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Gooooood morning, you delightful people! Welcome back to Ball, Bubba, Kash and Mike. We’re back, and we’ve been talking about the #1 search phrase on PornHub last week: it was a split between “costume+anal” and “pumpkin fuck.” What does that mean for America, Bubba?
I think it’s obvious, Mike, America is obsessed with butt-fucking pumpkins. By the way, it’s currently 68° at 7:58 in Chicagoland. And try to avoid the Jane Addams this morning- an overturned tractor-trailer has spilled 3000 pounds of frozen pierogies into the center lane, and wow, it’s a real mess! Let’s go to our next caller who’s been patiently waiting.
And speaking of a real mess, the birthday list for today is absolutely pathetic. When the best you can come up with is Ralph Macchio and Kathy Griffen, then seriously, don’t be born on November 4. OK, one exception, maybe: SP’s favorite football player of all time, Vince Wilfork.
Let’s get to the news.
Or in this case, non-news. Remember the hoo-hah a few days ago about antisemitic graffiti at a Brooklyn Jewish community center? The outrage was plastered everywhere. And the perp was caught but for some weird reason, this news was nearly buried. And no wonder. This was NOT a planned part of the narrative- the perp is black, gay, a Team Blue activist and campaign volunteer, “pet” of the NY City Council. All of which took a lot of concerted digging to find out, since it doesn’t fit the narrative. I can’t imagine why people don’t trust the news media. Personally, I thought the back story from last year was very interesting and revealing.
Months before that birthday, a Brooklyn couple learned about the possibility of fostering him. The couple, Josh Waletzky and Jenny Levison, said they had wanted to foster an “L.G.B.T.Q. youth” on the brink of aging out of the system. Children’s Aid, one of the eight beneficiary organizations of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, took over Mr. Polite’s case in early 2013 and facilitated the placement. Although Mr. Polite was not legally adopted — his relationship with his biological parents has improved in recent years — Ms. Levison called it a “moral adoption.” He says he considers the couple his second set of parents.
But good luck finding any real coverage of this in WaPo, CNN, NYT, and the other usual suspects. But honestly, I feel sorry for that kid. He had a very tough and unstable life, then fell into the hands of a couple of leftist Jews who wanted the combination of tax break, no responsibility for actually raising a kid, and a gold-plated social signal. Shit, that would have turned me into an antisemite as well. I’m normally of the bent of “you do something, it’s your responsibility, not anyone else’s.” But this one’s completely on you, Josh and Jenny.
On the lighter side, dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is. But dog shoots man is definitely news.
Investigators believe that Charlie, a 120-pound Rottweiler mix, slipped and got his paw caught in the trigger of the gun and fired a shot at his unsuspecting owner. “The gun was positioned in the truck with the barrel facing up, towards Mr. Gilligan,” Doña Ana County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kelly Jameson told ABC News.
The dog owner, who first told officers he had accidentally shot himself, said he had long forgiven Charlie. “Charlie did not mean to do it,” he said. ”He’s a good dog.”
If I were a lawyer, I’d represent that dog pro bono. “Because he’s a good boy, yes he is, Your Honor.”
Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house… well, you don’t even have to leave the house to risk severe injury from the latest discovered threat: instant ramen!
The soups cause about one in five childhood scald burns, according to research to be presented Monday at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. Those findings have led some experts to question the safety of the meals, which often come in microwavable cups.
“It’s important for us to remember, and for parents to remember, that these are just thin containers with boiling water in them,” said Dr. Courtney Allen, a pediatric emergency fellow at Emory University who led the research. “I think there’s an assumption that these are safer than soups coming out of a stove,” she said, “when, in fact, they’re not.”
But of course, where there’s a problem and lawyers, there’s an answer.
In a 2006 study published in the Journal of Burn Care and Research, [Dr. David] Greenhalgh looked at the stability of instant soup containers and found that taller and thinner cups were easier to tip than shorter, stockier ones. Those findings could have implications for manufacturers hoping to reduce the risk of product-related burns.
“What (companies) should do is make them like the Yoplait (yogurt) containers, where they’re wider at the bottom and thinner at the top,” Greenhalgh said. “It would be a very simple thing to design and change.”
Translation: “My expert witness fee is $500 per hour.” Prepare for lawsuits, more useless warning labels, and reformulations so that your ramen can be prepared and served at a nice, safe, lukewarm temperature. And as I write this, I’m having a delicious breakfast of Sapporo Ichiban Miso Ramen, served extra hot, with an egg dropped in it to set (which requires the soup to be just barely under the boiling point). Of course, I am wearing full PPE gear in accordance with the MSDS.
It’s unseemly of me to find this story (and the accompanying video) hilariously funny, but I do.
An intern for Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested and charged with battery after she threw chocolate milk on a group of College Republicans tabling on campus. [Groucho Marx impressionist Shelby] Shoup threw her drink on SFU College Republicans Vice-Membership Chair, Daisy Judge, and when another student passing by tried to de-escalate the situation, she threw the remainder of her drink on him, according to a statement released by the College Republicans at FSU.
“You are supporting Nazis,” Shoup said in the video posted online. “Do you understand that?”
The lesson here: We are, as a nation, in urgent need of common sense chocolate milk control. There’s no reason for civilians to be able to possess assault dairy products.
Old Guy Music, and it’s a sad one today. My favorite living trumpet player is now no longer living. Roy Hargrove died this week at the unconscionably early age of 49. Here is his version of the gorgeous elegy for another trumpeter that we lost too early. Yes, I know, it’s a flugelhorn, but that’s the right tone for this piece and, holy fuck, the solos he takes are mind-blowingly beautiful and virtuoso.
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Even though it’s the good time change, it’s still fucking with my day. At least getting up for work will be extra easy for a week or so.
They both suck. The only advantage to this time change (back to “regular time”) is that the sun comes out just slightly earlier. But then it’ll be dark at 4pm in a few weeks. Thanks for nothing!
Thank you for the article Elspeth. Good stuff. I enjoyed it immensely.
Write more.
You’re welcome ! I appreciate your feedback. I have some free time in the coming week so I’ll keep plugging at the next installment.
For me it just means I’ll be driving into the sunrise again for another couple of weeks. And still driving home in the dark.
I was thinking the same thing. I should be early to work for a week
Fuck Daylight Wasting Time. Time to drop it.
They should just pick one and leave it there.
I moved to Arizona (no daylight savings – fuck, no reason for it there) in 1986 then left the US after that. I only have to think about DST when I’m calling people in the US. It was one of the stupider things the US inflicted on itself a century ago and it’s high time to drop the whole thing entirely.
So, there was a CRM software that I supported and did customization work for many years back. They were releasing a new version, and one of the big features was that it would show the local time of your contacts. The problem was that the company was based out of Arizona, and didn’t take DST into account. They released about a month before DST started in spring, so there was a huge influx of support calls after that complaining that the local time was wrong. It took them about 6 months to patch it (so right before DST ended).
I was still writing DST calls by hand as of 5 years ago for certain SQL functions. Maybe applying is better. Once you write something like that you put it in a file and keep it for the next time something stupid comes up.
And speaking of a real mess, the birthday list for today is absolutely pathetic.
Will Rogers finally met the man he doesn’t like.
Or you could watch Best Actor Oscar winner Art Carney in Harry and Tonto.
It’s the B-day for MLB Hall-of-Famer Bobby Wallace (active career 1894-1918), who started out as a pitcher and ended up as one of the best-fielding third-basemen/shortstops, and played most of his career for bad St. Louis teams (the Cardinals before they got good in the 1920’s and the Browns)
Holy shit! What a breakthrough! His research could lead to safer handling cars and glassware that doesn’t tip as easy for use on ships, among other things that already exist that I can’t think of right now.
They could make their container as big as a dinner plate and only two inches tall and some moron would still spill soup on themselves. Then they’d clamor for thinner taller containers so that they’re easier to hold without spilling.
When I was 17 I went on a long hike and campout with my dog. After I decided on the site where I would sleep I unrolled my sleeping bag, laid my shotgun on the bag and started off to gather firewood. I got about 40 feet away when my dog, the most loyal and adorable dog you ever saw, laid down on the sleeping bag and the shotgun.
The shot missed me by inches.
It may seem highly unlikely but in hindsight, like most disasters, I should have seen that coming.
That doesn’t sound like a loyal dog to me. He tried to bushwack you!
Holy hell, glad you ended up okay from that.
I saw the story above – and noted it was Dona Ana county NM. (please excuse my lack of a tilde) I know that area pretty well. Down to the level that I probably know one or two of the canyons he would have been hunting. Funny to have that hit me so many decades down the line.
Did he try to murder every sleeping bag from then on or cower every time he saw one.
Mine would have tried to attack every sleeping bag.
Dogs act all nice like they’re your best friend but the second they have an opportunity they show their real colors. Fight the humanarchy!
I’m very glad cats don’t have little human hands, or we’d all be fucked hard.
Absolutely true.
the #1 search phrase on PornHub last week: it was a split between “costume+anal” and “pumpkin fuck.”
BRB
“In a 2006 study published in the Journal of Burn Care and Research, [Dr. David] Greenhalgh looked at the stability of instant soup containers and found that taller and thinner cups were easier to tip than shorter, stockier ones. Those findings could have implications for manufacturers hoping to reduce the risk of product-related burns.”
He should win the Nobel Prize for discovering center of gravity.
I agree.
For you (((non))) Glibs, it’s the Sabbath. Time to marvel at G-d’s finest creation.
http://archive.is/MmkxG
1, 5, 9, 20, 26, 40.
That’s just not fair. Lots of the lovely ladies in that link had Daisy Dukes. How can a simple man like me choose?
#3 wins in that category, though 22 gets runners up.
Why do you have to choose?
#40
Lots of those waists are shooped.
Believe it or not, today is National Skeptics Day
I’m gonna need more evidence than some crappy website.
That’s just what they want you to believe.
Believe it or not
Believe It or Not
Jack Pallance was awesome.
Jack Palance
Psh, yeah right.
Uh huh. Sure it is.
I doubt it.
Skeptical about everything but global warming. A bunch of douches that will mock belief in God while worshiping Gaia.
What kills me is that they deride religion, but they actually make arguments like religious zealots – making your conclusion first, then hunting for evidence to support it while ignoring everything that contradicts it.
A great example is their idea that women are “oppressed” in America. Their only evidence is bullshit statistics like the “wage gap” and “1 in 5 women raped on campus”, and they’re summarily dismissing the numbers on female life expectancy, homicide, suicide, workplace deaths, incarcerations, and homelessness.
dog
pro bono
Ha ha ha get it? Dog bone? I’m easily amused.
Maybe the dog slipped when it was pointing out that his dillweed owned put down a loaded gun without setting the safety.
Safety? Why the Hell was the rifle even loaded at that stage? I wouldn’t even put rounds in the magazine until I’m ready to move out.
This is the correct response.
“Shelby Shoup was arrested and charged with battery for throwing chocolate milk at Republican students at Florida State University.”
So you are saying she’s a Shoup Nazi?
Judge to Andrew GIllum: “No Shoup for you!”
Why are Trump supporters so angry? /msm
Come back…one year!
In a 2006 study published in the Journal of Burn Care and Research, [Dr. David] Greenhalgh looked at the stability of instant soup containers and found that taller and thinner cups were easier to tip than shorter, stockier ones.
After exhaustive study, in which no expense was spared.
“You are supporting Nazis,” Shoup said in the video posted online. “Do you understand that?”
How the mighty have fallen.
In other news, champagne flutes are easier to tip over than coffee mugs.
“Groucho Marx impressionist Shelby] Shoup ”
I’d be pissed at the world if I looked that too
*like that too
Those eyebrows are a crime against humanity..
Eyes wide shut. WaPo shits the bed, urges everyone to vote straight D because TDS.
I’m tired of this nonsense. We shouldn’t even have “long-time allies” to begin with except for trade deals or extremely dire situations.
No shit. “Long time allies” is how World War One started. …which obviously begat World War Two. Eff that shyte.
shorter Dana: “REEEEEEE!”
There are so many massaged and out right false claims in there it is actually impressive. One that has been kind of irking me due to heavy coverage, including NPR this morning, is:
That is a flat out lie. The 14th even declares certain people exempt such as diplomats. I am no constitutional scholar but the arguments I have heard stating the 14th was strictly limited to slaves and their children are much more compelling than arguments that it was intended to cover anyone who walks across a line on a map.
Most of the original debate in the Senate was around whether Indians would be included or not, which is tied to the meaning of “under the jurisdiction thereof”. Freed slaves were not controversial, and the limited debate about other groups was mostly around descendants of Chinese, with some Senators (esp California) saying they should be included and not much pushback on that, except for one interesting rant about gypsies in Pennsylvania (??). I think the more substantial question at the time was about which rights were associated with citizenship.
In a 2006 study published in the Journal of Burn Care and Research, [Dr. David] Greenhalgh looked at the severuty of burns from hot versus cold soup and found that Hotter soups caused more severe burns than cold soups. Those findings could have implications for manufacturers hoping to reduce the risk of product-related burns.
You know who else wanted to control people’s soup intake?
Campbell’s?
Hospital nurses?
Yes, I do.
Big Salad ?
So people should just eat cold soup?
If it saves one life
save a child; eat vichyssoise.
“Cocaine Back in a Big Way, DEA Warns, with Rising Overdose Deaths
The DEA noted that “fentanyl/cocaine mixtures often target a user base that is typically unaware it is consuming fentanyl and thus more likely to have an adverse reaction than one who intentionally sought out the opioid… the expansion of fentanyl-contaminated cocaine is fueling a surge in cocaine-related overdose deaths.”
“Illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids — primarily sourced from China and Mexico — are now the most lethal category of opioids used in the United States. Traffickers — wittingly or unwittingly — are increasingly selling fentanyl to users without mixing it with any other controlled substances and are also increasingly selling fentanyl in the form of counterfeit prescription pills. Fentanyl suppliers will continue to experiment with new fentanyl-related substances and adjust supplies in attempts to circumvent new regulations imposed by the United States, China, and Mexico.”
Acting DEA Administrator Uttam Dhillon said that “the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs poses a severe danger to our citizens and a significant challenge for our law enforcement and health care systems.”
“Through robust enforcement, public education, prevention, treatment, and collaboration with our partners, we can protect our citizens from dangerous drugs and their dire consequences,” he said.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/cocaine-back-in-a-big-way-dea-warns-with-rising-overdose-deaths/
No, you can’t. But just keep ignoring the obvious solution, you stupid asshole.
Why would you mix an opiate with coccaine. Not everyone wants a speedball.
I wouldn’t be the first time the government adulterated drugs to make them more dangerous.
Through robust enforcement, public education, prevention, treatment, and collaboration with our partners
It oughta work this time!
But I thought fentanyl was so dangerous that our boys in blue can’t touch it without getting an overdose.
Legal cocaine wouldn’t have fentanyl in it.
Wasn’t Coca-Cola laced with fentanyl at the beginning of the 20th century?
MAGA!
So, what you’re saying is to stick to Crystal meth?
Attempted murder most fowl.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/air-force-falcon-mascot-suffers-life-threatening-injury-in-army-prank
For all the Glibs that dig the metal.
Nuclear War Now held the Never Surrender Fest in Germany the last 3 days. KFJC radio streamed and archived the whole thing. There are some great bands on the bill.
Did they point the stage at France?
In the video she claims Nazis are shooting “her people”. Which people would that be?
haven’t you heard? Zionist are the new Nazis. Over 5 decades after the Six Day War, it’s a wonder there are any Palestinians left, what with the constant genocide and all.
So, got married last weekend, and received a crap ton of new kitchen stuff. Finally got the sous vide out last night which has been sitting in the kitchen for like a month. Did pork chops, holy crap I never had pork chops that good. Ground actual coffee beans this morning in the shiny new grinder, and damn it really does make a difference.
Politics, kind of. Was at the grocery yesterday, saw a car with all kinds of bumper stickers with kind of an anti-authority/pro independence message. Like “Don’t reach your hand in my pocket to pay for your mistakes” kind of stickers. He also had a sticker for the Democrat candidates for House and Senate.
Congrats, Viking! Wish you and your missus much happiness.
Congrats Viking, hope you and your wife have a great one and many long happy years together!
Congrats 🙂
Congrats!
To tell the truth, when I walked by the house in the photo at the head of this post, I was more than tempted to knock on the door and kiss them. But you never know how libertarians might react to people trespassing into their yard…
As it is, I may leave them a note in their mailbox telling them to check out Glibs. At least SP and i won’t be the only Kash Jackson votes in this precinct.
I wouldn’t do that, if I were you. It’s a very serious offense. ?
Bull. Shit.
They will stuff all that junk in there no matter what, even if it says “do not bend”.
So that’s why our prisons are full of Pennysaver delivery boys.
but the reasons for restricting use of mailboxes is really two-fold,” said Postmaster Keith Jackson.
Whoa, Nellie!
Hmm. I just looked it up. I don’t think it is generally illegal to put things in a mailbox.
17 USC 1725 seems to be the relevant statute:
“Whoever […] deposits any mailable matter […] on which no postage has been paid, […]
with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title.”
So, on the assumption that you’re not planning to mail the item if you couldn’t drop it off,
I think you’d be in the clear. I haven’t actually looked at any case law, so when you’re sitting
in the pokey for putting bricks in your neighbors mailboxes, don’t blame me.
It also has to be “mailable”, so you’re good to put your bald eagle carcasses and the like
in there too.
The quote I posted above comes from here.
The opening paragraph:
So, if they are reading the law correctly (big if) and if you are too, it would seem that only mail delivery people can put bald eagle carcasses in mailboxes.
Hey-O! Nice. Enjoy the wedded life.
Congrats dude! It’s hard work especially the first few years but worth it. Misses and I will be celebrating 30 years next year.
Next step is to get yourself a coffee roaster and start living the good life.
Ha-Haaa
/Nelson
Marriage is such a good thing I’ve done it twice – for a total of 32 years. That’s my preface and I hope it never makes sense in your experience.
Condolences and congratulations. As to the bumper stickers yes, I have met people like that. I know an old guy who was a serious bernie bro in’16. After the tax cut, he was the go to guy to ask questions of how the tax breaks would effect your paycheck. He knew exactly how much his with holdings were going to go down and was super stoked about it and couldn’t stop talking how tax breaks are a great thing. Complete ignorance to what Bernie was actually all about but he was still a big supporter.
Sadly, people like that vote.
Congrats, Viking.
So why are you here instead of taking care of that morning wood?
You assume he didn’t take care of the lumber multiple times throughout the night.
Congratulations!!
Congrats!
Plus- Mmmm… Pork chops
Congratulations!
Congratulations, I’m sorry!
There should only be one time for the whole planet. Do noon in the paradise that is Boise (except BSU scmucks) “noon’ might be 13:24 hours. You’d be able to tellhiw far east or west someone e lived just by knowng thier noon.
Been there, done that. The USA operated pretty much like that until the railroads set up “railroad standard time” in 1883. The feds passed the standard time act in 1918.
I remember my grandfather talking about “railroad time” as the standard “back in the day.” He would have been 24 when the Standard Time Act passed.
Massage the message
Win, lose or draw on Tuesday, the Democratic Party will almost immediately turn its focus to the next presidential election and the fight between the establishment center and the left wing. But while the Democrats have that argument, they must also undertake the far more important task of thinking about what they agree on, and how they can construct a story about how the economy works and grows and spreads prosperity, a story that competes with — and defeats — the Republicans’ own narrative.
For 40 years, with a few exceptions, Democrats have utterly failed to do so. Until they fix this, they will lose economic arguments to the Republicans — even though majorities disagree with the Republicans on many questions — because every economic debate will proceed from Republican assumptions that make it all but impossible for Democrats to argue their case forcefully.
Republicans have a theory and a story about how the economy grows. You know it as supply-side economics: Cutting taxes, especially on the rich, and decreasing regulation will unleash so much innovation and economic activity that tax revenues will actually increase and the entire economy will benefit.
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The Democrats have impulses, they have beliefs, they even have principles. But they don’t have a story to challenge the supply-side story and tell people about how the economy grows and helps everyone.
They used to, once upon a time. It was called Keynesianism, or sometimes demand-side economics (which is why conservatives named their theory supply-side). Keynesianism — in a nutshell, government investment in public goods increase demand and prosperity — held sway from the 1940s through the 1970s, the greatest period of economic growth in history.
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It seems to me that the Democrats’ story has to be built around the simple idea of investing in middle- and working-class people. Not “spending,” but “investing.” Spending sounds profligate; investing sounds prudent.
This is not to be done for reasons of “fairness.” That’s an absolutely vital point. Liberals reflexively want to make economic arguments about fairness. But this persuades only liberals. People who aren’t liberals — three-quarters of the country — don’t especially care about fairness. They do, however, care about growth. So Democrats need to argue that these investments, not tax cuts for the rich, are the way to spur growth.
“Just don’t mention the socialism.”
And, oh, by the way, we’re going to have to tax the shit out of everybody and everything to pay for our “investment” in public pensions.
Impulses, I understand that. Beliefs, I also understand that. If you’re talking about a lust for power and control over the individual’s coin-purse, labor, and private life as a “principle”, then sure, I guess they have principles.
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.
This is not to be done for reasons of “fairness.” That’s an absolutely vital point. Liberals reflexively want to make economic arguments about fairness. But this persuades only liberals. People who aren’t liberals — three-quarters of the country — don’t especially care about fairness.
You know why? Because “liberals” (progs) have redefined fairness to mean the ant giving the grasshopper half his stockpile at the point of the bee’s stinger.
Shorter Michael – “I am completely full of shit”
“Idaho teachers dress up as MAGA border wall, sombrero-wearing Mexicans for Halloween
MIDDLETON, Idaho – Fourteen staff members at an Idaho school district who donned caricatured outfits depicting Mexican people and a border wall emblazoned with “Make America Great Again” have been placed on paid administrative leave.
Board Chairman Tim Winkle says the costumes were part of a team building activity after school hours.
Photos were posted to the district’s Facebook page Thursday night and later removed, but screenshots captured the images that went viral.
Middleton is about 34 miles (55 kilometres) west of Boise, with 7,500 residents. The school district offers a migrant education program.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/4627224/halloween-costume-mexico-border-wall-idaho-teachers/
Go Vandals;!!!!
WaPo shits the bed, urges everyone to vote straight D because TDS.
This is the new talking point. I’ve seen it all over the place. Democracy in America is hanging by a thread. If you don’t vote straight-down-the-line TEAM BLUE, the world will end!
I’m voting for Travis
https://www.ballotready.org/oh/ohio-ohio-governor/travis-m-irvine
And for Issue 1.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Issue_1,_Drug_and_Criminal_Justice_Policies_Initiative_(2018)
Pretty much straight R other than that including the judges. Yes, I did evaluate each race independent of party. There’s a bond issue for metro parks looking for an increase that I’ll be voting no on.
I saw a couple of signs against Issue 1 the other day. “To keep Ohio safe”. My local school board is still asking for an increase in property taxes.
We’ll have another school issue soon seeing how they’re building 10K new apartment units within a population of less than 40K. They’ll probably need at least 3 more schools right off the bat if not more. Not to mention the existing road infrastructure is now going to just be one large parking lot since you can barely get around as it is.
Guy on local radio was scare mongering about Issue 1 letting out all of those evil drug “pushers”.
Im already so sick of hearing it. And the non-stop Cordray v. DeWine commercials.
“Through robust enforcement, public education, prevention, treatment, and collaboration with our partners, we can protect our citizens from dangerous drugs and their dire consequences,” he said.”
NEEDZ MOAR HANDS CHOPPED OFF
The wife works full time. I’ve cut down on my hours so that my daughter (elementary school 4th year) wouldn’t be a latch key kid like all the other kids in the neighborhood. We all went to the in laws tonight for diner. I still make more than her and do most of the cooking, cleaning and laundry. Anyways, the mom in law listens to her daughter tonight complaining about how I do things around the house and goes fucking off on her in front of me. “He does all that and you’re still complaining!? You need to open your damn ears and eyes.” Having a mother in law that will pop her daughter in place is the only reason I’m still married.
A father, personally chaperoning his daughter through life? What kind if evil patriarch are you?
That’s cool you got a mother-in-law like that.
Yeah. You know I’m in a similar situation. (Living in Japan married to Japanese)
Way back in the beginning, maybe a couple months after we tied the knot. We were out at dinner with my in-laws and my wife starts bringing up something about our domestic situation – my mother-in-law shuts her down with – “You married a foreigner… deal with it.” I loved my mother-in-law from that point going forward.
Yeah, I can always count on my MIL having my back which is nice.
It really is a big thing. The mother in laws keeping the daughters in line.
Yeah the whole MIL thing is an interesting dynamic. My mom and wife have a decent relationship, although the whole wedding thing had some conflict come to life. I like my MIL fine, it’s kind of an interesting dynamic, because I’m nearly 30, with two parents in their 60s. My MIL is mid 40s, and my wife is 23. My wifes grandparents are a hell of a lot closer to my parents age then to my grandmother’s age.
Funny how that is. My wife & I are a May-December the other way. She was born late in my MIL’s life, years after her own siblings so her nephews/nieces are the same age.
My MIL died before we got married, but after we were dating for a while. She was a terrible mother for my wife but when I knew her, she had mellowed into sweet old lady. Also loved Kit Kats, which my wife detests. I think of my MIL whenever I eat one. Would have been 106 this year.
I can’t imagine complaining to my mom about my husband.
My MIL is my husband’s stepmother, so we both married the same kind of man. I did text her once to blow off steam and got a sympathetic ear because my FIL had the same quirks, but that was only once. And it was understood we both felt guilty about it, so it hasn’t happened again.
I get along great with my mom, but I’m almost convinced she talks to my husband more than she talks to me.
In short, I have nothing to complain about.
*raises eyebrow*
Now I know where that new ‘trend’ online is coming from.
Also, I like your new (old) avatar. 🙂
Oh, thank you!
More NYT
Republicans say the rich, with millions returned to them in the form of tax cuts, know best what to do with their money and the market can make the best decisions about investments and society’s needs.
It should be fairly easy for Democrats to say to Americans: Look around you. How has that worked out for you?
Inequality is rampant. People fear being bankrupted by medical catastrophe (though not as much as they once did, thanks to President Barack Obama). Young people in college spend 25 years paying off debt. Young people not in college are working three jobs, none of which pays benefits or gives them steady hours. Your town is probably a shell of its former self, and some of your friends and relatives — all of them good, decent people — are in the grip of heroin or fentanyl addiction. This is what 40 years of market decision-making has done.
They can’t help themselves. “This is what 40 years of market decision-making has done.”
No, you fucking imbecile, “the market” does not make decisions. What you are seeing is the cumulative effect of decisions made by individuals, acting in accordance with their own needs, and in response to government incentives.
Also, the clear advantages and improvements in all our lives brought forth by individual innovators seem to have completely escaped this bozo’s notice. But I’m sure the world would be a better place if we had stayed on the economic path laid out by Richard Nixon. Wage and price controls are just what America needs, today. Make that part of your party platform.
with millions returned to them in the form of tax cuts
the author kinda slipped there acknowledging the money rightfully belonged to the taxpayer in the first place.
Fuck off Slaver.
none of which pays benefits or gives them steady hours. (not like they once did thanks to President Barack Obama)
“Young people not in college are working three jobs, none of which pays benefits or gives them steady hours”
My parents would have called this undesirable but better than unemployment.
My grandparents would have called this normal.
My great-grandparents would have called this lucky.
I thought the number of people working multiple jobs was very low.
And you’d be exactly right:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm
Ah, but that just means we need more common sense regulations.
Not giving is taking. What a mendacious person.
People fear being bankrupted by medical catastrophe (though not as much as they once did, thanks to President Barack Obama).
I still do not understand this talking point. Besides the fact that the situation has gotten worse since the ACA passed, are you not supposed to spend your money to save your life? Is it better to have no choice and be at the mercy of bureaucrats deciding what to spend, whether they work for private insurers or the government?
Charlie Gard’s ghost would like a word with those mendacious fuckwits.
You can’t even call it an isolated incident. They did it again less than a year later with Alfie Evans. The NHS is Britian’s death cult and anybody who talks about importing it here (vs., e.g., a French, Swiss, or Singaporean model) should be treated with contempt.
Money is only for iPhones and Netflix.
No one should ever have their disposable income be reduced, least of all for something so trivial and unimportant as healthcare.
My second job out of law school was with a BK attorney. I saw maybe one person who was legitimately bankrupted because of her medical expenses. Everyone else was living way beyond their means (boats/2nd homes/multiple vehicles/a fucking jet) and medical expenses sent them over the edge.
Fucking jets are the best kind of jets, this is known.
What was it like working with a Burger King attorney?
People fear being bankrupted by medical catastrophe (though not as much as they once did, thanks to President Barack Obama).
Too bad cheap and easy to obtain catastrophic medical coverage was made completely illegal by Our Lord And Savior Barack Obama. Nevermind that it has been made more expensive and harder to obtain by decades of medical legislation.
Poor Teddy Kennedy. He did more to fuck up healthcare in this country than even Obama did and he doesn’t get so much as a mention.
We’ll drive off that bridge when we get to it.
Hey chap a quit it with the puns.
Fuckin’ Mike…always trying to make a splash.
If you expect him to quit, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Y’all need to sleep it off and take care of it tomorrow.
And that’s exactly what it should be. Insurance by its very nature is for low-probability events.
With every other insurance policy, you’re allowed to opt out of coverage for certain situations that you don’t think will occur. But the stupid PPACA made it illegal for me to opt out of things like mental health treatment and substance abuse counselling.
I’ve taken from time to time to trolling the WaPo threads. It’s fun.
Ok… I’m getting annoyed at the amount of websites that have apparently made it their mission to point out election day is on Tuesday. Fuck off Kickstarter, I’m looking to see if there’s any updates. I already know the day of the election (it’s really not that hard to remember), and don’t need you telling me.
I can’t wait for this fucking election to be in the rear view mirror (not that anything will improve much). At least the ads will stop.
All I know is that all the Democrats are evil Pelosi surrogates and all the Republicans are evil Trump surrogates.
/informed voter
What? You know that the 2020 ads are just waiting to be set free.
^^^^ Yup. ?
Who makes good Worcestershire sauce? Lea & Perrins isn’t as good since they changed their U.S. recipe.
Best seller on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/BOURBON-BARREL-FOODS-Worcestershire-Sauce/dp/B00NW45ELG
A vegetarian Worcestershire sauce? Color me
baddskeptical.Bulldog used to make an excellent one. I can’t find it any more so I assume it’s been discontinued.
It’s on the Amazon list below.
Not the vegetarian one, sadly. Only the one with sardine extract.
Sardines are practically a vegetable.
Thanks, but $7 for 3 ounces? Also, no anchovies or malt vinegar.
Here’s the list
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Grocery-Gourmet-Food-Worcestershire-Sauce/zgbs/grocery/6466920011
Annie’s Naturals is not good worcestershire sauce. Do not recommend. Worse than Lea & Perrins.
Try making your own.
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Although it looks like Amazon sells UK Lea & Perrins.
I have all of those ingredients except for the tamirand concentrate. Just not enamored enough with Worcestershire sauce to bother.
Depending on what you’re using it for, try using Maggi sauce (make sure it’s the German or French version, World Market usually carries it if no where else).
What changed with L&P’s? Last I recall was they reverted the HFCS to sugar.
Why doesn’t anybody talk about the NRA?
Leaders of the N.R.A. fervently backed a new movement to reinterpret the Second Amendment, which had been regarded as a relic having to do with state militias, as protecting individual gun rights. In 1991, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative, dismissed calls to reinterpret the Second Amendment as “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word ‘fraud,’ on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
Now that “fraud” is the law of the land.
The reinterpretation of the Second Amendment is a tribute to the undeniable effectiveness of the N.R.A. Relentless campaigning by the N.R.A. and changing American mores have resulted in a Constitutional right to bear arms, in a blizzard of concealed carry permits, and in tough stand-your-ground laws. In contrast to Canada, the United States now has a gun culture focused on handguns, assault weapons and paranoia, and that’s in large part because of the N.R.A.
Wow. I have never heard of this secretive cabal before. I’m surprised they have managed to fly under the radar for so long.
which had been regarded as a relic having to do with state militias
Prior to the Gun Control Act of 1968, which was basically “ban shit because JFK got shot”, the standing legal interpretation of the Second Amendment following the passage of the National Firearms Act of 1934 and United States v. Miller was that weapons could only be banned if they were not “ordinary military equipment”.
Just because you packed the courts from the mid-1930s to the early 1980s and got Congress to pass a reactionary bill in the wake of a President getting assassinated does not make the Second Amendment or its proper interpretation a “relic”.
And, for the record, the National Guard is not a state militia, and neither are the various state or local police agencies (thankfully, we do not have gendarmeries in the United States). The state militia of any state is the common people who can take up arms in defense of the state, themselves, or the country.
I should say, stacked the courts, rather than packed, as the latter implies a change in the number of members of the court.
“ban shit because
JFKRFK & MLK got shot”The reinterpretation of the Second Amendment is a tribute to the undeniable effectiveness of the N.R.A. Relentless campaigning by the N.R.A. and changing American mores have resulted in a Constitutional right to bear arms, in a blizzard of concealed carry permits, and in tough stand-your-ground laws.
They’re really pushing to make me buy a lifetime NRA membership.
Meh. Don’t forget that the NRA sold out to gun control in the 1960s. The NRA will always be a compromise organization to me, Charlton Heston’s exuberance notwithstanding.
So the leadership of the NRA 50+ years ago -who are probably mostly dead now- screwed up and because of that you will never support the organization, regardless of what they are currently doing.
Does that really sound logical to you?
I can still contribute to GoA or one of any number of other organizations, too. Where possible, I try not to make perfect the enemy of good.
Right? All I got from that information is that wow, the NRA protected and saved one of the BoR.
I did it. I’d rather push the NRA to where I’d like them to be on gun rights, rather than taken over and skinsuited.
Also, fuck establishment Republicans like Burger. The NRA being copsuckers now is directly due to those Establishment R’s throwing the NRA under the bus for the “jack booted thugs” letter. Unfortunately, they won’t make that mistake again.
“You ask, who are the militia? They are the body of the people, every person capable of bearing arms.”
– George Mason, author of the second amendment.
Fuck you. You cant have my guns.
I truly hope and wish the Democrats get mauled.
Steve Smith style.
The evil left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8D8ct2Lq5E
That’s messed up.
Fucker needs to get a blog.
https://votesmart.org/elections/ballot-measures/NH#.W98E95NKjb2
Two amendments to the state Constitution are up for vote. One will give taxpayers standing to sue if they believe their local ofr state govrnment is spending money on illegal projects. The other will add the following to the Constitution: “[Art.] 2-b. [Right to Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.” Voting yes on both, and pretty much straight R. Hopefully the Blue Wave will be Democrats waving goodbye as they emigrate to Canada.
One will give taxpayers standing to sue if they believe their local [or] state govrnment is spending money on illegal projects
Courts: Congratulations, you have standing. Unfortunately, the state has plenary authority to spend money. Case dismissed.
Baby steps.
Nah, Canada doesn’t actually take in unlimited numbers of refugees:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/25/justin-trudeau-forced-to-backtrack-on-open-invitation-to-refugees
Well, since it’s Sunday after all.
That’s terrific. Thank you!
Kinda drags a bit, but they do it justice.
“TRUMP REMOVING TRANS RIGHTS?? (The Truth)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXRRIG8o3wg
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1058811061900500993
They won’t even admit that Obama rewrote Title IX by executive fiat, and that the “military accepting trans people” was transparently about getting the government to pay for it.
They = people who believe “trans rights” have been removed
Lovely. The wind-whipped rain has changed to wind-whipped sleet/snow.
“Watch @BariWeiss on #RealTime eloquently describe the dangers of the Trump presidency and the essential values we are losing. Her New York Times columns on what happened in Pittsburgh are crucial reading that will break your heart.”
https://twitter.com/EmilyYoffe/status/1058877814450147328
Sorry, but Bari Weiss was just spouting question-begging crap.
Leave shotgun at home.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/dream-job-alert-get-paid-100-an-hour-to-play-with-puppies/1572002084
You laugh, but I am intrigued.
I did the search and it was informative. I have shopping to do and a video to make.
I’m assuming you’ll be heating it up. Just be careful of hot spots. Lol.
Unless your a necrophiliac and prefer it cold.
In sporting news this is kind of impressive. Heidelberg College punter Austin Baker had a punt yesterday which rolled into the endzone for a touchback. What was so impressive about that? Well the line of scrimmage was the Heidelberg 5 yard line. Yes, Mr. Baker had a 95 yard punt (that is gross yards, net yards would only 75 yards because of the touchback).
That’s cool. He actually kicked it from his own end zone, and it landed on about the 34 and bounced all the way into the end zone from there.
“Young African-American Beauty Accused of Racism and Fired from Modeling Agency for Attending TPUSA Black Leadership Conference”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/young-african-american-beauty-accused-of-racism-and-fired-from-modeling-agency-for-attending-tpusa-black-leadership-conference/
https://davidharrisjr.com/social-and-political/zoe-bethel-fired-for-attending-white-house-and-blexit/
“This is ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC. A young woman who attended our #YBLS summit was released from her modeling contract when she got home for supporting @realDonaldTrump and this administration. Political bias is DISCRIMINATION. I am APPALLED at this circumstance.”
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1058789860968972288
Candace Owens = Would
Let’s not discourage the lefttards, they’re doing exactly what we want them to. Never interrupt your enemy destroying themselves.
Fucking Streisand Effect, how does that work?
“The relationship between Trumpism and crazed right-wing killers is like the relationship between climate change and extreme weather events. You can’t necessarily prove causation in an individual case, but the changing climate makes these events more likely”
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1058814994207436801
How did this idiot win a Nobel Prize?
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1058309650070859781
I guess I’m too uneducated to understand sophisticated arguments such as “Republicans bad”.
I made it five comments in. These people really are delusional.
Well, it’s highly likely they are NYT readers. Why else would they be following Krugabe on Twitter? So, pointing out delusional is unnecessary, it’s assumed by anyone outside of their little bubble.
For instance, top issues have been polled over the last few years and climate change has never made it more than 8% in any of the polls. Yet, these idiots believe that climate change must be more important to all Americans than the economy. Durrr. To the extent that it is important to most people, it’s limited to ‘Shit, it’s raining outside, need to take my umbrella or shit it’s snowing outside, better leave a little early’. This used to be called weather.
We could have also asked anyone that went past 1st year engineering in college, or most small children who have played with blocks, but no, lets do a study… Good job Doc.
If milk is the symbol of white supremacy, surely the chocolate milk is for black supremacists, and thus this is a hate crime.
I’ll just say the egg creme is one of my favorite drinks.
Tasty euphemism.
But it’s the Russian propaganda controlling out elections.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/11/04/ny-times-launches-histrionic-alarm-white-nationalism-days-election/
I’d settle for common-sense Democrat control.
News you can use.
https://www.medicaldaily.com/national-orgasm-day-2014-6-common-myths-about-female-orgasm-you-probably-believe-295906
“Senator, care to explain how you can have “300% less” of something?”
https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1058889826936725504
Also, “gun deaths” is a silly thing to count.
Funny thing is that some dude does explain it. You can also have a negative percent variance. It’s business math 101.
That having been said, statistics continue to be abused like a red headed stepchild in a Pornhub video.
Umm…which video exactly? Asking for a friend.
Also, “gun deaths” is a silly thing to count.
Exactly, CT has about 15% of the population of FL. And gun deaths includes suicides.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic-Socialist who will most likely be the youngest member of Congress next year, believes it is a “no-brainer” that President Donald Trump should be impeached.
On his Real America with Jorge Ramos show on Facebook Watch this week, the Univision anchor asked Ocasio-Cortez whether she wanted to impeach Trump once she got to Congress.
“I mean, yeah. To me, it’s a no-brainer,” Ocasio-Cortez replied to Ramos. “Well, I believe that he has violated the law. Violated potentially many laws, whether it’s the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution because he keeps his businesses open that foreign actors kind of participate in financial transactions with. Whether it’s what we are seeing with potentially illegal buyouts of campaign, you know, FEC violations of women that he is trying to silence.”
Ocasio-Cortez also said impeaching Trump should not be “beyond the pale” because of how Republicans impeached former President Bill Clinton for lying under oath.
“But overall, you look at the bar that the Republicans held for impeaching Bill Clinton and somehow impeaching Donald Trump is supposed to be beyond the pale? It seems ridiculous to me,” she added.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/03/ocasio-cortez-impeaching-trump-no-brainer/
TW: Breitbart
“I mean, yeah. To me, it’s a no-brainer”
Let’s keep it in perspective, everything is a no-brainer to her. There’s no brain present.
Let the Democrats retake the House and impeach Trump, while the GOP controlled Senate fails to have the votes to remove him from office if it meant the Democrats suffered the same sort of electoral losses starting in 2020 as the GOP did between ’02 and ’08.
If Democrats get the house, it will be a 24/7 clown show out of them for the next 2 years. They’ll literally self-destruct and get blown out on every level in 2020. They are much better off if they remain in the minority in both houses.
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By campaigning for Kim Reynolds, Ivanka Trump shows yet again she is no friend to women
First daughter, presidential adviser and failed shoe entrepreneur Ivanka Trump is hard at work empowering women! On Friday she headed to Iowa to campaign for Kim Reynolds, a Republican who became acting governor of the state last year, when Terry Branstad resigned to become US ambassador to China. Reynolds is facing off against the Democrat Fred Hubbell, a wealthy businessman who hasn’t run for public office before, and it’s a tight race.
If Reynolds wins she will be the first woman elected as governor in Iowa. But that would be nothing to celebrate. Having more women in office means nothing if those women enact regressive policies. And Reynolds’ horrific record on women’s health is a sign she would do just that.
#NOTREALWOMYNZ
Surprised that wasn’t a Jezebel link.
Why is a British newspaper interfering in American elections?
Drat! and double drat!
Brooksed and SFed, all at once. I give this a 10/10.
I was just about to buy Fallout 76 this morning so that I could play the beta. Then I watched some Youtube of it. It looks sort of dumb. No NPCs except for computer terminals and robots, apparently. I mean besides the monsters, no one else talks to you unless you want to talk to other real people. Ewww! Not sure what Bethesda is doing. First they killed off Elder Scrolls by making it a MMO, now they are going to kill off Fallout by making it a MMO. Seriously doubting I will buy it now, ever.
It’s not Bethesa, per se, but EA.
Fuck EA.
I didn’t even know EA is involved with Bethesda. Unless you mean influence on gaming wise.
Yes…the whole milk games for every penny by pitching them as “live services”.
Yeah, I guess the MMO stuff with micro-transactions keeps the money rolling in.
“Suspended for 3 days for an obvious joke that has been around for years…”
https://twitter.com/Paul_Sacca/status/1059053281580892161
Typical, just typical.
Well, I mean Democrats would never pull any underhanded stuff like that, they’re pure as the driven snow.
People this ignorant should really be barred from universities.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11470
Academic freedom is one thing; but when you’re spewing outright falsehoods and peddling Alex Jones-level conspiracy theories, you have no place “educating” anyone.
Luddites are still with us. It’s just that now instead of chasing tractors in the fields, they’re chasing capitalism from their armchairs in their university and hack media jobs.
Look, the fact that communism destroys the environment everywhere it’s been practiced just means they weren’t doing it right.
But just look at the Chinese, they’re polluting less than any… oh wait, never mind.
Good guy with a gun
https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-man-helps-subdue-suspect-in-deadly-stabbing-in-seattle
Seattle? So how much time do you think the heroes sentence will be?
I’m wondering how many people shit their pants when they saw a gun.
WHat bad luck to kill someone where the only person in Seattle with a CCW permit is.
Razor Wire for de chillunz
I can’t wait for CNN’s upcoming images of poor brown wiminz and chillinz dangling from razor wire for miles along our southern border. And you know it’s coming via the modern miracle of photoshop and our most trusted source of news.
Wow, is that from AP or the DNC?
There’s a difference?
And I’m 100 percent sure that if someone did happen to die while trying to climb through razor wire, the Left would react as though Trump killed that person with his own two hands.
The Left doesn’t believe that minorities have much agency; they just see them as pawns being moved about by forces beyond their control.
Yeah, of course, anything that happens to the poor innocent ‘migrants’ will be Trump’s fault. Because for starters, everyone knows that it’s his fault that some NGO, probably funded by various lefties and democrats, decided to put some poor uneducated people up to trekking across a dangerous landscape on a road to nowhere.
Meh, he had already spent years in the fever-swamp of local politics run by far-leftists. I’m sure those two are perfectly awful, but that kid was already fucked up long before they got their hooks into him.
This video dedicated to newlywed Viking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmuSQLMvC1o
/jk, Congrats.
…that better be TechnoViking
lol thanks, and thanks to all the well wishers. We’ve been living together for years now, so things haven’t really changed on a day to day level, but her family likes me a lot more.
Hah, I had the same situation — lived together for 7 years, then got married. They liked me before, even more now.
And congrats!
It’s almost like Glibs formed a band .
“Bad Livers”
RE: Candace Owens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_6DZ21P3M
Would, would, would.
I disagree with the headline.
https://freebeacon.com/blog/cant-fix-twitter-without-breaking-twitter/
You can “fix” twitter by returning to its free speech roots and quit banning people for ideological reasons. It’s why people started using it in the first place.
But then people’s feelings would be hurt and Russia would buy American elections!
So, has Bobby Petrino been fired yet?
Well without their Pizza Daddy, how in the world will they buy him out and hire the guy from Purdue?