Hi, everyone. Happy Black Friday. So far my only major purchase today is a food dehydrator, because I’ll probably use one $50 worth, but not $90 worth. At this time, Texas has not managed to turn the Kansas game into a nail-biter got soft, but lived through terrible special teams to survive. There’s the Texas Longhorn football team I love and hate. Rematch with Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship game? Can we say “OU Sucks!” if UT wins twice in one season?
I think I’ve been outspoken about my belief that oil would be more likely to hit $50 than $150. Just read an article where independents are drilling and capping wells in the Permian Basin that can be profitable at $35/bbl. They’re waiting for logistics issues to resolve (which are clearing up ahead of schedule. Its crazy how fast you can build pipeline when you’re willing to pay extra to go to the front of the line for supplies and labor.)
Nice response by the Birmingham, AL cops. It seems as if the “engage active shooters” doctrine is taking hold.
I see Sloopy has a primate relative. Birth control no match for strong Gibbon swimmers
Good to see the US Military does, in fact, have a Zed Protocol in place. Or I guess, Zulu in American military code, but that could be racist.
Have a little 90s cheese.
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Anxiety about oversupply and diminished demand have sent crude down by a third since it soared to a four-year high above $76 a barrel in early October. Observers have gone from fearing $100 oil to expressing concern over why its price collapsed so quickly.
Peak Oil is just a moment away.
It’s a battle between which we can produce faster, dollars or oil.
OT: I was asleep when you commented how very Japanese that video was.
The most Japanese thing I find is how the Japanese approach food. The endless talk shows, the seasonal items, the seasonal foods.
Honestly, one more celebrity who says “oishii” and I might have to go over there and start cracking skulls…
Speaking of the Japanese, I thing the chairman on Iron Chef America should start the completion with, “And now, in the words of my uncle: EATSHITANDDIE!!!”
It’s good and bad. The respect they have for food is commendable. The orchards here are amazing. Each individual pear, peach, apple etc. is taken care of like it’s a newborn baby. Individually wrapped while still on the tree and always carefully packaged so that the customer receives that absolutely perfect product. No bruises. The TV shows are idiotic, however. They zoom in on a spoonful of whatever dish they are making with an electron microscope. Nicholas Cage was on Smapxsmap (a cooking show) a few years back and they camera kept trying to zoom in on him eating. He hated it and kept trying to dodge out of the picture as he was eating. See if I can find the clip.
Along with that care for every individual fruit is how obscenely expensive everything is – where people treasure a melon that costs $100+, etc. Another issue that arises when they dont allow imports, trade, etc.
I dont think our farmers lose out in the middle of the winter when I can buy cherries from Chile for $1.50/lb.
Melon is disgusting regardless of price. An apple can cost a couple hundred yen, but it’s a fine, fine apple. But you’ve tapped into something that truly is frustrating: For a country that should realize how beneficial free trade is, the Japanese are willfully ignorant. They embrace mercantilism and Keysenian economics. It makes you pull your chonmage out.
And the foodgasms.
If you want to break their hearts, just say what Keanu says.
Is the background music some MIDI version of ‘up, up, and away’ ?
By God, yes.
And somewhat mistranslate it… Although I think she was trying to help him out there.
I love soba noodles, however.
True. Not even close. To be fair, I don’t think the translator understood he was answering the question about the food. There were three conversations happening at the same time. I fuck up stuff like that myself all the time.
So much that!
The gunman opened fire, injuring the 18-year-old and a 12-year-old girl who was nearby, then fled. He was shot dead by police who were nearby and ran towards the gunfire after hearing the shots ring out.
The cynic in me wonders if the cops saw a dog they thought needed shooting.
The Rangers just phoned in an indifferent performance in Philly – they literally looked half-asleep. Love/hate indeed.
On the website of the U.S. Strategic Command, you can find CONPLAN 8888-11, a detailed plan for “counter-zombie dominance” prepared by a group of junior officers as part of a training exercise. The document, which came to public attention a few years ago, is festooned with disclaimers, including a large red box on the first page informing readers that the assignment was based on a “completely fictitious scenario”
Was it dated April 1st?
Have a little 90s cheese.
A former roommate of mine and his girlfriend loved Type O Negative. It was their favorite music to fuck to.
If they were Goths it makes perfect sense. Also, I love that band.
Actually, no – I don’t consider most “zombie apocalypse” stuff to be science fiction. More comic book and/or thriller.
I’m not going to bother with a link, but for you Tim Egan fans out there, he’s got a column up at NYT which is utterly indistinguishable from the inchoate shrieking of a two year old. Those fires in California? Trump’s fault, apparently.
We’re all going to burn in the fires of Hell, as near as I can work it out.
Who is Tim Egan.
Meanwhile…
A major scientific report issued by 13 federal agencies on Friday presents the starkest warnings to date of the consequences of climate change for the United States, predicting that if significant steps are not taken to rein in global warming, the damage will knock as much as 10 percent off the size of the American economy by century’s end.
The report, which was mandated by Congress and made public by the White House, is notable not only for the precision of its calculations and bluntness of its conclusions, but also because its findings are directly at odds with President Trump’s agenda of environmental deregulation, which he asserts will spur economic growth.
the precision of its calculations
I might try to read some more, if I can I stop laughing.
They’re learning. Instead of doom being ten years away, they’ve switched to a time horizon when most everyone reading the report will be dead. I guess they got tired of a decade coming and going with no apocalypse.
Did they mention how much the “significant steps” they propose will knock off the size of the American economy?
^^This
I think the zombie plan is more realistic at this point.
*cough*bullshit*cough*
Precision they say. Precision.
Wake me when they manage to balance their departmental budgets without yearly increases.
Just this week, [Trump] mocked the science of climate change because of a cold snap in the Northeast, tweeting, “Whatever happened to Global Warming?”
That bastard!
There is always some uncertainty in climate projections, but scientists’ estimates about the effects of global warming to date have largely been borne out. The variable going forward, the report says, is the amount of carbon emissions humans produce.
That’s it. Game over, man.
Game over.
Earf has a fever man.
Wait… what?
“There is always some uncertainty in climate projections”
Making predictions is hard, especially about the future.
“scientists’ estimates about the effects of global warming to date have largely been borne out.”
Uh..no, they haven’t. Just the opposite in fact.
“The variable going forward, the report says, is the amount of carbon emissions humans produce.”
It looks like the effects of CO2 are negligible, but maybe that’s just me.
Just wait until they correct the data.
Pretty much as I predicted, except the earth cooled instead of warmed
Eloise and Unkie, sitting in a tree
Toxic Mas, cu, lin,ity
First came rape
Then came bondage
Then came Unkie in her all monkey savage.
News
Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA and National Security Agency, suffered a stroke earlier this week, his family said Friday.
In a statement, the family said Hayden, 73, suffered the stroke at his home and was hospitalized but did not provide details about the stroke’s severity.
I will abstain from editorial comment.
“We kill people based on metadata.”
May his suffering be long and excruciating.
Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens
I may not comment (even though these shows are one of my guilty pleasures) because I am a white woman of exclusively European extraction and am therefore a privileged shitlady.
Ancient Aliens conspiracy theories vs unhinged SJWs?
Cripple fight!!!! Hey everybody, cripple fight!!!
I’m not saying it was illegal aliens, but…
Pharoah Trump was voted out of office after one term. As a result, the aliens pushed their way past the wall-less Egyptian border and built the pyramids.
Was the prize a little red book?
That little shit isn’t going to shut up until he gets his Nobel.
I can’t wait until he gets #metoo’d. You know that little creeper is using his ‘celebrity’ status to his advantage in every way possible. His fall from grace will be fun.
I thought he would be the bitchy femme one in a stereotypical gay relationship.
Tutu may want to focus on the violence in South African schools instead.
Schools, hell. The whole country is worse than Chicago. If only someone could have predicted this.
Wow, those guns from Indiana really get around.
This is really disappointing. I think Tutu played an important role in ending apartheid and doing it peacefully. Applauding these wannabe Marxists is a let down.
He spoke at my college in the early 90s – he was like a superhero.
At the time, rightfully so. I remember some of the Truthand Reconciliation Committee testimony he heard. That could have turned into an excuse for a bloodletting. It didn’t. He was one reason why.
Yet. It’s coming.
South Africa hasn’t turned into Wakanda yet therefore it must be the fault of the white farmers.
The only black friday thing I bought wasn’t planned, I went to Walmart to by some bottled water, and saw Ash VS The Evil Dead complete series was on sale for $10, couldn’t pass it up.
Damn. That’s a good deal, and a solid series.
It may be the best series ever.
Huh.
So Democrat moonbeams are crying the GOP got more Senate seats despite losing the pop. vote.
Huh.
Get a load of these results from 2010:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2010
Huh.
The popular vote only matters when it shows they ‘won.’ Otherwise it’s irrelevant.
They have come up with some dumb shit before but this ‘we lost the senate even though we won the popular election’ has got to be at the top of the list.
Screw regional representation!!! Mob rule!!! Mob rule!!!
It’s less stupid than reflective of what their aims are.
They are finding more and more reasons to despise the constitution. Anything that limits their desire to control people, including reality, must be destroyed. Jordan Peterson is always asking the left, “When will you say that the left has gone too far because it’s clear they can go to far.” They never answer that question. Same with taxes. “How much is too much? Just give me a percentage.” They never will.
Fair share, dude. Fair share. I dont know how they could be more clear.
All too clear.
Ah, a happy ending.
“Later that year, the Social Democratic party lost the election”…to the Democratic Socialists, no doubt. The People’s Front of Judea approves.
Goddamned, that is a lot of stupid.
Something boot, something human face, something forever.
^This^
It is all insufficient until Utopia is achieved.
Their failure to answer (I’ve heard him ask it probably 20 times) is a big red flag.
This may have been posted here already, but just in case anyone’s in the market for virtue-signaling via crappy overpriced shoes:
Can Toms Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie End America’s Gun Violence?
“There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2018”
Gun grabbers lie. Everything they say is designed to deceive, without exception.
I think I heard the definition for that stat is at least four people injured (not killed) by guns in an incident. I wonder how many gang shootings are included in that total?
I don’t see this being anything other than warmly-received.
Whatever happened to midnight basketball? Haven’t heard anything about that in a number of years. Did it fix crime rates then?
That’s because all right thinking people know it is ggod, true, and right.
Looks like Bernie needed a convenient way to make a house payment .
Heading out in a few minutes for our monthly camping trip. Holiday weekend (labor appreciation day) so the roads will be packed. Gotta keep my focus on tonight, after the tent is up and the BBQ is ready. Always a good reminder of how truly fucked those of us that live in the mega cities are if we needed to bug out quickly. Check out the stars over some whiskey and ponder that stuff tonight. Probably the last trip until spring because the wife and daughter just can’t stand camping when it gets below freezing. City girls.
Get out of that mega-city. It only attracks gojira, anyhow. What you need is to find a nice Suburban Home .
FloridaWoman® steals package, gets surprised
FloridaMan™ does FloridaMan stuff in public .
The FloridaFamily© that plays together gets SWAT’d together .
I’m guessing they just got tired of hearing these loud mofos.
Lowest of the low.
Relevant.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/23/humans-didnt-cause-animal-extinctions-africa-science-study-says/2090400002/
“The animal decline might have instead been because of environmental factors such as declining atmospheric carbon dioxide and expansion of grasslands, researchers write.
“Low CO2 levels favor tropical grasses over trees, and as a consequence savannas became less woody and more open through time,” John Rowan, a postdoctoral scientist from the University of Massachusetts Amherst who was involved in the research, said in a statement. “We know that many of the extinct megaherbivores fed on woody vegetation, so they seem to disappear alongside their food source.””
I hope he’s happy with himself. I heard his career flushing down the toilet after publishing that.
We need to bring this here to deal with the bicycle herds.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/london-police-ramming-into-thieves-on-mopeds-in-new-tactic-to-lower-crime
I like fat girls, and mopeds. And my friends have seen me on both.
You’ve let your friends see you on fat girls?
You try and hide a 320 pounder. Let me know how it works out.
It’s the “on” part that I have issue with.
Better than under.
-1 antisocial delinquent
Those clips are gold. Kind of a risky move though.
Nice response by the Birmingham, AL cops. It seems as if the “engage active shooters” doctrine is taking hold.
About a decade ago, a good cop friend of mine told me they are trained to immediately engage active shooters in an arrow head formation. They expect to take losses, but speed to end the threat trumped over everything else. That policy was obviously just for his city though.
I have no doubt that the cowardly lack of action by Broward County has been brought up in staff meetings at every precinct around the country. It may have pushed some to reinforce or create more aggressive responses like my friend had.
Border collie watches himself perform.
Named “Meta”?
Vanilla Barrel Cream Ale. It’s OK.
My preferred vanilla. A beer to have when you’re only having one.
I like Dogfish Head. They make good beer. I haven’t had that one yet.
Health-motivated taxes on red and processed meat: A modelling study on optimal tax levels and associated health impacts
“market-based”.
If it were up to me I would kick the fucking UN out of the country and withdraw ourselves from it. It is a one-way street with them. What do we get that we couldn’t get from a free market? Seriously, what the fuck do we need them for? They are like having a chronic infestation of fleas, ticks and leeches all at the same time.
In the National Lampoon documentary “Heavy Metal”, that came out in 1981, the UN building was turned into low rent housing.
Optics…they provide optics that nations actually work together…we all know its bullshit but that is what it is
It is just theater to disguise the fact that the American tax payer is getting bilked to pay the rest of the world to not work. What the fuck do we get out of paying countries like Liberia or even England? We get fucked, that’s what we get.
Yes..
I’m not sure what more I could respond. Yes.
My vote for an optimal tax level is zero.
I’m not a scientician but is this the complete horseshit that I suspect it is? As in, I would have to eat a dozen char-cooked cows a day for forty years to get cancer?
Yup.
The results of studies I’ve seen are dubious, and it is likely that it has more to do with method of cooking (char=bad) than the meat itself, especially when applied to red meat exclusive of processed meats.
Probably the best brisket I’ve done. A good 1.5lbs left over in which is going to be chili for tonight.
My Kroger had 10/$10 Milwaukee’s Best Light 24 oz’rs
A day late, but Im feeling particularly blessed.
Black Friday shopping?
Blackout Friday.
Which leads to Brownout Saturday.