Traditionally, Jews would slip a few bucks to a goy to do tasks on Sabbath forbidden to the Jew, like turning lights on and off or lighting a stove. If it pisses off Yahweh, so what? It’s not like it’s a Jew breaking the commandments. Today, the opposite, the Jew sits in for Sloopy, while he spends the morning trying to prevent his sugared-up kinder from smearing shit on the walls with glee and abandon (not to mention partially digested crayon fragments). And I’m a Jew in a good mood, given the fantastic female with whom I’m spending my day off, the amazing food and beverage in the house, the afterglow of the effective end of the regular season in the NFL, and the memory of SP’s four kinds of tamales with red, washed down with several ethanol-containing media, and accompanied by a delightful Humphrey Bogart flick set in Arizona.
Birthdays abound, though Wikipedia coyly omits the most famous one. But they DID include one of the three or four greatest minds in human history; someone whom I could have sworn was made up; a guy who combined a great mustache with shitty cars; someone who at least admitted that he was not to be believed; the absolute exemplification of cool; a guy I would love to have done some lines with; the source of the terrific quote about TV, “How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?“; one of the best baseball players I ever saw (but hung on too long); and an empty suit which could be a poutine receptacle.
Oh, and there’s likely some news or other out there.
If she’s successful, citizens will take turns shaving her legs.
“You can’t solve problems by just throwing money at them.”
Mexicans doing jobs Americans won’t.
Old Guy Music is clearly on theme today, a terrific song and a performance to match.
Crăciun fericit sau orice sarbatoriti, ticalosi egoisti si lipsiti de mila care sustineti exploatarea sărmanilor si nevoiasilor in sistemul putred capitalist.
Astea fiind spuse, liniste si pace, vin bun pentru ca e mai bun decat berea orice ar zice unii pe aici, si hai sa citim si articolul.
Si da, beau de aproximativ cinci ore
Ars nova vita herring.
Oh feely me boney belly, dominos for bisco, Benny selly all his dominos.
I thought they said, “dominos probiscum.” Need to dust off that old record and check…
I think it can be debated, based on the number of chemicals in the listener’s bloodstream.
Kinda like Jeff Lynne in “Dont Bring Me Down”. Is he saying Bruce?
Clearly.
Ești atât de beat încât nu mai poți posta în engleză?
That was actually correct good job
I actually looked up “atăt” to see that Google Translate was doing what I wanted it to, since the English “so” can have a lot of translations.
Whoops, that should be “atât”.
And shouldn’t it have been “beată”? :-p
As there are no libertarian women, no
Pula mea!
Merry Christmas to you too, Pie!
Merry Christmas or any holiday, selfish and merciless bastards who support the exploitation of the poor and needy in the rotten capitalist system.
That being said, peace and quiet, I come here good because beer is better than anyone would say around here, and let’s read the article too
Either Google or Pie needs to work on their Romanian.
vin can mean wine or the first person verb of a veni aka to come.
Merry Glibmas to all the Glibs and Gliberinas in the Glibnation!
☃️????
Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein; December 25, 1872[2] – April 1, 1965) was a Polish-American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, and was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company, which made her one of the world’s richest women.[3]
There is also a romanian woman who made a bunch of bucks in cosmetics in the US of A
Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Ceaucescu?
*chuckle*
Merry Christmas!
Merry Thiccmas !
You’re supposed to post that with a Demi link.
I didn’t want to take it away from Count.
In before the kids get up. Dogs vs numbers kinda puts the people who say math is just made up in a tough spot.
Don’t you men a ‘ruff’ spot?
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Merry Christmas, fellow Glibs. Peace on earth.
“This is gross on so many levels,” tweeted Dr. John Paul, a scholar.
A scholar, you say. I guess he should have made those people go through a formal grant application process, or something. At least make them dance, or do tricks.
ps- Merry Chrstmas, earthlings.
Pisses me off. Ask the homeless fucks who got the cash if it was gross. These twatter people disgust me. Guy tried to do some good and made some people really happy for a minute and then these whackjob assholes come sniveling and highhorsing him about it.
It’s not true charity unless the money is collected from behind the barrel of a gun and distributed to people after they are vetted by the government.
I’ll assume the rapper’s intentions were good, and the money surely was beneficial, but he could have executed it in a more orderly way.
That’s what they say about Trump. My taxes are still lower, regulations are still massively reduced and the economy is still of fire. I’ll take the uncouth louts anyday, if it works out that way.
I guess if he waded into the crowd with stacks of bills he’d have to be worried about his own security too.
Merry Christmas everyone! I loved the links this morning as well as the birthdays.
Newton was born on Christmas? Was he the second coming here to teach us Physics?
“ RAPPER BLUEFACE ACCUSED OF HUMILIATING NEEDY AFTER THROWING LARGE AMOUNTS OF CASH AT HOMELESS PEOPLE IN LA’S SKID ROW”
If only somebody would humiliate me like that. Oh, and merry Christmas you filthy animals.
As opposed to the way government humiliates people when it hands out money.
Government handing out power is empowering
money not power
Both work.
No kidding, and talk about projection on the part of the writer. I doubt the homeless people who were the beneficiaries here thought they had been humiliated.
This. Now do the Girlswhodoporn chicks. Regrets after the fact? Probably. Crime committed? Fuck no.
The govt always goes after assholes like the porn guy because no one will stand up for them but being an asshole shouldn’t be illegal. Thank god for that too because most of us would be in prison.
Fraud. It sounds like they deliberately defrauded the girls. Of course the girls were completely stupid in believing that the porn would somehow stay in the private collections of overseas persons who were not parties to the contract.
Absolutely correct.
The so-called “approximate number system” has long been known to exist in many animals, but Science points out that earlier studies used trained animals in their research into animal numeracy. This left it open to doubt whether numeric abilities were innate or trained — but the new research indicates that a common, untrained brain function has been transferred across animal evolution, when it comes to numbers and quantity.
The never-ending quest for knowledge.
People at the movie theater being irritating has always been a thing
Any pack animal, like a dog, can count as a means of knowing when the pack is present and accounted for. Basic survival skill. I thought this had been known for a long time.
You’re not good at this grant game, are you?
Do you need to count to know all your kids are present?
Depends on how many kids you have.
I can’t count all of my kid’s presents. Spoiled rotten, he is.
“She hates the Republican Party, she hates all of the people that voted for me and the Republican Party, and she’s desperate.”
Nancy, maybe flying off the handle about how you “don’t hate anyone” was a bad idea.
I’m going to make a “Will Scholar for Food” sign, and go hang out on an off-amp, later. Maybe I can score a turkey leg.
“WILL SCHOLAR FOR PhooD”
I should spell check the sign, though, probably.
Naahh it adds to the effect
“You can’t solve problems by just throwing money at them.”
Its because you didn’t throw enough money, Dad. At least that’s what my kids believed.
“I need…..”
Merry Christmas! A tamale christmas sounds great.
Another Jiminez, no apparent relationship.
Congratulate me! I finally have a Christmas story worthy of the telling!
We bought a foosball table for the kids from Santa. We had family and friends over for drinks and such after church on Christmas eve, so the kiddies didn’t get to bed until late… meaning we got started with the Santa wrapping and such around midnight. Which put the beginning of the foosball assembly at around 2:00.
Well, the damn thing had a million little screws, and a whole bunch of the holes were not pre-drilled. The screws wouldn’t bite either. And my wife “organized” my drill for me sometime last week. So it is, as she puts it, “where it belongs”. But she can’t remember where it belongs, apparently. So I had to try to get all of those little screws in without pre-drilling and without using the drill. Well, and there was the 45 minute detour as I tried to determine the location of my drill.
Fast forward to 5:00 and the legs still are just getting attached… the youngest is a threat to wake up any time after midnight… definitely before 6:00. So the pressure is on. And I have to attach all of the little men to the rods and get all that hardware assembled. And I have not slept. And there were a few cocktails. Dang…. what the hell are these instructions talking about? It is very verbose and has lots of very complicated diagrams…. but it always seems to leave out a couple of important bits.
We got it assembled by around 6:00 and we decided to stay up and watch the kids come out… since they’d be doing that in less than a half hour.
Oh…. and this is important…. the stockings are a big deal in our family. All of the adults buy stocking stuffers… and a lot of them are kinda goofs. For instance, this year there were Santeria prayer candles in the adult’s stockings to go with pot scrubbers and beef jerky. So they get really heavy.
So I’m sitting under the stockings all hanging on their wall rack and I start nodding off.
Yeah, you know what’s coming…..
The whole thing came crashing down on my head as I slipped off to dream land. Which means I screamed out loud when a fairly heavy glass candle bounced off of my skull.
The oldest came running into the room in a panic…. what? What!? What…
The younger two followed shortly after…..
So that’s how Christmas arrived at my house this year. With a scream of abject terror as a dozing old man was attacked by a candle for intersession by the great African powers.
Ho, ho, ho!
I’m gonna try to find a place to hide and take a nap.
Congrats! ?
Merry Christmas. Sensei and family finally got to stop driving at about 8pm last night.
Wonderful story, Cyto. Thanks for sharing that. The bicycle (or whatever) Christmas Eve night assembly story is a classic.
Offshore Engineer English is the most debased form of the language. Generally correct and accurate, but completely incomprehensible.
Merry Christmas! I hope you don’t have too big of a bump on your noggin. Also, coffee and Bailey’s helps.
Loved it!
Ha! Nice. My only christmas assembly stories involve me putting together race tracks and trying them out followed by eye rolls from the Mrs as she states, “he is not going to play with that he is only two.” To which I reply, “YOU DON’T KNOW THAT!” zoom zoom zoom
So it is, as she puts it, “where it belongs”. But she can’t remember where it belongs, apparently.
Haha, I think our wives must know each other.
My son. Only he just doesn’t give a shit.
Add me to the list. As far as assembly, I have further handicaps. My wife hates lighting. She insists the lights be dimmed so far I can’t read or see what I’m doing. My kid’s opening things and asking me what they are. I can only tell him I don’t know. Right now, he’s learning to ride his hoverboard. That one was easy.
Congrats. Also, glad there were no power tool injuries.
This is tantamount to you “organizing” her closet or shoe rack or bathroom shelves. She should know better.
Great story. Good luck with the nap. I got tired just reading about your extended night.
Kids thought it was Santa exiting? Too many eggnogs for Santa and he was a little unsteady on his feet?
Good story. I think there are only a few women in the world and they’re all bigamists ’cause it sure sounds like a lot of us are married to the same ladies.
You did a great job for the kiddos and in story telling for us
Great story. Merry x-box, or whatever…
How many of the 22 are Photoshops?
Who knows? It’s getting to where you can’t even believe your lying eyes anymore.
I was expecting 22 thicc instagram models.
And five golden cock rings?
Number seven is totes woke, much allyship.
In case nobody has done it yet:
Spinal Tap Christmas
LOL, never seen that before.
On the Trump/Pelosi thing… It was hilarious watching the left pretend that having Pelosi not send over the articles of impeachment was a triumph! They even played it that way on SNL.
That’s actually a good litmus test for just how far your TDS has progressed. If you were pulling for impeachment ever since you learned that Trump actually wasn’t crazy when he said his wires were tapped and you managed to twist your head around to taking the position that refusing to send over the two lame articles of impeachment they managed to come up with is a master stroke worthy of celebration……. you just might have advanced TDS.
It’s amazing to me how hypnotized they all seem to have gotten. A guy where I worked shortly after the election was in a full panic at all times. I kept telling him not to stress, he’s just a guy and presidents can’t do much anyway, but it was no use. Every news report would cause immense gnashing of teeth. I hope that guy calmed himself some, because right now it looks pretty clear that he’s gonna have a second term.
It’s better to take some pleasure in their lunacy because it’s not going away anytime soon.
Heck, is it wrong for me to count on it as a regular feature for the next 5 years or more?
Just cheerily tell them, “we survived eight years of Obama, you’ll be fine.”
“Go bother someone else, I’m getting sick of your bullshit” also works.
I was asking Twitter for names for the witch in Hansel & Gretel and one of my proggy followers suggested Melania. I said, “If I were going to do that, I’d name her Hillary.” “Then we can compromise on Nancy.”
No. No, we really can’t.
Tell her you decided to reimagine the story and went with Michelle the Ogre instead.
Him. I immediately wrote him off as a pajama / soyboy.
That’s quite a list of birthdays – well done, December 25!
According to my mom, I was due on Dec 25, but not born until Jan 19.
Happy X-mas ya’ll I was up late following the parade and then pretending to be Santa for my spoiled-assed kid. He got way more than what he asked for and he didn’t even have to behave very well to get. Lucky.
It is spelled icsmas
This was a reply to blackjack
So what did everyone get from Santa? I got a bottle of conemara peated irish whiskey and some whiskey stones
“peated Irish whiskey”
Isn’t that just scotch?
No heathen
Irish whiskey is triple distilled to give it 50% less flavor than Scotch.
I don’t have any Irish whiskey but Santa seems to have poured some bourbon in my coffee. Santa also brought me a 10 Christpounds of prime rib roast that will be going in the smoker in a bit.
So… Is that an invite?
You betcha. Taking it to my folks around 1230.
Just for you Pie: How Whiskey Stones Became an Inescapable Holiday Trend.
/disclosure: I have two bags of whiskey stones in my freezer right now.
I can escape them just fine.
science proves a wee splash improves the flavor. But I’m not sure why you’d want to make it colder.
Remember folks, the real reason for the season is peace, love, and joy. Enjoy your day and hold your loved ones tight.
Off to get ready for our guests…
I thought the reason is getting the sun to come back next year and drinking
–Hogfather
I haven’t see Hogfather in a while. I going see if it’s available to stream.
Amazon Prime has it included.
Good deal. I’ll wait until it’s time some adult beverages.
There’s a movie?
looks like a three part mini series.
I thought the reason was to remind me how fucking expensive “D” batteries are, when you need around 10 of them.
That must be some “massager” you got there.
So, that’s what all the buzz is about!
I was about to get a pair of LED lanterns for me and my brother until I checked the battery needs. 4 D-cells for 32hr of runtime. Good if you’re going camping and plan to use it the whole trip. Not quite the right product for “I need some light under the sink etc” or “the power is out for a couple hours and I don’t want to sit in the dark”, too much battery to keep on hand and then waste.
I’ve got a container in my fridge for AA/AAA/buttons and some 9Vs, but I’d need another fridge just for batteries to supply D-cell devices.
Merry Christmas Glibs. Haven’t commented much lately but have been reading. Really enjoyed the tree series Timeloose.
Two of the three kids ended up getting sick with double ear infections and bronchitis on the verge of pneumonia. Not good in a 10 month old. We ended up canceling the family lunch planned at our house and are just focusing on getting these kids well. They’re doing better and it seems like the presents Santa left have done more than the steroids and antibiotics.
I hope everyone has a great day. It’s going to be unseasonably warm here in the 60s so plan on firing up the grill for lunch.
Thanks Spartan. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
The kids are playing Donkey Kong and I’m waiting for breakfast.
“But investigators suggest the computer equipment, which could contain evidence in the prosecution against him, has disappeared.”
Because sometimes a good wipedown with a cleaning rag just isn’t enough to erase the data.
Depends on whose doing it.
My question:
Why was that equipment not seized when he was arrested?
Let’s not overlook that it was incompetence that made this even possible.
Last Sunday I took the family down to a local US Military base for some last minute shopping and to get a number of other items which we were running low on.
One of the things I needed to replenish was my go-to Scotch which is Glenlivet 12 year. As I’m busy pushing the cart through the store I see that they are out of the 12 year but have 18 year in stock. I’ve never bought the 18 year – never even looked at the price before – but I see the price on the shelf where the 18 year bottle is and notice that it’s about what I’m used to paying for the 12 year (maybe a little more) so I put it in the cart.
By the time I get to the check out line my wife has added some clothes and a couple other items so when I rings up a bit higher than what I was expecting I didn’t think much about it.
Later that day, after getting home and unpacking everything my wife asks me to go through the receipt for the price on some item she bought for a friend. I noticed the price for the Glenlivet 18 year – somewhat north of $100 – which is about 3 times what the sticker on the shelf said and it dawns on me that somebody had moved the 18 year bottles into the row where the 12 year price was. Oh well, merry Christmas to me.
I’m enjoying it right now.
Dont care for glenlivet but enjoy
If the wife is buying your story, good on ya.
When I explained it to my wife her reply was “Merry Christmas!” I don’t really spend much money on myself and would never had bought this on purpose.
I have a few bottles of Glenmorangie and Glenlivet sitting around but am not big scotch drinker… would much rather have bourbon. Though, I’m halfway through a pretty good documentary about scotch on Amazon Prime. I’ve been enjoying it and may need to pour a dram. Recommend the doc to anyone with Prime.
I’m a Glenfiddich kinda guy, but I’m avoiding it for awhile. I think it was causing my gums to recede a bit. They feel stronger after abstaining for awhile. Miss that stuff. You’re gonna remember the 18, the next time you drink some 12.
In national news, people are assholes.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-woman-mexico-food-cart-operator
Next article will be about how great-grandpa still uses the term Sambo.
“ An Oregon woman was arrested Sunday and charged with using racist language after harassing a Mexican food truck operator and telling her to “go back to Mexico,” according to the district attorney’s office.”
This is the most offensive part of the story to me and it seems blatantly unconstitutional.
After the article about a guy being charged with “the hate crime of arson” for burning an LGBT flag, I figure all bets are off any more.
Ah, so flag burning is no longer a free speech issue?
I’m gonna assume there’s an Oregon, England. No spoilers, please.
The lady was arrested for assaulting and threatening the restaurant owner not for being racist.
But it does also say, “charged with using racist language”.
Journalist who is stupid, or trying to make people think using racist language is illegal?
The article was quoting the DA. But they made it sound like that was the only thing she was arrested for. Bastards.
Then the DA should be run out of town. Also it stinks of then trying to say that the racist language was threatening and not actual threats.
It’s a blatant Overton window move. Run these BS headlines long enough, everyone becomes more accepting of the idea. Fucking scumbags.
I am fiddling with my Pinterest boards and came across this: https://pin.it/7uixic4tuo6rbq
That screen is so cluttered, I’m not sure what the focus element is supposed to be.
Isn’t Mexico a country?
You have to read to the end to realize why she was really arrested.
That headline is bullshit. The comments are also poisonous.
Yeah, I should’ve read further before I commented but where’s the fun in that?
It’s Fox News, the comments are always poisonous.
They buried the lede, was that she assaulted the food truck person several times. Not assault, oh nooooooo. “Racist language.”
McDonald, who is black, told officers she thought the food cart operators were racist because “they served white people faster than they served her,” per court documents.
Red card. That isn’t how you intersectional. You still blame wypipo first and foremost.
Maybe she mistook them for white-Hispanics!
And here I thought China is asshole.
Mornin’, Glibbies and merry Christmas! Christmas has not yet come at Chez Mojeaux because XY is not out of bed yet. It’s a relatively sparse Christmas here though, so no big. Our thing is having cereal on Christmas morning because I never ever get cereal any other time, so it’s a true treat.
Well, now my sinuses are protesting the milk and my tummy will be rumbling in anger in about 5 minutes. I know it’s going to do this to me and … I do it anyway. WTF?! I really need to sot on a corner with my face to the wall and contemplate my life choices.
Timeloose, wonderful series!
Thanks Mojeaux
Merry Christmas Mo!
Santa has come. There was no crying at Christmas this year! YAY!!!
*whew*
Amazon has a free 30 day trial for a new high bitrate music service for any of you music lovers out there.
https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=nodl_?node=14063680011
I’m impressed, the sound quality flat out puts Spotify Premium and Apple Music to shame.
Huh, thanks
I’ve been using that for the past couple of months and have been delighted. Set up with my iPhone and with a network streaming function in a high power audio amp I’ve been testing. Sounds great on both.
The music choice was enormously better than I had guessed ahead of time.
I’ve been listening on an old iPhone hooked up to an old receiver I dug out of the attic and it sounds amazing and doesn’t have any of the thin shrillness that the other services had when played on decent equipment. As you say, the selection’s good too: my tastes run from mainstream to moderately obscure and I’ve been able to find everything I’ve searched for. I hate to give up my Spotify library but I’m canceling.
It is a noticeable improvement in sound.
This stuff is great. The only problem I have is the limits on content. Sure there’s lots of it, but what is not there? I’ll never know. Same with radio. We used to have some cool stations that would play obscure stuff but they’re all gone. With the database model, either you have to search something out or rely on an algorithm. Used to have to buy an album full and you got all the never played stuff. Plus it was so much more effort you’d give it all a shot if you liked the hit that prompted the purchase.
We used to have a great obscure radio station in my area and a lot of the music I like now was stuff I would have never come across or given a chance without being forced to by way of limited choices. That being said, if these services had been available back in the day I wouldn’t have had to listen to Girl You Know It’s True way too many times so there’s definitely something to be said for them.
The way I used to judge those stations was by the Zappa.
If Zappa was considered “too mainstream”, that was the place to check out.
You’ll never get the most out your electrostaticspeakertubeamphifi setup if you’re not replacing the atmosphere of your listening room with a specific blend of SF6/N2O/Ar/He and a 32ppm suspension of gold nanoparticles.
*phonographelectrostaticspeakertubeamphifi setup
I was surprised at the warm temps this Christmas as compared to the my memories of my youth.
So I wanted to check my temperature bias. I pulled all of the temp data from Philadelphia for the pst 150 years. The average temp is 42 to 44deg. I put the data in JMP.
There has been no significant trend or change in std dev. Over this time period.
This was nothing more than me being a geek, but I thought you all would appreciate it.
I thought the mean temps were at least 20 degrees higher than 20 years ago!? Could it be the warmistas have been lying to me?!?!
^Denier
It rained last night here. I love it. Snow belongs above 7000 feet.
Funny. Last night I was going through pictures in my hard drive and filing them (yes, I organize my hard drive to within a folder of its path limits), and came across something Cy said that I screenshot. “More water, more food, more usable land surface… ‘Global Warming’ will be a massive boon to humanity.'”
(Why, yes, I do screenshot things I find interesting, including things you say here.)
Well duh, you can’t just look at data. You have to have the IPCC “adjust” the numbers first. That’s the only way you can see the warming trend, which is totally real and not at all made up.
That’s why I checked Philly. The Franklin Institute has a weather station. It has been a developed City for 200 years. It’s not a station in a farmers field that is now surrounded by strip malls.
Excellent series, Time! Thanks for sharing. I have some flop/drug house stories to share with you one day, but now’s not the time. Anyway, Merry Christmas.
Thanks
It’s threatening to rain out here. Kid’s trying to use up the whole battery charge on his new hoverboard. It’s funny, when he opened it I asked him what he thought it was and he shrugged “No.” Then I asked him if he thought it might be a bazooka and his eyes got huge and he ripped it open at lightning speed. I was relieved when he was still excited by the hoverboard.
Merry Christmas Glibs!
Bailey’s and Pendleton (forgot to buy Jameson’s) in my coffee this morning!
Pity invite over to a gathering later on, not sure if I’ll go….may use “I’m to drunk to drive there” as my excuse.
Wake up
Hey OMWC!
Don’t know if you saw this before, but I sent you some music links (you’ve probably heard of Sam Broverman . . . ): https://glibertarians.com/2019/12/twas-the-night-before-glib-mas-3/
Comment #30. I have no idea how to direct-link to a particular comment in a posting.
You have to go to the DASHBOARD —> COMMENTS —> [search for a keyword, find comment] —> CLICK ON DATE [far right] or COPY LINK.
I don’t think there’s a plugin that will let you have a permalink in the comment you can direct link to.
Eyepiece adds permalinks, BTW
Oh, it DOES?! Fabulous!
(Eyepiece doesn’t work on iPad, sadly.)
MY iPad, I should say. It’s old and ineligible for upgrades and other things like Firefox, upon which it might work.
I hate Apple with a passion, but I must have the iPad for my work.
I hadn’t seen that, thanks for the heads-up. I have that Bobs album and an admitted weakness for well done a capella.
All I could think of, watching the song link was whether or not those film cans were chosen merely for their colors. Blame Timeloose.
And have a great Christmas season, everyone! I get to spend the day with my favourite lady, She of the Spousal Unitness, as well as various friends for Christmas brunch. Then it’s roasting a turkey in our upside-down house, as well as painting more walls and baseboard. Yeesh. I gots to get me a life one of these days . . .
Wake up!
Ugh Brooksed Brooks
My wake up
Trailer Park Boys – Santa Claus, Go F*ck Yourself:
https://youtu.be/Yegw0g0ueMU
Sorry no htmling on my phone; never works out well
Wake up
Oh yeah, whoever mentioned plumbing problems on Christmas Eve being a thing, yeah — we had to make an emergency run to Lowe’s to get parts to stop a washing machine supply line from leaking. Blasted domestic water plumbing! It’s why we’ve got an upside-down house in the first place!
I’ve been fixing toilets this morning. Thank fully I have flowmaster rubber replacement valves in my basement.
One was not shutting off the fill and the other squeals. One is not repairable till Lowe’s opens tomorrow.
Had one tank basically fall off the back last week because one of the bolts holding it on had rusted through. Of course, the other one was fine EXCEPT the nut had rusted on so I had to cut it off with a hacksaw, while contorted into an impossible position inside our tiny bathroom. After mopping up the water and cutting off the bolt, I ended up replacing everything inside the tank that could be replaced, including the handle.
Pleasepleaseplease do not let me have any plumbing issues this year …
Imma pray for your plumbing, Mo. All of it.
Merry Christmas Brutals! Hope Santa brings you an excellant wood chipper.
Merry X-mas! No gift of gun? Please? (yeah, I was the dumbshyte who decided to move to Japan so I gotta own that myself)
I’ll be treating myself when I get my bunus:)
Who knew that a country known for owning most of the world would be the catalyst for the EU falling apart
House of cards
I wish someone with some cash would humiliate me.
dudesdoporn.com
If you read that twit thread he sure pissed off a bunch of people. The smug is overwhelming.
Merry Christmas to all! I hope everyone can forget life’s troubles for a day, and enjoy the company they choose (or not) to keep (or not) today.
I’ll be spending the day with the in-laws. I get along with them, and my step-daughter and her husband are more like drinking buddies than in-laws, so it should be a fun day.
Timeloose, I just finished reading part 3. The series was excellent! A very fun read.
Merry Christmas, Glibs!
Presents opened, coffee drunk, time to nap off this hangover.
If anyone feels like adding on to this Christmas playlist, feel free. I made it collaborative.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PNM5TNfJfFpqHErVG0h0h?si=mNCuSkGhT82Bj1fjoh45AQ
River Bottom Nightmare band!!! Great.
At least their ain’t no hole in the wash tub.
River Bottom Nightmare band totally deserved to win the talent show. Fuck them otters.
From the song: “We don’t wish to learn,
But we hate what we don’t understand.”
Excellent.
Here is one for you. I think of this song every time I see your name.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3JsYTV1eNE
Cool, thanks Time, I never heard of those guys before. Just shows how shitty Amazon Music’s recommendations are, they are right up my alley, so to speak.
Glad to be of service. They are available on Amazon.
Oh yeah, got three or four albums on queue. ??
Merry Christmas to all!
I made a wonderful breakfast of huevos con papas using leftover baked potatoes for frying and leftover bacon grease to fry them in. The best meals are made from leftovers.
Now to clean up and start prepping for the roast.
Alright you degenerate scumbags, I’m too busy today to dick around here, so Merry Christmas. This one’s dedicated to the lot:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=739xhwKMmVI
Have a great Christmas day TH
Merry Christmas Glibs! Going to Daughters to watch the little ones do the happy dance and eat cinnamon rolls, then beer I suppose, with Bacon and eggs for Dinner, yum!
Sounds great, I hope you all are doing well.
Good morning, Yusef, and merry Christmas!
I am having some difficulty believing that >10% of Scotland’s population is replacing their mattress every year. Unless those are some shite-tier mattresses they sleep on up there.
They don’t want the latest ewe to smell the previous.
Hope everyone enjoys the day. I’ve got the gifts loaded into the car, and it’s about time to head cross-town to meet up with the family. Here’s hoping the nephews appreciate the computer, and things stay quiet.
The best of the best of the best department store Christmas music ever:
https://youtu.be/VIuLgnrW4FU
Merry Christmas, you den of degenerates. ?
Merry Christmas, ya big beautiful bastards.
A toast to you and yours!!
Mmmm cooked bread.
And since its 75 degrees today here in arkansas, i have a turkey breast going on the smoker right now. I brined in last night in an apple cider, rosemary, and thyme mixture. Cherry wood on the weber bullet style smoker and it should be great by about noon.
Spend! spend! spend!
As counterintuitive as it may sound, sometimes a borrowing spree is a good thing. Take America’s power utilities: They’ve sold a record-breaking $90 billion in bonds so far in 2019. In absolute dollars, that’s a pretty significant increase over the last decade, from $15 billion worth of bonds in 2008. Compared to total economic output, power utilities’ borrowing has also increased over that time span, from roughly 0.1 percent in 2008 to 0.39 percent last year.
Far from an excessive indulgence, this is welcome news. Why? Three interlocking reasons: First, overall interest rates are extremely low right now, making this an excellent time for just about anyone to take on new debt or refinance old debt. Second, a lot of the money is going to finance much-needed new green energy capacity. And third, the extra investment will only help the economy.
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That gets to a final lesson of the utilities’ borrowing spree: If we want other companies across the country to start behaving the same way, using their borrowing to generate actual new economic activity, then the federal government will need to step in. There are a lot of policy mistakes behind how the economy got to its present impasse, from the failure to run adequate stimulus in the Great Recession, to not combating inequality, to allowing monopolies and market power to grow unmolested. And we’ll need to address them all.
What this country needs is a powerful industrial policy, run by Very Wise Womynz. Unleash the potential of the oppressed and impoverished. Throw money at them, and stand back.
Citation fucking needed.
It’s needed so the people building it can get paid, so they can kick some of it back into certain campaign coffers.
from the failure to run adequate stimulus in the Great Recession,
Yeah, damn all that austerity forced on us by Obama!
They just rewrite history by making shit up, hoping we’ve all had our critical thinking skills numbed by public education.
Favorable odds, especially if kids are assigned Zinn as reading.
(Can’t believe lack of comments on your new avatar, HS. Both color and neckline of dress really suit you. I say that as a straight chick.)
Why, thank you, my dear.
I shop at eshakti online. They make a basic dress design, then you get to customize it—neckline shape (as above), sleeves, skirt length.
It’s a great store in India that grew out of a microloan that bought an Indian lady a cell phone and an old Singer sewing machine. Designed by and for women. They all have pockets!!!
I recommend eshakti to anyone.
I assumed your gender wrongly. Are you triggered?
Yes, and I demand reparations.
Just kidding; was a fair assumption.
I am a shitlady. Therefore, no.
There are a lot of policy mistakes behind how the economy got to its present impasse
Impasse? Who is the economy negotiating with?
to not combating inequality
History shows clearly that the best way to reduce inequality is all-out war.
If we want other companies across the country to start behaving the same way, using their borrowing to generate actual new economic activity, then the federal government will need to step in.
funny that the author did not list “federal government stepping in” as one of the reasons behind the current Welcome News. Prolly just forgot.
How about if the government made it easier for me to build a light industrial facility?
I think that would require stepping out, not stepping in.
The Fed could tell the state and local to leave me alone. HAHAHA
One of the few days with live nba at reasonable hours and its the goddamn celtics
Merry Christmas goyim! Did I do it right?
You are doing it all wrong
Jesus.
Jesus indeed.
https://youtu.be/GXCh9OhDiCI
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas!
I need coffee…
Hmmm… 9:15 and Mme. Zwak has not awoken.
Zwak, on the udder hand, as been up for five hours.
A Merry Christmas to all y’all! Thanks for the feeling of kinship and for some good laughs. It’s as good a Christmas present as I could want.
And a special thanks to OMWC and SP and all the people who keep this site going. Mazel und brocha.
Sun is coming up here. 79 walk on the moon degrees and lots of wind. Showers of “Hawaiian snow” expected on and off all day. I am enjoying finishing off the leftover frittata for breakfast. Looks like a good day for some “Rome: Total War”.
I hope all Glibs out there are enjoying your day with friends, family and fine food & drink.
Mele Kalikimaka!
I say that as a straight chick.
Whatever, Tulpa.
I love the sweetheart bodice and the diamanté clip thereon. Happy now?
You’re a sick man, creepy joe.
And christmas lunch was excellent.
Christmas presents at work. https://imgur.com/gallery/wTY7cSH