I hope everyone’s day is going well. I’m killing it here today as both my children are still at school as of this writing. Also, it is the end of my penultimate day at this job. I may be a little hard to find in the afternoon for the next several weeks as I negotiate with the new masters. I’ll be doing tech stuff that will take me up to Dearborn about once a month. Should be a fun couple of years. Also, I will not be parenting my children alone this weekend as my wife’s step-father has seen a rapid improvement and they don’t need her help. Everything’s coming up Brett. I should buy a lottery ticket.
If you saw The Shape of Water and wondered exactly how the plumbing fit together, good news. This sex toy maker has you covered. h/t SugarFree (to nobody’s surprise)
Florida Man goes for live action GTA police cruiser raid, gets caught.
Wow, this Russia-probe is boomeranging back about as hard as the #metoo thing. Trump is the luckiest guy in the world. Nobody would believe this shit if it were the plot of a book.
German frigate fails sea trials. You know who else…
In honor of the Eagles, I was gonna play the Eagles, but I don’t really like the Eagles, so… we’ll do this instead.
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Boob fact: The typical set of DDs weight a total of about 5 pounds. Try running a 10k with a 5 lb dumbbell duct taped to your chest.
These ladies make me want to dump my genetic source code.
http://archive.is/YuGP3
3, 5, 12, 23, 31, 35 and 19 needs to check her BAC.
3,9,11,12,23
16 and 18 for me
#7’s implants are fucked up. I don’t know if I’d exclude her from the orgy. #28 is excluded because of a dumb piercing.
4’s the bunny boiler.
I like 6, 7, and 8
I probably can’t do enough drugs these days to keep up with 9
Every time a cop has their gun stolen from an unlocked cruiser, it makes the news. And none of them are ever disciplined.
Same thing I was thinking. Real responsible gun ownership there.
The cops don’t give a damn, they know the union has their back. Which is why i don’t believe for a minute that it was a ‘mechanical failure.’
Mechanical failure????
The trunk wasn’t supposed to open???
Yeah, let’s call bullshit on that Rio and get it over with.
Fuck you autocorrect. Rio = right now.
Who can possibly hate the Eagles?
Depends on whether they’ve got any Tosu players on their roster.
The Dude.
And me.
The band? John. With an angry passion.
Philadelphians?
Any who remembers that they hired Michael fucking Vick after he got out of jail for torturing and killing dogs.
People who like Santa Claus.
Even the Eagles deserve better than the Eagles.
“I hate the fuckin’ Eagles.”
I fucking hate HTML
I was afraid he was going to give us Steve Miller. Instead, Brett hits it out of the fucking park. Bravo!
Not even these Eagles?
“German frigate fails sea trials. You know who else…”
The Falklands Naval Defence Force?
Johnny Horton?
Oh wow. My dad had that Johnny Horton album on vinyl. I remember “North to Alaska” but can’t remember what else was on there.
Battle of New Orleans? Spring Time in Alaska? Johnny Reb? Jim Bridger?
My Dad had an 8-Track we wore the shit out of.
The Spanish Armada?
The Vasa?
The original Mary Rose?
That’s another good one. I forgot about the Mary Rose.
The Andrea Doria?
Well I survived the parade. Time to get more drunk in peace at my apartment before things get really rowdy tonight.
Instead of the Eagles (fuck the band Eagles), instead of music you should’ve played Jason Kelce’s spectacular rant and spectacular outfit from the parade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrXa7POmX8Q
That WAS Awesome! Kelce is a maniac.
Chris Long’s ankle length fur coat and Iverson throwback was pretty solid also
Fucken-a.
That outfit and his eyebrows.
If Kelce doesn’t lead the 2019 Mummer’s Parade (depending on football obligations, natch) wearing that outfit I’m going to be extremely disappointed.
Oh yeah, Kelce has to be Mummer Parade Grand Marshall from now on.
… we’ll do this instead.
Good man.
Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell strikes again!
Does it count if you hate the fuckin Eagles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlmvtAHhnc
So, I got my hair cut today by my 70-something Italian immigrant barber. I’ve been meaning to post the nuggets of wisdom I’ve gathered from him over the 5 years I’ve been going to him for a while and this jogged my memory. I try to write down the good ones. Imagine with thick Italian accent.
On the owner of the shop he works in whose marriage was breaking down due to infidelity: “Dumbshit threw his whole life away from some pussy.”
On work ethic: “American kids are stupid and lazy. I started working at age 12 in a barber shop in Italy and I’ve never stopped. American kids couldn’t do what I did!”
On grooming: “If you can’t use a straight razor you’re not a man.”
On marriage: “50 years and I still fuck my wife like a teenager!”
On his profession: “Broads can’t cut hair for shit.”
On the American Dream: “Only in this country can I cut hair and raise five kids. And only one of them is a fuck up!”
On his skills: “I am the greatest damn barber in this state! Your hair look so good all the ladies gonna wanna suck your dick!”
You can see why, even though the shop is not conveniently located, I’ve continued to go to him for 5 years.
Molto bene!
“If you can’t use a straight razor you’re not a man.”
I use a DE, but I don’t mind telling you a straight razor scares the hell out of me. So, not a man.
I’m not a man either. It’s ok.
Straight razor really ain’t that hard to use on a basic level. The real struggle is using it well enough to get a close shave without cutting yourself.
There’s a reason I use a safety razor ~98% of the time.
Straight razors are buggy whips.
I use a safety razor. That is about as far as I go. Something about using a weapon for grooming doesn’t seem right.
I tried a safety razor for a few months, but I just couldn’t get the hang of shaving my chin and upper lip without making the bathroom look like the scene of a murder.
Shaving is for girls.
Admittedly I use the safety razor for day to day shaving just to reduce the hair. For the babyface look I use the 4 blades. I switched to the safety razor for cost as those shaving cartridges are ridiculously priced now.
A loose grip is essential. Let the razor move with the contours of your face. I switched to a safety razor a few years ago and I cut myself much less than with cartridge razors.
Maybe I’ll give it another try. I have a big supply of vintage blades still in the package.
It takes a little experimentation to find what works best for you.
I got myself good with my 1957 Gillette SuperSpeed. It was the first time I needed the alum stick in years. I’ll have to take a pic of my shave den and put it in my next article. It’s not fancy, but I have a few razors, soaps, brushes, and blades
I have a 1960 Gillette Slim adjustable. Love it.
I guess I fall into this category also.
I use a DE too. Once shaved with a chef’s knife just to see what it would be like. So I probably could shave with a straight razor, but I’m too chicken shit to shave every day with one. And if I’m not going to shave every day with it, I’m not going to spend the money on it.
You need to post that last one to Yelp.
Ha- I get my haircut from an old Italian immigrant too. Around St. Patrick’s Day I go in there and there’s always a bunch of other old Italian men talking about what church has the best St. Joseph’s Day table (which occurs around the same time as St. Patrick’s Day) and then they mock the Irish and say that St. Patrick wasn’t even Irish he was Italian (I’ve looked this up- it’s not true, but for some reason is a popular refrain among old Italian immigrants).
He plays cards at one of the local legitimate social clubs and he always emphasizes that he “only plays cards”.
I pity people who don’t have a regular barber or who don’t get their haircut by an old Italian immigrant.
Me too. My guy’s from Sicily – always gives my son sound advice on hair and ladies.
Old man barbers are the best. It’s important that every man get himself an old man as a barber.
My dad has an old man barber (old redneck, not old Italian, but this is Richmond so there are no old Italian immigrants around here). I go to him when I can, but damn if that guy doesn’t have the most inconvenient hours.
My barber is the absolute best. I don’t think he’s that old, but he gives me best treatment almost every day.
*Shave and a hand-job, two bits ♪
/Shave my own head every morning.
For the time’s Ive consistently lived in this area, the barber I use now is the barber that cut my hair when I was 5 years old. Back in those days, Mama Tres would stare me down, declare “you need a haircut- go see Fritz.” And in those halcyon days, lil Tres would, completely w/o assistance, walk his happy ass across a small town, $3 in hand, and present myself for a haircut. And when it was over, I’d do the same in reverse, although with plenty of stopping to inspect things of interest, and generally fuckin around.
In fact, Im due to see him this weekend. Prolly drive tho.
I used to go to a barber shop in Richmond (late ’80s is how long ago). Near the Capitol, in the financial district, frequented by the VA Supreme Court, etc.
The barbers were all middle-aged black guys, and everyone was their friend. The waiting area always had some people just hanging out, and featured a wide selection of sports and girly mags. Don’t think I ever saw a female on the premises. The banter and atmosphere was just wonderful; think a mellower, more Southern version of the spicy meatballs your Italian barber serves up.
Then I moved away and went bald.
The John Marshall Barber Shop, I’m guessing?
Could be. Don’t recall the name. Its been thirty fargin’ years.
It’s the only one I can think of near the Capitol, and it’s been around forever and is locally famous.
On marriage: “50 years and I still fuck my wife like a teenager!”
Like he’s a teenager, or like SHE’S a teenager?
He puts in her pooper and pretends it was an accident.
Don’t fool yourself, girl. It’s goin’ right up your poop chute.
“Turn her over! She’s upside-down!”
Damn we get a lot of Zappa lyrics here.
Good question. I should have asked him to elaborate.
He’s done in 90 seconds.
50 years and I still fuck my wife like a teenager!
So, two thrusts and he’s done?
I was gonna say “Three hours of begging and then you squirt on her leg?”
So… does your hair look THAT good?
Judging by his yardstick, not as good as he advertised, but not a complete failure either.
heh heh, yardstick.
I’ve been using a straight razor for over a year. I enjoy it, but it’s not vastly superior to a safety razor.
^^^ This. I have one that Ive tried a couple times, but I figured there’s a reason why the safety razor was such a marketing hit.
On work ethic: “American kids are stupid and lazy. I started working at age 12 in a barber shop in Italy and I’ve never stopped. American kids couldn’t do what I did!”
Do current day Italians work at all?
Not if they can help it.
God damn that is awesome
I’ve been butchered by Supercuts 3 times in a row.
I’m doing it wrong.
Yeah, stop doing that. I regret it every time.
Luckily (?) my gf now is a bit of a hippie and wants me to grow my curls out anyway.
On his profession: “Broads can’t cut hair for shit.”
I’ve been quite happy with my barber, and been going for close to twenty years. Idle chitchat if you want it, pleasantries and then just cutting if you don’t. Either way she’s fast and does a great job. No appointments, just drop ins and longest I think I ever waited with a full shop was about 40-45 minutes.
I made the mistake of going to another supposed highly rated barber when my own was on vacation last year. Snip, stop & check work, snip, stop, snip, stop. Idiot took forever & charged twice as much. And had to make an “appointment” (which was about an hour after I called).
I was looking for a new barber a few years back before I went bald. I saw a sign that read “Barber” so I walked in. A couple of men looked at me and said “do you have an appointment? We only take clients by appointment.” I replied to them, “I’m sorry, I though the sign said barber, I’ll leave you ladies to your salon” They looked none to please and I left. It was a highly disappointing experience.
That’s awesome.
Oh, and nice story, Tulpa.
And yet when Trump talks like that, people shit themselves.
Wisdom.
Trump is the luckiest guy in the world.
Proof for this claim:
(1) Melania
(2) His enemies.
(3) The fact that he lacks all curiosity and understanding about policy and American government, yet finds himself as president
To be fair, those are kind of boring topics.
While I doubt he has a theoretical or historical grounding in American government, I think he’s got a decent enough handle on what we actually have – a bunch of feckless uni-party ruling class nimrods, and an unaccountable and arrogant administrative state.
True.
What I want is a President who understands that and is smart enough to take advantage of the opportunity to actually change it long-term.
“lacks all curiosity and understanding about policy and American government”
So that’s three POTUS in a row. Not sure if that’s a new record though.
So that’s three POTUS in a row
Is that as high as you can count?
I was on the fence about Clinton, he seemed to have some understanding, whether he gave a shit or not is a different question. GHWB was a federal bureaucrat long enough that I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Clinton’s curiosity and understanding was only as deep as “What can I get out of it” and I don’t think GHWB had any understanding, he just had knowledge.
I’d go all the way back to Nixon, before I’d give ‘yes’ to both and you see how that worked.
C’mon. If not Melania, I’m sure some other ageless gold-digger would take her place.
We have
1. Q
2. TOS
That’s pretty lucky
Don’t forget HM’s links and SF’s stories!
…and Yusef’s advice on vacuums!
And MSs Beer Reviews!
He’s a vacuum denier.
While I’m well aware that this guy was a republican, his quote sums up Trump’s enemies quite nicely.
German frigate fails sea trials. You know who else…
your mom?
Nah. She never let any sailors down.
Close it up, fellas. We’re done here for the day.
/Words apparently never uttered by Tundra’s mom
*pulls sliding metal laticework over windows, locks deadbolt*
I was surprised that the Fish Monster has a dick. I thought the chick would poop out some eggs on the linoleum and he’d stroll by and pee all over them, you know, like how regular fish fuck.
That’s how Mr. Limpet did it.
Maybe that’s what my barber was talking about…
My sense of immersion has been ruined.
This is why I don’t drink water. To paraphrase WC Fields.
While searching for a birthday meme to send my step-daughter (yes, I am an awesome step-dad) I ran across this. I thought this crowd would appreciate it.
Nice.
I larfed
Germans haven’t been that great at warship design historically either.
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-044.php
Or any design. Their attitude seems to be that if two bolts are necessary to hold on a critical part, 8 bolts would be better. 8 bolts with 8 different heads would be even better still.
Why do you hate paying three times as much for roller-delayed blowback?
I found BMW to have opposite attitude. If two steel bolts are necessary, obviously two cheaper and lighter aluminum bolts will do the job just as well – for a while.
At least that’s how the mechanic explained it me after the bolts on the motor-mounts broke and motor was free to travel where it wished under the hood.
Motor mounts are intended to isolate the chassis from engine vibration, so you use as few of them as you can. Aluminum bolts definitely cost more than steel bolts.
Then they used them to save an ounce and make it faster than an Audi. Either way, I was pretty damn shocked and unhappy with the bill.
You Know Who Else . . . .?
or
Go home, Deutsche Marine. You’re drunk.
Sounds like they need to re-position the kegs.
The Kegsmarine is off kilter?
can’t recall any German (Hanoverian?) ship’s Captains mentioned in the Master and Commander books i’ve read about the Napoleonic Wars. and books never lie.
I like it
I thought the whole thing was that Germans were about precision over function.
So if you had a choice between $30 of machining and a $3 gasket or using a part with $500 worth of machining in it they would always choose the latter.
Chipotle, in the animal kingdom:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/scientists-capture-exploding-beetles-amazing-escapes-from-toads-stomachs
Everything’s coming up Brett.
Sweet.
So Brett. Are you tired of winning yet?
I’m like the energizer bunny of winning, I never get tired of it.
https://www.politico.eu/article/mateusz-morawiecki-israel-us-poland-how-many-polish-pr-specialists-does-it-take-to-defuse-outrage-over-holocaust-law/
As a free speech absolutist, I find the spirit of this law offensive and immoral. However, I can’t help but feel sympathy for the people that have had to endure this slander. The funny thing is that I don’t recall ever hearing such accusations being leveled against Poles prior to the fall of communism and have wondered if it may have emerged as backlash from the left after Poland threw off the shackles of Soviet imperialism.
It’s my understanding that it is not slander.
Yeah, read Maus. The Poles were fucked over by both the Nazis and the Soviets. But many poles cooperated quite enthusiastically with dejudification. The Germans had little trouble finding collaborators on that front. :/
Which was the case in many other occupied territories in the east, most notably Lithuania and Ukraine.
To be fair, that accusation could be leveled against the Austrians, Hungarians, and even the French. There were collaborators in all countries
Oh yeah. It wasn’t unique to the poles.
Everyone plays this same damn game of who is more responsible for the atrocities of the Nazis (and it’s always only the Nazis- never the Soviets or other monsters). In Italy a common refrain is that Mussolini never instituted any persecution against Jews until the Germans propped up his regime and forced him to do so towards the end of the war. In France everyone pretends like they were all brave resistance fighters, which is sheer bunk.
I hate this attempt to go back in time and argue over shit that is in the past. So, I feel sorry for the Poles that this is always leveled against them more than anyone else, but this law is doing the same stupid thing: treading up old shit and trying to argue about it more than 60 years after the fact
Maus is probably the greatest book (well, two books) written on the Holocaust, in that it’s in a way that really puts you inside what happened (to Art Spiegelman’s father at least, but to Jews and others overall) in Poland from 1939-1945.
Maus is great, I second the recommendation.
OK, third it. This is what I get reading the comments from bottom to top (well, except for Q’s first).
many poles
Which, if my understanding of the law, is a phrase you’re OK with.
What they get pissy with is when you skip a qualifier (“some”, “many” or heaven forbid, actual number) and just say “Poles” or “polish nation.”
Poles have the best case, since, unlike most of occupied Europe, there wasn’t even a notional Polish government. The territory was considered rightful German clay, and Poles were to be used as serfs until they were eventually fully replaced by booming German population.
And, parenthetically, they also get pissy because when most Americans say “Poles” they mean “people living in Poland”, whereas Poles hear “people of Polish descent”, which makes them pissy for having to take on sins of Ukrainian collaborators, too (while, of course, denying that they were Ukrainian when it comes time to claim Eastern Poland…)
The complicity of some Poles in Nazi atrocities has never been some big secret, and is well documented. Listening to certain people though – particularly Westerners of the left-leaning persuasion specifically – you’d be led to believe that the entire country is comprised of amoral savages that would have sold their Jewish neighbors out for a pittance.
I’m not arguing your broader point about it being wrong to say ALL Poles were complicate. But you sentence above would likely be forbidden by the law. And that isn’t slander, it’s fact.
The law is stupid, I think we all agree. But, it’s also bullshit to just single out the Poles and ignore all the other collaborators. Why can’t people in the 21st Century get past World War II
I don’t think the other collaborators are ignored, are they? The word Quisling comes to mind.
How often do you hear about Croat death camps? Which, unlike “Polish” ones, actually existed.
Since I enjoy watching and reading about history, and WWII specifically, I have heard about them. So that obviously makes my view of things different from the “average person.”
And yes, calling them Polish death camps is absolutely incorrect and unfair. I’ve never thought otherwise.
Oh here goes Pan with his anti-Croatic rants.
Hey, don’t look behind that curtain!
Ironically, I owe my existence to the Ustashe ethnic cleansing policy (expulsion part, not the mass murder in pits part, obviously).
“Utashi” was still being slung around when I was in Bosnia in 1997. Same with “Chetnik”
I found the politics out there more complicated than Ulster.
Because Hitler never finished the job, obviously.
That’s why I said that I believe the law to be offensive and immoral.
But you did say they were enduring slander. That’s all I am disagreeing with you with on. I never said you or anyone else here would be in favor of the law.
That’s the funny thing about it. It really isn’t slander as it is rooted in fact, but it is often presented in a way that implicates all Poles. It’s tedious and frustrating.
Yes. As I said to Pan above, that is extremely unfair and incorrect.
Stupidity breeds even greater stupidity. As others have noted, Tier I Europe collaborated almost or just as happily with the Nazis as Tier II Europe. But, Tier I likes to try to pretend that collaboration was a feature only of those backward Easterners. I can understand how it would be frustrating, in a way. Responding to it with “Shut up!” is the worst way to deal with it.
Very good point. I guess I see that. In my mind, I’ve never thought of one nationality of collaborators as as being worse than the others. But how people react in the real world is obviously different than what goes on in my head. (That’s mostly a good thing, probably)
The Dutch had the most active resistance…and also provided a ton of recruits. Go figure.
The Amsterdamers had some serious payback to deliver.
Their resistance was badly compromised, leading to deaths of many SOE agents who thought they were landing in safe areas.
Once they figured it out, they were leery of any intel coming from the Dutch, even after the affect cell was isolated.
So when Dutch resistance started reporting there were tanks at Arnhem in 1944, there was additional reason to ignore said intel…
My farmer relatives in Frisia got the last laugh – they didn’t mind the city folk having a horrible time 1945-1946. That was payback…
Highly recommended. I found out about it from db over at H&R.
It would not be slanderous to say that many Poles were enthusiastic collaborators to the persecution of the Jews under German occupation. I would say that calling the Operation Reinhard death camps (Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek) Polish is slanderous, though. They were built, staffed, and run by the Third Reich.
Each of the colors of the Polish flag has an important meaning. Red for blood shed in war. White for the purity of their honor. Blue for the loyal friendship of their allies.
Everyone in Europe (and various Europhiles in the US) loves Poland.
What does the crazy chicken represent?
Poles are like roosters — incredibly brave and incredibly stupid?
“The King of Poland has the biggest cock.”
Polka obviously.
Each of the colors of the Polish flag has an important meaning. Red for blood shed in war. White for the purity of their honor. Blue for the loyal friendship of their allies.
Um?
That’s the joke.
Have you watched Ida? Would a movie like this be affected by the law?
Their attitude seems to be that if two bolts are necessary to hold on a critical part, 8 bolts would be better. 8 bolts with 8 different heads would be even better still.
You bought a Mercedes? You have no one to blame but yourself.
Don’t forge, German engineers get extra credit for moving parts
APCO officials told The Hill that its support for the Clinton Global Initiative and its work with Russia were not connected in any way, and in fact involved different divisions of the firm. They added their lobbying for Russia did not involve Uranium One but rather focused on regulatory issues aimed at helping Russia better compete for nuclear fuel contracts inside the United States.
“APCO Worldwide’s activities involving client work on behalf of Tenex and The Clinton Global Initiative were totally separate and unconnected in any way,” APCO told The Hill in a statement. “All actions on these two unconnected activities were appropriate, publicly documented from the outset and consistent with regulations and the law. Any assertion otherwise is false and unfounded.”
False alarm. What a relief. We now return you to your previously scheduled credulous buttlicking of the Obama administration.
Astonishing how all these coincidences compound like a 70 car pileup in Iowa. What are the odds!
Loved the picture of HIllary at the start of the video. Looks great in orange, doesn’t she?
Submitted w/o comment:
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-42996369
“I expressed these concerns repeatedly to my FBI handlers. The response I got was that politics was somehow involved,” he stated.
Inconceivable!
Paging Mr. Lizard.
You’ve begun the invasion, haven’t you?
http://www.ktva.com/story/37454413/woman-claims-to-find-3-inch-lizard-inside-store-bought-lettuce
I would advise you to look at her picture. She is textbook mammal redhead so obviously she cannot be trusted…there is nothing to see here, move along puny mammal.
*checks agent roster, calls in Enforcer cleanup team*
That lizard doesn’t look dead to me, and I live in Florida, where we have plenty.
Fucking IRS. I’m not sure if I said this the other day. Had a pro bono project where I was working to try to get 501(c)(3) status for a small charity. Not too big a pain in the ass to do it yourself, but helps to have someone who’s been through the process before (e.g. me) and knows what the IRS wants to hear. So I submit the application middle of last year, in September we get a short list of questions the IRS wants to see clarified, and I respond to that list a couple of weeks later.
And then… nothing. Didn’t hear a damn thing. Tried to call the reviewer multiple times. Didn’t hear anything. Kept telling the client I didn’t know what was going on, because I didn’t.
Noticed the IRS had updated the Pub 78 database [their searchable database of all charitable entities] and searched on a whim. And… the company came up!
Wondering what the hell was going on, I called the reviewer yet another time. FINALLY I get a call back (which of course happened when I was getting a cup of coffee), where the reviewer tried to get her words in in approximately 20 seconds, something to the effect of “Sorry i don’t know why you didn’t hear anything here call this number to get a confirmation letter bye”.
Basically, they approved it back in mid-November, but didn’t actually bother to INFORM us of this. Because of this, the charity missed 2 and a half months it could’ve been fundraising.
Oy.
And 6 weeks of that period are when a lot of people are particularly generous.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/ed-crane-cato-institute-sexual-harassment-398989
Cato’s #metoo
Huh. Interesting that Politico felt the need to go over the entire history of CATO.
And they didn’t even go over the most dramatic part when the Kochs and Rothbard broke off their working relationship and just bitched about one another for all time until Rothbard died and then his surrogates continued ad nauseum and on and on it goes
Wait till they find out about The Jacket….it may be on the prowl for a new host, to boot!
Is this an actual thing or just rumors?
I’ve heard there is an allegation against someone at TOS (not The Jacket), but I’m not going to mention the name, because the person who made the allegation seems a tad unstable and she seems to have personal reasons for making the accusation.
It’s ENB isn’t it
I meant the actual article of “clothing” (i.e. the independent creature that sometimes wears Gillespie), not its current hapless host, who got demoted and everything.
Maybe he ghost groped Allyssa Milano when he was ghost writing for her?
Because, the only sexual harassment I can picture Gillespie doing is “Hey, girl, you look like a Millennial. Let me tell you about Libertarian Moment using Bob Dylan lyrics”.
Now I feel like the cool kids!
These euphemisms are getting out of control.
I think we all need to thank Hillary Clinton.
Seriously.
Can you think of any other individual who did more to demonstrate that the U.S. government was a corrupt and untrustrworthy institution? When she first rose to political power, people generally trusted the U.S. government.
At the end of her career, because of her direct actions, that trust is in tatters, and there is widespread agreement that politicians at the highest levels of government are corrupt and self-serving whores.
Which gives us pro-freedom types a great opportunity: as never before people are more receptive to our argument that power will be abused and should be culturally and legally constrained.
And we owe it all to Hillary Clinton. The vile, corrupt, vicious, incompetent, venal and hubristic would-be tyrant. Bless her heart.
That’s an interesting take on it. However, the majority of the public has a short attention span, are not very smart, and are easily misled.
Seems kind of elitist.
The truth is they don’t care that much because they have no power whatsoever to influence the government and know better than to waste their brain space with political information.
65 million people voted for her. I stand by my statements.
Yeah… but next time my guy will be better.
/typical American voter
My favorite Bible episode. Samuel tried to set them straight and nobody listened.
My favorite is a tie between when Jesus hulks out on the money changers and when Moses gives God a hard time about going back to bring the slaves out of Egypt.
That and Gideon cleaning up a huge army with the first commando action.
I just really thank the gawds, imaginary or real, whichever, that we dodged the huge bullet that was that hag being president.
That being said, I think she’s beyond corrupt. I don’t want to go off into conspiracy theory here, but over the years, people involved with the Clintons seem to mysteriously get dead, a lot.
Give it another year.
Most of the corrupt shit that she did is still coming to light.
Yeah well I want to see her and Obama account for their actions.
I won’t hold my breath though.
This. Fucking vermin.
OT: Need some advice from my fellow Glibs. My father passed away recently leaving my mother with a collection of about 500+ die cast cars. The majority are 1/24 scale and the rest are 1/18 scale. Most have never been taken out of the original box. A lot of them have never been removed from the box they shipped in. What is going to be the best way to sell them? I have been told that the best way is to sell them individually. I have been told the exact opposite from someone I know that is into collecting trains. Have any of you been in a similar situation?
Very sorry to hear about your father. Why don’t you try offering them separately and as a set. As someone who spent a lot of time in the past selling things, I sort of know how this works. So you just put them up like that and see what happens. If someone makes you an offer for all of them, you just do the math and see if it makes sense compared to what you can get for them individually.
First, condolences.
Second, have you considered eBay or a seller’s market website?
Ask this question again tomorrow morning to Sloopy.
He will know the answer. He does estate auctions for a living.
I very much doubt the train and car markets are similar. Unless you have a very rare piece, train collectors are looking for stuff in working or near-working condition; die cast cars are more like models where the collectors are more likely looking for specific pieces.
There’s also the issue that for trains, a collector is going to want locomotive, and all rolling stock, plus the caboose – matching (well, most of the time).
With die casts, there’s always the possibility that you put a particularly collectible model in a ‘job lot’ with less valuable items and lose out that way.
Why not take a look at Ebay as a baseline so you have some idea of what some of the models might go for. While Ebay isn’t a specialized market, it’ a very market-efficient one.
“there’s always the possibility that you put a particularly collectible model in a ‘job lot’ with less valuable items and lose out that way.”
Happened for this guy, but with stamps: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11990602
Is it worth your time to do this yourself, or is your time more valuable and thus should you go with consignment / selling everything to a shark for a steep discount? I can’t tell you what to do once you answer this question, but its always the first question on selling collectables.
I believed there’s a TV show called Strange Inheritance. I expect to see you on it.
And sorry about Dad.
Assuming this is a collection spanning years?
If some of the cars are sets, you’ll typically get a lot more for selling a complete set. (typically some piece of the set is harder to find than any other).
Maybe try contacting someone who specializes? Or this?
I would recommend going on ebay and looking at identical examples of the items you have, and seeing what sorts of auctions are attracting the most bids.
e.g. are the most people bidding on lots, or individual units? and what features/listings attract the most bidders?
group the items by the “most likely to sell fast and at a premium” vs. “the rest”. Focus your efforts in selling the in-demand type of units and getting the best prices for them. when you’ve cleared out the bulk of the collection, and gotten rid of the premium-stuff, take the rest and break it up into lots and sell them in bulk.
i know nothing about the specifics of this sort of collector’s market, but i’ve been buying and selling vinyl for ~20 years
Ebay may be slow, but you can also take your time and do them as is convenient for you. Definitely take a look at matching sets or singles though. I did the same thing when paring down my comic collection about 12 years ago. Complete runs of one title vs combined multiple miniseries, etc.
May be interest for complete year runs or sequential series, etc….but I have no experience with cars – I’d look at hobby websites too – might be folks out there willing to pay for a complete collection in one piece – just be ready to take a LOT of reference photos, etc.
There’s a guy called MIke and a guy called Frank and they drive the highways and byways of this country looking for things like this. Just make sure the camera crew doesn’t see the orphans coming or going from the mines or you may have some trouble with Johnny Law.
I also am an auctioneer and you will see a better return selling them individually. Ebay is probably your best bet.
Thanks for the reply’s and the sympathy. Dad went in for surgery to remove a growth in his abdomen in the beginning of December. We expected him to be home around Christmas. We made the call to remove the breathing tube on the 26th. Fuck cancer.
The problem I see with eBay is it would turn into a part-job. Since my father was also my boss I am a lot busier at work than I was before. I will be at the office 50+ hours a week until I can find someone to hire. I barely have the mental energy to yell at the orphans when I get home. The train guy said to sell them as a lot so that the person that wants the “really rare” ones would be forced to buy the entire lot. I don’t know if that is sound thinking or not. I’ll post again in the morning links to see what advice Sloopy has.
Dave Ramsey tells people to not do anything until after the emotional time passes. He’s more talking about cashing out 401k’s and selling houses, but it may apply here, too. If you get the sense that this collection is in the thousands of dollars rather than the hundreds, find a dark corner and set it aside until you have time and energy to mess with it. It’s not like they’re gonna lose their value in the next year if you sit on them for that long.
I suppose there is truth in that, but you will also be selling everything, as a whole, at a discount. The best way is always individually or in small groups…unless your time is worth more. To get the most money, you’ll have to do some research and understand what market price is for all of them individually. And you should also have an idea of what prices are like in your area. Depending on your location, selling online may prove much more profitable.
Always sell to the broadest market possible. For cheap-to-ship items, that means globally. Definitely go online. I’d recommend alternatives to eBay that will get you some active marketing since this isn’t your profession. But be leery of high commissions a lot of them charge.
And for the love of a God, break them down into single lots wherever possible. You will leave money on the table otherwise, guaranteed. Go to a construction equipment sale someday (Ritchie Bros is the best example, the bastards) and see how they lot things. You’ll never see them sell a wheel loader with the bucket and forks as a single lot for a reason.
Are they Lesney Matchbox cars? Strangely enough, I’m selling a bunch of them this weekend for an estate and they will bring a lot more individually.
Sorry to hear about your father.
“Wow, this Russia-probe is boomeranging back about as hard as the #metoo thing. Trump is the luckiest guy in the world. Nobody would believe this shit if it were the plot of a book.”
I remember back after the election when Hillary started running her trap and trying to stir shit up. I told my wife, she’d better shut the hell up and lie low.
With a pliant media at her beck and call, how was she to know this would backfire?
And we owe it all to Hillary Clinton. The vile, corrupt, vicious, incompetent, venal and hubristic would-be tyrant. Bless her heart.
Most qualified candidate in the history of the world!
To her credit, I bet she can properly respond in a thread
Burn!
Yes, but only if the site is hosted on her private server, and she uses a sock.
What? To wipe it with?
Clean server – +1 Bob
P knows how to thread. He’s just been doing this out of pure spite for years now….I approve.
I’m just joking
Yes, but he’s dead serious about it.
I have been told that the best way is to sell them individually.
I suspect this is true, if you ignore the cost of your time and effort. Selling all of them, or multiple sets, sorted by whatevr category definitions might be acceptable might very well give you a better net return.
And, I agree- ASK SLOOPY. I think he said his last auction even included a big Matchbox collection.
I don’t really like the Eagles, so…
Godless! Atheists complain about gospel music at MLK Day celebration
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/08/godless-atheists-complain-about-gospel-music-at-mlk-day-celebration.html
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“It is laudable that the city is celebrating Dr. King and promoting unity within the community,” Freedom From Religion Foundation legal fellow Christopher Line wrote in a letter to city leaders. “However, including gospel music and religious messages in the celebration is inappropriate.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a Wisconsin-based group of atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers who seem hell-bent on eradicating Christianity from the public square.
On Jan. 15 the city hosted a MLK Day march and program at Booker T. Washington Elementary School. The program was advertised as “an opportunity to display hope and faith.” Click here to watch the video.
FFRF said they were contacted by a “concerned resident” who discovered the celebration included “religious music performed by a gospel choir and numerous speakers that made reference to God and Jesus.”
“Officials are not permitted to lend credibility or prestige to religion by including religious messages in city events,” Line wrote in the letter to city leaders. “We urge you to cease including religious music and messages in official Hobbs events.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is apparently unaware that Dr. King was not just a civil rights leader – but he was also a renowned Baptist minister – a preacher of the Gospel.
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hell-bent
I see what you did there.
Methinks that if you have your panties in a twist over that, you’re not an agnostic or a free thinker.
ACLU
Anti Christian Lawsuit Union
SPLC
Stupid Preposterous Lie Center
We was literally a pastor. His organization with the Southern Baptist Leadership Conference. What don’t they get here?
I hate these people.
the supreme court has ruled a bazilion times that the 1st amendment is about “Freedom OF religion”; and that the only restrictions the constitution allows is *on govt*.
they seem to think that if they just keep hammering popular misconceptions into people’s heads, they can invert it.
to be fair: i’ve always thought RFRA type laws were in some ways concessions to this sort of stupidity. they’re constitutionally unnecessary, but tend to validate the views of the ‘anti-religion’ types. you don’t need to ‘restore’ what isn’t actually missing.
Government is just the name we give to things we do outside our churches. And inside them.
They shouldn’t be necessary but the 1st is not recognized in the way it’s meant.
“Freedom from religion” = forcing other people to be “free” from religion?
Just avoid the celebration, throw on some headphones with Slayer playing, if you’re concerned about your own eyes and ears.
But it’s not about that. It’s about other people having the possibility to experience it. The horror!
Shouldn’t be confused with the United Atheist Alliance, though. That’s the real group of atheists.
It’s the problem of having won, any advocacy group will turn into assholes.
It’s also why I stopped identifying as a pro religion agnostic.
Had a thought today.
What would a Glibertarian Struggle Session look like?
Three hours of begging and a squirt on the leg?
On second thought, it would like Jesse’s porn collection, because no women.
This?
People staring at you oddly and then yelling “Fuck Off, Slaver”?
Not sure, but I’m willing to bet it’s been played out in Warty’s basement on numerous occasions.
Crazy but very interesting interview with Quincy Jones.
Some good jazz history in there too.
That brings up an interesting point. We pretty much know the mob fixed the vote in 60. Yet lots of people still don’t believe it can happen.
He also said Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor had a sexual relationship. Pryor’s widow confirms.
(I don’t know if I believe it.)
Here’s Where Your Tax Dollars for ‘Defense’ Are Really Going
https://www.thenation.com/article/heres-where-your-tax-dollars-for-defense-are-really-going/
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The numbers are staggering. In fiscal year 2016, the Pentagon issued $304 billion in contract awards to corporations—nearly half of the department’s $600 billion-plus budget for that year. And keep in mind that not all contractors are created equal. According to the Federal Procurement Data System’s top 100 contractors report for 2016, the biggest beneficiaries by a country mile were Lockheed Martin ($36.2 billion), Boeing ($24.3 billion), Raytheon ($12.8 billion), General Dynamics ($12.7 billion), and Northrop Grumman ($10.7 billion). Together, these five firms gobbled up nearly $100 billion of your tax dollars, about one-third of all the Pentagon’s contract awards in 2016.
And remember: The Pentagon buys more than just weapons. Health care companies like Humana ($3.6 billion), United Health Group ($2.9 billion), and Health Net ($2.6 billion) cash in as well, and they’re joined by, among others, pharmaceutical companies like McKesson ($2.7 billion) and universities deeply involved in military-industrial complex research like MIT ($1 billion) and Johns Hopkins ($902 million).
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On a related note, during the Korean War, the US military instituted a policy were every piece of equipment that was lost had to be accounted for with a Korea Certificate of Loss. This is of course led a great deal of fraud as equipment that was stolen was reported as lost or destroyed. And even when people were being honest, does it really matter where and when a jeep was blown up?
The desire to control everything leads to so many problems. America is not prosperous because of laws, but because of the relative lack of them.
MIT finally beat out Hopkins in the fed money category. That want always the case.
So does the author think the Pentagon should be running factories and it’s own software companies?
Don’t forget the 742,000 civilian employees (salaries, benefits, pensions, etc…) who are so awesome they need to hire 600,000 private contractors.
There was an episode on M*A*S*H where RADAR disassembled a Jeep and mailed it home, piece by piece.
Another thought regarding the toy car collection- if you sell each piece individually, you’re going to want to factor in some non-negligible shipping costs.
The numbers are staggering. In fiscal year 2016, the Pentagon issued $304 billion in contract awards to corporations—nearly half of the department’s $600 billion-plus budget for that year.
KKKorporations? NOOOOOOOO!
Who… fucking… else would be bidding on Pentagon contracts? Jim Bob’s Bait Shop and Weapons Procurement Shack?
What would a Glibertarian Struggle Session look like?
A room full of “Father Jack”s, yelling, DRINK! ARSE! and FECK OFF!
“What would a Glibertarian Struggle Session look like?”
A dark high ABV Porter? I can see the bottles with pirate ships and a busty serving wench. When we going to star working on that?
Some of you people like IPA. A Glib Struggle Session Ale would have to involve some kind of compromise beer like this one.
You know, MS, I ain’t one of those folks who likes IPA.
but you are certainly one of “you people.”
If shitlord is one of you, then yes.
The compromise being that it’s an IPA with almost no hops, hein?
Hyp, you might want to try “this one neat trick” with IPAs: pour it into a glass before you drink it. Seriously. It completely tones down the hoppiness relative to drinking straight from the bottle.
Babies drink from bottles.
real men drink from cans wrapped in a paper sack.
Also, that is exactly backwards. In a glass allows you to get the odor which the bottle blocks.
I think aroma is the word I meant.
If it’s a session beer, it should be under 4% abv
I like the cut of your jib.
Father Jack is my spirit animal.
I typically don’t drink ales, but I decided to try this one today. It’s not bad.
New Belgium TIPPEL Belgian Style Ale
Tha’ts the first Belgian I ever had, really nice and bold, Good Choice!
That one is good. I like their Abbey Ale better.
Do they still make Trappist Monk Ale? that was real good too
Don’t know.
I’ll be sure to try that one.
Yes, try it. Their Abbey Ale is good.
They do good, but I prefer Belgians made in Belgium.
China Grande Reserve is still my go to.
Chimay, damn you autocorrect.
New Belgium makes some good stuff. I haven’t had that one yet.
a new low for old blighty
UK: Man faces terrorism charge for fighting against the Islamic State
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/uk-man-faces-terrorism-charge-for-fighting-against-the-islamic-state
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LONDON — A British man who fought with Kurdish militia against the Islamic State is now facing a terrorism charge.
London’s Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday that 43-year-old James Matthews is accused of “attending a place or places in Iraq and Syria where instruction or training was provided” for terrorist purposes.
In March, a Jim Matthews was signatory on an “open letter from British YPG fighters on London attacks” posted on a Kurdish news website. It urged people not to give in to extremism following several deadly attacks….This is one of the first cases in which a Briton who fought against ISIS has been charged with terrorism.
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HMG has a complicated and nuanced view of the status of the Kurds, particularly the YPG.
I continue to not understand why everyone has not invested in my British burka factory. Get in now!
So they have proscribed certain places on Earth now?
Old habits die hard
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Proscription_1746
*waves Union Jack*
“However, including gospel music and religious messages in the celebration is inappropriate.”
Wait- a shindig commemorating the life and works of THE REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING has gospel music and religious messages?
Words fail me.
HMG has a complicated and nuanced view of the status of the Kurds, particularly the YPG.
NATO allies, FTW!
It’s not only HMG. We do the same thing.
We’re going to continue to appease Turkey, shitty as they are (see: the whole Armenian Genocide thing) because we’re afraid that if we piss them off they’ll ally with RUSSIA! and the Middle East shithole countries, and that wouldn’t be good.
And the Dardanelles, Cause the US Navy needs access to those Valuable Black Sea ports!
Meanwhile We complain about Russians and Chinese doing the same shit, the Hypocrisy is off Scale
Saudi Arabia: Uproar over 11-year-old girl’s dance that “has angered our religion”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/saudi-arabia-uproar-over-11-year-old-girls-dance-that-has-angered-our-religion
This all fits into my theory that most disputes are about hurt feelings instead of actual reasons (harm to life or property).
They prefer it to be little boys doing the dancing for old men
Looks like Rand Paul is trying to precipitate total anarchy and apocalypse again.
Did he mention that perhaps we shouldn’t be spending like drunk sailors?
Drunk Sailors eventually run out of money and shore leave.
Let’s cut down to five shots of Turkey and 3 martinis a night.
Hihn’s gonna balance it out on TOS, never fear!
The Paulista goober Christian Taliban are at it again; that’s what 91% of of Americans are libertarians but reject 9% of the libertarian brand. You are a BULLY AND AN AGGRESSOR and void of any substance and I’m taking this transcript to my luncheon with the Koch’s!!!
*Snickers*
*Drools*
*Chortles*
*Farts*
\Hihn’s tired old schtick
*prolonged ovation*
The wailing and nashing of teeth at work tomorrow is going to be glorious. You know what public sector employee has two thumbs and gets giddy over the thought of a shutdown? *Points two thumbs at ear to ear grin*…..This guy!!!! RAND PAUL! RAND PAUL! RAND PAUL!
I’m pissed off about this budget thing too – maybe not as much as most of you guys…but seriously…the amount of hassle, uncertainty this all causes to Joe Sailor/Soldier/Marine/etc is ridiculous.
In a few hours I’ll know whether my unit has to pay through the nose to buy me a plane ticket home a week early and cancel my follow-on orders to fly out on Friday afternoon…or if I’ll go to my next school a few hours drive away and fly home next week on my normal orders. That’s the whole point of scheduling back to back classes in order to take advantage of location, etc.
Just so stupid….they’ve had months to iron this stuff out but they leave everything till the last second to grandstand like a bunch of jackasses.
I can definitely go in to my contract job next week either way – prefunded – but who knows if there’ll be another chance to get this training this FY or just wait till later. (and who knows how long it’ll take to get paid for this week of duty depending how long they stay shut down).
It is silly that the military gets lumped in with other government workers. The military actually fills a legitimate function. 90% of other government workers? No.
Mattis said pretty much the same thing to Congress yesterday, I hate the whole “You guys have to do this, the money to do this will have to wait” Bull shit, which is biting us in the Ass already, Good Luck on an actual budget Fish,
Thanks. I’ve had a bunch of conversations with my unit (admin reserve center already) – there’s going to be a LOT of scrambling nationwide and crazy phone calls if stuff goes tits up on a weeknight. It’s like the dates they choose are completely arbitrary.
Not at all ,the dates all coincide with their Tuesday thru Thursday “work week” and Holidays,Committees to review Oversite Boards to… you get the picture,
How deep you think this market correction will go? Goes too deep and the deficit is going to explode. Yellin got out while the gettin’ was good and Powell is not going to have much fun trying to get out of the corner he’s painted into.
The thing is, the Krugabista morons do have a point…..if the Congress spent 90% of actual revenue (no deficit spending) on various spending, and spent 10% on debt service, the debt would be paid down in 50 years at the absolute maximum, and that’s assuming you don’t actually cut boondoggles, fire government workers, reform the healthcare system, deregulate, and do all manner of other things that would boost the economy and fight inflation.
It’s not easy, but it is really fucking simple. Shit, you give me one Presidential term with the NSA’s blackmail files, I’ll get our fucking fiscal house in order.
I have some swing for the fence positions, but I hope I’m wrong.
There’s an irrational short run that can’t be predicted.
There’s a rational long run where one considers equities’ earnings and compares those to bond yields, real estate, etc.
My own view focuses on the latter, of course.
I just can’t imagine when I’ll be ready to abandon American equities in favor of foreign equities or American bonds.
I’m always buying; today I bought more cheaply than yesterday.
Powell is not going to have much fun trying to get out of the corner he’s painted into.
Powell’s going to get the blame. He’s the first Fed Chair in living memory who isn’t an ivory tower degrees-coming-out-of-his-ears Economist.
“Bernanke and Yellin were doing great, and then that buffoon Trump and his unqualified lackey came in and blew it all up!”
Sadly, ^This.
Maybe. There’s an awful lot of retarded hand wringing going on over less than a week of profit taking.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/2018/02/08/juggling-act/110238524/
People and writers are idiots.
After months of build-up, Pearson went into cardiac arrest just hours after heroically saving his family during a massive fire. And what caused the fire? A faulty Crock-Pot.
Fans were aghast. Some were so upset that they pitched their slow cookers.
That show is awful. I can’t believe it’s as popular as it allegedly is.
I know, how can anyone have different taste than you?
That being said I haven’t seen the show but I laughed out loud when I found out it was about triplets. Really?
Neighbors tell FOX 13 News they’re happy the guns didn’t end up in the wrong hands.
Uhh… the cops got the guns back.
RIP Pat Torpey 🙁
Here’s a song that shows what Mr. Torpey was capable of.
Two hours ago it was 48 degrees (American) – now it’s 14 and snowing.
Two hours ago it was 84 degrees (American) – now it’s 81 and Windy,
/the only reason to live in California
The wind?
You’re weird Ted…
It’s 70 in Florida. There’s no reason to live in CA, ever.
As much as I really don’t like Florida… Florida is so, so, so much a better place to live than California.
Didn’t say perfect, just better.
I had a near perfect youth in Cali, of the 60s and 70s, too bad I have to leave, but Florida? Keep the humidity, thanks for playin’
Wow. trying not to be incredibly politically incorrect. Keep all your Cali shit – too numerous to specify…
Note: Fla does have a huge amount of humidity, way more than Cali. But Cali has way more earthquakes than Fl: eg, they get them.Hah hah, you got a 5.4? We got a 0.0! Suck our dick!
What are those things that are measured by categories? I think it’s hurricanes.
We know around a week in advance if a hurricane’s coming, plenty of time to board up our homes and, if necessary, get the fuck out of there.
Big earthquake could hit y’all in a minute and you’d never know it’s coming.
Yeah, I remember I actually owned (and wore) a coat when I lived there.
Rand Paul is filibustering the spending bill. He must hold the record for the most filibusters on more than one topic
And I love him for it.
*dives under table to hide from Ken*
(Insert wall of text)
I hope he’s successful. The idiocity of our congresscritters when it comes to fiscal sanity is astounding.
I plan to live another 40+ years in this country. I would like my savings to have some value when I retire. At the current rate those idiots are going my money will be worthless in my life time.
But on the plus side, paying off my mortgage will be so much easier!
I already did that. Maybe i should just say fuck and go buy a 70k jacked up diesel. I have always wanted one.
I can set you up with a stock one for 1/3 that amount, and you can jack it yourself.
https://postimg.org/image/tby2uez33/
That truck is long as fuck.
It is a dodge though. I understand their diesels are the best ones made. Theres a reason the big rigs run a straight 6.
Yeah. For the un-initiated, the 8′ bed after the full cab puts the tailgate WAAAAY back there when you look in the mirror.
6-speed manual, top end is about 74 mph. But she’ll drag 12,800 lbs at that speed and not even sweat. 16 mpg.
I imagine parking that thing could be a pain in the ass. A few years ago I took a hard look at a dode diesel that I ultimately passed up. It was a 2010 4WD 2500 mega cab with an 8ft bed. It was huge. I liked it but we couldn’t get right on a price.
” I would like my savings to have some value when I retire.”
I suggest buying silver. It’s never been worth nothing and you can put it in a chest and bury it like a pirate.
Guns don’t lose their value either and are far more utilitarian than silver
OK, but you still need a parrot and an eye patch.
One of my wife’s aunts has a parrot. There is no way I’d have one of those in my house. Nocturnal, loud, annoying as hell. Not for me. I could go for an eye patch though.
Hope you’re not in her will. Parrots can live for over 80 years. Great way to ruin you’re relatives day after you die.
On the flipside, this couple that my parents used to be friends with spent almost a thousand dollars (in the mid-90s) on a talking parrot, and it died two weeks later.
Yarrr
no no no YARRRRG!
One invests in the hopes of gains.
There’s no reason to believe any commodity will go up, so we don’t “invest” in them.
Equities represent claims on future earnings;
if you buy companies you believe are well-managed, you have a chance to participate in their profits.
Equities are seldom “worth nothing.”
A diversified portfolio is never worth nothing.
Investors who know what they’re doing are not worried today.
Once again, the conservative, sandwich heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3QRTToTLzI
If it helps you feel better,
remember that today’s idiots are not special.
WW2, VietNam, the Great Society, RWR40, GWB43, and BHO44 all led to tremendous increases in debt.
But currencies are a market (why don’t marketeers remember this?);
there’s nothing better to believe in than the US….ergo the dollar;
when the dollar goes, there will be no better place to hide.
The steady, slow, epic, undying slide of the dollar is the gentlest fall that all other currencies dream of having.
The part that pisses me off the most is that it’s unnecessary. The dollar doesn’t have to slowly die. Self serving assholes in Washington are killing it.
This is abundantly fair.
But I don’t get as worked up about it as others:
my libertarianism recognizes inefficiencies everywhere,
so the inefficiencies of government spending aren’t necessarily all that different from private spending.
I’m not off the reservation, but I am saying the difference is smaller than philosophers insist.
Maybe private folks would invest wisely if government took less from them;
or maybe they’d just send it all to China via WMT.
Frankly, the folks I know or are related to don’t do much for my faith in markets:
rational decisions are rarer than hens’ teeth.
You need not hold dollars, BTW:
real-estate and equities are good hiding places even if they are traded in dollars.
“inefficiencies of government spending aren’t necessarily all that different from private spending.”
True, but private inefficiencies mostly affect those voluntary involved with the spending. Government inefficiency affects everone whether they wish to be involved or not.
Sure…I’d never claim otherwise: “I’m not off the reservation.”
I’m just saying I can’t be sure how many millions inefficiency has cost me.
Most of the guys who theorize about stuff like this buy cars on credit or smoke dope.
The truth is that Americans have it pretty good,
and at least 50% of a man’s situation is his own doing,
so working hard, saving heavily, and investing deeply are much more important.
But I agree: I’m not off the reservation.
Reminds me of an article I read by Welch that complained that the 1995 shutdown killed GOP libertarianism. Not explained is how caving to avoid a shutdown would have saved GOP libertarianism. One of the first warnings that Reason wasn’t very well…reasonable. Drink!
And Chucky Moobs’ little presser about this “bipartisan” turd sounded extra sloppy and pathetic.
an interesting investment strategy I learned about recently
Buy 50-50 mix of stocks and bonds. At the end of the year, sell of what increased in value and buy what decreased so that it stays a 50-50 mix. This system insures that you always buy low and sell high.
So if you buy $50 of stock and $50 of bonds and a year later it becomes $60 of stock and $50 of bonds, sell $5 of stock and buy $5 of bonds.
I don’t know if it could work similarly for commodities. My current portfolio is a collection of silver coins.
If you simulate that since WW2, you lose a ton of money: that system ensures two things:
a) you hang onto dying stocks until they go to $0
b) you bail out of great companies because you recognize how great they are early.
No amount good companies make can keep you afloat before you sell them.
Your portfolio should hold things you believe in in the proportions that ensure diversification;
once a year or so, you should consider slight buying changes that will restore the proper mix.
This ensures you buy low (you’re always buying) and you remain in charge of diversification.
I think baked into the system is the idea that you sell off the assets that lost value.
So if you start with $25 of stock A and $25 of stock B and a year later you have $35 of A and $25 of B, you sell $5 of B.
I’m lost. Your earliest note reads: “sell of what increased in value.”
OK, poorly worded on my part. You sell off the poor performer in the category that increased in value. If bonds went up, sell off the poor performing bonds and buy stock. If stocks went up, vice-versa.
this explains it better
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nifty-5050-portfolio-keeps-investing-simple-2010-09-02
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According to this principle, all you need are three diversified, index-tracking mutual funds or exchange-traded funds — one for U.S. stocks, one for international stocks and one for bonds. The portfolio must be rebalanced at least once a year to ensure that half of the money stays in stocks and half in bonds.
It’s boring and bland and won’t score you any points at parties, but this bare-bones approach — call it the “Nifty 50/50 Portfolio” — has made almost as much money as a more aggressive, stock-heavy strategy over the past 25 years and topped it over the past decade.
Moreover, investors in this 50/50 mix would have had some insulation from stock-market swings. When global markets imploded in 2008, the 50/50 blend lost 17%, compared with a 31% decline for a portfolio with 80% stocks and 20% bonds.
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It sounds like you’ve proved my point.
The principles I laid out are what matter; there is no substitute for understanding what you’re buying.
For what it’s worth, 50/50 is too weak unless your liquidation horizon is less than 20 years.
50/50 worked better only in the worst recession in 80 years which doesn’t matter if you weren’t selling;
that short-run result isn’t a good reason to miss out on better returns if you’re selling much later.
also
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A Historical Look at a 50/50 Portfolio
Posted April 2, 2015 by Ben Carlson
Last year I wrote about the worst 10 year returns earned on a simple 50/50 portfolio of stocks and bonds. A reader recently dug up that post and asked for some further information and a look at different scenarios on the returns of a 50/50 portfolio made up of the S&P 500 and long-term U.S. treasury bonds.
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It’s nice to know that there’s never been a negative ten year return using a 50/50 portfolio, but the worst decade long stretch was barely positive with annual returns of less than 1% per year or a total return of just under 7%. This occurred during a ten year period ending in 1939 when the stock market was down 6.1% per year. Bonds provided a nice diversification benefit by rising 5.5% annually (overall returns were positive from the rebalancing bonus).
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http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2015/04/a-historical-look-at-a-5050-portfolio/
There’s never been a negative ten year return using 100/0.
This guy should still to aluminum siding.
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I agree that the author does a terrible job of analysis, but the point still stands and is better explained by the first article. A 50/50 strategic allocation with annual rebalancing does have desirable historical RISK-ADJUSTED returns. Risk, and the investor’s timeframe, is often neglected by these type of blog style pieces.
There’s something to be said for the sentiment that investors with longer time horizons have too great a fear of equity market volatility and don’t allocate enough to that asset class. But that doesn’t make 100% equity in perpetuity the best strategy for everyone.
@beelzeboener
I was just being frivolous about 100/0 to make a point
in that 85%-of-rapist-have-milk-in-their-refrigerator sort of way.
You understand the big issues; it’s clear to you.
I’m trying to distract folks from mistaken, pop notions,
but the real principles aren’t sexy 140character tidbits.
I have a personality defect in that I can’t leave bad info alone;
I’ve got to say something, explain how it really works.
Accordingly, I’ve been too exhausted to go to a family reunion in decades.
This is not a particularly novel strategy, it’s just simple annual “rebalancing” of a strategic asset allocation. Rebalancing is one of the most time-tested principles of long-term investing and most 401(k) plans allow for you to set this up to occur automatically. Annual frequency is sufficient.
There’s nothing special about the 50/50 stock/bond allocation. 60/40 is the industry standard for a “moderate” portfolio which is often used for a lifelong strategy.
You may want to seriously consider diversifying away from a 100% silver bullion portfolio though, no matter what the method. The long-term expected return of precious metals is ZERO. There are some that argue for a small allocation (10-15%) to precious metals for reducing overall portfolio volatility, but this is not well-established. Keep in mind bullion’s storage/security costs eat into returns.
Some also argue for having bullion on hand for a SHTF scenario. I prefer ammo though.
This is all exactly correct.
The problem with 50/50 is that it’s a sales gimmick, not an appeal to basic principles;
I try to explain the basics, but it seldom catches on: doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker.
“security costs eat into returns”……on bonds, commodities……everything: it’s never not true.
Again: the basic principle is equities over time beat everything;
if you don’t need your money any time soon, it needs to be in equities.
Then one manages risk-reward with diversification, not tinfoil hat “strategies” that “prove out” over short runs.
How is 50/50 a sales gimmick, compared to 60/40 or anything other than 100% equity? It’s no silver bullet for everyone, but having a portfolio with less volatility can be the right solution for many investors, such as those nearing retirement or already making regular withdrawals. Again, the idea of strategic asset allocation isn’t a “tinfoil hat strategy”, but rather a sound investment principle.
For professionals like the author, “investor management” is often more important than “investment management”. Many do-it-yourselfers lack the guts to handle dramatic market drops so the sell out at the exact wrong time. A less volatile portfolio can help keep fluctuations within someone’s comfort level and give them the peace of mind to not make any rash decisions. This may be less than optimal, but it’s the reason “risk-tolerance” is so pervasive within the financial advice industry.
BTW, I meant “security” in the sense of owning a safe for storing bullion. That’s actually one of the few situations where a low-cost option might not be a good idea.
I wasn’t attacking:
there’s nothing wrong with 50/50 if that lines up with ones risk tolerance.
I’m just reacting to the ease of selling that idea:
if 55/45 is right for someone, they’re not going to learn it from this one simple trick.
We violently agree: there’s no substitute for understanding risk tolerance
and where that might put you on an asset mix.
To be more clear, I have a conversion reaction to my hillbilly birth:
I’m desperate to sell principles over slogans,
and I’m terribly frustrated by my few conversions.
I’m coming into retirement investment late in the game (very late 30s, to be precise) and I’m following a strategy I’d read up on in a few places. It basically amounts to spreading your investments equally across domestic large cap growth, value, mid cap growth, value, international/foreign, small cap growth, value, a REIT, and finally a broad-based bond fund.It presupposes fund investment rather than individual stocks, and the idea is it’s a “set and forget” strategy that you revisit annually to rebalance. I want to say it’s called the “cafe strategy” or something like that.
The idea is that you decide how aggressively you want to invest your retirement–in my case, very aggressively–and then you stick to funds, preferably with low management costs. Nothing magic, mostly index funds. In my case, I modified it to work with what I’m offered through the Fidelity 403b I get through work. Because you’re so diversified, you’re taking advantage of growth where it happens and shielded to some extent from loss by diversification. The big thing is it’s simple, but supposedly better than the managed funds you’d normally get in a default retirement plan.
That works.
My parents saves a quarter out of every buck they ever made,
and I started my IRA at 20 out of genetics more than from insight.
After engineering, economics, and later an MBA in finance, I knew more by 30.
My sector mix isn’t much different from yours,
and I absolutely believe in index funds for easy coverage.
But I’ve also picked my own stocks for thirty years:
because I only have buy and sell fees, my net is even better than index funds;
just buy a big enough block that the fee is a tiny fraction of the play.
You need at least 20 equities (that have low covariance) to diversify if you have no funds.
Don’t buy what you don’t understand.
I’m a bricks and mortar guy: I’ve skipped most of the “tech” booms and busts;
how many guys rode CPQ into the ground and skipped KR over the past half century?
The key to success is behavior: save much, save often;
that’s infinitely more important than what you pick.
“Don’t buy what you don’t understand.”
Can’t be said often enough.
I have neither the knowledge nor the interest to get into individual stock investing. It would be gambling for me, maybe riskier because at least I know how to evaluate sports betting prospects a bit better. A long time ago I read something about index funds that was basically like, “If you’re tracking the Dow, you can’t go wrong. Because the economy has grown more or less constantly over time since the country has existed. If the Dow collapses, you’ve got bigger problems than the health of your 401k.”
I live in a neighborhood that is very slowly gentrifying, and I’ve learned a lot from my two neighbors. To the left is an old black lady, and she has owned her home outright for decades. She has a very modest retirement income but no concerns about meeting day-to-day expenses. To my right was an older black gentleman. Same situation, only he ran into some tax issues which eroded his savings, and then medical trouble. Wiped out in four years, died shortly thereafter. The lesson: own a home, live off interest.
I prefer a getting a different passport. The US is not gonna be on top forever and when it isn’t fall is going to be spectacular.
Late submission here
A 50/50 portfolio might fit your risk tolerance profile at a certain point in your life, but it’s not a magic formula. For a number of years, I worked trying to make managed futures a viable component of a good risk-adjusted portfolio for American investors, so I ended up pretty well embedded in Modern Portfolio Theory, and I can talk the ass off a concrete elephant about efficient frontiers, risk tolerances, etc.
The bad news is that all of that number-crunchy stuff is based on historical data, and the world is never ever quite the same a second time. In general, regular portfolio balancing makes sense, to whatever ratios you consider appropriate, because while (for example monthly) returns are not statistically correlated en mass, they do exhibit serial correlation – an up month is more likely to be followed by an up month than a down month, and vice versa – so a portfolio that gets out of balance increases your risk, and *in general* people tend to have a risk profile that gets more conservative with time.
Incidentally, this is one of the reasons fund-of-funds are a bad investment. They were always promoted as a way to gain access to the most talented, but inaccessible managers via asset pooling, but what happens in practice is that the more successful a manager in the fund is, the more assets get allocated away from him (because as the portfolio proceeds, they end up with a higher net percentage of the assets) and when rebalancing time happens, the money is given to the poorest-performing manager in the pool.
If you’re an investment naif, look into target funds, where someone (who should be charging you a very low basis) is managing a relatively reasonable portfolio mix for your age and target date for retirement. They are far from perfect, but they address that stock/fixed income issue.
I’ve never had the funds to play in the market, well at one point I felt I was liquid enough but life had other plans; but I never understood the ‘market’ the way most people talk about it. I don’t see the point in portfolios or having a manager do your investing. The market is all about knowing when and what to buy, if you don’t know that it’s probably not for you. I think that was one of the problems that led to the last few bubbles, people ‘investing’ in a fund or money manager instead of what the market is for, putting your money into something you believe in. That is why markets work, they are a feed back loop to entrepreneurs; but the way the system works now it is all about what ever the money manager is looking to push, and has a negative feedback to the actual person using the money.
The problem with that is that managing a portfolio of stocks personally is lack of diversification unless you’re literally going to have a buy-and-hold strategy with the expectation that your hold period is going to be counted in years and possibly decades. If, for example, you determined 15 years ago that GE was a good buy, (and based on lots of historical research, you would have come to that conclusion) you’d need to have been reviewing that holding every year at least – in detail – to have determined that you should have sold it. Now multiply that by the number of stocks in your portfolio. The big stocks are like supertankers, their fortunes tend to change slowly. If you went for smaller stocks, you’d have to watch them more closely, as you rightly pointed out.
This was the appeal of index funds, in that you were buying the broader market (you’re still actually working with a money manager though, when you dig deep enough) – but the fees are low, so you’re helping your future, and not someone else’s. In general, index funds are a reasonable hedge against inflation, and take out a lot of the volatility you experience with picked stocks, but you’re still subject to them.
The days of putting your money in something you believe in, is, for the average joe, long gone, but not because of something a money manager ‘wants to push’, simply because individual investors are a miniscule fraction of the shareholder ownership of large corporations. Most of Ford is owned by pension funds, and every two weeks, the money managers who run those pension funds have another few million in cash deposited in their portfolios that they have to put to work – which is why every two weeks there’s upward pressure on the S&P – because those managers NEED – as part of their mandate – to put that money to work in the S&P 500. It’s slightly worse than this, because an S&P 500 index fund doesn’t actually invest in 500 equities – typically an index fund buys about 1/10th of the stocks, chosen in a way to materially track the performance of the index they’re trying to shadow.
But make no mistake. If you have a 401(k) or a defined benefit plan, you have money managers working for you.
As to what caused the bubbles – that’s a long story, and largely unrelated to the behavior of money managers (with a few notable exceptions).
The Weirdest—and Possibly Best—Proposal to Resolve the North Korea Crisis
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/north-korea-china-russia/552794/
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Kim Jong Un possesses nuclear weapons, above all, to deter an American attack. Thus, the best way to limit his arsenal is to help him deter such an attack without nukes. That’s the rationale behind Naval War College Professor Lyle Goldstein’s wildly counterintuitive, and oddly compelling, proposal: The United States should ask China and Russia to deploy troops on North Korean soil.
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Or we could withdraw from South Korea and Japan and give them some of our nukes.
or just let em build their own, it would take about 5 minutes, they are capable and ready
Sell them some of our nukes then. We can make a cheap commercial with a guy in an Uncle Sam costume.
“Head down to Uncle Sam’s WMD showroom! Certified, pre-owned warheads! Our prices are so low, they’ll blow you away!”
This one weird trick will keep North Korea from vaporizing Guam!
Communists hate it!
I doubt Kim would want that for a number of reasons. He has almost as much to fear from China and Russia as he purportedly does from the US. If they got pissed off at Kim, it would be real easy to whack his regime with troops on the ground. It would destroy his internal propaganda of being self sufficient and weaken his standing in N Korea’s power structure. There would be far too much uncontrolled outside contact with Russian and Chinese soldiers, which despite both countries governments, aren’t as isolated or as backward as North Korea is.
Spirit Airlines employee told student to flush emotional support hamster down the toilet, student alleges
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/02/08/spirit-airlines-employee-told-student-to-flush-emotional-support-hamster-down-toilet-student-alleges.html
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A college student said she flushed her emotional support hamster down the toilet after Spirit Airlines refused to let her bring her furry pet on the plane.
Belen Aldecosea, 21, of Miami Beach, Florida, told the Miami Herald that she contacted Spirit Airlines before her flight from Baltimore to South Florida on Nov. 21, 2017, regarding traveling with her dwarf hamster, Pebbles. Aldecosea claimed the airline told her it was not a problem to bring her hamster on the flight.
However, when the student arrived at the airport she said the airline refused to let Pebbles on the plane. Aldecosea said she did not have many options since her family was in Florida and her friends were hours away. The student claimed a Spirit employee suggested she either flush Pebbles down the toilet or let the animal free.
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I hate everyone involved.
-1 Lemmiwinks
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/02/08/spirit-airlines-employee-told-student-to-flush-emotional-support-hamster-down-toilet-student-alleges.amp.html
You know who else was forced to send their hamster into the dark, dank neither regions?
*nether
I’m three beers deep and spelling is hard enough for me when I’m completely sober.
Mr. Slave?
Richard Gere was unable to consult.
Christ, what an asshole!
/gerbil
This place never disappoints
http://5newsonline.com/2018/02/08/gwen-stefani-joins-blake-shelton-in-fort-smith/
This is happening about 4 miles from where I currently sit. And I’m stuck at work all night. Damn it. Teenage Lachowsky was in love with Gwen.
Too bad: you’re five hours away.
I thought with that handle of yours that you were in LRA (Pulaski County);
we could have met up easily if ’twere true….alas.
My brother lives in Little Rock. I’m not attracted to cities at all. My place is in the boonies about 30 miles from ft. smith. How long are you gonna be in LR. my brother lives there and I visit him often.
I’m safely domiciled in TN.
But LRA has the best tasting rooms in the South…..there’s something worth the trip.
Little rock also has a pizza place that I’m very fond of. I usually go there when I go down to see my brother.
http://www.damgoodepies.com
Middle-aged MikeS is in lust with Gwen.
Oh Boo-hoo. Poppy was just in Indy, and Columbus, and I missed both shows.
Poppy is wierd as hell. would though.
I bet it smells like MENTOS
/friend of mine
That comment makes sense to me.
It shouldn’t, but it does.
Just ride it out.
Weirdos…
Teenage TH grew up with a girl who looked a lot like Gwen. Unfortunately, she was in the habit of giving herself raccoon eyes….still would’ve.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/01/22/the-countries-that-trust-their-government-most-and-least-infographic/amp/
The countries with the highest social trust are China, India and Turkey.
There’s a lesson there, I think.
This reminds me of a Mark Twain quote;
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
I trust the government (to do what is to the short term benefit of those in government).
Stop the World I wanna get off.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/02/07/a-woman-may-have-given-birth-in-an-airport-bathroom-and-left-the-baby-behind-police-say/?utm_term=.34634d6b532c
Seems like we get some version of this story every blue moon.
If it helps remind you savages how to grab a big-butted girl, and twirl her to a 2-step, or the even more rudimentary box-step, Im draining my 40 oz to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gvOS95LutI
Goodnight Missus Calabash, wherever you are.
He *is* saying it’s aliens.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a34dme/this-guy-paints-the-sex-he-allegedly-has-with-aliens
I can’t imagine how Vice missed its financial projections when they break stories like this one.
Feeling quite misandrist tonight. I mean, more so than normal. Any chance of a SMOD any time soon?
Is it because of the figure skating?
Duh.
My phone just gave me an alert that the givernment just shut down again. SMOD can’t be far behind.
BBC
creditsblames Rand Paul.So, if I’m informed correctly, second shutdown = The Purge. Blast away!
And, just because I had scotch so my usually mellow temper is fraying, FUCK BBC NEWS
Shit Trump does? Whims of a fascist monster.
Action taken by Obama? Not his, but an expression of a spirit of an era.
Someone release the Mongols onto them already.
Calm down Pan, your government will be up and about in the morning forcing it’s residents to be bilingual and use proper pronouns, just as it should be. It’s only us US citizens who will wake up again to a hellscape created by monsters like Paul.
Americans murdering each other is, I’m told, a natural order of things so carry on.
I’m just pissed I have to read news like it’s fucking Pravda or Politika.
I’m glad I didn’t have to suffer under Pravda and it’s compatriot papers. Even with all the trouble going on, I’m also glad I live in the most blessed country to exist in history. As many people that want to bring our country to ruin, we always have that American optimism that shaped our destiny. The things going on now are a bump in the road of a truly progressive, not the way they use it, light to freedom around the world. Listen to me, In sound like the hacks at TOS. LIBERTARIAN MOMENT!!
You may be living in a country that has more private info on its citizenry than any country in history.
Mo data, Mo problems. I think a government that knows 100% what all people are doing all the time is less dangerous than one that focuses it’s power on a few disruptors. Just based on man power. But, there is that optimism again.
Problem is that anyone that excels is a wide open target. They’ll, for the most part, leave the peons alone and so the best defense will be to remain a peon.
Hence my brilliant plan to never succeed. It’s weaseled me through life so far, sad as it is.
Too much info, too low quality.
Much more efficient to rely on people denouncing each other. You still wind up with too much information, but at least it’s actionable if you happen to need it.
:thunderous applause:
In what ways is the US on a road to a libertarian moment?
Late night thread, we meet again. Maybe this for the late nighters.
Who’s the brains in that scenario? It works. Nice.
I don’t think brains are featured anywhere in that picture. Just gusto, pragmatism and ego.
Ball girls be greatly shaken.
A lefty Jap, someone you know you can’t trust…but I’d let that girl handle my balls any time…
My senior quote was supposed to be ‘I love to eat Chinese, but I’ll never touch the food’. They wouldn’t print that, they thought it was something sexual.
Well, this week started with good news about a mortgage modification and I just got an email that my student loan forbearance has been granted. So the grand plan to get our financial house in order proceeds better than expected. On the wave of this good fortune I finish a vodka and cran, wind up my video game playing for the evening, watch an episode of The Civil War, and contemplate my first authorial contribution to the Glibs. It’s pretty good. I’ll take it. Count your blessings, you’ve got more than you’d think. ‘Night, y’all.
I count my blessings every night that I have a 47” TV, highspeed internet, blu-ray player and 2.5 acres of land to enjoy and am the poorest of the poor in this country. We live in a blessed time.
Rockefeller didn’t have an IPhone!
What topic?
Sideways vaginas?
Dicks?
Did Rand Paul just become the most powerful man in the world?
You shall not pass!
I hope he doesn’t fall off a bridge like Gandalf the Gray did. Fuck, we might have just given them an idea, dicks balls faggot…maybe that threw them off the scent.
Man I barely surviving this second shutdown. I’ve seen three pitched battles with automatic weapons outside my house..
I didn’t even have time to load my AK.
Unfortunately I think this one is going to be shorter than the last one. I’m pretty sure those ass hats in Washington are about to pass a bipartisan bill that will continue to plunge us further into debt.