This week we’ll demonstrate how to read the same signs for a general population and then as it regards to a specific individual. In this case, the Glib’s own HVAC SME. Just a little something to thank him for all the knowledge of High Vacuum Alternating Current systems that he provides.
The skies are really quite busy this week. The main axis is an alignment of Mars-Venus-Terra-Sol with a quaternary intersection of Mercury-Saturn (retrograde). That main intersection is a celestial soft swap (Mars/Venus, Earth/Sun) with the modifier of news/change-beginnings means that if you’re looking to conceive, this is absolutely, positively the time to get busy with the baby-making. Make a reminder to check the birth announcements in the paper nine months from now, there will be a bumper crop. OTOH, if you’ve forgotten the contraception, you’d be well advised to take care of things in a non-procreative way.
That’s what it means for us in general, but what about Yufus in particular? From to point of view of Virgo, Mars and Venus are almost perfectly eclipsed. This is very good, since Venus is the one doing the eclipsing meaning that all the negative aspects of Mars (the fighting, slaughter, bloodshed and ruin) are going to be filtered out and the positive aspects remaining. Plus, the two lovers getting to be literally on top of each other is naturally going to throw off some waves of happiness. One other thing for the personalized reading is that from this perspective, the moon is in opposition, which means there is going to be a consequential lie told to you.
Now back to the rest of us. Virgo gets the planetary bounty this week, holding the sun, and the aforementioned Venus and Mars. Leo retains Mercury, so they still hang on to the good luck for another five or six days until it transits into Virgo. Sagittarius keeps Jupiter, which is only fair since they had to put up with those months of retrograde motion, and Gemini hosts the moon. This is where the general meaning differs most, since unlike the meaning for Virgo, the meaning for the other 11/12ths of the population is increase, abundance, growth, etc.
I drew the cards for Yusef, but frankly they were depressing. Three cards saying that financial pressures were going to increase, two saying that the future involved travel, and the core card was good, but ambiguous. The most obvious implication would be that you’re going to have another kid. Maybe a grandkid? Puppies?
For everyone else the cards are:
Virgo: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, deception, artifice
Libra: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, fear, suspicion, mistrust, suspense
Scorpio: Knight of Coins – Utility, interest, rectitude, responsibility
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, rupture, dispersion
Capricorn: 2 of Coins reversed – Simulated enjoyment, forced merriment, correspondence
Aquarius: King of Wands – Honest, conscientious, friendly man
Pisces: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, infamy, loss, reversal, dishonor
Aries: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, stings of conscience, quarrels
Taurus: 6 of Wands reversed – Apprehension, fear, treachery
Gemini: Queen of Cups reversed – Vice, dishonor, depravity, distinguished woman but not to be trusted
Cancer: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, affinity, friendship, union, concord
Leo: Ace of Swords – Triumph, excess in everything
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We have been thinking about getting a puppy for Bella, and maybe I can finally leave this hellhole behind, thanks Adahn!
Now do LH…
I know this is heresy and proves that I-don’t-FLA, but wouldn’t LH be exactly the same?
Different ages, different birth places
Not if you dig into time and place of birth.
And the cards are drawn on an individual basis.
Leo: Ace of Swords – Triumph, excess in everything
So, a shitty week. Like every week I’m not on vacation.
OK, maybe not a shitty week. I’m doing OK at this weekend’s Amoskeag auction. A few on-line auction lots still need to end, but it’s looking good.
Cool. Hope you got some nice collectible guns.
I got a few. All auctions I bid on are finished and their website has my winnings up. Once I receive the invoice, I’ll go pick them up.
I never win anything, and when I do it costs too much,
I hate that when you “win” an auction you lose money. It totally screws up the meaning of the word “win”.
It’s much like “winning” a woman’s affections.
amirite?!
Hi five!
I can live with that.
I’m pretty sure we had this one just a few weeks ago. Did you remember to shuffle?
Yup. Plus the way I draw them endures extra randomness. I put twelve representative objects in a circle on the floor (plate of sushi for Pisces, glass of whisky for Aquarius, etc.) then I stand in the middle of the circle and toss the deck over my head while the ceiling fan is running. The card that land on (or nearest to the center if multiple) gets assigned.
Where do the chicken entrails fit in?
Into the chitterlings. But you really have to wash them a lot before you proceed.
Chicken entrails are a hoax, a myth started by a haruspex that was so bad at his job he could no longer afford sheep.
Bullporken?
Wait…what? I want to be Aquarius!
Happy birthday Yusuf and Lord H!
Agreed. Hope that new vinyl sounds good with your Marantz tubes (I’m guessing).
Yusef, I know less about your hobbies, but glad you got a nice dinner and beer last night.
Sadly my hobbies are in 2 storage units, waiting for my triumphant return, but I still bring my Ukulele with me as I travel, and I am an attractive nuisance, so that helps,
OT: You said you were looking for things to read in Japanese. It’s not free, but I can highly recommend Satori Reader. It will let you adjust the kanji and furigana depending on your level. It’s highly customizable.
And if you want to feel your Japanese is wholly inadequate…. https://youtu.be/1LPwDWbdM3g She is amazingly fast and smooth.
Ah, thank you. I’ll have to check that out. I’m wary of starting another subscription I don’t use, or use enough. The gym and Netflix are bad enough.
Funny, that’s the working title of my autobiography.
Oh you mean I have to go to work this week?
Sounds more like being compelled to attend a family wedding. “forced merriment”
“Forced merriment” until morale improves?
“Oh you mean I have to go to work this week?”
That’s what it sounds like to me.
Interesting that context changes the meaning of astrological events.
^ Science denier!!!11!! ^
Astronomers worry about confirmation and replication. Astrologers worry about keeping the marks paying. Different rules apply.
Well, there are several astronomers who have thrown their lot in with the
Global WarmingClimate Changescamcrowd, so I’d say there’s some overlap.*crying softly*
OT: Any time you catch yourself having faith in the essential goodness of humanity or regretting that there are fatal diseases yet uncured, read any comments managed by Disqus.
True enough. What is up with Disqus?
I don’t know, but damned if each and every Disqus comment board isn’t a raging dumpster fire. Every now and again I’ll read a few just out of morbid curiosity, and then I throw up as I realize that these people are who are meant by the term “voters”.
So move to Illinois. That way when you get furious about the voters you can console yourself by thinking how many of them are dead.
Is it a self-selection issue?
* looks around, takes a breath *
Only certain sorts sit around online arguing with obvious idiots when normal folk would have just have quickly sized up the situation and then gone on and about more reasonable and profitable endeavors?
Probably. If it acted like a fly trap it would be fantastic, but I think it acts more like a fermentation vessel for shitty people to confirm their shitty ideas and then get all excited and motivated.
NCAA football ELO ratings on a budget
That’s a fancy cake. A little too fancy IYKWIM.
Everybody likes cake, don’t you?
I prefer manly, Germanic cakes, like a Schwarzwald.
Happy Birthday, Yusef!
Thanks Woodrow
I think I do, but how could they get anyone to bake it for them?
FWIW I’m the chef in my house, so if I want cake, I’ll go buy one,
excess in everything
*Looks at watch. Cracks beer.
*Puts 2lb pack of bacon on the grill.
*looks at watch* “12:27” *looks at can of bubly*
Dammit. Now I can’t say I drank all day.
NOOOO! unwrap then put on grill!
Yeah, I cooked a pound of bacon in the oven on a tray. Still have the grease. I’m going to get a big bag of frozen French fries in a bit.
Made sausage patties, eggs, Colby jack, mayo on toasted seseme seed bagel for lunch. Pepperoni and mushroom pizza for dinner with Trader Joe’s pizza dough.
“Libra: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, fear, suspicion, mistrust, suspense”
God damn it….
The problem of it being such a gorgeous day is that the gun range is full of people, and there’s only two lanes on our 100yd range.
Hopefully they’ve cleared out and gone to lunch so I can see if this thing is holding zero.
Gemini. Man, what did I ever do to the stars?
Jared Leto has started a CULT on an island and his followers call him ‘Prophet’
However, things seem to have taken a very unsettling turn as Jared Leto has now started an actual cult where he invites his fans to join him on an isolated island where he proceeds to walk around like some sort of modern-day Jim Jones preaching to his choir.
Another Epstein
Or at least another Mel Lyman.
I won’t dignify it with a link but the NY Post ran a photo album of him the other day in all his oily-pecced bathroom-selfie glory. Let’s just say he seems a little bit full of himself.
dat bod tho
iknowrite?
The time James Gunn implied Leto is a pedo.
https://www.screengeek.net/2018/05/17/james-gunn-implies-jared-leto-is-a-pedophile/
“It’s fan fiction”. Yeah, ok.
From Used Condoms to Dead Pigs, a List of All the Creepy Things Jared Leto Sent His ‘Suicide Squad’ Co-Stars
What a fun set!
And yet, he continues to get roles. Why? He’s not THAT good an actor
I would guess the Suicide Squad stuff hurt his career, and he doesn’t seem to have many upcoming projects on his IMDB page.
Margot Robie is behind the new Harley Quinn movie, and I don’t believe he is in it. I doubt she wants to work with someone like that.
“Jared Leto has started a CULT on an island and his followers call him ‘Prophet’”
How original. Never been done before. When do they get the koolaid?
Paid to live on a private island and all I have to do is entertain a handful of adoring fans/cultists?
Nah. Still not worth it.
*double locks doors, draws shades *
Start a religion (or cult), must be the oldest trick in the book to obtain power and control over others. Before that, you pretty much just had to be able to beat the shit out of everyone else.
The Cult of the YouTube Motivational Video Bros
My God
Jeezus. That’s sick. I’ll stick with alcohol, thanks.
You just need to choose what you want to lose, your liver, your lungs, your septum, or your mind.
Why choose?
So he’s discovered the screen and entertainment as an escape from his everyday life. OMG! What will they think of next?
“he has to figure out how to get through the day.”
Yeah, but bad orange man. I have to recommend the alcohol, weed, and cocaine.
#CapricornsRpeople2
DNC will not allow climate debate
DENIERS! KILLERS OF MOTHER GAIA!
I think they should debate the real question on the mind of every true Democrat: Whiteness: Paths toward a Final Solution, Exile, Disenfranchisement, or Just bite the bullet!
“I think they should debate the real question on the mind of every true Democrat: Whiteness”
Oh, they’re totally going there, in derptacular fashion.
I thought you were interstellar goats or some such,
I for one, welcome out new interstellar goat overlords.
How about an intergalactic beastie?
A link to Space Smith’s youtube channel?
Heya YUFUS and LH…….Happy Birthday!
(Im a week away from mine)
Meh. Watching a bunch of politicians chant empty slogans wouldn’t change anything. 1 oxygen good! 2 oxygen bad!
They’d never discuss how the gaseous form of hydric acid, another greenhouse gas, has never been addressed, despite the fact that it is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. They don’t even consider it a pollutant.
Well, they are certainly not going to discuss any real solutions to non-existent problem. The solution is shut up, obey, give us complete power, give up your rights, and give us all of your money.
Hydric acid? That sounds awful. I’m going to take a shower to wash that stuff off.
Just be careful you don’t get any dihydrogen monoxide on you. It’s causes suffocation!
It causes edema as well.
University psychiatrist: Trump ‘may be responsible for many more million deaths’ than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao
We sure do have a mental health crisis in America.
“University psychiatrist: Trump ‘may be responsible for many more million deaths’ than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao”
Just another day, another reason why we cannot be taken seriously. /the left
These people cant hear themselves. At what point did they decide that nothing is over the top, and who do they think is buying it?
I’m guessing they don’t think deeply enough to ask themselves those questions; they’re stuck in a virtue signaling loop.
“stuck in a virtue signaling loop.”
Describes it perfectly.
“At what point did they decide that nothing is over the top”
When bad orange man and Putin stole the throne from the rightful queen heir.
Yep. Their “permanent majority” thing didn’t come to fruition and it’s been an irrational temper tantrum ever since. The thought Obama was the beginning of a long, unbroken line of prog presidents.
A thousand year…..Reign? Where have I heard that before?
You heard it screamed from every rooftop of every prog right after Obama’s swearing in.
1000 year reign. Epic fail.
^This. First of all, nobody ever went broke betting on the overwhelming stupidity of the average voter. Secondly, TDS is real, and the power of the effect is such that you could basically be like, “Hey, so we’re going to pass a law requiring all babies to be poked with sharp sticks on an hourly basis, because Trump” and within a week MSNBC would be running segments on the looming crisis of unpoked babies of color, and two weeks in you’ll have a bill on the floor of Congress.
I’m going to guess “they” didn’t get together and decide on anything.
I’m waiting for the day that one of these flat out denounces the US, without hedging, on the floor of the House or Senate. My idioter Senator sent an email out wailing about the poor migrants on the southern border and how horrible of conditions that they are enduring.
Haven’t they done that already? If not then Obama got the jump on them.
Belle Chevre Launches Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese
Would.
“Would.”
Finally, he’s verified his credentials as the real CJ.
I don’t know. Pumpkin spice cream cheese may be too nasty for the real CJ. I’m voting Tulpa.
I mean I’m not a Tulpa, of course, but I would have to say the Tulpas are a misunderstood people.
Not that I care because I’m not a Tulpa.
So, Russian bot. Everyone knows that everyone here is Tulpa or Russian bot.
Tulpa Tulpavich
Exactly what Tulpa would say
Death Row Records Was Purchased And Is Now Owned By Hasbro Toy Company
Peppa Pig been livin’ that thug lyfe.
‘The Report’ First Trailer: Adam Driver and Annette Bening Expose the CIA in Oscar Hopeful
Well at least we’re back to talking about torture.
Now do the CIA’s part in procuring the Steele dossier.
Or the Brennen and Clapper perjury investigat… Oh yeah
That Clapper thing was in your face contempt for us little people.
At least he became a pariah in the eyes of the media and public at large, right?
Libertarians will never be satisfied. They always want more more more. Just a bunch of selfish loons.
Or murdering American citizens abroad.
lol that would make for a great movie.
Off topic: I am so proud of my hometown!
I saw this fantastic commercial linked by The People’s Cube. It’s a Facebook promo for Murf’s Guns. I thought, not the Murf’s Guns I used to shop, surely.
But as soon as I saw the building, sure enough it was THAT Murf’s!!
https://youtu.be/z3TIxWZd6Zc
I approve.
Wait, you’re from Duncan?
Broken Arrow, here.
Yes, indeed! Born and raised Duncanite until I went off to college.
How long did you live in Broken Arrow?
From age 6 to 22.
Not Adahn’s home?
Now I kinda want to move to Oklahoma.
Well, it’s cheap, but salaries are lower too. But it’s a nice place.
You’d Better be OK with “exciting” weather…
Yeah, the excitement we get around here is “Will the heat and humidity kill off the grandparents this summer?” or “How many hurricanes will make it up the Bay?” not “Will the house stay where we left it?”
Happy birthday to Yusef and LH; thank you both for sharing your time with us.
Libra: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, fear, suspicion, mistrust, suspense
Well, this ain’t good, seeing the upper management are visiting my field office this coming week. But on the plus side – I only have to see them once or twice a year…
And off topic for those more knowing in fitness areas than I am. I’ve been trying to find an exercise that I can do with all my various ailments and still try to get back in shape. I’ve settled in on a recumbent bike (treadmills, rowers, and ellipticals are out), and I’ve been doing steady state for an hour a day for the last few weeks. I always get my heart rate up around 130-140 for the entire time.
I noticed that my exercise bike has an interval program, and I tried it out this week. The one problem that I have is that the intervals are 3 minutes each, alternating between very little effort and climbing a mountain. Heart rate goes between 110-115 on the easy parts to 150-155 on the hard ones. I’ve been alternating between the steady state and the intervals.
Now, the question – is this too long of an interval? I like doing it as I can just watch TV or play Xbox while biking (keeping an eye on my speed – I don’t vary between the easy and hard), and doing short intervals would be much more labor intensive as I’d have to manually change the resistance.
So far in the past month I’ve lost about 10 pounds of net weight, but my legs are definitely getting more definition and size. I just wish I could still lift weights, but a bad back (torn muscle that’s never healed right), bad ankle (peroneal tendon is splitting), two bad knees (one has been replaced, other has torn meniscus), two bad shoulders (damaged rotator cuff in one, bursitis in the other), and a bad neck (another torn muscle that never healed) kinda limit my options there…
Swimming?
Yeah, not going to happen. I am extremely claustrophobic (if I tie my shoes too tight and can’t wiggle my toes around, I go into a panic). And what could be tighter around you than water?
Sad thing is – we have a 40 foot long pool in our back yard that would be large enough to swim laps in…
” we have a 40 foot long pool in our back yard that would be large enough to swim laps in…”
Suck it up and work out in the pool. There are lots of great exercises you can do.
Oh, I do get in the pool and tread water/aqua jogging as I throw the tennis ball to the dogs – 30 to 45 minutes of that in the deep end (8′) is tiring.
I just don’t swim – my face doesn’t go under water. Swimming with your neck craned back to keep your face out of the water is not very comfortable. And I’ve never liked the backstroke.
Ever tried the sidestroke?
Yoga?
I don’t think I want to see I’m Here to Help in yoga pants.
Hookers? They’ll get your heart rate up.
Yes, they would. And then my wife would ensure that the heart rate goes to zero…
I’ve started doing a program on the days between my actual lifting days that is based around very short intervals of maximum intensity work followed by lengthy rests. It’s based around bodyweight exercises and free weights, but the principle should apply to anything where you can achieve maximal physical exertion in a brief period. At any rate, according to research the guy who developed the program looked at, the sweet spot where you’re getting your best performance and avoiding glycolisis (the lactic acid burn) is between 10 and 30 seconds of maximum effort. The intensity spurs muscular hypertrophy, and lengthy rest periods (about 30 seconds between sets and then 2 to 3 minutes every 4 sets) lets you recover enough to keep glycolisis at bay. The goal is to build muscle and develop endurance.
Now, if your goal is to just burn calories without really putting on muscle, then low intensity, high rep stuff is the way to go, which is the exercise bike on “low” while you watch a couple episodes of Seinfeld. That will get you weight loss without developing strength or endurance. If you want to train endurance, then you want moderate intensity, high rep stuff, so like jogging for distance at a moderate pace, that sort of thing. That’ll burn calories and build a little strength, but mostly it’ll make you better at endurance tasks like distance running. HIIT training, like interval sprints on a bike, get you both, but they wear you out, which is why I like the modified version I mentioned above. It seems like what you’re describing is somewhere between that and the jogging bit. If you’re looking to get definition, I’d think that would do it, but if you’re looking for muscle growth you might want to incorporate some kind of weight lifting or body weight exercise. With your injuries, though, that’s gonna be tough, and if you can’t swim that’s really limiting your options. The only thing I can think of that might fit the bill would be rowing, but you’d want to be really cautious about those lingering injuries.
Really, if you haven’t already you should go to a doctor and get those injuries checked out.
Second the doc to sign off on your exercise program (which you probably are doing). Maybe get a referral to a good PT that can give you a rounded program. The bike is good for cardio and/or lower body but you still probably want to watch out for those knees and get something for upper body even if it’s something like bicep curls with low weights.
Oh, my orthopedic surgeon loves me. I’ve had MRIs on both knees, both shoulders, and my head/neck this year. Knee one was replaced about a year ago, knee two has another 5-10 years before it’ll need to be done. I have an appointment for the shoulders next week. Orthopedist in Germany told me that there wasn’t much to be done about the ankle other than surgery, and even that isn’t guaranteed. Back and neck are old injuries that I got in high school that I just aggravate every once in a while.
I try to avoid operations until I can’t take it anymore – I’ve had 4 on one of my knees, and they have caused more trouble than they were worth. I just have to realize that I won’t ever get back to my rugby shape and musculature. I am going to start back to limited weight lifting. I had started a program a few months back, and kept adding more and more exercises to it. Then my shoulder gave up on me. I was doing fine with the basic moves, and I think I just went one exercise too far with it.
Way too long of an interval. You really don’t need that much – there is a ton of research out there about that. Go shorter and harder – maybe even cutting the number of intervals – and see what happens.
In response to Tundra and Napertown Bill – I do like the program that’s on the bike. I keep a steady rhythm, around 70 rpm, and I don’t like going much higher than that as it seems like my knees are flying all over the place (i.e., hard to keep a good form). So when I do intervals I hike up the resistance rather than go faster. My bike is a relatively cheap model that I got to make sure I’d actually exercise a lot on it, but it does have 25 levels of resistance. When doing the long, steady state, I’m usually riding at about 13-15. The intervals feel like about a 5 on the rest phase and a 22 on the hard phase.
I’ll try doing a manual program with shorter intervals and see how it does it. I’ve already told the wife that if I keep it up for a year I can get a much nicer bike. I think it’s only fair – my $300 bike is sitting in the same room with her $5000 pilates studio…
We freaking love science
To be fair, every German speaker knows there’s masculine, feminine, and neuter.
Neuter applies to all while cis hetero lefty men; right?
Mädchen (girl) and Weib (an older term for woman or wife) are both neuter nouns.
So the Germans have the same understanding of sex and gender as the modern left.
Removal, absence, delay, rupture, dispersion
So I’m not finding a new job this week.
Maybe you will break through in the aerosol solvent industry.
Wrong. See my email to SP.
“Second, calling Trump crazy hides the fact that we’re crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist,” Frances went on. “Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, Mao in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were.”
Trump is the symptom.
AMERICA IS THE DISEASE.
So which is it, did Trump get elected or did the racist electoral college and PUTIN cheat Herself out of her rightful office? Pick a narrative progtards.
“He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were.”
Citation desperately needed
I don’t think you can cite fever dreams or a vivid, morbid imagination, but I haven’t thumbed through the APA manual in a while.
Duh! Trump is responsible for everything bad from here on till time ends. Dying is bad. There are 7 billion future deaths ALREADY GUARANTEED!
I would love to know the logic of this one.
Ongoing war on facts
But, of course, the gun lobby is fighting legislation that would eliminate ghost guns by requiring background checks on the purchaser of the firearm’s essential part.
In assault rifles, that part is called the lower receiver. Attached to it are components such as the upper receiver, which houses the barrel, the trigger and ammunition magazine. With a handgun, the core part is called a frame. So there’s no gun without a lower receiver or frame.
Under the legislation, AB 879, the lower receiver or frame would need to be purchased through a licensed gun parts dealer. There’d be a state background check on the buyer. And a serial number would be required. It already is, but that requirement is virtually impossible to enforce.
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“Ghost guns are law enforcement’s biggest fear because they’re not traceable,” says Assemblyman Mike Gipson (D-Carson), the bill’s author. “This is huge.”
State Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra, the bill’s leading advocate, says “California is a hot spot for ghost guns. They’re becoming more appealing because of how straightforward the process of building one can be with the right tools, parts and instructional videos….
“There have been too many tragedies caused by prohibited persons” — those not allowed to possess firearms — “in possession of a ghost gun.”
“legislation that would eliminate ghost guns” So precious.
Mentioned nowhere is the distinction between 100% and 80% receivers. Mentioned nowhere is the requirement for a background check and ffl transfer when purchaasing a 100% receiver. Mentioned nowhere is any reference to illegally procured weapons with serial numbers which are used annually in crimes.
a serial number would be required. It already is, but that requirement is virtually impossible to enforce
umm
How about this new law? Possession of an item absent some overt use of said item to harm another, may never be the basis of any criminal prosecution.
umm
Yeah. The writer was almost able to pretend to have done some research. Almost.
But, of course, the gun lobby is fighting legislation that would eliminate ghost guns
Of course, it wouldn’t. Just like all the current laws don’t stop criminals from getting guns.
You can’t really even hit a ghost gun without a +2 or better enchanted weapon.
And when they get all of their gun grabbing wishes and more, yet they still don’t eliminate (or even move the needle much in a positive way) crime, they immoral assholes will proclaim yet more restrictions as the solution. Give up your kitchen knives and screwdrivers.
All of them need to eat lead sandwiches of their own making.
Name seven.
Because all sorts of criminals have the tools and skills to finish an 80% AR.
It’s easy to do, and you really just need a drill press and a milling vise, both of which are reasonably cheap. The real limiting factor I think is that there’s kind of no point for a person who wants a gun for a crime. It’s cheaper to buy a hot gun, and if you’re going illegal anyway you can just buy a full-auto AK and do a hell of a lot more damage. Mostly, though, criminals want guns that are easy to conceal, which an AR is not. As for the serial number, who cares? If the gun is used in a crime that will be determined by forensics. If it’s stolen, it’s not as if the serial number is some magical homing beacon.
It’s not hard if you are a gunsmith. Criminals generally aren’t artisans.
No, I mean, I’ve done two. With the jigs that are on the market it’s pretty easy if you’re reasonably handy and can follow directions. But like I say, it’s mainly for people who enjoy DIY and/or want to do it to make a point. If you want a gun to commit a crime, you steal one or you buy a stolen one, you don’t spend upwards of a thousand bucks on parts to put one together.
I don’t know for sure, but I think there might not be a single case of someone committing a felony assault or murder with a “ghost gun”.
There almost was,, but it turned out the ghost gun was really just Old Man Withers.
He would’ve gotten away with it too if it were not for some meddling kids.
…and their histamine-release inducing dog.
“There have been too many tragedies caused by prohibited persons” — those not allowed to possess firearms — “in possession of a ghost gun.”
I would love to see the data on this.
Remember, gun grabbers lie. Every word out of their mouths is calculated to deceive in one way or another.
^This this this. As I said above, I don’t have the data to hand but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was never a murder committed using a “ghost gun”, if we’re talking about a firearm made from a partially-finished receiver that’s milled out by the owner.
They can’t even come up with a standard definition of ghost guns. One is for home made “untraceable” guns and the other is for guns not detectable by x-ray scanners.
“legislation that would eliminate”
No legislation is going to make guns go away.
Not just guns but the ‘ghost gun’ horseshit wont either. Pretty soon printing in metal will be a thing. The genie is out of the bottle.
Every year the resolution of metal 3D printers gets better, and the cost goes down. The materials available for printing become more varied, available, and affordable. CNC machines are becoming more accessible/affordable for home/hobbyist use. High quality metrology equipment can be had for very little money. CAD/CAM software is widely available for cheap or free. Training for all necessary skill sets is freely available online. Existing CAD models of all parts are available online or can be easily reverse-engineered.
My point: forget about individual guns. One guy in his garage could produce many guns per week on his own. And it’s only going to get easier.
As Southen’ said: the genie is out of the bottle.
Finley: Keep your dog off my airplane
Thank you.
ADA the gift that keeps giving.
Air Carrier Access Act, which is even more lenient than the ADA
But still, fuck that toad HW.
While I agree that emotional support animals are a scam, let’s be honest that pet allergies aren’t in the same league as nut allergies.
You mean because pet dander gets airborne and can be circulated quite easily?
Yeah that’s where I was going with that.
Lemme guess: you are not allergic to pets.
I am allergic to pets’ nuts.
I wonder how much extra people would be willing to pay for a no-child, no service animal flight? They probably can’t if their commercial flights are considered a public service. But if they advertised and branded appropriately, they could make routine private “chartered flights” on major routes (reserve on first come first serve basis) and stay afloat.
No one most likely. Domestic pricing basically proves no one will pay much for above bare bones. I think the flights are too short.
Ive used these people a number of times- https://ultimateairshuttle.com/
Worth it just to skip TSA.
Would be nice to see that expand to more cities. It’s hard to break into a new market when you’re limited by small starting capital and yet you’ll stay small if you don’t expand at a loss at first.
I used the corporate jet once and loved everything about it.
So of flight attendants — who make hundreds of flights per year — only 61% have ever encountered this problem?
Ask them how many have witnessed a sexual assault on a plane and get back to me.
https://www.afacwa.org/metoo
I’ve noticed an added line in preflight safety briefs about that sort of thing now as well.
It would be difficult to run an airline that barred potential sexual assailants. It would be pretty simple to run one that didn’t allow unconfined dogs if the law didn’t force them. And unless your dog is a trained service animal it is a pet. Anxiety and depression suck, but things that everyone experiences need to stop being treated as disabilities. A blind person cannot learn to see, no medication can provide them with the missing sense and some accommodation of their situation is certainly a good thing to do (although I think legislating this has a number of undesirable effects). A person with depression or anxiety has a condition that they can overcome and which is actually exacerbated by too much coddling.
I don’t why we can’t simply tie them up and let them run alongside the plane.
This is why, you bastard!
That is one of my top 5 movies.
So after the layover we strap the dead passengers to the fuselage?
Leo: Ace of Swords – Triumph, excess in everything
Goddamit! I guess I picked the wrong to revisit a keto lifestyle…
Or maybe not?
Huh. See you on the other side, bitches!
Forgot this.
That’s not Ozzy.
Exactly.
Monster
Where are our noble mutineers?
If Donald Trump were in virtually any other position of responsibility, action would already be under way to remove him from that role. The board at a public company would have replaced him outright or arranged a discreet shift out of power. (Of course, he would never have gotten this far in a large public corporation.) The chain-of-command in the Navy or at an airline or in the hospital would at least call a time-out, and check his fitness, before putting him back on the bridge, or in the cockpit, or in the operating room. (Of course, he would never have gotten this far as a military officer, or a pilot, or a doctor.)
There are two exceptions. One is a purely family-run business, like the firm in which Trump spent his entire previous career. And the other is the U.S. presidency, where he will remain, despite more and more-manifest Queeg-like unfitness, as long as the GOP Senate stands with him.
(Why the Senate? Because the two constitutional means for removing a president, impeachment and the 25th Amendment, both ultimately require two thirds support from the Senate. Under the 25th Amendment, a majority of the Cabinet can remove a president—but if the president disagrees, he can retain the office unless two thirds of both the House and Senate vote against him, an even tougher standard than with impeachment. Once again it all comes back to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.)
Donald Trump is who we knew him to be. But now he’s worse. The GOP Senate continues to show us what it is.
Clap him in irons. Imprison him below deck. Turn the ship of state around before it runs aground.
Save us from Crazy Bad Orange Queeg.
Queeg was innocent you know…..
Ok, say you impeach Trump. Then what? Do they think reality will just change like season 10 of Dallas in which the past 3 years were all just a dream? The genie is out of the bottle and you’re not plugging him back in. Do they really want a competent “conservative” like Pence in charge?
I think, at this point, they’d rather have Pence for the remainder of the term, then they’ll just win everything in 2020 and sweep away all the badness.
What’s funny is that Pence is pretty anti-gay, as opposed to Trump who was pro-gay at a time when “progressive” idols like Obama and Hillary wouldn’t touch that issue.
Why do they hate gay people??
They don’t hate gays. They don’t love gays. They don’t give a shit one way or the other. What they care about is who and what they can use as a path to more power. They are sociopaths. They will use you today if it will increase their power and the instant they are finished with you they toss you like yesterday’s trash.
Cindy Sheehan agrees.
And yet you the gay vote is 99.7% Dem. Proving once again my theory that the gene that makes you gay makes you favor high rates of regulation and taxation.
Is it really? Do LGB folk vote differently than straights in the regions where they live? Or is it just typical urban voting?
I’d like to see those stats cause I think the “gay vote” is way more split than that.
Well, there is a mixed race gay couple up the street from me and during the last election they had a Trump sign. They had stuck an American flag in one corner and a rainbow flag in the other corner. They had to keep moving it up the yard closer to the porch because someone kept wrecking it. They have libertarian bumper stickers.
Two doors down from the gay libertarians is a black single father. He HATES Hillary Clinton. Three strikes bitch, superpredator bitch! HATES, HATES
@Tulip
It’s almost as if people are greater than the sum of their social identities/affiliations!
That’s crazy talk, though.
“Of course, he would never have gotten this far as a military officer, ”
No shit Sherlock. He had bone spurs. Gosh you’re so damn insensitive.
As I said above, I don’t have the data to hand but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was never a murder committed using a “ghost gun”, if we’re talking about a firearm made from a partially-finished receiver that’s milled out by the owner.
According to that linked LAT article, a cop was killed with a ghost gun recently. Hence the desperate huffing and puffing.
Maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t. He’s not any deader because there was no serial number on the gun.
They will take every freedom they can in the name of protecting the people from bad things, and then when they’ve taken all they can and bad things still happen, they will just cover it all up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo
You know that oh shit feeling, when you realize you just spent 22$ on a four pack of beer? Happy birthday, I guess.
North coast brewing Old stock Ale, deep and rich, 10.2 Abv
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jhfr67JyJbxidwvF9
Really good beer, Not an IPA,
No, because I don’t drink beer.
I know Ted, that’s why we love you,
Yes. I haven’t spent quite that much on a 4 pack, but close.
But it’s funny, I don’t think twice about paying $6-&7 each in a bar/brewery.
North coast is about 12$ at Bevmo, this is a special one off, tasty as it gets,IMO
Just hope it’s good, man.
It’s North Coast, never been let down by those guys,
Cheers!
Spam!
Here in NYC, I pay $10.99 for a 12oz. bottle of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA. It’s worth it.
If it’s 10.2 ABV, it’s really like an 8-pack, so, winning?
Of sissy beer I suppose,
/ Ducks from Marty throwing a bottle at me
I’ve spent more than that on beer.
That beer looks good.
I’m sipping a Bourbon County Stout.
I spent 17$ for a Belgian trippel once, a Birthday as well, good beer is good
$30 or so for some Westvleteren.
good beer is good
Seconded.
“King of Wands”
I mean, I’m a little above average.
So I’m going to make grilled cheese sammichs and Mato soup, with Spam in the grilled cheese, the question is, fry the Spam first?
I have one skillet to work with
The SPAM goes in the garbage can.
I like the cut of your jib. Do you have a newsletter?
“If you ain’t eatin’ WHAM, you ain’t eatin’ ham!”
Mmm…. Myrna Loy…
I’d forgive her for hanging on to Bill’s pledge pin. IYKWIMBTAITYD
*swoons*
“Now, with 20% more lips and anuses!”
SPAM is from Shoulder of pork and ham. It is actually made from good cuts. You are thinking of potted meat: mechanically separated meat by-products, i.e. assholes, tits and eyeballs.
Nose to tail. None of this bothers me. My dad loved gizzards
I use the liver from a whole chicken to make a small portion of pate. I’m single, so it’s perfect for just me. I save the heart to go in a chicken fried rice. Chopped fine, of course. This, apparently, grosses out a friend of mine. To which I say Pfft.
She liked it until she learned that it had chicken heart in it. Pfft.
Scrapple – everything but the oink!
I like scrapple.
Me too!
In Japan one of my friends took me out for various grilled offal in Osaka not realizing I don’t have an issue with it. OTH, I’m not a sushi a person. Not a fan of the texture.
Made from the best stuff on earth.
Obligatory
If you are going for thicker slices, high heat and sear on both sides so you get that nice salty crust. Or, slice super thin and cook over medium high until crispy like bacon.
excellent, I’m going thick because thick,
If you go that route, definitely fry it first.
Fry the spam first. Cheese has enough oil in it already. Fry the spam on low to get most of the fat out then up the temps and get a crispy outside.
*I haven’t had spam since a campout in my early 20’s. Its bad reputation is way over the top. It really isn’t that bad.
Agreed on all counts.
*still eats deviled ham
I Love deviled ham. Love, love, love it. Mayo, deviled ham, fresh lettuce and sharp cheddar. I could eat that every day. I wouldn’t complain if a slice of tomato got tossed in there as well.
I wont give my opinion on ‘potted meat’ since the confession article is too far in the past.
I like to spread deviled ham over two slices of bread, or preferably bagel halves open faced, and then put cut up strips of cheese slices in a tic tac toe pattern on top.
Broil or toaster oven, and enjoy!!
I still eat potted meat, and Vienna sausage, hell it’s my lunch tonight at work, and some Ritz crackers, I’m old school from a poor family,
Bite me if it’s too good for others
Potted meat and deviled ham is a guilty pleasure for me. Nose to tail I tell the millenials at work. Oh, and liverwurst. I love iron-y taste.
Braunschweiger FTW!
I love liverwurst too.
We used to have Vienna sausages almost exclusively during backpacking trips. It’s what mom always packed. I can’t stand them now. Appetite did a lot of legwork for those gross little things.
I love Spam, though.
Vienna sausage is the devils meat.
Jealous that his is bigger than yours?
Vienna sausages were our breakfast meat on weekends as a kid. I’ve lost the taste for them as well.
Now, pronunciation- Vienna like the city or veen-na sausages?
No one linked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bW4vEo1F4E
But a hell of a lot softer.
I went with High heat, thick pieces, and they came out nice and crispy outside, Mild Cheddar on Wonder Bread, an awesome treat!
Holy shit. This exists.
https://www.spam.com/varieties/pumpkin-spice
I’ve stayed alcohol-free all day today because I’ve been prepping for an interview tomorrow. Is it OK if I start drinking now?
yes
Excellent.
I feel for you. I assume I’ll be drug tested if I ever get an offer, so you can imagine the mood *I’m* in.
Want to help me? Kind of part time, night work, Temporary until you find a real job?
Seriously
I’m ignorant, but hey. Drop me an email at omwc at this domain.
I will
Its really simple….take gas, compress it, let it expand. Rinse/repeat.
The rest is details.
That blows. Mine is only internal, for a new position, so not too big a deal. At the same time, I’m more nervous about this one than I thought I’d be. I guess because I know everyone who will be
interrogatinginterviewing me.Good luck on the job hunt. My offer of unpaid apprentice in charge of improving lubricity always stands.
Sounds like a good time to give up drugs for good.
?
I’m too damn poor and cheap to do illicit drugs.
It’s why I stick to a glass of wine with dinner and a vodka-based drink on weekend nights.
Drugs are bad M’kay. I mean you should be free to use/abuse them but like being a Steelers fan or listening to the Beach Boys it’s just not a good look.
A bad look or a casual look?
Word
Does your judgemental view include alcohol?
Alcohol’s fine unless it is in the form of an IPA. As you well know. Hefe’s High!
No, and not marijuana. I think cocaine and heroin should be available at 7-11. I’m just not going to partake
I’m actually drinking a Hefe as we speak!
Hefe’s high!
I am probably an outlier here on the Glib board, but the only drugs I’ve ever used were prescribed after knee surgeries. And most of the time I didn’t even take those (the only effect I got from them was being completely backed up).
Closest thing I ever got to taking an “illegal” drug was going to an indoor Grateful Dead concert. Only way I wouldn’t have inhaled marijuana smoke was if I didn’t inhale at all.
no illicit drugs for me ever, scout’s honor
So absolutely hate codeine, tramadol and demerol. I can’t tie my own shoes, yet they don’t really fix the pain.
I’ve only smoked weed maybe 10 times. And not at all for well over a decade.
However, I’ve drank enough alcohol to kill a Blue Whale.
I took one codeine that I got from wisdom teeth removal and made do with regular Advil after that. Alcohol is my drug of choice, although I did like a cigar or two and a cigarette a couple times as a yute.
Second hand MJ smoke an odor is impossible to avoid now.
I took an Adderall pill once before going to the theme park. Thats the extent of it for me. Caffeine and ethanol are my chemicals of choice. I don’t begrudge folks the opportunity to use their chemicals of choice, but I’ve noticed that, no matter the chemical in question, the people who are most strident in asserting that drug X is a benefit tend to have the most fucked up relationship with that drug.
I took half a Vicodin or Percocet or something my then-gf had been prescribed. Besides that, a little pot and a lot of booze.
Succession runs Sunday evenings on HBO. It is ridiculous, but I could listen to Brian Cox read the phone book.
I pour a couple of fingers of Abunadh for the occasion, this being my weekly ritual lately.
Abunadh is the schnizzle.
All you Spam haters can bite my Sammich! this this is great! Iobot, great ideas!
lobot on next season of Master Chef?
or me on Motel Chef USA, Watch me cook!
With a little creativity very cheap basics can be turned into culinary delights.
^^^^
That is the basis of most of the World cuisines.
Yes, it’s all peasant food these days. Whatever happened to honeyed doormice and lark’s tongue?
I find that people that can afford to eat eccentrically eat things I normally throw away.
Fried catfish and shrimp tomorrow, I’ll have the wife mix up some of her tartar sauce. We just received the gallon bottle of tabasco we ordered so we are good on that. Some time this week mustard greens as a side for Pork chops in mushroom gravy over rice. Tonight was spaghetti with meat sauce.
I know it is peasant food but somehow I will power through.
That would be fantastic! Home cooks armed only with a Hibachi and what you can gather within walking distance.
Or at Walmart, same difference,
I have done steaks, burgers, burritos, lemon herb Chicken breasts, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs and, toast, so far . All on a 12×12 electric skillet, 18$ at Walmart, you get creative if you want to eat well on the road
/Single burner Coleman stove FTW!
A few years back a hurricane was coming through so we stocked up on supplies before it arrived. We wanted a gas stove but the shelves were wiped out….except for one: Coleman’s fanciest and most expensive model so we choked and bought it. Worth. Every. Penny. That damned thing cooks better than the electric coil we had at the time.
Coleman for the win.
Crock pots are also good.
Yep
When I lived in a motel, while working for a construction company, I had a really small one. I could make baked potatoes and add chili, or do a single chicken breast with veggies.
Someday, we should have a glibbening – a national meet up complete with a cooking competition
+1
Think I might give this food truck competition a shot next weekend as a “VIP” (aka taster/judge). Any other VA glibs in for it?
I’ll be in the desert, sorry to miss out, sounds yummy
Maaybe. It’s a long drive for just a day and I’m trying to set up dates.
I also found some motels Don’t have microwaves, so I bring my own just in case, 1100 watt monster, I had a BBQ, but gave it to a fellow travelers, I’ll get another…..
Word to the wise. Only get Hughes.net internet as an absolute last resort.
Where’s muh guvmint funded hi-speeed internets?
I wonder if TK still lurks around here. He had some interesting things to say about the proposition.
For anyone interested, my gun club is hosting the NYS cowboy action shooting championship Sep 13-17. I’ve never been but apparently it’s a good time. There are supposedly 250 competitors and 14 vendors.
My dad did that at the Royal Gorge in CO, he played the Sherrif, and died every day, twice on Sunday, true story
Happy Birthday, Yusef!
Thanks! For being in a shithole, you guys made me smile, which makes for a good day,
Thanks To all the Glibs! What a place…
To all the Glibs I’ve loved before,
Who traveled in and out my door
I’m just glad to learn that you’re WAY older than I am. I don’t turn 56 until October.
Man you people are old, I need to find a younger crowd to internet with Where do all the hip young republicans that pretend to be libertarian hang out?
/pol/?
Baiting one another on 8chan into committing atrocities.
Happy birthday Yufus. You too Hummungus if you are around.
For the motel cook: https://www.samsclub.com/p/mm-bacon-20-oz/prod21160249
There are other brands as well but it is all the same stuff.
Keeps forever and there is a ton of it. It really goes a long way. Toss a tablespoon into a can of beans(preferably black beans or limas but any will do) with a chicken bouillon cube and a little onion
Sprinkle on salad. Put a spoonful in a can of potato soup or split pea soup. A can of green beans with a small potato is begging for a dose of bacon.
Eating cheap and easy doesn’t mean eating poorly.
Shouldn’t you be pimping Zataran’s crab boil? I assumed you had a endorsment deal with them.
I’ll do it for free: NewWife instructs me in its delivery and timing in her Low Country Boil that is nine parts shucking on my part and one part genius on her part.
Sure, I will pimp it. Have any seafood boil (fresh water crawfish count), Fresh vegetables, bisque, Jambalaya, etc and you will never go without it again. Trouble is on this subject those dishes don’t lend themselves well to motel cooking. They are a bit too involved and expensive to make. We are talking about people in from a hard days work sleeping in a motel. They want to toss something delicious together quickly so they can rest.
*Stands by mailbox anxiously awaiting shillbucks
Thanks Suthen, we love Bacon, great solution,
Best hangover breakfast?
Fried spam, fried AIG, on wheat toast with mayo, cheese, and mustard. Tater tots, and a tall glass of Carnation Instant Breakfast.
Then back to bed.
Prehangovermaybe,
Sup Tres!
This is what’s on right now
Meaningless poll is meaningless
“Four years ago, we uncovered a deep and boiling anger across the country engulfing our political system,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, which conducted this survey in partnership with the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies. “Four years later, with a very different political leader in place, that anger remains at the same level.”
The poll finds that 70 percent of Americans say they feel angry “because our political system seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in Washington.” Forty-three percent say that statement describes them “very well.”
That’s almost exactly the percentage that agreed with the same statement in October 2015, when the presidential election was being upended by the anti-establishment message of then-candidate Donald Trump.
Republicans report feeling somewhat less angry than they were almost four years ago, but that optimism has been offset by an uptick in anger from other groups typically more aligned with the Democratic Party.
In 2015, 39 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of Democrats said a feeling of anger at the political establishment defined them “very well.” Now, it’s 29 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of Democrats — a 10-point swing for each party, in opposite directions.
In other news, elections have consequences.
The poll also offers a glum view of race relations.
Six-in-ten describe either a lot or some tension between people of different races in their state.
The same share — 60 percent — say that race relations in the United States are bad, although that’s down from 70 percent in 2017 and a high of 74 percent in summer 2016.
And more than half — 56 percent — say that race relations have gotten worse since Trump became president. Another 33 percent say race relations have stayed about the same, while 10 percent say they have improved.
Huh.