Hi guys, happy Tuesday. This is my last full day of work this week. I hope the same for all of you. My boss told me I could be done whenever I finished my work tomorrow or I should close down by noon. I figure I can get my stuff done exactly 4 minutes after our morning call. And then a 5 hour drive with two kids. But my wife loves me. She got the Expedition cleaned out, vacuumed and washed. I was only disappointed that (a) she didn’t wear a bikini and (b) do it while I could watch. And yes, central FL, she would have been comfortable.
OMWC swears that he doesn’t endorse this. Custard is not candy. And the girls were too old for him.
Never bring a screwdriver to a hammer fight? Florida man, you so crazy.
I mean, I would have taken a chance on the hot/crazy with this chick before this incident.
Jeebus. Everyone is crazy to start hiring staff for 2020 in Iowa. I guess political campaign workers gotta eat every day like everyone else.
I forgot how good the album this came off of is. Time to dig it out.
“The 62-year-old manager of an ice cream shop on Johns Pass was arrested Monday after Pinellas County deputies say he inappropriately touched four teenage employees ages 14, 15 and 17.”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
When I was a kid my parents would load us in our Ford LTD station wagon an drive us to Florida for summer vacation. We spend plenty of time at John’s Pass. I don’t recall any inappropriate touching, but I don’t remember any teenage employees either.
There’s a pass in Florida?
Those tattletale teens are a hard pass.
He certainly made a pass…
So you’re saying you blacked out the traumatic memories?
I must have. Cramming 4 kids and 2 chain smoking adults into a station wagon for 20+ hours must have left some kind of a mark.
:: Commences pulling out single strands of hair ::
Hello!
‘Sup Cat Stevens?
Oh very Young…..
I gotta go with Wild World
That song works for the custard shop, though
The unbearable weight of Titty Tuesday.
http://archive.is/5biYO
I don’t even care what 6’s face looks like, that’s what paper bags are for. 12 is THICC. 15 looks like a party I’d like to join.
4, 11 thru 14
31 is thicc thighed to the point of being an honorary black girl.
Hat tip to 23 for simulated titfucking.
“Service Unavailable”.
Sad.
The werewolf was just reenacting Underworld.
“Ekaterina Tirskaya, 22, believed she was Elena Gilbert, the main character in fantasy drama The Vampire Diaries, she told police.
A psychological assessment carried out before her trial in Novosibirsk, Russia, reportedly found her to be sane.”
So she was crazy, but not Russian crazy?
So she didn’t oppose Putin?
Too crazy for gulag.
“Prosecutor Felix Kuznetsov said she was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after being found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm.”
2.5 years? Pussy privilege.
Kuznetsov Is Russian for Cut your Nuts Off
Russian prison sentences are typically not as long as the US ones.
Imma guess that they seem a lot longer.
Like dog years. One year in a Russian prison is like three in a US prison.
Humble-brag by proxy?
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/09/woman-sues-her-ex-boyfriend-because-his-abnormally-long-penis-stretched-her-vagina-8122978/
Fake news. I learned from Teen Vogue that doesn’t happen.
Wouldn’t that be girth?
Broken cervix.
Need to take back to the dealership for cervixing.
Would that be the Vulva dealership?
Yes, they are the best because they have like four trim levels for all their offerings.
Subaru just has “Jungle Bush Ready.”
I love that the person in the article is named mangina
Thanks a lot. Now I gotta stress about that too
It seems like I’ve done more in the last 2 days off of work. Holiday my ass.
Same here. What’s the point of a holiday if you’re going to make up the hours elsewhere?
We had an ice storm on Thursday. 36 hours without power; then I had to trim, clean up, and move hundreds of pounds of bradford pear, sweet gum, and pine branches scattered across my yard.
On Sunday, I could barely move. I’m getting too old to go out and do that shit.
BREAKING: CDC Exposed As Shill For Big Iceberg
“CDC is advising that U.S. consumers not eat any romaine lettuce, and retailers and restaurants not serve or sell any, until we learn more about the outbreak. This investigation is ongoing and the advice will be updated as more information is available.”
https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
*checks map*
Yup, I’m going to skip romaine for this year’s meal.
https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/map.html
Well, some people did die from eating Romaine lettuce infected with E. Coli.
Steve Martin hardest hit.
“Doyle was divorced at the time but is now married to wife Lisa who he met at the same air base where the porn film was shot.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/743693/RAF-sex-video-sergeant-micky-doyle-viral-cranwell-viral-twitter
It’s claimed he was not in the service when he shot the porn, so how was he shooting it on base?
These euphemisms.
Sure she did.
In Denver airport
Fall travellefs stare at phones
It’s Holiday time
Perhaps you could spend your time enjoying some jangle-goodness – The Abs – Toes Stamped Flat
Thanks for that.
I flew last week on a full flight. I took a window seat, and this man approaches me and the lady in my row for the middle seat, telling us he is afraid of flying. Haha sure, we’ll take care of you.
He grabbed ahold of me a few times when there was some slight turbulence, tightly grab the seat in front of him, sobbed, prayed out loud, cursed, rocked back and forth, and then when we finally landed he let out loud hiccups while we waited for a gate to open up.
Worst erotic story ever.
…once off the flight, I made love to the lady in the aisle seat near the baggage claim. ? No?
In all seriousness, flying would be so much better if no one else was in the cabin with me.
Jesus, have a couple drinks and relax. People, right??
This is egould310’s standard advice for when you drunkenly stumble into an occupied lavatory on an airplane and piss all over the other person’s shoes even though the lav is about the size of a coffin.
I would have rather sat next to a pile of screaming babies.
God bless you.
Back home at last. Congratulations Nashville, you have officially supplanted Las Vegas as my least favorite city to be a tourist in.
We’ll try harder next time.
Someone didn’t spend enough time and/or money at Printer’s Alley.
I wouldnt be surprised is there was still some pavement stained with my vomit.
Wow! You must be incredibly boring and unimaginative.
Nashville is about the easiest town to make friends and have fun.
DIA is a hellhole.
But they have miniature golf, a climbing wall, and a bunch of other bread-and-circuses stuff outside the main terminal on a rotating basis!
Also, get Clear Pass. Your life will be much better at DIA.
Yeah. I was standing in tsa precheck, and that clear pass line was like…. dat line!
Clear is the bomb. You just sail through security in a few seconds. At $80/year, if you fly very much, it’s a no-brainer. They just have to get it into more airports. Btw it works at many sports stadiums too, great way to legitimately “take cuts”.
Vampires was a documentary.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6410415/Actor-James-Woods-alerts-Florida-police-suicidal-Marine-veteran.html
The book was much better.
How could it not be?
Did Angry Uncle Bot get posted here yet?
It’s a simulator to help practice your political conversations this Thanksgiving. Best thing is, it’s bipartisan – you can role-play a liberal arguing with your conservative uncle (in which case you establish his cognitive dissonance and then start talking about unions), or a conservative arguing with your liberal uncle (in which case you agree with everything he says and then change the subject).
TW:NYT
I think the programmers failed the ideological Turing test.
Progressives ruin everything.
Anyone pulling that shit at my dinner table can get the fuck out of my house.
Don’t they roll that out every year?
I love how well they unironically pull off the moralizing scold aunt role.
This genre of newsource-talks-about-how-to-argue-during-the-holidays have proved something I’ve always assumed was true. The news industry is full of insufferable shits.
My lib uncle and I had a great 45 minute drunken conversation where he told me about how the Economist has changed since the Internet, and I explained various non-compulsory-revenue-raising schemes dreamed up by libertarian thinkers. Then I had a drunken conversation with my progressive brother where we talked about dead lifting.
Because we aren’t insufferable assholes.
I just avoid talking to anyone. That seems to work out pretty well.
Uhhhh.
“Health care is a human right”
““Rights” are protections, they don’t force some people to pay for other people”
“We recognize lots of positive rights… right to counsel, vote, education, etc.!”
The only thing in that that’s remotely applicable is a public defender because it attaches directly to the guarantee of a fair trial by jury. Education is nowhere in the Constitution and it’s far from axiomatic (at least to me) that voting is a natural right.
So fuck you Uncle Bob, you eat at the kids’ table.
Voting is the definition of a civil, not natural or human, right. There was no voting in the “state of nature,” so it can’t be a human right.
My in laws are Northwest Ohio Democrats and the subject of health care came up. Without any prompting I said that health care isn’t a human right and it should be viewed more as a commodity. They didn’t argue because they were in shock that someone would say something like that out loud.
Who the hell are these people who can’t get through a holiday dinner without yelling about politics?? My cousin comes to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving every year. My dad is a Trump-loving, Breitbart reading conservative stereotype, my cousin is a rainbow flag-waving lesbian Democrat, yet somehow we manage to eat turkey and mashed potatoes in a pleasant family atmosphere and enjoy each other’s company. It’s really not hard.
People whose lives are pathetically empty.
Assholes I thought that was obvious.
Apparently there are many more of them than I had previously realized!
See, there’s three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn’t fuck the assholes, you know what you’d get? You’d get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!
I love Team America.
“I’m gonna cut off your balls and shove them up your ass… So next time you shit, you shit all over your BALLS!!”
I’ve started to weed out those who are obsessed about politics from of my life. It’s good to be up to date about what’s going on in politics but if all you’re going to do is try to proselytize or argue with people about politics especially when we’re in a group, then it’s time to GTFO.
yet somehow we manage to eat turkey and mashed potatoes in a pleasant family atmosphere and enjoy each other’s company
Perhaps your family members love each other more than they love winning an argument.
Alternatively, they are just polite.
Either way, sounds like a good situation.
Woman who identified as a vampire stabbed boyfriend ‘because he was a werewolf’
Would. In a neutral location (hotel) after hiding/locking away all firearms, knives and other sharp/pointy objects.
Shaving all the hair from your body and avoiding panting or howling might also help.
If you can avoid sparkling, that might help as well.
Just avoid doggy style and she’ll be cool.
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
Am I taking crazy pills? It feels like I’m taking crazy pills.
Holy shit! Someone ate Jessica Simpson!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6411305/Jessica-Simpson-shows-pregnant-figure-mom-cooks-huge-Friendsgiving-lunch.html
Well, she is pregnant.
Even for a pregnant woman, she’s enormous.
I believe you meant to say that Jessica Simpson ate everyone!
Tony Romo?
Ron Jeremy?
That sounds like just what a werewolf would say.
What you’re supposed to do is brood like a mother fucker and tell her how you were kicked out of your pack and narrowly escaped with your life. When she asks why, you say, because you fell in love…with a vampire.
Fucking amateur hour.
I stumbled upon this gem of an article from 1990 about the first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union. Such time capsules should be thrust in the faces of the swelling socialist ranks as examples of what they can look forward to in their glorious post-revolution future.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/02/01/moscow-plays-ketch-up/2addbab1-da1c-4101-a2f3-3131a3a97035/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a203a7c4f9e0
Sample excerpt:
“Factory worker Negilko, however, was taking no chances. Just in case McDonald’s closes tomorrow, he already has a complete set of styrofoam cups and plates to show his workmates and his children.
“You use these once only. Once only, I tell you. You use them and then throw them away,””
Which show the destructive values of capitalism which trashes Mother Earth and shows why the socialist system of wrecking the Earth is better.
EnvironMENTALists swoon.
They won’t swoon when they learn that Exxon-Valdez sized oil spills were a regular occurrence on the Siberian pipeline.
A splash of brilliant color in the middle of a gray city, the McDonald’s restaurant in Pushkin Square is an uncompromising chunk of Americana transplanted to the middle of Russia, a capitalist icon in a communist setting. “If you can’t go to America, come to McDonald’s in Moscow,” is the slogan in the ads on the Soviet Union’s new commercial TV channel. Judging by the crowds that turned out today, millions of Soviet citizens seem likely to take up the offer.
I was at the McD’s in Pushkin Square in early ’95. At the time, it was the largest McD’s in the world. And it was packed.
In ’95, the Barstow CA McD’s claimed to be the largest in the world, however that was based on using a number of old train cars as seperate seating areas.
I was stationed at FT Irwin at the time.
The one in Pushkin Square was one large facility with dining area after dining area stretching out from the service counter.
We went at mid afternoon, and we only had to wait about 15 minutes to get to the counter. We ended up in one of the farthest dining areas from the counter.
Now we’ve come full circle with the left trying its hardest to remove such conveniences from our lives.
Or go the other direction with a photo of a parking lot full of Trabants from East Germany in 1990.
I went on a European trip with the school choir when I was in 8th grade in March 1990, in the waning days of Communism in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. I took picture after picture of the roads around Leipzig clogged with those hideous little cars. One of them I like in particular – it has a blazing red Porsche 911 in the middle of a sea of Trabants.
Owned by a Party Member, no doubt.
I went to Poland in 1994. Obviously a few years post-communism, but capitalism hadn’t exactly taken hold yet, and things still looked pretty bleak (plus it was 21,000 zloty to the US dollar). I remember seeing the odd super-fancy car on the road in the middle of all the dreck and wondering why. Should’ve been obvious.
I was visiting Berlin last summer and noticed Trabants from time to time and I was puzzled for two reasons. One, how they hell did that POS survive since 1989 and how come it did not sound like a lawnmower about to seize up?
As I got near the old Checkpoint C site my questions were answered. There was a business where you could rent a Trabant or other iconic car like a Mustang. And they had pulled the old engine etc and replaced them so you were driving a Trabbie shell.
We took a tour of Berlin last year where you got to drive a Trabant for two hours in a caravan around town. Great fun, and made you quite happy that wasn’t your real car.
I like the picture of the Trabant 601 “limousine”. It’s the size of a steamer trunk.
In Poland during the 70s and 80s, the Fiat 126 was the default conveyance of the proletariat. My grandfather owned one of these delightful miniature cars in a lovely off-white paint scheme. I have a fond recollection of accompanying him on a shopping trip one day. He parked the car curbside and we went into the store. When we came out about five other Fiat 126 owners had parked their vehicles on the same street, bumper to bumper. All of their cars were the same exact off-white color as my grandfather’s. I’m pretty sure this was the first and only time I had ever heard him curse.
I’m also pleased to note that some of these cars went on to live much more dignified lives in the post-communist era thanks to a combination of capitalist resourcefulness and spare Hayabusa engines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDF4YCdqeM
Top Gear on Communist cars.
Sometimes I am still 12 years old.
Something to do with Rod Stewart?
Why am I pretty sure that this place would be an utter bore at best and probably increase my stress because I couldn’t throw an axe at the other hipster patrons.
You know that this place won’t have any normal guys. They don’t need to rent a place to throw axes while drinking beer. They just do it. No this place is going to be filthy with beta hipster dudes being out thrown by their fierce prog girlfriends.
Well look at the guy with the land and non-nosy neighbors who can do this without renting a place.
I only have a 1/4 acre lot, but I do have cool neighbors who don’t drop a dime on me for shooting squirrels in my back yard with my gammo pellet gun.
My neighbor ran for state assembly as a Democrat. I’d be lucky to avoid a “stop resisting” beatdown if I did that.
Through cub scouts, I have talked to two people who have gone, and you suspicions are confirmed.
BSA rules prohibit ax throwing before age 14.
Yeah. Whose going to stop us?
You got to have your Totin Chip before you start throwing axes at each other.
Yeah but the BSA doesn’t have any rules about catching axes.
Uffda, Leap even said “Through cub scouts”
I have friends that have gone to clubs like this.
Of course these friends shoot arrows and throw knives and axes as part of their “normal” hobbies.
I could see going to a place like this if it was for serious devoted hurlers of sharp implements. People who took it seriously.
This seems more like one of those stupid places that people go to because they are too gutless to simply admit that they like drinking and feel a coward’s need to pretend that they are there to throw axes and just happen to drink something at the same time.
Too many corporate shindigs are this sort of bull shit. Just pay the bar tab bossman. Don’t try to make me to to an escape room, or bowl, or curl, or what ever. Any pussies in the office who don’t want to drink can shut the fuck up and listen to me as I pontifidrink.
They are great places to meet in urban settings where you are not allowed to throw sharps around your backyard. Climate controlled and well lit.
They are a great place to grab a beer and get a little practice in after work.
Too many corporate shindigs are this sort of bull shit. Just pay the bar tab bossman. Don’t try to make me to to an escape room, or bowl, or curl, or what ever.
A benefit of working in the construction industry is how straightforward after-work gatherings are. The outings are either at a bar (for drinks) or a restaurant (for food and drinks, big spender).
16 House ‘Never Nancy’ Dems oppose Pelosi for speaker, demand ‘new leadership’
“We are thankful to Leader Pelosi for her years of service to our Country and to our Caucus. She is a historic figure whose leadership has been instrumental to some of our party’s most important legislative achievements,” the letter from both incumbent and newly elected Democrats read. “However, we also recognize that in this recent election, Democrats ran and won on a message of change.”
Announcing plans to oppose Pelosi, the lawmakers wrote: “Our majority came on the backs of candidates who said that they would support new leadership because voters in hard-won districts, and across the country want to see real change in Washington. We promised to change the status quo, and we intend to deliver on that promise.”
The letter was signed by former Pelosi challenger Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, along with other members like Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif.; and several incoming lawmakers, like member-elect Joe Cunningham of South Carolina.
*adds popcorn to grocery list*
The AP’s report in today’s paper at least twice asked readers to note that of the 16 only 2 were women. Sort of, instead of asking is dumping Pelosi makes sense, let’s do a gender headcount.
No way Pelosi gets the boot. The pushback on her is coming from the relative moderates (or at least blue collar Democrats). The party, if anything, has moved even further away from them.
So the vote is 220-16?
Unlike majority/minority leader, the Speaker position is elected by the entire House. So the vote would be 220-215, as is, meaning a handful more defections could throw things into chaos.
Someone’s read Rules for Radicals…
https://freebeacon.com/politics/pro-life-australian-senator-mockingly-announces-gender-change-so-he-can-speak-out-on-abortion/
Reposting this from last time (courtesy of straffinrun) for the custard story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpvEzUrnmEI
Uffda. I am so inspired by these brave, brave people who are risking everything to speak truth to power. Physicians continue to let the NRA know that #ThisIsOurLane
If it wasn’t for journalists, doctors would easily be the profession more full of themselves than any other.
#illFireYourAssIfYouAsk #youWorkForMe
No fucking lie. Plenty of other MDs out there bucko.
And for me it isn’t even the doc who bugs me about shit like that. It is always the nurse. They are almost more upset when I tell them that it is none of their business and to shut the fuck up.
I thought one was going to throw me out after she asked me if I practiced safe sex (prior to annual checkup) and I told her that while I was flattered by her interest, I was married and would be passing on her offer.
LOL
Murders with firearms of all types: 8, 000 to 12,000 per year.
Death by medical error: 200,000 to 250,000 per year.
That is all.
They hold the power of Life! We are mere mortals to the Gods of medicine
finding solutions to the crisis of firearm-related injury
Keep their opinions to themselves and work on better trauma care?
Tortured analogy must not fall under the first-do-no-harm principal.
Most doctors are absolutely insufferable. Congratulations, you were better at chemistry and biology than me – now fuck off.
No one is seeking to silence you, medical professionals. You’re being asked to lighten up on being boorish, insufferable pricks a little. There’s a difference.
I’ll not stand for such slanders against the full-of-themselves-ness of our brave and noble public school teachers. Good day to you, sir!
My wife and I were finally able to take vacation together.
Naturally, she came down with a horrible cough and has spent the first day of it in bed cocooned in a carefully arranged structure of pillows, chain-sucking cough drops and dozing through multiple episodes of some crappy psycho-drama on Netflix.
So I’m doing housework.
Yay.
This would never happen to a realdoll.
I don’t want to see what Tarran’s realdoll would cough up.
Whaddya call a real doll with a runny nose?
When Tarran’s realdoll’s eyes go from brown to blue, it is time to refill the shit reservoir for realistic anal action.
He’d still be doing the housework, though.
And the extra cleaning that is necessary.
“cocooned in a carefully arranged structure of pillows, chain-sucking cough drops”
Kinky.
Murphy’s law.
Irish prick.
Sorry.
I am looking forward to the per-user muting that is coming to Monocle. /glares through narrowed eyes.
I’m somewhat surprised to find this is an actual publication and list:
https://issuu.com/venamcham_vzla/docs/final_top_100_final
https://pjmedia.com/trending/vladimir-putin-is-responsible-for-everything-bad-in-the-world-including-this-blog-post/
“Vladimir Putin Is Responsible for Everything Bad in the World, Including This Blog Post”
FTA:
“If you say something incredibly stupid, and a lot of people tell you how incredibly stupid that thing you said was, just blame Putin. If he’s the source of your biggest problem — not getting what you wanted in 2016 — then why can’t he be the source of all your problems?”
Jim Treacher is the only reason to ever look at PJ Media. He and Matt LaBash were the only reason to ever look at the Daily Caller, too
Was LaBash once at The weekly Standard?
Stephen Green’s not bad.
Wretchard
OK, so it has been proven that hammer beats screwdriver. Next test is to see if the Dude and his white russian beats hammer.
It’s a caucasian, man!
Hammer beats screwdriver. What does screwdriver beat, and can that tool beat hammer?
Screwdriver unscrews electrical connection to hydraulic press. Hydraulic press crushes hammer.
Warning: #6 is borderline NSFW
https://thesexier.com/hot-chicks-on-the-bed-32-pics/
16, 20, 25, 30
Trashy – what would it take to update monicle to block comments that link to a blacklist of domains?
Party pooper.
Meh. Repetitive low quality posting doesn’t do anything for me. When it was just one post a thread it was an eccentricity. Now it’s spreading.
How dare you sir?! My spam is only of the highest quality!
A few hours of free time and a beer or two to lube up the programming parts of my brain. I’m partway through implementing per-user muting. A regular expression blacklist would be marginally more difficult. I may find some time over the holiday weekend.
First I need to fix the train wreck that is the new comment layout.
For those with zealous internet filters.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181120214425/https://thesexier.com/hot-chicks-on-the-bed-32-pics/
For some reason, I can’t get it to work at archive.is.
https://jalopnik.com/was-carlos-ghosn-whacked-1830569053
Was Carlos Ghosn Whacked?
Now, I am not saying that Nissan’s board was so spooked at the prospect of Nissan being forced to finally merge with the much-smaller Renault, giving the much-smaller Renault ultimate control over the Japanese giant, that they were able to find some financial misdeeds to be able to report to Japanese prosecutors, ultimately getting the architect of that plan arrested, and giving Nissan’s board an excuse to finally be rid of Ghosn—all because Ghosn had gone a step too far.
It’s just funny how coincidental all this timing is, isn’t it?
Renault has a really neat racing legacy.
And Le Car was probably as shitty a car as a Yugo.
That’s when Le Crazy was CEO.
In 1983 or so my dad was shopping for a car and I couldn’t understand why he didn’t just buy a Yugo because he worried about the money and it was so cheap!
This has been your daily “JB was an idiot when he was a kid. He’s still an idiot, but he always was one”. Tune in tomorrow when I got upset because I thought that (the then-nascent) ATM was an endless fountain of cash, regardless of your bank account.
Had to be at least 1986 – ’87 model year was the first for Yugo in the US.
I wish I knew why I know these useless things. I don’t want to know them, but I just do.
It must’ve been mid 1986. 1985 was the first year for sales, the ad I remember ($3,995!) was what I remember seeing, for the 1987 model year.
In 1985, a Harley Davidson XLX sportster cost $3995.00 They had a trade in policy where you’d get every penny in trade if you bought a big twin later. The 3995 deal lasted around 5-6 years I believe…
A friend of my older brother used to have a Yugo. I don’t remember what year.
He said about the Yugo, “You know that joke ‘Yugo! You go five miles an hour!’? It’s true!”
There’s a movie called Drowning Mona, not a bad movie overall (of course, I saw it in the theater). One of the running jokes in the movie was that the city it took place in was the test city for the Yugo. There were multiple chase scenes with a line of cars all push starting them down a hill.
I’ve never driven one, but I worked with a guy who had one. It was sort of a curiosity at the time, because they were not common in the USA at that time, at all. In fact, it’s the only one I had ever seen. Guy was a tightwad, he was one of those guys you would say still had the first nickel he ever made. So I had to assume, that thing was really cheap.
Doggiest car I ever drove in my life was a Chrysler K-Car that my mom had and I need to borrow a car because mine was in the shop. Holy mother of gawd that thing was a piece of shit. I made a joke that it would do 0-60 in 5.3 minutes, if you were going downhill the entire time. Only that wasn’t a joke. Some sort of lawn mower engine in that thing. I mean a push mower engine.
The trick you said was never play the game too long.
Nissan being forced to finally merge with the much-smaller Renault
Unrelated, really, but, on the truck side, it’s funny how these things go. 25 years ago, the Mack Building in Allentown was an important commercial destination for heavy equipment guys; at that time, Volvo HVAC equipment was designed by Germans and bought by the overlords in Sweden, and Renault Truck was entirely another kettle of fish.
Now the Mack HQ has been shuttered for a decade, it and Volvo NA are consolidated to Greensboro, Renault Truck is also a part of Volvo AB; HVAC equipment is designed by Germans and bought by overlords in Paris.
Volvo Truck NA remains my favorite client in any industry from my entire career, but what a long strange ride it’s been.
Telemarketing robo calls have really dialed it up a notch this week. Now they are spoofing local phone #s and local business names.
The name is being spoofed based on the phone number, most of the Android phones (and I believe iOS) will do a reverse lookup of the business name.
Parody is dead.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/actress-ellen-pompeo-shows-lack-of-empathy-in-call-for-inclusivity/
“Ellen Pompeo is being praised for comments she made during an interview in which she called on white people to protest if they don’t see enough people of color in every room they walk into.”
Because people with different skin color/ethnicity/genital plumbing are props for your religious zealotry.
I’m curious: what constitutes “enough” minorities? If enough are present, can we bar more from showing up?
Affirmative?
With the phony diversity brigade, there’s no such thing as “enough”, only “not enough”.
The Leftist definition of “diversity” is “fewer white males”. Want proof?
Find some complaints from the Left that there are “not enough men” in K-12 education, human relations, or clinical psychology.
Find complaints that there are “not enough women” in taxi driving, commercial fishing, garbage hauling, or other generally undesirable jobs.
Find some complaints that there are “too many black people” in the NBA. Find some complaints that there are “too many Asians” in classical music orchestras.
You won’t find many complaints like these if you find any at all. You’ll only find complaints if the percentage of whites and/or males is above 50%.
If your concept of diversity is only skin deep you are a racist, which is ironic considering these types of people go around calling everyone else racist.
Did she actually say that or was it just an internal monologue?
I’ve never seen any black women in my bedroom. I’ll need to talk to my wife about that.
Every room? That’s going to get awkward when such people walk into a bathroom. Who knew that being alone was racist?
Brian Stelter is concerned.
STELTER: “What we have here is a two-page letter from the White House that was sent over to Acosta a few minutes ago. And it confirms that his hard pass, that’s the pass he uses every day to enter the White House, will be restored. That means the White House is voluntarily granting access back to Acosta. Whereas back on Friday, it was a court that was forcing the White House to give his pass back temporarily. So we’ve been in the midst of this 14-day temporary restraining order. There’s 11 more days remaining on it, as mandated by a judge. There’s some back and forth over the weekend, where it seemed the White House was once again threatening Acosta, saying that as soon as that temporary restraining order expires, you’re going to be out of here again. CNN went back to court this morning, asked the judge for another hearing, but the change here, this backing down as of 3:00 P.M., is that the White House is saying in this letter, that the pass will be restored voluntarily by the Administration. Now, there is, of course, a caveat. And I think that the White House wants to straighten this along and makes this a threat that looms over the entire White House press corps.”
*Shutters* I mean, we should probably trust Brian. He is a reliable source that knows his stuff. I mean, his show is literally called “Reliable Sources”. He and CNN are all that stands between the first amendment and Drumpf.
How bout we just eliminate the press conferences altogether? If little Jimmy can’t play nice, no one gets to play!
I suggest that Trump start referring to Acosta as ‘Obnoxious Jim’.
I just recommend ignoring him, have a Spare microphone.
Bit into a Dim Jim.
er… Bite…
I wouldn’t, do you have any idea what illness you’d get from touching Jim Acosta. ?
How about no permanent passes? First come first serve. You want a good seat, bring a sleeping bag and camp out by the back door of the White House like you were waiting for your local Ticketmaster outlet back in 1984. Imagine the video of a bunch of bedraggled “reporters” who slept in their clothes shuffling into the West Wing while the press secretary hops into the press room fresh as a daisy with a venti Starbucks in hand.
That would be hilarious! They should totally do that.
Fun thing I learned today: the official East German name for the Berlin Wall was the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart. Anti-Fascist, see, so the Wall was actually a good thing! I mean, you don’t support FASCISTS, do you?
Yup. I was watching Deutschland 86 last night and that’s exactly how they said it. The English subtitles read merely “the Wall”. PS. there was a fun moment early in episode 1 one of the characters uttered “the problem with Sozialismus is that eventually you run out of other’s people money” – apparently the DDR was nearing that moment by then.
It really is an interesting series. Plus since I was in the US Army and living in Germany during this period the series brings back memories. The entire Chernobyl subplot was spot on.
I was living in Germany in 1986 too. I turned 17 during these events so I wasn’t paying any attention to the news…. I hope they do Deutschland 89.
#metoo Finthen
Amash and Rand Paul not pulling any punches on Trump’s idiotic statement on Saudi Arabia.
Paul:
Amash:
Ouch.
I’m also pretty sure John Bolton wrote it.
Probably a given.
The Rand criticism is damning. Especially since he’s worked on the Yemen issue with Massi and Gabbard for a while now. The Amash statement not so much.
I wonder why Massie hasn’t offered his opinion yet.
There’s a lot of things I like about Justin Amash. But, I think he’s shot himself in the foot with respect to Trump. At this point, he’s going to attack Trump no matter what his policy. And the over-the-top commentary just sort of rams it home. Rand’s comments pack more punch because he’s not reflexively anti-Trump. And he gives Trump an out (“I’m also pretty sure John Bolton wrote it. “).
Rand’s made his point just as strongly as Amash. But, he’s left Trump the option of changing course without losing face. That’s much smarter.
Rand is the better politician. But he ought to be, since he’s a Senator and those have more influence. I think it’s fine for Amash to grandstand, just as it was fine for the elder Paul to be “Dr. No”.
Correctomundo.
And he even gives trump the framework to make any change in policy (hint: America first, evil Arab allies second).
My biggest criticism about Amash is that he takes the politically popular position on foreign policy question. When Trump won election he didn’t co-sponsor any legislation with regards to Yemen or Saudi Arabia. It was Massie, Rand, Gabbard, and some other Dems who were pushing this legislation. He’s most assuredly not comparable to Ron Paul or the other two on foreign policy.
Ever since the Chamber of Commerce started gunning for him he’s far less principled on foreign policy, to say the least.
Well, “Saudi Arabia First” has been U.S. foreign policy in the middle east my entire adult life, so it’s not like it’s going to change any time soon.
In fairness to the US, an America-First policy will be overly deferential to any nation that could single-handedly destabilize the energy market, since energy runs the modern world and stability is kind of important to any nation. Selfish interest will serve others, too.
That said, when SA’s importance decreases, the US should drop it like a hot rock. If they don’t, that would be evidence of an SA-first policy.
single-handedly destabilize the energy market
I lived through two oil crises and don’t pretend there weren’t frictions from the shocks, but the energy and oil markets are much more fluid (pardon the pun) now than they were, to say nothing of American production levels (I believe we’re actually a net exporter now).
The idea that rich middle-eastern party boys are going to take chances with their sweet deal by exploring their way up and down the elasticity function for oil in nigh zero: if they don’t sell it, the cash stops and they’re left stroking themselves in the sand.
We Glibs rightly discuss the long-run prospects for monopolies rather dismissively: their recourse is cronyism or replacement/decay. So it is with the Sauds; despite their best efforts, they are in charge of very little. Indeed, if they believed so deeply in the economic and political power of oil, they wouldn’t be trying so desperately to diversify into paper.
They believe in the power of only selling oil in dollars and forcing OPEC to do the same. So long as they prop-up the dollar, they’re good
I’m still not sure why this is suddenly the thing that we should finally be castigating Saudi Arabia over. It’s not as if they haven’t been absolutely psychotic ghouls since the kingdom was founded.
Because it’s politically useful. If a Democrat were in office, there’s no way this would be getting as much coverage from the media. But the Dems know Trump can’t come down hard on the Saudis, so they’re using the media to try to put him in a politically difficult spot.
None of those assholes actually care about Khashoggi, just the opportunity he presents.
Rand excepted.
It also helps that he was ‘one of us’ from their perspective, which makes it just that much more justifiable in their minds to make a big stink.
All the while the Saudi’s will gleefully stone women to death for daring to walk alone in public and big media avoids the subject like the plague for fear of casting Islam in a bad light. The bravery of our journalistic betters is so humbling.
It’s one thing when they disappear a mere person. In this case, a journalist was involved. That’s serious.
(Yeah, I know I’m being a bit glib about a dude who was dismembered)
Honestly, I’m not really sure where I come down on this issue. Yeah, I agree that we shouldn’t be perpetually making excuses for the Saudi’s bad behavior. On the other hand, they’re a sovereign nation. Ultimately, their internal affairs are none of our damned business. It’s almost like our leaders are such little children that they can’t see the world as anything other than another nation is our bestest friend who we’ll stick our necks out for perpetually or they’re yucky bastards who we’ve got to make be nice.
They’re sovereign; it’s none of our business. Trump is already on recordregarding journo assassination:
Dec. 20, 2015: In an interview with ABC . . . “As far as the reporters are concerned, obviously I don’t want that to happen. I think it’s terrible—horrible. But, in all fairness to Putin, you’re saying he killed people. I haven’t seen that. I don’t know that he has. Have you been able to prove that? Do you know the names of the reporters that he’s killed? Because I’ve been—you know, you’ve been hearing this, but I haven’t seen the name. Now, I think it would be despicable if that took place, but I haven’t seen any evidence that he killed anybody in terms of reporters.”
Our position is that it’s “despicable.” That’s good enough for me.
I don’t care for his equivocations that the US is just as bad as the Russians or Saudis or whatever. I’m very critical of American actions abroad, but the crimes committed by the American government towards its own people is not comparable to the actions taken by Russia or Saudi Arabia
I mean, I would have taken a chance on the hot/crazy with this chick before this incident.
After reading the first two stories, I thought, “I’ll bet the third is a Florida story too.” Nope.
It is known that russian girls are the florida women of Europe/Asia.
Stuff like this is fish in a barrel, but I can’t help myself:
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Amber Tamblyn says she had a mid-pregnancy, post-election panic attack and imagined having to give her baby to Canadians to save it from Trump
10:43 AM – 20 Nov 2018
Leftist women are unbalanced, hysterical idiots.
Yes, because Republicans are the ones that are a menace to the unborn.
Why would she do that to her *clump of cells*?
I take back what I said about the stupid NPC meme. It’s still stupid, but good lord are lefties doing their damnedest to live down to it.
Still would.
Would.
But yeah she seems nuts. It’s funny but at the same time sad that she isn’t able to enjoy life and has allowed a guy (Trump) who doesn’t know her from Adam’s house cat to live in her mind rent free.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say these people fill their lives with so much fear and outrage because, without it, they’re basically empty.
This. Unimportant people brainwashed by the media to think that their lives should have importance outside of their family and community. These people, when faced with the vast emptiness that is their life, retreat to identity politics to feel important. Without identity politics, they have to confront the fact that they’re aging soccer moms with a husband halfway out the door and kids that are only around long enough each night to bum pizza money before going out to spend time with their friends’ more tolerable families.
It’s better to remain quiet and let people wonder if you’re stupid than to open your mouth and confirm it.
Maybe she should still give her baby to the Canadians, albeit to save it from herself.
That was my thought as well. It is the only responsible thing to do at this point.
the inuit ate your baby ?
I had an unexpected interview today for a “real job” as assistant general counsel; it made me feel so grown up. Who know if it’ll get me anywhere. No definite decisions made until New Years probably anyway.
Judging by this song (?) it must be pretty bad.
Heretic!
My middle sister and her guy are stark raving liberals but keep it to themselves. We don’t talk politics when we get together and she and I are very close, as is the whole family.
There was one time where the whole family was together and the guy friend and I had had a few and we couldn’t help ourselves. He rails against big corporations and I rail against government and the practice of crony capatilism. So on this night I ask him, “do you want minimal government intervention in your life? Do you believe in maximum liberty, maximum freedom, the right to self determination and the individual is responsible for themselves and decisions they make in life?”.
He answered “yes” to all of the above. I said, “congratulations (redacted), you’re a Constitutional Conservative. Welcome to the party”. I didn’t know if he was going to hit me, or if his head was going to explode but he didn’t say another word.
Alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems
When you make a beer run, you take the guy. Hit every pothole on the way going and coming, each time quipping things like “I’m sure there won’t be any potholes in Social Security when you need it” or “Whichever bureaucrat built this road should be put in charge of public healthcare.”
Most importantly gage his opinion on “muh…roads”. That’s the final test
Won’t work. He’s the head civil engineer in the small city they live in. There are no potholes.
He comforts himself by knowing that other people are dummies that need the boot on their heads. Eat your broccoli, Redneck.
I find it hard to believe that any self-respecting leftist would agree to any of the suppositions in your questioning. They mostly don’t think individuals should be responsible for themselves and their decisions, nor do they want to maximize freedom/liberty.
‘60s liberals, not progressives.
Screw the corporations, tax the wealthy into oblivion for screwing the little guy. Basically it’s the corporate America and their control over the government that are keeping people down. And they are both local government employees. Despite all that, still love ‘em to death. They’re family.
But some also have a hard time saying this directly, which may be why he agreed with Spud.
I think a lot of people hold their beliefs in discrete little pieces. I have a friend of mine who denounced Trump’s election as the equivalent of January, 1933 in Germany while celebrating the contributions to freedom by Che Guevara.
There’s a lot of willful ignorance in this world, and it has no party affiliations.
True. All those free market conservatives cheering trumps tariffs
How long does it take to get a Glib Flask to Japan? It’s been a week since I ordered it and I’m tired of drinking whiskey out of my hands. The open sores on my hands are sterilized at least.
At least it should dissolve the natto goo.
MIRF
natto PLUS rice?
How many carbs does everyone need, anyhow ?
Still holding the line on keto?
<50g…lazy keto
I did an early Thanksgiving Sunday, and took a bite of the stuffing I made. It was my 1st taste of bread since August, and I felt treasonous
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Be strong during the holidays.
My gf gets sabotaged by her coworkers, and still manages to keep to weight off.
Due to a bruised heel a couple months ago, Ive let the exercise drop off, but I still havent gained any weight back.
Soooo…listening to a lot of Goldberg’s “Remnant” podcast lately. The one a week or so back turned out to be really interesting. A wonky, focused discussion strictly on homelessness.
A good, frank discussion on the topic looking at a variety of different sides of the issue. I’ve heard a lot about the de-institutionalization history recently – mostly from Aydin Paladin, but this included a lot of other portions.
Not nearly as libertarian as I’d like – but a good counter-progressive focus on permanent housing and related issues. I haven’t given it much thought in the long term, so I’ll ask now if there’s been any Libertarian writing on this sort of issue in the past? Specifically – if not a state provided hospital system, is there any way a private long term care system could operate without large stimulus funds from the government? State or federal – just when you get to a particular level of needed care over an extended period?
The amount of money spent not fixing the issue is eye-popping. Not to suggest any amount of money would make it soluble, not by politicians or likely anyone, but the wastage is shocking.
That was pretty clear in the progressive focus on “permanent” housing – where there are a lot of interim issues that would do the trick for the vast majority of folks. The difference between East and West coast are also significantly different – although they only briefly touched on the tent camp developments and stuff like Hawaii didn’t come up at all.
I think a private organization could do the trick far better than a state organization in terms of compassionate, affordable treatment, but it would be difficult to be self-sustaining at the numbers of patients who would need near-permanent, lifelong treatment – particularly given the number of employees required to ensure minimally “decent” treatment across the board.
Here in NYC the government invests a lot of energy into confusing the issue for people, making them think all that expensive “affordable” housing is helping the crazy people you see on the street when it’s really just more public housing. The street people aren’t going anywhere which means – guess what – they need more money to “solve” the problem. Rinse and repeat.
NYC is a big focus of the discussion and he brings up a lot of your points. Highly recommend listening to the entire discussion.
I don’t know that there is any particular libertarian history or writings on the subject. I feel that Trashy’s thoughts on social obligation/lack of rights for inferiors may be the closest to a ‘solution’.
Personally I think some problems are just going to exist regardless what one does, the world isn’t and can’t be perfect. It is good to reduce suffering, but a fool’s errand to eliminate all suffering. The only question is whether you lower yourself to the level of stealing from others to assuage your conscience, and likely actually make things worse.
Well yes…we all know taxation is theft…but as a matter of practical public policy and health, safety, etc. At what point does someone do something about folks shitting on the sidewalks and screaming at tourists?
Ugh. I gotta stay away from gunbroker. I’ve figured out what I need next, and they’re not cheap – S&W 945.
*sigh*
I lost all the live auction lots I bid on at the Amoskeag Auction. I’m waiting to hear about the silent auction results before I pounce on anything on Gunbroker or my local gunshop.
Bummer.
I think that I’ve bought my last polymer framed pistol for a while. For now, I want all metal handguns.
I have two Tupperware guns. That’s enough for me.
Meh, I would look at the 645. Mine is more accurate than my 1911. They also have an awesome stipled grip. And it will make you feel like Miami vice.
A 4516 is on the long list of wants.
I’ve had both. The 645 is superior in ways that cannot be explained
Well, all the prep work for Thanksgiving is done. The mocha panna cotta is cooling now, all I’ve got to do is make sure to get up early enough on Thursday to start the turkey.
It’s all about that bird. I hear it’s the word .
I take that as the AP is admitting 2016 primary was rigged for Hillary.