STEVE SMITH NO WRITE THIS AD!
STEVE SMITH TAKE BREAK…HIM DO LOTS OF PROMINENT FOREST LAWYERING. REPRESENT RACCOON AGAINST POSSUM, IN GARBAGE THEFT CASE….ALSO DRAFT CASCADIA INDEPENDENCE BRIEF, FOR FILE IN INTERNATIONAL COURTS. THEM NO WANT BRIEF ON BIRCH BARK. NOT SURE WHY? STEVE SMITH POLITELY DISAGREE WITH CLERKS OF COURT AND LEAVE. BY POLITELY DISAGREE, MEAN RAPE.
BUT THAT NOT WHY FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE HERE. THEM WANT LINKS! SO HERE LINKS:
- SOME SAY “BUILD WALL”, SOME SAY “LET IN”. STEVE SMITH SAY “HIM GO GREET THEM!” HEY, WHERE CARAVAN GO?! MAYBE THEM TALK AND FIGURE OUT. STEVE SMITH STILL MEMBER WELCOME WAGON.
- THIS NO FUNNY. STEVE SMITH ANGRY AT COPS. MAYBE STEVE SMITH GO EXPLAIN THEM NO BE BAD COPS. BY EXPLAIN, MEAN DEMONSTRATE REAL RAPE.
- WAIT… THIS NO FLORIDA MAN? HIM TEXAS MAN… LOOK LIKE TIME FLORIDA STEP UP GAME! REMINDS…STEVE SMITH ONCE TRY BE AIR MARSHAL – CREW NO WANT HIM ON PLANE. NOT KNOW WHY?
- IT LOOK LIKE HOOMANS NO LONGER DOMINANT SPECIES IN ENGLAND. SILLY ENGLISH HOOMANS – JUST SEND WHALE GO SEE COUSIN SEA SMITH. THEM HAVE GOOD TIME. BY GOOD TIME…MEAN WHALE GET RAPED. MAYBE EATEN. DEPEND IF SEA HUNGRY.
STEVE SMITH ALRIGHT!
FREE CASCADIA!
WHERE CARAVAN GO?!
I assume we are going to get one of these every couple months for the foreseeable future because ‘racist Drumpf’.
Aaaaaaaannnd, first.
Nah. Just until early November.
Maybe again in late 2020.
I am not sure sending thousands of people trying to enter the country illegally will work against the guy who ran a campaign on building a wall and stopping illegal immigration and was then elected President. It really sounds like a dumb strategy to me but then again I am not a political strategist or community organizer so what the fuck do I know.
Brafford admitted to using meth a day earlier and said he also had overdosed on heroin Saturday, according to the complaint. He also said that God had been talking to him during the flight.
Ah, the old Kavanaugh defense, eh.
Mexico agrees to Trumps new deal (heh) and is trying to stop the caravan; I think maybe Kanye and Macron have some competition.
Does CNN have a Hispanic anchor that could call Mexico a “token spic”?
le sigh. There’s an unavoidable 1-hour raising time once I get this dough mixed up.
I have used up the bulk of a 5-pound bag of flour making pretzel rolls.
I’d be happy to send you flour in exchange for rolls at Thanksgiving.
I’ve got another seven pounds or so in the cabinet.
But I worked from This recipe
Assuming you don’t need them tonight, you could do an overnight rise in the fridge.
I was debating that. But I also want to hit the road as early as possible tomorrow. So I’ll finish baking this batch tonight, and pick a more suitable spot to set the container.
This batch had better turn out properly and not end up spilt. I’ve used the last of my yeast, and my last measure of evening. But it’s in the oven.
Well, the came out of the oven beautifully. They’re resting on top of the stove on their baking sheet to cool a bit.
The Daily Fail links have not worked for me all day. That chick with the huge ass must have “broke the internet”.
So this is the commenter formerly known as Rhywun?
Someone suggested the name and I thought what the hell – is it even possible? Turns out, it is. Plus, it’s proper ‘Murcan so it has that going for it.
I think an avatar of Billy Baldwin from Bio Dome would make the transition easier, white guy dreads, Madusa hair, same dif.
Or there’s this
I may be too late for this, but, why not a classic?
I don’t know what that is.
I was trying to find a shot from Glengarry Glen Ross where he captured “asshole” particularly well but they were all too grainy.
Sorry-That’s the Alec Baldwin puppet from Team America.
Spoiler alert: The main “character” sees him as the best actor in the world.
I miss the Caravaggio picture!
I don’t care for Alec Baldwin.
C…. No one really cares for Alec Baldwin. But, he can provide us with some mirth, for a while (at least).
So I took the dive and bought mega millions tickets. My policy on the lottery is to only buy when the jackpot exceeds $1 billion, and its there now so the allure is too tempting to pass up.
If there’s a Glibs Foundation or something I’d happily donate a few million should one of these numbers win the jackpot.
I remember when the magic number was 100 million. That was the one and only time I’ve ever bought a lottery ticket.
I intentionally ignored the Khashoggi story because I thought it was too blatantly political hackery to have any lasting legs. Time to readjust my filter. *Spins dial to dumbest shit possible*
I suspect it’s another one of those stories where we’ll never know what really happened.
No kidding. RIP Seth Rich.
Like Las Vegas.
^^^^^^^^^!!!!!!!!!
There is a thousand pages of material about ever other mass shooter in cable news history.
Fucking crickets about paddock. Something about him doesn’t fit the narrative.
My money says ‘leftist shoots Trump voters’. Of course there are crickets.
My money says CIA mind control asset snaps, and decides to freelance it.
I was also thinking there must be a CIA tie-in. He worked for their paper after all.
Tires of Rhywun, good band name…….
They sound like they should be covering Blue Oyster Cult songs in a dive bar.
I’m there.
Really? Saudi citizen-critic goes to Saudi embassy and is never seen again. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Saudi government ordered his murder.
No such thing as too blatant political hackery.
Apparently the cops were too busy to let that guy out. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-officers-in-the-us-were-charged-with-more-than-400-rapes-over-a-9-year-period/ar-BBOB1TZ
STEVE SMITH RESIST COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Yeah, pub-sec unions rape financially–not quite what STEVE SMITH is looking for.
Council cancels its River Thames fireworks display to stop the rockets from disturbing Benny the Beluga whale
With a tow row row row row row to
the British GrenadiersBenny the Beluga.*illuminates HM Signal*
/also, a primer for Spud who is always asking “thicc ?”
THIS is thicc
Oh lord TMI
Too Many Inches?
Would.
She’d make a good linebacker or fullback if on offense.
Built like a bumper car…
Damn it, Thanksgiving is swiftly approaching, I need to find time to brew some appropriate beers to have on tap. I’m thinking of an American Pale Ale and a British Mild.
I would like to buy a hat and hair mug, but when I click the one I want, it takes me back to the glib store front page. 🙁
“But police put him in jail and kept him there even after cell phone and Uber records that indicated he was not at the scene in March, WOOD-TV reported. And DNA evidence that proved the suspect was somebody else was still not enough to convince police to release Davis, according to the lawsuit.
Davis spent 129 days in jail before he was released. During that time, he was assaulted in jail, lost two jobs and his home. When he was finally released, he was homeless.”
Unfortunately, this is only going to end up costing the taxpayers.
Top metal of 2018 as voted on by /r/metal.
Damn, this is why I like metal so much. I only have listened to, maybe, one fifth of this list. Here’s what I liked:
2) Slugdge – its just fantastic. If you like old Opeth, old Baroness, and that kind of “progressive,” this is probably the best thing to drop in half a decade.
3) Its Sleep. They are the text book of great stoner. I don’t even really like Stoner and I liked this.
4) Judas Priest – Somehow, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are still putting out great albums. Who would have expected that.
Khemmis – in the uncomfortable position of both “Great” and “Not as good as the last album”
Amorphis, Visigoth, Revocation, Ihsahn, Hoth, Anaal Nathrakh – See Khemmis. Damnit bands I like. You all are letting me down this year.
Rivers of Nihil. The single’s video is hilarious, but the music is great on its own.
Zeal & Ardor – Best internet joke band evar.
Haunt – Great high energy trad. Finally someone improves over their previous album I liked.
Shit from bands I’ve liked in the past but I haven’t listened to yet and need to queue up: Ripped to Shreds, Satan, Black Viper, Portal, Tribulation, Obscura, Transilvania, Alkaloid, Voivod, Skeletonwitch, Cauldron, King Goat.
Judas Priest, no shit? If it’s half as good as Painkiller I need to give it a listen.
I mean, Painkiller is a top 10 album of all time, but I think its pretty great. Here’s the single and I have a hard time imagining a fan of Painkiller not liking it. Firepower
Yep, that’s good, thanks…I’ll give the whole thing a listen.
Nice
Very good. It’s cool to see Halford still at it.
67! Unbelievable.
Yeah, I saw them in 80 or 81. Great show.
Bought. Also got ‘Painkiller’ as it is new to me (I stopped at Defenders of the Faith except for two tracks from Angel of Retribution that I liked).
Huh. I’m no metalhead but I loved 80s Priest. The new one has a great review at AllMusic.
I’ve heard of two bands on that entire list. Priest and Ghost.
Question since you seem to be into these genres; is Ghost supposed to be serious, or is their shtick just a 24/7 performance-art kind of thing?
They are as serious as an episode of Scooby Do. I mean, they seem committed to their shtick just like KISS or GWAR, but neither they nor their fans* take them as anything but a fun goof.
*Ghost went mainstream, which of course makes them radioactive to some people. These people are the kind of people who go on the internet and have few social skills. They also went more rock-and-roll and less metal with every release, which is probably a product of their mainstream popularity, which has also not engendered a lot of love with the kind of people who only listen to cvlt (that’s how they spell “cult” in this bubble)
There’s a pretty funny German-language joke metal band called Knorkator.
Here they are performing their song Böse (“evil”) which consist of the singer listing off evil things he does, but they’re all really minor things like running red lights and picking his nose.
How does it compare to Psychostick? All shtick, and decent music.
Thanks for posting this. I learned something new today.
“STEVE SMITH POLITELY DISAGREE WITH CLERKS OF COURT AND LEAVE. BY POLITELY DISAGREE, MEAN RAPE.”
I suppose that’s one way to deal with court decisions that don’t go your way.
“Went to see if that Acosta “Fuck You” tweet was real and noticed Acosta’s profile is a picture of Jim Acosta, with a header picture of Jim Acosta looking at Jim Acosta who is looking at Jim Acosta’s twitter picture”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1053316099935272960
“Dear Diary, I just made a video of myself beating off to a video of myself beating off.”
Metabation
Ownanism
Thought that Acosta page was a joke. Worlds largest douche.
“I believe in #realnews”
Like Santa Claus?
The Acosta checking out the Acosta whilst the Acosta gets twitterpated is some grade A. I wanna buy that feller a beer!
I am almost so dehydrated I don’t want to get drunk. Almost.
Whiskey and water.
Whiskey in the Water https://youtu.be/yP4p3Gpc0WM
Thirty two years ago. https://youtu.be/pFxivmjW34o
Whiskey neat with a water back. And then another water before the next whiskey with a water back.
I made fake Reason magazine cover for Mythical Libertarian Woman, here it is for you non tweeters.
Who twits? seriously?
Twitter is actually just a multiplying series of Russian boots, NPCs, and Tulpae caught in an infinite loop.
Russian bots, holy fuck, I think I’m reaching John-levels of typos lately.
DAS BOOT!
Das Damen
Das Damen https://youtu.be/cc4H5KhogTg
Seriously, no reads the author bios here? And I only tweet to try and foist the Hat and the Hair cartoon upon unsuspecting people, any other thing I do on there is only to gain ‘followers’ who I can then force to watch Hat and Hair…like Mustang said, infinite loop.
We can’t be arsed to read the articles. Why would we read the bios.
*crosses fingers that no one reads author bios*
It’s not like I have anything embarassing in mine.
I lol’ed.
Das bots.
“I talked to hookers by ENB”
LOL
A monologue?
That was my favorite, too. Well, after the, uh, design of the t-shirt.
Where’s Ted so I don’t have to do it. UCS?
Did I make a typo? I do that often. So I just say it’s a trademark, not as good as a John-O though.
Ah, perfect. Never mind, then.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Yah that’s some quality parody there, well done!
Can’t we all just get along?
Just when the cosmos and yokels were reaching out to each other, you go and destroy the bridge. (Wink, well done)
Great rackkkk….I mean cover.
It is pretty funny. To be sure.
I put it on Liberdon, then some from there tweeted at the Reason writers, and Welch retweeted it.
“At least a little funny”! Book your flight to the DC cocktail circuit tonight.
Don’t forget about us little people when you’re knob-hobbing with the likes of Robby Soave
Does CPRM even like fruit sushy?
Not yet, to be sure, but he will. He will!
I’m not a sweets person, so I’d put that in the negatory.
“30 years ago, Spy magazine sent “refund” checks for $1.11 to 58 rich people. The 26 who cashed those got a another check, for $.64. The 13 who cashed those each got a check for $.13. Two people cashed the $.13 checks—Donald Trump and Jamal Khashoggi’s arms-dealer uncle Annan.”
Weird.
It’s almost as if they had an operation that cashed large numbers of checks and the marginal cost of adding one more to be bulk-processed was far less than the marginal cost of a regular perosn going to the bank.
Spy was bloody fantastic. Thanks to them, the current POTUS will always be a “Short-Fingered Vulgarian” and my gov will always be “Rat-Faced Andy The Mobbed Up Lawyer“.
Delightful. I’ve probably mentioned it but he used to have an office in my old building so I would see him and his goons in the elevator a lot. It’s exactly as you would imagine.
Lol
Hah! Good’un!
Well done CPRM
I keep forgetting to buy the mugs. I want a pair of the glibs mugs
Good grief, I am exhausted. There is a reason you have children when you are young. We babysat grandchildren today. A five year old and a two year old.
But with grandkids you eventually get to give them back to the parents, according to every grandparent I know.
Or, if you’re a woman I know, you end up with nearly all your grandkids… by court order. And now she’s fostering her dead sister’s deadbeat kid’s babies.
Its saddening to me when I attend events at my kids school or his football or t-ball games how many kids his age are being raised by their grandparents. It’s a fucking problem. It really is. It seems half or better are either raised by their mom only or their grandparents.
People who decide to have kids and then neglect to care for them earn a great deal of derision from me.
Also- fuck you government for subsidizing this shitty anti social behavior.
Oh, this family would have you livid. She adopted three of her daughter’s kids. Her daughter is pregnant again and awaiting a probable jail sentence when her trial for armed robbery (I think) wraps up. Her loser sister was a pill popper who finally OD’d last year. The nephew whose kids she’s fostering are junkies, too. He and his wife routinely come to the house against court order, not to visit their children, but to raid her medicine cabinet and her pantry, and hit her up for money in the guise of doing chores. It’s a whole pathetic spectacle. A pathetictacle.
Oh my God that’s awful.
I think this woman is either on the verge of a crackup, or couldn’t be happier. She’s on a dog adoption kick, too: she took her son’s two dogs off his hands, has a little lapdog of her own, adopted a Lab puppy for the kids. (The best part of my day today was playing with the puppy while everyone was out of the house. I’m working on the addition where she will house her menagerie.) And she looks after her friend’s adolescent German Shepherd-looking mutt, and the friend just asked if she can keep it indefinitely. She probably will.
My parents and I have raised my sister’s oldest. She’s now 16 and when she asks me to take her home, that doesn’t mean her mom’s house. But to my sister’s credit, her and her man are actually raising the 2 they have together, I mean I’m still super-involved as is my mom, but at least they live with my sister.
I have always wondered: If they did such a shit job with their kids, what makes them qualified to raise their grandkids any better?
I wonder the same thing. The oldest two already have severe social problems. Also: why would she want to put herself through it again. Like I said to Rhywun, it’s either a crackup or she’s in her element.
It’s not about ‘putting yourself through it again’, it’s about being responsible, even if you fucked up the first time. In my case, my sister is a 1 out of 5 case of being a fuck up, so it’s not always about making the same mistakes as Mojeaux put it.
Sounds about right. I’m sure I could come up with a half dozen just like it. I’ve got a neighbor who is in his fifties. Hes probably a millionaire, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to him. Hes raising his three grandkids because his daughter is a junkie and the fathers are no better.
It’s common as hell, and it shouldn’t be and hasn’t always been.
*Insert clever alliterative innuendo here*
http://archive.is/9bL1a
Too. Many. CHOICES.
I support the death pentalty for tattooists who mark attractive skin.
NAP violation?
Vandalism of cultural treasures.
Besides, I’m not a libertarian, I don’t have to cleave to your non-aggression principle.
I was jogging one time and saw this gorgeous young woman – long blonde hair cascading in the gentle summer breeze – wearing this sun dress that showed quite a bit of leg. Then she turned around and revealed this hideous tattoo on her right leg: some kind of vine with flowers on it, but it looked like the tattoo “artist” drew the outline with a thick black line, then filled it in with a hokey bright green. It ran all the way from her lower calf to the hem of her dress, and it probably continued all the way up to her waist.
Dayum shame.
So, Viva Las Vegas (great Rockabilly fest, you all should come one time) has a whole tattoo room. I’m one of the few people there with no ink or piercings. I’m always sad when I see a nice looking girl showing off the new ink that has a fatal flaw. Last year, there was a girl showing off a Betty (Rockabilly girl, named after Betty Paige) sitting on a die (on her calf). There were two sides of the die showing, one showing 1 pip, the other showing 6 pips.
If, when, why, what
How much have you got?
16, 83.
“Superintendent apologizes after students were served chili with kangaroo meat
POTTER, Nebraska — A school superintendent is apologizing after a school chef added an exotic meat to the chili he was serving up for lunch.
“We will no way be serving food of this nature again. Period,” Mike Williams, superintendent of the Potter-Dix Public Schools, wrote parents in a letter Wednesday.
He says the head cook added kangaroo because it was “a very lean meat.”
Williams says he doesn’t think the kangaroo meat was unhealthy or dangerous, but it was “without a doubt not a normal staple of our diet.”
School officials do not believe kangaroo meat is unhealthy or dangerous because it meets USDA standards.
Either way, parents weren’t happy.”
https://abc11.com/4516334/
It’s not like he put pineapple on their pizza.
He should be apologizing for not knowing how to do English good.
I thought Australians ate roo meat like we eat beef?
Only at McDonald’s
I believe everything on the internet: McDonald’s uses human meat!
I will not rest until I have kangaroo chili, god damn you Potter, Nebraska. The Kangaroo blood is on your hands.
I have had it. You’re not missing much. Very lean, so not much flavor. Think rabbit-lean, but less flavor.
^ This.
Ground kangaroo is pretty pointless, especially if you’re putting it in a strongly flavored dish like chili.
Some steaks may be worthwhile, but you have to marinate them in some kind of fat or else they’ll become dry as a bone (even if you cook them rare).
I live near Jungle Jim’s International Market, and I make a hobby out of trying to eat as many different animals as possible. And in my experience, most grass-eating mammals taste pretty much the same. Camel was a bit different, though. I’d like to eat it again and study the flavor some more, but I haven’t seen it for sale recently.
Have you tried ostrich yet? That’s pretty interesting. Lean red meat, interesting flavor.
I’ve had Emu, that was good.
I did, and I remember enjoying it. I think it had just a touch of “gamey” flavor, which I actually found kind of interesting.
The original Jungle Jim’s or the second location?
Regardless, I usually have at least one drive through Cinci a year. And I was damned impressed with the beer selection at Jungle Jim’s.
The original location; it’s about a 45 minute drive for me.
Their alcohol selection is straight legit. It’s a big part of the reason I go there.
I also like to grab a 20 pound bag of brown rice and a gallon jug of the extra-spicy habenero Tabasco. Also a cannoli from the bakery to eat on the way home.
This is telling me that there is probably a government guideline somewhere recommending kangaroo meat.
I am so jealous of those kids.
When I heard that IKEA was serving meatballs made of horse meat all I could think was “that’s a good price for horse meat”
Horse meat sashimi is delicious. I’m not kidding.
That was on my list of things to try in Japan, but I didn’t want to order it and waste it if I didn’t like it. Have you had whale? (Insert South Park joke.)
And just for you this popped up on my play list today. Naturally I had to find the lyrics.
https://youtu.be/7DwAwNNHaW8
Teacher Teacher
学校じゃ 気づいていなかった
街で会って はっとしてしまった
男性だって 今さら思い出した
イケてるんじゃない?
My bet is you make 15 seconds or less and HM adds it to his playlist…
I was speaking to my friend in Japan about it tonight and had to ask her if the “ike” here was the same a “ike” in “ikemen” as in “hot guy” to which she responded affirmatively.
You’re right, I can’t stand Nikibi 48. Ikemen is a weird word. At first glance you’d think it should be いけメン with the hiragana and katakana swapped. It isn’t “men” even though it’s only used to describe guys.
Called it! You said your daughter like them though. This song is slightly problematic…
Naturally that phrase wasn’t in my dictionary. That’s when it’s handy to have folks to be able ask.
More important – what’s your verdict on whale?
Last time I told my whale sushi story here, I was told that I’m an asshole. Short version:Whale is fine by me and not fine with German tourists.
What’s the taste like?
1% charge on my phone. *Hurry* Not good at all, but I eat it for moral reasons.
You’re going to leave me hanging here? 😉
What about Whale milk?
Some eurotrash millennials were eating next to me at the sushi bar. They were complaining about Japanese people eating sushi. Loudly and in English so everyone could hear them. I asked the chef to make some X sushi. “Hey, guys. Try this. It’s a local favorite.” They said thanks told me it was delicious. As they were walking out the door, I made eye contact with them and said, “Whale”. They weren’t happy.
*complaining about Japanese eating whale*
Awesome. Should have pitched that as a new variety show.
Was not a fan of horse sashimi. Just tasted really bland and chewy. Whale was interesting. For me it had the consistency of steak and the flavor of tuna.
Kobe beef sashimi…now THERE is some meat I’ll put in my mouth over and over again.
Seriously, are we not doing “phrasing” anymore?
Sensei, OT: I figured out how to get the back back on my watch. Took it to a jeweler who had to use a press. He said the Timexes almost always need the press.
Glad you got it fixed! Getting modern cases opened and closed is actually rather complicated, frequently because of water and dust resistance.
So you didnt watch the BlendTech video
I totes meant to.
obvs
The key to K and J pop vids is the mute button
Music helps me remember words and phrases.
So I listen to a fair amount of J-Pop. Some of it’s fine others awful.
Every now and again I’m shocked. For example most idol groups the members can’t carry a tune, but this was this particular idols “swan song”.
https://youtu.be/DRfbNAKq2ns
She can actually sing. This particular video isn’t auto-tuned within an inch of its life.
I’ve had horse tendon, cooked, as an appetizer in Fukuoka. And yes it was good.
In Osaka I’ve had cooked beef tendon. No complaints!
Beef tendon is a common pho ingredient. It’s not bad.
So which of you is gonna take one for the team and try this out?
http://www.lovetron.us/
I think the beta version of this was ecstasy
I can’t even
“Using safety-proven materials commonly used in medical implants, Lovetron9000 is implanted just beneath the skin of your pelvis and emanates a passionate vibration that connects you to your partner.
Designed as an implant for men, its core purpose is to provide stimulation for the pleasure centers of your partner, and enhance the shared experience of lovemaking. Its impact-resistant design endures vigorous friction, and offers a diversity of stimulating textures, speeds, and vibrations for your lover’s enjoyment. As a special feature, the rhythmic vibrations pulsing from your body can even be synced to your favorite music.
Thanks to Lovetron9000’s wireless inductive charging, you’ll never need to change the batteries, and charging time takes only 20 minutes for every half-hour of lovemaking. The implant itself is installed effortlessly in less than 15 minutes, and is ready for sensual play after a mere two weeks’ wait.
Whether for yourself or for your partner, whether your love life needs a new spark or just a new way to play, we guarantee you haven’t experienced anything like Lovetron yet.”
Couldn’t you just duct tape an iPod to your dick?
“Carefully insert member into receptacle. Ingesting any liquids in the previous 24 hours not recommended.”
“strong on-demand vibrations” was my college nickname.
My college nick name was Schtick. The rest of the crew was Klondike Das Scooter, Crazy Phil (later called Just Regular Phil), Crazy Phil R(redacted). Big Matt Schaeffer, Little Matt Schaeffer, Cheer Jen, Bubblegum Jen, The Nuge, The Chinaman, Johansonsonsonson…
We had “The Squeeze” “The Spooge” and “The Schnoz”
A good article from a surprising source: Alan Greenspan.
Why American Business is Stuck in Neutral
I wonder if his latest book, Capitalism in America: A History, is any good. I might check it out.
Fifty‑five percent of all U.S. households receive cash or in‑kind assistance from at least one major federal entitlement program.
This is why there will never be real change in this country until the federal government goes tits up and can no longer pay its Bill’s. All the campaigning, voting, educating, outreach, begging, pleading, and reasoning in the world will not be able to reel in government because too many people directly profit from it.
As one of the 45% who doesn’t get one red cent from the state, I give a hearty fuck you to all those who vote themselves wealth.
We all know the problems, it’s the political solutions that will never take place. Old people, military retirees, teachers? Unpromising will get a pol unelected. I’m reading/hearing the shit promises being made now by the current batch of power seekers and not one ever talks about the only solution. Stop spending!
I am getting sick of hearing about this. My household receives zero dollars in benefits. Ze. Ro.
I would crawl off in a ditch and die before I would take a penny, and I am disabled. I could qualify for shit-tons but I will never do that. I would rather the govt. have no idea that I even exist, much less entangle myself in the strings benefits would require or take money from my fellow citizens pockets.
But, I have to pay for everyone else’s. Fuck them.
On social security I’d say I’m entitled to what my employers and I have put into the program at whatever long dated treasury returns were available at the times of the contribution.
OTH, medicare is an entitlement – full stop.
The money you and your employer put into social security was spent the day you made the contribution. So sorry the government lied to you, but any reimbursement you recieve at a later date is coming straight out of someone else’s pocket and is just as much an entitlement as any other government hand out.
Oh yeah, it’s 100% ponzi scheme. No argument there.
I was talking in the theoretical sense.
With one important distinction though: with a Ponzi scheme, you are totally free to cut your losses and run when you realize it’s a scam. If you stop paying your Social Security tax, the government goons will eventually throw you in a rape cage.
I’d love to opt out of Social Security right now. Hell, they can keep the money I’ve already paid as long as I don’t have to pay any more for the rest of my life.
#metoo
Absolutely. SS is on track to be insolvent right about the time I should be able to retire. I am doubtful I will get back what I put in much less get some kind of return on my money.
That doesn’t wash. At all.
Americans are collectively putting in less than they are getting out”
If I had been able to invest that money instead, I would be getting back a shit load more than what I will from SS.
Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats want to repeal Trump’s tax cuts and replace them with cash payouts for the poor and working class
Fuck off
The poor and working class won’t be properly grateful if we let them just keep their own money.
I don’t think I’ve seen a more transparent attempt to buy votes coming out of Congress.
I’m working class. Trump’s tax cut already put money in my pocket. Fuck you Kamala.
I make under $15 an hour, and a sixth of my income comes straight out 0f the paycheck or goes to income tax in April. That doesn’t count sales tax or property tax.
It also doesn’t include the employer half of FICA.
Or your inflated health insurance cost. Or the malinvestment you are forced to make into medicare/SS. Or the slow devaluation of your wages through inflation. Or…
Looking at my pay stubs, it looks as if federal income tax withholding is going to be about $200 less for me on the same gross; I have no idea how much I’m going to owe in April.
NYS income tax withholding is going to be about $20 more, plus there’s a “paid family leave insurance” tax that’s another $35. Fuck the people addicted to taxes.
See, even we’re doing it. “He left money in my pocket”.
You are correct. I misspoke
Ya gotta love the Orwellian “tax credits”. What the fuck? You are taking about giving the money of people who pay taxes to people who pay no taxes. Call it fucking welfare dammit!
Keep in mind, the poor and working class include people who make 100 grand a year. This is insane. They have expanded buying votes from the poor to let’s see if we can buy some votes from the upper middle class. I kind of respect the balls it takes to throw this one out there.
I just saw the Gliberfied Reason magazine cover on the twitters and i just wanted to (clap clap clap) to, I assume MLW? kudos.
*note: i only saw it b/c Welch retweeted it.
That was me.
I made it for MLW as an homage.
well done.
was ‘prabably’ an intentional thing? it somehow seemed to work.
See the above thread where I broke it here.
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Good to see ya Gil, I’ve missed the hair.
I have been absent from glib-chat over the last few months. I have switched to working for some crazy VC people over the summer and the pattern of the workday no longer has any regularity to it. Its just running around putting out fires constantly, or having to go fly and meet some people and try and pretend to understand their crypto white-paper business-model. i still pop in and read threads, i just don’t really chime in b/c its a time-suck.
Hopefully you’ll get some sanity in a good way.
That is for damn sure.
The Vietcong are relentless.
You read my mind…..as soon as I saw VC
I bet Gilmore rocks the black pajamas with style and has the perfect tie though.
Perfectly coiffed hair through the rat tunnels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital
So much for CPRM staying under the radar.
Now we’ll have Soave pieces on why Harvey Wienstein are problematic, to be sure.
I saw him getting on a flight to DC a few hours ago…
“I talked to hookers”
LOL!
Yes, that was (imo) the best joke
the “to be sure”
the “too local”
and the ENB “hookers”
were all necessary elements.
I think the Nick one was even too-subtle for me. not sure i even grokked it. I would have had nick make some idiotic connection between pop-culture and some English PhD shit, like, “Gillespie On The Lacanian Ariana Grande “
The ENB hookers one was the strongest joke, that’s why it’s at the bottom, the same way I try to close out all the hat and hair videos with the best bit, the one you remember is always the last one, so it should be the best.
“The ENB hookers one was the strongest joke, that’s why it’s at the bottom,”
You, sir, know your craft.
I do know my kraft, but I don’t know my Speeling.
It definitely got a laugh out of me, but if I may, I think, “A professional Libertarian talks to hookers about making sandwiches” would have been better.
That’s a lot of words, no wonder you don’t write headlines for a living.
Ya, it is a bit long winded. I’ll work on that. The “Professional Libertarian” comment she made was the snootiest most arrogant cocktail crowd thing we joke about that I read from anyone there though. It was amazing. I said a few weeks ago I finally saw a Gary Johnson 2016 bumper sticker on a car. It was on the most beat up piece of shit Blazer driven by an old hippy with wild hair wearing jeans so patched he even had sewn new back pockets over old patches. Dude may have been a millionaire for all I know and just liked old Chevy four by fours and comfy jeans. I doubt he would have cared if a persons political beliefs were tied to their paycheck like some so called libertarians seem to.
But really? You haven’t noticed Nick’s obsession with millennials?
They have bodacious tits, but they’ll scowl at you for noticing them. That goes for chicks as well as soyboys.
my own stereotype of nick’s steez is, “Here’s a ridiculously over-complicated piece about a silly topic”
he takes standard English PhD M.O., and applies it to trivial things.
i really haven’t read any of his stuff in over a year, so i don’t even know what nick’s preoccupations are lately.
Did you watch his interview with Brett Easton Ellis? it was cringeworthy, first with his fear of calling Brett’s boyfriend by anything so descriptive, and then becoming obsessed that said boyfriend was millennial. It was, odd.
oh, god. i’m afraid to watch that for how bad it might be.
i think B.E.E. is more or less “culturally libertarian” (to borrow ENB’s term) and has been forever. but Nick would probably deal w/ people on the art-fringe… poorly.
*i am one of the few people who thinks “Glamorama” is one of his best books.
Bret comes across fairly well, it’s more Nick’s parts that are cringeworthy. And as books, I thought Glamorama was the best, but the film versions of American Psycho and Rules of Attraction I think elevate the books. Then there is the acting talent of that the shitty movie of less than zero had, plus Jami Gertz.
*what turns out to be creepiest about the video is the fact that BEE is selling himself to Nick b/c he wants his podcast to get more listeners.
i guess the point is that all these high-culture motherfuckers are broke and they see Joe Rogan making bank and are like, ‘this makes no sense, that guys dumb, why is he getting so much money’
just saw the ‘millenials’ comment you had referenced.
it was BEE saying “i’m bordering boomer/gen x” (but my live-in bf is millenial)
I think nick is actually a big BEE fanboi and wants to lick his toes, but his point about generationalism is actually sort of a literary-relevant thing, b/c so much of BEE’s stuff really is specific to “freakout moments” in cultural history, like the wall st thing in late 80s, MTV scene of 90s, etc.
No, if you understand the way these things are edited, it gets way more cringewothy.
I’m not sure they shouldn’t go light on the guy because, ya know, shit happens. Chics lucky he didn’t eat her face off. I think he showed considerable restraint.
SOME SAY “BUILD WALL”, SOME SAY “LET IN”.
I say end the WOD and there won’t be the cartel violence they’re trying to escape.
Too much money is being made.
Being wasted, but the recipients certainly don’t care.
Benny is sad that there will be no fireworks.
Warren gets it again. lol
Lol
And the NYT is trying run cover for her…
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/opinion/sunday/dna-elizabeth-warren.html
They got the same guy to run an editorial about a 2014 article he wrote that has been widely sited in criticizing her. To me it’s a bout 600 words of nothing, but liberal cognitive dissonance. But maybe I’m missing something.
Oh, that’s rich.
I’d even say it’s frank rich
Sucks to be her.
I laughed.
I know none of you are opinionated, but maybe you can make an exception this one time:
I am considering starting a small farming operation. Very small, at least to begin with. While looking around websites for practical and technical advice, I came across some FedGov sites. One thing that caught my eye was them practically begging beginning farmers to apply for beginning farmer grants.
Question; what’s your opinions on applying for grants? I have no idea if I could get one or how much I would even ask for, or receive if approved. I have been paying income taxes for about 30 years now, so it would be nice to get some back. Part of me wonders, if I were to get one, would my subconscious always yell at me, “you didn’t build that!”
Tl;dr: am I a hypocrite to accept government money from a grant program that I think shouldn’t exist?
(profitable) Farming is tough as hell, unless you’re ADM, Monsanto, or Cargill.
Thats about all I can share.
When a previous state worker retired, he declared his intent to work as a consultant at another agency. “But you’ve always decired the wastefulness of these consultants.” said those left behind. He replied, “If they’re going to be shoevelling money out the window, I’d be a fool not to be standing on the sidewalk with a basket.”
Technically you may not be a hypocrite, but it might make you personally feel like a POS. /experience
Short answer, yes.
Could you look yourself in the mirror every morning and be proud of what you have done knowing that what you did was financed by theft?
Even if it was originally stolen from me?
That said, what you said is exactly why I haven’t done it and why I am here asking. I want some free money as badly as everyone else, but I wasn’t kidding about “you didn’t build that.” I am afraid I would hear that asshole saying that in my head over and over until I died.
My “rule of thumb” (to the extent I have one) is when the government so terribly distorts the market that the only viable way to enter is via subsidy, you’re essentially taking back the value that the government has drained out of the market.
Whether it be subsidized student loans or a farming grant, the market wouldn’t be as bleak if government weren’t shoving its giant schnozz into things.
Also, Ar-ti-cle!!! As somebody who eventually wants to go the hobby farm direction, I’m very interested in your experience.
That’s interesting trashy. I hadn’t thought of it that way. (Which is why I love this place, and why I asked.) Thanks!
An article or two is definitely on my mind. One is the crop I want to grow, and why (neohybrid hazelnuts…with a minor in chickens). Another might be the grant process, if I do end up going that way.
Let me guess: you want to make your own Nutella.
Dammit Ted! Now everyone is on to my plan!
My thoughts are that what has been taken from you is gone and is never coming back. Anything you recieve in recompense came from someone else.
If mike steals my lawnmower, that doesn’t give me the right to recieve Bob’s lawnmower as restitution. Even if it is mike who is giving it to me.
No you aren’t a hypocrite. I’d say go for as big a grant as you can get. The money they’ve stolen from you over the years….clawing back a small piece is perfectly ethical. Someone is going to get it, it may as well be someone who has contributed.
Piper, tunes, and all that.
OTOH: someone’s going to apply; someone’s going to get it. It’s not like the money goes back to taxpayers unspent. And I imagine if they don’t have eligible applicants, they’ll petition for more funding… for outreach to find eligible applicants.
OTOOH, it’s your conscience. I could probably rationalize it, but I’m not a particularly conscientious person.
Follow the rules and go for it. You’re entitled to it per the social contract you signed. You did sign it didn’t you? Seriously, the game sucks but you can’t not play. OTOH I’d still probably need to take longer showers.
No you are not a hypocrite. Vote, live, breath, advocate for and raise your children to be small government pains in the ass to those who aren’t, but if the asshats are handing back some of the money they have stolen from us fucking white knuckle grab that shit. Fuck them and fuck anyone who says otherwise. Take their money and then write a best selling book on how stupid they run their program. I doubt if you get a grant though. I am having a memory of reading articles how they are pushing those to ‘diversity’ in the farming community. To get this grant would you be willing to transition and how would the wife feel about that? Keep in mind this would help book sales.
Yes, “diversity” and “historically underserved” are always mentioned. But they do make it sound like anyone could get one.
Addendum: I don’t know if it matters, but when I say small, I mean small. I picture the grant being under $10K. Maybe well under.
My understanding is that taking that money means a govt slug with the dept of Ag will dictate to you what crops you can grow and how many and what price you can receive for it.
I’m actually looking to start a very small (1-3 acre) hazelnut farm. I won’t bore everyone with the details, but it could, maybe, possibly, if I am smart/lucky grow into something bigger. But to begin with, all I’d be looking at is enough money to buy a few hundred trees and some watering equipment. Maybe some fencing. Nothing crazy.
But to your point, Suthen. That thought has also crossed my mind. If I take their money, that’s their opening to have their noses up my ass for just about ever. That might be just as, if not more, worrisome than my conscious poking at me.
I’d talk to your local extension agent, land grant university, or farmer. or all of the above. Almost all of the above are usually happy to share their wisdom with a newb.
If it were me, and the amount was that small, I would finance it on my own. From past experience, I will never work for the Feds again unless it’s a cash job with no contract involved. Even on a small yearly contract (under 40 grand) the paperwork was overwhelming and they wanted details on every little part of my business down to the smallest detail.
Submitted w/o comment , yet a solicitation for opinions.
Backwoods/country wisdom? Or crazy cracker ?
Why not both?
Nobody invited you to the family reunion, Ted.
He said ‘Act The Fool‘, had to.
I think he makes a valid point because he is discussing perceptions. I also think that the perceptions on this are badly skewed since there is very little honest reporting and people are mostly deeply emotionally invested in their views on these issues and serious confirmation bias gets involved. Not all cops are heroes; not all cops are entitled thugs; not all shootings are justified; not all shootings are unjustified.
“Unaccountable men with guns ” sums it up. He misses it with why big city cops aren’t accountable. ATF & BLM are definitely how you relate to rural deplorables.
He also misses it with, “It’s simple. Just vote out the mayor.” And see him replaced with an even nuttier leftist? And fuck that “institutional power” BS that I allegedly have due to my skin color. If I had it, we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place.
That’s pretty clever. He does a great job of “translating” urban fears to rural folk.
So, by the looks on twitter, I may be leaving this place for cocktail parties galore. Just know, I won’t forget you little people; I won’t complain when Drumpf gives you crumbs!
On the upside, we can all say, “I knew him when he was only a mild asshole.”
When was that? :-p
is now my favorite pejorative.
Thank you, Mike!
Mild asshole is what happens come the morn when UCS lackadaisically pinches a loaf. He checks the bowl and and says meh, good enough.
I now expect to see an ad for some new medication, complete with a shut door, and the sound of a flushing toilet–“For mild to moderate asshole”.
LOL. That’s great.
Can you get me Kmele’s autograph?
There you go, CPRM–there’s your perk for patreon donations (patreonage?)
Really, who here among us wouldn’t want Kmele’s autograph?
I hear he signs autographs as “Kmele the Schlemiel”
Well, now, it’s a must have!
That would kick ass to have.
Coming up on the end of Cleveland Beer Week, I’ve got Brewzilla tomorrow, and then a Belgian Brunch on Sunday. Quite a bit of free glassware already, we’ll see how much more I pick up over the weekend.
That sounds so fun. And I’m surprised that they give out so many glasses. Is it a door-prize kind of thing or do they just hand out glasses like they’re Solo cups?
Pretty much every bar in the area has a take the glass promotion. One year, one of the bars did a promo on the Sunday after beer week giving away a glass of your choice with any pint of beer. I think I walked out with two Weihenstephaner weiss glasses, three snifters, and a tulip.
There’s a reason I’ve got half a dozen Platform glasses, all of them were handed out by bars (and this is after I’ve sent them out of favors in BIF packages). Hell, we went to a burger place for dinner tonight, and walked out with three glasses (a Fat Head nonic, a North High shaker, and a Brew Kettle shaker). I’ve bought two shakers in the past five years, and those were limited ones that were for the new Fat Head’s location.
If you ever end up sending BIF to me again, I wouldn’t mind relieving you of that burden.
Half-serious. We don’t “entertain”, and my wife doesn’t drink beer, so I already have more glasses than I need. And yet…I still could use a few more…
I have a lot of glassware. These pictures are from a couple years ago, and none of these glasses have been broken (some of my friend’s wives apparently break like a glass a month, I don’t get it).
I’ve been looking into patreon, something that would allow me to do more cartoons and funny pictures, what kind of (non sexual) perks would you fools ask for, for a monthly donation?
Pegging. And blowing loads on clothed women. That’s what’s fresh and hip. You gotta stay on top of trends.
Oh…non sexual. I got nothing.
Granny porn has a sad…
I dunno…. Name in the credits? Tickets to the premier/after-party? A laurel, and hearty hand-shake?
Also, really dig the magazine cover. Everyone else appears to like everything in the same order as me, so…you’re doin’ something right, kid!
Goddamn! I love your new user name and avatar but it don’t hold a candle to “Not A Naked Intruder”!
Well, to be fair, he was a bit frightened by lit candles…hot wax and possible singed “hair”… ::shudders::
But, thank you. My registered handle is still actually Not A Naked Intruder, so it’s definitely still around. I just like playing around with screen names.
Candles have other “uses” or so I’ve been told…
I hear tell that Skye Blue and Summer Cummings had a use for one some years back.
But, I don’t believe it.
Today in whites behaving badly. Sadly, no catchy nickname yet.
How exactly do you, “Get the fuck up outta here!”?
I can’t understand any of that cracker slang.
Drunk woman says stupid shit is somehow now ‘news’. Fuck this planet.
Welcome to Trumps America. Drunk white people never said nasty shit to blacks until Drumpf stole the election!
Fuck, I got called a cracker back in the mid 90’s when I was walking around in the wrong mall.
Can honestly say that neither I nor any white person I was hanging with ever said a racial slur to a nonwhite person unless it was unmistakably a joke. Race relations peaked in 1995. My theory anyways.
My second stint in college in the mid ots I had to literally slam a guy against the wall so he would stop saying Nigger, he thought he was being cool like rap music, but I couldn’t take it anymore.
S’truth! I’ve not seen that sort of behavior since I was a wee feller. I lived in a rural area and even then it was mostly things like calling brazil nuts “nigger toes” and the like. None of us ever caught a tiger by the toe, either. Junior Shitlords in training.
I give a pass to both your accounts, because for the same generation here it was similar. What I ran into more often than not around here was the kids (19 when I was 28), to me, using it the words trying to be cool.
What I found amusing was the Rez kids totally appropriating ghetto culture and lingo. Jesus Christ. You live hundreds of miles away from any appreciable Black culture and yet you adopt the idioms. Saggy pants, sideways hats, bitches, ho’s and whassup, Dog? Poor kids, they’ll never know a thicc bum.
Ghetto culture is popular all over the world now.
Yes, racism is rampant on the Rez’s here. Lost more friends to stupid tribal politics than than national politics.
I’ve heard one white person spout racist shit in my life, and it was the father of my first girlfriend, who was a KKK member (on the far East side of fucking Cleveland). He was a shit heel, and I don’t think anyone respected him (including his family). Last I heard the first girlfriend went out with a black guy just to piss him off.
Feh, it was rampant where I’m from. My stepfather’s side of the family – PA hicks – it was all nigger this and nigger that.
Then I moved to the big city – Buffalo – and it was the same thing with (some of) the city whites. NYC gets a bad rap for some obviously high-profile incidents but IMHO it’s far less racist here than it was up there.
I’m leaving out the shite like the grandma calling Brazil Nuts Niggertoes and such (which has happened). This was a guy who legitimately thought he was superior to “the blacks” while they were more successful then him. Which always makes me think of this scene in Preacher.
I’d put it perhaps a little bit later, but agree. Last 10-15 years has been abysmal for someone who thought colorblindness and being judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was the normal, except for perhaps a few racist holdouts.
Yeah, I thought this was all pretty much done with in the 70’s. Everyone was a someone and we respected the fact that we all bleed red. They used to wheel in a TV into my First Grade class so that we were able to watch half of Sesame Street (the other class got the other half). So much for the Pepsi generation.
Drunkenly ambling around the wasteland with Dog and Codsworth on a new survival run… scope in on a bunch of mole rats and shoot one… stampeding mole rats incoming… one has landmines strapped to it. WTF?!
…not meant to be a reply, but I am white and I do aim to misbehave.
I myself have have been replaying with some, ehm, other mods installed.
I’m pretty low-key with the mods. Graphics and weather mods mostly. But having done almost 300 hours with the Lone Wanderer perk, I’m digging companions now… and what’s better than a companion plus dog, like apparently was the original design. Codsworth can take an effing beating, and it’s a lot less sad seeing him go down than seeing dog whining and crawling around in place.
Ehh, F that–I go with mods to make it as over-kill as possible. I don’t play for a challenge, I play to blow shit up. So, my fave is my unlimited ammo gauss rifle with jacked up damage.
Of course, play as you wish, and all that.
Downtown Drake?
Back in my day we would refer to such a person as a fat-assed, belligerent girl that can’t hold her liquor. Dime-a-dozen. Walk away and make sport of her antics.
I wonder if the “Shaven Ape”, the actual STEVE SMITH ever lurks on these boards. I know that I would as I planned my revenge.
ESPN sucks, but this is funny as hell.
Fucking Ruzzians!
Stole your election, absconded with our Stanley Cup. One of the Caps brought the Cup home to our small city. It t’were a big fucking deal.
OT:
Hypothetically speaking: What if someone who owns firearms marries a convicted felon and they move in together? Does the firearm owner lose his right to keep guns in the house, or is the felon permitted to live in a house with guns?
I think you should consult a lawyer.
Well, I’m going to say that, due to the FYTW clause of the Constitution, you go with the lowest-common denominator and neither can keep guns.
Also, yes, talk to an actual lawyer.
Wait, you have registered guns? GET THE FUCK OFF GLIBS, SQUEALER!
IANAL and state law may add additional restrictions. The firearm owner doesn’t lose their firearms rights. The felon isn’t prohibited from living in a house with firearms, they’re prohibited from possessing a firearm. So if they have access to the firearm or otherwise possess it, perhaps even briefly, they can liable for another felony.
Third the lawyer.
And associated with that, knowingly providing a firearm to the felon is also a crime.
Also IANAL. However, it’s probably like having a personal NFA item. People in the house are not permitted to possess it so you have to keep it locked up and only you can have the key.
Q, we were all quite sure ‘you anal’ – no need to declare that.
iAnal sounds like an Apple product.
Also, just for the record, I’m not engaged to marry a felon… I was just legitimately curious as to what the legal status of such an arrangement would be.
I bet he has that as his personalized license plate.
/come to think of it, that would be a great plate to have.
//I no-shit saw a plate on a sports car a couple of years ago: I ♥ VAG How in the hell did he get TXDOT to approve that?
I saw a twelve year old girl wearing a shit with the word FLICKER written in big letters across the chest. Being nearsighted, it threw me for a loop until she got closer.
Volkswagen fan?
There was someone in Ohio who managed to keep a plate with IV PLAY for years… until someone tipped off the DMV what IV meant in Roman Numerals. Of course, I had an old friend who’s girlfriend also randomly got MVP 8008.
I don’t know which is worse: the wearing of shit, writing on it, or the corner-of-the-eye vulgarity.
/Sorry, straff–I couldn’t resist.
Fair play. I used to care about typos. Now I don’t give a shirt.
Damn, this is a hip crowd!
Huh. I always pictured him as more of a titty-fucker. He does seem drawn to ginormabums so we’ll go with that.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/krissy-noble-self-defense-miscarriage-justice/
If you use your SO’s firearms to save your life and the life of your unborn child, the state will put you in prison.
*Narrows gaze at headline*
The felon has problems. Firearm owner does not lose any rights due to marriage to felon. Felon, presumably for this question, has lost the right to own or possess firearms. Possession can be very loosely defined. If felon can get to the gun (i.e. its not in gun safe or otherwise secured by the spouse) then felon can be found to be in possession.
Ha, just talked to Japanese friend of mine who just got back from SF on a business trip. Straight laced guy. “Uh, sorry, but uh, San Francisco smells like yoorine. I don’t want to go back.”
He’s not wrong.
(disclaimer: I’ve not been to SF since… 1990? ’91?)
He also stopped in Chicago on that trip. “Chicago was very nice.” SF making Chicago look nice in comparison. Wow.
Alright, so y’all know I’m a beer geek. Is anyone interested in a write up of several beer fests? I’ve got VIP tickets to Brewzilla tomorrow, and can easily take pictures (I know the venue). Heading to bed soon, but I’ll check responses tomorrow morning.
Does the beer shit in the woods? Is the Pope Cath…, er we’ll skip that one.
“Does the pope shit in the woods?” remains my favorite.
This Pope? For sure. He figures he’ll meet up with Evo Morales.
Yes, but it better be followed by your Babylon 5 article.
Please please please CA please build the damn choo-choo already so that the whole project can crash and burn. Then my idiot state won’t follow down the same track… uh, never mind.
The Amtrak trip from Boston to New York rolls through some really scenic (read: expensive) parts at times – full-on beachfront. The mind boggles as to what that would cost to build today. $1T?
“Gov. Kate Brown believes Amtrak passenger rail service in the Willamette Valley is “one of the most underutilized assets in Oregon’s transportation system,”
The customers don’t “believe” that. Ugh.
ISTR that the Accela Corridor (Boston to Washington D.C.) is the only bit of Amtrak that actually makes any money, and even then it’s minimal. It’s shocking how much money they bleed.
It’s a pretty civilized way to get between Boston & NY, if only for the “quiet car” alone (no cell phones, library-level conversations).
Time wise, it seems crazy vs. flying (3.75 hours vs. 1 hour) but once you factor in getting from LGA to the city, the fact you can just arrive at the station 5 minutes before departure, etc., it works out pretty closely in terms of total time spent.
Commuter trains are fine if it’s demand driving the companies to build them. I bike 30 minutes to get to work and people look at me like I’m nuts. “Why don’t you take the train?”. The train includes 3 transfers and takes close to an hour total. The dependence on trains is making people into total pussies.
After they force us all into self-driving cars with no manual option, building train lines for commuters will seem quaint.
Greyhound killed their service in western Canada because they lost 40% of their ridership and some folk are crying racism. Never mind that the government offers freebies, free rides that cut into the bottom line. If I never hear another bogus example of chicory-flavored nonsense I might die a happy man. Fuck you, pool your resources and buy a van if one of your drivers can hang onto a license for more than a month or two.
FUCK YEAH
I still like beer.
It’s about time.
Fuck that noise! It’s about the Children. Don’t you even care? I like beer too.
And future generations!
Them too!