IT’S HERE, IT’S HERE! FESTIVUS!!!!
And I’m starting the day with a warm glow, partially due to some excellent home-made limoncello, and partially due to watching a delightful upset last night. If New Orleans will cooperate by putting away the Steelers today, all will be well in the universe.
Auspicious birthdays today include ancestor of quarterbacks and imaginative scrivener Joseph Smith; superb cartoonist and master of simple black lines Otto Soglow; brilliant and flawed trumpeter Chet Baker; Spinal Tap stalwart Harry Shearer; guitar master and twang bar king Adrian Belew; Sloopy’s dreamy hero and former Chicago Bear Jim Harbaugh; and Mr. War Boner himself, Bill Kristol.
On to news.
Yet another Obama holdover quits in protest of winding down a war his former boss dragged us into. This is my shocked face.
This is a preview of our inevitable next step in law enforcement and policing. Saves money compared with incarceration. I wish I were joking.
TSA will take a back seat to no-one. Or maybe to everyone. Why is this news? Then again, why does an oppressive and useless agency somehow escape populist wrath? In a just society, there would be uniformed agents dangling from lampposts.
A viral news story with clickbait videos turns out to be a fake. I am astonished, truly astonished. Inconceivable!
This is a sad story, but inspiring to see people’s good works. I’m sure, somehow, the outcome is Trump’s fault.
What’s even stupider than paying attention to trump’s brain lint? Paying attention to the brain lint of entertainers and athletes.
Is there nothing that Climate Change® can’t do? Popcorn at the ready.
Quest Diagnostics sees a potential problem in their business model and reacts accordingly. If there were ever a company I would like to see die, this would be number one on my list.
This is a dumb story, but I’m linking it because the photo will delight Swiss.
Old Guy Music features, inevitably, today’s birthday boy, demonstrating that as great as he is on guitar, his vocals and songwriting are in that same class.
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Unimaginative scrivener. If you’re gonna make up shit, I’m not gonna complain if they make you a better person.
Gadianton to the white courtesy phone.
“The NGOs, human rights activists and United Nations will have a fit,” Alexandre Frota, a congressman-elect, said on Twitter while sharing the video. “But the cleansing must be done.’’
ZARDOZ approves!
Of course, we all know the cops will misuse it.
They are the worst, overpriced sons of bitches.
“In a just society, there would be uniformed agents dangling from lampposts.”
You’re just aching for a Preeting, aren’t you?
If I got a jury box full of people who have to fly, I would never get convicted.
Well, I wouldn’t shed a tear if he were hanging from a lamppost.
Goddamn illegal snowbacks taking our medical care.
Seriously though, they are treating geese for ODs? People need better hobbies.
I always take my entire bottle of heart meds to the park.
This is a preview of our inevitable next step in law enforcement and policing. Saves money compared with incarceration. I wish I were joking.
I AM THE LAW
I was hoping for a “dangling for the lampost” comment from you. Or did you guys not bother in Nicky’s case?
huh? I confused
Romanians disposed of a certain leader…
Agh, NM, I looked it up. You guys shot him. Not nearly as creative as the Italians or the Libyans.
Well, they were fairly creative with the corpses.
If I recall correctly, his last words were along the lines of, “I don’t recognize your authority to judge me.” Then blam blam blam. AMF, Nicky.
My goto in these cases is Judge Dredd I blame the internet
Fun fact: after his death, part of Ceaușescu’s wine cellar was auctioned off in the US. Spud and I managed to get a nice bottle of a Romanian dessert wine out of it, a late-harvest Chardonnay. Damn good.
They actually had this in WA state, but the citizen initiative process just got rid of it. Now the legislature is dragging their heels trying to figure out how to craft actual reform and still suck off the cops.
Farout’ is the farthest Solar System object known to date
https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/12/23/farout-is-the-farthest-solar-system-object-known-to-date/
Not Pioneer 10/11?
(After looking it up, Voyager 1 is farther away.)
Sterilize imperfection.
[sterilizes OMWC]
Why would the TSA announce where the marshalls are likely to be seated?
Welcome to cattle class marshalls.
Nonreclining center seat, back row, across from the overflowing toilet sounds about right. So next time you see the poor sap in that situation on the 737, be careful, he might be packing heat.
I’m picking up what you all are laying down, but I’m going to go with not wanting the potentially unstable police officer equivalent to be further emotionally distressed. I like the number of holes my body has now, and don’t desire any more.
An interesting video I came across concerning a real case of vigilante justice: “A Vigilante Pact to Kill the Town Bully-Ken McElroy Documentary” (about 10 min)
https://youtu.be/2VTmJHRu-b8
A violation of the NAP or not? I’m going to go with no on this one even though it was inarguably a first degree murder of a man who wasn’t an immediate threat.
I stumbled onto the Wikipedia page on that a while back. It’s pretty tough to muster up much sympathy or outrage over that dude’s murder. Plus the corrupt locals pols and judges enabled this guy to be a shit-heel for years. People will only be pushed so far.
Interesting. If the Wikipedia page is even remotely correct, he needed shooting.
It’s really amazing he managed to live as long as he did. People like that are lucky to make it out of their 20s.
Some folks just need killin’.
Hillary Clinton
✔
@HillaryClinton
Actions have consequences, and whether we’re in Syria or not, the people who want to harm us are there & at war. Isolationism is weakness. Empowering ISIS is dangerous. Playing into Russia & Iran’s hands is foolish. This President is putting our national security at grave risk.
1) So do elections. Also, see: Libya
2) I don’t think “isolationism” means what she (and everyone else throwing the word around now) thinks it means.
And how pray-tell are they a threat to us when they are, as you say, ‘there’ and not ‘here’?
Honestly, I would be very tempted to slap anyone who said “isolationist” to my face as they immediately do online when you dare gore their foreign adventure ox.
If we only have our fingers in 40 pies instead of 41, we’re isolationists.
I’ll never understand why we have military operations and full blown wars, LITERALLY on the other side of the globe, in shit hole countries, “For our own security?”
Yeah, OK! Exactly how long do we get to violate other country’s sovereignty before ours is revoked?
I get the occasional drone reminder. I don’t like it, but I get it. But full on invasions? Really? That’s so 19th century!
Someone, somewhere doesn’t like the United States, therefore we are justified using kinetic military action all over the world.
/Neocon/neoliberal logic
# stopresisting
“Isolationism is weakness”
Historically Ignorant. HRC thinks George Washington was a pussy.
I know that mainstream Republicans are no better than Democrats on foreign adventurism. But it just makes me want to fucking SCREAM when I see Democrats pissing and moaning about “isolationism”. During the Bush years, they talked and talked and fucking talked some more about how we need to get out of the Middle East, but it turns out that was all marketing and advertising. They just wanted to poopoo the Republicans on something and win an election.
When I was in high school and Iraq War 2 was going on, I planned on voting for Democrats so they would end the war. I’m glad I never actually voted for one, because I would have felt like they had scammed me out of my vote.
LeBron James: NFL Owners ‘Old White Men’ with ‘Slave Mentality’ Toward Players
Right. Those players that get paid millions of dollars to play a game are exactly like slaves.
Consider baseballs history with the reserve clause, anti-bonus baby rules, and then the draft.
He isnt far off.
And those league rules would totally change if they weren’t run by “old white men”.
I think Don King’s handling if Muhammad Ali could quickly show it’s not restricted to old white men.
Except for the part where they voluntarily join the league and are paid salaries exponentially larger than the average American.
This shutdown is killing my Christmas. I’m so sad for the hundreds of thousands of desperate government workers who have to wait a couple of weeks for their back pay.
It’s good to be a pawn broker in DC right now…
From what I understand they get promissory notes so I think they’ll be OK.
Hopefully, the payday loans people will accept those as collateral.
But their children will go without presents for Christmas (assuming they’ve actually missed a paycheck yet and they have no savings or credit cards and they waited until the very last second to buy gifts for their kids)!
Uh, yea… What a bunch of irresponsible dorks!
*nervously tugs collar*
Whose gonna spy on me, steal my money to buy votes from slackers, and in general accuse me of criminal activities when I exercise my freedoms if our government is shut down???
Don’t worry. Those parts are probably already funded.
One of the links in the Belew YouTube vid was Pink Floyd’s Echoes. The last time I did acid (about 35 years ago) I watched Live at Pompeii. Every time I hear anything off of Meddle, I’m brought back to that.
YouTube queued up One of these Days and Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun. I can take that.
And how pray-tell are they a threat to us when they are, as you say, ‘there’ and not ‘here’?
We fight them there, or we fight them here. But fight them we must. Don’t you even warboner, brah?
Dude, we have to fight them and import them, it’s like you don’t even prog.
“The protocol will be to immediately neutralize, slaughter anyone who has a rifle,” Witzel, a federal judge and former Brazilian marine, told reporters in Brasilia on Dec. 12. “Whoever has a rifle isn’t worried about other people’s lives, they’re ready to eliminate anyone who crosses their path. This is a grave problem, not just in Rio de Janeiro, but also in other states.”
American leftists collectively orgasm at the thought of this for American gun-owners.
And what the hell is going on here? I thought Brazil was poised to go towards more freedom with regard to firearms.
This is gonna get me on a list but the only proper response to this is insurrection. If the government drops all pretense of the rule of law then it’s the citizens duty to drop all pretense of following it
Well, I was hoping to have all of my holiday projects done by today. However, the dryer crapped out yesterday, and we were awakened to a rumbling crash this morning.
Nice socks dude.
Yes, I’m that guy in the office who wears colorful socks every day.
No one needs 33 pairs of socks.
/Bernie
I’m cheap. I buy white athletic socks in bulk.
Would you say they are milk-white?
Also; #metoo
Same except black ankle-length. More versatile.
Every two years I throw out all of my athletic socks and buy all new. I got sick having mismatched socks, socks at different wear levels, missing mates, etc. Best decision I ever made. I do the same with undershirts.
Dago-T or Hanes Classic?
Darn socks.
dryer – you mean the wires between posts in the attic you put clothes on to dry?
Dude, molly bolts.
Yeesh. Pro-tip; find the studs and attach that thing to them…as should have been done originally.
Turns out the guy who owned the house before us was a bit of a shit head when it came to DIY. Half the shit I’m fixing in this place is redoing half-assed fixes from the past.
I’ve been there. Makes life interesting.
Then I always think; what things that I have done is the future new owner going to shake his head at?
I always think that too.
Yeah, same. Especially after my last plumbing project where I ended with “I’m sure the hard water will plug up that leak after a few days”
My dad always said that we had to move out of my childhood home because he fixed everything there and didn’t want to be around to face those consequences.
You probably already know this, but the way it’s usually done is to use 1×3 furring strips attached to the studs, with a downgoing furring strip (also against a stud), where the brace goes, if it’s too long not to sag in the middle.
My last girlfriend before I met my wife had the same do-it-yourself knowledge you have, and did all kinds of household projects for me. My Dad to this day still thinks I screwed up by not sticking with her.
The things you learn when you’re too broke to hire somebody.
I had to rehab my daughter’s room after a huge water leak. She also needed a closet. Took down some walls, reframed the new wall and the new closet, and had to do a number of things like hanging a door plumb, straight, true, and level (OMG NEVER AGAIN), but I DID NOT WIRE it myself. I do not play with electricity and most of the time, not with plumbing, either.
One year I asked my husband for an air compressor for Christmas.
And also, even if you DO have the money to hire it out, the good ones are busy and the bad ones never show up. That’s if you can find anybody.
I did hire out a task that required a specialized tool I don’t have (hanging shutters on brick). I called a handyman company and just paid their rates. Gave no fucks what they were.
Sorry 🙁
Do they sell men’s clothes where you got that shirt?
The rising political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York congresswoman-elect, shook up the party last month when she proposed what she calls a Green New Deal. Modeled on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1930’s era public works program, Cortez says the federal government should spend upwards of $1 trillion over the next decade to build wind and solar farms, charging stations for electric cars and other projects that cut the production of greenhouse gases.
I could be wrong, but I don’t believe Gulag Barbie contributed so much as a comma to the formulation of that plan.
how hard it is to realize wind and solar farms are stupid? I don’t get it. I really don’t.
The SMBC comics guy is a huge solar stan. I don’t get it. What is wrong with people?
The fact that they can’t produce enough energy to be viable alternatives doesnt matter….it feels right and that’s the only thing that counts
Not only that, but they use massive amounts of heavy metals – one of the generally unsaid environmental costs of ‘clean’ energy
It’s like they thought Economics in One Lesson was a manual, not a warning.
“The fact that they can’t produce enough energy to be viable alternatives doesnt matter”
Actually it matters a lot. If it were viable, they wouldn’t support it. see: Nuclear, Hydroelectric. I can’t remember if it was the EPA or an advocacy group that wouldn’t count a states use of Hydroelectric power towards counting it’s dependency on “Renewables”. Solar could become feasable, but it would take several technological changes. Wind is just stupid, and will never be viable.
I don’t hate wind or solar when used in the proper context. Trying to create this national infrastructure using subsidies and wishful thinking isn’t the proper context.
It’s almost like their real goal is to destroy the economy.
It’s funny you say that. 99% of the time I think that’s true. Pol Thot appears stupid and naive enough to believe this ridiculous plan.
Because it’s not about wind and solar farms. It’s about wealth redistribution and “justice”. That comes straight from the horse’s mouth.
wind and solar farms
Why does she hate birds?
Anyway, color me shocked that she is in favor of even more unconstitutional and ill-advised government programs.
I always wonder, which Crayola does one use to color someone shocked?
Electric blue
The intra-party tensions follow a series of warnings from scientists that climate change is accelerating, including a report from the United Nations that if warming is left unchecked, the world could suffer devastating food shortages, wildfires, flooded coastlines, and the mass destruction of coral reefs as soon as 2040. The only way to avoid that scenario, the UN said, is to cut carbon emissions nearly in half by 2030 and to net zero by 2050.
“Buy this
magazinesnake oil, or we’ll kill this dog.”devastating food shortages
Alternatively warming could make more places suitable for farming.
Nice how those predictions are always close enough to be imminently dangerous, but far enough away the not be called out on when they are wrong.
What is wrong with people?
They seek salvation.
Found this twitts thread sort of interesting
https://twitter.com/Russwarne/status/1076763747136372738
I stumbled onto the court opinion for PASE v. Hannon (1980), a case in which an advocacy group sued the Chicago school system to stop IQ testing of minority children.
I am of mixed feelings on Iq tests, never took one myself although I assume I am somewhere in the low 200s
I’m actually reading The Bell Curve right now; it examines the relationship between IQ and life outcomes.
There’s one chapter (out of 14) called “Race and Intelligence” which begins with a long preamble explaining that there may be differences in IQ between racial groups but this does not justify any type of racial discrimination. That has led to it being described as a super racist book written by racisty racists to promote racism. That’s why I had to buy it and read it for myself.
“In a just society, there would be uniformed agents dangling from lampposts.”
C’mon, the TSA agents didn’t create the agency and they dont make law or policy. The lamp posts belong to the people who did and do.
“Yet another Obama holdover quits in protest…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA
Clinton. Jesus. For the party that put Cindy Sheehan up on a cross, they sure love them some pointless war. If Trump gets us out of the shithole that is the ME it would be worth nearly anything else we have to put up with. If I wasn’t going to vote for him before I sure as hell am now.
Re the poor kid with the tumor: “suffering a rare genetic reaction to anesthesia during surgery.”
Bullshit. The anesthesiologist killed him. This happens a lot more than people know. My advice – avoid the knife like the plague.
“Lebron James said…”
Who?
“build wind and solar farms, charging stations for electric cars and other projects that cut the production of greenhouse gases.”
None of those thing do any of that. This is as dumb or dumber than going to war in the ME, but grifters are gonna grift.
“Lebron James said…”
Who?
Lonzo Ball’s sidekick
C’mon, the TSA agents didn’t create the agency and they dont make law or policy.
“I was just following orders.”
And I’d also not shed a tear if DEA agents or vice cops ran into the same unfortunate difficulty. They didn’t make the unconstitutional laws, but they chose to make a career out of enforcing them.
It’s not even a career for TSA agents at the constitution free checkpoints. It’s a job. Quit it if you get uneasy about how you’re violating our rights.
Dude, molly bolts.
What movie was she in?
Sturdy racks xxx
Well done.
The Wild One is on my teevee.
“Hey, Johnny. What are you rebelling against?”
“Whattaya got?”
That’s some keen insight, right there.
Brando is overrated.
I think he sat in on Pretzel Logic
Because it has electrolytes? Oh wait. That’s Brawndo.
I am highly amused the guy at Quest is named Sample. I haven’t even started drinking yet!
When the sun goes down Pie gets his drink on. Although I had a bit to much wine last night and should take it easy as I will be drinking plenty till new year. In my defense the wine was good. I am going for sushi later and will drink some more but new a bit of smokehead to get me started
Football is a good excuse to day drink. But the season is almost over.
I do not eat sushi. Can one drink anything with that besides sake?
I usually have white wine
*Head explodes*
Kabinett Riesling FTW.
You pyschos. Sake, beer, green tea, water. Anything else is crazy.
Dry white wine is fine.
Beer.
It’s always beer.
They’re talking about American or Romanian “sushi”. I don’t know about the Romanian version, but the American sushi I’ve tried is pretty bad. *Goes back to eating mayo pizza*
What kind of American sushi? Convenience store, grocery, buffet, or restaurant grade?
Is there a difference?
I’ve tried it every time I go back. Sushi bars run by Japanese people and still not good. They add stuff to make it palatable to Americans. Fine. It’s just not what I’m used to. I’m sure L.A. or N.Y. etc. have some traditional sushi bars. Haven’t been to them though.
I’ve always wanted to try real Japanese sushi. The plan was to go to Tokyo for the Olympics, but I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
I’m curious what sorts of ingredients are left out in the American stuff.
From what I remember, they put sesame seeds on everything and deep fry stuff, roll it in rice and call it sushi. California roll is good, but a lot of the stuff is dressed up and is no longer recognizable to me. I like it simple and, sorry, but it needs to be prepped by an old Asian man that maybe served guard during the Bataan death march.
they put sesame seeds on everything and deep fry stuff, roll it in rice and call it sushi.
Gotcha.
I much prefer the simple stuff. Slab of raw sea creature, rice, seaweed. Some of the more complicated rolls are delicious, but they tend to cover up the deliciousness of the meat.
Depends where you go. Many Sushi chefs here train in Japan and take their product seriously. One time I ordered sea urchin and a Scottish looking fellow comes out yelling at the staff in Japanese. Had the rising sun headband and everything.
He informed me he didn’t want to serve it because it was a day old. We did agree however, that I was ordering it to satisfy my curiosity and I wasn’t going to hold it against him.
Step brother for some reason thought he had to take me to a sushi restaurant in Albuquerque. OK, I love the guy so I went along with it.
After a bit I was speaking, or attempting to speak with the “chef”. Despite his obvious Asian ethnicity my Japanese wasn’t quite getting through (I’ve done sales presentations in Japan where I was the only non-Japanese in the room so I know the problem wasn’t on the transmission end). Turns out the “chef” was Korean.
American sushi. Yeah.
Huh. Sounds like around here. All of the Japanese restaurants are ran by Koreans. And the sushi chefs are just as likely to be anglos or Hispanic.
The Kroger in my town recently did a massive expansion, and they have a little food court that includes a sushi vendor (staffed by people who look more S.E. Asian).
Some people might have reservations about grocery store food, but it’s actually really good. The rainbow roll is delicious.
Romanian sushi is fish on rice with some soy sauce. Although I often skip the rice and get what is round here called sashimi or some tartar. Sushi wise I mostly get nigiri, I prefer it to maki and other rolls in general with few exceptions
Drink wise I often get beer. I get wine when other people want ot share a bottle. I don’t much like sake but then again I assume I never had good sake
https://zensushibucuresti.ro/meniu#tab_sushi-nigiri
this is what it looks like
I had choya plum wine once and it was awful
Certainly. This is why Asian beer exists, but a light neutral pilsner will go with nearly anything.
The misconception is brands like Sapporro are meant only for sake bombs. While an excellent way to get your drunken samurai on, and walk the feudal Japanese countryside slicing things and people with your bitchin sword, these pair well with sushi.
Tequila shots
I’ll admit when I’m wrong. Forgot about that. No kidding, that would work.
I knew a guy at the VA by that name. Incidentally, I worked closely with the guy he picked to keep ‘his’ program running, his director whom he picked to ‘improve’ other programs the way he improved the one I worked with, and even met his son working at one of the clinics…
Um.
You shouldn’t get your pets stoned.
But there’s nothing wrong with getting your stones petted.
Witzel will create a
security councilprivate army that answers to him directly and envisions a web of surveillance and control. He plans public-private partnerships to purchase as many as 30,000 security cameras, according to his press office.Also, OMWC is really stepping up his Links game lately. He is a very competitive man, and at his age, I guess this is about the level of competition he can take without breaking a hip.
They have been bountiful and of high quality. The old dog is showing the pups how to do it.
Has he tried shuffleboard?
That’s after we get to Arizona. He’s looking at houses in Sun City.
I noticed it took a little more scrolling down than normal while ignoring the links entirely .
It’s like a libertarian paradise, in that movie. Drinking, fighting, riding motorcycles in the bar, accosting the squares and making indecent suggestions to their womenfolk…
I haven’t seen that film in a long time. Does it hold up?
The problem with green energy/electric cars is the same problem with socialism. Large numbers of people simply dont understand the fundamental principles involved, i.e. they are stupid.
Energy policy is just one more area where “progressives” cannot accept anything less than a perfect solution immediately.
Even if we grant for the sake of argument that carbon emissions are a huge problem… Why wouldn’t they push for options like gas and nuclear instead of wind and solar, which are expensive and inadequate at the moment?
So I wanted to cook something for the extended family and I like using fresh meat so I said I will buy this weekend not earlier. Went yesterday to my local butchers and the line was huge. What to do what to do,I also wanted something custom which complicated things.
Then inspiration struck. People on Christmas in Romania eat pork. I wanted to buy beef – there will be pork cooked by others. So I went to a nearby Arab halala butcher were there is no pork so there is no line. Got myself a nice rib roast took 30 minutes for them to make it – 4 bones. Frenched the bones, salted it a bit yesterday and now I bagged it in a sous vide bag with garlic and rosemary. Gonna sous vide it for tomorrow for 6 hours at I am thinking 142 of your silly American Fahrenheit degrees. I would do 136 for me but I think that is to rare for most others. Gonna do a herb crust and finish in the oven, got the recipe off chefstepps.
Sounds like a plan! Merry Christmas, Pie.
People on Christmas in Romania eat pork.
I knew the Romanians were good people!
/making slow smoked pulled pork for Christmas
My kid, soon to be 10, is being bugged by another girl at school. Basically, just a bully situation where the girl is pressuring other kids to play with her. The bully girl lives in a shit hole apartment with her sick mother and younger sister (I went by it to check it out. I know, over protective parent) and I feel a bit bad about telling my daughter to tell the girl to go bother someone else. She’s not pushing drugs or anything on my kid, but she’s not a good influence, either. The kid obviously isn’t evil being she’s only 10. What do you do?
Move to a different city?
And nuke the other one? / too soon?
Hire one of the eighth graders to beat the shit out of her.
I have known evil 10 year olds.
In this case, though, she’s probably just trying to find some control in her life anywhere she can. Poor kid.
That said, your daughter should be able to play with whomever she chooses without being hassled. I guess decking the bully is not done in Japan? I did that at age 9 and never had another problem with the boy who was bullying me. (Or anyone else.)
“she’s probably just trying to find some control in her life anywhere she can. Poor kid.”
Exactly what I thought and I don’t want to be the asshole parent that turns his back on a kid in trouble. Then again, I don’t want my kid having unnecessary trouble either.
Web Dom always solved these situations by embracing the problem kid. Befriending them and then getting them to moderate their behavior. She was a genius at that.
Web dom is a lot better person than I am. No confidence at all that I wouldn’t screw the kid up even more. Plus it’s a girl and that brings the creepy factor into it if I get too involved.
Oh, well, I was talking about when she was a kid, too. Not as an adult.
I thought all 10 year-olds were evil, yourself excluded of course.
These tits will definitely not be part of the airing of grievances.
http://archive.is/WH90L
I know 6 will be a fan favorite.
14 and 19 amongst this Behr white paint swatch of wimminz.
23 is the bunny boiler.
25.
Where are you guys looking for houses in Phoenix?
East suburbs, Chandler, Gilbert. The idea being to eliminate commute time for OMWC. (Who for the last 3+ years has had a 60-90 minute commute each way after his company moved.)
That’s a nice area. It you’re looking for more “deserty”, less typical suburbs, consider East Scottsdale or Fountain Hills (though I don’t know how far that is away from the sweatshop).
No not Fountain Hills. The Old Man will be walking around in his gilded slippers by February.
Drop me an email at omwc at this site name.
You had mentioned you had a ultra-violet flashlight. May I ask the brand? I want to buy a new one.
It was whatever McMaster-Carr shipped me.
Poor Lebron and the black athlete. So oppressed.
They all take the money in the end though.
I saw The Shop and watched a few minutes….meh. I’m glad I changed the channel because a) I didn’t see the point of Kimmel and b) whatever.
I watched ‘Meet me in St. Louis’ instead.
Because I’m white and wish for a simpler time when blacks knew their place and didn’t become rich bouncing a ball and become faux-professors.
MUH REHPUHRAYSHUNS
If the day would come that actually becomes a thing and people like Lebron and Oprah would get one….that’s when you know things are reeeaaaallly fucked up.
Poor whites with no money fork over to the 1% reparations. Yeh, not a good look. Ghoulish intellectual nonsense.
There are no white people in America that would be better off if they were born black. So I’ve heard. No, seriously, I’ve heard that.
So literally…..poor white person going through hell better off than Lebron fucking James? Denzel Washington? Oprah? Beyonce? Michelle and her $4000 fuck me good and hard boots? Some rapper named after some kitchen appliance? OBAMA AND HIS $65 MILLION?
Sounds totes legit.
Some rapper named after some kitchen appliance?
Lil Icemaker
Ice crusher. Ice crush.
Toast burner.
Nah, go old school: Lil Icebox
MC Potato Peeler.
Kid Keurig
MC Meat Tenderizer
DJ Mixer
Fred Waring
No, you’re not thinking like a collectivist. The line of thinking is that even the poor white kid would be worse off if he were black and not that he’s better off than Lebron. It’s absurd because 1) there is no way of falsifying that and 2) it’s pure racism.
College Football players shoot and kill an attempted robber, but guns are still bad mmkay!
So he will get expelled, right?
The campus rape tribunal is convening as we speak.
It’s your duty as a good prog to die valiantly waiting for the police.
Let’s leave this to the law enforcement professionals who have no obligation to do anything.
Are those the same law enforcement professionals who gun down black infants in cold blood every single day, but are also the only ones calm and professional enough to go anywhere near a firearm?
That is one confusing mess of a piece of reporting.
The Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, created by the former NBA player, said in a statement on Instagram on Saturday that Matadi Sela Petit, 8, died after suffering a rare genetic reaction to anesthesia during surgery.
A private charity set up by a guy from a third world country brought a kid to the states to get surgery for an awful condition. The kid dies despite the best efforts of the doctors and the top flight medical treatment. Lessons learned: Charity works and you can stuff your microagressions up your ass.
I bet he would have lived if he had gone to Cuba.
Are you suggesting he gave the kid a shot? This goes against eveything I’ve come to know about Mutumbo.
/making slow smoked pulled pork for Christmas
I’ll be having chili made with country style pork ribs and black beans.
Awesome. My family’s Christmas is tomorrow, so I don’t know what we’re having.
But today I’m making a bigass pot of chankonabe (stew used by sumo wrestlers to bulk up) with chicken, meatballs, tofu, carrots, celery, onions, shiitakes, potatoes, and I’ll probably toss some shrimp in there because why the fuck not. Gotta get that protein if I want bigger pecs.
Prescription Drug Epidemic claims another feather for its cap.
Finally a way to get rid of those damned Canadian geese
As you can tell, I skipped the last link… I take my shame as a man.
It IS a great picture. “This is an ex-goose!”
-1 failed eject
They had a dog trained to chase off the geese at our office. He bit a goose and was never seen again. Apparently it was outside of hunting season and the bite was enough to levy a fine.
Fuck that.
We had a goose at work last year that laid its eggs in the smoking area. It would attach anyone going outside to smoke. . . I wonder if that’s an effective way to get people to quit . . . anyhow, even after breaking its eggs it wouldn’t go away and finally someone from our manufacturing facility grabbed it and broke its neck.
If you break the eggs, they just want to lay new ones. Next time cover them in oil (iirc) that will suffocate the bastards without alerting the mother goose to the dead chicks.
Yeah, I read that later. Although, I’m not sure how well it would’ve worked in the situation, because what we needed was the goose to nest somewhere else, not just to kill the eggs. Either way, I wasn’t really involved, just an observer.
Does it hold up?
Well, SP, I’m not sure. It’s pretty overwrought and cartoonish, but it probably doesn’t completely suck. It’s not over, yet. I haven’t seen it for a long time, so I don’t remember how it ends.
Rosebud is his sled.
Thank you, Peter.
From the link over Climate Change TM:
“Progressives want a carbon tax, but that’s not what people want” said a Houston area Democratic congresscritter.
Tell me how you REALLY feel about that wing of your party, sir.
It doesn’t matter what people want.
That’s the core of progressive thinking.
“We know best what’s good for you.”
[rimshot]
Well, there are actually two scenarios:
Public opinion lines up with what “progressives want to do:
“We have to respect the will of The People! Democracy forever!!”
Public opinion does not line up with what they want:
“The People don’t know what’s good for them; we need to let the experts decide this!”
Akira nails it
Boy Band Swept Away in Tsunami
Absolutely terrifying. One of my biggest fears.
Should clarify my biggest fear is myself being swept away in a tsunami, not NSYNC.
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be in boy band either.
And there it is. A faint glimmer of hope for humanity, at the end. Marlon Brando is not a *completely* emotionless sociopath.
A not-complete-steaming-pile from The Jacket.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/12/21/the-world-is-not-ending-because-of-donal
Occupy White House?
Is there a vacant building they can’t find?
That’s funny.
Boo fucking hoo. So FAMs might not get to sit in first class? Wah wah wah. Fuck you turds for getting the airlines to bounce paying customers at the last minute from seats they’ve selected weeks or months in advance. You assholes can protect the cargo bay from Fido and Rex as far as I’m concerned.
During Night Flight, Big Electric Cat grabbed me by the balls. It still hasn’t let go.
Night Flight was awesome.
I dont remember who but someone here got me stuck on this pair. New favorite band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9jwGansp1E
They are quite good.
Dam. I haven’t heard that in a long time. I’m going to have to buy some King Crimson now
Chipotle Accused of Stealing Workers’ Wages
Chipotle is finding out the hard way that arbitration agreements don’t always work out the way companies hope. Facing almost 3,000 arbitration cases (a number that is growing) involving employees who believe that Chipotle stiffed them on their wages, the restaurant chain is trying to block the cases.
The irony is that just a few short months ago, companies like Chipotle were cheering the Supreme Court decision that declared it legal for companies to require employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. Dave Jamieson explains for HuffPost:
In May, the court ruled 5-4 in Epic Systems v. Lewis that it is legal for employers to require workers to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. By signing them, workers agree they won’t sue the employer in class- or collective-action lawsuits. Instead, the workers will have to take any claims individually to arbitration, where they have no collective power.
Chipotle began requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements in 2014. The company did so as a preemptive strike against a 10,000-strong class-action lawsuit claiming that Chipotle forced workers to work “off the clock,” without pay. Pushing back on the lawsuit, Chipotle insisted that nearly 3,000 of those filing suit had violated the arbitration agreements they signed. As mentioned above, the Supreme Court ruled in Chipotle’s favor.
Another irony is that after the ruling was handed down, Dave Jamieson bemoaned it as “screwing thousand of Chipotle workers.”
Heavens to Mergatroid.
I had a boss ask me to do that back when I was a kid. I just laughed and walked out. I never heard a word about it after that.
OK, I’ll grant that “clock work” should require them to pay for all hours worked. I just chuckle at the thought of expecting to not be on call more or less 24/7.
“Hayley Atwell is victim to ‘nude selfie’ leak on X-rated website as hackers threaten they are set to release more pictures of the star”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6524739/Hayley-Atwell-victim-nude-selfie-leak-X-rated-website-hackers-threaten-release-more.html
If you are celebrity, maybe you shouldn’t keep your nude pictures where they can be hacked? Put them on a powered-off hard drive or disconnected storage card not connected to the internet.
And the DailyMail is there!
I can tell you who the perpetrator is – Hayley Atwell and her PR agent.
“How Plastic Is a Function of Colonialism
Plastic Planet is a series on the global plastics crisis that evaluates the environmental and human costs and considers possible solutions to this devastating man-made problem. In this op-ed, Dr. Max Liboiron, an assistant professor at Memorial University and fellow at Science for the People, explains how the global plastic pollution crisis is directly tied to colonialism. The original Science for the People was a publication of radical science with roots in the New Left of the 1960s and ’70s that young activist scientists and engineers are currently reviving.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-plastic-is-a-function-of-colonialism
OFFS
Like, how many crises is today’s teen expected to be able juggle at once?! I can’t even.
This is bad but not the worst. The perfect example of useful idiocy is the story posted recently about the university that was unable to choose a new mascot because they couldn’t find anything that wasn’t problematic in some way or other. Perfect. Useful idiots unable to solve the simplest of problems. What is next? They are going to freeze in place and stop breathing?
That’s so crazy it just might work.
Insurance is most efficient and effective when used as protection against low-probability, high-cost events. Homeowners’ insurance is a safeguard against fires, lightning strikes and other natural disasters. It doesn’t pay for routine lawn care. Similarly, automobile insurance shields drivers from the consequences of serious car accidents but does not pay for oil changes or gasoline at the pump.
With health insurance, we have taken the opposite approach. Government policies have promoted an excessive reliance on third-party payment for routine, lower cost, non-emergent, “shoppable” services from doctors’ visits to joint replacements, which compose a majority of health-care spending. The system has eliminated incentives for patients to seek and obtain value for each dollar spent and has instead encouraged the purchase of low-value services and promoted overuse.
To compensate for the inherent flaws in this scheme, government has erected barriers to entry, implemented restrictive payment policies, unintentionally incentivized impenetrable pricing and fostered the creation of an expensive administrative infrastructure. These have further corrupted market forces and resulted in even higher prices, lower quality and less or misdirected innovation.
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Containing health-care costs is a national imperative. Restoring consumer choice and generating competitive markets for health-care services through consumer ownership of expenditures is the most effective way for us to begin on this path and to obtain optimal value for our health-care dollars.
Cue usual suspects saying, “That trick never works.”
Yeah, the market for health care is (should be) a natural monopoly, controlled by the government. That’s how we’ll get truly efficient, quality care. Just ask Krugabe.
*he has a cute little piece up about how a “mixed economy” is what we need. Some things (like health care) are too important to be left to profiteering bloodsuckers in the private sphere. We just need the steady hand of Top Socialists sprinkled here and there in the economy to get things humming.
I used to believe this when I was young and stupid, too. What’s his excuse?
Obviously, it should be left to the profiteering bloodsuckers in the government. Duh.
As an aside, it grinds my gears when I hear people say that government-run healthcare would be cheaper and more efficient. Something they never consider is that the Democrats will push for unionization, and costs will go through the roof. You think doctors make a lot now? Wait until they’re under the AFSCME and have the power to go on strike. A government takeover of healthcare would increase the costs several fold.
“That’s a nice kidney you got there. Shame if somethin’ happened to it.”
/Dr. Teamster
Dr. Max Liboiron, an assistant professor at Memorial University and fellow at Science for the People, explains how the global plastic pollution crisis is directly tied to colonialism.
Sounds legit.
Hahahahhaa!!! Take that, hate birds!
Have you heard about the guy who died happy because his ex told him Trump got impeached?
That link looks familiar somehow…