It only took me three weeks to get it into my head that Thanksgiving is “late” this year. Although I did get to eat turkey and dressing for lunch today with my kindergartener. Mmm. School lunch. Also, it would be nice if the Texans didn’t play like turkeys tonight. Not holding my breath.
Speaking of NFL and turkeys, I was kind of wondering why Mason Rudolph was holding a press conference yesterday to say he was all good with Myles Garrett. I suspected something like this.
SpaceX would have us believe this was intended to be a test to failure. Don’t get me wrong, its good data to have. People usually announce these things BEFORE, though.
Getting a DUI in Nashville doesn’t make you the next George Jones.
I think my favorite part of this survey is… 74% of Poles think “Jews still talk too much about what happened in the Holocaust.” Anti-semitism is like totalitarianism, always descending on the US and landing in Europe.
If only we had some effective way of controlling the population of mosquitoes. My wife and I were talking about how they don’t spray by truck anymore. Also, the number of people contracting dengue, West Nile and EEE in the US are growing. I wonder if there could be a correlation…
SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch
Wayne Messam is no more. The candidate for President that you didn’t even know was running has dropped out. He never broke a margin of error in support, never got on the debate stage, and only had name recognition in the small Florida city he is the mayor of…
Good night, sweet nobody,
and flights of local reporters sing thee to thy rest
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Who is Wayne MEssam?
Never mind, doesn’t matter.
That’s Former possible Democratic nominee for President Wayne Messam.
Who we now know, through the transitive power, is never be investigated for any possible crime.
Because orangemanbad.
Only if he’s being questioned by a House Republican.
SpaceX would have us believe this was intended to be a test to failure. Don’t get me wrong, its good data to have. People usually announce these things BEFORE, though.-
I love that the space program is in central Florida. I can watch the launches from Orlando and not have to make a road trip.
We get a few interesting things here…. if the weather is right… and if you wake up really early.
wake up really early.-
Hard Pass.
Anti-semitism is like totalitarianism, always descending on the US and landing in Europe.
To be fair isn’t that basically what a white person might say about a black person talking about slavery?
Perhaps you could say that, but there are still living Holocaust survivors. There are no living ex-slaves.
Not in the United States anyways.
Indeed. On the other hand, the most pro-slavery country in the world, Mauritania, just made owning a slave illegal in 2007.
They’ve been outlawing slavery since 1981. It just never seems to take.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/08/the-unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania
That was a seriously depressing article.
Let me guess… they’re on the Human Rights Commission.
I just looked it up and they actually are scheduled to join the UNHRC for the 2020-2022 term. That place has no intention of not being a joke. They are joining along with other such stellar candidates as Libya and Sudan.
Well, at least the UN finally achieved peace in the Middle East.
That turkey seems a little surly.
Oh shit. I didn’t realize that AOC actually said that Miller “weaponized his identity”. Because he’s a jew. But she needs him to be a white nationalist. I mean i get that she dosn’t like white nationalists, and she may see jews as white. But they don’t.
White nationalist has become a basically meaningless term.
A handy slur for your political enemies is not meaningless.
it’s thrown around so casually that i’ve become desensitized. almost as played out as “racist”.
When called “racist” I just assume I have won the argument. Same goes for “white-nationalist/supremacist, nazi, fascist, etc”.
And so many hoaxes I assume it’s a lie.
White nationalists sure seem to love doing things on progressive college campuses, but nowhere else.
I’m White. I’m kind of a Nationalist… Uh oh!
The Hill is really going above and beyond to portray Fiona Hill as a noble, holy creature.
Very germane to her testimony!
her hair was on fire. what did they expect her to do? find some asbestos grill gloves to pat her head?
and this story just shows that she’s been insufferably smug since the age of 11.
It helps. We know she’s always been brave in standing up to male bullies like Trump.
Obviously, she should be in charge.
Yeah, but that really tugs at the heartstrings, which is what counts.
Yeah, well when trump was 5 he saved an elephant from being eaten by bear, who had eaten a dog, that hat eaten a cat, that had eaten a mouse that had eaten a fly…
Sucks to be a mouse.
I don’t know why he swallowed that fly.
Perhaps he’ll die.
Hair burns in strands, not in clumps. The fire put itself out.
Psst. Pretty sure this is from the “shit that never happened” file.
I don’t know. She also said a freckled faced red head boy put a frog in her desk. That doesn’t sound like something you make up.
Was he wearing overalls?!?
*taps tip of nose*
Isn’t that something from Tom Sawyer?
I don’t remember where I saw it, but the hair burning reminded me of it.
And then, when she spoiled the lighting-pigtails-on-fire prank, one of the little bastards dunked her hair in an inkwell!
*glances at bathroom shelf full of pomade and hair wax*
Look, if my hair ever catches on fire, please put two in my eye like I’m in a zombie movie, ok.
*SNORT*
Hell, they named the whole website after her.
He never broke a margin of error in support, never got on the debate stage, and only had name recognition in the small Florida city he is the mayor of…
I guess there was only room for one small-town mayor in the race.
to the rear, march !
I changed my party affiliation to NPA today because after the 2016 election I don’t identify with the LP anymore. What I found interesting is that Orange County list the number of people in each party. 42% dem, 25% rep, but 31% NPA. The fastest growing party here is “a pox on both houses”.
I think mine is Republican because I registered to vote for Ron Paul in the only primary I ever voted in.
I registered R because of my parents in HS, then after W’s election, I switched to L. I’m rapidly approaching “ can’t be bothered”.
Ohio is a key swing state, so of course our primary is so late in the year that it is effectively meaningless…
Ours is in August, I think. But closed primary so who cares.
The Florida Presidential primary is March 17, too. The state/local primary is something different, and not such a big deal if it’s quite a bit later in the year.
I thought Ohio’s presidential primary was in March.
[looks it up on DDG]
This says Mar. 17.
Yep, here’s all the ones before that:
Mon. Feb 3 Iowa caucuses 41 40 Closed
Tue, Feb 11 New Hampshire primary 24 22 Mixed
Sat, Feb 22 Nevada Democratic caucuses 36 Closed
Sat, Feb 29 South Carolina Democratic primary 54 Open
March 2020
Tue, Mar 3 Alabama primary 52 50 Open
Tue, Mar 3 Alaska Republican convention 28 Closed
Tue, Mar 3 American Samoa Democratic caucus 6 Closed
Tue, Mar 3 Arkansas primary 31 40 Open
Tue, Mar 3 California primary 416 172 Mixed
Tue, Mar 3 Colorado primary 67 37 Open
Tue, Mar 3 Maine primary 24 22 Closed
Tue, Mar 3 Massachusetts primary 91 41 Mixed
Tue, Mar 3 Minnesota primary 75 39 Open
Tue, Mar 3 North Carolina primary 110 71 Mixed
Tue, Mar 3 Oklahoma primary 37 43 Closed
Tue, Mar 3 Tennessee primary 64 58 Open
Tue, Mar 3 Texas primary 228 155 Open
Tue, Mar 3 Utah primary 29 40 Closed
Tue, Mar 3 Vermont primary 16 17 Open
Tue, Mar 3 Virginia primary 99 49 Open
Tue, Mar 3 Democrats Abroad (to 3/10) 13 Closed
Sat, Mar 7 Kentucky Republican caucuses 46 Closed
Sun, Mar 8 Puerto Rico Republican primary 23 Closed
Tue, Mar 10 Hawaii Republican caucuses 19 Closed
Tue, Mar 10 Idaho primary 20 32 Open
Tue, Mar 10 Michigan primary 125 73 Open
Tue, Mar 10 Mississippi primary 36 39 Open
Tue, Mar 10 Missouri primary 68 54 Open
Tue, Mar 10 North Dakota Democratic caucuses 14 Open
Tue, Mar 10 Washington primary 89 44 Mixed
Thu, Mar 12 Virgin Islands Republican caucuses 9 Closed
Sat, Mar 14 D.C. Republican convention 19 Closed
Sat, Mar 14 Guam Republican caucus 6 Closed
Sat, Mar 14 Northern Marianas Democratic convention 6 Closed
Sat, Mar 14 Wyoming Republican convention
It is usually all over but the shouting.
I’m registered as a Republican because I was convinced that there was at least some hope of backing the libertarian wing of the GOP to gain influence in the party. Ironically, I’m thinking of switching to LP and backing the Mises caucus for pretty much the same reason.
Here in KY, at least the L wing of the R Party is something.
I can’t vote for Massie, but I can support him.
I switched mine from Libertarian to independent after the Johnson/Weld debacle. At this point they’d really have to change their errant ways to get me back. Fuck em, they’re completely useless. If after 40 plus years you can’t even get a congresscritter elected disband your shitty party.
I’m registered as a Republican because I never bothered to change it despite the fact that it’s no longer what I would choose.
I leave it that since Rand Paul will run again eventually.
I assume that a portion of NPA is people who think the Democratic Party isn’t progressive enough.
Please. Not while I’m not drinking.
I live in a state where I don’t need to declare for a party but can still show up to vote in the primary.
Florida is a closed primary, but I think open makes more sense. No need to change affiliation if you like a candidate. What does it matter if you vote in both primaries?
The parties shouldn’t be using the state infrastructure to run their primaries.
In TX you don’t have to register for a party – you chose whichever primary to vote in, but you can only vote in one. I do think it is important not to allow people to vote in both, or else you essentially remove the reason for even having a primary and turn things into a California situation.
I am not registered republican. The local democrat party takes that as a good reason to badger me into voting by calling me constantly and sending people to my door to register to vote.
anything happen at the mummer’s farce today?
Mummers? They don’t do anything for a month and a half, yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09L2jeu_Rzc
parade of clowns = nightmare
Nah, it’s hilarious. Where else are you going to find a bunch of working class guys going so extreme that even probably drag queens would say that it’s a bit much.
And banjos!
While I’m no fan of the bullshit .08 DUI threshold:
Christ, what an asshole.
Yup, fuck that asshole. There are DUI’s and there are DUI’s. I’ve had a few friends get just at the limit or just over it that were likely not going to cause any danger (as in they weren’t pulled over for any reason other than it was at night). I’ve also had friends that richly deserved their DUIs.
^^
I’ve been excoriated for this in the past, but fuck drunk drivers. I have some sympathy for the guy who gets caught technically over the limit at a checkpoint, but the sloshed assholes who rely on me and the other drivers being alert enough to get out of the way? Fuck em. Throw the book at them.
If someone is driving at the proper speed, maintaining safe following distance, obeying all traffic laws, and staying in their lane, then they are operating a motor vehicle safely. Doesn’t matter if they’re tipsy, dead tired, distracted by the kids in the back seat, getting a blowjob, fiddling with the radio, whatever.
Checkpoints are bullshit. If a guy is weaving all over the road, hes a reckless driver, and we already have a law for that. If that law isn’t strict enough, take it to the legislature and make it harsher. I see it like “hate crimes”. The law should punish actions, not intentions.
Define ‘proper speed’ and why is that more important/enforceable than a ‘proper BAC’?
The proper speed is below the speed limit, but not so far below as to cause a hazard.
I believe the cops here will pull you over if you’re going more than 10 below or above the posted mark.
It’s an objective standard which can be ascertained without infringing on privacy.
“the cops here will pull you over if you’re going more than 10 below”
I can attest to that from 2 weeks ago, even though road conditions warranted it. Checked for alcohol but since I was sober we drove away together, ’til he got tired of following me.
Maybe they could have just got him for reckless driving?
How much money can you get from that vs what you can get from a DUI and reckless driving?
Yes, the DUI punishment-complex is a straight cash business. IIRC, it costs about $10k for the first one, and if you manage to stay out of prison, $50k for each additional one. Spread out between lawyers, the State, tow/impound yards, counselors, and whatever business the guys who do the ignition interlock are in.
? I know many multiple DUIers and maybe one of them could have coughed up 10K for the first one, none of them could possible 60K or 110K and none went to prison, maybe it varies state from state.
I know a guy who missed the court date for a DUI because he was in the hoosgow for the one he got the week before.
And because there is no blood in a turnip, he did not have anything like a 10K fine.
It actually does cost that much in some states, but it’s not a single lump sum fine. It’s a fine, plus additional registration fees, pus an additional license fee, mandatory “alcohol education” classes, things like that. And those smaller penalties are paid annually or monthly for years.
Had a friend who got popped 4 times, all either checkpoint, failure to signal or taillight out stuff, never an accident. In 2013, he was sentenced to 5 yrs, served 1 1/2 before parole. He just got the blow and go removed last year, paid a $10k fine, monthly blow and go ($350 install, $60 monthly lease, $350 removal) 12 mos outpatient treatment at $150 per month, $1,200 for halfway house residency in Houston during this period, as well as a monthly fee every month he went to check in with P.O. Plus community service. Good thing he’s an electrician and his boss was waiting for him to get sprung so he could put him back to work. They getcha with the fees to all the various programs you have to enroll in.
If you’re drunk enough drive on the freeway against traffic, there’s a 50% chance you’re going to kill someone.
“Also, the number of people contracting dengue, West Nile and EEE in the US are growing. I wonder if there could be a correlation…”
I got dengue once when I was living in Brazil. It wasn’t the worst tropical disease I got, that one goes to cholera, but it sucked pretty bad and lingered for a few weeks. I have to take care not to get it a second time, because your stomach can hemorrhage from it on the second go around.
A little bit dated, but….
AI finds that minorities are verbally more “racist” than whites. Researchers conclude therefore that AI is racist.
Maybe if they didn’t use the N-word every third word, they wouldn’t have gotten flagged.
https://youtu.be/Zhgwy9y5ttA
Not surprising when it’s considered all right for minorities to say nigger any time but it’s a horrendous moral crime for whites.
Wut up my ni**a
ninja?
I only this Halloween learned that’s from leprechaun in the hood.
This hood and leprechaun?
A-OOOOOO!!!
This is the video I meant-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ljOcl39PQ
Nagger
It always weirds me out when I come back from a break and the chair is warm from the person giving the break. Is that just me that doesn’t want to absorb someone else’s butt heat?
– 1 spoon
I feel the same about heated car seats.
Right?!? I don’t want my B-hole warmed!
-1 Japanese bidet
I used one in Japan. I don’t know how they do it, but that water jet is deadly accurate.
Embedded camera and a warehouse of Korean gamers who get paid per killshot. Oh, the camera feed is also sent to Germany.
+10 Monetization!
My grandparents got one. I’d visit and pretend it wasn’t there. I finally used it and now want one. Americans have been fucking up with the whole toilet paper thing.
Could be worse – you should try the toilet paper in Uzbekistan before you start throwing stones at Charmin.
It was like the crepe paper streamers you use to decorate for a party.
This is why I try to avoid shitting at work.
John Wayne Paper.
Rough and tough, and it don’t take shit from no-one!
Artisanal Toilet Paper
I’m convinced the Japanese toilet was designed as reaction to the common “squat” toilets common in Asia and still used in Japan.
No, you’re not.
The worst is when you have to have a seat on a warm public toilet seat.
Not a s bad as sitting on a warm and wet public toilet seat.
Look before you sit. Seriously.
So every women’s room?
No, many women hover.
What’s really weird is when that happens at my work, since I work from home.
What about about Demi’s butt heat? That should keep you comfy. Oh wait, it’s silicone? No heat there.
It’s just a reminder that their germs are there.
https://media1.giphy.com/media/owbp1CzIuv8Ig/source.gif
The new Dem Deathwatch is awesome. Well. Played.
?
Bottom of the right column. Just enough to be recognizable.
Oh. I didn’t look at the title of the chart.
I suspected something like this.
Even if its true that Rudolph said a bad word, what difference does that make to Garrett’s punishment? Are they going to say that its totes OK to bash somebody over the head with their own helmet if they said something that really upset you?
Plus, with all those other linemen right there, someone else would have heard it, yet here we are a week later with only Garrett just now saying this.
But his friend says he wouldn’t lie. What does he have to gain from lying?
I would expect the trash talking to be pretty epic out on the field, with racial epithets used pretty routinely. Hell, I’d be disappoint if its not.
Garrett makes a pretty unconvincing fragile flower, anyway.
If they’re dumb enough to keep coming at you after you’ve both been pulled apart? Sure.
Garrett’s punishment sounds right, but Rudolph should have lost some game time, too.
“what difference does that make to Garrett’s punishment?”
Double the punishment for lying.
It really hurts to be called a Brown.
Garret is desperate. When all else fails go for the racist wypippo angle.
What a bunch of garbage.
Today I heard Chris Russo – who mocked Garrett – say ‘we all know the history of race relations in this country is horrendous’.
I wonder if ‘horrendous’ is too harsh a word. I listen to people like Sowell and Elders and they don’t seem to take that position. There were problems and injustices for sure, but they don’t talk as if their lives were ‘horrendous’.
I don’t have any problem saying Jim Crow was wrong and slavery evil. But point to the laws in effect today that are anti-minority. If your whole argument is that there are still people that are racist, I’m sorry to tell you, that’s never going away. Tribalism is in our DNA.
and whatever one may think of racism, arguing that people are evil and should be punished because of their beliefs leads to more evil than any belief.
Bloody Bill Anderson agrees.
The funny thing is Rudolph has been saying all the right things and even accepted some culpability.
Garrett chooses to throw him under the bus in trying to claim he’s a bigot.
smh.
In the world of soccer, particularly in Europe, there are constant tribunals over this shit. It’s coming here for sure.
I agree with your point, but I think it’s also fair to say that enforcement matters as much, give or take, as the actual laws.
Well, he did say ‘history’, so it’s technically correct. Living memory would be another thing.
It would be nice they’d differentiate between the two though like you just did.
When your garbage fails in space, it’s up there forever. What an asshole.
Great Lakes Christmas Ale. Solid. Drinkable. Caramel and Spice. 7.5 ABV.
Port City’s Tidings is awful. Avoid.
I bought a bottle of egg nog today because it’s produced by buffalo trace.
https://www.oldtowntequila.com/benchmark-old-no-8-brand-whiskey-egg-nog/
I’ll report back after I try it.
That’s one of my go to beers this time of year along with Bell’s Christmas Ale. I’ll even have a Shiner Cheer if I’m in the mood for something fruity.
I see the tap for Shiner Cheer right in front of me. Unfortunately they’re out:( I did get a glass last time I was here though.
Impeachment Inquiry Canceled After 5 Episodes Due To Low Ratings
“The showrunners promised all these big bombshells, shocking twists, and startling revelations, but they weren’t able to deliver,” said one reviewer writing in Hollywood Reporter. “When there are so many better options out there—rewatching The Office, checking out The Good Place, staring at paint as it slowly dries—why would people tune into this tepid, uninspired mess?”
22% of Americans said they were disappointed with the show so far, while 78% said, “Impeachment hearings are going on?”
At publishing time, sources had confirmed that J.J. Abrams had been in charge of writing the plot and simply forgot to tie up all the loose ends.
Bring in Michael Bay, his signature scenes would improve government immensely.
Is he the one that does all the lens flares? That would be oddly appropriate.
Abrams does lens flare. Bay does explosions.
They should team up then. You know, since it’s Congress. Maybe bring in Cronenburg (Scanners) too.
Bay also does epic shots of female mechanics diagnosing car trouble.
My Hulu account yesterday had an ENTIRE SECTION dedicated to “Impeachment Hearings”. It was the third listed section behind “Live TV” and “Continue Watching”. Apparently the impeachment hearings are now their own category of entertainment all together.
https://babylonbee.com/news/airport-revenues-soar-after-allowing-travelers-to-pay-to-turn-off-cnn
Even if its true that Rudolph said a bad word, what difference does that make to Garrett’s punishment? Are they going to say that its totes OK to bash somebody over the head with their own helmet if they said something that really upset you?
I watched (part of) the original MASH movie a while back.
Football game:
“He [white opposing player] called me a coon.”
“So get him back.”
“What, call him a coon?”
I love that movie. Like it was made right before wveryone became bleeding heart pussies.
+1 ‘Spearchucker’ Jones
+53 Baltimore Dunbar High School football players
I’m taking a three-day, so today’s my first Friday.
Any rum drinkers?
This is pretty good for $25.
Three day bender? I don’t think I can physically survive that anymore.
Yeah, that requires a morning IV at my age.
Empiricism demands that you try, repeatedly…for science.
Yeah, I don’t do benders either. I have a finely tuned float switch now. I’ve left many a full drink behind. Spinning rooms and hangovers are not for me.
I have a bottle of that at home right now, although it’s mostly empty. Great rum for the price
I’m a Ron Zacapa 23 guy. Good enough to sip neat.
+ a bunch. That’s a fantastic rum.
Yeah, Zacapa 23 is very smooth. I’m a fan.
That’s top shelf stuff for me.
El Dorado 15 and 21.
Yep. Ronnie Z is the man.
Appleton Estates.
Oh and I forget the name, but I had some really good Nicaraguan rum about four years ago. The bottle was squarish.
This is a letter to the editor of the WSJ. I had no idea that this was a thing:
Regarding Michael P. Carter’s letter of Nov. 13 on the increasing unaffordability of houses for single teachers: It would be foolish to wait years to save for a 20% down payment. The teacher he uses as an example could obtain an FHA loan with only 3.5% down. That same teacher could obtain an interest-free second mortgage, with no payment required, as down-payment assistance, courtesy of the taxpayers in Georgia. (Mr. Carter is from Georgia but most, if not all, states have assistance programs). The teacher can finance the entire price plus most of the closing costs. He or she can also ask the seller to contribute to the closing costs. A significant portion of the low- to moderate-income borrowers don’t need any money of their own to buy a house.
The FHA also has a Teacher Next Door Program. Part of this program allows teachers to buy some HUD homes for 50% off the appraised value, with only $100 down. That’s a nice government transfer.
The federal and state governments have programs that have removed the down-payment barrier for homeownership. This is also another example of government transfers that don’t appear in most statistics.
Steve Domenico
Oxford, Mich.
Fuck whiny-assed teachers.
So, he’s urging the original person to buy a home with all of 70 basis points of equity. Yeah, no way that could go south…
“Part of this program allows teachers to buy some HUD homes for 50% off the appraised value, with only $100 down.”
No chance of running a scam there. Sounds airtight.
What do you mean the bank is out of money?
Why should government-sector workers get benefits like this that the rest of us are paying for?
Because they are your betters, that’s why. Just ask ’em.
It would be foolish to wait years to save for a 20% down payment.
Dumbass
Why demonstrate any sort of financial responsibility to a potential lender when you can just take out an FHA loan, plus a second mortgage for the down payment, and finally a personal loan to cover closing costs?
/derp
The FHA also has a Teacher Next Door Program. Part of this program allows teachers to buy some HUD homes for 50% off the appraised value, with only $100 down.
What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing. I have many clients who make a lot of money buying up failed rehab properties for pennies then doing a rehab. So by all means go buy a house that went into foreclosure 5 years ago and has been sitting vacant ever since teachers. Rehabbing is just a matter of watching some HGTV and working weekends with your spouse. I swear. Also please contact me in a year, I’ll be able to hook you up with a person who can solve your number one problem at that time, because I am magic and know what that problem will be.
I think he was referring to the practice of buying a house for 50% of the appraised value and then immediately selling it for 75% of appraised value. Repeatedly.
The programs mentioned have 36 month owner occupancy requirements, and 50% of appraised value is a misnomer. It 50% of list price which is usually wildly out of tune with the actual value of a house in the condition of these places. This isn’t them selling $200k houses at $100k move in ready. This is them selling a house that they financed for $200k, then foreclosed and ‘winterized’ (which usually means someone came in and cut the water supply line, sometimes literally). When these places end up on the actual Investor market, people who know what they are doing end up offering well under half what the ‘discounted’ prices from HUD were.
and whatever one may think of racism, arguing that people are evil and should be punished because of their beliefs leads to more evil than any belief.
If badthink person acts on those beliefs in such a way as to cause real harm to somebody, then by all means drop the fucking hammer on him.
Otherwise, give him a stern eyeroll and play on.
Oh, well that settles it.
During a press conference on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that “the evidence is clear” that President Trump used his office for his own gain, undercut American national security and the integrity of American elections, and “violated his oath of office.”
Pelosi said, “[T]he evidence is clear that the president has used his office for his own personal gain, and in doing so, undermined the national security of the United States by withholding military assistance to the Ukraine, to the benefit of the Russians, that he has undermined the integrity of our elections by what he has done, again, the Russian interference being ignored by him. And third, he has violated his oath of office.”
So sayeth the speaker. So sayeth we all.
They’ve got him this time! The walls are closing in!
his own personal gain. right.
Trump, the guy who donates his entire presidential salary, is doing this for his own personal gain. that’s why his net worth and the value of his brand and businesses has dropped steadily since taking office. It’s all for his own personal gain
Projection? I mean that’s what a career politician would do in the President’s position.
Then call a fucking vote and quit wasting our time and tax dollars.
Once every couple of years I get reminded that there are thieving SOBs out there that will stick you for thousands of dollars without a whit of guilt.
I’ve spent half my day trying to find this POS so I can get him served.
Some people believe that it’s not theft because it’s a civil matter instead of a criminal matter.
I’d go for damages too.
https://youtu.be/yZjCQ3T5yXo
Pelosi said, “[T]he evidence is clear that the president has used his office for his own personal gain, and in doing so, undermined the national security of the United States by withholding military assistance to the Ukraine, to the benefit of the Russians, that he has undermined the integrity of our elections by what he has done, again, the Russian interference being ignored by him. And third, he has violated his oath of office.”
Sentence first. Trial afterward.
That’s been the entirety of the last three years.
We have to impeach the president to find out what to impeach him for.
I still can’t remember when we annexed Ukraine.
It was the turn after Russia’s war exhaustion reached 100% and peasant rebellions seized two of their three remaining Provinces.
Not Axis and Allies. What game are you referring to?
I haven’t popped in on the Glib Diplomacy game recently. What’s the situation?
Europa Universalis.
It proceeds apace.
Do they have a savegame converter to carry over your EU game into Stellaris?
I think there are mods that let you go all the way from Imperator to Stellaris. No official support, though – that’s only for CK2 to EU4.
I don’t know. For some reason EU 4 will no longer start on my computer.
Probably a Paradox game, due to the war exhaustion mechanic. Russia and peasant revolts are too common in their games to narrow it down exactly, but I’d guess Europa Universalis.
Slow on the draw, but right on the guess.
[T]he evidence is clear that the president has used his office for his own personal gain
Huh. On the face of it, he appears to be the low end of modern presidents benefiting from their office.
Due to circumstances, he may be the first president in living memory to exit office poorer than he entered.
A super-genius business man like him in the greatest economy ever? Unpossible.
Also, unless he entered the office poor he can’t leave poorer, perhaps less wealthy?
Unibroue Blanche de Chambly Witbier. 5% ABV. Very smooth and refreshing. Taste the orange. Not pulpy. Have had better witbiers but still good session beer.
Interesting jury nullification case here in Tucson. The feds charged an immigration activist with “harboring”, because, well, he did. Let the illegals stay at “migrant aid station”, gave them directions to avoid Border Patrol checkpoints. Lay-down conviction, but the jury nullified.
Tucson also just voted down, hard, a “sanctuary city” referendum.
Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in voir dire.
Big assed jet just lost one of its engines during take off. It’s back on the ground and no one looks like their hurt.
Whoops. Airline?
Yeah, Phillipines air
Lol, the Mirror already has the story.
Lost, like it fell off?
no, flame out. It’s on the tarmac and you can see the right one is all sooted up.
Dreamliner…. huh.
Likely a bird strike
Probably.
There’s video: https://twitter.com/andrewblakeames/status/1197608888188559360?s=20
ATC feed
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX-Dep-App-Nov-21-2019-1930Z.mp3
At around 16:22 (-13:38 from the end, but can’t link directly to webpage)
Compressor surge (compressor failure) on right engine, which is consistent with the video. Not a flame out.
It’s still sitting right where it stopped. They unloaded all the bags and people . It’s way out back at the remote terminals by Pershing.
They unloaded all the bags
I bet that took a bit of time.
Nevermind. The internet got it wrong.
Planes.
(lyrics NSFW)
Paging Kristin. KK to the white courtesy phone
It’s a triple 7. 5 busses to take the passengers off it.
Did they pop the slides?
Somebody usually gets hurt with those.
No, they have a stair truck.
What did KK do?
She’s one of the resident aerospace engineering glibs.
She is to all things aviation related as Q is to silicone.
Oh, OK. I thought she was in DC.
That’s Tulip
*sigh*
I need a GlibMap.
Where all roads leads to anarchy.
It would not have any roads because, who’d pay for them?
Trick question? Amirite?
Yhey’re
Fucking phone. *they’re
Brooksed a botched correction.
*scrolls up*
I don’t even see that you’ve started drinking yet.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down for a third straight day (after going over 28K for the first time ever last week). It’s time to pivot away from impeachment back to the “fears of recession” talking point.
I’ve been laughing at all of the recession talk. If I got out of the market when recession fears were becoming deafening, my investments would be 20% lower, minimum
Recession is coming. But three days is not the end of the world
Man, its almost like it is the season where people start selling losers to realize capital loss.
With his doctor visit they are firing up the 26th Amendment Solution again.
Letting 18-year-olds vote to get him out of office? :-p
A shout out to all you Glibs, you blow my mind,
I got 20$ from Tulpa!
Which one? Nevermind, that’s everyone.
It’s interring trying find out who everyone is, some say others don’t,
But Tulpa made me laugh, others made me cry…
STEVE SMITH made you cry didn’t he?
Pope Jimbo I believe
Nope.
I said it was interesting,
Thanks!
😉
Im working on it, YUFUS
Just need to let them drain 3 more pints of plasma…..
/passes out
Now you can switch to short cans and get twice the effect!
“Small Cans in the Air” doesnt seem right.
How do I know if I give you money you’ll spend it on tall cans and not just waste it?
How could that possibly be wasting it?
Read it again. If he doesn’t spend it on tall cans, then he is wasting it.
You don’t, but I have receipts, I’m drinking Natty ice cause it’s cheap, and we are on track to bail out of Cali soon,
Pics of the tall cans! PICS I SAY!
Pics!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mCLmz2kfC7wr5vYY7
There you go.
In Genius Move, Trump Supports Impeachment, Forcing Democrats To Oppose
So the California Supreme Court has done something surprising: they unanimously struck down the new state law requiring primary candidates release their tax returns, because apparently such a law is plainly against the state constitution, which prohibits the government from blocking candidates from the ballot if they have met the sufficient support threshold.
This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. And the California legislature was just the xes to do it
Oh great, I’m getting constant Tom Steyer commercials now. One of them was literally “I am a successful billionaire.”
So is Maduro.
Sick burn!
He’s been playing that ad on Food Network.
…fucking Food Network.
Commercial free streaming is the best thing ever.
As opposed to a failed billionaire?
He did, in fact, add exactly that.
At least he’s actually running for something this time, as opposed to his previous smarmy commercials that wanted people to give money to IMPEACH TRUMP!!!!
So insufferable
Has this been covered already?
And the money shot:
I read that, 1984 is an instruction guide after all,
Fuck Off Slavers!
I think so. I find it funny it didn’t occur to them that any idiot can verify this is false to do the absence of stadium sized crowds of kids.
Okay, I’m only going to say this once. A few of you have not reloaded your avatar and it disgusts me. It’s gross and you should be ashamed of yourself. That is all.
I didn’t catch that.
I need to setup my hard drive to my tablet, then I can access my avatars, naa
I aim to misbehave….
At least you’re walking around here with clothes on.
I had to go out today. I hate going out. Going out requires a bra.
And pants.
And a shirt.
And sometimes shoes.
Eeewwww
Since she can’t have any more kids, Mr. Mojeaux allows her to wear them now and then.
I was allowed to purchase mukluk socks.
If you bathed and brushed your teeth recently, then nothing else matters. But hey, that’s just me.
Do what, now?
had to go out today. I hate going out. Going out requires a bra.
And pants.
And a shirt.
In Tardistopia, none of those are required. Just don’t touch my food or sit on my furniture.
Only if you’re going to a restaurant or grocery store.
“Curses….” ?
But you must go out because two is the required number of eggs for a nutritious breakfast and you now find you have but one egg, not two. So two is the number you must acquire before starting your day, not the insufficient number which is one.
HEY, YOU KIDS!!! GET OUT OF MY MOAT!!! IT IS NOT MADE TO BE PLAYED IN!!! … I must remember to destroy those kids after my breakfast has been eaten.
Two thumbs up.
Who shot who in the what now?
All lives matter. Except that guy. Fuck that guy.
Yeah, fuck him with no sugar.
What was done there, it was noticed.
Indeed.
Y’all can get your sugar down below.
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It’s a twitter link. For whatever reason, my sercurity setting means twitter freaks out and never loads.
That’s what she said.
I’m on pins & needles.
Christ, what a cod.
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1197412040970629121?s=21
Madness.
Enjoy it now. When the political violence the left claims their opponents are doing actually arrives, they going to be fucked. And so will the rest of us.
Related.
And apparently they folded like a cheap suit to protester demands. I wonder if that includes the segregated dorm rooms.
And it occurs to me that these things are probably linked.
The local NPR affiliate ran that news almost immediately after the national NPR program (Morning Edition?) ran a multi-minute story about the awful Syracuse racism problem using that hoax as proof.
It’s enraging.
Leftists have (re)discovered that hoaxes like this are a great way to get power, and they don’t care that it’s tearing the country apart.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/malcolm-young-ac-dc-guitarist-and-co-founder-dead-at-64-123387/
Struggling to post via phone
… 2 years ago …
At least the link works.
Damn it! He was ill……
Did drugs fall out of his ass?
At least we still have Lemmy.
Here’s in the Keith Richards category of “I can’t believe he made it that long.”
It’s almost too late, again!
I swear these people are like the guy who cried wolf until he finally just fell over dead.
20 years of this non-sense, and they still can’t move on to something else.
Errr… wait… I probably should have already known this, but the Guardian is a parody site, right?
OFFS. I guess if you’re piling on the whoppers, might as well open up with a big one.
Back when they were trying to pass Obamacare, I had a prog on WaPo tell me that 40 million people in the USA died the year before from lack of healthcare. When I told her that was more than 10% of the population, that didn’t deter her at all from that claim.
But yeah, like someone famous once said, if you’re going to tell a lie, tell a big one.
Oh it’s completely top-down deliberate ploy to move to “climate crisis”, nothing random about it. That plan was written and designed by the same chick who then went on to found Extinction Rebellion. That’s one of the things in this long takedown talks about is how frighteningly deliberate this whole ploy is. There is nothing ‘natural’ about any of it – not Greta, not all the NGO’s that surround her (and their corporate enablers), not the media acquiescence, none of it.
I don’t share in the author’s marxist meanderings, but the connections he unearths between these entities are ominous, honestly. I mean, for all people talk about ‘globalism’ as a force, this is the shit they’re really talking about and don’t even know it for the most part.
I don’t know. It doesn’t seem plausible that there is a global cabal trying to rule the world. I think people want to be a part of something big and good and what’s more important than “saving the world”. Are they misinformed? Sure, but only because that’s how you sell as space.
TL;DR but it seems to me it doesn’t have to be a “global cabal” when an ideologically-aligned assortment of power-hungry handlers will do.
Which is why, I guess, it’s a good thing that 2020 is an election year in the US, and that the Democratic party finally seems willing to talk seriously about climate change.
Yeah, the Democrats have been pretty much silent on the topic of climate change since just this year.
Da fuck? 22/23 support some variation of the gnd.
https://babylonbee.com/news/poll-majority-want-impeachment-hearings-to-continue-as-long-as-possible
Now I’m convinced that the BB is being done by a Glib, or at least a lurker.
“Please, Lord—the more distracted Congress is, the better for all of us.”
A greater truth has perhaps never been spoken.
In fact, I’d be willing to pay their salaries and just send them on a permanent vacation, because I guess the dream of them actually repealing some of their Constitution nullifying, freedom killing bullshit is just too much to hope for.
Castro is one freaky looking motherfucker.
That was Adam Schiff, dude. Who’s Castro?
Castro’s dead, man.
But his Brother Raul lives.
He looks like a wax dummy.
Looked up Schiff on wiki. He’s a vegan. No wonder he’s so fucked up.
I don’t think so, there’s something seriously wrong with that guy. He’s definitely mentally ill (probably now a prerequisite for being elected in CA), but also might have something called Grave’s disease. Look it up, I never saw anyone look so bug eyed like that.
Got a female friend that has Grave’s. She’s had a couple of operations to correct the “bug-eyed” look (which isn’t just an æsthetic problem, there’s actual health consequences to leaving it unaddressed). She also takes Synthroid for the thyroid issues. The operations have worked wonders, although immediately afterwards she looks like someone’s beaten the living daylights out of her.
The dems are a total freak show at this point. I doubt you could have found more freaks and misfits in a traveling circus back in the big days of that stuff. If someone could have just sold communism to the circus oddities back in those days, you would have had the modern democrat party of the USA before it’s time.
I survived my meeting today. Yay.
Bourbon time.
Enjoy! I survived my meeting too. The GM decided to plop down next me. After listening to the reasons for how important our “purpose” is, we underlings got to discuss our various contributions to the cause. Fortunately the room was only reserved for an hour and we got booted. Raided the sammiches and ran away.
So what is your Guild raiding?
Heh. I am the GM. ?
Go Bourbon!
Guess what? Tomorrow is the 56th anniversary of John Wilkes Booth killing Caesar at Waterloo, fun fact.