This marvelous human being, who I’ll call Erin Skakel, is potentially teaching the children of at least one Glib, but more on that later. In addition to redacting her name, and the names of the neighborhood groups to which she posted (the ones of which I am aware, anyway), I have also redacted her image, replacing it with what I believe to be the original Rosie the Riveter poster art from WW2. I deliberately chose that image because her profile pic is one of her cosplaying Rosie. I find it ironic that the accompanying slogan on the original was “we can do it,” when Skakel’s modus vivendi is anything but self-reliance. Rather the Blanche DuBois sort, our girl, always relying on the kindness of strangers.
That FaceBook post is one of the best examples of writing you will ever see. Seriously. What appears on first glance to be a disjointed stream of conscious rant is revealed upon further examination as a masterpiece of compact, effective prose. Skakel recently posted that paragraph accompanied by a picture (not included, you perverts) of human shins sorely afflicted with a large and severe patch of irritation. Her targets were at least two FaceBook groups for a formerly dowdy Richmond area which recently became trendy and saw its property values skyrocket. Neighborhoods whose lawns are dotted with signs for progressive causes and candidates.
“anyone know the most inexpensive ways to see a doc”
Such an innocent and straightforward request. How could you be suspicious of that, Tonio? How? Brain overheating from too many layers of tinfoil? THC-induced psychosis, perhaps? The poor woman is just trying to see a doctor, for goodness sake.
It fails the reasonable person test that she can’t call around, or surf around on the internet and find that shiznat out. She’s an adult with a college degree and holds down a nominally professional job. Her stated request is for a referral to the cheapest treatment alternative.
“I’m used to just making an appt”
I kept skimming over this clause, filtering it out as “random, self-absorbed, chick blather,” but something about it made me keep coming back to it until it struck me that this was a tell; that she had inadvertently dropped a piece of information which caused everything else to drop into place.
Used to just making an appointment, like she has done some research and found out that the cheapest way to get medical treatment involves getting to a clinic at opening hour (or earlier, because there is always a line), getting on the list and waiting around until your name is called. In the case of the private charity clinic there is paperwork and means-testing and a sliding fee scale for general medical services; I’m unsure about the fee structure of the government health clinic.
So, you see, Skakel doesn’t just want to receive medical treatment, but to do so in a doctor’s office with an appointment like she’s used to instead of waiting around with sick, poor people for what will probably be a long time.
Anyone taking an interest in Skakel’s plight and having internet access could quickly discover that the walk-in clinic at the chain pharmacy will cost you $59.00. Again, she’s a college graduate; she has the internet. She presumably has friends. She could figure that out if she wanted to, and if that was her actual intention. She’s signalling that she doesn’t have the money she needs to go to the doctor. But there’s that looming vacay which she drops to give a sense of urgency to her plight. It doesn’t matter how off-putting it is to certain members of her target audience to be asked to subsidize her vacay, money being fungible and all.
So… I’m a teacher.
Teachers are sacrosanct. Skakel knows that. She leads with that. It’s the first sentence of her post, which is supposed to be the most important part of your message in any sort of pitch. It’s also a warning to not judge her; she knows that would be enforced by the countless right-thinkful people in the neighborhood and that any pushback would only make her seem more sympathetic to the credulous people who are likely to be moved by her tale of woe.
I […] have gotten what I thought was poison ivy but… I’m not sure is getting better or that’s what it is.
Normal people who are looking to earn money quickly often turn to informal unskilled labor such as cleaning and yardwork. But Skakel obviously fails at yard work, and due to the placement of the injuries, is currently unsuited for on-your-knees labor such as scrubbing or weeding. Plus she may not be getting better so it would be cruel to even suggest she perform manual labor while sick. Also, bonus points to her for making that sentence do double-duty both as an expanation of the root cause of her current crisis, and as a gym pass for why she can’t be expected to do, you know, actual physical labor with those gross oozy patches on her shins.
It’s the pervasive sense of entitlement I find most offensive about Skakel and those like her. This attitude is becoming increasingly prevalant in society. On a larger scale this becomes something like the chimeral “living wage.” In both cases there is the pervasive sense that if a person works they should be able to afford a certain standard of living, certain amenities, regardless of other decisions they have made.
I won’t delve deeply into the argle-bargle about Skakel accidentally opting out of her health insurance. It’s just not believable on so many levels. My hypothesis is that she thought her medical expenses would be flat and predictable, opted out of her insurance, and had just enough deducted to cover her monthly meds. But, whatever. Here’s what she didn’t do once she figured out that she’d fucked up – act responsibly.
A responsible person would have set aside money each month to cover out-of-pocket office visits. A responsible person would have gotten a part-time job at the beginning of summer break to earn money to cover unforeseen medical expenses, and perhaps been able to use that money to pay for a vacay once she had health insurance again, but not before. A responsible person would have… I’m preaching to the choir here, people.
I grew up in an apartment complex heavily populated by teachers. Everyone knew that the unmarried women teachers who wanted to get ahead would share an apartment with another girl, hold down a summer job as a waitress, or with parks and rec, etc. If you lived simply you could afford to live alone and hang out by the pool instead of going on a nice vacation. Your choice. The assumption that she is entitled to a vacay, come hell or high water, is baked into everything she writes.
Even though this is an opinion piece, as an author primarily of fiction I cannot help but resolve conflict once it has been established. Be brave, dear readers, as the plight of our damsel in distress is about to be revealed.
Caloo, callay! It appears that our plucky heroine did indeed get her vacation. And how nice of her to check in on us all after the big thunderstorm that rolled through and downed a bunch of trees.
I’m one of those barely make it month to month “ers”
Come again? Doesn’t sound like it to me, hon. Sounds like you are living a quite nice lifestyle since you have the money for vacay and gym classes. Skakel lives in the city of Richmond but teaches in one of the nearby counties. The location of the class she wants to take is in the opposite direction from the county in which she teaches. Suspect that “accountability partner” will end up doing most of the driving.
Thanks to everyone for slogging through a long rant with no laugh lines, tentacles or sex. So here’s a little something that will appeal to most of you.
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520 responses to “Portrait of a Grifter”
Nice
Nice rant.
A sour I can drink.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/25923/102760/
That’s looks different.
I like sours, but I mostly drink straight whiskey because of calories.
I bought it by accident. I missed the part where it said “made with 1/8 year old lambics”.
Maybe you can do a trade with a neighbor/buddy if you don’t like it. Assuming you have more than one.
No, I just bought one. I just felt like drinking a Belgian tonight. Already sipping rye.
Noyce. Which rye?
Knob Creek Small Batch. Very sippable.
I tried Piggyback, which is whistle pigs cheaper version. It’s okay, but I prefer the original.
I’m not a big WhistlePig fan. I find Canadian ryes to be too soft for my palate, and they’re definitely not cheap.
Don’t be too sure on that. My girlfriend is a teacher, and managed to massively screw up ger health insurance. At one point she was enrolled in three different plans: one from her current employer, one from her previous employer because she misread a form and signed up for cobra by accident, and one from her university because she didn’t opt out of their automatic coverage. When she tried to fix it, she canceled all three plans and ended up with no insurance for about two months before she figured that out. She’s well learned in her subject, but G-d help her on anything outside of that. Fortunately the rabbi made sure she was all set this time around at get current job, but never underestimate the vapidity of a teacher.
I got nothing. *shrug*
She thinks I’m a catch, so she has a history of bad decisions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The girls in 4B.
I was out insurance for a month with a pregnant wife because O-care plans don’t allow out of state routine charges, O-care plans don’t allow you to buy insurance without an in-state address, and O-care has a 2-4 week delay between applying and actually getting insurance. It was so nice to get back on an employer plan.
Fuck Obama.
My wife taught 3rd grade for ten years, and now teaches two undergrad ed classes and one postgrad class. She’s the first person to say that there are a lot of dumb teachers out there. She herself tends to panic and botch anything having to do with a form, which is why we owed on our federal returns for the first three years after she finished her PhD and got a real job.
Sounds very familiar.
I’ll say this for her, she managed to take me as a twenty-something who never saved anything on paper and just spent money until the check card stopped working and turned me into a damned brevet CPA. I don’t think she’s even aware that there’s such a thing as a water bill.
we owed on our federal returns for the first three years after she finished her PhD and got a real job.
You’re not doing it right if you’re giving the government an interest-free loan.
Yeah, but they get awful shirty when you owe several thousand dollars each year.
I don’t make enough to owe that much. 🙁
I mean, when you file jointly and one of you doesn’t know how to fill out the W-2 correctly, you feel like a baller until tax season comes around.
But if you owe too much, you also pay a penalty. Funny the government doesn’t owe you a penalty if they take too much.
Fun fact: Maryland taxes Federal income tax refunds as state income.
Fuck Maryland.
Sorry not “state income”, I mean as income in the subsequent tax year.
That is insane. How is that legal? It’s like taxing change you find in your couch as income.
Same for Minnesota.
They also put ungodly Minnesota taxes on my one-time bonuses (they all look the same as income in the W2s) for moving to California. It looked like I was making a fortune to Minn Revenue Dept.
This will be my first “normal” year.
Well it’s like taxing the change you get back when you pay someone in cash. And what’s fun about it is that the income has already been taxed by the state the first time, because you reported it as earnings in the tax year that it’s withheld. How is that legal? I’m sure there’s a clause for that…
I don’t think Maryland taxes bonuses differently in the way that the IRS does, but if not it’s surely an oversight that will be fixed any year now.
As far as I know, even New York doesn’t do that.
If I understand this correctly, I think it does. I’ve had to calculate tax on last year’s return before.
OTOH, I never knew about it until the website I used told me about it. I never did it before and the state never asked.
“managed to massively screw up ger health insurance”
Is this one of the new pronouns I keep hearing so much about here?
But, srsly, I worked for government and our HR people were very employee-focused.
As in, “Hon, do you really want to do that, because [long, accurate reasons]?”
Assumed everywhere else was the same.
It’s the feminine second person possessive pronoun for someone that posts from their phone.
As for the HR departments (or student affairs in the case of the university) , they left a lot to be desired, but none of them were government run. She’s only taught at private and charter schools.
I bet she had an Obama sticker on her car and thought the Affordable Care Act was just terrific.
Rosie looks like she has a pretty nice grip.
I know teachers in CALI, and they make bank (like 80-90k) for 9 months of work AND you’d have to be completely retarded to somehow lose your health insurance. I know lot’s of gov’t workers who are extremely retarded and none have ever managed to “lose” their health insurance. I give her a f-.
Meh, nothing wrong with Grifting, it’s a skill like any other.
Oh, I totes appreciate con-artistry, etc. Just as I appreciate the unique adaptation of the lamprey, tapeworm, liver fluke, congresscritter, etc.
I like the zombie fungi that hijack ants.
Yeah, that’s even more scary than prions.
But now that you’ve mentioned it, some Glibs author will instantiate it in the worst possible way.
Some? I think we both know who.
Oh god please nobody link the zombie snail again. *shudder*
That was…memorable.
You’re welcome.
Oh wait I linked the zombie cockroach
Perhaps it’s a small distinction but a grifter isn’t a parasite. Parasites take without giving until the host is dry, and in the case of tape worms and congress critters are non consensual. A grifter, if he’s worth his salt, never stays with one mark to long and it’s always a mutual agreement, properly grifted people never know they’ve been took. The lady in the question here, 90% of the people that might offer her assistance will never even question whether they’ve been snookered, it’s voluntary exchange one of the hallmarks of libertarian/free market economic theory.
Ill go along with the position that if the people giving never knew they’ve been took, there is no harm. However if people find out it was a scam, it could hurt future charitable donations.
Yeah, and she scores no points here for earning it, because in the same breath where she asks if anyone knows how to get cheap health care, she announces that her knees and shins are effed up.
So there goes the obvious answer.
meh, she can do what needs doing in tailor’s seat.
Thank you for the new & improved Rosie.
Nice work, Tonio.
Ex Mrs Tres was a high school teacher, and always quick to moan about how much teachers are underpaid, no matter how I broke down the hours she worked annually vs. what she brought home. To her, public school teachers daily offered themselves on the Altar of Altruism, in the interest of teh childrenz. Then, when she quit to pursue her master’s (which I wrote a pile of checks for), her school offered her continued health insurance coverage under COBRA. Imagine her shock when she saw that to keep her same coverage (minus the 1% admin fee) it was nearly $1,000/month. She refused to accept that 12 grand annually was part of her “comprehensive benefits package” for the ‘Cadillac insurance’ she had through the union.
Just one of the reasons why she’s EX-MrsTresCool.
My employer use to have a tab where you could see your total compensation. Bi thought it was smart to let the employees knew exactly what they were getting/cost.
Ouch. Sorry, bro. It’s the narrative, of course.
Pfft….one of the advantages of being married to her was that insurance.
NEA negotiates some sweet deals.
Yeah, there is a way to get yourself in position to have to pay your premiums yourself. You just use all of your PTO and sick pay on an illness or injury. Then, you go on state disability and therefore have to pay your own premiums. It’s around a grand. People suddenly feel a lot better when that happens. If it’s an IOD, it goes forever.
I guess, then, you could opt to not pay the premiums and be without, but it seems unlikely.
Nice
dissectionunpackingUnpacking is when you draw the pus-infected gauze out of the wound, hoping that the cotton hasn’t been eaten-through by the infection and you have to dig for it with a hemostat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8klIHNzpzk
urp
now do debriding.
They aren’t ready for that yet, Jarflax.
It’s when a hetero man gets divorced.
Degloving.
Those are nasty. As is body parts in a wood chipper, or a high capacity compressor. Want me to tell you about the guy who got his arm caught in a commercial pasta mixer? 😀
In a previous life as a medical transcriptionist, the only body part I have ever heard of being degloved (transcribed reports on) were penises.
And also, I love gross medical stories like some people love haunted houses.
coughcoughswampsofdagobahredditcough
Some day, I’ll have to tell you about the ants.
Public schooler teachers are awful people who subject their students to hours of indoctrination and tedium, significantly diminishing the precious time in life that is childhood. I have no use for them and prefer to know as few as possible. I’ve posted this before but whatev’s:
“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.”
― H.L. Mencken
I teach in a private school but still hits home.
And, to be sure, I’m an awful person.
Of course you are, IWC. That’s why you’re here.
I’ve experienced both government and religious schools (real nuns in real nunsuits, yo). Different hells.
I had public schools in a town of 22k people, but we were blessed to have a few great teachers, even war vets, and we benefitted from having Halliburton engineering as a major town employer so there was a good tax base and engaged parents.
Those factors sound ideal, to be honest. Not even a teachers’ union could screw that up!
I did the magnet-school thing in a city of around 250K and the STEM stuff was heavily supported by Big Korps. Sure, every other school was a dumpster fire but this one good school was a thing.
“Real nuns in nunsuits”
PENGUINS! and “We’re on a mission from God” are phrases that come to mind.
Speaking of which, the Church of Sweden (state owned) has decreed that Greta is the successor to Jesus Christ.
To which I say, Jesus Christ.
This must surely trigger some sort of biblical thingy, right?
I thought Peter was the successor to Jesus Christ.
That Greta child is a future psychopathic monster. I was honestly terrified when I finally heard the tape of her speaking. If she ever gets power she will crush her opponents with an iron fist. Fucking climate zealot.
You’re kidding, right?
I wish I were. I really do.
Sweden has an official State Church, and if you ask anyone there whether they are Lutheran or Catholic, they answer instantly which one applies to them.
Ask if they believe in God, they immediately say no. It’s just a cultural thing to get christened, have a church wedding, attend Santa Lucia pageants, but no one admits to belief in God.
The only practicing, believing Christians I met there were a pair of elderly university secretaries. We met for tea once a week for fellowship.
Stay tuned for my future fiction, or changing of gangrenous dressings. Same thing, really.
Such brave. So courage.
https://twitter.com/ThinGrayLine01/status/1178486647282917377
I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t harass old ladies with impunity!
Leave my mom alone. Weirdo.
Hey, she was asking for it wearing that muumuu.
+1 Shrubber. Roger, the Shrubber
Someone who does that to an old person has severe psychological issues.
I’m not sure that I wouldn’t have gotten arrested pretty quickly watching that scenario.
I have yet to see a lefty that wasn’t a raging personality disorder or straight up crazy, particularly among the antifa rat fuckers.
She could have turned around and gone back just like that injun the racist MAGA hat kid assaulted.
Remember Obama’s proposition to form a national defense force inside the US and press all young people into service?
That should have told everyone everything they needed to know about these pinko shitstains and their intentions.
Nope, got a linky?
You are kidding, right?
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
That got past you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
Where’s the pressing into service part. Trump’s pushing a space force, is he pressing us into service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYAPcoE4H0
Trump is pushing for another branch of the armed service which appears to be in line with the others: all volunteer.
I remember seeing that on the news. Some creepy shit, that. Not surprisingly it got Memory-holed swiftly after in popped up on the news.
Ah yes, ‘Memory-holed’, otherwise known as “I can’t find any evidence of my claim, even though it supposedly happened in the last ten years when everything single thing was captured and recorded somehow and somewhere”
Obama, July 2, Colorado Springs, CO: [As] president I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots [from 75,000] and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals, like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world, so that citizens see their effort connected to a common purpose.
People of all ages, stations and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem – they are the answer. So we are going to send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. We’ll call on Americans to join an energy corps, to conduct renewable energy and environmental clean-up projects in their neighborhoods all across the country.
We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, and to be there for our military families. And we’re going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set.
We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. We need to use technology to connect people to service. We’ll expand USA Freedom Corps to create online networks where American can browse opportunities to volunteer. You’ll be able to search by category, time commitment and skill sets. You’ll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities.
This will empower more Americans to craft their own service agenda and make their own change from the bottom up.
That’s one. 6 more please.
“That’s one, six more please”
Lol. Well done.
At least one person read it 🙁 I posted the entire text of the speech and people keep posting links.
Not seeing the “pressing all young people into service” bit, which, I admit, I assumed, was the gist of the complaint. Unless Southen is simply angry that Obama wanted to increase volunteerism, and yes, the government shouldn’t be dong that, but it isn’t exactly forcing us into servitude either.
Ah yes, ‘Memory-holed’, otherwise known as “I can’t find any evidence of my claim, even though it supposedly happened in the last ten years when everything single thing was captured and recorded somehow and somewhere”
Not seeing the “pressing all young people into service” bit, which, I admit, I assumed, was the gist of the complaint. Unless Southen is simply angry that Obama wanted to increase volunteerism, and yes, the government shouldn’t be dong that, but it isn’t exactly forcing us into servitude either.
Bit of a goal post shift here. You were reasonable to call Suthen out for abuse of your handle, but a bit harsh on IWC.
but a bit harsh on IWC
He can take it (I hope). It falls into the same category as the ‘Nobody’s reporting it’ complaint from the afternoon posts It hasn’t been memory-holed, hell half a dozen of you dredged it up in minutes. Like the earlier complaints what you mean is ‘it’s not getting the attention that I think it should on every news oulet that I want it on’ and that’s a bunch of whingey socialist sounding crap if I ever heard it. Amazing how fast the right has adopted the tactics of the left.
Like the earlier complaints what you mean is ‘it’s not getting the attention that I think it should on every news oulet that I want it on’ and that’s a bunch of whingey socialist sounding crap if I ever heard it. Amazing how fast the right has adopted the tactics of the left.
So you think it is unfair for those on the right to bring up stories that are not being covered by the MSM, because those stories can be found by looking for them in places where someone on the right brought them up? Or is it that we complain that the so called legitimate media ignores them? We do that to spread the idea that the so called legitimate media is not in fact balanced, and I think it is a perfectly reasonable response. But by all means attack us for being whiney.
It’s the selectivity of the definition of ‘Main Stream Media’, Fox kicks the shit out of CNN every night, Breitbart used to (admittedly, I haven’e listened to them lately and I have heard that there number are falling so this may be inaccurate, but they did claim this while whinging about the MSM) claim that they were the most linked to, most commented on, most blah blah blah, political site on the web. Then I hear “Wah wah wah CNN, MsNBC, NPR Wah wah.” and I can’t get past the dishonesty. Yes many outlets are left leaning, many are right leaning, “Nobody reports XYZ” means nothing to me when I know that plenty of people are reporting “XYZ” hell it’s all I hear about some days I could, If I were a whingey baby, make a case that nobody reports on the things I want to hear about, but I don’t because I’m a grown up.
You’re a bit of an ad hominem grown up tonight, and yes I did get rude last week.
“Many on the Right?” News outlets? Okay, so please name all of the “right-leaning” cable and television news channels not named Fox? Now, there are how many left-leaning cable and television news?
Okay, now do the top 10 major newspapers.
Okay, so now that we’ve established you’re not being honest in your attacks, let’s move on to how those outlets coordinate their stories. I suggest we look to their own words and do a little search of those wikipedia emails of the DNC, Podesta, and Hillary, and see how many of those flacks were COMPLETELY IN THE SERVICE of one particular party’s agenda. But please, tell us all about how the Media is really “balanced” and it’s whining to suggest that the Media isn’t fully in the service of the DNC. See, also, Collusion Bullshit, Russian.
It’s one thing to posit yourself as some kind of “counter-weight” to what you perceive as the repeated slamming of the Left here, but, ya know, sometimes one side really is worse than the other.
News Max…um those religious stations…Is The Blaze still on cable?…
And then there’s all of those right-leaning major tech companies, where many, many, more people get their news, who are curating people’s feeds and searches. Totally balanced, though. People should stop whining when right-leaning people get banned, deplatformed, shadow-banned, shouted down in public, have speaking events cancelled, content removed, financial payment arrangements threatened… I mean, it’s probably the market’s fault anyway.
Okay, so now that we’ve established you’re not being honest in your attacks
We have? if you say so, you do lawyer very well. limit ‘outlets’ to Cable television and top 10 newspapers and it’s mostly lefties, sure, now do talk radio and online publications. I’m not saying CNN et al aren’t biased, I’m not even saying ‘a pox on both houses’ and I don’t even know what posit means. My bitch as I’ve said many times is with the ‘Nobodies reporting’ line or tonight’s’ ‘Memory-hole’ line, It’s bullshit, Tons of people are reporting everything, if you want to find it it’s out there. If the bitch is that the ‘main stream’ aren’t reporting again the bitch is with the public not the news provider, they are just giving the people what they want. If the concern is that people are too stupid to get the news that you think they should and you need to harpy the news into giving in to them, well congrats you’re a proggy now.
they are just giving the people what they want
Perhaps, in some cases this is true. The point, at least to me, is that they are giving the people what they want them to want. Also, while I absolutely contend that the left is the bigger threat, the examples of media on the ‘right’ are almost all on the neo-con ‘right’. There are very few voices on the classical liberal right anywhere. You raise a valid point about the absolutist language people use, but I have to say with your handle I’d think you were familiar with the rhetorical device. By all means call us out on hyperbolic language, or ignoring the flaws in our sacred cows. But I don’t think a bit of hyperbole makes us whiny socialists.
“they are just giving the people what they want”
Which people?
Right on cue, People are too stupid to get their news properly, welcome to Proggyhood Ozy.
LOL. Wow, talk about not arguing in good faith. Seriously – do you argue in good faith or not?
“Welcome to proggyhood?” Uh-huh. I’ll let the record stand as it is as between us on the merits of that claim.
I purposely left out AM radio to see if you would exhibit the tell – sure enough, “BUT TALK RADIOZZ!!1!11!!!” So yes, the yokels who are still listening to AM are “ascendant” there in that specific frequency bandwidth. Now do Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, & Youtube and tell me all about how the comparable right-wing bias in those same areas makes it all “balance” out.
You’re not even making sense. And I love how it’s also also “the deplorables” fault for their ignorance. “People are too stupid to get their news properly, welcome to Proggyhood Ozy.”
Like my parents or family should know better than what’s on the major stations that come with their (Congressionally granted monopoly) cable and internet provider dole up? They’re just “too stupid” to know what their betters – like you – do? Net Neutrality much?
Bro, take a step off of your high horse. Now take a deep breath, go look in a mirror, have a drink, and relax. Show us where Rush Limbaugh touched you and it will be fine.
Yes the ‘proggy’ bit was out of line, you accused me of dishonesty and I lashed out, I shouldn’t have done that.
I don’t know why pointing out that the right has a lock on talk radio means I somehow don’t like it or think only deplorables listen to it. I am not mad at Rush and the like, don’t know where that idea came from.
I am not saying that much of the media doesn’t lean hard left, it’s the absolutism that I reject. ‘The Media’ isn’t in lock step with the DNC because their is no ‘The Media.’ Sure It may be Fox versus CNN MSNBC NPR etc etc..but Fox isn’t exactly small potatoes, It’s not the David vs Goliath many people like to make it out to be. Anyhow, sorry for the Proggyhood jab it was uncalled for and more importantly unsubstantiated.
Hyp–I only want to dip a toe into this for a quibble.
Since i can’t speak for the others, I’ll just say that maybe they were meaning the “legacy media” (the original US network news), and the news print types, since they are online, mostly.
If that is accurate IRT their argument, and, you throw in CNN and MSNBC (it IS NBC…), I’d say you’ve covered a lot of ground, and may very well have described what a majority of people consider “the media/MSM”
Yeah, Fox News is mainstream media. There are a lot of conservative voices online, too. That being said, I don’t see The Blaze, Breitbart, Daily Caller, etc being quite that mainstream. But, that’s my personal take.
Digby, yes often The Media is shorthand for the liberal press, but that’s also used as a bit of a hedge too. When they* say ‘All the media does X’ and when presented with counterexample say “I didn’t mean them, by Media I only mean the ones who do X”, then the initial claim is useless. If you mean the liberal press say the liberal press, I suspect many (again see*) use The Media instead because they want to set up a boogeyman, if they admit up front it’s just the liberal press it takes some wind out of their sails.
*The editorial They, the royal They, not anyone here or in particular.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_National_Service_Act
Charles Rangel, a very prominent Democratic politician and ally of Obama, proposed just such a thing in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013.
It is all over the place along with a million excuses telling us what he really meant. See my link above.
Geez. I don’t understand how the guy got away with telling people over and over that he wanted to fuck us to death, right to our faces, and people clapped and cheered and swooned over the guy.
Who was it the other day around here that said it no longer matters what you say, only how you look and sound when you say it. Same thing for the Dems now demanding gun confiscation and submission. They are demanding outright, to our faces and with threats that they intend to disarm us and have us comply. And people applaud. Jebus, what a bunch of maroons.
If that was my kid and I found out they did that?
Literal beating.
But I’m raising my daughter right.
Assuming this story is as presented of course.
I find it weird that a couple of men in the background there didn’t seem perturbed or looked to at least show some concern lest she be pushed down to the ground.
Ok. But maybe the elderly woman was an asshole.
Even assholes should be able to cross the street.
Live footage.
Old lady: Outta my way lazy shit balls. You good for nothing homo queers! You smell like a bunch of god dang commies* fornicating in a hen house filled with meth heads and Mooslims raping women! I’ll shove this walker so far up your HPV infested anus you’ll be screaming like a mute cripple retard trying to buy an Abba Zabba from that pinko illegal alien Guatemalan fruit cake on the street corner.! Now fuck off or I’ll blind you by squirting vagina acid.
*I’m ok with this as a matter of principle.
OT: The Bee is on fire.
Adam Schiff Revealed To Be Parody Of Actual Congressman
Rare Photo Surfaces Of Trudeau Not In Blackface
All-Seeing Eye Of Sauron Unveiled At Facebook Headquarters
Marionette Strings Clearly Visible During Greta Thunberg Testimony
I liked this one;)
https://babylonbee.com/news/adl-recommends-cutting-your-hands-off-to-prove-you-are-not-a-racist
Those all sound excellent
I love people like this. Never their fault they have no money.
They were raised that way.
And they never thank us for paying the taxes that make up their salaries.
Why comes you gots money and I don’t? Huh? Give me a house.
My student loans are way too high. It’s not fair.
*throws tantrum*
Sadly, she’s not a stand alone. She’s just another example of our entitlement society, and the feeling that everything should come easy, from somebody else.
Every now and then I peruse the Next Door forum for our area. I had to stop because the first thought that would frequently cross my mind is, “did you bother researching where you were moving before you moved here?”.
My wife has used that app to find a couple contractors that have worked out nicely.
There was one last week where a woman found a turkey in her backyard. She was asking if anybody had lost a pet turkey…
*facepalm*
Did you tell her yes? Meat is meat!
My father showed me some from his silly neighborhood in Houston. One woman was desperate for advice on what to do because she saw a possum in her yard. I wrote to her and suggested she leap on the possum from behind, wrestle it into submission and put it in a garbage sack to take it to the police station, but warned her to not let the possum get its tail around her neck…that is how they strangle people.
Thank you, Suthen. I hate people like that.
There is a poor woman in Houston with her nose bitten off, and a sore stomach from rabies shots who will never trust the interwebs again.
Bit of trivia: possums can’t carry rabies.
I thought any mammal could carry rabies?
Orca are one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance – across seas, across time, across all obstacles.
It’s theoretically possible but astronomically uncommon because of their low body temps.
Damn. Orcas rule. They’re like my ex-wife.
There’s a movie you should see then…
I think I know what movie you were talking about.
Unfortunately, I learned the title was not — in fact — a suggestion. The theater got mad if you freed your willy.
No I meant the movie whose ad campaign Hyperbole was quoting. Orca
Oh shit. Well I’m glad I didn’t know that as it would’ve preempted my joke.
I like the cut of your jib.
My son gets lawnmowing jobs that way.
I’ve donated a bunch of furniture that doesn’t suit the new house. Sure, I don’t get a tax deduction for it, but I don’t have to haul it away either.
Through Next Door…
Interesting analysis.
The thing that got me is that this is just poison ivy. She can’t just go to Walmart and buy some generic Benadryl and corticosteroid cream?
That would involve enacting her own labor.
Plus, she couldn’t let us all know how incredibly virtuous and poor she is.
I think this is the real thing.
That is another thing that drives me insane about teachers. The constant reminder about how poor they are. And God forbid that they had to spend their own money on professional development. I’ve never known any other person who has paid for their own materials/tools etc. And finally is always the implication that they will do even a shittier job teaching if no one listens to them.
The average public school teacher makes about what I make. I am not rich, but I pay my bills, save a bit and have luxuries.
My wife taught elementary school in Montgomery County in a not-very-good area and made as much as she currently does as a university lecturer and as I do as a senior web developer for the same university. Her job sucked to the point where she thought she had a genetic condition that caused her to have debilitating migraines until she quit and stopped getting them entirely, but she made a comfortable living and would’ve had an easier time if she’d just kind of towed the lion rather than actually tried to do her job well.
Monkey County, MD?
But are you smart enough to avoid poison ivy? [mulligan if you grew up West of the Mississippi]
Poison Ivy, Fleas, Ticks, Chiggers. All reasons i’m glad i live in the inter-mountain west.
Ticks and Leeches:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2NJbRF4CgAA
I have 100k invested in my toolbox. I don’t even need it now, because the airport is a secure area and we only use issued tools there. My work product is objectively measurable.
She probably doesn’t have poison ivy. She faked it to solicit funds to upgrade her hotel room.
Still, she deserves that money because she cares so very much and beliefs all the right things.
^Finally, someone who understands.
Whatever is going on here we’re not getting the full, true story.
She said it wasn’t going away. My bet is cellulitis.
Harsh.
Dude, I’ve had that. Got it from a spider bite or something. Out minding my own business working in my yard and the next day I’ve got a rash on my leg that’s swelled to twice its size and spreading. That’s nothing to mess around with, man.
Yep, same here. About 2 months ago I fell asleep with a spider bite, woke up with a baseball sized red lump on my hip and thought “gee, there’s a lot around that area that carries blood to important body parts, I should probably get this looked at right away”
I got it a couple years ago. Still have a nasty scar. I had a bad fever for a couple days and pain so bad I couldn’t put any weight on my leg for days. It was unreal. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Grifter lady sounds like the new Democratic voter that will vote Blue until its their turn to be put up on a wall by the Woke Guards.
SHOTS!
Just poured a tequila shot!
Nostrovya!
Salud!
Screwdriver, Pie-Face.
Dewars Twelve and Bailey’s (because I’m cheap that way, mo-fos, and out of Black Bush, etc). Sipping it, because old people got more dignity than to do shots this late. Unless it’s from a cub’s rump.
I quite like Dewar’s 12, but you are right that Black Bush is a superior product.
So what was the rash? Allergy to non-artisanal brie? Caviar deficiency?
Don’t joke. CDS is real and we suffer in silence!
Pumpkin spice scurvy.
HAH!
I want to see a public school run by Ron Swanson.
Ron Swanson would never run a public school because he knows they are govt indoctrination centers. If he did, however, it would teach wood shop, fishing, and have a (voluntary), well-attended rifle team.
Exactly what we need.
Mike Rowe does a nice job of spreading the word about trades and the need to make practical hands on training available as early as possible.
^This! Preach it, Mike! Not everyone needs to go to college for a Grievance Studies degree, and we still need people to fix cars/HVAC (kissy kissy, Yusef!)/etc.
And oh, that voice! ::Looks for an episode of How the Universe Works in the On Demand menu.::
Ron Swanson… [drools]
Really? Just when I thought I was finally beginning to understand the gayz…
That’s great Tonio. Maybe i’ll post a rant one of these days. I have zero sympathy for the “plight” of teachers. Partly because i’m a heartless bastard. But partly because they expect to be entitled to extravagant lifestyles while also having no accountability for the absolutely horrific job they do at teaching our children. And then they bitch complain and whine, all while living off the government dime (for public school teachers).
As a teacher, I can attest that the job is really easy if you have two brain cells to rub together and know your subject.
Now give me a bunch of free shit and tell me how awesome I am!!!
I know there are plenty of good teachers (as i bet you are). It’s mostly a visceral reaction to the idolization we are required to have for teachers, ala Cops/Military.
And single moms.
They start every political comment with “I’m a single mother” so that everyone sneaks the sweet aroma of burning martyr right away.
If you’re a single mother due to widowhood or having to escape an abusive relationship, you have my sympathy, but you’re not automatically right and you don’t have my checkbook.
If you’re a single mom by making poor life choices, I have the same response that Jesse Ventura gave a lady at a campaign event who took the mike and said “I’m a single mother of two. What are you going to do for me?”
He answered, “Lady, I didn’t get you pregnant” and took the next question.
He locked up the election with those words, I’m convinced.
“sweet aroma of burning martyr”
Nice. You should submit something here.
@ Leon
I take no offense, I am actually quite the fan of teacher-bashing. A large number of them shouldn’t be in the classroom and a disturbing number of them actively try to make little Red Guards out of their students. Which makes the cult surrounding them all the sillier.
I’m convinced it’s a guilt thing. Parents feel guilty that they couldn’t possibly fathom spending that much time with their own kids, thus the teacher must be superhuman.
I work in facilities for a charter school. The teachers are mostly very nice, some very attractive, most fairly smart. They also have the common sense of a doorknob. Almost every day I sigh and say to myself “these are the people teaching the next generation… sigh.
I find myself thinking the same thing of some of my colleagues, sadly.
Please do, Leon.
And I think about the people here who have to struggle to get by in their lives. And the people in my neighborhood who are looking for basic shit like baby clothes or a room to rent. None of those rise anywhere near the level of Ms Smug, self-entitled, government schoolteacher.
Cops in fatal Bronx friendly fire shooting thought they were being shot at: sources
The Finest the world’s greatest city has to offer.
So many jokes i could go after:
They were making Furtive movements.
How do Cops handle Cop Killers?
And here i thought Blue lives mattered.
This dovetails nicely with a thought I was just having. Teachers and police SHOULD be highly respected professions. Protecting property, solving crimes, teaching and guiding children are all good things. It took government to corrupt two noble careers into lazy grasping parasites.
Eloquently put. I can add nothing to that comment.
Hear! hear!, Please hear him on this!
They only became corrupt when they were granted immunity from, well everything.
Accountability, accountability, accountability.
This is why I am loath to give them blanket condemnations.
Well, apparently they don’t confine their hair trigger attitude to dogs and “suspects.”
To almost everyone’s relief, kale is officially over
We’ve been lied to!
Is quinoa still a super food? Because I like quinoa.
And to think the types of luminaries that were pushing kale would’ve been telling us that cigarettes were good for digestion in decades past.
Cigarettes offer a natural alternative to vaping. I’m considering switching back.
Do you have to turn in you affliction gear and flat billed ball caps when you stop vaping?
*runs off giggling*
I’m so fashion retarded I don’t even know what affliction gear is or what is funny about that. I did wear a hat yesterday watching my niece’s soccer game, but it was a plain old ball cap.
I am merely doing the breaking of the balls.
For some reason I will forever associate vaping with this particular fashion trend.
Grabbing your junk?
Besides the baby kale, the shit is not edible. Seriously, the texture is just so unpalatable, just no.
But as far as studies are concerned, yeah, whatever, who funded that shit? Give me a study, fund it, and I’ll get you your answer you want.
I grow kale every year, and then blanch and freeze it. I cook about a 30 minute cook with onions, garlic, and pancetta. Very tasty and you will be clean as a whistle the next day.
“I’m one of those barely make it month to month “ers””
Prog translation decipher. What she means is barely making it to do stuff like go to Peloton cycling classes, buy a fancy pompous shake, get that neck or knuckle tattoo, or go on vacation whatever trendy hotspot.
I have to drive a Corolla. I am oppressed.
^^This. Hipster spendthrift douchebag to a “T”.
I know this person, we all do. It’s one of the major reasons I abandoned FB altogether. Any deviance from the things they take for granted is an ‘all hands on deck!’ situation for anybody on the interwebz to immediately take on. And let’s be honest, the hang in there platitudes and How Awful, Ahhhs make a person feel important and cared for.
Social media is a cesspool of narcissism that only reinforces the behavior. Let it go.
Derpy and I go there so you don’t have to.
Sorry, man. For some reason I’m kinda bitchy tonight.
And I did enjoy the article. It really was a fairly concise yet clear breakdown of how this person’s probable mind operates.
https://archive.li/WAfO8/32adda770efdb2ecc7f7468c4a8a8019980e3f04.jpg
NSFW.
I’ve suddenly forgotten what I was going to do.
https://archive.li/CBrle/28e2a0fadec68a19328e5bef9de2fb5f3e4b49ec.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/8DdCn/b09cc754beb59c5363ce4667bf1922140b1dc979.jpg
NSFW.
Uffda.
Gianna Michaels never really did it for me. The third picture looks like it was stolen from Epstein’s safe.
Sorry, I’m impossible to please this evening.
How about this
May be NSFW, but only if you are a Philistine
Nothing classier than a painting of a freshly shagged piece of ass. Well done.
I show you a picture of man saying farewell to life as he heads out to commit suicide and all you see is freshly shagged ass.
Well done!
I’m a simple man, this is not news here. 😉
I wasn’t being sarcastic. I was expressing honest praise of your Glib credentials.
Mmmmmf, mmffff, mmm mmmff.
We need grandma control.
I’m honestly impressed. I don’t think my NaNa could pull that off.
Do you know what your NaNa can pull off?
My pants.
Eh. Walked into that one.
She would need at least three Miller Lites on the rocks before she would consider that proposition.
You walked into it, but, I walked in on it….yech.
Tell ’em,
Steve DaveCrusty Juggler!*golf clap*
…completely different than the clap your mom gave me.
Calling out Spudalicious. What’s wrong with canned diced tomatoes? Buy the proper ones:
https://www.etalianfood.com/de-cecco-chopped-tomatoes-3×400-gr.html
https://www.amazon.ca/Cirio-Chopped-Tomatoes-4x400g/dp/B00MWTZ674
https://www.mutti-parma.com/can-en/products/finely-chopped-tomatoes/finely-chopped-tomatoes
Just fresh off making 50 jars of sauce and 25 pelatti.
Potential Mexican investor in Dutch club gets marching order from angry fans
Mark my words, we Glibs will unite to dethrone HM the next time he dares making fun of Queen Greta.
Second round! SHOTS!
You monster! Still working on my first.
A healthy liver processes one drink per hour. If you want the alcohol to be worth the money, i.e., cop a buzz, one must drink more than one shot per hour. Hashtag #Ilovescience
Steak is back on the menu, if a new review of risks of red meat is to be believed\
They are trying to silence the Canadian! I STAND WITH CANADA!
Give me the study, fund it. I’ll get you the result you want.
Wrongthinker did not….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1evM5B0gg8&t=75s
Science!!
Playing with cubs in front of Mama lion. Brilliant.
Note how when a study is released with results the chattering classes don’t like, the immediate response is to include a bunch of people saying why the study is wrong or should be ignored. That never seems to happen when the chattering classes like what the study is saying.
Does penis stretching work?
GOD DAMNIT
Done and done.
“Repeat up to twice daily”
As if there is some risk of injury involved if one were to *gasp* do it three times?
I mean really, the elaborate mental gymnastics people go through in order to justify playing with themselves never ceases to amaze me.
I read that as: “Beat it up twice daily”
1. Got fired
2. Filed for unemployment
3. Drove uhaul truck as far as Asheville.
All in all, a successful day. Heading into Charleston tomorrow. Start new job in 2 weeks.
time for golf !!!!
Charleston, SC? I’ll trade you SC for MD right now, as long as I can keep my job. But probably not for Charleston, I’d live in Greenville though.
Fun town! Get to a hipster brewery (there are 14 million of them there) and have a pint or two as a reward. Then eat yourself silly in Charleston.
I started a new job today – I had to drive a 4 door f150 through from the Hudson Valley through NYC to Eastern Long Island and back. Madness!
drive thru McDs eaten in the hotel lobby. 3 year old changes things.
Wife said, “This wasnt the Asheville vacation we had planned.”
This is an excellent verse in a song as yet unwritten.
Good man! Unemployment in CO pays 2/3 of what you were making, but hell, all you have to do is lie on the website about how many jobs you applied for, and not mention the under the table work. Good luck on your new job and home!
$552 per week max in KY, which is what I will be getting.
Eek! Sorry, bro.
Good luck. Charleston is final destination?
Yes. The firing was actually in May, but today was my last day. Nice severance package so cant complain. Too much.
Teaching is a skill. One I don’t have. I know my subject. I can lecture. I can even lecture extemporaneously. I cannot teach the details of a concept. It’s like, I can use $50 words all day long correctly but then somebody says, “What does X mean?” and I draw a blank. “Uh…dunno how to explain it.” I am also very, very impatient.
On Happy Days, one episode had Fonzi teaching shop class. He was going to teach them how to rebuild a carburator. He took it apart in about 3 seconds and put it back together almost as quickly, then pointed at it and said, “Now you do it” totally seriously.
That’s how I teach.
Leather Tuscadero or Pinky Tuscadero?
I think the Fonz did threesomes with them
I think he banged Mrs. C too.
And who wouldn’t?
Ralph Malph?
Potsie I can see pulling it off.
You gotta be careful, Howard looks like the kinda guy that’d put you in a gimp suit. He was probably begging Arthur to make a move
carburetor*
I’mma go to bed. Today’s been a long and very draining (read: shitty) day.
Good night 🙂
Ahh too bad. *sends good vibes even though doesn’t believe in that shit*
Hopefully tomorrow will kick today’s ass!
“The sun’ll come out tomor-……” Um, sorry. Never mind. DO hope tomorrow’s better.
*sharpens knives*
Night!
Well, I did have an amazing response but I guess you’re just gonna have to have a nightmare about it.
I got offered a teaching job at a University about a decade ago. I said, I don’t have a Masters, which is required for the job. I did write the next semester’s course syllabus though, even thought it wasn’t my job, I was just a lowly software engineer. But they told me they would just give me a Masters, seriously. The problem is, I’m actually a pretty good teacher, but college age kids? I’ll fucking strangle one of them in my first week. No way. And I would be tenured by now and still be wandering around those hallowed halls at 90, life a senile dinosaur, with a lifetime income.
‘Um sir. Like, you forgot to check your privilege. Here’s, you know like, a list of our demands on how you must, like, teach us and please tell us exactly which books to the last, like, chapter for focus on, like, in order for you to gives our entitled ‘A’. Like ok?”
*stanglings ensue*
“I got offered a teaching job at a University about a decade ago.”
Oh, what Indian tribe did they think you were a member of?
You have truly mastered a skill when you seek to teach it to others.
Ie, rolling a kayak.
I taught my elderly mother how to effectively use an antiquated power tool. I have to still help her with the orthogonality on/off switch.
Welcome to the jungle kid!
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mark-hamill-slammed-on-social-media-for-fraud-comment-on-ivanka-trumps-instagram-picture
Classy, Mark. I wonder why your supporting actor got so much more work after Star Wars and you did… what?
Mark did a lot, he just went into voice acting. He seemed to enjoy that.
It’s not like Ford isn’t an equally outspoken prog either.
Ford gets a pass from me. Babbling about helping people is one thing, actually flying rescue flights is pretty cool.
Besides it’s easy to ignore the ramblings of a guy who has difficulty landing on the correct runway.
Became the most beloved and prolific voice actors in history, and before you ask Mel Blanc is a distant, distant second.
Poor Samuel Fuller.
“Slammed on Twitter”. Doesn’t sting as much as a real suplex.
MNF, the only thing worse than the teams playing, is the fucking announcers.
Who Dey? everyone as usual.
I tapped out after five minutes. One thing learned? The Bengals suck more than the Steelers.
Crusty’s review of Arrogant Bastard Ale:
I like it.
This is what I want in a review. No make believe about how your beer tastes like vanilla and cherry with a hint of oak. WTF does cherry and vanilla with a hint of oak taste like? Oak tastes like tannin; tannin is not a food.
Hint: The vanilla comes from the oak.
No vanilla comes from an orchid. The stuff you use to make leather comes from Oak! I have never tasted a hint of vanilla in any wine, beer, or whiskey. I may be a philistine but I’m honest about what I taste, and I am pretty sure at least a solid minority of people saying they taste these things are being pretentious. I intend no aspersion, I am sure you are tastefilled potato.
In a previous life, I was a devout hedonist. I’ve tasted probably a couple of thousand wines and written reviews of several hundred. Everybody’s palate is different and you drink what you like.
Also caviar is vile.
Caviar on a blintz with a touch of creme fresche’ and a glass of vintage champagne is sublime. It’s been years, though.
substitute smoked salmon and I’m in. Caviar tastes like fish oil preserved in brine to me.
I make smoked salmon. On a bagel with cream cheese and capers is awesome.
We agree on that.
Smoked steelhead > smoked salmon
Beer I have:
https://intl.target.com/p/not-your-father-s-174-vanilla-cream-ale-6pk-12oz-bottles/-/A-50847431
Wine no. I also never heard anyone claim that. If they did, yeh, pretentious.
I can *see* someone tasting it in whiskey.
As well you should.
Tastes like the 90s to me.
Teachers are turning to ‘sugar daddy’ dating site to supplement their salary
“come home with $500”
And as bonus, possibly one or more STDs.
Nice. Civilization is on track.
Didn’t mention this in the article, but there were these two girls, fit athletic blonde schoolteachers in Apt 4B, who disappeared for eight weeks every summer. “Waitressing in Florida,” they said.
Topless waitress for two months more than 500 miles from home equals better life, no consequences.
That’s why we need the summers off. I film the vast majority of my amateur porn during the summer.
Inorite? Too cold for outdoor shoots Oct-Feb , eh?
Is it amateur if you are paying the women?
Unless you are making money off the whole thing, it’s amateur. But it’s a PITA to deduct the photo (etc) equipment incrementally over a number of years, etc, etc. So ultimately complicated to figure out whether you are making or losing money.
You never heard of the gig economy?
^This.
Fucking female privilege.
I’d pay for a few of those teachers that keep getting convicted of banging 16 year olds.
There is too much discussion of teachers here. Chances are that woman is no teacher. She is just trying on the skin because she thinks it will garner more sympathy. She is a two bit grifter and likely not a professional anything.
The grifter profession is out of hand. I cant answer my phone anymore (numbers I don’t know) and I cant get anyone to answer theirs. My gmail email account filled up with horseshit scams faster than I could empty it so I ended up abandoning it. You can hardly take a breath in public anymore without being sued. Everyone wants to win the lottery. They should buy a damned ticket and stop trying to pick their neighbor’s pocket.
I have none of those problems, perhaps because my skills are awesome, perhaps because I have no money to scam.
Teachers are soon facing the onion peeler, buggy horsewhip factory fate. I get it, my wife is a retired teacher, and when we talk about this, I can see it bothers her. But technology marches on, I doubt that public schools and even private educational orgs exist in 50 years. They’ll just implant a chip in your brain and you’ll already know everything you want to know. Or at the very least it will be all online, virtual reality and AI will replace teachers.
This is all true.
I originally considered making my handle High Plains Grifter when I first migrated over here because I love puns and suck.
One of my faves from TOS was Snark Plissken
Yeah, that was pretty solid.
That would have been the awesome.
Also, awkward!
Awkward?
“Chances are that woman is no teacher.”
I didn’t want to go as far as to verify her employment through public records because that would open me/glibs to charges of stalking, etc. This was a rant, not journalism.
Nah, journalism means trawling through eight-year-old tweets looking for something untoward.
She got Ethered!
I like the other guy with the banjo in the gazebo.
*Slips HM a sticky note*
That’s the same DJ that put together that Wu Tang/Beatles album, no? That was great too.
I hope someone replied and cautioned people to be wary of scams.
Speaking about honest people, not grifters; anyone that doesn’t understand Flexible Spending Accounts should be consulting with the benefits department before enrolling.
I’ve always found FSA’s to be very risky and don’t understand why someone would take the chance on one to save a few bucks in taxes. Change my mind?
If you have fixed medical costs, it’s free money. If you don’t, then it can be risky, but not overly so if you keep the amounts modest.
I think they’re good in limited situations. For instance I have a modest one to cover two things:
1. My wife has prescriptions that she buys every single month
2. I know I will have an eye doctor visit and a new contacts bill every year
We add that up, add another $100 for inevitable doctor visits for the flu or whatever and that’s my yearly FLEX contribution.
These responses makes sense. I guess I should consider myself lucky I rarely have any expected medical expense. Free annual checkup at the doctor and two dentist cleanings.
If two animated avatars flipping you off can’t convince you, no one can.
Wait we can have animated avatars?!
Mike has been flipping you off the whole time and you didn’t even notice.
…. rude!
I prefer “devious”
I was thinking “subtle.”
*desperately attempting to restrain myself*
^don’t reply to this guy, it’s a scam
Cmon bender! I’ll give you a cut if you help me out.
80 percent or no deal
No, there was no pushback. None, whatsoever. That was what was enraging about this. Stupid suburban people who encourage scammers and burglars through political correctness and virtue signaling. Why I abandoned that neighborhood.
The author on his first day of school.
How did you get ahold of that, HM?
So embarrassed….
SP has her ways.
Stupid squirrels are fighting and making noise. Won’t be long before the coyotes find em
That’s the most grandpa thing written by anybody, ever.
Needz some tarnation.
+1 yes’m
No, I’m serious. Open space behind me has a pack of coyotes. I hear rabbits squealing every night, and lost pets remain lost. I’ve seen em. The squirrels will be sorry if they gain the attention of the coyotes.
You’re just making it worse.
*giggles like schoolgirl*
Sorry, please don’t take offense. I’m finally starting to lighten up tonight and can’t help myself
Are your local coyotes good at climbing trees?
What? You’ve never heard the german story of the tree climbing coyotes?
+1 Children’s song from the sea
Fuckin’ A, man. I got a rash, man.
The left side of my body is going numb,
I’m pretty sure that I’ve got leprosy.
Were you making out with Lou Reed?
I went to a party last night and I’m tired now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_V7YbujVVo
Damnit, Tonio. You got me thinking I should check out my facebook feed for the first time in months. It’s a dumpster fire out there. Gotta admit, this post was pretty funny.
Because Jesus was a brown-skinned child refugee who grew up to be a homeless transient, and who ultimately died an unarmed person of color killed by police forces.
If he was such so was King Herrod, you know the one that tried to kill him as child…so who is the real victim?
Vacation? Is that like a day off? I get those, but they don’t pay me, so I don’t like to have to many of them.
Probably been mentioned already… but I just love how modern rockets are turning out to look just like predictions from the sci-fi golden age.
TW: Elon Musk
Of all the silly companies of his that are doomed to fail, that one is my favorite.
Hmm. It’s the one I think isn’t doomed to fail.
It is. You just think space is cool so there’s cognitive dissonance involved.
I think Fatty has this right. There is a real demand for reusable rockets. Obviously, Uncle Sugar is a customer and that could change (though I think that is unlikely in the near future.) Private industry is a sizable source of demand and is likely to grow as launch costs continue to decline. Why do you think SpaceX will fail?
He did manage to make reusable rockets that land vertically upright using controlled thrusters.
And he delivered a well-deserved burn to NASA the other day, complete with Andy Dwyer style open mouthed “Oh no, he didn’t!” Glance at the camera.
One of the funniest memes out there.
Whoo!
*Ric Flair Bot Confirmed
An admission of The Hair’s sentients? Trump says “…corruption having to do with the 2016 election, against us.” And he points a thumb at himself. Sure, this could be a case of ‘the royal we’, OR THE HAIR IS REAL! You decide!
Wait it isn’t? I assumed you and SF had a bug in the living quarters.
That clip oughta come in handy for you.
Camera shutters are too loud. Why is that the case in 2019?! (Pet Peeve)
Work it into the story.
Telling C to “work it”, eh?
You may regret that, straff.
May.
Is SF designing jewelry now? Nancy’s new necklace.
preserved fetal hearts?
It has some religious connotations, no? Being a heathen, I have no idea.
I was going with what it looked like, size and above all the nature of SF.
I’m thinking it’s a nod to General Grievous.
Hillary is the one with a persistent cough.
I thought anal beads were round.
Your answer doesn’t preclude mine…
Why do you hate us so, C?
I’m just asking questions, man.
Don’t worry. He’s wrong. If they really were her anal beads, they’d be coated in marshmallow fluff.
Don’t you mean cobwebs and mummified moths?
If you only have repulsive stuff, there is no tension. You need to be both attracted and repulsed at the same time to get that stomach churning feeling. My wife knows this emotion well.
Its classy, you misogynistic deplorable.
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
Love you glibs. Miss yall. Work has had me tied up so much I ain’t had the chance to interact in a few weeks.
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” Very good. Yours?
Mencken
Very good. Should a known.
This is a disconcerting hobby.
Pretty neat, though. But I’d stop short of unleashing a million fire ants on it.
I take it back, this is damn cool.
You know, cs………..Q is on a mission for your benefit. This may be why.
/OK, it may be just a tad interesting.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s no underwater hamster objectivism.
At least it’s not an alien ant farm. (link omitted for health concerns)
CPRM, are you OK?
Fine, you asked for it. This product is known to cause cranial hemorrhage in the state Glibertopia.
::Andy Dwyer shocked face::
How did I ask for it?
You didn’t even buy me dinner……
Speaking of, I like Swaim, and it’s cool he’s trying to recreate the After Hours show from when Cracked was fun, but c’mon, all these guys were clearly assholes from the very beginning, it’s not some revelation. It’s why I could only stand to watch one of the shows mentioned (I bet you can’t tell which one!)
::blinks::
Well, I understood “assholes”…
After hours. Get with the CLASSICS! What happened to education in this country!?
Meh, not my thing. I have no idea who they are, and would not have bothered.
NOT YOUR THING!? *sputters in disbelief*
Yeah…Cracked, Mad,…whatever others. I never got into them and their various projects.
I was busy watching absurd Commie Brits.
I was partial to Benny Hill, scantily clad ladies got my attention.
Yep! Got scolded by my paternal grandmother for watching. I was 11ish, I think. Never knew it bothered anyone, and they only saw me in the Summers, so what’s the bid deal?
I turned out perfect.
The beginning of UFC.
First manifestation of the singularity.
Anothe example
https://youtu.be/7KvxOuC7Bhc
Kind of slow, so I’ll just dump for a while.
https://twitter.com/RedefineRiley/status/1177753467730976773
Gateway dress
He/She can knock herself out. Just wild how times have changed.
Hold on a minute (a whole minute)…. We’re supposed to believe this is Xis first time in a dress?
And Xe just happened to post it on the internet, for the world to see?
Whatever. Bouncing like that would hurt my balls. Since that clearly isn’t a factor here, go for it.
I get the sense that he likes the “breeze on the scrote” aspect. That would explain the twirls.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/anheuser-busch-feels-heat-after-cutting-ties-with-carson-king-who-raised-over-2m-for-childrens-hospital-due-to-tweets-he-posted-at-age-16
This poor bastard. It’s shitlords all the way down–at least he had the excuse of only being 16 at the time.
Hey, Anhueser-Busch: Feel my heat
So, did you take advantage of the early release of the latest ep? You have review? On Topic: Fuck that rice beer.
Yes, I did. I didn’t mention it last night, ’cause…well, rather late. I love it, and like the aaaaalmost plotline sense. By that, I mean, it’s not so much a plotline (natch) as it is funny takes on things that happen as they occur in his presidency. But, I get that vibe as I watch these.
Also, is it wrong that I want to provide the voice of the ‘stache? My big break, as it were…
Well, I do try and have a rough plotline, even if I have to change it as the the real world narrative does. Like The Hair never liking the stache or USA Hat, and laughing in glee when they are dispatched.
I’d be up for letting you do a voice, but hopefully Bolton and his mustache are done.
How did the post credits scene play?
I am not sure about why the bleeding eyes. (Gads, that’s a heckuva line to take out of context…)
The only thing I associate that with is a vampire entering where not allowed (Let the Right One In, et al).
The varying recording types of his voice do throw it a bit, but that’s a nitpick.
Yeah, I didn’t like the quality of edits, but it was a last minute thing to add the impeachment angle. The eyes, well.
Ahh! I didn’t make the connection on that. TY.
I wrote the ep before the impeachment thing came up, but then as you remember I had some technical issues, so once I got around to animating it I thought I should address that. Not an excuse, but an explanation. I do pride myself on editing audio better so viewers can’t tell what is edited, and I did realize I failed here, just hoped the joke was strong enough to cover it.
I think it’s very apropos there, all things considered. Can always go back and clean up the audio for the Blu-ray release.
And add a rock in front of the podium, like I always planned!
Don’t worry; soon it will be obvious that real women produce and/or work with real men to create the next generation
This will be no different . Pajama boys and Milano types aren’t producers of the next gen.
Is it really work, when you love the job?
Wut?
::whispers to CPRM::
She’s hot–just go with it.
Frustrating. But something along these lines.
https://phraseit.net/image/rendered/1uz6mm.jpg
Do you think she believes she can take out Trump aND Pence and become Prez?
This one neat trick to become President!
I think she’s riding in the driver’s seat of a stage coach without any reins.
City Slickers II, then?
There ya go. Photoshop that.
Me? No PS skills here. Oh, you wouldn’t like that…SD having Photoshop skills.
gimme five minutes.
“It was ‘two minutes’, five minutes ago!”
Impatient MFer. Something like this?
https://i.imgflip.com/3c19dn.jpg
To Twitter!
What cs said!
Create a twitter account? No thanks.
Yeah, cs! Why’d you say that?!? Makin’ me agree with you…
Count Doodoo, am I right?
Totally thinking the same thing
Long drive, Foot saved, Telecaster is home, burnt out, job interview tomorrow, YAY!
YU!!! Glad you were successful, and are back safe. Praying and good thoughts for the interview.
Thanks!, I’m holding off the Walmart process, and saw an HVAC shop, then I saw the service tech position, then I I called and set up an interview, I may have to go back to Cali once more for my Tinners Tools, yikes!
Dang…. (about another CA run)
Here’s hoping you find something excellent!
Yusef’s excellent adventure …
Huzzah! Good work, knock em dead tomorrow!
Happy news. Hope you saved a tall can, too.
Ding dong ACU is dead!
Well I can’t argue with him. The ACU sucked at so many levels.
What’s with the black bar around comment #400? Some kind of WordPress style thing?
?? I don’t see one on my comp. Maybe it’s naked?
Going after scope manufacturers now.
https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2019/09/portland-trail-blazers-no-longer-partnering-with-scope-manufacturer-leupold-and-stevens.html
Dammit, Israel! When are you gonna learn that you don’t have any right to self-defense?
Tonio! I did read the article, very cool rant, I enjoyed it….
Dope in the sun
Reference: https://youtu.be/xwa3txijJvU
Cute and relaxing symmetry.
Thanks! This is what popped up next. I want no part of any reincarnation system that would not let me come back as an otter.
OK, night glibs–working on the Next Night Shift post. Trying to get weird with it, just so youknow.
Do any of you have suggestions for topics/links/etc that you would be keen to see in it? Full credit is always given.
Let me know here, or email my protonmail.com (sir.digby.71)
Please and thank you.
https://youtu.be/uMHl7yz93ho
“Don’t go near the cage!”
As a fan of Eddie, going back to my youth, I find it rather comforting tho know that he still does impressions. And, rather well, actually. Too bad he’s had so many theatrical turds.
We’ll always have BHC.
The new one about “Dolemite” looks like it’ll be good and fun.
This!^^
It seemed that right about after Eddie got busted with the tranny hooker in LA that he decided he was done with the R rated shit and went PG. It was not a good turn for him. He made some serious coin off it though. Delirious and Raw are still up there as some of the best standup ever made. His films from that era are damn good comedy. I also look forward to seeing Dolomite, hopefully it is a return to form for him. ,
Considering how “quickly” celebs get back to their careers these days, it’s rather sad that a simple car ride* led to that kind of decision-making on his part. I don’t know if it was self-imposed, studio-imposed, or, what combination of factors that led to the 90’s/00’s slate (minus Bowfinger). Sure, he can claim it was because of, and for his kids. But, c’mon…it was the tranny.
*since he wan’t busted in flagrante, I’ll stick with that description.
It’s pretty funny and shows how times have changed quickly. Nowadays that would be all over TMZ and the celebrity gossip shows for all of 24 hours and then almost completely dropped for the next thing. Especially if he came out and said, “so what, I l thought he had good tits and I wanted a closer look. Motherfucka. What are you telling me? You don’t like trannies? Heh, heh, heh, heh.
*Of course saying this, I believe that Eddie was telling the truth when he said he was just out for a newspaper and saw a young woman who might be in distress needing a ride.
Yes. If that’s a kink of his, I would have thought he’d have been caught for realz by now. He’s banged waaay too many obvious women over the years, which shows me that’s where his dick is pointed. I can believe that he may not have known the nature of the beat until the cop pointed it out.
70 years of ChiCom. Congratulations PRC. You’ve passed the USSR in both longevity and body count.
Let’s see how useful idiots and true believer felate the ChiComs today? Which politician will make the most embarrassing spectical of themselves? US and world politician categories.
Sanders: 4/1
Warren: 5/1
Ted Lieu: 9/2
Omar: 3/1
AOC: 5/2
Beta: 2/1
Let’s celebrate!
Why does it bother me that their prez looks so much like Tzi Ma? I guess because I rather enjoy his performances.
Ma’s–not, the prez’s.
SF…we have a real winner for you!
::yawn::
Anyone still up’?
Still? No.
Recently woken and commuted to work, yes.
Not still up, but up again. (EDT) Does that count?
Sure. I woke up randomly at 4 am PST. Gonna try to grab another nap before I have to get up.
Earlier this morning I was just reflecting on how more or less every night I’d wake up and look at my clock at around 3:40am plus or minus a few minutes.
*sips coffee*
Good morning.
W: What’s the difference between a Busch Stadium hot dog and a Wrigkey Firld hot do?
A: You can get a Busch Stadium hot dog in October.
Wrigley Field. Stupid autocorrect
::Hearty guffaw from Cardinals fan::
Classic & obligatory
…which of course sends me down a Steve Goodman rabbit hole. (He loomed large in the ol’ band’s repertoire.) Time to go clean up for the day job, but I’ll leave you with this sweet cover, one of our most requested songs. Extreme trigger warning: tissues highly recommended.
TY!
I don’t get it.
Wrigley Field is where the Chicago Cubs play. Busch Stadium is where their division rivals, the St Louis Cardinals play.
They MLB Playoffs begin in October.
That’s as far as I will hand hold you, you cretin, err… non baseball lover ⚾️
Chi-Comms on parade:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7523145/Chinas-70-year-parade-economic-military-might.html
Uh-oh. A swarm of earthquakes, though all minor in magnitude, is stirring up SE Missouri.
Ya know what famous (infamous?) fault line lies there?
New Madrid!! Did the Twinkie who wrote the article/news update mention New Madrid and what big freaking deal it was??!?? Of course not!!
Probably never heard of it. But I’d be a little worried if I lived in that zone. Earthquake insurance, anyone??
I haven’t felt anything from across the state, yet.
May it ever be thus.
It will be a real shit show if the 1811-1812 re-emerges.
That crap rang. Church bells in Richmond VA for Pete’s sake.
It’s not just the magnitude, it how deep or shallow, and how continuous is the plate? It’s pretty much granite from Mississippi to the Atlantic and that shit is unforgiving about transmission of quakes.
(Confesses actual career choice would have been Geology if I hadn’t wanted to feed, clothe, and house myself)
‘It will be a real shit show if the 1811-1812 re-emerges.’
If memory serves me correctly, I believe it was said the Mississippi River ran backwards for a couple days after the worst quake but that could be a myth.
It’s still disputed, but consensus is that it appeared to run backwards for a while due to Northbound waves.
However, it did definitely shift the course of the river, affecting property and state boundaries that relied on the river as part of their definition.
Gotcha. Well, time to get off my ass and go to work. I’ve been forced to start working a little later than I’m used to because of the neighborhood’s HOA. 9am is a little ridiculous for a start work time with no power tools running on the site. I’m painting, not running a jackhammer….anyway, toodles!
Nice rant Tonio!