I hope your New Year’s Eve was enjoyable as mine. Sloopy, the girls, and I watched fireworks in our backyard with a fire going in our fire-pit. Fun times were had by all.
I’m eager to crawl back into bed, so these links might be shorter than usual. I have a long day ahead of me of unpacking, house cleaning, and watching Ohio State play in the Rose Bowl.
Everyone continues to not budge on wall funding, continuing the government shutdown, also known as libertarian Christmas.
A non-profit ran by New York state legislatures blew money raised for minority scholarships on parties.
Pocahontas won’t let her recent DNA disaster stop her from running. 2020 will be even more entertaining than I thought.
Speaking of 2020, my candidate is in good form as usual.
That’s all I got for today. I’m going back to sleep and then will drag my ass through a long day. I’ll leave you with a song, as tradition dictates, before taking off.
Happy 2019, everyone. I have nothing but optimism for this coming year. It’s going to be a good year.
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A non-profit ran by New York state legislatures blew money raised for minority scholarships on parties.
And these shits are going to be in full control of the state when the new legislature is sworn in.
Hope you got one of those 55 gallon drums of lube for the next infinity years we’ll likely have to endure this (or leave the state).
Party like it’s 2019!
At least the money wasn’t wasted
As a college football fan, today is my high holiday. I’ll settle in front of the television with whatever I have left of dbleagle’s eggnog.
My New Year’s resolution is to make more typos win I post.
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I’ll leave you with a song, as tradition dictates, before taking off
More cake
Why do you hate us?
What happens if the government stays shutdown and everything else moves along just fine with out them? I mean, besides the government lackey demonstrations wanting money.
Is the LIBERTARIAN MOMENT™ finally at hand?
Nothing, nothing happens. They quietly go back to work, collect their back pay and try it again in 6 mos.
I do think Trump shows he has a certain low cunning. By excluding the military from shutdowns it takes the impact out of the shutdowns; no more Muh Readiness!!! and sob stories of Private Dopey not being able to buy groceries.
Nothing like a really sour ciorba after a long night of drinking
went to sleep at 4 30 and woke up at 10 30 surprisingly not hungover
Excellent, glad it didn’t bite too hard. I was also lucky and didn’t have it too bad, was more just tired if anything.
That’s because you’re still
Drunk!
No matter how many conversations I have with people it always comes down to me saying, “I get your point and your point is fucking stupid.”
was it about proper sake?
You’re less sober than me. Congrats.
All I can say about McAfee’s twitter feed is damn, there really are people out there with no sense of humor whatsoever, and they say we are the autistic ones.
MacAfee is truly awe-inspiring.
It made me laugh. At this point with 20 trillion in debt, what else do you want?
Hookers and blow?
Where?
Ask the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators.
This shutdown is the Christmas gift that just keeps on giving.
Also a bit late from me, but Happy New year to you great lot. I wanted to post it in an earlier thread, but spent most of yesterday and today dead. You are all truly a most welcome port in the storm that is the internet.
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I really hope this surprised no one.
Uhh… genius! ‘I’m the one responsible for the money, but don’t look at me, I just do what they told me to!’
Bullshit.
Thats cute, the post thinks laws matter.
What about the Honorable Mr. Dindu Nothin? Where was he when all this transpired?
White man keepin’ ’em down again. How much you want to bet the only people getting scholarships are the relatives of these lawmakers?
This reminds me of the Sheila Jackson Lee airline thing; “I’m a Queen!”
Someone commented at that time that there seems to be a cultural “I’ve made it, I’m going to flaunt it” mentality with African American politicians that is tolerated by their constituents.
There absolutely is. I’ve seen evidence of that for decades.
So while they get custom Cadillacs and lavish parties, we get to suffer through Last of the Fauxhicans drinking beer and Occasional Cortex eating boxed Mac N’ Cheese.
No matter how many conversations I have with people it always comes down to me saying, “I get your point and your point is fucking stupid.”
You’re not fighting fair. You’re supposed to pretend every viewpoint is valid.
Fake News?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/overflowing-garbage-feces-on-roads-prompt-yosemite-national-park-officials-to-close-some-campgrounds
Garbage in the Parks seems to be all the rage. Weird thing though, I can’t find any actual pictures or video of actual garbage in the parks. The one picture Fox News has looks like someone’s garbage bag flew out of the bed of a pickup.
Urine? Are there Howard Hughes style collection bottles along the road?
That’s just the visitors from San Francisco.
Armageddon! !!
I read that as Armageddon! It
And people criticize my taste in music….
IDK if this is fake news or not. Nat’l Parks are one of those issues I can’t quite iron out as a libertarian. Theoretically public land shouldn’t be a thing and I very much understand the reasons why. That being said, I very much appreciate and enjoy going to National Parks and part of me can’t help but feel grateful that their are large areas of breathtaking beauty that cannot be developed. Of course they are managed poorly at a much greater cost than is necessary and they were never meant to be public playgrounds. The original intent was to preserve large tracts of wilderness until FDR decided to make them accessible through make-work projects during the depression. Maybe someone can help me understand this better?
I believe the Audubon Society and others would do be good stewards of the land, no need for government ownership.
I think so too, a private org could run a park no problem, but there is no guarantee a preservation society would own the land. I’m not advocating the government intervene, I just have a hard time envisioning what parks would look like in libertopia.
https://www.theparklands.org
Its not the perfect example, as there was a significant (but minority) amount of government money for startup.
But that is generally how parks work in libertopia.
Heh. Pope Lick Park.
https://www.nature.org
The Nature Conservancy is another example. Also not perfect (see positions on climate change and on the noble savages being the ideal stewards of the environment), but pretty good, I think.
This is kind of an aside but I used to subscribe to Range magazine and they were pretty demonized in that publication. Lots of Ranchers put part of their ranch in trust to the Nature Conservancy only to have their kids find out they’d lost their ability to use the land they’d inherited at all. If I remember right they did some pretty underhanded legal shenanigans to appropriate more land into trust.
Not a bad organization if you want your land converted into a preserve forever that you heirs nominally own, but terrible if you want to leave them usable/salable property.
That being said I have no problems with conservancies that act ethically, it’s a great private solution to wild lands preservations
If an economically true libertarian environment existed, you’d have some ultra wealthy individuals that would definitely make things like this a priority. One of the things I have on my bucket list, should I succeed financially in life, is a few thousand acre hunting preserve in East Texas or Western Washington.
I guess like in any fee market you’d have the whole gamut; wealthy philanthropists dedicated to preservation and giving access to people to appreciate it as well as owners who would make it their own private playground for them and their friends with ski resorts, hotels, etc. Thats one of the few issues I guess when I’m somewhat utilitarian and minarchist, I’m not all in on ‘the government must manage it’ but I’m somewhat skeptical that anarchy would be objectively better.
*free*……already making good on my NYR!!!
Good luck with Western WA. Guns will be illegal here in a decade.
Nah, I think that they’ll just open up a year round season on certain apex predators. That’ll solve most of the issues that seems to be plaguing the west coast.
all the rage
Is it 2002 where you live?
Welp, the end times are here.
It is snowing in Tucson. It’s been fun, but I doubt I’ll make it until tomorrow. I mean, what’s next? Zombies? Plague of locusts? Zombie locusts?
This is good news- we’ll only have to drive the dog two hours when she’s homesick.
There is also snow country north of Phoenix along the Mogollon Rim, White Mountains and Flagstaff areas.
That reminds me…do I really want to drive to Flagstaff today?
If McAfee ran on a promise to put in a sporting clays course on the White House lawn, and make combat marksmanship mandatory in the schools, I’d vote for him.
If you suggest it, he’ll probably adopt it.
Not even close, he has my vote already.
Needz moar hookers to be a McAfee policy
Who’d a thunk that in 2020 McAfee Virus Protection would be a real no-shit rubber to protect yourself while messing with hookers?
My internet is down. Who won the AFC North?
All I know is the Minnesoda team blew their chance at the playoffs.
Uffda. Thank doG the Queens blew it. One more week of freedom for me. No having to listen about their chances in the playoffs.
The only downside is having to listen to the same jokers who said we had to get Cousins no matter the cost, now talking “what did you expect from a guy who never has responded to pressure?”. These are the sportzball equivalent of the prognosticators who said Hillary was inevitable.
That was pretty bad. How much of it was poor play calling and Chicago’s defense? I know it’s good but that good?
Anyway. I ain’t complaining. It let the Eagles in.
Wasn’t just that game. Cousins was terrible in every big game they had this year. He chokes under pressure.
I will grant his line sucks, but the line arguably sucked worse last year and Keenum did just fine. And if the Vikes weren’t going to put together a great line for Adrian Peterson (maybe best back of his generation) what makes you think they are going to do it for Kirk Cousins?
And yelling at Thielen (aka 2nd best Laker ever) on the sidelines is a dumb move. 1) He’s probably the most popular Viking, 2) he’s produced here for 3 years and 3) you suck don’t try to blame others.
My son wants to fire Zimmer too. His take is that every year, the defense starts out great, but then other teams figure it out and Zimmer makes no adjustments. So by the end of the year, teams like the Bears know how to beat it.
* I will admit to being a Keenumaniac and biased in my hatred of Cousins. But Case had that “it” factor last year. He avoided sacks and made plays somehow. No idea why the Vikes were so dead set against him coming back.
The ‘it’ factor is sometimes under appreciated.
I still find it weird teams couldn’t fit Tebow somewhere on their rosters.
The guy just wins.
I thought Tebow deserved to at least get an off season getting number one snaps and getting all the fundamental work first stringers get.
And yet nobody suggests he got blacklisted the way they do about Kaepernick.
Well, some people did.
What’s ironic is Denver won a SB with a QB who at that stage in his career was spent and just as bad if not worse than what Tebow was criticized for. Talk about defense winning a title.
I think it might have had something to do with rebuilding your offence around a left – handed quarterback.
The left handed thing was such a setback for 49ers in the 90s that…
It’s a tough call on how good. As a Bear fan, our secondary is suspect. Front seven are terrific
which has helped the secondary.
Offensively, while being brighter than years past, they’re also prone to really bad mistakes.
Nagy has a habit of forgetting the power run game and/or getting too cute with the play calling.
I had them going 8-8 with 10-4 way outside. Win or lose, I’m glad we have a defense again
and everything else is bourbon.
How do you rate their chances against The Iggles.
Alot depend on philly qbs ribs. if back up has to come in it should end well for bears.
otherwise 7 outa 10
If only Hershel Walker was still round, yeah, that’s the ticket, no matter the cost.
The Referees?
A non-profit ran by New York state legislatures blew money raised for minority scholarships on parties.
Once they get their donor network up and running, they’ll give a scholarship to some deserving young person who is well known to them and highly regarded by all. Priorities, man.
Well, at least they didn’t screw up and make a profit. Barely broke even, what kind of a party can you get for 500 K? Needs more diversity.
there seems to be a cultural “I’ve made it, I’m going to flaunt it” mentality with African American politicians that is tolerated by their constituents.
Don’t you even role model, bro?
Role models. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vCobjhHnGJE
And we’re starting the new year with a thoroughly shit-headed 16 year old in the house. Yay.
Are there 16-year-olds who aren’t thoroughly shit-headed?
I like to think that I at least had the sense to hide it better.
I only hid it because I was cripplingly shy, so was uncommunicative rather than openly hostile.
I was a thoroughly shit-headed 16 year old 31 years ago. That’s how I ended up a 17 year old in the Army; my folks were more than happy to sign my waiver.
And now you’re a thoroughly shit-headed 47-year-old, aren’t you? :-p
I’ll take the shithead, Bombs don’t give AF about acne.
In trying to parse that statement I can only come to the conclusion that straff is John MacAfee.
You should ignore me. I’m lit.
Keep it coming, man. This is what makes the good shit.
RIP Ray Sawyer.
You liked his sexy eye?
19. Watched “If Beale Street Could Talk” last nite with my AA fiancee. As credits were rolling at the end, I commented about the understated sarcasm of picking a black gospel rendition of “My Country Tis Of Thee”, with all those soulful voices singing about freedom and liberty in America. My fiancee said she thought that was more like irony. I said, no, irony would be the 97% of liberal movie critics who gave it a thumbs up on Rotten Tomatoes because the movie showed the injustice of a man of the wrong skin color wrongfully accused of sexual assault based on non-credible accusations and the perversion of due process given him — with said critics blissfully unaware of how that might conflict with them, several months earlier, no doubt vehemently arguing to tear down the protections of due process for men of the wrong political opinions accused of sexual assault.
AA? Alcoholics Anonymous? Affirmative Action? American Automobile?
African American
Beale Street better keep its whore mouth shut about anything it might know about a younger Father Jimbo who may have engaged in some questionable behavior there in his youth.
Drinking beer on Beale Street on a hot summer night and listening to all the yahoos playing the blues out on the street is one of the great things in life. I also vividly remember my (then girlfriend) wife’s ass in short shorts as she bounced across the street when we first got there on a date back in the early ’90s. Good times..
BTW anyone visiting Beale Street should know that going into clubs is a waste of time and money. The guys playing on the streets are great and you can buy a big cup of beer and simply walk around on the street having fun.
The only club I ever went into was Joyce Cobb’s joint. I only went there because Joyce was a customer at the video store I worked at and she was a nice lady who let me in free there.
And she fell asleep somewhere around Rotten Tomatoes?
Plus, boobs:
https://thesexier.com/nice-cleavage-56-pics/
Why did #3 have to have that nosering, damn I wanna cry. I’ll have to run to 12, 21, and 35 for some TLC.
Nosering? Oh, wait, had to look further up to see that.
Totally agree on 12. 18, 47, and 51 also for me.
Watching the mummers parade now. I don’t usually watch it, but I’m finding it fascinating this year.
Live stream link for anyone interested:
https://phl17.com/live/
And by the end, they made it super political. Fuckers. ?
I wouldn’t even consider attending a parade of any sort these days. It’s all politics all the time. The last one I went to was largely a stream of Democrat hacks getting their face in front of a camera interspersed with the politics-is-personal crowd. Yeah, no thanks.
Saw Clutch last night. Any of you who didn’t made an error.
Where?
Cleveland. I also got my car broken into because this place is a giant piece of shit, but let’s not focus on the negative here.
Good call. Never a bad show.
Last time I saw them was with Corrosion of Conformity and Lamb of God. Mostly went to see CoC and Clutch, even though LoG was the headliner. Watched the good sets, mocked Lamb of God with a co-worker for a little bit and left before they finished.
It’s 6:20 AM here at Casa BEAM, and some a-hole’s still shooting off New Year’s fireworks in the schoolyard just a half-block from our house. My poor pup’s terrified and shaking like a leaf.
Yeah yeah, I get it. Woo-hoo, it’s New Years’ Day. Now go to bed and sleep it off, willya?
Watched Alien last night – Ms. Weaver looks like she is 19 – and then a few episodes of Dark Shadows (circa 1967). All with a G&T and then a few glasses of bubbly. I went to bed early, hoping to miss the neighbors blowing off fireworks. Sadly I was awoken by a small firefight breaking out seemingly outside the bedroom window. And then, just as I was about to drift off to sleep again, it sounded like someone was working with some power tools in the front yard. My addled brain finally figured out it was someone with a really crappy exhaust revving their engine.
What pisses me off is that Weaver offered to do the scene nude and was turned down.
Have you seen her appearance on SNL where she does Brecht’s Mahagonny? It is absolutely brilliant.
Nope, I take it that it ran after I gave up watching that show.
/starts searching for clip
I couldn’t find it so I’m uploading the episode to the utube; I’ll link it when it’s ready.
Utube won’t do it for copyright reasons. Sigh…
HoffPosers get down to business
And while he has pitched his surge to power as the result of a “populist” revolt, his base of support mirrors that of the old coup masters: wealthy financial elites, segments of the population willing to trade the rights and lives of the poor and marginalized for their own safety and economic prosperity, and traditional parties and politicians who refuse to acknowledge their own roles in creating the monster before folding themselves into his arms.
Much like the military once did, Bolsonaro has threatened his leftist political opponents with violence and imprisonment. He has promised to deliver a political “cleansing never seen before in Brazil,” and threatened media outlets that report news unfavorable to him. His vice president is a former Army general who, in an interview with HuffPost Brazil, refused to rule out a return to military rule, and who has posited — over Bolsonaro’s unconvincing objections — that the new administration could rewrite the country’s constitution.
This is not exclusively a Brazilian phenomenon. Countries around the world, from Hungary to Turkey to the Philippines, have turned to noisy leaders who promise instant renewals and silver-bullet solutions under the banner of a right-wing, nativist “populism” ― the preferred term of news outlets, even though the key constituencies backing these candidates tend to comprise the nations’ elite.
Each major election has become, in part, a referendum on the state of global democracy as a whole. And each victory for a right-wing, anti-democratic figure has paved the way for a similar candidate in the next major election somewhere else.
Democracy is broken. “Populist” politicians (who, you know, appeal to some not insignificant subset of the population) are subverting democracy by winning elections.
I like how he admits Brazil is a broken shithole, but seems to think they’ll get it sorted out if they just socialism harder. Their intentions are good. They just need more time.
Well, didn’t Brazil just go all gun grabber?
The author is listed as a “reporter.” LoL. I like the part where he gives all of the credit for the rising middle class to a left leaning former president. These idiots just don’t get it.
2019 sucks already!
I thought for sure I was about to read the blog of the legendary David “Hoff” Hasselhoff. But noooooooooo. Just stupid Huffington Post garbage.
When we talk about how “right wing” populists destroy democracy, we shouldn’t forget good ol’ Bob Mugabe.
What a strange endorsement of Mugabe.
Well it’s 2019, one step closer to 2021.
I’m looking forward to 2525.
Thank you for reminding me of that show.
Wasn’t it back-to-back with a show featuring Bruce Campbell as a Revolutionary America era spy?
I thought it was The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, but I do seem to recall another Campbell vehicle of that sort.
Jack of All Trades.
How could I forget?
Campbell is a genius.
That just reminded me I don’t have it on DVD, that has just been corrected.
Thanks, I love that show as well.
Campbell is a genius. There’s a bunch of videos on YouTube of his comic con appearances.
Here, I’ll get ya started. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6ZDbZN-Vs
He’s fun to watch.
His audio book for Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way is great.
I thought you were linking to this horrid shit. Thankfully you weren’t.
Yeah, I thought so too.
Plus I ran a race yesterday! 4 miles with 1,000 people in the rain & wind was a lot of (not) fun. My feet we were before we started, just to get to the starting line.
Urgh. Wet feet are not fun. I hope you didn’t get blisters.
I did get one blister.
What kind of a race is 4 miles? Everything I see now is some silly foreign measurement like a 5K or 10K.
Is it a serious race? My family does a 5K on T-giving morning every year and it is a pretty silly one. A lot of the runners are wearing costumes and no one bothers with the idea of slower runners keeping to the right.
Last year there was a goofball cop from a small town running in his police/tactical uniform (with sidearm). At every intersection he’d shout “Thank you for your service” to the poor cop working traffic control. My son told me he was impressed that I didn’t yell “Fuck you pig!” right afterward. He said he was proud of my maturation.
It’s a serious race, people around here use it as their “start training for the 25k season” race. The reason it’s 4 miles is because it’s around a small resort-y style lake.
HOLEEE SHIT did my New Year start out with a bang.
I work on a transplant unit. With fewer transplant patients over the holidays we’ve been slammed with gen med patients. My assignment was shit last week. Last week, I almost sent two patients to two different ICUs in one shift.
Last night, I was walking into the hospital for my shift and noticed a person digging through a trashcan. I thought hmm we don’t usually get homeless people here… Wait that’s a patient! Oh well that’s some poor nurses problem. Welp, I got my assignment and low and behold the dumpster diver was one of my patients. Fuck me!
This guy is PTSD (vietnam vet) and polysubstance abuse, and the MDs are too naive or stupid to revoke his off unit privileges. When the guy returned to the unit he had 5 pots and pans collected from the trash.
He went off the unit again and returned smelling like marijuana. He also has started being incontinent in the last few months (according to him) and just before midnight was walking around the unit with a wet gown and his ass hanging out because he had untied it. I paged the MD about the marijuana but no response.
Rest of the night uneventful from him at least.
I check on him at 0645 and discover water coming out of his room. I open the door and there is water everywhere. EVERYWHERE! the whole room is a puddle and it’s in the hall too. I knock on the bathroom door and he says he’s showering, but no water is running. I ask a nurse to call the charge nurse over and start getting towels. One of the nurses opens the bathroom door and he is sitting there lighter in hand and it smells like weed. He says he wasn’t smoking but his bloodshot eyes says he was. He was also naked. It took like 5 minutes to convince him to put a gown on and dry socks, not the wet socks he “washed”. I do not know how many towels and blankets we used to dry things up. As we are trying to settle things a nurse found more weed which he promptly grabbed and put in his mouth. He didn;t swallow it and eventually spit it out.
The flood by the way was caused by his attempt to flush an adult diaper, a tourniquet and cigarettes.
Epilogue: MD was paged he now has an attendant watching him and cannot leave the unit. We moved him to the empty room next door. Knowing that I am off tonight I can laugh things off. Hopefully, when I go in this weekend things will be calmer.
Written word for this story kind of sucks, but I thought I’d try to share something a little amusing. I had a beer when I got home and now I am off to bed.
Aha, I was wondering why Sloopy hadn’t been posting more.
“YOU’RE a towel!”
Bless you for the work you do.
Ha. I thought of that too the second weed came into play.
“He says he wasn’t smoking but his bloodshot eyes says he was.”
And said, “Wanna get high?”
You’re the worst character ever, Rufus.
Sounds like a transplant from California. If you had smelled paint thinner, I would guess a Wisconsin transplant.
Paint thinner is for the children and pussies.
So your answer to “Have you seen a grown man naked” is yes….
You are doing God’s work.
Wife and I stayed home last night. Oldest boy had a bunch of buddies over and they played cards. Our other kids went out to parties and made it home safely.
2019 is off to a good start so far. Not sure if I have any resolutions this year. I haven’t had a fun resolution since No Haircut 2017.
This is how the world ends
Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.”It’s a free-for-all,” Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas within the park that are overwhelmed.”It’s so heartbreaking. There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I’ve seen in my four years living here,” Snider said.
The 10th day of the partial federal government shutdown, which has forced furloughs of hundreds of thousands of federal government employees, has left many parks without most of the rangers and others who staff campgrounds and otherwise keep parks running.
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Some visitors have strung Christmas lights in the twisting Joshua trees, many of which are hundreds of years old, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Most visitors were being respectful of the desert wilderness and park facilities, Joshua Tree’s superintendent, David Smith, said in a statement.
But some are seizing on the shortage of park staffers to off-road illegally and otherwise damage the park, as well as relieving themselves in the open, a park statement said. Joshua Tree said it would begin closing some campgrounds for all but day use.
It was populism what dunnit.
Well given Yosemite’s proximity to San Franciso this should not be surprising. Sad, but not surprising. I suspect that didn’t “just happen due to the shutdown”. I’ve always wanted to do a Yosemite/San Fran vacation. Not so sure anymore.
Yeah I think overcrowding and misuse has been an issue in parts of the park for a while. The author is disingenuously trying to imply it wasn’t a problem prior to the shutdown.
Blow off San Francisco and the Napa/Sonoma shit show.
There are plenty of other great wine districts in California. Local tip: After tastings at wineries find a decent supermarket in that town and look for the wines you liked in there. You;ll frequently save money over buying them on site.
See Yosemite by all means. It is most definitely a world class area. Just skip it Memorial Day to Labor Day and see it during the less crazy times.
I woke up, blearly eyed, a couple of minutes ago. I had been dreaming of some sort of combination of Rex Harrison as Captain Gregg (Ghost and Mrs Muir) and Professor Higgins (My Fair Lady).
My dear hubby has no idea what’s about to hit him.
But he’ll be kind enough to watch Ghost and Mrs Muir with me later this morning. 🙂
Did the poor guy have to work last night? That’s the downside to music as a career…
Nah, we watched and danced a bit but mainly he got some networking on so he can find a band.
What does he play?
Ambien?
Nope, just insanity.
Just don’t treat hubby the way Rex treated Carole Landis (100th anniversary of her birth today).
Happy boob year!
http://archive.vn/4ZWZF
I think everyone’s resolution should be to look at more boobs. I am here to help make that a reality.
#21 is a sex doll, you can’t fool me.
Where do I order?
21 isn’t even close to clawing her way INTO the uncanny valley.
32 and 51 are my idea of smoking hot.
My eyes! WTF is that?!
This album art was the first time I saw a Real Doll, took me a while to realize, I was a dumb kid.
Hip bones, THOs, underboob, and see through panties (hello 48!). These are a few of my favorite things.
Got up and opened all the doors and windows this morning. Too hot in the house to sleep.
Where do you live?
Maryland
Almost 60 in NYC but gales of Canada-wind made it colder than usual.
Northwestern won the Holiday Bowl when the O decided not to suck. Incoming 5 star QB recruit to go with that defense. Seriously, for the first time ever you can legitimately say, Northwestern is a dark horse team to take the Big Ten next year.
Happy New Year everyone!
I received a delivery yesterday that would make various gun forums lose their shit. As much as I love pedantry, I kind of love this more. Anyway, I have managed to carve a groove into my thumb callous putting rounds through the old Mark I, so I ordered a device directly from Ruger to help put cartridges into the mag. Right there on the invoice, it says “clip loader.”
My gf has the McFadden one for her 22/45.
I have a 22/45 on my want list. Not sure between the Lite and the Tactical. Leaning towards the Lite but rails are always nice.
I’ve got an order in for a 22/45. I lurve the way that the 6″ Mark I makes me seem like I can shoot, but the heel mag release annoys me and keeps riping my thumbnail off. I’m expecting it “soon”
Oh, and I ordered the plain Jane $400 version. Because a cheap trainer should be cheap, right?
Agreed. I do want the threaded barrel just in case I ever want to get a can. I think that’s standard though.
I’ve got my eye on a mark iv hunter. Maybe later this year.
You knew this was coming right?
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1079065555158601729
ShoeOnHead did a couple of videos on this. They’re euphemistically calling themselves MAPs now. Minor Attracted Persons and are trying to latch on to the LGTBABCDEFGMs as simply another “preference”.
Of course now I’m unsure how to feel about the bunnies on her bedspread.
https://youtu.be/mfEgDiRe7_I
https://youtu.be/vux3-uFNtLw
It makes sense. I’m sure it will come in the form of intersectionality. White males pedo’s will remain verboten for some time but non-white non-binary types can add child-attracted and gain a couple rungs on the grievance pyramid.
Happy New Year, everyone. I wanted to ask if anyone here does woodworking.
I think ‘splosives mentioned she was going to do some this morning.
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IB McGinty, dugh. And I made a birdhouse that looked like this when I was a teenager.
Yours looks nice, I made a cribbage board in wood shop, got a ‘C’ ’cause it only had 25 holes to a side. Tough teacher, wanted things to not only look nice but be useful. The bluebirds are gonna love their new home, CPRM.
Appears so.
https://glibertarians.com/2018/12/working-your-wood-with-mcginty-picnic-table/
Thanks. Missed that post
I was wondering how long it took to get proficient, costs, etc.
What are you interested in building? You can get a decent starter table saw for a few hundred dollars, a few hundred more in hand tools and clamps and you can start making simple boxes and tables and such. You’ll eventually want a router, more clamps, chop/miter saw, more clamps, sanders, a drill press, more clamps, a bandsaw, maybe a lathe etc.etc.. top end cost unlimited. As for proficiency, depends again on what kind of woodworking you want to do, with power tools much of the trick is following procedures and accurate setup, not a whole lot of skill, more knowing what to do and having the right tools and jigs. Now if you want to go old school and hand cut dovetails and carve cabriole legs you can spend years getting ‘good’
Romanian new year tradition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXkE8cP4ew
And no, not a joke link
basically noise to ward off evil spirits and screaming good wishes for the new year, mostly about health and a bountiful harvest
Like caroling, but without the singing?
yup
Its true. This link is safe.
Isis has upped their production values.
“uS senator reports to jail”
I hate stupid headlines, and this is one. State senator != US senator
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-senator-reports-to-jail-pending-verdict-in-cryptocurrency-fraud-case/amp
If you can’t expect good headlines from cointelegraph…
Welcome to the bizarre, terrifying fantasy world inside David Brooks’ head
The story reminds us how thin the crust of civilization really is. It reminds us of what otherwise good people are capable at moments of severe stress and crisis, when fear is up and when conflict — red in tooth and claw — takes control.
It’s an especially good story to tell as we enter 2019, because this looks to be the year of the wolves — the year when savage and previously unimaginable things might happen.
It will be a year of divided government and unprecedented partisan conflict. It will be a year in which Donald Trump is isolated and unrestrained as never before. And it will be in this atmosphere that indictments will fall, provoking not just a political crisis but a constitutional one.
There are now over a dozen investigations into Trump’s various scandals. If we lived in a healthy society, the ensuing indictments would be handled in a serious way — somber congressional hearings, dispassionate court proceedings. Everybody would step back and be sobered by the fact that our very system of law is at stake.
But we don’t live in a healthy society and we don’t have a healthy president.
Trump doesn’t recognize, understand or respect institutional authority. He only understands personal power. He sees every conflict as a personal conflict in which he destroys or gets destroyed.
Trump will kill us all. He canceled the White House press pool Christmas party. What more proof do you need?
They’ll get him yet for those unpaid parking tickets!!1!
FDR agrees.
Here’s what really scares me: Life in “Trump’s America” is pretty much going on as normal, and better in many ways. But the mainstream media is cranking out these screeds full of dystopian language and causing people to think that the country has been turned into a living hell. The TDS-affected people are unable to look at hard facts (unemployment numbers, stock market, etc.) or even open their eyes and look around them. They just read some article like that and swallow it whole – no skepticism, no questioning at all. The media manipulates them into seeing the exact opposite of reality.
We’re going to have another Democrat president with a Democrat Congress sooner or later, and I’m really worried about what they’re going to do once that happens. I can see them putting some absolutely totalitarian shit in place to prevent someone like Trump from ever being president again.
They have demonstrated that they have no respect whatsoever for the rule of law or the Constitution – they just view those things as occasional stepping stones to get the power they seek, and other times they’ll kick them to the curb.
Just look at what’s coming in one-party statehouses like NY or CA in the next year – that’s what you’ll see in America a couple more years down the road.
Did you guys know Kmala Harris went to high school in Montreal?
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9102960-u-s-sen-kamala-harris-s-classmates-from-her-canadian-high-school-cheer-her-potential-run-for-president/
It’s going to be non-stop hagiography for the next two fucking years.
Oh wonderful – they’re going to make her into Obama with a vagina.
I’m sorry, but this is an act of war by Canada. First Ted Cruz, now this.
A guy I know is creaming his pants over her.
Full blown TDS.
Creaming his pants would indicate he’s more deranged by her good looks.
“Her policies as Attorney General in California on things like gun control and criminal justice reform would fit in quite well in Canada,” Day said in an email. “If she runs and wins the presidency, I will definitely reach out to her to see if Westmount High alums can get tickets to her inauguration!”
Jesus. Criminal justice reform? Didn’t Reason recently show she didn’t?
She and Rand teamed up on a bail reform bill last year, not sure whatever became of it.
President. Kamala. Harris.
Please God no.
As I understand it, she’s been around the block long enough to fill a giant walk-in with skeletons. That matters, ri– oh who am I kidding.
Happy Hungover New Year!
Millennials’ difficulties “adulting” continue.
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a25641636/how-to-date-while-traveling/
I got lucky on vacation a while back. She was a hardcore Chicago prog but it was fun while it lasted. In my experience the guided tour thing rings true.
Chicago prog? You got lucky to escape.
“Her policies as Attorney General in California on things like gun control and criminal justice reform would fit in quite well in Canada,”
Fine. You can have her.
Word. And given her record as an AG, her criminal justice reform creds are laughable.
I should have known to look above for a thread before replying to P Brooks comment. Lol.
‘Stop trying to Americanize us you fat colonizers!’ -Every other country
Also
‘Be more like us you fat colonials!’-Every other country
Steaming pile of ….DERP
Double TW… Slate at their finest
Weezer dude looks like he wants to be anywhere other than being interviewed by a talking head in South Bend. Or he’s just being “weird”.
Old favorites, outdated attitudes: Can entertainment expire?
If you can stand the occasional pearl clutching, it’s not a bad article. And it does something that snippy white lefties rarely do: it acknowledges that perhaps their minority poppets aren’t quite as indignant as they’d prefer.
(And I’m fully onboard with expiring The Simpsons. If it’s activist lefties doing it for stupid reasons, so be it.)
TL;DR but I caught a vibe of smug, oh-we’re-so-fucking-superior-now that’s wearyingly tiresome.
The guy who posted on Reddit about his purple dick before he went to the ER deleted his post.
Time for Things My Patients Taught Me to get my dumpster fire fix.
One-eyed horny purple people-spitter?
His girlfriend broke it with reverse cowgirl. He decided to solicit Reddit’s advice for an hour before getting himself to the ER.
Sometimes people sober up, I guess.
Dammit.
Speaking of fantasy worlds, Krugabe resides in one, too.
It’s Economics 101: A pollution tax or equivalent creates broad-based incentives in a way less comprehensive policies can’t. Why? Because it encourages people to reduce their carbon footprint in all possible ways, from using renewable energy, to conservation, to shifting consumption away from energy-intensive products.
A carbon tax is, however, a tax — which will upset the people who have to pay it. Yes, the revenue from a carbon tax could be used to cut other taxes, but convincing enough people that they will be better off over all would be a very hard sell.
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The majority of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from electricity generation and transportation. We could cut generation-related emissions by two-thirds or more simply by ending the use of coal and making more use of renewables (whose prices have fallen drastically), without requiring that Americans consume less power. We could almost surely reduce transportation emissions by a comparable amount by raising mileage and increasing the use of electric vehicles, even if we didn’t reduce the number of miles we drive each year.
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Of course, some people would be hurt. The 53,000 Americans still employed in coal mining would eventually have to find other employment (and aid for workers in transition industries should be a part of the Green New Deal). Profits of fossil-fuel companies would also go down, although these companies now give almost all their money to the G.O.P., so it’s not clear why Democrats should care.
Over all, however, Democrats can surely do for climate change what they did for health care: devise policies that hugely improve the situation while producing far more winners than losers. They can’t enact a Green New Deal right away — but they should start preparing now, and be ready to move in two years.
Far more winners than losers, you say? Well, alrighty, then.
Actually, I think it’s Politics 101 where you learn to punish your enemies and reward your friends.
“Over all, however, Democrats can surely do for climate change what they did for health care: devise policies that hugely improve the situation while producing far more winners than losers.”
truly he lives in a fantasy world. Obamacare only exacerbate the healthcare situation, and it’s awfully convinenent that a huge chunk of those “Winners”, when given the choice, choose not to get insurance… But that makes them a winner, because they are forced to get insurance.
He doesn’t get the core point of a tax — to forcibly steal money from individuals, and have the thieves spend it on what they want, regardless of the stated purpose of the tax. If what they want is to keep on being able to steal, they may decide to spend some of their ill gotten gains on a select group of the victims to foster the illusion of legitimacy.
It flat out doesn’t create more winners than losers, because you’re destroying value and concentrating the money in just a few hands, as even a cursory drive through the DC area or most any state capitol will show.
Sure, they only have to pay one or two dozen times the current rate on their electric bill. #winning
Why do I get the feeling that he would have a drastically different attitude if we were talking about reducing the number of government employees and thereby cutting into the profits of government-sector labor unions?
I’ll only respect those who actually walk their talk with regards to Green religious theory. The wife of the owner of the company that installed my parents’ Geothermal heating system is an environmental nut, but, they have solar panels, Geothermal, and other than his company work trucks own a Tesla and a Volt. They also do not turn on their fan for their Geothermal at night (it goes down to 50 in their house at night in Winter), so that the Solar panels power the fans to drive the warm air during the day. Her views are nuts, but I do appreciate her walking the talk.
The bluebirds are gonna love their new home, CPRM.
Yeah, I keep hearing about how fussy those bluebirds are about their living arrangements. They only live in houses just the perfect size, with an entry hole which must be kept to a plus-or-minus .050″ tolerance. Otherwise…
Imagine my surprise, then, when I noticed a bluebird out behind my building acting kind of oddly. One morning, I noticed he had some grass in his beak, and he was sitting on top of the propane tank, looking around furtively (if a bird can be accused of “furtive movements”). Having determined the coast was clear, he zoomed over to the Toyota 4runner parked out there (for an as-yet-unrealized project) and swooped into the large, irregularly shaped rust hole in the rear fender, where he was constructing a nest. I think that pair used that nest for several summers.