MERCURY RETROGRADE continues sticking its winged foot into all sorts of stuff. This week sees an almost perfect set up for an outbreak of insanity, with MERCURY RETROGRADE lining up with us, with the moon providing backup and the sun providing power. In fact, depending on where you live, you can watch the transit of Mercury tomorrow. I did say almost perfect, since an absolute world-wide break with reality would require adding Saturn to the lineup and putting Jupiter in opposition, and we’d need to get Aquarius and either Capricorn, Cancer or Scorpio involved. Hmmm. The sun and MERCURY RETROGRADE are in Scorpio during all of this…
MERCURY RETROGRADE upsets the ordinarily optimally benevolent conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, so expect missteps, infidelity, and/or incorrect toilet seat positioning to cause major strife, so major in fact that a relationship is going to outright end (sun-Venus-Saturn). I wouldn’t get too bent out of shape over this one, since it’s so prominent that the stars will be talking about someone important, not you. Perhaps Meghan will “accidentally” stick the riding crop into Harry’s butt and this will precipitate her getting locked in the Tower. I dunno, but that’s the more likely scenario.
Scorpio continues to spread bad luck across the rest of the signs, though to be fair, it’s all MERCURY RETROGRADE’s fault. Sagittarius is being straight-up Aesop, with success in all things guaranteed (Venus-Mars-Jupiter) as long as you a) take the right advice and b) do the right thing. The last celestial bit of note is the moon in Aries. Moonstruck goats. Make of that what you will.
This week’s cards skew heavily towards the “fighting” side of the fighting-fucking axis. But its very much indicating that problems will be mild, potentially dealing with yoots.
Scorpio: The Star reversed – Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion
Capricorn: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition
Aquarius: Page of Cups – Fair young man, one impelled to render service and with whom you will be connected; a studious youth; news, message; application, reflection, meditation; also these things directed to business.
Pisces: 6 of Cups – past, memories, looking back, happiness, enjoyment, things that have vanished
Aries: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, pettiness, weakness
Taurus: Queen of Swords – Female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation
Gemini: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss
Cancer: Page of Swords – Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination
Leo: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy
Virgo: 4 of Wands reversed – prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment
Libra: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues
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210 responses to “IFLA: The “Absolute Lunacy” Edition of The Horoscope for the Week of November 10”
Perhaps Meghan will “accidentally” stick the riding crop into Harry’s butt and this will precipitate her getting locked in the Tower.
Not if he enjoys it.
Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy
Hmm… I’m skeptical.
“Accidently”
Oh that may be the official line, but we all know that if it happens it’s because he asked for it and odds are that it wasn’t Meghan.
Thank you for not pinning the blame on me (us.) I din’t do nuffin.
Wait! What do you mean I’m not important?? ::bursts into tears::
You’re important to us:)
***SNIFFLE*** Really truly? Thanks, AJB! ::blows nose::
Yeah. You are.
Ya’ll is making me sick, just stop it! We’re cruel and uncaring bastards, stop trying to ruin it!
I wuvs you.
Awww.
*dabs eyes*
Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonor, loss
i.e., the usual
“Capricorn: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition”
#CapricornsRpeople2
The resistance shall continue unabated.
Queen of Swords
Have some salsa left, gumbo soup on the stove (okra not filet, the way God intended it), some corn on the cob. I’ve been putting avocado oil, salt, and New Mexico chili powder on corn lately, yummy. And beer, I have my good old cheap Miller High Life. Life is good.
Just had Steak and Eggs. Just bought some Avocado oil yesterday. Fried some pork chops in it last night. Quite yummy.
I don’t even know what we have here to eat today. Wife bought so many groceries yesterday eve, it took me like 7-8 trips up here from the parking lot to get it all up here, and I have one of those Rolster carts, actually 3 of them. I want a garage, like yesterday.
Okra is the way to go. I’m enjoying a late breakfast of grits with a sharp cheddar omelet mixed together in a bowl, topped with a sunny-side egg and 6 slices of bacon. I’m pairing with a delicious iced tea as wifey (who has recently developed a taste for Bourbon) drank all my Wild Turkey 101 and has not yet returned from the liquor jobber.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
I made a cacio e pepe pasta, then mixed in some spinach and put some fried eggs on top. Not traditional, but it was good and reasonably healthy (if a little too heavy on the carbs).
You prophesy that like it’s a bad thing.
Well. Hm. Got lots happening this week, including my mother’s cardiac ablation, so … “sadness, absence, mourning, privation, separation” … from your fingers to nowhere plzkthxbai.
“You prophesy that like it’s a bad thing.”
At this point, I think I’m finally starting to realize the that Margaret Sanger and the luddies were right all along.
I took care of that years ago. Never regretted it.
I had my babymaker nuked in 2011. The only reason I didn’t get it yanked was because I was told the recovery was 6 weeks and I couldn’t afford to take the time off.
But while framing out my daughter’s new closet in 2017, I lifted a bunch of 2x4s and, well, things happened. Scheduled my spaying the week after.
Yeah, one of the things I love most about my wife, is that she can’t get pregnant. I’m so out of the kid business and I’d have to send them to private school or home school because sending a completely innocent and naive being to public school is the worst sort of cruel and unusual punishment, plus my desperate attempt so save us from ourselves.
I love my tax deductions, and not just because we can make them fetch things, but I’m not sure I would have had children if I had known how difficult it is to not screw up perfectly good human beings as they are when they come out of the chute.
I was going to say “how hard raising kids is,” but I realized that what I regret is that I’m not a good enough person/parent to not screw them up.
If I was offered $100,000 right now to have another kid, I’d laugh. More than a million, then I can talk.
Godspeak alert: I always felt there was another baby waiting for us to have her. But I damn near died with XY, and I knew a third baby would probably kill me. Women still die in childbirth, yanno.
So we decided no. Mr. Mojeaux got snipped.
I feel bad for that baby (yes, I believe she wanted to come to us), but I don’t regret not having another.
/Godspeak
If I got snipped, I’m pretty sure wifey would start reading my emails again. And then I’d probably either die of STDs or she’d kill me in my sleep. So, no snipping.
THAT’S your tell? It wouldn’t be a new haircut, dye, working out, new cologne, suddenly working late, and a new sportscar?
https://youtu.be/53aVY9e6otw
I thought that was midlife crisis? I haven’t even made it out of puberty yet, so no worries about that.
Midlife crisis often includes a new girl to go along with the new look.
I asked my wife for a surrogate GF, because she travels a lot. She’s been most disagreeable about the idea. I even told her she could pick the surrogate as long as she can cook and has a great ass. Women are so difficult. I’m actually being serious about that, but I can’t reason with her.
I remember your argument for a surrogate girlfriend while your wife is gone.
I believe I stayed out of that discussion for a reason.
I don’t think I’d do it for a million. I love my kids, but I’m done with that chapter.
I was just going to get the money and then put it up for adoption or send it across the hemisphere with Mexican coyotes for a few thousand… what? Is that wrong?
My girls turned out to be smart (not quite wise yet), decent humans. Given my paternal limitations, I’m pretty happy with that outcome.
Newsflash, everyone! Mojeaux is the same as 99.8% of parents! *Donald Sutherland Invasion of the Body Snatchers point and screech*
“I’m not a good enough person/parent to not screw them up.”
Shit, you don’t even have to do the work yourself any longer, that’s what public school is for.
Kevin McCarthy says you can go to hell. 😉
Funny enough, I can live with that.
including my mother’s cardiac ablation
Hopefully it goes well.
Thank you!
Late last night I saw your comment on the David Bowie piece. Thank you for that too!
You’re welcome!
“Virgo: 4 of Wands reversed – prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment”
Winning! Shouldn’t take too long to find a stripper named Felicity.
Romanian election update
45% of voters @ 1900 plus 620000 abroad
I find this lack of interest in Romanian elections indicative of American isolationism
Where’s Romania?
Someplace in Africa with vampires.
What’s even wrong with you guys? You didn’t pay attention in geography class? It’s somewhere in Asia with vampires!
I heard they make candles there!
Those are fake Chingy Lingy candles. They’ll poison you and burn down your house.
Your neighbors don’t seem all that interested, either.
I don’t even know what he’s talking about. Something about vampires.
No, we’re really all interested in who the next mayor of Italy’s largest city will be.
Ain’t nothing in Rome outside of those Romas. They’re sort of like American bums without welfare.
I blame Trump.
Now, here’s a guy who gets it.
Needz more hot Romanian women.
Or good Romanian booze. Preferably both.
And with that, I’m out for a late lunch.
47%
Klaus Iohannis, 39%, Dăncilă – 22,5%, Barna – 16,4%
Cancer: Page of Swords – Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination – yes I did manage to plant a camera in the girls bathroom in the highschool across the street from me
Local feelings have apparently turned on the Browns. Here at the local and it’s empty. For contrast, there was a line of people before they opened for the Ravens game.
Go Bills!
I’m saddled with Miami @ Indianapolis.
In NYC. WTF?
The fact that the online predictions have the Browns winning this gives me just enough hope to be disappointed again.
Oh well at least I have good beer and wings.
I don’t follow football enough to know how that makes any sense. 2-6 beats 6-2? Unless there are factors I’m unaware of.
Wow, CLE are favorites by a field goal. I’m thinking I’d take that, even with the Browns at home. It’s true the records don’t display the whole story, but…
Liverpool are beating Man City by a field goal 🙂
Shit, not anymore 🙁
The only fútbol I’m getting here is UNAM v. Juarez. I’m okay with Buccaneers vs the Cardinals.
The Browns are the pallbearers of hope.
Don’t feel too bad, I’m a Red Sox fan. And while that’s not so bad now, there was an 85 year intermission in championships. I caught the tail end of that.
(DAMN YOU, Bill Buckner!)
/points to the Indians
That’s beautiful.
well there are no basketball games at acceptable hours
Basketball was popular here for a brief time. Now I think more people follow soccer…
I’m saddled with Miami @ Indianapolis.
You don’t get an early game on CBS because the Jets/Giants game is on Fox and that’s exclusive to the local market, per blackout rules. So you should have a late game on both CBS and Fox, and the only late game on CBS is Miami at Indianapolis.
Figured something like that.
Miami gets Jets/Giants too – *snort*
Obviously a sign of how many Noo Yawkers have decamped to South Florida and fucked up the state.
Damn. Gotta get out this week.
https://archive.li/PXxMD/9aefcf59401b837f1eb854316c1983bfe9512f1b.jpg
Ooh – really gotta get out this week.
Sounds like my sex life.
Hey-oh!
That avatar is just not right, it’s like I don’t even know who you are.
For some stupid reason I am unable to locate my old one. So, I’ve switched to a holiday themed rotation. I could just recreate my old one, but I am currently uninspired to do so.
And that, is more than anyone cared to know about my avatar situation.
https://web.jfet.org/ignignokt/ignignokt2.gif
Look at the cutting edge graphics on that thing. Who could do something like that? Bill Gates or the entire Amazon IT crew?
Thanks BP, I found my original copy of him in his natural state, I just can’t find my top-hatted and monocled animated version. Maybe I’ll work on him today when I get done with my homework…if I can stay off of this website long enough.
They have pills for that.
Sagittarius is being straight-up Aesop, with success in all things guaranteed (Venus-Mars-Jupiter) as long as you a) take the right advice and b) do the right thing.
[insert Bender “I’m boned” clip]
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion
What were we talking about?
Hatred of Capricorns, as always.
I thought Taurus was the worst?
He forgot.
That you’re the worst?
I am honored that you have granted me such an esteemed role amongst Glibs, after having been held by another person for so long.
Was your hubby on here last night? Because I believe I was the only Glib courteous enough to give him a Fuck Off Tulpa welcome. I don’t even know where are manners are sometimes. Or maybe not, I was a little drunk.
Naw, that was Libertesian. Very long-time lurker and occasional commenter. He does live in my KCMO suburb though.
He, OMWC, my husband, and I had dinner once.
My husband thinks all my friends are weird.
See, I told you I was drunk. Please tell me he’s at least not a Squaw’s fan?
I believe he is, yes.
/deliberately ignoring the jab
The lack of ability to thread.
Aries: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, pettiness, weakness
Oh yeah Tarot? Your coins are boring and if I could pick up this 2X4 I’d give you an okay swat.
Why do I do what my cat tells me to do? I’m bigger than he is. Also, I have opposable thumbs.
You don’t know about it? Cats control people with some sort of virus they carry. True story.
Borrow someone else’s cat for a day and spoil it while ignoring your cat.
The claws are coming out. Sort of like dating your girlfriend’s best friend. It’s a bad idea.
Cats are like honey badgers; they *will* pee all over your bed if you displease them.
I’ve never had that happen. I did have one cat that would just insist on sleeping between me and my GF every night. He’s stand outside our bedroom door and whine until I let him in.
I’ve had cats tell me where the litter box goes that way.
Mine are in a predicament. Stay outside where it’s a bit cool, or come inside to be tortured by the 2 year old.
They’re becoming more comfortable with the cold…
I had a large yellow Tabby who would stand at the back door and meow to get let out every time it came a big snow. As soon as I opened the door, he would pounce into the nearest big drift of snow and about an hour later meow at the door to get back in looking like the abominable snow cat. And of course as soon as I opened the door, he would bolt across the house shaking off snow all over the place.
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Cat biz
Dammit.
Went to see Dr. Sleep last night. Long movie. Rebecca Ferguson was delicious as the protagonist. Worth seeing for her character alone. Good acting overall though. Would recommend.
Saw Midway this morning. Not bad, a few extraneous scenes and plots that probably could have been cut but the battle scenes were pretty good. They kept to the history as we understand it now.
OT – I’ve been playing the FitGirl repack of Borderlands 3 for a couple of days now. I like it, and will certainly pick up a paid copy when the price drops down below $20.
There’s fat girls in Borderlands 3? I knew there was a reason I didn’t buy it… Oh, FitGirl.
I need to finish Greedfall so I can play RDR2.
Yes, he name is Ellie.
OFFS! Like my Korean friend would say ‘That not human, that a whare!’.
Which led me to a picture of an Ellie cosplayer. SO awesome.
https://images.app.goo.gl/joAVdNeKKhAUeeD38
I am so not ever playing that now.
Why do I do what my cat tells me to do? I’m bigger than he is. Also, I have opposable thumbs.
OBEY
I for one, welcome our new cat overlords.
LEGO has once again gone above and beyond regarding customer service. A month or so ago, my son broke a piece. I went to the LEGO website to order a replacement but was informed that particular set (and its unique pieces) is out of production and I was advised to try Bricklink (aftermarket parts sellers). I went and got some of that fancy glue that cures with UV light and it worked a treat. I thought nothing more of it until I checked the mail yesterday. There was an envelope from LEGO containing the piece I needed and a handwritten note informing me that they spooled up the line for that particular set for a very short run to supply their in-house parts library and they saw that I tried to procure one so they made an extra for me. BEST TOY COMPANY EVAR!!!!
Wow, that’s great.
Look, we have to shut LEGO down, it’s part of the racist patriarchy, just like math and engineering.
Please do not do so until I have acquired my LEGO Voltons .
That’s truly impressive customer service.
Kinda helps to explain why they’re still selling LEGOs even after 50 years of parents stepping on them.
Jeepers, that is awesome. Talk about customer service.
I gotta say, I’m always tempted to get my old Legos from my mom’s house and buy a bunch more online and just build to my heart’s content.
Legoland is pretty sweet if you’re ever in the area.
On this day in 1975…
Damn it, Trey! Now someone must be cutting onions in my house.
“Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”
Best line ever.
Indeed. That’s the point where the tears start for me. It is such a powerful line.
Tres, sorry about the auto-correct to a misspelled name. I blame the Witch of November.
Let us now be cheered up by my 3rd fave Lightfoot tune (Edmund Fitzgerald and Don Quixote always make me cry) – Alberta Bound
Gemini: Yikes! What did I do to the stars?
“Scorpio continues to spread bad luck across the rest of the signs,…..”
At least I am good for something
I watch the TV show Evil, where the Catholic church tries to determine what is demon possession and what is mental illness so they can determine whether to perform an exorcism or not. There is a team consisting of a believer who is a priest in training who has visions after taking whatever his peyote is. There is an IT dude skeptic who finds the tricks/special effects that people use to create hoaxes. The last is a psychologist, who is the one to determine mental illness. She is also a skeptic.
The latest episode involved a prophet. One of the questions the psychologist-skeptic asked her was—with a totally straight face and without irony—”Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself?”
Prophet: No.
Skeptic: How did they do it?
Prophet: He was smothered with a pillow.
I expected some sort of snark, but not one whit.
Good grief, KC.
Offensive pass interference is bullshit.
Unless, it’s called on the Squaws, then I agree. I mean, really, WTF NFL? The Raiders picked off Phillip Rives about 10 time and all but one of them were negated by the zebras. I would have only called one of those actual PI. The NFL have just decided that they’re going to decide games, they’re the Schiff democrats of sports.
“Phillip Rives”
Rivers. I mean, that guy who will sit down in the middle of the field and cry like a baby if the officials don’t try to had him the game.
You mean Peyton Manning. It was his crying after the 2004 AFC Championship Game that really tilted the passing rules in favor of offenses.
Tannehill appears to enjoy being sacked.
What’s a Tannehill? Where’s your smurf QB?
Raciss!
Well, it’s all your fault. If your Squaws would stop wining, I could be less raciss!
They don’t look like they’ve be wining, but I don’t drink so what do I know.
I think 10-0 at half is a pretty sure sign they’re winning. But what do I know? Maybe if they get 6 straight road games and a short week, like some other teams I know of, it might put a damper on their good fortune.
Oh you meant WINNING, not WINING.
/Ted’S
There’s a smartass in every crowd. But they’re not always the worst.
This week’s cards skew heavily towards the “fighting” side of the fighting-fucking axis.
Out in the wilderness lived two mountain men separated by several miles and a valley. One day one went to invite the other to a party.
“You want to come to a party? There will be good food. You like good food?” “Ya I love good food, I been living on muskrats the past month.” How about drinkin’, you like drinkin? I got a still.” “Ya I love drinkin’ ” “How about fightin’ you like fightin’?” “Ya, I been known to mix it up time to time.” “How about fuckin’, you like fuckin’?” “OH YA I like fuckin’, been a long time since I had a tender touch. But I am not sure I have nice enough duds for this shindig you got planned.” “Oh it don’t matter what you wear, it’s just gonna to be the two of us.”
I larfed. Thank you.
“Have the Browns finally found their offensive spark?”
Oh, I mean hell yes. They’ve scored 6 points in a half of a football game! Unprecedented offensive prowess!
Ugh. The inversion layer is here. Everything is gray and my eyes are killing me.
Look, Greta told you that you goan die if you don’t worship at the alter of climate change, and you just wouldn’t listen. Now you’re getting inversions, which has never happened before, ever in like 4 billion years. Denier!
I’m going to do my part later today and fire up the pizza oven.
We have some hamburger to cook up. I might do like a mariachi beef style pizza for dinner.
Ribs going on the grill now. Trying something new and appropriating an asian slant for them with a sweet chili sauce.
Spud,
You’re in/near Boise, right? We’re going to be passing through on Dec 3rd and wondering if you’d like to grab a beer or something.
Shoot me an email if interested, jemezhobbit at the gmail.
Absolutely.
Why would his posting name be Spud if he didn’t live near Boise? Duh!
He could be from Maine.
Oh stop, no one is from Maine!
I was born in Aroostock county.
I know it seems like that, but as someone from NH, I can verify that people are actually born there. Some of them even have teeth.
I’m Kidding! I’m Kidding!!! …They don’t have teeth.
Sure, whatever dude. Next thing I know, you’ll be telling us that people actually live in Delaware.
Look, man – someone has to farm potatoes for the eastern US. That just a fact, and it happens in Maine, along with large amounts of illicit meth production.
That doesn’t mean I’d pretend there’s something as crazy as people from Delaware. I mean, the place where Biden is ostensibly from? Ha ha ha. You live in Maryland, you know it’s nothing more than your sewage pit.Plastic sea waste and Bidens everwhere.
Downy Ocean, hon. We here, we know that means the state where all our washing machine suds go to be forgotten.
Hobbit: jk, of course. If my mom had her choice, I think she’d have lived in a cabin in Old Orchard Beach.
He’s from Prince Edward Island?
Ugh. The inversion layer is here. Everything is gray and my eyes are killing me.
It’s snowing, here. The air is all clean.
It was really nice here earlier today but now it’s all gloomy. I blame global warming and Trump.
79 here with high of 81 expected. Winds are a bit light at 6kt. It should be 9kt by race time.
56 here right now. I like it because I can run a few miles without breaking much of a sweat.
So jealous. I want snow.
That’s not how you win, boys.
Huh
Sawant, a member of the Socialist Alternative party and a former tech worker, was elected six years ago as the first socialist on the Seattle council in almost 100 years. On election night she trailed Orion by 8%. But as more ballots were counted she closed the gap, and by Friday evening, with the vast majority of ballots counted, she was up by almost 4%, or about 1,500 votes.
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Washington state runs a vote-by-mail system, which means it can take days to achieve a final count. In the past, more late voters have favoured the far left.
I’m shocked. Shocked, I say.
Helpful of the Guardian to explain in detail how the rigging works.
LOL – her opponent calls himself a “progressive liberal”. How embarrassing for him to have all that dirty kkkorporate money showered on him.
What a shithole
In just systems of representative politics, the representatives represent people. All the people. Not just the people with the right bloodlines, as in an aristocracy; not just the people of a certain religion, as in a theocracy; and not artificial lines drawn on a map with no regard for the number of people therein, as in the US Senate. History is littered with bad political systems. They are not hard to identify. They all, in some way, apportion political power to a small group that does not fairly represent the interests of all the people. We are supposed to be moving past these narrow, unfair systems. That’s the whole point of political progress. But America is having a very hard time weaning itself off of the sweet, sweet teat of plutocracy.
If you allow money to directly buy political representation in a nation with severe economic inequality, then political power will tend to represent the interests of a small group of wealthy people. The fact that this observation is obvious and unremarkable has not stopped us from falling completely into its trap. It is not really accurate to say that the people of America chose this system; rather, it was chosen for them, by people wealthy enough to build and maintain a political and social superstructure comprehensive enough to train, nurture, appoint and confirm a group of supreme court justices who would one day rule that corporate political spending is the same thing as free speech. You have to admire the shamelessness necessary to pull this off in the face of, you know, 2,500 years of post-Platonic political philosophy. Yet here we are. Not only have we allowed a smaller and smaller sliver of people to accumulate all the wealth, but we have also arranged our allegedly democratic political system in such a way that they can purchase all the power. Well done, everyone! It’s not just a national problem. It’s right in your home town.
Teh plutocratz are coming for you. They’ll put you in chains.
How can we save the USA from being the richest country in history? We have to fix this!
Related. Without accepting everything here as truth, or that Trump should get credit for all which is true, the left would be deifying a Democrat president with half of this resume.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andy-puzder-ah-the-irony-of-impeachment-look-how-trump-policies-work-for-dem-voters
If ever there was a solution in search of a problem communism is it.
I am pretty sure I have a rusty chainsaw around here somewhere that Hamilton can borrow.
I fucking hate this complaint.
Hey dingledick, there’s already a body of Congress that is adjusted for population. It’s called the House of Representatives.
Holy crap!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jersey-porsche-crash-second-story-dead-police
You ever see people from NJ drive? If someone does something incredibly stupid in traffic around here, I don’t even have to look at the license plate.
I suspect being the only people in the country too stupid to pump their own gas is a good a clue as any.
Don’t forget Oregonians.
I was going to mention them, but apparently things are beginning to change in that regard.
I thought they recently got self serve? I mean, I lived in backwards fly over and I haven’t had anyone else pump my gas in 30 years or so. Who’s the backwards ones now?
Rural counties got self serve; there was a bill introduced earlier this year to allow limited self serve state wide although I couldn’t find if the bill became law.
No. And the rural counties selected are on the basis on population. Basically unpopulated.
Elections happen all the time, but the system remains stacked in Amazon’s favor. Progressives will always have to expend vast amounts of energy organizing thousands and thousands of people to act in concert to maintain their tenuous hold on power. All corporations have to do is write a check. At this unequal work rate, one side is bound to get tired before the other.
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While we commoners gape slack-jawed at nine zeroes in the spending column, business interests know that there are several more zeroes to be recouped on the other side of the elections. As long as this basic math holds true – and as long as our laws allow it – money will control politics. And since the return on investment is so grand, spending will only keep increasing. This is the raw logic of capitalism that can never be overcome as long as our set of rules stays as it is. So yes, we will have to drastically change our campaign finance laws if we want to begin to overcome the gravitational pull of wealth warping our democracy. But if we ever want to get serious about that dream of a political system that represents everyone, we will have to do something more definitive: take all the money away from the rich.
Yes, of course, Che. And then we’ll all live happily ever after.
Now do the difference between bureaucrats and the people.
You ain’t lurnt. Some animals are more equal.
If I didn’t know better, I would assume the Guardian is a parody site.
“…: take all the money away from the rich.”
*falls on the floor unconscious and begins convulsing*
Do these dipshits seriously think they’ll “get money out of politics”? As long as the government is the god of the marketplace who picks all the winners and losers, there will be massive lobbying that happens. You can make whatever laws you want, but there are too many ways to get around that.
Anyone who wants to “get money out of politics” needs to know the first step is to get politics out of money. Until that achieved, they’re pissing up a rope..
Mr Bean photoshop.
For no reason.
https://www.demilked.com/mr-bean-rowan-atkinson-photoshop-battle/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=DemilkedFB
Lol
Hilarious!
42 FTW.
Bless you. Many of those are hysterical.
Chili, phase 1: Big meaty dark red country style pork ribs in the crockpot with beer and seasoning.
Yum. I’m getting ready to make a Mariachi Beef style pizza.
“Libra: 10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues”
It never lands on “FREE SPIN”, does it?
Glad to hear LH is doing well.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/10/michigan-battle-ax-intruder/40581481/
W Michigan man fights off intruder with battle-axe.
Did drugs fall out of the intruder’s ass?