first.
The squirrels say you can be first, second, and third!
Spud beat you.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice?
Sounds like a three body problem.
Spud is the pivot man in the throuple.
Bad joke time!
Three guys were on a road trip to see some friends on the west coast when they decided to stop at a fleabag motel in the middle of nowhere for the evening. Upon checking in, they discover that there’s only one room still available and it’s a single bed. They decided that driving to another town wasn’t worth it and stay. The next morning the guy on the left side wakes up, stretches and say “Man! I had the best dream last night. This incredibly sexy brunette chick was giving me the most furious handjob of my life!” The guy on the right side responses “Crazy! I had the same dream about this blonde girl from work! What are the odds?!” Finally, the guy in the middle wakes up, looks at the other two and says “God, I just had the most vivid dream about skiing a black diamond run!”
Holy crap. My kids, man. They won’t freaking sleep.
Slip them mickeys.
Dimetapp.
/every mom ever
Benadryl for the win.
Those little pink pills for nausea. Yours, I mean.
It makes some of us wired as fuck. Please test it on your kids before you put them on a plane thinking you’ll dose them.
It does that to me, by itself. With Tylenol, it knocks me out.
one of the ingredients or the combo of ingredients in dayquil makes me loopy… but it works, so it’s not as bad as not using it.
Nyquil sorta works on me, but what used to work was Robitussin when it had alcohol in it.
So make yourself some Bourbitussin…
A Flaming Moe.
Trust me, I’ve thought about it…
Flaming Homer.
Glibs are already weird as fuck. We don’t need any drugs to make us weirder.
Oh, you said “wired”….
Doxylamine >>> Diphenhydramine
Corner of a clean cloth, dipped into poppy juice and given to child to suck on is traditional, proven parenting trick that transcends cultures.
Speaking of poppies. My mom went to the regular ol’ grocery store for poppy seeds for poppy seed bread. (nom nom nom) They were sold out. When she asked, the manager told her that kids were buying it and grinding it up to snort.
I do not know if that is true. All I know is she couldn’t get poppy seeds for poppy seed bread, which is a travesty, especially at Christmas time.
So I took myself on downtown to the seed/spice store and bought her like 1/4 pound of it. Now I will get my poppy seed bread.
Now I’m eyeing my mortar and pestle.
bought her like 1/4 pound of it
someone is on a list now
Poppies, poppies poppies!
We’re all Poppies now.
That’s stupid. Go to a florist website and order poppy PODS, not seeds.
Kids these days are so uneducated.
“Morphine levels in poppy seeds range between 4–200 mg/kg.”
That’s not strong enough to get high. Those kids are idiots.
As I said, I do not know if that was true. However, I do know that drug-testing companies take it seriously when you say, “I had poppy seed bread.”
My only real concern is that I get poppy seed bread.
Yes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpCXxqiTjqE
Apparently Poppy is on tour. Does she stand in front of the audience for an hour and a half repeating “I’m Poppy?”
No, she freaks their shit out.
Damn internet!!!
“Old man yells at cloud”
You can say that again, and again.
Site seems slow today. Took forever to log in.
The NSA is monitoring us, trying to figure out how and where SugarFree placed the monitoring device in the Oval Office.
Blame net neutrality.
Uh, surely you mean lack of Net Neutrality…
It has resulted in the deaths of untold millions. I mean, all the people who’ve died since those asshole conservatards got rid of it are dead because of that…and you can’t prove otherwise!
/libtard
It’s gonna be a sparse Christmas for us, but now a little less sparse, thanks to my husband’s sweepstaking. As a living, it’s way below minimum wage. As a hobby to do while watching TV, it’s quite lucrative.
I’d say luck, but right now, nothing feels like luck so much as it does divine intervention.
Your kids are getting Turtle Wax and Lee Press-on Nails for Christmas?
Limited edition wax fragrance cubes and vintage icicles.
I’m hoping for some catheters. Maybe as a stocking stuffer.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/12/clackamas-transgender-woman-sues-miss-usa-pageant-alleging-gender-discrimination.html
I guess Miss Tiffany’s Universe isn’t good enough for him.
“This policy, intentionally designed to exclude the specific class to which plaintiff belongs – transgender females –”
No, the policy is intentionally designed to exclude men.
Three body problem? Are we still talking about Katie Hill?
Trump impeached almost 21 years to the day after Clinton. MoveOn on exactly the opposite side.
I skimmed through that article, and halfway through they just started talking like it was clintons impeachment again. With quotes about “today” and whatnot. I think they literally just said “Hey this is like one time when we could just copy and paste our own work and get away with it.
Blaire White is Chris Hansen with a dick:
“NEW VIDEO: Exposing Kai, Onision’s Predator Partner w/ receipts
Proof of sending nudes to minors, openly admitting to grooming kids.
Everyone is going after Onision, but his partner Kai is WORSE and flying under the radar. Let’s fix that.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1207359893759385600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIX38WouUKo
I don’t understand who any of these people are nor do I care. But than again I did comment on your comment so maybe I care more than I lead on.
Impeachment is a blast. I think the one thing that solidifies for me how loathsome I find lefties is just how little republicans care about this, If this was happening to Obama there would be protesters snarling fucking traffic and screaming on the capital steps no matter what the composition of the senate. People who vote republican just don’t care that much and that’s why while I’m almost certain I’ll never vote for a Republican in my lifetime they are seemingly the better of the two evils. Most certainly the less annoying and more tolerable neighbors by and large(exceptions exist for everyone of course).
It’s a factor of who votes for which party. There is a significant married with children gap between the two parties. People with kids are not about to take time off to act like assholes out in the street. Democrats draw a large amount of voters from college kids who are use to behaving like assholes.
It’s not that one group is more demur than the other, it’s a matter that one is useful while the other is just sort of a drain on society. Sorry, but I’m not sorry.
Last night, protesters shut down intersections in Sherman Oaks. The protestors quoted in the media were unbelievable. They believe that they’re saving the world by holding up signs in an extremely progressive neighborhood. That’ll show Trump!
It’s never crossed these peoples’ minds that they don’t matter. Not even a little bit.
That reminds me of a car driving down Christopher Street in NY the night afterthe pride parade. A guy is leaning out the window yelling, We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!!!
Preaching to the choir.
It reminds me of lefties paying for impeachment ads on CNN and MSNBC.
That’s a great point. Flip the parties and it’d be near rioting.
how little republicans care about this, If this was happening to Obama there would be protesters snarling fucking traffic and screaming on the capital steps
Republicans have jobs to attend. And this is a farce anyway.
People who vote republican just don’t care that much
VA 2A movement…
A dark day for the republic.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and several other female House Democrats are wearing black attire in an effort to show Wednesday’s scheduled impeachment vote is a “somber day.”
CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash tweeted that Pelosi conveyed to her that she “feels sad” over today’s vote as she walked into the House chamber while House Democrats debate impeachment.
“As she walked into the house chamber @SpeakerPelosi told me she ‘feels sad,’” wrote Bash, before adding in a subsequent tweet: “@SpeakerPelosi is wearing black. One of her colleagues told me several of the female Democrats did that intentionally to signal it is a somber day.”
I have to say I’m enjoying this….
Watching our Nomenklatura turn on each other in the manner of ravenous animals is delightful.
They are spraying diarrhea all over their reputations and we don’t even have to lift a finger!
I remember how sad they were when they were tweeting “impeach the motherfucker”. They really think people can’t see through this don’t they?
“They”
Hyperbole’s preferred pronoun
More uniforms. Did they figure out that only 4 of them can pull off a white pantsuit?
Did the Republicans walk out en masse like the Dems did after Clinton was impeached?
Hasn’t happened yet but I won’t be surprised if they do, they already stormed some committee meeting or whatever it was and then held a sit-in.
“they”
Look Fat, It was a bunch of them as opposed to one idiot so yeah in this case “they”.
I know. I just thought it was funny to identify the same ambiguous pronoun that you noted above. Kudos on the “look Fat”. And now my feelings are hurt.
Nothing personal.
I’m not really offended. I’m trying to be funny and failing
Welcome to the club.
Chicks are all about fashion.
Go all the way Nancy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cap
If they actually believed that they had a strong case, they wouldn’t resort to theatrics.
Instead of emoting, how about evidence of a crime?
They haven’t even named a crime, no statute, much less evidence backing up what they haven’t named. ‘Farce’ doesn’t really cover it.
You can impeach for a misdemeanor.
Mis- means bad
Demeanor means face.
Therefore orangeman can be impeached for orangeface.
Finally, reasoning I can understand.
They haven’t even named a crime, no statute
This is what I keep asking my lefty friends, and they say “abuse of power is a crime”.
And that Trump abused his power by trying to force Ukraine into investigating his political rival, who’d done absolutely nothing wrong (yes, they’ve said this).
When I pointed out that Biden had gotten the Ukraine prosecutor fired, and is even on tape bragging about it, one friend laughed derisively and said “that’s so been debunked”.
The same friend gleefully sent the open letter from “750 historians, professors and filmmakers endorsing impeachment”, in which that august group of ‘scholars’ (all non-partisan, of course) wrote “if Trump’s behavior doesn’t rise to the level of impeachment, nothing does”. Well, in my recollection, they said the day after election day that they would impeach him, and they couldn’t really find anything so they are using this — so apparently, for Trump, “nothing” DOES rise to the level of impeachment. If they’d had no other options, they would have gone after him for bad breath.
Pelosi will be the only person in US history to lose their role as Speaker of the House twice.
Sam Rayburn and Joseph W. Martin Jr. say hi.
They had such high hopes for President Trump, and he let them down with his high crimes and misdemeanors.
I liked the GOP dude who stood up and listed the 10 unconstitutional things done by Obama that were overlooked by Dem congressmen who now insist that Congress “uphold the Constitution.” Or did I just dream that?
A list? Or a link?
“An All-Women Fight Club Is In The Works
To all the university boys who insisted that we watch Fight Club: This one is probably not for you. Bella Thorne has joined Chick Fight, a new film about an all-woman fight club, and she’s about to give Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden a run for his money.
The new action comedy is produced by Malin Ackerman, who also stars in the upcoming indie. Ackerman plays Anna, a woman grieving the loss of her mom while also dealing with some other major changes in her life, according to Deadline. Her dad just came out as gay, and the frazzled Anna just burned down her coffee shop, leaving her sans purpose.
Lost and confused, Anna finds solace in an unlikely source: an all-women underground fight club, where Thorne’s Olivia is the toughest fighter in the gang. Also in the cast is Alec Baldwin, who plays Anna’s “reclusive trainer.” The film is slated to start filming this year.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/an-all-women-fight-club-is-in-the-works/ar-AAK0p3I
Eh, that could work as a comedy. Plus Ackerman sheds her clothes at the drop of a hat, so it’s got that going for it.
Bella Thorne though, eww.
*apologies to Sarcasmic*
She’s like a porn actress that adds plastic surgery, tatts, and various communicable diseases As their career continues.
*tips a 40oz for Dakota Skye*
I had to google image search her, and that chick has no ass what so ever. I’m no Sir Mix-a-Lot, but who wants to ride on an ironing board?
I’m no Sir Mix-a-Lot, but who wants to ride on an ironing board?
Night Owl, apparently.
The Comedian.
I assume these are Watchmen references but it’s still going over my head.
Both characters we mention either ride that ironing board or her mother’s.
Oh, she was in the movie, got it. thanks.
Me. I do. Give me a gymnast’s or ballerina’s ass any time.
Most of you never had a class like gross anatomy in medical school. Maybe if you did, and seen what piles of adipose tissue (fat) really looks like as you dig it out from under the skin, you might not be as huge fans of ginormous asses and big floppy tits.
^THIS!
A lone voice of reason in the darkness.
They usually don’t look great inside the skin, either. It’s the smoothing and redistributing that the clothes do that makes it look attractive.
huge fans of ginormous asses and big floppy tits
And then there’s the adorable triple roll of baby thigh fat on infants.
Me: “It’s what color?”
But, we haven’t. Why would I want a harder body than mine? My idea of “feminine” includes a softer body.
Akshually, I had zoology at BYU with cadavers and everything.
I was horrible at that. I couldn’t identify any of the structures (WHY WEREN’T THEY COLOR-CODED LIKE IN THE BOOK?) and I couldn’t tell a vessel from a nerve.
I thought it would be easy because it was “just rote memorization.” No. No, it was not. I was just awful at it.
How’d you enjoy the formaldehyde smell?
Our med school was on a grad school campus next door to the law school. Smart-assed law students would instantly detect us getting into the elevators after several hours in the cadaver lab and shout “first year meds! abort!” and run for the stairs.
Man, I can still smell that horrid odor just thinking about it.
Can you really blame them though?
I don’t recall it bothering me that much, or else that just wasn’t my biggest issue with the class.
My biggest issue was that I just wasn’t smart enough for it.
I failed (9th grade?) biology because my memory is shit.
Totally aced chemistry and physics because I can compute but biology just fucking broke me.
Biology for me was fine.
Chemistry and physics were a tidge harder, but overall, I got the hang of it.
I have a story from paramedic school I’ll share when I’m more sober. It involves vats full of cadavers in formaldehyde.
It’s going to take both of them showing lots of skin for this to go anywhere.
Ladies fighting
Every now and then you redeem yourself.
I don’t do anything that necessitates redemption.
I’m truly pleased I guessed what that link was to.
Alec Baldwin. Of course.
I hate the guys politics, but he’s a genuinely good actor.
Indeed, tiresome, vapid and lame politics.
But lights out actor. And funny as hell.
A from the looks of it, possibly even a miserable human being.
The famous and funny usually are.
He was also a great interviewer, at least for Gene Wilder.
I recently got a DVD of Glengarry Glen Ross. Can confirm.
ugh. As usual they missed the whole point of ‘Fight Club’.
Yes. The point is TO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB.
Laff riot.
Reminds of the song “On Any Other Day” from The Police’s first album back in the late 70s.
Sting’s probably embarrassed about the lyrics now:
My wife has burned the scrambled eggs
The dog just bit my leg
My teenage daughter ran away
My fine young son has turned out gay
And it would be okay on any other day (repeats over and over as kids voices sing “happy birthday dear daddy” in the background)
” and she’s about to give Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden a run for his money.”
Uh-huh. Sure.
https://twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1207359122372476928
People who attend political rallies are weird. People who line-up hours before a political rally so they can get a good spot are insane.
The shocking part about this is that this rally is in Justin Amash’s district. Dude shouldn’t have spent his load on Russia Fever Dreams, he would have at least appeared to be principled if he made his stand now. Long story short, he gone.
What a disappointment Amash is. I bet he gives a *great* concession speech.
“Asked on French radio whether the power cuts weren’t a step too far, Philippe Martinez, the head of the hardline CGT union, said the cuts were necessary to force Macron to back down.
“I understand these workers’ anger,” the mustachioed union leader said. “These are targeted cuts. You’ll understand that spitting on the public service can make some of us angry.”
Following a meeting with government officials, he hinted at further cuts, saying “we may amplify these kinds of methods”.
Degenerate assholes.
But then again these clowns sound like activists who protested banks because they invest in fossil fuels.
Watch in disbelief….and weep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMhXs3-2Evo&feature=em-uploademail
Imagine if a doctor refused to treat the union leader.
Hot Italian politician pisses on EU Green Deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxbg4NSA2Q
I’d stuff her conchiglie.
With ricotta and sauce.
Would.
I suddenly care about Italian politics.
Better looking AND more interesting than Katie Hill.
Shaun King’s hometown identified.
LOLOLOL
Good grief. The one drop rule negates the difference between culture and race, or something.
I identify as me.
Arrogant, condescending Guardian hacks amazed to discover some level of complexity and nuance in demographics out there in flyover country, spin it to be as neurotically identarian as possible, tell the rest of us in condescending “explaiiiinned” manner because the world revolves around them and if they, in their miserable bigotry didn’t understand before, then of course noone did. My sister is like this all the time. She takes a horrible condescending tone to #EXPLAIN stuff that is either blatantly obvious to anyone who isn’t a complete moron, because she just found out, or more often than not, expose her complete ignorance. Just yesterday she told me how people who vote the “wrong” way are feeble minded and it’s not their fault they are too stupid to know what’s best for them, without a hint of self-awareness. UUUuurururughghgh *HULK SMASH*
Weird spot for a rant, I know, sorry HM.
At the Drake’s barrel room in San Leandro, CA. Pork belly, tater tots, and a Denogginizer. Good lunch.
That denogginizer is real good, careful and enjoy!
I couldn’t watch the hearing. Every time Schiff’s wormy face appears on the screen, I want to punch it. I’m watching reruns of Triple G.
Dammit!
/goes outside to yell at a cloud.
My sister just bought a place in SM.
It’s maybe 3 blocks away from Mariscos Guillen. I was tempted.
And did you let us Bay Area glibs know you were in town?
We could have had a meetup in your honor!
Still can if you’re around for a few days, we can let the amazing meet-up organizer guy know, just say the word.
Krampus only takes little children who GET OUT OF BED TOO EARLY LIKE YOU
Look, I don’t want to tell you how to parent, BUT if you’re going to tell your children this story, you need to immediately leave the room get into the nastiest, scariest Krampus costume you can and then hover outside their bedroom door until one of them comes out, lick your lips and give the hungriest, most malicious grin you can before raising a birch broom like you’re gonna knock him the fuck out.
I mean… who wouldn’t want their child to spend years huddled in his room at night, pissing the bed because he’s too afraid to go to the bathroom at ten?
Will there be crying? It’s worth it if there’s crying.
I’m disappointed that you need me to iron out all the details here: this solves your problem elegantly
It’s not my child.
Your Skinner boxes don’t have a floor drain? Doesn’t it fill up when you need to actuate the fire hose?
It’s a drowning pool.
I’m glad that link didn’t involve bodies hitting the flloooooooor
Something like this
Speaking of Krampus tales….
“the Afghanistan Papers are this generation’s Pentagon Papers but whatever forget it. go back to sleep.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1207240743376560129
“We Were Lied To For 18 Years and NOBODY F*CKIN CARES”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYEtMfapigU
That’s because anyone who would care didn’t believe the government from day 1.
Well, there are also a significant amount of people who have been lied to from birth and are just shipping out on their first tour.
That’s why these revelations *should* cause more of a stir. But we are too cynical as a nation for this to have a big impact.
1950’s America? Yeah, it’d be a bombshell. But the Pentagon Papers hadn’t happened. Snowden hadn’t happened. Waco hadn’t happened. The Camera-Phone-In-Line-of-Sight-Of-Police hadn’t happened. The Definition of Is-Is hadn’t happened. the FBI’s sex tape of MLK hadn’t happened. The release of the contours of the Tuskegee Experiment and Agent Orange cover up hadn’t happened yet.
What difference, at this point, does it make if the government tells another lie to defense of the war machine after so many?
Well sure there are boys fighting wars that their fathers died in. But that’s not a forever war
We achieved every objective in the first six months. Nothing after that made sense except as an excuse for grift.
Somebody’s getting a white Christmas.
That was not a bukkake porn video.
I like that the link is some kind of Rorschach test.
It all ends up at the same place.
Just when I start trusting you again…
Never stop being you, HM!
ohhhhh, not signing in to confirm my age.
He got some bad information.
It’s only good for your hair and skin if you swallow it.
This whole thread is why I keep coming back.
*crosses fingers, hopes it’s a story about Brett doing a ton of cocaine*
Neat, but not what I was hoping for.
“We should make Dec 18 a holiday (like Flag Day): Impeachment Day, in which we honor the heroes and read in every public square the articles of impeachment.”
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1207318994983817221
so somber much serious
No, I like this. We should just include ALL of the impeachments.
The women could wear blue dresses.
Speaking of “the women”, why do they give the fugliest media jobs?
I know; not a valid argument. But, I can’t take seriously, anyone too hideous to look at–and J Rubin is front and center on that.
I vote this be a paid holiday!
“Trigger warning for fellow Jews. I’m so sorry. Folks, everyone deserves to walk in our streets, take our subways, ride the bus, shop, worship WITHOUT fear & harassment. This is unacceptable.”
https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/1207082179903270912
OFFS!!
I agree.
Support institutionalization of the mentally ill.
Yeah, I can see why that might push some buttons but really, standing there being offended at the rantings of a complete nut probably isn’t the best use of one’s time.
When does she get beheaded for apostasy?
Sarsour is a foul human being.
I ran into a pretty cool observation from Gene Epstein a couple of days ago. Thomas Picketty bases much of his Capital argument on the notion that returns to capital have escalated steadily in recent years, while returns to labor have stagnated or fallen. And the superficial evidence for this is pretty strong. The BEA has a chart showing a steady increase in capital’s share of GDP and labor’s steady deterioration. There’s just a problem. The share is of GDP, gross domestic product. An alternative measure of share of output would be as a portion of net domestic product, NDP. The difference between the two is that NDP subtracts capital depreciation, where GDP doesn’t. GDP doesn’t include the cost of replacing capital or keeping the capital stock in working condition. Now, for trends, that wouldn’t matter too much if GDP and NDP moved in tandem. But, they haven’t. In fact, the ratio of NDP to GDP has fallen steadily from about 94% in the 50s to about 84% today as depreciation costs have risen. This is because investment in long-duration capital goods such as factories or heavy machinery in the 1950s has been replaced with investment in short-duration capital goods such as software. Curiously enough, when you account for depreciation, the trend of capital’s greater share of output disappears.
Correct. Picketty’s results were too good for the mainstream to look under the hood. Once you do so its a lot of elegant theory that doesn’t comport with reality. Its like an Italian sports car.
Curious. How so? A Ferrari doesn’t comport to reality?
Looks pretty but doesn’t work. I was thinking of Maseratis and Alfa Romeos.
#GeneEpsteinDidn’tKillHimself
#RichardAEpsteinAlso
#don’tforgetMrKottersEpsteineitherHorshack
“Holy crap. My kids, man. They won’t freaking sleep. It looks like I’m gonna have to pull out the big guns”
You could try this too
Blah try this link
https://youtu.be/bHsTV67M6j0
What could possibly go wrong.
Hi Brett!
Sorry about the kids, dude. It gets better – or worse, I guess – since teenagers won’t drag their asses out of bed…
Anyway, tragic story about Scot Kleinendorst. Someone in the comments said he was ejected from the crane he was operating. Nasty.
SHOT
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMF_ayVX0AY2REI.png
CHASER
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMF_ayWWoAUgLE7.png
When you conservative so hard that you lose track of what you believe in.
That guy again? Geez Matt, shut up already. Want to curtail freedom of speech? Ok, I get to be the one deciding what gets curtailed. Guess who gets gagged first.
“Freedom of Speech is awesome until somebody says things I don’t approve of”
/Bipartisan consensus
You left this out: “…and I am sure that making exceptions to the 1A will never come back to bite me in the ass. It is only for those awful people, and I am not an awful person.”
Well they are all fairly certain that eventually the libtards/rubes will be relegated to their proper place soon enough and that turnabout will be impossible
Blah blah hardcore porn, you gotta restrict it for the children. People get all squishy on rights when kids are brought up but old Matt needs to fuck right off as far as I’m concerned.
CO2/global warming skepticism. I’m amazed that there were scientists 4 years ago willing to admit to skepticism about the CO2 story. I hope they still have jobs.
I don’t remember where I heard this, maybe here, but some student taking an earth science class asked his professor if the sun might be driving the climate on earth. The prof answered that ‘we have no evidence that there is any mechanism by which the sun drives climate’.
Yep. I would have walked out and demanded my money back right then and there.
That’s some awesome CGI. No way that redhead doesn’t burst into flame in full sun.
Can confirm.
Second.
OK–NOT the scene I was
hoping forthinking of.On flame?
Too late for the H&H thread, but when I first read Donny’s nifty letter to Nancy I was thinking “SF has to do an H&H telling us what really happened.” Consisdering publishing lead time it’s almost like SF was actually there in the Oval Office taking notes. Hiding behind a ficus?
Taking notes? He might have been writing the letter. Heck, has anyone seen Trump and SF in the same room together?
Just a reminder that Mitch McConnell sells “Cocaine Mitch” T-Shirts on his campaign store.
https://www.teammitch.com/store/
Holy shit. Not just the Cocaine Mitch shirt. Whoever is running that has a sense of troll humor. The Mitch wrapping paper is just icing.
This guy should have gone into urology, not oncology.
Yeah, James does look kinda like a dick.
You take that back.
File under: Why? … WHY?!
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/12/9004559/bella-thorne-chick-fight-club-with-women
Because she wants drugs to fall out of her ass?
I’m guessing I’m late to the party on this……..west coast time makes the AM links a non-starter for me unfortunately
It’s also upthread. ;P
I can’t be bothered to read all the links, much less all the comments!
Bella has been directing porn, so we can only hope they fight nake in a tub of jello.
That’ll show us knuckle dragging members of the patriarchy
Bella is too busy harassing the cat and pooping to be directing porn…..
That’s okay, I’m not into bestiality porn.
It’s too ruff.
It’s a dog eat dog world out there.
“Sniff the butt, now you sniff their butt……hackles down, now waive your tail vigorously”
I can’t resist.
Because they have to run around behind men saying they can do anything men can do then they do a terrible job emulating men because they are totally independent, original and capable. It is like having your little brother follow. you around constantly trying to prove himself.
How’s that for a troll?
“It is like having your little
brotherretarded sister follow. you around constantly trying to provehimselfxerself“.FIFY
It’s like having your retarded step-sister follow you around, and complaining to her mom when she can’t do something you can.
Hell, lets just go with ‘retarded kid from the neighborhood’ since I feel zero obligation to be kind to xer.
I have seen men who have hands as big as hams with thick skin and giant knuckles that align perfectly when they make a fist. Their fists are like sledge hammers. I have never seen a woman’s hand like that. I am sure they are out there somewhere, one in 100K, but I haven’t seen them. A woman’s fist generally lines the bones up in a stair-step manner and the bones are far too light to land a proper punch without breaking. The rules and laws of man may change but the laws of physics are unchanging (as far as we know) and don’t take that into account.
I may be griping too much over this. The real moral failing is the entry into competition against woman by biological males. That is just so over the top crazy and wrong I fail for words.
Progressives cant tell up from down, day from night, man from woman, right from wrong. They are doomed to failure.
It’s less about winning than dragging everyone else down too, they truly are miserable creatures.
Their complaining about ‘meritocracy’ is a dead give away. Who complains about a meritocracy? People without merit, that’s who.
Entitlement is like radiation… In small sporadic doses, it can be harnessed for good. However, once you get enough of it, it’s a carcinogen.
Oh, but they can! The intent is to muddy the water so much that you can no longer tell, or, at a minimum, are afraid to say so.
^This
It’s all about making you walk on eggshells.
Because some people wanted to make a movie that maybe some other people might enjoy? and at the same time maybe bank some cash? Why endeavor in any creative process?
Oh, but you are tiresome sometimes.
*Hype puts another mark on the board*
Eh, I’m less exasperated than just wryly indifferent.
+1 apathy.
He doesn’t use a scoreboard. And it wouldn’t be the kind you mark, if he did.
I’ll grant you it’s a process.
Creative is fine. I am all for creative. When they get creative I will start paying attention.
Because some people wanted to make a movie that maybe some other people might enjoy?
I can’t imagine all that many people enjoying this concept, but then again I paid to watch star trek nemesis, so what do I know?
“I see the all female remake of Ghostbusters was a real snooze and a box office disaster. Now let’s do Fight Club!”
/Malin Ackerman
Formula for success!
Yep. This movie will get rave reviews and all sorts of media attention and the viewing public will largely ignore it. I look forward to the inverse of the “Sticks & Stones” phenomina on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Why don’t these rubes know whats good!?!” /Prog film critic
Oh, if you haven’t already, check out the YT videos on Rotten Tomatoes – Critics vs. Audience. It’s funny, if your sense of humor includes laughing at utterly clueless people self-owning themselves.
It’s a film that hasn’t even starred production yet. One article about it hits some culture war buttons so “let’s dog pile on the rabbit”. Yet I’m the tiresome one.
Yep. Pretty much. It ain’t easy being the rebel.
*goes back and actually reads the article*
*shrugs*
Looks like crap, but I’ve never seen Fight Club, so I’ll reserve judgment on the concept of redoing it with chicks.
It’s worth a watch IMO, there’s a lot there beyond fighting (really a minor part of the film). The cultural references alone make it worth watching.
If you read the article the you know it’s not a remake of ‘Fight Club’ with chicks despite the click bait lede, Yes it has some similarities but it is also compared to “Karate Kid” and “Million Dollar Baby” and it’s an action comedy. All I’m saying is maybe, just maybe, you should wait until a movie is actually made before you shit all over it because it fits your particular brand of outrage du jour.
I think youre missing the snark dripping throughout my comments.
More than likely.
Dog pile on the tiresomely predictable. We have seen this movie a thousand times and know the whole thing by heart. We are just getting a head start so we can direct our attentions elsewhere later on.
I don’t get the outrage over impeachment.
Pro or Con?
Which side?
I guess I get the Democrats cause they know it won’t go anywhere.
That’s an outrageous comment. *Bangs gavel*
*Psst*
leon is a Russian asset.
I get it. There is a political outsider fucking up the future of a LOT of people wish cushy lay about jobs in which they do nothing but scheme all day, when they’re awake and sober, about how to rob tax payers of more money for nefarious reasons. Imagine if an actual libertarian got elected as POTUS. We’d have a civil war in less than a week, and it looks like we’re heading that way as it is.
For any of you with Memphis, TN experience- I have a friend spending the week there for work.
Any recommendations for dining could be helpful.
best chicken in the world Gus’s
bbq Central or The Barbecue Shop
eclectic The Beauty Shop
burgers Huey’s
upscale Iris or Acre
fish Soulfish
do NOT eat Asian, Italian, or Mexican in MEM
Interim has a new chef
Much obliged! Will pass along.
breakfast Blue Plate
fun view at dusk top of Pyramid (Neph liked it)
lunch Germantown Commissary
formal Cafe Society or
Paulette”s (and nightcaps upstairs)
drinks and view top of The Madison or Peabody (closed for season?)
Everyone always tells you to go to Rendezvous, I didn’t find it all that impressive. And there’s that place that’s been using the same grease for 80 years “Dyers?” Meh. I did enjoy the Rum Boogie Cafe on Beale street but mostly because Bobby Rush was playing and we had a table right up front. The High Point? a bikerish bar had a mean reuben, but it’s been thirty years so all this has probably changed.
le Rendezvous is only good for dry ribs.
I dont use drinking straws or eat finger food in front of womenfolk, so it’s a no go for me.
hot coeds: no luck they’re all poor if the go to Pope Jimbo”s alma mater. Runs to Oxford for proper SEC sweethearts is much recommended,, but slick Yankee poses are good for exactly nada
“NO THAT’S SANDY’S MO- I MEAN TAXES FOR SAN- UH, YOU GIVE IT TO US THE GOVERNMENT.”
– Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Mad Scientist? This may or may not interest you- Tovarish tries to get running a Mazda Three Rotorfor a project car.
Mmmmmmm 20B!
Looks like he might have a broken (or stuck) apex seal on the center rotor, and 2 more on the front rotor, at 5:39.
I believe you. I’ll gladly defer to you in all things rotary. Even the Rotary Club International.
Holy crap. They’re banging in spark plugs with a hammer. I’m not sure I can watch the rest of this.
Banging IN or getting OUT?
I didnt understand the plugs/hammer
Tulsi talks about Afghanistan. Whatever else, she’s right here.
Tulsi remains an alluring puzzle to me. Principled leftist? Broken Clock? I remain unsure.
But as you put it, she’s spot on here.
I am still waiting for answers. What have we gotten out of our wars in the ME? What do we expect to get out of continuing wars in the ME? How, exactly, will we get it? When exactly will we get it?
Boberson: She is a gun grabber. I don’t care what else she is right about.
I have no problem going into Afghanistan and exacting some revenge. What I have a problem with is staying there for years and trying to introduce democracy into a centuries old tribal system after the job was done. Colin Powell is a cunte.
^^ this. It’s sad that we can’t have a conversation about the occupation apart from thee initial conflict
Exactly correct.
“Hey Taliban, we are coming in and killing every Al Qeda asshole we find, it is in your best interest to stay well out of the way. After we’re done we reserve the right to do it again if necessary.”
Correct 9/11 response.
We easily could have done it too until we got caught up in fighting the Northern Alliances war for them.
Agreed. Getting FMJ payback on Bin Laden was needed. Staying for two decades in some shithole, wasting blood and treasure for some farcical goal of changing them into a bunch of Trudeaus was obviously not.
And yes, her stances on 2A and economics are really bad. But she’s also fairly hot, so there’s that.
” exacting some revenge ”
Can easily be prosecuted from 30k feet or better
Say that you knew beforehand that the situation would be the same as it is today. Would you still have supported going in 18 years ago? Just a though experiment.
Ooh ooh Mister Kotter Mister Kotter!
I said we’ll do a bunch o stupid shit even as the first bombs fell in Iraq
I said we were fucked when I saw congress walk out onto the steps of the capitol and make a big show out of reciting the pledge with their hands on their hearts. That was long before the bombs started falling. That gave me one of the worst sinking feeling/knot in the gut I had had up to that point in my life.
I remember watching the TV in disbelief and saying that out loud and my extended family all said “Whaaaaaaa? Huuuuuuh? Whuuuuuuuh? Whut R U tawkin’ about? They are patriotic….we just got bombed. Ur crazy. That’s just like U so cynical”
It was all I could do to keep from responding with expletives and accusations of idiocy.
I’m not asking about Iraq, though.
That’s a Hobson’s choice.
Iraq, otoh, is an easy decision. Bush lost my vote in 2004 over that.
Iraq certainly was an easier choice. My point is that do you still think it was worth doing what the US did given how it turned out?
Just to put out my thought: I’d say it wasn’t worth it. Taking out Al Qaeda’s hangout? Sure. Doing it the way they did it? No.
The problem is, you can’t know how it would have turned out if we didn’t. It would have been seen as a weakness in that part of the world if we had done nothing. That typically would have resulted in more of the same. I think it’s such a thin line, that it’s a difficult decision to make. We had to respond in some way, but the way it turned out was a fiasco. The first two years was just what it should have been, and then we should have come home.
But we knew there was a high chance the US wouldn’t just go home.
Yeah, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Believing in your fellow countrymen and knowing that the government is going to fuck it up.
How is it Powell’s fault? He was pushed out because he had no love for what he called the PNAC “crazies”. His “you break it, you buy it” principle was intended as a warning not to get into quagmires – that is, if you attempt “regime change” it better be really worth it because shit like Vietnam or Afghanistan happens.
Pushed out as in physically? Dude had free will and he chose poorly.
Done properly, it wouldn’t have been a quagmire. Break it, go home, and tell them never to fuck with us again. But, we never should have gone into Iraq. And, as I mentioned above, believing in you fellow Americans, and the government, are two different subjects.
He’s a cunte for going to the UN to pitch the Iraq war without damning evidence. I wanted an Adlai Stevenson moment and all I got was confirmation that Bush’s team was hyping intel to push a war.
Granted, and as such I would never ‘support’ her. I’m just curious if there are any actual principles there or not. As Scott Horton points out she’s just the least bad on war, she’s still all for fighting the terrorists, she’s just good on regime change.
Oh, she is principled. That is why her party hates her. Some principles are good, others not so much, but she is a believer and she is principled. I would invite her over to dinner but I wouldn’t vote for her. The rest of the party can sit in the yard in the cold and starve.
I’m not going to question Horton and I’ve heard him say that before. I just think he holds her to a standard that he doesn’t apply to others.
Probably has a lot to do with the fact that he’s gone all-in on taking over and supporting a good LP candidate recently.
I hope he and Tom Woods succeed. And I wish Christian conservative Dave Smith all the best
They got me to join after I had written off the LP forever.
Hornberger 2020!!!
“Least bad” sounds like he is holding her to the same standards.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I usually just defer to Scott’s opinion on foreign policy.
I donated to the Libertarian Institute not too long ago and I got an email from Horton (which was most likely randomly generated) asking me if I wanted a signed copy of one of his books and I was way too excited thinking “wow, Scott Horton sent me an email”.
Tulsi is more principled than most libertarians that you see on TV. She disputed Russia Fever Dreams from the beginning and was pushing for ending our support for the War in Yemen during the Obama administration. Congressman Present and his cheering section were wrong on all counts.
I have a hard time believing that the latter have any principles outside of those that are fashionable in the moment, whereas I have no doubt about Tulsi’s principles, because she has stood by them even when it was unpopular.
I think I tend to agree with you. What’s sad is that she can’t seem to make the leap between foreign non-interventionism and domestic non-interventionism.
Yeah. A common disease on the Left. See, Glenn Greenwald
Not common enough as of late. They seem to be morphing into the “lets be awful on everything party” since BHO.
Agreed
Hmm…Dems thinking about delaying the transmission of the articles to keep this circus going even longer.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/18/trump-impeachment-trial-steny-hoyer-087319
I thought that was the whole point. I was surprised they were talking about taking a vote today. I figured they would drag this out right up to the election. I guess the polls aren’t going the way they expected.
This too, will backfire in their faces.
It’s like a felching a guy after he ate taco bell.
Oddly specific, bro
Imagery is everything.
Getting some sketching ideas?
Actually, I don’t wanna know…
“”As long as we have the articles of impeachment under our control, we have an opportunity to prevent a travesty,”
These people are running the impeachment? They cant even spell ‘perpetrate’.
Let me guess: They are going to try and delay the trial until after the election under the delusion that they are going to retake the senate.
Gee whiz. That’s a bold strategy cotton. We’ll see how it turns out.
Especially after cocaine Mitch keeps the D Senators in the Presidential race off the campaign trail to give testimony. Ha ha ha.
McConnell should subpoena the articles.
So when does the next civil war start? Seriously why is Trump such a threat? Very scary.
Trump is the excuse they use, and it starts the war they lose,
Lampposts, walls, trees, guns whatever works,
^^^This. Their antics & tactics would be the same if it was Paul, Cruz, Rubio, etc in Trump’s place. The only R they would tolerate would be the one that lays down for them.
Seriously?
The Federal Govt isn’t America. We are. The people, the culture, the ideas we are founded on. America isn’t a place, it is an idea. The Federal Govt hates those ideas because at their heart they are about limiting power. They see us as cattle and have a sense of entitlement about their power. They see themselves as elites and us as serfs. Trump’s stated agenda – cut taxes, cut regulation, reduce the power of the govt. He has made good o n some of that and that is not allowed. Govt power must always expand, that is their creed. He is against single payer healthcare. He is pro-2A. At the very least he has not expanded govt power. He has withdrawn us from international deals that fuck this country over. Shitweasel Barry tee’d us up for socialism. ‘Two Scoops’ is undoing that.
He mocks them. He derides them. At a rally last week he said to the crowd, paraphrasing, they are not the elite, you are.
Pols are allowed to say they want less taxes and less govt, they just aren’t allowed to actually do anything about it.
That’s why.
“So when does the next civil war start? Seriously why is Trump such a threat? Very scary.”
Look at my post upstream, I think was reply to you. There’s your answer.
I was talking with a friend who was upset that t
Lindsay grain Grahm said he was not impartial. I asked how he felt about Dem candidates saying how they would vote.
And his answer?
Well that’s different, because the NYT told her so
I just want say Ozy is a hell of a guy! 12 hour road trip and we were laughing and yelling the entire time, and a wealth of knowledge,
AZ Glibs!!!!!
Yay for Ozy and for Glibs Helping Glibs!
Yes! Of course when I woke up this morning expected to out pack the things we brought the Wife ended up back in the ER, infected foot again, that honestly needs to be removed before it kills her.
Good luck to Wendy, Yusef.
this should be an article
Or at the very least a pamphlet I may subscribe to
That is a FANTASTIC idea!
*ahem*
Earlier today I was in the grocery. Jugsy has a carry-in for her office tomorrow, and she volunteered to bring greens. Which means…I was told earlier that I would be making greens. For 16 people.
Anyhoo, while I was in there I thought some fish sounded good for supper. As soon as I saw COD….who did I think of ?
So many quips, so little time to choose one!
I, for one, got waylaid by “fish sounded good for supper”…
I was not going to go there…
That’s why I’m here (I think).
Here ya go,
Coffee?
Sure
Let’s smoke
Sure
Marine Corp?
Sure
Load out!
Sure
Lunch?
Sure
Smoke?
Sure
Let’s bail.
Sure
Beer?
Sure, Coffee?
Sure
I’ll call you
Sure
Ozy! Write an article. “Ozy and Yusef Hit the Road” Yusef, you supply Ozy’s Dan Carlin wisdom.
That would work, we go back once more after the holidays, well work something up, adventure Glibs!
“Fear and Loathing in Arizona” would be a catchy title.
Razing Arizona.
OMWC does not appear in this story
I sense this reference has been previously utilized.
Ozy is Dan Carlin, everything he says is revelatory, meet this Man!
It was my honor, sir.
Lots of fun road-tripping with you: smokin’, libertarian rants about the government, driving through some pretty scenery, and a whole lot of laughs.
Steny Hoyer just praised Justin Amash. I hope Amash has marketable skills, because his political life is dead.
I’m sure the Koch wing of the LP already have tingly feelings running up their legs in anticipation of running him as their POTUS candidate.
Yeah, his schtick of “I’m super principled” has blown up with one too many votes and one too many defenses of the intelligence community. “Orange Man Bad” is a kind of principle, but not a respectable one. He’s not going to be in Congress after 2020, so he needs some job
Personally I was pretty creeped out about his talk about “virtue” and “institutions”. What is he, Robespierre?
Trump seems to me like one of the *least* corrupt parts of Washington DC. Trump is a saint compared to prior Obama & Bush admins.
I would like one of these:
https://www.classicfirearms.com/chinese-sks-rifle-762×39/
$299.99
A sks is a solid weapon. A weapon of war, if you will.
And that is not a bad price, by today’s standards.
A sksksksksksk is a weapon?
And I oop….
Killed many a brain cells.
Doubles as a hydro flask
::looks askance at Gdragon::
?
……I’ll allow it.
Sigh…
I know. But I look at all of mine that were only $97 each when buying in bulk in the mid-’90s and want to weep. Yeah, solid weapon though. Particularly with the bayonet; it’s a spear with some decent reach.
Those things are great if you want to shoot people at short distances.
Oh for fuck’s sake, I’m going to send you the bill.
So…if a friend of mine was interested in owning an SKS, would this be a good option for him, or should he shop around a bit?
You used to be able to get them for even less, but I’d imagine this is about right. They’re pretty inexpensive. Now, if he wanted to use AK-style mags, Norinco made some SKSs in the late 80s that take those instead of the “duck bill” mags that are standard. I’ve got one of those.
A couple cousins of mine each bought one around 1990. My memory is fuzzy but I wanna say they only paid about $150? I still kick myself for not getting one back then. Just for shits-n-giggles.
I mean…my friend does.
Yeah, mine, which sank to the bottom of Spa Creek some time ago, came from my dad who picked it up in the 90s back when he was busy filling a walk-in closet with firearms because the man couldn’t say “no” to a sale. When he bought it it had a bayonet, but by the time I inherited it he’d either gotten a second that had the lug removed or had the one he bought modified. But I want to say he got it for like $100. And he took the damn thing deer hunting a couple of times, which blows my mind because I didn’t find it particularly accurate past 50 yards.
I would buy but I don’t have room in my gun safe and I don’t go out shooting often. Once I leave the City and move into the country I see my firearms collection growing substantially.
I kick myself for ignoring ads for $150 WWII German sniper rifles in the 80s.
Big 5 surplus rifles for me.
Same for me with the Mauser ads in the American Legion magazine 10 years ago. I think they were $250-ish?
Yep. I used to get Shotgun News in the 90’s and see ads for surplus AKs for around $300.
I assume you mean Chicom semi-auto AKs because surplus would be select fire.
1987 or so, all my friends at college that went to Florida for spring break came bake with AKs which were $250 to $300 at the gunshows theres
I thought there were E Euro surplus that had been converted to semi, but you may be right. Still, for about that price. I’m there with Drake for not at least buying one of ’em.
ATF says “once a machine gun, always a machine gun” so you can’t modify a gun that was full auto capable to semiauto and then transfer it as a non class III. The only way is to destroy it per ATF specs. (prescribed number of cuts i think at least 1/8″ wide each) At this point it is considered scrap and if done correctly can be rebuilt as a semi-auto. This is how I have a MG-42 which is now semi-auto.
There were a lot of cheap mil surplus in the time period I should have picked up. G43, Rashid, Hakim etc. The one that I really miss not getting was a Vickers parts kit.
It’s easy to use AK mags with a Type 56.
Adam Schiff is the biggest piece of shit in congress. It’s been a close contest though.
He’s bad but isn’t shithead Menendez still in Congress?
Alcee Hastings says hi.
Sandy says hi, too.
Close contest.
I’m calling proven liar Schiff as the winner.
Hank Johnson D Guam tipping over?
Hank is the probably the Stoopid King, but not the most corrupt.
No that Bernice Stupid hat from Tx iirc.,.
Don’t pick on Hank. The guy is genuinely mentally ill. That cant really compare to the extent of sociopathy the others show.
Hank is comedy relief.
There’s Maxine Waters, too, but Schiff is probably more dangerous.
Really? With so many, many choices?
I hate the POS that “represents” my district. His policies are almost exactly 100% opposite of mine. Of course, I live in a D++++++++++++++++++++ district so he’s not going to be looking for a job anytime soon.
We are selling off stuff in preparation for moving. XX TD wanted me to sell her Perler beads. I roll my eyes and agree to list them as if ANYONE is going to buy 2nd-hand craft supplies for a long-gone fad craft.
Silly me. I should know better by now not to try to predict what will or will not sell. Four people messaged me within 30 minutes and I have a buyer I’m meeting tomorrow. For an $8 item.
Giiiirrrrlllll…..that’s how white folks get killed.
Awesome! My husband can collect the life insurance!
XX wasn’t dumb after all, two birds, something stone?
I have a friend who has sold on eBay off and on over the years. She has recently re-started her e-business and we, and my aunt, have been emptying out our garages and storage units. Friend has an uncanny knowledge of on-line buyers. She pulled 4 old, rusted license plates out of my aunt’s trash and sold them for $120. I no longer have any doubts about what on-line buyers will purchase.
I throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. If I know it will sell but not for how much, I use eBay and auction. If I want to get rid of something large, I use Craigslist and Facebook.
I knew I could get at least $500 for Granny (junk value was $140). My husband and mom didn’t think I could give her away. What shocked me was how many people wanted her and how fast.
I have a bunch of cross stitch stuff to get rid of and I have no idea how to piece and price it.Much of it is cross stitch fabric yardage. No one buys it by the yard, but I had a business, so I did. Also, it’s not in popular colors. Do I cut it into standard sizes and if so, what sizes? No idea.
I kind of regret all the stuff I threw out spring cleaning this year. Perhaps I could have tried selling it.
The hard part is determining what is worth your while to photograph, write a description for, handle the transaction, and ship (if you’re using eBay).
For instance, my mom had a complete vintage china set she wanted me to sell. Well, the WAY you sell those online is to piece them out. That means unwrapping each one, posing it in your lightbox, photographing it well with all flaws exaggerated, writing the description including the flaws, pricing it (research first!), etc etc etc.
There was no way I was going to do that and nobody was going to pay for the lot AND the shipping. (eBay has also hamstrung sellers with regard to shipping costs that, given the right conditions, will make you lose money.)
My brother was here and shipped it all back to his home in Washington. It was $500 in shipping alone.
Thanks for the tip Mo, I have stuff no one could possibly want but rule #34…
I understand, but also understand that my everlasting goal is to have as little stuff as possible. This means not buying things that might be valuable in the future.
However, I’m a sucker for hoarding my keepsakes (*hangs head in shame at the amount*) and books and tools.
When we finally moved my mother to a retirement facility, it was left to me to get the house cleaned out and sold. The house was in the Napa Valley, and we had just moved to Idaho. It’s about 10 hours one way. After four round trips for us, I did another four roundtrips to get her house ready to sell. I gave away as much stuff as I could. I still watched 27,000 pounds of lifetime memories get loaded into a moving van headed to the dump.
That must be so difficult. Were any of them your memories?
The aforementioned china was a delightful part of my childhood and I still didn’t want it. My mom definitely didn’t want it.
My keepsakes are small items, papers, mementos, old writing notes. Ephemera. Still adds up to two 4-drawer file cabinets.
I got to keep the stuff that really mattered to me. But there were still lot of memories that went out the door. I was pretty over my skis by that point.
As for for China, I gave a full, eight piece setting of Noritake china to the Salvation Army, because nobody else wanted it.
China is the sad ballast jettisoned on the road of progress. It used to be a status symbol, but our lifestyle has changed so much, now it’s just junk.
I really love pretty things, so my g’ma’s china is a situation speaks to me on a deep philosophical level. So much beauty just…gone. Unimportant. Ephemeral, like a toddler’s drawing on the refrigerator. You don’t want to throw it away, but you don’t have room for it and there are things competing with your resources, time, energy, and money.
Also, this is why Pinterest is so popular.
You can hoard pretty things without consequence.
“Tulsi Gabbard voted present on the first of two #ArticlesOfImpeachment”
https://twitter.com/kgyp/status/1207473155004157954
Are they doing the vote like America’s Got Talent? Trump on stage and they get to hit the big X or 0.
How did Amash vote?
In favor obviously.
“Here’s a spending bill that cuts expenditures and defunds Planned Parenthood”
Amash: Uh..Planned Parenthood..uh…present
“Here’s a bill to end America’s support for the War in Yemen”
Amash: Uh…present
“Here’s a bill to end our involvement in Syria”
Amash: Uh…present
I’m just glad that Congressman Present found something that his funders have told him it’s ok to vote in the affirmative on
Annnnd….he gone.
Is this the part where we’re supposed to pretend like he’s much brave and anyone who disagrees is obviously just a Trumptard? Because I think we already went through that when he foolishly Fever Dreamed and it blew up in his face
Hey, he did manage to find his spine when his bottom line (meaning Chinese tool importation) was being affected.
Justin Amash voted to impeach on both. Tulsi Gabbard did not vote for or against. Any apologies?
Yes. Tulsi has more balls than Amash. If you think it’s braver to vote as the NYT dictates than how your billionaire backers tell you to vote then I don’t know what to tell you other than the fact that the Kochs are most certainly not funding our best
I completely screwed up my phrasing. Amash did not take a brave vote and he hasn’t ever since he became a Koch agent when the Club for Growth primaried him two election cycles ago. Tulsi has rebuked her part more often on key votes that Amash has and I am not sorry to see him go. TDS is not a principle that I respect because it’s a retarded binary principle.
Amash has been a non-issue on the cause for liberty for over four years. Dude was fellating the FBI just two years ago, because orange man bad. And he’s going nowhere in the LP if Horton and Woods take over the party. He can be Bill Weld’s running mate, which is fitting
That’s some fine apologizing, Lou.
Preach, brother.
I thought they were delaying a vote??
Supposedly they might delay the transmission of the articles to the Senate,
I’ll give it to the democrats that they are clever.
Just sometimes i think they are too clever by half.
So I guess it’s done and dusted. Straight party-line vote as expected. What a fucking clown show.
Not exactly. A handful of Democrats voted against
1 Dem who’s switching parties, 1 Dem who isn’t, and 1 who split his vote. That is almost as close as you could get to party-line.
Decent thread here:
““Democrats are paving the way to impeach Donald Trump,” Vanity Fair celebrated on December 15, 2016.
Five days later, the resistance rag declared that “The evidence to impeach Donald Trump may already be here.”
….
Before he was even inaugurated, Democrats in Congress like John Lewis and Jerry Nadler declared Donald Trump an “illegitimate president.”
Jamie Raskin proposed impeachment on January 15, 2017.
About 70 House Democrats boycotted Trump’s inauguration.
Minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in, The Washington Post reported that Democrats’ “campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.”
Enraged leftists cut a swath of destruction through Washington, D.C., burning cars, smashing windows, and injuring police officers.”
https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1207432095083245569
At least they weren’t as violent as those Tea Party trumptards.
Of course THEY said he was an illegitimate president- Trump didnt whore himself out his entire career to anyone in DC.
Pols were thrilled to take his money, and glad-hand and have pictures taken with Trump. But once he pissed in their pool….
Important Reminder: The Stupid Party thinks this is about Trump but no the next Republican President will be treated similarly. Why is it that the bipartisan system is being turned into a one-party system by one of the parties?
Absolutely, they’d go after Pence too:
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1206987902800056320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1206987902800056320&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ace.mu.nu%2F
Then Nancy can be President and crown Herself as the Chosen successor!
That must really be what they’re thinking or at least pretending to think. It’s a good thing it’s just a crazy fever dream that’ll never be realized.
Never underestimate the craziness of the Dems. They wouldn’t do Obamacare, right? They wouldn’t impeach Trump, right? They would never support Sanders and Warren, right?
Well he’s been impeached now and he might be impeached again if the Dems don’t like the conduct of the trial but so what? Impeachment doesn’t mean much, the trial’s the important part. Their monomania is on display for the public to see and it’s going to be their downfall.
Did you wade down into the cesspool of comments? You damn right they’re really thinking it. Starting to get their “proof” all lined up, too.
I never go very deep into the Twitter cesspool. It’s downright unhealthy.
I try hard no to, but this time I even went further and did something I’ve only done once before; I responded to one of the crazies. Hopefully she’ll just block me and be done with it.
These words you speak are true,
We’re all humanary stew,
I just listened to an episode of Macaulay Culkin’s Bunny Ears podcast he did with the guys from Red Letter Media, and someone, I couldn’t tell who, said ‘Fuck you, that’s why.” Have we made it?
The Glibs reach is long…
The Glibs reach is long
The pimp hand is strong
I would reserve judgement until someone says “Fuck you, cut spending”.
Or “Fuck off, slaver”.
“Fuck off, Tulpa” would be the give away.
This, we are known.
I blame you, Vacuum Tulpa.
I got vacuum, right here, hot and ventilated, so cool off
There’s no temperature in a vacuum!
WRONG
its room temperature Dumbass. it’s vaccuuming up the air in the Room!
You know who else…
If the new standard is ‘violated oath of office’ instead of ‘high crimes and’, then how many here think that Presidents of the United States 31 to 45 should have been impeached for not even making a good faith effort about the part of the oath about the Constitution of the United States of America?
I’d say 1 through 45. Hell, even Mr. I Wrote The Declaration couldn’t not violate the Constitution.
Thank you for your reply.
Although…Madison…Given he was the architect of the Constitution; all I really know about his term is the war of 1812, but he probably did some things I can’t think of to violate the document to, but I’m too drunk for a deep dive on the subject…
John adams got the alien and seditions act passed in clear violation of the 1st amendment.
Constitutional violations are as old as the constitution.
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist
The house tried to impeach John Tyler for vetoing bills he thought were unconstitutional
What about Tippecanoe?
What about Tyler?
Was he nobody? Hmmm?
He was second billed. It was ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler too’. Clearly Tyler was the back-up band.
John Tyler was a funny case. He was a Whig Veep who only became Prez because Harrison died. However he was only added to the ticket because he was a Southerner and the only reason he became a Whig was because he hated Andrew Jackson so he wasn’t really a Whig at all hence why the Whig Congress hated him.
Well, Andrew Johnson was a Democrat who was Lincolns running mate on a unification ticket, so that’s a ‘funny’ case as well.
A man who was impeached and one vote from removal for disobeying an unconstitutional overreach of Congressional Power.
That stuff was all like, 500 years ago.
lol. weirdos.
Maybe-maybe-president #9 didn’t violate the constitution?
If that is the standard, then we cant have a president. There hasnt been a president in my life time that hasnt violated the constitution.
Trump – bump stock ban
Obama – drone murdering american citizens without a trial.
Etc. Etc.
Oaths are only as strong as the society that is willing to hold men to them, and raise them to hold them.
Note that in historical context the worst punishments were met out for Murderers and oath breakers.
Very true. Something about a tree of liberty, blood, tyrants, and patriots.
What makes you think it’s only been since #31?
Asked about ‘even making a good faith effort’ and since 31 to avoid argument about what 30 was thinking etc. about aviation and communications.
I don’t think that is what they are claiming. They are claiming something quite nebulous and are running the risk of having their noses rubbed in shit over it. Here on out every time one party has both houses they will simply make up some nonsense and remove the other party’s president over nothing more than policy differences.
This was the worst move they could have made.
You Assume the Republicans will try this the next time their is divided government.
Don’t know yet if it is in the final resolution as passed by the full House. Speaker of the House Non-Nancy Pelosi-Player Character said ‘the evidence is clear’ that he ‘violated’ the ‘oath of office’. (Using Dem NPC right?)
So no Republicans voted to impeach but two voted against the first and 3 voted against the second. Unless the GOP has a death wish conviction doesn’t look likely.
*Democrats voted against*
Amash is not a Republican anymore.
So where do the Dems go from here? Refuse to accept the Senate outcome? And do what?
They are already claiming out of one side of their mouth they won’t accept the outcome because it is predetermined and out of the other side they are saying they will impeach again though no crime has been cited, just like they did for three years on this first impeachment.
Do they really want to go….no, they really don’t want to go down this road but do they know that?
It’s amazing to me how absolutely everything they have done, either individually or as a party, they have accused either Trump or the “R”s in general of. The accusations are a literal roadmap of their own transgressions.
Accusing the opposition of exactly what you are doing is an old Saul Alinsky tactic.
Im hopong he gets impeached, removed, and then re-elected a few months later.
I got my fingers crossed. That would be hilarious.
You are right, it would be, but I think we are getting dangerously close to blood in the streets. That won’t be hilarious.
It is “funny” how sometimes the most violent political strife is due to mostly personal feuds. Trump despite him being a Billionaire New York Real Estate Developer is not in the right club so the elites despise him.
It isn’t about Trump at all. It is about the elite losing their power and going for broke. They want the whole pie.
They have expressed contempt for Trump supporters more times than I can count. They want you under their boot and they are willing to burn the country down to get it there.
That’s what I mean. It isn’t really what Trump’s actual policies or beliefs are but that he represents people that the elites loathe hence they despise him so much and are willing to do anything to keep the deplorables out of power.
I think we are getting dangerously close to blood in the streets.
I fear that it’s going to start here in VA when the democrats take over the state legislature next month.
They’ve already set it up. It will be a Republican cover up.
They will and they will do it boldly and proudly because they continue to get away with it.
So what is a more deluded hope: a libertarian Republican POTUS or a libertarian Democrat POTUS?
Libertarian anything.
^This is, sadly, the correct answer. I don’t think you’ll see another Coolidge, for instance. I think if anything we’ll keep drifting towards an Imperial Roman system where we have a powerful executive who governs with the nominal consent and counsel of the legislature.
Yes.
The reason that the underlying premise of the constitution is that the safest power is power widely distributed instead of concentrated is that the founders were well aware that the kinds of people who seek and inevitably achieve power are generally the worst kinds of people.
Libertari…..*laughs*. Right.
A libertarian moment. Oh, and a wave of millenial libertarians.
Francisco and Cytotoxic called me dumb for doubting the moment. *Laughs in pain*
You forgot libertarian Libertarian POTUS.
I have my limits.
Six years old but, somehow, still relevant: https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/23/burn-the-fucking-system-to-the-ground/
Easy to see that as just a rant but it’s not even – what’s the word? – hyperbole. It’s just an accurate description of our world.
I think you just summoned him.
That’s cheery. *Makes Nazi pug video*
I remember the good old days when Bill Clinton was going to be the great neoliberal hope and that the Democrats would become somewhat libertarian and stay that way forever because the internet.
“Two months ago, I saw a provocative movie on cable TV. It was
called The Net, with that girl from the bus. I did a little reading,
and I realize, it wasn’t that farfetched. “
Serenity Now!
Insanity later.
She looked great in a bikini.
Anyone for Star Wars Spoilers? The movie comes out tomorrow.
This man with a life sized R2-D2 doesn’t give a shit anymore. I’ll watch it at some point, but not in a way that profits them.
Suffice to say the title is a lie but true from a certain point of view. The movie went full Cursed Child and despite Heroic Mulatto’s crack about Palpatine being gay his heterosexuality is key to the storyline.
You mean they don’t even follow up on his creating life from the force line in the prequels, they say he had sexual relations?
Yes. Palpatine’s sex life is key to the story.
I used to kinda stick up for you, but what you are doing now, even after all the rightful indignation at your spoilers the other day, is fucked up. I mean, are you 12 years old? Or do you you have some sort of condition where you can’t understand plain English? Are you on some spectrum and can’t pick up on obvious social cues?
If one of the answers is “yes”, then let’s talk about it. If the answers are “no”, then all I can surmise is that you’re just a self-centered prick.
I can’t say fuck you loud enough over the Internet.
So we’ll just go with eat shit and die.
I must be missing something, yall are very angry.
Fine Delete. I am fucking moron. Damn my weird obsession with this one movie,
Did it occur to you that others may have the same obsession, but haven’t yet been able to see it? Does that matter to you?
People who actually replied seem to hate new Star Wars?
And yes I do have a weird obsession with this one movie.
I hate to bring up my personal life (and it turn to reply to other people’s posts about their persona lives) but um…
Is Winston Mike Stoklasa or Kathleen Kennedy?
If you have some legit issues, I have genuine empathy. But damn, dude. There has to be 100 sites out there where you can openly talk about the movie and not give a shit about spoilers. But you (after being pretty quiet for quite a while) feel the need to do it here? Even after being smacked down hard about it?
Ugh, I’m wasting far too much time on this. You do you, Winston.
Alright then. I missed the obvious social cues in my desire to talk about something I am sure people here will be complaining about. This is my fault. You can delete these posts. I will not talk about this new movie for the rest of 2019 and you can ban me for violating this if you want to do so.
Sorry. :(:(:(:(:(:
No banning whatsoever. Just chill.
Cheezus and Rice, folks: Just…listen to Paul Anka
Dammit. You’re demographic was there only hope.
I know, that’s how bad they fucked up.
Just make your R2D2 operate on a non binary OS and watch him careen off the walls in the women’s changing room. Live stream the feed.
My R2-D2 is like the original, it needs a midget to pilot it, and I don’t have one of those.
Now from Kenner! My little r2d2!
We all need a midget, C.
#Me too.
After the last one, I couldn’t give a fuck. They took the original movie used it as a bum-rag.
I’m surprised the official critics averaged 53% already.
What are you talking about? There were no Star Wars movies after 1983.
Rogue One, although it has many flaws, is the exception.
This
is
the only answer.
The first three films are canon, and the Ewoks are just be an invention of Leia’s concussion dream. Check with C3PO if you like, but it’s a boring conversation, anyway.
I actually like the Ewoks as a metaphor for Afghanistan V Russia; and anyone who thinks they are just cute teddy bears clearly hasn’t realized they are carnivorous savages.
The prequels were a lot of shit and bad film making, but at least I could see something in them. Everything Disney is just a mess. They don’t follow the visual story telling, they fuck up the canon, the plots are haphazard and indecipherable if you get rid of the bloated shit. It’s just bad.
Everything Disney is just a mess. They don’t follow the visual story telling, they fuck up the canon, the plots are haphazard and indecipherable if you get rid of the bloated shit. It’s just bad.
Don’t talk shit about The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again!
You’re right. I’m ashamed and put in my place. (I meant Disney Wars, I of course love the Disney Marvel, and the Apple Dumpling Gang)
The Moon-Spinners or GTFO.
Fun fact- the chick in Rides Again, is in Herbie Goes Bananas, another childhood favorite and a crush on both roles. Anyways, she’s the mother of Alexa Davalos (currently in Man in the High Castle) which might explain why I find the younger Davalos so appealing.
If someone with talent had read Rian Johnson’s Star Wars sequel livejournal and implemented that from the start of TFA, I think it would make for a possibly great franchise revival. There’s something to work with in the idea that the Jedi aren’t a salvageable order. That’s interesting.
Meh, the moral gray area has been explored for the last 40 years. Star Wars isn’t the place to explore that, Star Wars is a fantasy series. Also, that casino planet was terrible and derailed everything.
I haven’t watch it. It sounds coarse, like sand. and it gets everywhere.
You are arguing over a trilogy that should have ended 30 years ago. They are kids movies. You are livid over stuffed animals.
Which word lost more meaning today, impeachment or dossier?
I’ve heard impeachment so much it’s like when you repeat a word over and over and doesn’t make sense anymore.
Why are we represented as the Eagle?
Very dirty disgusting creatures, carrion eaters , just blech.
We should be the Rattlesnake, slow to anger, quick to pounce, if we hang on, you’re dead,
They aren’t just carrion eaters. They are opportunistic and adaptable.
Rattlesnakes are cold blooded and bitchy.
And an ambush predator. Yuck. Like Harvey Weinstein, or Biden? No, I want an animal who charges his prey like a bull elephant and grabs what he wants.
Biden is a parasite not a predator.
I don’t know, he seems pretty spider like. Wraps up his victims in his grasp.
I don’t know. I can’t see an eagle jerking off on a plant.
No, I want something that’s sneaky and conniving, will do the dirty jobs, and come out victorious.
No successful conqueror ever fought honorably or straight on in all situations, and good generals know when to retreat.
George Washington was a spymaster.
Honorable men might win, but they don’t conquer.
Mike Rowe for America mascot.
I have a sneaking suspicion Mike Rowe could conquer and would do whatever it took if he thought the cause was moral and just.
Look @ who’s basement is flooded at the mention of Mike Rowe.
Sadly, that was not Mike Rowe jackhammering up the floor of my basement.
If you can’t catch that euphemism….I can’t help you
Whoooooosh!
*sigh*
What can I say, my intellectual energy is currently engaged in making some money.
Mike Rowe can jackhammer up the floor of my basement any time.
Dammit–these long-ass comment sections (that don’t happen on late night articles….ahem) make me miss the really interesting banter!
Somebody’s gotta clean up the roadkill mess. 😉
Why does the NFL allow challanges on pass interference if they’ll never call it on review? I was at a restraunt and saw it without sound. It was flagrant defensive holding followed by an obvious interference – no call originally and still no call after review. The NFL officiating just blows but nobody talks about it. Fix it or change the rule.
The whole thing is just stupid. Let them fight.
How did I miss this? Hawt.
Bastards!
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/after-dancer-strips-at-seattle-conference-on-homelessness-agency-director-suspended/?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true
Swing and a miss
It’s not a lack of resources that prevents Seattle from solving homelessness; it’s a lack of leadership.
No, it’s not. Believing that it’s government role to solve homelessness in the first place is the problem.
Too late for that kind of thinking. The tranny has left the station.
Just shoot em and be done with it , Eagle food,
Whoa! Careful fighting monsters.
Sam Kinison agrees.
https://youtu.be/v_xDdpT4YwQ
“Solving”
Letting bums sleep on your streets is idiotic. Once they sense your weakness, they swarm.
They don’t believe any such thing. They want money and there’s big bucks in fixing homelessness. CA, taxed near to death, actually OK’d another fucking tax to buy the homeless half million dollar condos. That’s a lot of graft to float around, right there. Bonus, it’s like bait for more homeless. Why work and spend half your income on a shithole room for rent when you can put up a tent and then explain the desperate nature of your predicament to an outreach counselor and maybe get a luxury condo free?
The reporter I quoted wrote a pretty good long form article about the different angles that are all profiting off the “crisis” and clearly lays out what you’re saying (same in Seattle, of course) but then says the problem is leadership. Bah.
Man those people, ambushed by a fat assed tranny stripper at a professional event, then went on to TIP HIM. WTF? Do they not realize tipping denote satisfaction with the service rendered? The Venn diagram with people who would want that kind of stripping and those people at a work function should look like a pair of binoculars.
What they didn’t report is that during her performance, drugs fell out of her ass.
Figures. We do like our outrage.
Like hell! What is wrong with you, fat? Push-ups. NOW!
I love this place.
https://www.aier.org/article/financial-services-and-hate-speech/
Cite?
Allowing the elites or majority to determine what is acceptable has never caused problems before. I mean it’s not like lefties think that AIER is not a bastion of Nazi racist bigots, right?
Should card networks have the power to ban distasteful but legal activities that hurt their brand? Or are they so vital to commercial society that they should be legally obliged to serve everyone?
I stand by the rights of people to freely associate.
They can’t make their mind up about Proud Boys. One day it’s a white supremacist group, next it’s a misogynistic hate group, now it’s a neo-fascist organization.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-house-democrats-push-pelosi-to-withhold-impeachment-articles-delaying-senate-trial/2019/12/18/6e25814a-21c5-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html
Moments after a historic vote to impeach President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House could at least temporarily withhold the articles from the Senate — a decision, she suggested, that could depend on how the other chamber chooses to conduct its trial on Trump’s removal.
“We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side,” she said, referring to the House “managers” who present the case for removal to the Senate. “So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair. And when we see what that is, we’ll send our managers.”
The comments came as a group of House Democrats pushed Pelosi and other leaders to withhold the articles — a notion that has gained traction among some on the political left as a way of potentially forcing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to conduct a trial on more favorable terms for Democrats. And if no agreement is reached, some have argued, the trial could be delayed indefinitely, denying Trump an expected acquittal.
FYTW
Gravity approaches, Nancy. You shouldn’t have jumped from that building.
You’ll have to pass it to see whats in it.
Umm, okay. So much for the “we must expedite impeachment because he is an existential threat to our national security” argument.
But…that also means he’s not found guilty. Do they know that?
Hurr durr
This gets more hilarious by the
dayhour.^This. Just when you think….totally redeem yourself.
“We all know he is, so just shut up and wallow in your righteous anger.”
So they are doing it. Hoo Boy…
True story. I spoiled The Crying Game for a friend of mine. He still gets angry about it from time to time.
That’s like saying at the beginning of the movie, “Soylent Green is people!”.
Sonuva bitch. I haven’t seen that yet. *Also true story.
They were dead all along.
What a twist!
God. I hope they were dead.
Zombies almost always are.
The ship sinks.
But, the door floats.
I watched it with my mom and sister when I was a young teenager, and the reveal was startling, but not upsetting. The APC running down the soldier was much more upsetting
Cuz he was fapping to the ‘chick’?
Well, that’s just what a good friend should do in that situation.
On a semi-related note; I just got a director’s cut edition of Soylent Green. Never seen the movie, if you can believe that. (please no spoilers!) My wife and I are planning our entire Christmas around watching it.
Can. Not. Fucking. Wait.
Soylent Green is puppies. *spoilers*
Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra, ra, ra.
That little Chuckwagon caught the bastard, eh?
This is why straffinrun will eventually be our overlord.
I think… it’s a book.
I think I spoiled Hamlet, too.
You killed Yorick?
Then I skull fucked him.
You’re Grocer?
Isn’t that the film where a small pig gets saved by a hyperintelligent spider?
Mmmm, bacon!
I heard everybody died.
My mother never forgave a teen friend of my brother’s for telling her about the relationship between Luke and Vader right after Empire strikes Back came out.
“You mean that Vader was Luke’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate”? It wasn’t that important to the story.
Thank you, Simone.
I look at that and feel compelled to work out how it would necessitate so many steps.
“Father’s Brother” In order to not be “Uncle” that would imply a membership in a fraternal organization rather than blood relation.
“Nephew’s cousin” in order to not just be a cousin that would suggest an in-law status – a cousin via the non-blood sibling of the “Father’s Brother”
That is a lot of degrees of separation.
What does that make them?
Absolutely nothing.
I thought it made them surrounded by Assholes.
Father’s Brother is differentiating between a paternal or maternal uncle.
Nephew’s cousin could also mean his own child.
Think about hat for a while as I drift off to sleep.
…or hair.
Then it would just collapse down to ‘cousin’, and not have all those modifiers.
It could mean the Vader was Luke’s former roommate.
If there were more aunts/uncles providing nephews/cousins to bounce off of, sure
No one is asking the important questions: How much did he make working from home? What brand euro-shitbox did he spend all that money on?
I watched the Family Guy version this evening. As awful as that show often is, they nail all the plot holes.
Speaking of Stephen Rea movies, I like the first 25 minutes of The Break but the rest is meh for me
https://youtu.be/2Y-Vzf7VQbE
Is he related to Mens Rea and Actus Rea?
And their sister Menor Rea.
Winston’s only defense is that you can almost guarantee the movie is shit and so the spoiler doesn’t matter. Not much of a defense because spoilers suck.
You know what else sucks?
Hitler?
Your mom?
See, I’m too classy to hit that one out of the park.
?
Not me.
*steps up to the plate*
That was a serious lol.
Thank you. Now I can sleep.
Oh, sure–just take off, without so much as a Digby-roll….
Spoiling movies is no bueno. This said, when I went back through to see what the spoiler was, I couldn’t figure it out because I care so damn little about these recent movies. I even looked around on the Internet for a couple minutes and found what I think he was talking about and STILL don’t really get it. I am so underwhelmed and annoyed by these recent iterations of the series that the casual interest I had in Star Wars is now completely dead. Some day in the future I’ll hear someone talking about the movie and I’ll say, “Hey, so, what’s the deal? Some chick meets Han Solo and then she’s a Jedi and then she and a bad Jedi fight and then they’re like friends or something? Or are they just in the same movies a lot? Just, like, what happens, in a minute or less?” I want to know because it’s a thing I am aware of and don’t know, but on a giving a shit scale of 1 to 10 I’m at a 1. And that’s being charitable.
It’s almost like moderns don’t know how to tell a story any more.
See: nu-Who versus classic Who.
Yep. Who needs depth or development? Character progression?! Ok boomer!
IMO, fan-fiction was not left to the fans. A lot of stuff is just fan service now and it shows.
OMG nu-Who is loaded with that crap. It’s so tiresome.
I didn’t know fan fiction even EXISTED until 10 years ago.
Then publishers started using it as their farm team once self-publishing got off the ground. Hello, Twilight fanfic.
Really? Star Trek fanfic laid the foundations of such things as “slashfic” and “self-insert wish fulfillment”
But you have to admit, the subculture that produced that content was not as large for many of those early years, and limited in their options for communication. I fully believe that more mainstream persons (eg ‘Normies’) might not have known about the phenomena or its specific jargon.
It’s not even real fan service
?
Yeah, I’m there with you, I have no desire to see the current SW iteration, although I likely will in the next several months because my 8 year old likes it. My kids have seen the original trilogy a few times. I’ve seen the first two several dozen times and the last a dozen. They were good tales, everything since has been a mess. Come on, how hard is it to write another decent space opera?
I’m poor at stringing together lyrics.
There are an so many good space operas laying around in novel form.
And I don’t understand why a lot more movies aren’t being made that are digital animation. Look at the cinematic trailers for video games – incredible, and better medium for telling stories than hybrid live/CGI, in my opinion. You can see them joints and seems in hybrid movies, and its distracting.
Finished reading book.
Have to write review.
Words fail me.
This is too long for haiku,
The Servant is tired
The sequel is not yet done
We want moar Dug soon
I just completed the 1st of a three part series on my NYC Christmas tree selling documentary for submission to Glibs.
It feels good to write it all out. I’ll try to submit it for publication tomorrow. I hope it’s able to be reviewed and published. It’s been a bit since I submitted anything. What’s the lag these days?
Right on. Sounds like a good read.
Lag? Depends on the bribe.
Can’t sleep and need a time killer? Then enjoy honest lefty Jimmy Dore taking a giant shit on Jim Comey via Comey’s recent Fox interview with Chris Wallace:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc2l68KHhhc
Presuming the guy keeps his job/FedEx doesn’t shit-can him over this, they have my business.
I love, love, love robust self-defense and the killing of criminals* while in the act.
*people who actual violate others’ natural rights.
I include her ugly ass in my above statement.
Damn, that is low, real low. That is among the worst anti human shitty behavior short of raping and killing someone. How do you get that twisted? Don’t tell me, I know, but still, it amazes me that people can be that bad. And this is in a place with plenty. Thankfully humans are also on the opposite of that.
They (her agency/the ones who caught her) could have just saved most of us a lot of heart-ache, and told the prospective families, and let them ‘sort it out’ when she showed up.
*cue Gunny Sgt Hartman going off on thievery*
That can’t be the right link.
Unless Paul Anka works for FedEx.
Well, one can hope….
I’m not saying Paul Anka doesn’t carry. Just that it seems unlikely.
With that smooth voice? He shouldn’t need it.
Holy shit! https://www.theblaze.com/news/fedex-driver-shot-and-robbed-returns-fire-with-his-own-weapon-killing-suspect
How the hell did that….ugh, never mind.
Good for the driver. Hopefully he recovers quickly and FedEx gives him some love.
They should give him some love. I worry they’ll give him a pink slip. And, not the good kind (wink wink, nudge nudge)
I guess it might depend on if they get sued by Thievey McRobber’s family.
He learned a valuable lesson from the FL UPS driver. And yes, he’s probably going to get terminated. Or hopefully Fed Ex will sweeten the resignation offer
https://waterfowldecals.com/wp-content/uploads/images/products/p-3533-2nd-019.jpg
I sincerely hope that, if FedEx goes that route, a guy with this moxie could find adequate employment. Seriously hope there are employers who recognize talent.
Yeah, and hopefully not see a cowboy employee that refuses to comply with employer’s policies.
Read this early this evening
https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/2019/12/multiple-people-stabbed-at-beaverton-shopping-center-police-say.html
Poor girl. Went into the bank to do whatever banking she was doing and ended up dead a week before Christmas.
Did he violate FedEx policy by carrying? Gah, I hope not, but, that’s the world today, innit?
As for the young lady–frick the robber.
Robust self defense.
I dunno, but I’d be very surprised if a company of FedEx’s size doesn’t have a weapons policy that prohibits carrying. I’d be very surprised if any Fortune 500 has a policy specifically allowing concealed carry. At best, maybe a smaller company doesn’t actively prohibit it. Maybe.
Yep. He’s fucked
https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2015/1104-wda-2014.html
While there may be some changes to relevant law since then, I do believe you’re right in your assessment.
I bet he’s charged. How likely is it that he was permitted to have a gun with him in the vehicle?
It’s a man’s life in the British Toilet Association.
You want sane people to shit on your floor? Because that’s how you do it.
It’s utter crap, is what it is.
I’m not one for frivolous lawsuits, but, a medical lawsuit against an employer who went out of its way to make shitting physically uncomfortable for employees? Oh, yes.
Chafed, get thee to London and get registered/licensed/beknighted/whatever they require–you’ll make thick bank. The thickest, Holmes-ian bank.
What assholes.
I worked in a call center once where only one person was allowed to leave mid-shift (you were supposed to use the restroom during your breaks/lunch). There was an orange light you turned on if you had to use the bathroom/whatever urgently so that no one else could leave. What an awful place that was. Also tracked your availability to calls and had to have something like less than 8 minutes total per day.
Xmas music
https://youtu.be/j7EpXDlmfZg
“By Spontaneous Chemical Reaction, I’ll have my revenge yet!“
*I realize ther are many a glib here who are much more intelligent than I–I was merely trying to take the piss out of a shitty, petty authoritarian
Tell the genius his plan isn’t foolproof.
I……
??
OK, you redeemed yourself.
the “divisive and humiliating” anti-IQ terms are hate crime’s “last taboo”.
Somehow I doubt it’s the last.
And, it can’t ever backfire, or be abused, or, misused. Only the uberbadwrongthink people ever have these types of legislation applied to them.
/Magna Carta, my fat ass
Only applies to Top.Men.
(Technically, that was the original case too)
Yeah…le sigh
Last day at coming to the office till the 6th wohooo
I woke up earlier, opened one eye halfway and looked at the clock.
3am. Ah, ok. Time to make coffee.
I sat down with my hot cuppa and pulled out my phone to quietly play word games while I waited for my wife to wake. I was pouring my second cup when I noticed the time on my phone. 1am. Fuck….apparently the electricity went out at around 10pm last night and set all of my house clocks to 12, two hours ahead. No wonder I feel like shit.
*yawns, rubs eyes*
Did y’all know I can accurately predict the future? *holds fingers to temples and closes eyes tightly*
I see a nap in my near future.
I have a friend who woke up and left for work due to such a glitch and only realized when he got to the subway station an it was locked up
I have a battery in my bedroom clock so it won’t lose the time when power goes.
Since wife and I are both retired we don’t bother much. One hour is like another, as are days.
Preach! Not so much the “retired” part yet but close enough for skittles.
But what about the poor trees? They need to know if it’s weekend.
One day is much the same as another to a tree.
Anyway sounds like a reason to whip the orphan in charge of timekeeping
I have linking all to myself!
Burlington police chief resigns after anonymously trolling critic — new chief axed hours later for same thing
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burlington-police-chief-resigns-after-anonymously-trolling-critic-new-chief-axed-hours-later-for-same-thing-2019-12-17/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=79249550
HOUSING BOOM Boris Johnson to turbocharge home building with series of planning reforms in the new year
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10582893/boris-johnson-home-building-plans/
The American ax craze is everywhere — in designer ax brands, the rise of ax-throwing bars and the internet’s first ax emoji, which debuted this year. If you want to buy an ax for Christmas, move fast — they’re sold out at Nordstrom.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1207329735002542080
knife and ax throwing are fun to do and watch but completely impractical. If you are in a fight and have a weapon don’t throw it away, dummies.
*I used to be pretty good at knife throwing. Turns out that isn’t a very lucrative skill.
Have blade, get paid.
Or, not…
It’s true. I’m gifting a throwing axe to a friend for Christmas. And my little town just opened a throwing axe location.
https://throwhouse.com/locations/throwhouse-quakertown/
We used to mess around like that when we were kids. Half of my bus growing up had Dads that were loggers. Back then logging meant having to use an axe and not just the fallers.
Do you know what year they introduced the walking harvester? Not sure if it was Deere or Timberjack who was first to market with that.
No idea. My Dad was a suit and tie guy. Feller-bunchers put a lot of functional alcoholics out of work. The industry is really suffering here.
Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Americans are much less likely to talk to their neighbors, belong to non-professional organizations, or attend church than they were 50 years ago.
But they’re more likely to attend school activities.
https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1207349303276179456
My Peruvian Stepmother hates gringos for that reason. We aren’t social.
People from collectivist societies don’t understand Americans propensity for privacy. They all live stacked on top of each other, sit on porches and streets and watch everything that other people do, talk and visit constantly. We sit inside or travel about insulated from others inside our cars.
That drives the stepmom crazy.
In my opinion peace, quiet, privacy and especially boredom are highly underrated.
True, but I believe attending some organizations like clubs can be individualistic, and it could be more common absent big government
Agreed.
*My father joined the atheist club in Houston. An atheist club. On a visit I went with him to a meeting. It was just what I imagined. Like a libertarian club….herding cats. The only people that showed up were right out of central casting. They even had the guy that goes around to people angrily stabbing his finger at some text in a book and demands that people “Read this! Just read this!”.
At my request we left early.
Who said ” I would never join a club that would have me” ?
I remember that before gov healthcare / welfare a lot of organization sprung u-p to cover those things, although many may have been professional based
Basically becoming more politically collectivist than socially or something.
Marx–Groucho, not Karl.
IIRC, one of the major drivers behind early 20th century fraternal org. membership was the groups ability to procure group health coverage of its members. Big gov did away with that.
well that is what I remember as well…
This sounds like hell.
Those damn extroverts will never understand us introverts. Fortunately, we don’t care whether or not they do, as long as they leave us alone.
GT from the top rope.
Thanks! (I think…?) Handsome kitteh, BTW,
He’s been bred to break shit but just like the Marines when they’re on your side, ya gotta love him.
“That sounds like hell.”
No. Shit.
Office Christmas party. Had to escape for a minute. Lots of Yebisu left, so at least there’s that.
Did you grope your share of coworkers yet or still have a few to get through
I’m a contractor for this company, otherwise I’d be mr. octopus.
Straff in the supply closet -https://youtu.be/jQYdKKmF-PQ
Fuck a duck! (Hat-tip Mojo!) https://youtu.be/jQYdKKmF-PQ
https://www.wfmz.com/news/man-stuffs-shrimp-down-pants-in-california-grocery-thefts/article_f7da872c-63fb-58b4-9be4-62f6c5d20dfe.html
Are you happy to see me or is that shrimp in your pants?
My Bro got busted doing that with steaks. His erstwhile paramour fled the scene with two sacks of potatoes and her son. Dinner must have been a very UCF affair.
But that’s not sanitary! You’ve ruined the food and rendered it inedible.
This reply was expected and very much appreciated.
Hey Diggy! In answer to your query from a few nights ago the cat in the photo is my namesake. He’s a Korat (google it) and the only cat that has ever been specifically mine. He’s a complete and utter brat but I love him about the same amount as he loves me. He’s a “run to the door Type” when company calls. Still think you should have gone with Oskar for your Drummer Boy avatar…
This Saturday Britain turns a remainer nation: more young remainers joined the electoral register, more old leavers died. A Final Say vote would stop the will of dead ruling over the will of the young:
https://twitter.com/pollytoynbee/status/1085875822693634048
Each vote goes more leave than the last.
Young and dumb voters won’t save your dreams of vassalage.
Keep re-voting until the ruling elite gets the vote they want.
Save Democracy!
*seriously, don’t those people own any pitchforks?*
Only the devilishly handsome ones.
11 month old tweets? They keep them around that long?
That makes the tweet even funnier given how the election turned out.
:Polly pulls the tweet from the freezer, gives it a sniff: “It’ll fly!”
I hope we don’t have to wait 11 months for the morning links.
😉
It’s almost Q-time.
Q has been asleep at the switch with his cavalcade of eastern European beauties. I blame Greta. Or Doomco.
No evening post, no morning links, haven’t had a crossword/acrostic in over two weeks, no one will take the seventh spot in the latest WebDipGlib game. Man this place is going to pot.
I’ve been debating submitting some random short stories I have lying around.
Keep procrastinating, since I have to finish the kitbash, which I’m also procrastinating on…
Now that would just be lazy. I bet you’d just scan in the printed copy instead of retyping it to. 😉
Copy-Paste. It’s even less effort.
I have thought about it but not sure i feel like a game…
I don’t have the reliability yet. I know I just have to play a game with robots, but havent had the time yet.
Mom? But I thought you were dead?
Tis the holidays. I’m willing to cut TPTB some slack if this place, as much as I love it, isn’t priority one right now.
I hope people understand our kvetching is being done in a tongue-in-cheek manner for the sake of our own amusement.
I don’t think a single person is genuinely upset or annoyed.
College radio station went dead-silence today. Kids gotta eat…
You’re probably right. I bet most of us are slightly worried more than anything.
Wish I could, but they do randoms at work.
Sad!
What is up with the morning links today? I have an OT link to post!
An it is too good to waste here
Exactly!
*fidgets and scratches elbow*
Where are my links, man? I need my fix.
Heh. Comment 747.
*imitates airplane*
Stall warning!
*pilot reacts*
*plane auto-stall recovery engages and plane nosedives and crashes*
*thunk*
Oww. The floor hurts.
Oh, so it was a 777 ?
No, we’re only on comment 767.
737Max
Just don’t imitate it’s big brother, or you might take Boeing down with you.
Howdy
How long you been back?
I’m not on much lately, but it’s good to see you
Surely, you can’t be serious.
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Maybe the stretchy parts in that Turkish prison film?
“Oh stewardess, I speak jive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s
SO I picked up a bottle of (Ri)1 after reading a glowing recommendation from one of y’all (I’m so sorry, I don’t recall who). I tried it neat (my preferred whiskey drinkin’ style) and it was good. I then added an ice cube… HOLY MACKEREL! The ice opens up a whole world of flavors; it was very yummy.
Can’t find it here. Haz sad.
#metoo
NO MORNING LYNX!?
Chaos. Mass Hysteria. Dogs and cats living together.
http://archive.li/Y1gmH
Tits.
Well this will surely help your stats. I mean posting Q links a 15 hours or so after an article posts will really help you average PTHL Time (post to hooter link).
Make sure to point that out to Swiss next time he chides you for jumping the gun.
Random thought on Comey’s interview. He talks about the “sub source” and how he wasn’t up to speed on all the details involved in the investigation. It’s not a “sub source” that Steele was using. It was “the source”. Comey didn’t know that “the source” had denied much of the allegations and yet relied on Steele which should’ve been called “the sub source”. Looks to me like he was using jargon to confuse and conflate.
No, he was just lying. It’s what he does.
Absolutely he was lying. My original comment was convoluted. My point is the “sub source” is the actual “source” and they use language to mask the truth.
Huh I think in the IG report it’s like that too. I assumed Steele was the source cause he gave the info to the FBI and his dad source was the sub source where he got the info.
Damn phone throwing in words.
Yes, the IG used the same terms. How did we go from “the source” being the originator of the info to “the source” being being the regurgitater or the info?
Easy. He got drunk and invented it out of thin air.
I think most of the Obama crime family count on no one calling them on their bullshit. They tell transparent lies when the truth would serve them better. They lie through their teeth knowing that we know they are lying. Their whole shtick is bullshit. They really are banana republic material.
If Trump took the links because of impeachment, then I’ll vote to remove.
White supremacy has taken hold in India
The law – known as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) – has sharply divided opinions in India.
The federal government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), says it will protect people from persecution, but critics say it’s part of a “Hindu nationalist” agenda to marginalise India’s more than 200 million Muslims.
What is the law about?
It expedites the path to Indian citizenship for members of six religious minority communities – Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian – if they can prove that they are from Muslim-majority Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh. They will now only have to live or work in India for six years – instead of 11 years – before becoming eligible to apply for citizenship.
The government says this will give sanctuary to people fleeing religious persecution. But critics say its actual agenda is to marginalise India’s Muslim minority.
Islamaphobic racism, obviously imported from Trump’s America.
Since the Wednesday afternoon lynx are still the most recent, I can only assume that my clock is wrong. It must not be Thursday morning after all. Guess it’s a good time to start drinking!
I’ll have what he’s having!
The fears are compounded by the government’s plan to conduct a nationwide register of citizens to ensure that “each and every infiltrator is identified and expelled from India” by 2024. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) has already been carried out in the north-eastern state of Assam and saw 1.9 million people effectively made stateless.
Round them up.
We are likely to see more of this kind of backlash.
I remember Clinton promising to bring in 1 million muslims while deliberately completely ignoring the religious groups being actively murdered, raped, enslaved and harassed in the ME. She is a real peach, that one.
Considering all the fuckery I’m having just trying to access the site, I’mma blame Google.
Ooooooh, shiiiiiiiiiiiit!
Leap, Tundra and I met PaisleyPudd yesterday IRL and now the links go missing?
Was PP really a G-man and they broke into Glibs because of our loose lips? He seemed like a really nice guy. Of course, no one stole my bike so he isn’t a true visiting Glib.
I’mma blame Google.
Always a solid response.