Actual conversation with Mom, whom we have to nag to take a shower and get dressed every day.
Me: You have to take a shower and get dressed now.
Mom: OK, but I want another cup of coffee first.
Me: You’re already had two, you’re just stalling. GET IN THE SHOWER.
Mom: But I’m tired and need another cup of coffee.
Me: GET IN THE SHOWER AND GET DRESSED OR NO COFFEE.
Mom: (glares) You know who else made Jews get in the shower…?
Birthdays today start with our spiritual and philosophical father; a guy who founded the single most useless area of “science”; a guy who almost single-handedly destroyed biology in Russia; a truly great American filmmaker; maybe the most versatile physicist ever; one of the worst guitarists in the history of American rock; and conversely, one of the greatest bassists and songwriters in the history of American rock.
News to follow:
If you say so, Nancy. You’ve already given up.
I’m sure this isn’t yet another hoax.
The question not asked: why not just GET RID OF THE WHOLE FUCKING THING???
OUTRAGEOUS. Oh wait, too local.
Global warming. FdA, Brooks, mikey, and Riven hardest hit.
I’ve had this amazing piece of lyric poetry earworming me all week. Maybe I can return the favor to you.
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“Attacks of this kind are both personally damaging for those who experience them and an assault on our faculty’s fundamental commitments to academic excellence,” Bacow and Gay wrote. “Acts of bigotry and malice harm us all because they corrode the trust and respect that is essential to the open exchange of ideas.”
Bacow and Gay said they would meet such attacks “with every resource at our disposal.”
“Those who commit acts of hate seek to disrupt our academic mission. As faculty, students, and staff, we all have a stake in ensuring that this is an educational community that lives the values of tolerance, civility, and inclusion that are essential to our work.”
Leave no stone unturned. Root out the heinous malefactors, and crush them into the dust.
Kind of hard to find the culprit based on motive when pretty much everybody involved benefits.
Lack of details alarming.
Mornin’ OM.
I laugh at the elderly ladies that I know and presume are the same every where. Women my age, including Mrs Fourscore get their traveling clothes on and always, always put on lipstick. I’m curious as to what the reason is ’cause they are very unlikely to stimulate menfolk. These women, and you, they and I know who they are want to look youthful? t 70-80? Does lipstick do that
Curious minds and all
In my mom’s case, lipstick and hair dye.
So, like Mrs. Slocombe?
The National Weather Service noted that “storms of this magnitude have not happened since 1934.
I blame Greta Thunberg.
How much snow up your way? We had a heavy frost yesterday morning but I saw it coming and got the garden picked clean.
#MEEETOOO
I’m up near w glacier and there is absolutely nothing. 40 ish miles away in e glacier they have 4 feet. Super weird having a snowstorm get blocked from coming east to west.
“It doesn’t matter,” Pelosi responded. “Our first responsibility is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
It’s too much effort to discern real life from satire anymore.
I only have a couple of inches of snow, here. I’m at the southeastern edge of the Big Blizzard. It’s kind of chilly, though.
It is september. Aint no blizzards in september in the northern hemisphere
What THE FUCK:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-250g-illegal-alien-immigration
Butsex is not the issue here
Hat speech has no place in NYC? The fuck you say? Cocksucking rat bastard son of a whore bitch cunte? Yeah fuck you Motherfucker!
Sorry, I was just trying to prove that I’ve been there.
My computer ran out of “e”s.
I figured you were talking about The Hat’s speech and it made sense to me.
Too many “RHEEEEEEE”s?
(Too soon?)
Did you check the Rheeeeostat?
Every time I see “Human Rights” in a groups title, I know it’s a group of tyrannical fascist. Real fascist, not just people who disagree with me. Even a 1 cent fine is unconstitutional.
Is this stuff not unconstitutional?
Ummm…
I think you clearly misread the FYTW clause
Whenever i click the wash post links here it takes me to a page that says support great journalism but there us never a link to this great journalism website
New York City’s Commission on Human Rights
Nothing left to cut.
I am going to a wine festival that is supposed yo be the first ever en primeur taststing for premium romanian wines open to the general public. Am curious what i find. Still not fully recovered from yeaterdays wine festival. Although un was not the wine it was the 200 ml of scotch i drank at home that done it. This fucking shoulder is depressing me i really really need to reduce my alcohol intake.
Growing up Alcoholics were constantly demonized. No one ever told me how much fun it would be. I try to sneak in ‘dry days’ to give my liver a break.
I used to have 2 3 dry days a week until a couple of years ago. This year maybe 2 3 days all year…
I did manage to get a bottle of xuvee aradinum 2011 to age and a Ferdi Feteasca Neagra
You’re bringing that over, right?
Can one really drink red wine in arizona?
We are living proof that it’s possible. Especially as we head into the (relatively) cool part of the year.
So is it difficult or impossible in Romania to get wine which was produced somewhere other than in Romania? Even in Japan, which does have the ability to produce grapes and does make wine, we can buy wines from just about all over the world. Is this not the case in Bucharest?
Ehm i dont get it
You asked if one can drink red wine in AZ. So first I would like to establish if you believe they somehow cannot transport wine to Arizona.
My next question would be if there is some requirement that red wine must be consumed outdoors.
Why wouldn’t people in AZ drink wine?
I generally dont drink that much red wine when it is hot, even inside with AC. But it was a joke. Stop disecting cats
Yeah, you skin cats!
Sausage Fest
Yes, i did atend the polytechnic of bucharest
I love your mother. Blessings to all three of you.
I larfed at the Jew shower joke early Sunday morning.
Ok, I fell less guilty now!
Z-man had an interesting article the other day talking about how Jews nowadays are biologically wired to be wary of showers. Partly to save on the water bill but partly because of the whole holocaust thing.
She really is a nice lady. That part, she’s held onto while the rest crumbles.
I laughed.
Also something about apples and trees.
The staff at my local pool?
* (((glares)))
Is the answer Hitler? That’s what I’m thinking.
One thing that is better in Europe than the US of A: the climate
As in the political one?
As in the blizzard in september. America seem to have very little moderate mild climate not to much in any direction.
It depends on where you are, the US is pretty big.
High of 95 today in North Texas!
It’s still hot as hell where I am too but that actually doesn’t sound like very good weather come to think of it. Maybe Pie’s right.
I keep watching SE Alaska videos. I really miss the NW and that cool weather with emerald green everywhere.
I live in Los Angeles. The only way I’m improving my weather is moving to San Diego.
That’s because G-d knows we can take it, he has to go easy on you sissies in Europe or you’d curl up and die.
Sounds about right.
Today is as moderate and mild as can be in northwest New Jersey. 70 degrees, dry, blue sky. We could use some rain – I’m sick of watering the new grass and trees and my wife’s mum’s.
“’m sick of watering the new grass and trees and my wife’s mum”
Don’t stop, could be big trouble Chez Drake
Freaking gorgeous in NH today.
High of 94 in the non-mountainous part of NC because fall doesn’t start until Novemeber.
I am not talking of mild days but year round. Places where temperatures over 35 celsius and under -10 celsius are rare
southern Ohio.
Probably parts of Kentucky and West Virginia too, but you have to live with hillbillies*.
*not that southern Ohio doesn’t ave it’s share.
*Glowers while rubbing the red of his neck.
Pie, it’s like you guys and vampires or gymnasts. I am sure there are several Romanians who aren’t vampires and Romanianettes who aren’t gymnasts, but they don’t get mentioned across the ocean.
Where I live has four seasons
https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Ohio/Places/columbus-temperatures-by-month-average.php
Same here:
Pleasant
Quite Warm
Fucking Hot
Still Hot
“Mild days year round” are often a result of moderation by nearby bodies of water. We could really use a color coded map here, that shows distance to nearest body of water, maybe interactive, with a slider to specify the min. volume/area of the bodies.
We don’t have scores of elderly French people die when it gets up to 96˚ here.
“A Harvard faculty member finds a hateful note about her ethnicity on her office door”
That’s quite the harrowing story, thank God CNN’s on the case. What’s the over/under on the number of days until this person admits she did it herself?
Either there was video or there wasnt. If there was it can be see who done it. If there was not i call bullshit
The camera malfunctioned, her roommate had been transferred and the guard fell asleep.
You’re saying Hillary Clinton did it?
Which is why it can’t be proven it fell out of her ass after she shot herself in the balls.
Always slip the racial hate stuff under the door, in an envelope, so the receiver will sit down before they read it…
Huh… I thought you tied it to a brick thrown through the window.
The ‘media’ will run with it until it doesn’t pass the smell test. Then they’ll memory hole it. Damage done, on to the next faux tragedy to milk it for all it’s worth.
We will tolerate no whiff or hint of impropriety
Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a potential probe into his alleged ties to a U.S. businesswoman.
Authorities in London asked the country’s police watchdog Friday to decide whether there are grounds to investigate Johnson for misconduct in public office.
The referral was sent to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. It cites allegations that Jennifer Arcuri and her business received favorable treatment, including access to trade missions and sponsorship money, as a result of her friendship with Johnson while he served as mayor of London.
“These are the ingredients of the offence of misconduct in a public office,” said the Greater London Authority’s monitoring office, which oversees the conduct of the city’s government officials.
“Subject to any explanation provided by you, these matters give rise to a suggestion that there has been a failure to safeguard the public purse and if so that amounts to a significant breach of public trust,” the referral said.
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The city authority that launched the complaint is led by Mayor Sadiq Khan, a Labour Party official.
Just doing his job, safeguarding the public trust. No other motive possible.
Sadiq’s quite a piece of work.
You spelled shit wrong.
More elites refusing to accept the demands of the People.
Politicians have to follow the law? Who knew? Certainly not the last crop of them. I wonder why all of the sudden corruption is supposed to be prosecuted, instead of swept under the rug?
And in very local news:
https://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/history-s-headlines-saying-no-to-slavery/1122593799
I had no idea this area was so prominent in the Underground Railroad.
Re: Baltimore resembles London
The Wegman’s where we get our groceries is right next to the liquor store where this started. (Not where I get my booze)
I’m sure I’m not the first person to ever had said this but I would never have expected this to happen here.
Yeah, when I hear “Hunt Valley,” I don’t exactly think “ghetto.”
I hope for your sake, the milfs continue to shop there.
Human Rights Commissions are the Newspeakiest-named things ever.
OMWC, your mother is Fran’s grandmother and your sister or half sister is Fran’s mother? Condolences.
(From the picture)
I agree with Nancy. If you think Trump is a criminal then they should impeach, damn the political price.
Also it might help them, because their base will be outraged when the Senate doesn’t convict.
At least they might suffer a price. Criminal prosecutors have nothing to lose and push forward just as little evidence daily.
I think Nancy is fading fast and is moving into “burn it all down mode”. Her time is near done, and she doesn’t give damn about the damage to her party.
Didn’t she just call a recess? I think she’s going to move this along at inchworm pace because she knows it’s a loser.
Yes, she’s a very principled woman.
As of now, most license holders don’t have a Real ID license, which is generally identifiable by a star in the upper-right corner.
Bet your Mom could come up with a real ID star joke, OWMC.
I usually just use a passport to fly anyway.
Same. I refused to go in person for my real ID. Getting a passport was easier
I’ve been given a choice to opt out of real ID with my license. I’ll use my passport to fly. It’s a PITA and requires finger printing.
Sorry the fingerprint comment was incorrect. It was the biometric compatible photo and databasing that concerned me.
Fingerprinting was required for global entry.
I thought it was the tattooing of a small string of numbers on your arm, and that it got onto a train?
Re: Real ID – I fully expect this to be a PITA when I renew my DL in Nov. From the Ohio BMV website:
Son. Of. A. Bitch. I don’t have a copy of the current marriage license, much less the first one. I may actually be able to put my hands on the dissolution decree from #1, since I had to produce that when applying for the license for #2.
One thing that might save my butt – I haven’t flown commercial since 1983 and have no plans to do so, so I may have the option to get a “standard” rather than “compliant” DL.
Don’t worry citizen. The Gov will not use this in any nefarious way in the future.
Look at Epstein here flying private.
Retired airline pilot BIL has a small plane. Flew me around over Lake Chautauqua a few years back. Other than that, I’ve been Earthbound for…36 years?? Criminy!
I don’t think my MIL has ever been in an airplane, not even at a an airshow. My FIL has flown maybe twice in his whole life. That’s just strange to me.
That being said, I recently just took my first flight in 8 years. F*ck the TSA; Keeping us safe, my ass.
This. Didn’t mind flying at all the few times I did (actually twice in ’83, to two different weddings.) Just as glad to forego the hassle at the front end these days.
I love the whole “pay extra and we won’t hassle you as much,
citizensubject” scheme.I do want to go to a few places across the pond though. I mean before they turn into complete commie crap-holes. I got my passport renewed a couple years ago for a business trip to Germany. The trip got cancelled because the company we were doing business with really just wanted find out how we had reduced their net by a 1/2 million. I was sad.
Now I have a passport, a little disposable cash, and no one to travel with. I’ve been nagging my wife for years to get her passport renewed too, since I already have mine ready to go. My daughter finally got hers renewed on her own, and I said where do you want to go? Zing! Wife and son applied for renewal the next day. Waiting….
Hope it’s not too late!
Awesome way to get wife & son to get off the dime!
Re: your handle – Can’t remember if we’ve had this debate. Best Doctor: Tenth (i.e. Tennant – not including War Doctor in numbering.) Best companion: Donna Noble. Fight me.
Capaldi, then Eccleston.
No argument there.
Fight me.
Nothing to fight about. For the recent period I agrees with you, although I am smitten with Amy because um…stupid male. (accent, red-head(ish), girl-next-door, etc.)
Donna was the most fun in the last 10 seasons, and my wife loves Tennant. I enjoyed him in Broadchurch as well, even though is was completely depressing.
I really want to delve deeper in to the older series. I have only seen bits and pieces of them because my parents weren’t fans of British TV. Plus we spent a lot of time without English speaking TV programs when I was a kid anyway.
Amy was awful to Rory and I have an intense distaste for her.
Fourth and Sarah Jane.
But yes, Donna is by far the best of the new lot. I don’t like any of the new doctors much, in retrospect. Maybe Eccleston.
Baker>Eccelston>Tennant
Though it’s really close between Eccleston & Tennant.
Sarah Jane>Donna
No. No. No.
1) Tom Baker
2) David Tenant
3) Ecclestone
Best companion is a tie between Donna Noble and Rose Tyler
Capaldi is one reason why I quit watching.
Thought experiment- Hugh Laurie as The Doctor. Discuss.
Duly noted; did I mention “stupid male”?
At first, Rory was kind of wimpy, but he grew. I’m going to give credit to Amy.
Oi! Wot?!? That bucktoothed tart?
We didn’t give up until Chick Doctor. Nothing against the actress – she was great in Broadchurch. We couldn’t take the writing – it turned into Doctor Woke.
Laurie as the Doctor would be brilliant.
You have to go where the bootlickers are…
Oops wrong thread.
Umm…yeah. I was thinking, “Que??” (Can’t do the upside-down Q-mark thingy.)
With this new Real ID wrinkle expats are pretty much fucked when they want to re-new a driver license. Even when opting for the non-Real ID renewal they required 2 proofs of in-state residence.
Well, crap!
Thanks for the musical suggestion, I’m going to forgo my usual Sunday morning jazz fest and binge on some Grand Funk. First up Shinin’ On
Jack-booted thugs wanted
The LAPD is rethinking how it gets the word out about new jobs.
A department recruitment ad appeared on Breitbart Friday, sparking anger and a rapid police response saying the conservative website goes against the LAPD’s “values.”
The advertisement showed a uniformed officer along with the message: “Choose your future. LAPD is Hiring!”
The ad raised eyebrows, prompting the department to say it would investigate.
“We take matters like this very seriously, and have begun an initial inquiry into the matter and to determine its validity, as well as what future steps can and will be taken to avoid this situation occurring in the future,” the department tweeted Friday.
In another social media post, the department said it had not purchased ad space on Breitbart. Instead the “ads were purchased through Google and ended up on sites that do not reflect the city’s values through automatic placement.”
Today the department’s recruitment branch announced it was suspending the online ads.
And people say AI algorithms don’t work.
You have to go where the bootlickers are…
Nowhere in that Twitter thread, the “news” report, or the LAPD’s response did anybody bother to address whether or not Breitbart was in fact “white supremacist”. Last time I checked, Cloudflare was driving all actual white supremacist content off the Internet.
Oh well. Maybe law’n’order conservatives will wake up to the fact that the government is not on their side. I mean, probably not. But maybe.
Now that it is light enough to see, I will revise my snowfall estimate to ~4″.
Apocalypse averted. For now.
Primus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YWMhrGf2ylw
I like this one.
Music to migrate by
Who’s the one tearing the country apart?
Beto O’Rourke wants President Trump to step down from the Oval Office and to face the potential criminal consequences of his actions as commander in chief.
“For the good of the country, for the good of your political career, for any legacy that you want to be able to maintain, the right thing for you to do now is to step down,” the 2020 Democrat said Saturday, imitating the Republican senators who asked Richard Nixon to resign as president in the 1970s.
The former congressman told the audience at the Texas Tribune Festival that there is a “similar opportunity” for “members of the Senate” and those around Trump to ask him to resign too.
“So the best possible path, especially if you’re concerned about a country that’s never been more divided, perhaps more highly polarized every day, is for this president to resign,” he added. “Allow this country to heal and ensure that we come back together with the greatest, most ambitious agenda we’ve ever faced, none of it possible while he remains in power.”
When asked by moderator Garrett Haake if he would pardon Trump if he were president, O’Rourke responded, “No.”
Beto claims, without evidence, that America will be healed if Trump is forced from office.
“for the good of your political career”
Yeah, right.
So when was It that Trump was telling people “Hell yes…” he would come and confiscate their property even if they had done nothing illegal with it? And in this particular case the people who do own this property are generally (if not factually) identified as people from the other party.
Divisive much?
He did put that one guy in prison for making the video that caused the Ben…nevermind.
That time he obtained the old lady’s property in NJ through eminent domain?
“for any legacy that you want to be able to maintain,”
What’s with the elite and “legacy” It seems that a politician concernef with his own legacy is supremely egotistical, not who you would want on office.
Well that pretty much eliminates all of them except for the ones who only care about money.
Obligatory:
“Beto claims, without evidence”
Beto really sounds like my late ex MIL. If I’d only listened to her… I’d be doing life without parole
LOL. He really thinks Pence is going to help usher in the People’s Republic?
Who knows. They probably think they can pressure Pence into “compromise”, then they’ll sweep the legislature in 2020 and can do whatever they want.
More elites refusing to accept the demands of the People.
Rescuing democracy from populism.
This one honestly has me baffled. NPR this morning has Pelosi saying something something ‘withholding aid to get a foreign leader to do what he wants’…….
Ya, ok, that is not what Trump did but it sure as fuck is what Biden did re the prosecutor. If they can spin that phone call into what Pelosi is claiming it will be a new level of dishonesty I didn’t even think they could achieve.
I heard at least 6 flat out lies in the first five minutes of NPR this morning though so I suppose it might be possible.
You don’t get the playbook.
1.Get something to be claimed by a journalist.
2. Spout it as the real truth no matter what evidence to the contrary.
3. Point to original false claim when called out.
4. Lie enters public conscience.
5. Lie starts being revealed. Memory hole incident.
6. Go to step 1.
They have no incentive to NOT lie… I’m curious how long it’s going to go on. I’m even more curious as to what event it will climax at.
Genocide
Pelosi: I think it’s well worth my soul to express dismay at this president. My soul was kinda old and not a very good one to start with. It probably needs fully rebuilt at this point. Yeah you can have it, just lemme pointlessly attack this orange guy, in a bid that can only fail, merely to signal my leftist virtue.
Yup.
They even got back around to reasserting that the Trump campaign was conspiring (they used “conspire,” not “collude”) with Putin, and the reason Mueller couldn’t prove it was Trump his the evidence on the Secret Server.
Good morning Old Man! And a good morning to the rest of you absurdly groovy cats and kittens!
I’m laughing with you, man. One of the guys at the office has a mother in a similar place (although in assisted living). The other day he walked by my office, talking loudly on his phone: “Mom…mom…MOM ! It’s an EggMcMuffin! They come from McDonalds! The people in the dining room are not lying to you!!”
We went through it with my Grandma. Your mom, however, at least is retaining the sharp edge. I like that.
It’s gloomy, rainy and chilly here, so your song is quite good. Been procrastinating about getting my ass out the door for my morning walk. Maybe just one more cup of coffee…
Oh and before I forget: fuck the Bears! Go Vikes!
Make it a great day, y’all.
I’m just hoping for a good game between the Browns and the Ravens.
“Pelosi: Impeachment worth losing House in 2020”
And the presidency, and an even larger opposition in the Senate, and at least one more SCOTUS seat.
Go ahead, prove it. Let’s see it, what are you waiting for?
Hoax!
Stop. Just stop. We all know you hate People of Walmart, which you consider to be everyone not in NYC, DC, LA, and SF.
Re Real ID:
1. Not as stylish as a yellow start of David
2. Can we just get rid of Homeland Security and the TSA, please? It has destroyed the efficiency of my lovely airport and taken all the pleasure out of flying. I like road trips, but now I HAVE to travel that way to avoid the goons.
3. We all know this is a set up for border checks at the state level (and before anyone calls me crazy … “Nobody wants to take your guns.” “Hell yes we do!”
@Fourscore
Makeup’s not for you, silly. It’s for other women.
Well, that’s one way to save people from wrongspeech.
From what I’ve seen, that it a rare blessing.
We are a nation of extremes.
Tangentially, I get that non-USians think we’re People of Walmart because only half of us have passports, but we can go anywhere and get the climate we would otherwise travel out of the country for.
They did. Remember that heat wave in France a few years ago where people died from not having air conditioning? That happens here all the time. In France, it was like a nationwide crisis.
Read: Exterminate those icky People of Walmart. Might as well go for the Target ones too. (First time I was ever in a Target was in a questionable neighborhood in Baltimore in 1986. It was trashier than a ghetto KMart. I have never been able to see Target as an upscale Walmart, just a downscale Kmart.)
Yeah, I’m a little salty this morning for no apparent reason whatsoever. And?
“People of Walmart, which you consider to be everyone not in NYC, DC, LA, and SF.”
Anyone who believes that there are no Walmart people in those places, have never been in a Walmart in those places.
I’ve been to a few of ‘those’ Walmarts. A few are legitimately dangerous places. They usually have a big security contingent at all of the entrances.
Unpossible! Those places are so woke they’ve already solved all of societies problems, which is why we all need to be just like them.
No, they’re not all the way there yet. When they get to shut down the Walmarts and ban all the things (guns, knives, sharp sticks, rocks, poking fingers, stern looks), then they’ll have solved all of society’s problems.
Don’t forget shutting down all the markets which sell unhealthy food, you know, the ones the poor can actually afford to shop at, and replace them with Whole Foods and other high end markets.
Whole Foods?! John Mackey is/was an evil libertarian. The whole chain is tainted. The only places suited to sell food (or anything, really) are government-run, free of any taint of impropriety and the despicable give-people-what-they-want tendency of the market.
No, it’s even worse than that. Bezos owns Amazon now. And Amazon is more eviler than Walmart.
Settle down, comrade. The reactionary forces may have been bolstered for now, but the revolution continues apace.
I will rephrase: A few select neighborhoods in those cities.
Yeah, I know, you mean the whitey robber baron enclaves. Places most of us can’t afford to shop in, let alone live in.
Tangentially, I get that non-USians think we’re People of Walmart because only half of us have passports, but we can go anywhere and get the climate we would otherwise travel out of the country for.
This is a large part of why I don’t have any strong desires to travel overseas. There is is so much in America and I don’t have time to see all of it. I’m not against overseas travel, I just don’t have any strong need to do it.
Also, are you in church? If so, aren’t you supposed to be telling dick jokes?
I am not in church yet. That is from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. It is a very long story why we have church at that stupid time. It will change in January to be stupid early.
I will have something for you later, something I’ve been putting off. Honest.
You need to stand up to testify and read them some of your smut fiction.
I suspect more than a few are reading my stuff on the down-low. I haven’t been asked to do any jobs, pray, teach, speak in church for years now. That is a mixed blessing. Ask me so I can say no, dammit.
Yeah, but you’re going to start a revolution. Turn church into a sex cult. You can write a weekly article here on the ensuing escapades.
“Fuck you, the Chiefs are on! I think I’ll become a Jew.”
“I am not in church yet. That is from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. I”
At least it’s not 2-5 anymore, but still how did you get that schedule? We’re at 10:30-12:30 which is just about perfect.
Thankfully, Mass was only about an hour. Two with the travel to and from church, and gassing up the van or whatnot on the way home.
We have 4 wards in our building.
I am having philosophical differences with the new schedule, though my lizard brain loves it.
If my temple recommend depended on whether I think Nelson is a prophet of God, I wouldn’t have one. Well. I don’t anyway, but that is because I am having a crisis of faith with Christianity 101 at and I’m not gonna lie.
The nomenclature of “ministering” is lost when the bishop’s demanding numbers, so disingenuous.
The idea of teaching all this at home. Noooooo, that is church’s entire purpose, to teach this stuff.
I like Gospel Doctrinebut Relief Society … not so much. Aside: My 16yo hates YW, so she came to me with RS last week and loved it.
I am deeply disgusted by the sudden rebranding back to “CoJCoLDS” because my IDENTITY is MORMON, not “a member of blah blah blah.” No, there’s a reason for the label, we embrace the label, and Hinckley soent a lot of time and effort to embrace the label, so I don’t know WTF is up with this abrupt turnaround.
All these THINGS seem so unimportant, and I’m convinced the church has been run by Correlation since the 80s.
Schism. It’s the proper way! Drive to Salt Lake, with a hammer, a nail and 39 articles if you want to stay in the tradition.
Wouldn’t she need gold tablets to start olde schools LDS?
I love the 2 hour block and also don’t understand the rebrand. Church starting at 2 is brutal, regardless. Ministering is great, as long as the local leaders don’t force it back to being HT/VT. I think Come Follow Me is a good change from the old repeated manuals, but it isn’t perfect. After being in YM for 6 years, I’m convinced that YW advisers are much less likely to let the YW have a voice and do things in their classes, to the detriment of the YW.
And correlation is just the worst.
Have you read any of Adam Miller’s works? He is a breath of fresh air after so many years of McKonkism.
All the girls walk by dressed up for each other.
Speaking of musical links, did you see my all-time fave song link last night? You were pretty busy slamming out the code. I was thinking of you, among others.
I did not. There was a ton of good music last night, but as you say, Jarflax and I were trying to one-up each other on the binary convo.
Reprise just for you.
I feel it. Oh, I feel it!
Another fave if you’d like another taste. Soaring harmonies late in the song give me goosebumps.
Pro tip:
Don’t play this through crappy laptop speakers.
Yup, Gotta plug in my good Grado headphones to hear most YT vids worth a damn.
Now now. Everyone knows Walmart is for fat slobs from poor rural areas and Target is where the cute soccer moms go to get a frap before heading over to hot yoga where they will sweat and limber up and…..I’ll be in my bunk.
The en primeur thing at this wine festival was a lie. Then again in october it was unlikely. I blame capitalism.
There is even USistanian wine here to taste. The Federalist. Not bad but not particularly interesting tbh
In other news of STOOPID:
Derpity Derp
Can we just set up a fund for these people? It would be to help them off themselves now instead of enduring a few months of suffering and misery before their demise after they manage to rid us of fossil fuels, better to just get it over with now.
Meh. Give each one a bicycle hooked up to a generator and then cut the power lines to their homes. Problem solved.
I like your reasoning. Where do I donate?
Hmm . . I don’t have much to say.
I haven’t been following closely since the impeachment thing came out, I just can’t stop rolling my eyes in not caring.
In my personal life, I’m still pursuing the mistake. I’m not sure where we’re at. No idea if she actually wants. I know it’s surprising, I must be the only man in America who doesn’t know what a woman wants.
I must be the only man in America who doesn’t know what a woman wants.
Uh, seriously?
The important thing to remember is that it’s dynamic. Just shut up, hold on and try to keep up. Ask a lot of questions and always pick up the tab. Hold the door and be as helpful as you can. Watch some old movies and try to channel Cary Grant.
You can do this, man.
Just shut up
This applies to any and all situations.
And we all get it, well most of us who have survived a marriage for more than a few years. Just this morning, wifey wanted ‘dating’. Dating consists of lying in bed cuddling while I listen to her prattle on about whatever and pretending like I care, when all I really want to do, since she woke me up, is to get coffee and breakfast. I mean if there’s sex involved I’m in. But dating usually doesn’t involve sex, which is why you avoid it whenever possible or just play along until it’s over.
Such a loving statement.
I know, it totally works. My wife will read that and laugh. She’ll only get serious about it before the next ‘date’. Just be yourself man, except for when you’re Prince Charming.
The last date Mr. Mojeaux and I went in involved OMWC and SP.
Kinky.
So, which spooned you during the cuddle orgy?
So you guys entertained SP at the park while OMWC watched the girls on the swingset?
You were spying on us?
And feign “gas” or “indigestion” when she asks why you reacted to something she said. Until you learn to never show a reaction to anything she says.
“Sad? No, I was just thinking about work/cousin Bob/taxes” – something you know she has already heard about but doesn’t want to talk about anymore.
Ancient Chick-ese secret: Women don’t know what they want.
Soooo this!
“I must be the only man in America who doesn’t know what a woman wants.”
You are, except for all of the rest of we men. Don’t ponder on the impossible, bro, you are never winning that battle. I mean unless you can actually know what someone else is feeling or thinking before it actually happens. You just have to not give a fuck and stealth your way around it, and then you’ll feel better.
Or like Tundra is saying, put on your best Prince Charming act. Because every woman deserves a Prince Charming, always. Have you ever heard the man store joke? That pretty much nails it.
Lilah’s mom?
Dude, she’s too busy worrying about other stuff. Also, she may not want to be a burden to you.
Also, I may be talking out my arse.
“Also, I may be talking out my arse.”
We just automagically assume that whenever you’re talking. JK.
I assume we ALL are …
Yeah, I know that . . . I think our biggest disconnect is she’s insanely busy and I have an insane amount of free time, So I have plenty of time to overthink and dwell . . Don’t worry too much, I keep all that to myself.
Don’t overthink it, that’s what I’m trying to say. You cannot win that battle, ever, no mater how much you dwell. You gotta play the game and don’t dwell on it. Women are not men, which I’m very thankful for, but you can’t deal with them in a manner that seems logical to you. I spent a lot of wasted years dwelling on why I could not make relationships work. Then I finally figured it out, it was because I was trying to make it work, and man is my life ever really pleasant now because of it. And my current relationship has been going for more than 9 years and it’s the best thing ever. All because I don’t try to make it work, I just play the game that she wants, what they all want. They want Prince Charming and the devil both at the same time. They want you to change, until you do, then they want something else. You cannot win that game, don’t try.
Also, wife was just over here and reading this. She said the most important thing to her is that I listen to her and don’t make her talk to the wall, which I am guilty of sometimes. But yeah, that.
The trick is to convince them that you don’t want what they want and then they’ll insist on you wanting that. It’s easy, really.
+1 internetz
Adam Schiff wants whistlebowers to come forward.
I wonder if that includes members of the previous administration, or is that just water under the bridge?
Yes. Also Schiff is retarded.
Predictably enough, I heard some partisan on the radio say “but that was four years ago” in reference to the Steele Dossier and FISA warrants.
All the shit the states are trying to prosecute Trump for over his taxes and his businesses happened at least that far back.
Are you watching Meet the Press again? I saw it coming on and changed the channel to this old house, It’s a rerun, but then again, so is anything they say about Trump on Meet the Press.
I think that Matt Drudge has a worse case of TDS than CNN and NYT. The site has been plastered with red Trump links for days now.
Drudge is in his wheelhouse now. His site wouldn’t exist without the Clinton impeachment.
If I recall correctly, he wanted Romney as the candidate last time around and he hates Trump. Drudge is the establishment type all they way. Calls himself a conservative, but it has no meaning, other than being a statist.
“previous administration, ”
You mean the admin that prosecuted the most whistleblowers ever?
” I must be the only man in America who doesn’t know what a woman wants.”
Now I know you’re kidding
Damn it, I hate snow in September. All of our trees are, uh, bending uncomfortably and precariously over powerlines.
People of Walmart:
I stopped at Walmart in Rapid City, one time. It was like accidentally wandering into a casting call for Night of the Living Dead.
I live in a relatively wealthy suburb of Kansas City. People from other places come to our Walmart to steal. Most stolen-from Walmart in the metro.
In other news, my brother was skeezy Florida Man in a skeezy Walmart, so the opportunity is ripe to be skeezy if that’s your jam.
“People from other places come to our Walmart to steal. ”
You’re saying they don’t send their best?
BUILD THE WALL…..mart!
Judging by the level of security at the exits they have now, I would say they were, indeed, sending their best.
How does it compare to the Worst Wal-Mart in America?
“First, Wal-Mart is an awful corporation”
Why does the author hate poor people?
That is the local leftist alternative weekly paper.
Pic as promised.
Bonus pic – age 32 – no longer applies but I’M TRYING
Fuck a duck.
“Why does the author hate poor people?”
Let me ask you this question. You know when the super smartest of the lefties say that we need to maintain a world population of no more than 5 million. Who exactly are the 6.5 billion or so they are going to kill off to get there? The one percent?
What is, any Walmart in a moderately dense area after hours before they had self-checkout?
I used to hate the Walmart near where I live now, even though I worked at a (different) Walmart in the past. The lines were atrocious, nobody gave a shit, and they were always out of half of what I needed (they had shelf space for it, but none in stock). Now, with the massive self-checkout sections (yes, two of them, each with like 10 registers), it is actually somewhat better. Well, apart from the not-having-what-I-need problem.
We typically go once a month to buy household stuff, like laundry detergent, and food. These idiots who want go get rid of Walmart, do not love poor people like they say they do. Because they are going to kill off a lot of their jobs and make it impossible for them to buy things they need to exist, like food. I can afford to shop at Fresh Market and Whole Foods every day and I’ll be fine, but a lot of people cannot and I actually care about those people, unlike the left, who only pretend, but actually it’s just the opposite.
They do not understand poor people.
On FB one day, Mr. Mojeaux was complaining that he had tickets to the Chiefs game (that he won, natch), but not a parking pass, which is $35 online or $60 at the gate.
Some dude answered and said LOL it’s only $35.
Yeah. That $35 is spoken for, asshole.
That is their whole thought process, “LOL it’s only $35.” “LOL it’s only $1,000. WTF is your problem?”
Yeah. That $35 is spoken for, asshole.
You’re not ‘Muricaning right . . . .you’re supposed to put that $35 on a credit card and let it cost you 3 times as much later
The entire problem with today’s left is the same problem they’ve always had. They want to come up with some grand plan that will usher in utopia. The thing is, we are now living in the best time to be alive that has ever existed in history. All because of capitalism, the very thing they want to get rid of. We’re as close to utopia as we can get right now with our current technology. The only way to make it better is to increase technology and free markets. They want to do just the opposite, because they’re morons.
“You know who else made Jews get in the shower…?”
Who? WHO!?!
Missed your brain toilet post. Don’t remember the “no man is an island” discussion. *shrugs* Sorry.
Doesn’t really matter. I was too lazy to go look up the reference.
It wasn’t acrimonious or anything so no worries.
https://giphy.com/gifs/julia-dYlb4qQCzMX0A
SP after a night out with OMWC?
Regarding your “No man is an island” …
My dad felt the need to give me a solemn lecture about that when I was but a wee lass, 11 or 12 somewhere thereabouts. I’m not sure what triggered it though. Now I’m the one giving my kid philosophical lectures but I don’t know why I do that.
… and “we’re born alone and we die alone.”
I actually wrote that in a book. I also added “we sleep alone.”
That particular Brain Toilet post actually required the NSFW tag and was put there by TPTB. Not that I disagree with it; the Marquis de Sade stuff is a little salty.
I prefer my smut in word form, tyvm. They were very imaginative back in the day. I’m shocked he didn’t document a snuff performance. Or maybe he did and I missed it.
I already know not to click on your titpix.
Do you click on mine?
And I was expecting Chuck Schumer.
Thats a keeper, tho
“didn’t document a snuff performance”
Oh he does a *LOT*.
Read 120 Days of Sodom. Plot summary: 4 wealthy libertines kidnap 36 virginal, pubescent boys and girls. They institute the help of 4 prostitutes and 8 “cocksmen” (chosen for their enormous equipment) to act as the sexual educators. As the 120 days progress it goes from vanilla intercourse to orgies to S&M and finally to outright slaughter. Only a few survive.
I survived Anne Rice’s BEAUTY series. Not sure I can survive all of de Sade.
“…it was a hell of a party!”
The dude was a literal rapist, as in rape-rape. His recasting as some sort of hero is disgusting.
Yes.
He wrote much of his literature from prison.
Philosophy in the Bedroom is the story of a girl about your daughter’s age being seduced from virgin to enthusiastic participant in her mother’s brutal gang rape, torture and deliberate infection with syphilis, as a punishment for objecting to her daughter being the centerpiece of the orgy. All in the course of a long afternoon. De Sade is the actual summit of the mountain SF is climbing.
Yaweh?
Chuck Todd: Don’t you believe we should criminalize political disputes?
And by political disputes, I’m sure he means political debate, but only when anyone disagrees with the left on anything. The science is settled after all.
Of course. Any disagreement with them is automatically hate speech. And a red flag.
?
They’re just going to keep on pushing this shit and the blow back is going to be fantastic. It’s already started, Trump defeating their anointed one was only the beginning. Nearly 3 years after an election, they are still trying to unseat a duly elected President. They have absolutely no respect whatsoever for other people when those other people don’t think exactly like them. And they’re completely fucking insane. Get rid of fossil fuels? Idiots.
I still think they’ll win the election though . . . not that they’ll get more votes in enough states to win. I think there will be massive voter fraud like we’ve never seen. 2018 was a test and no one called them on it. Maybe my tin foil hat is on too tight, but I just have a feeling.
^^^Unfortunately this.
wut
Perfect accompaniment to Slutty Sunday.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=eRD0hLm9-ro
We can all use us some beaver.
http://archive.li/gmMJi
Though I think the bassline on this one is better.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=2qf6rNIDLqY
As an ersatz bassist, Claypool was my idol not just for his skills but for his eccentricity.
Dog will hunt!
If we’re going to have Slutty Sunday, shouldn’t you be having the albino, errr…. I mean glows in the dark one, writing your links? Wasted talent is wasted.
I just got out of my bunk
Are you watching Meet the Press again?
Guilty as charged, Your Honor.
*hangs head*
Switch over to Press the Meat. Less ass reaming rhetoric.
Watched that Beck video you linked last night. Infuriating.
There a just too many things that are perfectly timed for Hunter B. not to be guilty of some sort of pay to play corruption. In politics, you rarely get the exact smoking gun and it seems to me that they’ve got him on as close as you’re ever going to get.
HB is the best combination of corrupt, undoubtably and unprovably.
Yeah, this is as close as open-and-shut as you are ever likely to see. So, the obvious solution is to start screaming IMPEACH TRUMP! on every friendly media channel out there.
One of my (straight) buddies announced yesterday that he is planning on getting a male Brazilian.
My only response: why?
Why?
Exactly, who tells their friends when they get a Brazilian? Only your gay lover needs to know.
This is an… interesting friend. I’ve mentioned him before a couple of years ago in that he is an actual cuck; as in he enjoys watching his wife have unprotected sex with other men and then photographing the, ehrm, evidence once the act is finished.
No judgement, he’s just unusually open about his proclivities. How the Brazilian fits in, I have no idea.
Grey hair becoming unsightly?
I’ll never understand the cuck thing. I just can’t get it. Not my thing, but I can get swingers, open relationships, etc, but the cuck thing doesn’t make any sense in my brain . . . .good for him though if that’s what he actually likes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_competition
Jessica Yaniv?
If I were friends with that thing, I think I’d have to take a cyanide pill.
Pubic hair getting stuck in your teeth while giving a blow job is not hawt.
To each their own.
Whats the sound a pubic hair makes before hitting the floor?
“ptooo”
If he wanted a female Brazilian, is get it, but a male Brazilian makes me question if he’s straight
That makes me think we’re missing some info on this.
Does your buddy have a male vagina? It is 2019 and all.
Brazilian are not down with hair down there. I’ve just gotten used to it.
Does this imply you’ve gone through the waxy gauntlet?
I just use a razor, like a real man.
But you do it with female Brazilians?
His wife is a freaky hot Brazilian piece of ass. He’s also the luckiest Glib by definition.
I have it on good authority that she is now an American.
Right now, I can only do it with one, she doesn’t want to share. I’m working on it.
That’s silly. I call it “deforesting the Amazon”.
Good choice, male Brazilians are hard workers.
They are the best at trimming hedges.
Can’t see the tree through the forest eeh?
“Hopefully, facts will drive this forward.”
Har dee fucking har.
This Hard Seltzer 2019 Advent Calendar Will Keep White Claw Summer Going
Hurry up, yall, but remember you still can drink tha Claw in the fall!
I’d rather drink NyQuil.
It’s not for you, it’s for morally and physically flexible 23 year old girls.
Ah, a fan of the Cosby Colada I see.
When wife and I were in our local store last night, the guy in front of it was buying White Claw. I pointed at it and told the wife ‘Hipster Juice’. She just looked at me. But when I explained it after, she laughed.
If you’re going to stir, use this:
*Hands Crusty an oar.
Ain’t no law against Claw in the Fall.
Y’all.
The law round here says it’s Hipster Juice, that ain’t beer!
Tres skipped church this morning. So while I wait for the hangover to subside before starting over again, have some Margo Price.
Tres goes to church?
Good on ya!
It’s the Church of Tall Cans?
Cute story. I started going with my best friend after he kinda got in some “trouble”, and was too embarrassed to show his face again. Its a small town, everyone knows everyone, and it only took about 30 minutes after his “indiscretion” that nearly everyone knew about it. He’s my guy, keeps it hunny-p, and Im all about ride or die. And since I know a lot of the congregants too, I drunkenly told him 1 night, “FUCK THESE PEOPLE ILL GO WITH YOU TOMORROW AND LET ONE OF THEM MOTHERFUCKERS SAY SOMETHING TO YOU WHILE IM THERE NOIMEAN? FUCKIN SHERIFF AND 5-0 GONNA BE ROLLIN UP IN THAT PIECE !”
Hungover as fuck the next morning, I get a text from him, “Ready for church? Im on my way to get you.”
“Ugh. I need to quit drinkin.”
So now its kinda routine.
The ‘God save me from nice little towns’ thing is just ingrained in me now. Before I moved here, the small town I worked in, there were only like 5 employers and I worked for the 2 biggest ones. So, literally everyone in that town knew me. I couldn’t go into the fucking grocery store without seeing people I knew. And I’d go to work Monday morning and there would always be someone come up to me and say ‘Hey I saw you drove through Taco Bell yesterday’. I hated that shit. Now I can go practically anywhere and never see anyone I know.
Well, there’s more to the story. Friend was also kinda a big deal in the church, Mr 3x Week and nightly bible study. He’d always been church-oriented, to the point that when we were much younger, Mama Tres would often say “I have no idea why the two of you are friends.”
And his shame was rightfully earned. But my point was “you’re too embarrassed to go to your church? Dude church is where your monkey-ass needs to be right now.”
“And his shame was rightfully earned”
Did he at least buy the dog dinner first?
The dog in this story was an undercover cop.
It’s always a cop if she has all her teeth.
Yeah, I get it. When I was a kid, I was forced to go to church after we moved back east. Every Sunday and Wednesday for Bible study. And the church I was forced to go to was Southern Baptist, crazy fire and brimstone motherfuckers. By the time I was 16, I resented that shit and they could no longer force me. That just soured organized religion for me, forever.
The town I grew up in was not only small <4,000 people, but Grandpa Tres was a teacher at the high school for 30 years or so. So at the time, all my friends parents had had him as a teacher. Also, my mother, father, aunts, uncles, cousins all had been to that school. It was near impossible to get away with anything as a teen. Which only made me work smarter in acts of mischief.
“Cute story.”
Oh my God.
‘Another privileged white man without a clue’: Adam Levine is accused of cultural appropriation after unveiling his ‘corn hawk’ hair style, while others question his ‘life choices’
Is there a bigger douchebag on the planet?
Is the Corn Hawk tribe offended? Or just white progs in the burbs who are offended? Because I’m sure it’s the latter.
It’s both. And the white scolds are in the cities, not the’ burbs.
Oh yeah, I forgot, they WANT to be in the burbs, but they can’t because paying their student loan for their gender studies degree.
Also, ‘burbs are icky and have no character and contribute to global Republicanism.
Yeah, I had a co-worker like that. He wanted to live in the city because not living in the city was racism or something. And as soon as they had their first child, he bought a house about a mile from where I live, in one of the best hoods in the burbs. ‘But we have children!’. Hypocrites, all of them.
Dude, that hasn’t been (exclusively) true in decades. The suburbs are turning blue.
All the people in the news molesting children or beating their spouses or murdering their entire families are no where near as bad as a white guy who gets cornrows.
Yes. The douchebags that say what hairstyle you can have based on your race.
Maroon 5 is the shittiest band to ever hit it big. Worse than Bread, Poison, and Limp Bizkit combined.
Creed?
Nickelback?
Rush?
Steely Dan?
Crosby, Stills, and Nash?
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young?
Hootie and the Blowfish?
R.E.M.?
You take that back about R.E.M.
Go ahead and cry, Everybody does..sometimes.
Low blow. They had 4 or 5 great albums before they started putting out crap like that.
Springteen?
Billy Joel?
KISS?
Dave Matthews?
What’s wrong with KISS?!
Bread, Poison and Limp Bizkit sounds like a fun recipe.
Radiohead?
^This is the correct answer.
Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffet, Grateful Dead,
When I turn on Lithium on Sirius, I’m always happy when they are playing a Pearl Jam song, because I know I won’t have to hear another Pearl Jam song for a while.
Yeah, the guy who shot himself in the balls and had drugs come out his ass.
Lemme say: I can think of no better way to spend a Slutty Sunday morning than drinking Red Stripe at 9 am, listening to tunes and hanging with you reprobates.
Damn you! I only have 3 beers in the fridge. And wifey doesn’t think I should drink beer before noon. And that’s an hour away!
Your wife may be a hot Brazilian, but that doesn’t make her an expert on day drinking. Just sayin’.
I really don’t get it. They drink all day on Sunday in Brazil, every Sunday. But I guess we’re here in Murica, so… I just dunno.
Damn. Well, only
4746 minutes to go.I just cracked my first one. Told wifey unit she needs to drive me to the store soon, to get more beer.
You’re my hero.
Thinks about beer fridge…looks at clock: 10:30am…
How WeWork spiraled from a $47 billion valuation to talk of bankruptcy in just 6 weeks
Theranos, WeWork – we will ever learn? The answer: no, no they will not.
lol
They went woke and then broke?
But I bet he got to go to some killer parties and lay some killer ladies before it all fell apart so… win!
This is just so bizarre to me. I don’t understand how anybody could think a real estate business was a tech startup.
All the units have Alexa installed in the walls with distribution throughout.
” he claimed, but to “change the world””
At this point any CEO saying this should be a red flag for investors.
Some of my Twitter people who are vehement woodchippers and helicopters are absolutely convinced that the military would never come after the rednecks with guns in a Civil War II scenario. Cops are iffy. I was holding onto hope that they are right.
The recent discussion of Kent State has me firmly on the disagree side of that conversation.
That was Ohio National Guard, not US military, and there was a lot more to the story than peace loving hippies being shot down like Bambi’s mother. I’m not defending the actions, I’m saying it wasn’t that simple.
It was Nixon’s fault.
/CSN&Y
-4
Man, what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? How could you run when you know?
Colorado Springs is a major military town; maybe the biggest in the country. I work with/come into contact with these folks on a daily basis. I would say that probably 60-70% would not fire on American citizens in a vacuum. It’s all about how the pols/media/upper woke commanders can frame it though. If they could successfully paint the opposition as “terrorists” that number would probably go down.
I think it all depends, but there would definitely be not-insignificant numbers on both sides. County sheriffs and small town cops I feel pretty certain would not, however bigger city cops would practically cum in their pants to kill some wrongthinkers.
Guns were confiscated post-Katrina.
Yurp. Big city cops *hate* that “civilians” have the ability to defend themselves; almost as much as the pols hate it.
NOPD also broke into and looted the Walmart of its firearms and ammunition stock. You know, to keep those items safe from looting.
Perhaps. But I’ve seen the state bureaucracy and local politics conspire to go after wrongthink sheriffs.
I think it depends on how long CWII lasted. At the outset I think a large majority of the military would tow the lion. They’re going to be getting told (by superiors and all the media) that they are protecting the Union and that the ghost of Abe Lincoln is proud of them. However, the longer it drags out, and the more of their friends and family they see dead, and the more “alternate” sources of media can get the truth out, the more “traitors” you’ll see in the ranks.
But that’s just, like, my opinion, man.
I could see a few lower level commanders “defecting”
Kent State protestors were assholes.
The military has way too much turnover to make any consistent predictions. And the people who do stay, the careerists, are those who play politics well. There is a reason the second amendment secures a right of the people and not the government. The only safeguard for a free people is their own vigilance, not an expectation some group will come reliably to their aid.
^^^^
29% of Americans are considered ‘lower class’—here’s how much money they earn
Thanks, President Trump!
I was driving in one of those “lower class” parts of the city the other day that I hadn’t been to since before Trump was elected, and man, what a change. Stores are open, busy people walking around and working, all the boarded up windows and doors are gone. The palpable sense of desperation and poverty from before was gone. It’s not a neighborhood undergoing “gentrification”, either. Things are just better now.
I loved the eighties.
Pew defines the lower class as adults whose annual household income is less than two-thirds the national median.
And, from the horse’s mouth, upper income is defined as twice the median. These numbers have no inherent statistical meaning; fractions and multiples of percentiles are arbitrary.
So, with that in mind, it is worth noting that the share of households with “upper incomes” has also increased, from 14% to 19%, and that the median household income has increased significantly, from $50,000 in 1971 to $63,000 in 2018 (adjusted for CPI, in 2018 dollars). The “inequality” is entirely the product of growth at the upper end: top 5% incomes grew 10-fold in nominal dollars, versus 6.7 times for bottom 20%; the mean increased by 1.5 times versus only 1.25 times for the median, in CPI-adjusted dollars.
Put another way, everybody is better off, and some are much better off. The dispersion is a canard, and I am reminded of Thatcher’s “you’d rather the poor were poorer as long as the rich were less rich”.
Everything you need to know about “income inequality” can be summed up by observing the people who trumpet their hatred of it the loudest.
Also, it’s worth noting that there are details lost in CPI, such as:
In 1971, a car was (relatively speaking) a toxic waste-producing deathtrap on wheels that guzzled gasoline.
In 2018, a car was (again, relatively speaking) designed from the ground up to save its owner’s life and health, emit as little pollution as possible, and sip gasoline.
How do you quantify that radical change in expectations? At a rough pass, you could compare the AMC Gremlin with the Tata Nano. At $2000 in 1971 versus $3500 today, that increase factor of 1.8 is way less than the factor of 6.4 that CPI has increased. Granted, you can’t buy a Nano in the US and you probably can’t import one, either, but that’s a different matter.
Halloween costume idea this year. Chonmage (Japanese top knot hairstyle), Oversized FUBU jersey, lederhosen and moccasins. “What are you supposed to be?” “The Appropriator”
Will that fly in Nippon? I thought the Ethnostate of Fun was above such things.
I’d make the rounds at the gaijin bars if I do it.
Related: will your wife go to gaijin bars with you, or does she not like to slum it?
Dunno. I’ve never invited her.
I think you should sometime. Just for the horror factor; especially if there are a lot of Aussies.
“Do it in blackface! ”
-Trudeau
Pleeeeze tell me someone in America has enuff balls to go as him this year.
And please let it be T-Swizzle.
I tried to listen to Gender Traitor’s music link. That girl’s voice hurts my brain. Badly. 10 seconds, maybe 15, and out.
Ear and eye bleach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2nMo-Tt9R0
I’m sorry for what you went through.
“I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
Speaking of We Work, and similar cash furnaces…
A little too melodramatic for my taste, but he’s definitely on to something
Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal, and was known as predatory pricing. There are laws, like Robinson-Patman and the Clayton Act, which, if read properly and enforced, prohibit such conduct. The reason is very basic to capitalism. Capitalism works because companies that thrive take a bunch of inputs and create a product that is more valuable than the sum of its parts. That creates additional value, and in such a model companies have to compete by making better goods and services.
What predatory pricing does is to enable competition purely based on access to capital. Someone like Neumann, and Son’s entire model with his Vision Fund, is to take inputs, combine them into products worth less than their cost, and plug up the deficit through the capital markets in hopes of acquiring market power later or of just self-dealing so the losses are placed onto someone else. This model has spread. Bird, the scooter company, is not making money. Uber and Lyft are similarly and systemically unprofitable. This model is catastrophic not just for individual companies, but for their competitors who have to *make* money. I’ve written about this problem before. Amazon has created a much less competitive and brittle retail sector. Netflix’s money-losing business is ruining Hollywood.
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This kind of counterfeit capitalism is terrible for society as a whole. At first, with companies like Walmart and Amazon, predatory pricing can seem smart. The entire retail sector might be decimated and communities across America might be harmed, but two-day shipping is convenient and Walmart and Amazon do have positive cash flow. But increasingly with cheap capital and a narrow slice of financiers who want to copy the winners, there is a second or third generation of companies asking Wall Street to just ‘trust me.’
As euphoria in capital markets takes hold, predatory pricing schemes come to entirely waste capital on money losing enterprises, and eventually these companies become Soviet-style generators of white elephants and self-dealing. The men and women who run them have to be charlatans, because they are storytellers justifying losses. Powerful men like Dimon are sucked in, consultants start explaining to old-line economy companies how they too can become like WeWork, and eventually more and more of the economy just adopts counterfeit capitalism.
Real value creation is passe. Vaporware is where the
moneyventure capital is.First Value is subjective. The way he talks about value, costs and prices mixes a whole bunch of different things.
Second predatory pricing has been shown to not work.
Finally “Amazon has created a much less competitive and brittle retail sector.”
The fuck it has. I needed a part to fix my washing machine. Home Depot would ship it in three days for an exorbitant shipping price. Amazon would do so in one day no extra cost. They are fucking providing a much higher value than other retailers.
I find that statement unintentionally true.
Amazon is SOOOOO flexible and easygoing that not one single other retailer can compete and thus, they are brittle.
When I shop online at Home Depot, I DO feel as if their website is, let’s say, “brittle.” They don’t list everything they have in the store. Their counts are often wrong. They offer things online that they do not offer at the store (which pisses me off if it’s a popular item) (if you’re selling it hand over fist from the store, STOCK IT). Same with Walmart. And Target. The shopping experiences of those websites are brittle because I feel as if my shopping experience is going to break at any moment, keeping me from what I want.
“Less competitive”? He’s delusional. And “brittle retail sector”, my ass. Half of what’s sold on Amazon comes from third party retailers.
Such “predatory pricing” also creates arbitrage and savings opportunities for the savvy consumer.
Of course, again we deflect from the elephant in the room: Wall Street is run by retirement funds, and retirement funds want big short-term returns.
Predatory pricing is a bullshit concept. Some companies undercut others because they have efficiencies. Consumers benefit.
Well, I mis-threaded up thread.
Pic as promised.
Bonus pic – age 32 – no longer applies but I’M TRYING
Nice…. on the second one.
The first one looks… suspicious. Though I’m guessing that’s by design.
Very much so.
Q’s friend might need to take you with him.
Damn
That 1st pic….Emily Dickinson draw that ?
Heh, no. I did. That’s the promised dick pic (and cunte pic–bonus!).
I thought it was the illustration from the “me-check-um-for-bees” joke.
It is whatever you want it to bee.
I think ‘mormongrls’ is it’s own genre on pr0nhub
I was not reared strictly. My dad was easily offended so he was mostly inactive. My mom grieves that she did not take us to church as often as she needed to, and she beats herself up that she didn’t instill in us all the good values others have. I also read every bodice ripper I could find starting at age 11 and that actually molded me more than church did.
So.
I’m a hedonist.
My next brother left the church altogether.
My youngest brother is gay/married/kids and hanging on for … I forgot why.
I also spent 4th grade to 12th grade in a Southern Baptist private school and while my mom was wringing her hands over my bodice rippers, the other people in my class were fucking, drinking, and smoking–BUT NOT DANCING! Because dancing might lead to sex.
But in the end, I am a hedonist who actually believes in the vision of God and the afterlife of the church. They’re my people, my tribe. I’m at home there. It’s part of who I am.
How do you keep a baptist from drinking all your beer?
Bring along another baptist.
C’mon Moj, join (((us))).
If I were going to change, I’d think about it, but I had my brush with changing religions. I’ve always been very drawn to Wicca/Paganism. Considering my crisis of faith re Christianity 101 (I could probably write an article about that), I did, in fact, go that route for a while. Mr. Mojeaux tolerated that without a word, which is one reason I know I totes married the right guy.
Anyway, after many meetings, the next topic was “which god/desses do you have in your pantheon?”
I realized that I was going to have to basically build my own religion from the ground up and I’m way too lazy to do that. Besides, I already have a quasi-polytheistic theology (a mated pair of deities) that I like, so…why bother?
And so I bailed.
You might fit in with Unitarian Universalists, depending on the culture of the particular congregation(s) in your area. Disclaimer: Many tend to be libtards, though I met my first real-life libertarian through my most recent UU affiliation. The previous Mr. GT – actually Rev. GT – was a UU minister.
I have never met a UU who wasn’t a bleeding-heart liberal.
Yeah – the liberal tone of the local congregation’s online newsletter has put me off trying to attend. That, and they’re way the hell across town. I’ve adopted the Emily Dickinson model:
I’ve never heard that. I really like that passage, thanks GT.
I have often gone to a park on Sunday and thought, “This is church.”
MikeS – here’s the entire text. I think I picked up this habit from my mom when she stopped going to the Presbyterian church of my upbringing.
I’m a pretty uncivilized savage, so poetry isn’t really my thing (Except Poe), but this little ditty speaks to me. I really like it. So much so that I could see making a plaque with it and putting it in our garden/orchard.
Thanks, GT!
What I miss about both Presby and UU church services: hymns. I’ll still sing favorite hymns in the car.
UU joke: Q. – Why wasn’t half the UU congregation singing the hymn?
A. – They were reading ahead to decide if they agreed with the words,
My pleasure, Mike!
LOL
From a musical revue staged by the Metro NYC UU District at a long-ago UU Assoc. General Assembly (to the tune of “Always True to You in My Fashion”)
When the minister mentions God, half the congregation nods,
And if God gets half a nod, hip hip hooray!
Everybody’s got religion in their fashion.
Everybody’s got religion in their way.
In that case, wood.
Very nice! I thought you said you couldn’t draw…?
Ring I made in HS art class. Totally subconscious. It became almost famous/notorious.
Love. It.
That’s the ring to rule the world.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/rBpdNWoMQL-Plb4Hr6KPpw.V_91aivl3EZgWqoOLGy_fK
Strip steaks for lunch. 10 oz each and decently marbled.
Doing my part to support climate change. ?
Nice! Is that a pellet gun?
.22 LR
https://www.genitron.com/Handgun/Walther/Pistol/SP22-M2/22-LR/Variant-1
Suprisingly, I own no pellet or bb guns.
I have a pellet gun, AKA squirrel control.
Cool. Sharp.
That’s beautiful. Also, I hate you.
Thousands of kids are being burned by instant #ChickenNoodleSoup each year
And we’re worried about vaping.
Idiocracy.
What is a movie from 2006 written and directed by Mike Judge?
What is a movie?
Assault soup. No one needs it. We need common sense soup regulation.
You know what happened when I was a kid and one of we kids burned our self with soup or whatever? It was a lesson, you learned from it. Now learning is just too dangerous. Lock up those detergent pods, someone might eat one and it’s those evil Kulaks and Wrecker capitalists fault!
Meh, sounds like brothy emotional appeals to me.
I don’t know if anyone posted this already, but this depresses me too much to be angry. This has got to be a setup.
TW: PragerU
Obama>Jesus
Oops, go back to 0:35.
Indoctrination > Education. /leftist reasoning
Finally “Amazon has created a much less competitive and brittle retail sector.”
Yeah, I’m not buying(!) that.
News you can use?
https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/birth-control-pills-may-affect-you-are-attracted-to-experts-say/
Rudy Giuliani flip-flops on Ukraine probe on live TV
Other than to make Schiff out to be an evil buffoon, which is at least half true, is the strategy just to muddle all the facts to create more confusion, which will result in a complete “team v team” scenario?
If you’re not stopping your pee midstream to exercise your PC muscle, you’re a chump.
I thought that was bad for your kidneys?
I prefer to exercise mine by trying to not piss myself.
WRT Marquis De Sade.
Kill a couple hours watching the movie ‘Quills’.
Geoffrey Rush is amazing in everything.
Short men finally get some respect at new clothing store
So you’re saying…
https://youtu.be/8bfyS-S-IJs
So, not “finally”.
I love advertisements disguised as “news”.
Monty Python marathon on BBCA today.
They’re actually showing something British?
Brockton dispensary: Patients rely on banned vape products
Learn how to roll a joint, Cancer boy!
but we understand the need for the ban, due to safety concerns in the broader vape market
Ban their stuff, not mine!
So they want cancer patients to have to get their THC vape juice on the black market, where they run the risk of getting a tainted product, which is the thing responsible for this small number of deaths in the first place?
Fuck these phony do-gooders in the government.
Man, 5’7″ is not short. I’m 5’9″ and I’m not much taller than anyone else, or shorter for that matter. American dudes seem to be about that tall. If you wanna find an underserved clientele, try skinny people. I can get pants in the right length, but the waist is always fucking huge. I’m 140 lbs. Sell me some clothes that fit.
Depends on where you live. I’m 6’0″ and I do not consider myself to be tall. I’m almost never the tallest person in the room.
Ain’t that the truth? At 5’7” I was downright short in Minnesota.
In San Diego I’m an Amazon goddess.
I’m 5’3″. My daughter’s 5’7″ and I don’t think she’s finished. My husband’s only 5’9″, so I don’t know where the tall came from. (In other news, both my brothers are 6’1″.
My daughter enjoyed saying, “Hey short stuff, how’s the weather down there?” to my wife when she broke 5 – 8 1/2.
“I’m 140 lbs”
Do you have AIDS or cancer?
Why not both ?
About 4 years ago, I shaved my head for reasons. I was awful, so I wore a headscarf tied in various creative ways.
People were all of a sudden so NICE to me. They’d talk to me for no reason, and I’m like, “Why am I suddenly so approachable?”
Then I realized people thought I had cancer.
Even my bishop took my husband aside and asked him if I was okay.
Brittney ?
Did you beat up a car with your umbrella too ?
YOU LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
Her debut album came out twenty years ago. Boggles my mind.
Hardcore keto took me down to 140. At 6′. It wasn’t a good look for me, and people told me so. I added just a little more carbs, and settled at 150.
Jugsy got pizza last night, and I didnt limit myself to just toppings for the 1st time in 14 months
/confesses
https://lovegoodfats.com
Picked up two of their snackbars while shopping yesterday. Will report back upon eating.
Im headed to Meijer soon, so Ill likely get their store-brand bars. Atkins if they’re on sale.
LOL. Every clothing store I go to caters to skinny people. Endless piles of pants for tiny people, nothing left for norms or fatties.
You need to stick to the good ol catalogs, like Lands End and LL Bean. Good clothes for real people.
I have good luck with Express brand. The dress shirts are perfect fit. They have 4 variations of dress shirt sizes (I think). I like the ‘Slim’ size.
Don’t bother with the stores, they usually suck, I shop exclusively online and with clearance/sales, I usually get dress shirts around ~$22 each
Ever since I started lifting weights, it’s hard to find dress clothes that fit. The pants are usually too tight in the legs, but if I size up, the waistline is way too big and doubles over in some places. And someone told me that some old ladies at work had a running joke about how tight my pants were in the butt (the [fe]male gaze!!! Victimized!!)
I should just give up and wear a tracksuit like a Sopranos character.
Keep calm and vape on: UK embraces e-cigarettes, US cautious
The Limeys are more forward thinking than we are. I think it’s time for socialiSed medicine.
Common sense knife control!
Lie back and think of the late, great England.
So right.
Yanno, we may have kicked their asses (thank you, France!), but I don’t think any American wanted to see them brought to their knees on their own soil.
In Fanny Hill (1740s), there’s this that stuck out at me:
A little spiritual pick-me-up for my fellow Christian Glibs, but who don’t wanna go to church today.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GyKbJdmR4Y
(I’m heading there in a few)
Do the right thing and pray for the Buffalo Bills – we’re counting on you.
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Oh man, do they need it.
I can get behind that…
“Man Builds Staircase For Seniors For $550, But City Tears It Down”
https://shareably.co/city-says-stairs-seniors-will-cost-65000-man-builds-550-city-tears/
This is an oldie but a goodie from 2017. Don’t fear though, the city promised to build a replacement for $10,000.
The picture’s not all that detailed but those are some oddly built stairs.
They’re canadian stairs
I never understood why Montrealers were proud of their uncovered three story metal stairs. That seemed like an incredibly poor choice of design for that environment
Yeah, I would not get on that thing.
Yeah, they look sketchy AF.
I would like to see what $10k gets you for stairs. I can see thousands (there’s going to need to be a fair amount of excavation and concrete work) but 10 thousands?
My guess is a wheelchair ramp will be required to meet said codes.
Ahh. Of course, didn’t think of that.
And railing. Decorative of course.
So, if I am to understand this correctly: unless a particular structure helps accessibility for everyone, then it can’t help accessibility for anyone?
The stairs on that are a series of teeter-totters. The sides are not on stringers or stabilized.
A) I wouldn’t use them and
B) I wouldn’t want to be the insurance policy holder who gets sued the first time somebody falls and breaks a hip.
That’s one of the few consistent Leftist principles: If it’s not a perfect option for everyone, it shouldn’t be allowed for anyone. Anything that is not 100% “inclusive” must be torn down.
In case someone reads this dead thread, there was indeed a happy ending.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=JZgnXkH9u_s
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To Sir Digby:
Re your post last note, I live in Austin. Bit of a drive to Dallas / Fort Worth, but if we could get a quorum together for a weekend meetup, might take the wife again for a weekend road trip.
Any Central / North TX globe interested in meeting IRL, you can contact me at dahaoleboy@hawaii.rr.com (yes, I used to be the Hawaii LP Chair before escaped that statist hellhole).
“Glibs”, not “globe”. FN autocorrect.
On that note, I have been attending the Texas Renaissance Festival King’s Feast every year since 2000. If there’s interest in doing a glib drink-up then, let me know. I typically go near Thanksgiving.
What city?
If Clemson only goes to 2 in the polling after that travesty of a game yesterday, I think lll slap a cat.
How the hell am I supposed to know what to do with out my weekly, scientific AF, tarot and astrology readings?!?!
I just want to say, Thanks, you know who you are……