I’m at my in-law’s and don’t have access to my usual computer setup, so these links might be shorter than usual.
First rule of being a bad guy, don’t set people up for action movie lines.
The fact that they narrowed it down and still came up with a large egregious list tells you how bad the media has become (not to say they were not horrible before, but they’re not even trying anymore).
Trump trying to stop the stock market correction.
I know, thank Christ.
I know, thank Aqua Buddha.
How can you NOT love the man?
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and skedaddle.
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I might be first because my kids hate sleep
I’m there with you but it’s because I feel honor-bound to cook the links-writer a hearty breakfast of eggs and bacon.
Woohoo!
That’s a nice early Christmas present.
My gift is letting my wife sleep in
Happy wife… happy life!
The people up in arms over the syria and afghanistan pull out is crazy.
Since the pull out is actually happening. Am I being too optimistic in hoping for a pull out of NATO and Europe
Also now an official first
I hope so. NATO is a joke.
just don’t get them beat up by the cops for resisting a rest.
Boo! I’m going to have to cite you for poor taste in punnishment.
Morning people.
I normally get some time to answer my work e-mail before the links drop. I almost didn’t notice.
“Trump trying to stop the stock market correction.”
The prez needs to stop hiring his economic advisors from the mislabelled bin. Navarro, Ross, Lighthizer and Mnuchin? Getting serious advice from these clowns is like drawing 3 to a flush. Sure, it happens but what are the odds. Navarro needs to go back to CA and teach more Keynesianism, just raise the tariffs a little more and we’ll get it right.
And a big Merry Christmas from the North Woods to all Glibberatti.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas
May y’all enjoy stupefying quantities of your alcohols of choice
If you insist.
Merry Christmas!
And a Merry Christmas to you from the barren prairie of Eastern NoDak!
Merry Christmas Fourscore!
Meeting you and now being able to tell all my friends about my “artisianal honey” guy is going to definitely be on the list of 2018 accomplishments.
I’ll give you some artisanal, honey.
Merry Christmas back, Jimbo, Tundra, Leap and even Mike S, (honorary Minnesotan). Happy that I’m not a lonely voice in the wilderness, tough enough sounding like a loon but glad to have you guys and all the other glibs for friends. Oh yeah, like you would have other friends.
Merry Christmas, Fourscore!
Yeah, I gotta work today. Happy Eve everyone! It’s 4:30 out here.
I beat you to it. Already at work. At least I remembered to grab some food from the gas station on the way in, because everything else is closed.
Really? I made the mistake of packing lunch last night when I could have gotten gas station food? Wait, nevermind. I’d rather not.
Royal Farms, Sheetz, and Wawa are fine on occasion. All 3 are MTO, so you can get it as plain as you like.
I’ve only ever seen two of those, and both down in Maryland. That’s an eight hour drive (or six if I avoid the worst of the traffic)
MTO?
made to order
Machman Turner Overdrive
… performing their hit single Bacon Care of Business.
Wawa is an excellent place to get a sandwich.
Gas station Sushi I hope. That is the safest option.
Close. A couple of breakfast sandwiches and a bear-claw should get me through for 8 hrs. We have some really nice Gas Stations here in DFW. Nothing like rural ‘Murica!
Egg salad sandwich from the vending machine… that plan CAN’T fail.
Shoulda went with the tuna.
Why not both?
Crap
https://imgur.com/a/zOSCc3F
That’s my wife’s favorite road food.
*High five out to fellow East
CoastHemispherean glibs. *At home and no class for 40 more hours. Expat hangout tomorrow afternoon for some festivities featuring hot Secret Santa-on-Annual Gift Man exchanges.
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.”
I’ve got to hand it to Rand, he’s phrasing this in terms that appeal to Trump, deals and negotiating positions and costs.
Rand, you disappoint. The VC was destroyed by the Tet Offensive and was absorbed by the NVA.
I get the point, but…
Yeah, the proof of it working is Trump tweeting out Rand Paul quotes.
The links may be short but you made it up in quality. That list of fake news stories is far too short, but then an exhaustive list would take days to read.
“Rand Paul defends Trump plan on Syria, backs similar pullout in Afghanistan; others in GOP remain skeptical”
Skeptical of what? I still haven’t gotten an answer to what victory in the ME looks like or what America gains from it. Platitudes and hymn-hawing. Thinking we can build some kind of democracy in Afghanistan is beyond stupid. I would interpret anyone telling me that as an insult deserving of a solid slap to the head. Oil and minerals? That is even less likely. Get the fuck out already.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
And it wasn’t even a questionable list of fake news stories, it was a legit list of outright journalistic malpractice. I don’t know if it’s always been this bad, or the internet has made it a hell of a lot easier to call out bad journalism for the first time.
It has always been this bad. Remember the term ‘yellow journalism’? You are correct it is just a lot easier to catch them and call them out now.
Suthenboy is right; it has always been this bad. Damn near a century ago, the NYT took a Pulitzer for their enthusiastic denial of the Holodomor.
+1 Duranty
It still makes me angry thinking about that too much. How in hell is that pinko rag still in business? At least these days they have taken off the mask and admit to being outright commies. The sooner that place burns to the ground and the ashes shoveled into the Hudson, the better.
Remember the Maine!
Oh right, we’re overdue for another invasion of either Cuba or Mexico.
Venezuela (if Brazil doesn’t do it first)…
Naw, they’re not on our perennial invasion list.
Also, we’re supposed to have another border skirmish with the canukistanis soon.
If there is anywhere we could gain less from than Afghanistan, it’s Venezuela.
If there is anywhere we could gain less from than Afghanistan, it’s Venezuela.
Hmmmm…, I think Venezuela gets the edge here.
Invading Cuba makes far more sense than Iraq or Afghanistan. If nothing else, it’s much closer so we’d save on gas. But none of this “spreading democracy” bull, we’re there to conquer. 51st state, and a better life for all Cubans, except the commies we string up.
We have had this debate before. We decided not to bring Cuba into the Union post-SA war because…it is full of Cubans. There is a reason communism found a place to sink roots in Cuba. It wouldn’t work then, it wont work now. Besides, the good ones are all here, just like Venezuelans.
“There is a reason communism found a place to sink roots in Cuba”
I’m sorry Suthen, but the reason why communism “sunk roots” was because of how shitty the government the US proped up was, not for some natural propensity of their culture. Most Cubans were tired of the decades of war that forced them to pick sides.
We decided not to bring Cuba into the Union post-SA war because…it is full of Cubans.
But Puerto Ricans, Guamanians and Phillipinos at the time were….ok?
Look, Guam has a limited load-bearing capacity before it capsizes, so there’s no way there would ever be too many of them.
And we gave the Phillipines their independance decades ago.
PR was a mistake, we know that now.
At least we got West Side Story out of the Puerto Rico deal
Phillipines was important as a coaling station if you wanted to project power in the Pacific.
Actual peace in the ME looks like miles and miles of trinitite.
No one wants to sanction the glass parking lot plan. Something about fallout.
What you did there…
I have been chastised for suggesting such…but you are right.
Jay Leno joke from way back – “Archeologists have found a new site in the Middle East. After extensive study they say life there was very violent. Oh, how things have changed in 10,000 years.”
I am not suggesting it as a course of action, just stating my belief that fantasies about everyone learning to get along are stupid. It took almost a thousand years, a couple generations of neglect from the crown, and exporting all their independent minded folk over here for a group of British to get to the point of ‘democracy’. Less than a hundred years later we had a massive Civil War, and have been becoming increasingly oligarchic ever since. Democracy can not work; it can not last; it inevitably turns into people voting themselves other people’s stuff. A Constitutional Republic can last just as long as the electorate is made up of people with the wisdom, knowledge and virtue needed to forego personal advantage in favor of doing the right thing. Since such people are rare, and no one has successfully identified a way to limit the franchise to such people Republics inevitably fail either by becoming Oligarchies and then Empires, or by rotting to the point where an outside force takes them over.
History gonna cycle, it is what it does.
Well said and accurate, IMO. Tocuville was 200 years ahead of his time.
Something something public treasury something something public trough.
Rand’s tweet barrage was fun. So was Trump’s. I don’t even know what he’s referring to.
Twitter suggested following Obama, whose bio says simply “Dad, husband, President, citizen”. Since he’s not the third thing anymore, I’m actually skeptical about the 4th now.
Merry Christmas!
“Let’s Go!”
There’s a man who has been shopping with his wife all weekend and is ready for death’s sweet embrace.
I also think that we are too hard on journalos. The writer of this story did the guy a solid and wrote “Unfazed by the threat, the victim responded by reaching into a bag beside him and pulling out his own .40-caliber handgun.”
He could have been a dick and written, “by reaching into his wife’s purse that she made him hold while she was shopping”
I would be expecting a bounce in the markets today, but futures are below Friday’s close. Friday was a quadruple witching day and the last opportunity for hedge fund managers to make big sales this year. It should be an opportunity for the PPT to push stocks higher until next week. We’ll see.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too!
Merry Christmas, Tulip (and the rest of you all, or ya’ll). Just put the kid to bed. She’s excited about the morning. We made cookies together and put them out for the Big Red.
I promised to help SP decorate Christmas cookies.
“You’re not just volunteering to do this because you’re going to draw dicks on them, are you?”
She knows me far too well.
“Hey, this icing is salty.”
Wait, aren’t you supposed to be wearing your open fly Santa suit at the mall this week?
Good way to get out of it.
Merry Christmas! Hope your visit goes well.
Merry Christmas!
*sigh*
Comment from the Rand Paul Festivus article:
“Rand Paul is like his Nazi father Ron Paul, he’s a Russian asset. He does whatever Putin tells him to do.”
“Nazi, Russia” these people are a fart in a whirlwind. They don’t know if they’re coming or going at this point. Trump has mentally fucked up at least 20% of this country.
He broke their brains. If he EO’d Medicare for all tomorrow I think the neoliberals would oppose it, because Trump. He’s given them prison reform, federal hemp and CBD legalization, gun control (not too thrilled with that one), and the ending of endless wars in the past week. They should be thrilled.
What gun control? How did I miss this?
Bump stocks
Ah, Ok. That. I wasn’t very happy with that despite my complete lack of interest in bump stocks.
I am a civil rights absolutist. The constitution is the supreme law of the land. Anything that contravenes it is not law but a violation of the law. That means every gun control law in the country is not law but a crime committed by the state. I think bump stocks are dumb, but should be considered legal…because they are.
I agree, bump stocks are useless, stupid even, but shouldn’t be illegal. The nongrandfathering and turn in or destroy or be guilty of a felony aspect of the order is concerning as well.
I’m not deluded enough to fantasize it but legislating bump stocks into a new definition of machinegun has some legal implications that should lead to something similar to the amnesty of 1968. The rum in me has me foggy on the details but back then the ATF changed the rules on Machinegun registration – which lead to them having to provide an amnesty – anybody who wanted to do the paperwork could come forward with any unregistered machinegun to be registered with no penalty.
Regulatory ban on bump stocks rolled by recently.
PTSD – Post Trump Stress Disorder
Amazing how a complete fabrication, something with not one scintilla of evidence can take hold in the minds of those whose biases are confirmed and the morons just keep repeating it. People believe what they want to believe. Maybe I should start believing I won the Powerball.
If you believe literal Hitler was elected you have to accept one of three realities, Trump’s not literally Hitler (which requires a big blow to your ego), half the country are Nazis (which would require you to responsibly take violent actions for the sake of humanity), a big scary country you’re wholly ignorant about helped steal the election. Three is the safest mental course.
Good insight. It allows people to be outraged and whine but not have to stick their own necks out.
I am so glad my opinion is that the candidate who was “Not Hillary” won the election. And with the news that Ginsberg’s ‘non-invasive’ lobectomy rated malignant, I have to be thankful again that it was “Not Hillary”.
Hillary losing is the biggest bullet dodge since the Cuban missile crisis and even that might be debatable.
Loan me $10k? Don’t worry, I’m good for it.
The smallest bill I have is for $10Trillion. Unless you can make change for that…
I waded into the comments of the Rand Festivus article, it’s toxic stupidity on all fronts. I couldn’t differentiate the insults from the cheerleaders.
It’s interesting how many of the comments are perfectly fine with him having been beaten up.
That is telling, isnt it?
It’s easy to have an ignorant world view when you can accuse everyone else if being stooges and Nazis.
It’s even easier when you have nothing in your brain and you just parrot left-wing talking points.
If a leftist actually read the Nazi platform they would probably find a lot of things with which they agree, considering that Nazis are socialist. Socialism>Fascism>Nazism.
That’s been done. Not probably. Hitler speeches read to proggie crowds invariably results in thunderous applause.
Yeah but Tom Woods had his students sign the Nazi platform.
I’ve said it before on here. NPC is just too perfect of a meme that it demands to be used, even if it is childish name calling.
“Cuomo doubled down on sharing the story, insisting that the “point” he was trying to make still stood.”
It’s fake, but accurate. This is the kind of thing that really grinds my gears. It’s similar to how even the previous Commander in Chief suggested it is easier to get a gun than a book, or something. He knows dammed well how many gun laws there are, but un/ill-informed idiots eat this shit up. Narrative>facts.
The News media has been consistently doing this with fake news. When they do bother to print retractions they’re quick and quiet. Meanwhile, the damage is done and they move on to the next piece of propaganda.
What really stuck in my craw about that “easier to get a gun than a book” statement was how he KNEW nobody on his side would reflect for the 4 microseconds to contemplate “Huh? There is no difficulty of any sort blocking me from buying a book”. He knew they would just swallow and smile about it.
I am watching the Star Wars Holiday Special. I wanted to see if the hype of its badness is true.
I….am hypnotized. This shit is absolutely bonkers. I want to know the exact mixture of drugs necessary to create something like this. It probably filled a damn silo and one of the riders in the contract was that you had to swim through it every day before filming. I will also admit that Diahann Carroll’s musical number right now is giving me flashbacks along with some healthy stirrage of the loins. Yowza.
The first ten minutes of the movie are a Chewy’s Wookiee family talking *without subtitles.* Mesmerizing. Leia is on a bunch of lots of stuff. Harrison Ford is none-too pleased with his “involvement” if you can call it that.
It’s glorious.
I tried to watch it once. I couldn’t make it through the first 5 mins.
You are made of stiffer stuff than I. 30 seconds for me. I cant think of anything I care less about.
When you get done here’s a humorous carve up of the special by Red Letter Media that’s worth a watch:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4m0oYK0WQ
And it was the ‘70s so the drug cocktail was some combination of alcohol and lots and lots of cocaine.
8 year old me thought it was great.
But I thought my boogers were great too.
[High-fives Scruffy]
Mostly cocaine for Fisher. Imagine watching this live as a teenager (me) or a younger child (eighties kids).
Quality movie right there. Right up there with The Room and Fateful Findings as the best “so bad its good” out there.
Skidoo.
WTF? I didn’t know that existed.
*jumps forward to random spot* Is that Dr. Johnnie Fever in an Imperial Guard uniform?
Oh man, Harvey Corman as a 4-armed, female TV chef. Was actually kind of funny. Hard not to laugh at Harvey.
It’s hard to overestimate how huge everything SW was during that time. Like the disco version of the theme hitting #1 on the charts huge.
I remember it clearly. There had been nothing like it before. The first movie – which somewhere along the way was re-branded “Lost Hope” – was the only movie I have ever watched – then went right back the next week to watch again. It was that much of a groundbreaking event.
I remember when it finally showed up on HBO – it took forever – it was like the event of the decade.
The laserdic version of those movies cost $100. Back when Laserdisc was a thing. I think in today’s dollars that would be a used Mercedes.
My parents had them on laserdisc. I have no idea how they were able to afford them. They might have been a gift from a relative.
“Harrison Ford is none-too pleased with his “involvement” if you can call it that.”
It’s like someone was holding a gun on him off camera.
“Plunge Protection Team.”
Sounds like an organization to help guys with their pre-nup.
But joking aside, don’t fuck with the market.
The market would never correct itself. Once the cycle starts downward, no buyers would ever emerge. Or something.
“The president’s right and I think the people agree with him. Let’s rebuild America. Let’s spend that money here at home.”
Get a load of this isolationist wacko-bird.
We (anti-war folk) need to organize a group to fundraise for anyone who supports this and who will primary out people who don’t.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/12/23/18154182/sprint-new-york-attorney-general-barbara-underwood-tax-fraud-lawsuit-settlement-300-million
I’m sure there’s more to this story than the surface I scratched but I guess kudos to Sprint for trying to fuck the tax man for their customers’ benefit.
Here’s your ten percent. The rest goes to the AG office Christmas party fund.
Merry Christmas Eve, which I will be spending with a plumber who will be jetting and cameraing a whole lot of line, most likely to find out our 50-year-old pipes have disintegrated.
Cast iron? That’s about the right age.
I wish you luck, I went thru that with pipes under the basement slab. Not a pleasant experience.
Yes, cast iron. We’ve already been through it with about 20 ft of it about 10 years ago. This is the continuation of that line. (We couldn’t afford to get the whole line done at the time.) Yes, it is under a basement slab. I’m just praying the problem doesn’t go to the street.
If you were here I would say you really really hope it goes to the street. Here, and in many other places, if the problem is within a short distance of the sewer tap it is MSD’s (sewer utility) responsibility to fix. If the problem is further in toward the house it is yours. And if it is a collapsed line… most of the cars I have owned cost less than trenching and replacing a line.
I don’t know how far from the street to the house the utility is responsible for. I thought we would be responsible for all of it. I do know we can’t afford to do it though.
Soooo I am hoping the problem is from the section of good line we replaced to the stack, which is about 10 feet. Under a slab.
Definitely look into who is responsible for what. The plumber is not the best person to ask since if it is the utility’s responsibility he will lose the work/payday. Not sure how urban/rural your area is but if it is urban there may be information on the utility’s website about the rules, and there is most likely a number to call to get them to camera the line (or at least their portion).
Back in my old neighborhood, the city utility guys were super nice and said if it ever looked remotely possible that it was on their side of the line, just call them and they’d be glad to scope it.
Turned out our issue was a tree root in my part of the line. I was able to hand the plumber a picture marked with the exact distance to the clog from the access port.
Two or three Christmases back, the property owner where I was renting managed to crush the sewer pipe to one of the buildings while they were remodeling.
A few Christmases ago when I drove down to visit my parents in NC I almost crushed their sewer pipe with my car.
They don’t have a gravel, dirt or paved driveway. Some worn down grass with trees on one side mark their “driveway.”
I got there in the dark. In the dark I wasn’t quite lined up right with the “driveway”.
In the morning my dad saw my tire marks in the grass and told me I came close to crushing their sewer pipe. It’s shallow and made of clay.
I think I see the problem.
Good luck, Mojeaux.
And speaking of pipelines, I have a little something special for you in the pipeline.
For me? *delighted squee*
I turn fifty next year. Same problems.
[golf clap]
Euphemism?
I kept having to convince myself to not take the bait… SO MUCH bait!
This isn’t even an attempt to euphemize.
Dude, I do not have the fortitude to euphemize and pun when a plumber is involved.
True. How much do plumbers make per hour these days? You are gonna get fucked alright, but the euphemism isnt aimed the way Evan intended.
It’s not the plumber’s hourly if it is a collapsed line. It is the guy you pay three figures an hour to sit on the backhoe for 20 minutes digging 10 minutes refilling and the 8 hours in between when the plumber is laying the pipe.
Someone tell Obama we finally found a shovel ready job!
I live in an old house in an old neighborhood. The electric company (??) offers insurance on pipes from street to house. They don’t cover the camera/diagnosis, but do cover trenching, pipe replacement, and landscaping. The insurance has saved a few neighbors and is affordable. This does no good for Mojeaux, but may help someone else who lives in an old house.
Mojeaux, you have my sympathy. I hope they discover the problem is your best case.
Thanks, Tulip. Best case would be a complete flush, but no. At least it’s not out to the street.
Forget the plumber. If your main line needs to be replaced, call up an excavator or septic company.
In VA at least, you don’t need a plumber’s license to replace the main line. Many of the smaller excavating companies around me offer that service included in their hourly rate. A company dug up about 150 feet of my old cast iron pipe and laid in new pvc for a grand total of ~$650.
Unless if they own their own equipment, a plumber is just going to have to bring in the same excavator and then bill you for that along with their own plumbing rate.
Maybe it was 100 feet. Can’t remember exactly. They did great work though. I spent more on plumbers and diagnostics trying to repair the line than I did just having the whole damn thing replaced.
“Merry Christmas Eve, which I will be spending with a plumber….”
Dear Penthouse,
I never thought it would happen to me …
Severely clogged pipe between kitchen and stack that has likely disintegrated. Next stop: Jackhammerville and replacing 15′ of pipe. Some time after Christmas. Possibly New Year’s. It could be worse, I suppose.
Sorry. Good luck.
50 year-old pipes?
That is a lot of crack smoked. No wonder you fit in here so well.
d00d, wuh?
Hey, the NPS isn’t going to act like a bag of assholes this shutdown.
During Obama’s tenure, they spent money and time to deny access to all the roads.
Is no one throwing sheets over statues this time around? How am I supposed to take the shutdown seriously?
Wait, there’s a shutdown?
NPS doesn’t do that shit on their own. It gets approved, or more likely ordered, at the highest levels. This is one of the many simple and tangible differences between this administration and the previous one.
And open air parks/memorials that usually are scant on staffing (if any) were closed off. Christ, Barry is/was such an asshole.
But I am ever-thankful for that assholery. They thought they were being smug and clever by playing to their base. But the slow resentment that that sort of thing builds is immense.
Japan suffers biggest natural population decline ever in 2018
Japan is a “super-aged” nation, meaning more than 20% of its population is older than 65. The country’s total population stands at 124 million this year — but by 2065 it is expected to have dropped to about 88 million.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to prevent the population from dropping below 100 million by 2060. In 2017, the government announced a 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) spending package to expand free preschool for children aged 3 to 5 — and for children aged 2 and under from low-income families — and cut waiting times at day care centers.
Prevent population decline by taxing future unborn citizens for their possibly unnecessary preschool. Genius.
Perhaps Abe should take a couple of biology/ecology classes. When population density reaches a certain point critters start behaving irrationally and stop reproducing. Japan is past that point for humans. They need a reduction in population. Let it go down a bit and people will start fucking and making babies again.
I’ve been hoping for this. I couldn’t live in Japan, too much of a ‘Murican for that, but I love visiting. I hope Japan lasts.
Japan will be fine. What wont be are the budgets for the ministries reliant on ever-growing ranks of tax cattle.
I’m glad I will be unloading some of this residential property before the population decline pulls the value down.
The day care center thing is infuriating. The public day care in my city bumps public school teachers to the top of the waiting list. Some families wait years to get their kid into one. The private one we used for one year cost around $600~$700 a month.
Re: Hemp legislation. Wouldn’t it be easier to undue the hemp illegality rather than try to pass something making it legal? Hemp growing wasn’t illegal to start with, until laws were passed. Now the gov has to get involved to legalize it. It’s almost like maybe there might be subsidies or restrictions (cough, cough, to much smoking this morning) and need to regulate quantities and licensing.
Get rid of a law? That is just crazy talk!
What’s a Midlothian?
An untrue Scotsman.
Borderers, sheep shagging thieves in the night, bloody minded tricksters with no loyalty to either crown! George MacDonald Frasier’s people. Good folk.
Your statements are contradictory.
Good folk =/= Virtuous people. It equals people it is fun to drink with. You know, like libertarians and non Socon conservatives.
You have odd tastes in drinking companions. I would not drink around people who might exploit my inebreation.
You bring your sheep with you to the bar?
Ewe leave Molly alone!
So no meet ups for you?
Unless you want to get sheared
That sounds really baaaaaad…
After that I’m going on the lam.
It’s what powers the Farce.
Oddly, a town southwest of Chicago.
And south of Dallas in TX.
Of course, every city or town in the world has a namesake in TX.
That does not bode well for the creativity of Texans. I thought them better than that.
A story which is claimed to be true:
An immigrant family was lead by a patriarch who extracted a promise from the rest of his family that when he died he would be buried in Italy. After the man’s death, the son founded the town of Italy, TX.
There are also town named Jupiter and Mars, if you want to know what spring is like there.
The cycling rally in Italy does have the best tee shirts.
You forgot Venus, which is right next to Midlothian.
Venus is irrelevant
Guns are from MA, pickups are from MI, John Wayne was from IA, Levis are from SFO, lazy pronunciation is from Scotland, oil derricks are from PA, longhorns are from India, and horses are from Asia.
Texas is the pineapple-bestrewn deep-dish Gillespie of creative states.
So the Integrated Circuit didn’t come out of Texas Instruments?
Garland is Mike Judge’s “Arlen.”
https://goo.gl/maps/i4ptXfjxXpo
One of these guys?
Our cable has been out. Can someone tell me who’s in first place in the AFC North?
I have to see them not shit their pants in week 17 for the 3rd season in a row before I get too excited.
Not the Bengals
Ravens, I believe.
Cal won the conference, the Ravens must settle for the San Diego Credit Union Holiday Bowl.
Hey, we are actually attending that bowl game this year! New Year’s Eve in San Diego, good times in the Gaslamp District. Our Northwestern University Wildcats from the Big Ten taking on the Utah Utes of the Pac-12. Battle between each conference’s Championship runner up, sort of a little Rose Bowl.
Time to call Karl Hungus.
Paul’s tweet about new WH Chief of Staff: “Mick is a good friend of mine, in fact a lot of people probably don’t remember he was the national co-chair for my Presidential campaign.”
Woah, I’d say that’s probably a really big deal now…leading me to wonder if Rand Paul is The Hair…
Aaaaaah! Don’t cross the streams!
Ugh, massive hangover this morning. Also, we’re flea bitten or something. Dryer broke on Saturday, closet broke yesterday, wife bagged herself a Rudolph with my car this morning.
Venison for dinner!
What broke in your closet?
His sock collection.
The previous owner didn’t bother to find the studs when installing the shelf, and it all came tumbling down.
I recommend chemical warfare. Apply bug bombs.
Unless you’re using some colloquialism to imply bad luck and not an actual infestation of biting insects.
OMG is she okay?
Sure make us look like shitheads for not asking.
“She” was the car, I’m assuming.
ALOL
Thanks for asking!
*glares at everybody else* (just kidding)
Yeah, it was a side swipe, so the airbag didn’t even deploy.
I figured if she’d been injured you’d have said that rather than talk about the dead deer.
Yes, I would’ve. I also wouldn’t mention it in the same breath as a couple of minor home repair issues.
However, it is funny to see the difference in male and female reactions.
The male reaction is generally “how big were the antlers?” The female reaction is generally akin to Mojeaux’s.
I’m with UCS: youdda said something
Do’h!
It’s amazing how often the deer hit the vehicles and kill themselves. Good news though, they still taste good.
On my way to work once, I got on the brakes for some deer standing on the road. I almost got stopped before hitting the mamma. I was doing maybe 5 mph; enough to knock her down, but she got right back up.
Junior, however, was standing on the side of the road, and a full 2 seconds after I’d come to a complete stop ran right into my front wheel. Either knocked himself out or broke his neck. SMH He had become coyote breakfast, lunch, and dinner by the time I drove back by on my way home that night.
This is good.
Sorry about your car, but at least you can take consolation that killing those things is doing your good deed for the week.
Ugh. Sorry, Trashy. Hope it get better.
Heard that. I got a hangover over already and I haven’t even gone to sleep yet. Somekind of sparkling red wine that the wife got. All that sparkling stuff is headache inducing.
Yikes! Hope the wife and car are OK.
TOS with another Most Libertarian Thing Ever
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town Is the Most Libertarian Christmas Special
But Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town is also a parable about prohibition, black markets, and the awful consequences of arbitrary laws enforced by nanny states. It casts Santa Claus as a heroic individualist who disdains nonsensical regulations, operates by his own moral code, and ultimately chooses to exit a society that views him as a threat to its enforced order.
It is, in short, the most libertarian holiday special ever made.
Libertarian, diagnostic hermit, addict for serial encroachment, he’s almost STEVE SMITH like.
Having just finished the Star Wars Holiday special….I vehemently agree.
The market shat upon this baffling monstrosity so fully and immediately that it was only aired once.
LifeThe market…finds a way.That was so much fun. I was listening to a Stuff You Should Know episode about it and it inspired me to watch in full. Just listening to the Wookiee audio in the shitter at work got to me cackling uncontrollably.
“It casts Santa Claus as a heroic individualist who disdains nonsensical regulations, ”
Santa must be destroyed! For the children!
If Santa were real, just imagine the regulatory bullshit he’d have to handle.
He was real but was shot down in 1960 as he crossed the DEW. Oddly Sgts Burger and Meister were manning the post that detected his sleigh and launched the SAM.
Relevant
https://www.domestika.org/es/projects/375166-badass-santa
No deliveries to any kids near Gatwick.
Do these people not remember Reagan pulling out of Lebanon, and his reason why?
You mean after the bombing?
Hi-Ho, off to work I go. Someone has to play that Christmas music everyone is sick of already.
Today is the first day it is permissable to play christmas music. Tomorrow is the last.
Of course, no one listens to reason, I was hearing Christmas music back in November.
So long as you’re playing it, do you take requests?
Cum they told me, parumpapumpum.
You could go with, this as well.
The girlfriend didn’t believe that this was a real Christmas song.
So the laptop has been dropped off for the upgrade, and the IT guy who asked me to bring it in was:
a) Apparently unaware that his call center was going to be closed today
b) An idiot, as he asked me to write down my password for him (Pet peeve of mine is lazy IT people who expect other IT people to “just trust them”).
I don’t trust IT people. We’re notoriously untrstworthy.
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t understand that the first step of password security is to not give your password to anyone. Yes, you can reset my password, and that reset will be logged. At least he’s going to give me a call when it’s done instead of making me sit in the empty office.
It’s MIND BOGGLING Brian Williams has a job.
What more proof do people need to know about the state of media?
Sorry my pals, my friends, my ‘cuci”, my buddies, my homeys from Minny.
But let’s go DA BEARS!
All Philly has to do is deal with a QB depleted Washington team and hope the Vikings play like little girls.
Merry Christmas, Rufus. I hope the fam is well. I’ll raise a glass to the old man.
Oh, and fuck DA BEARZ.
Appreciate that. Grazie!
I’m sure he’s giving the finger to everyone in heaven.
All the best!
All the best to everyone!
This feels like a real Vikings playoff run. Having to learn all the intricacies of the tie breaker rules is what being a Viking fan is all about. Of course we have time to learn them because we don’t have to spend any time planning super bowl parties or victory parades.
And fuck Da Bears. I don’t usually care that much about sportzball, but the Bear fans are particularly obnoxious. Packer fans are fine. They have their own unique paint thinner breath charm to them.
Mid-west smack talk! Lol.
Fans of the Minnesoda team are far more obnoxious than fans of the Chicago team.
As a Packer fan, I wouldn’t mind seeing the Minnesoda team choke.
As a Packers fan I am confident the Vikings 0-4 in the Super Bowl record will not change this season.
How to Love Chris Pratt Without Hating Yourself
When you take a deeper look at Pratt the man and not necessarily Pratt the actor, some of the shine wears off. Although he can be as funny offscreen as he is on — his recurring “What’s My Snack” videos on Instagram are almost always delightful — it’s impossible to ignore some problematic aspects of his life offscreen.
Oh, whatever could you mean?
For instance, animals: In 2011, Pratt apparently tried to give his family’s aging cat away via Twitter, though he later gave an explanation (future children) and said the cat eventually found a good home. (Five years later, there was also a bizarre tabloid story about Pratt and then-wife Anna Faris’ attempt to rehome the family’s dog.)
Adding fuel to this particular fire is the fact that Pratt, an avid hunter who has often spoken about his love of hunting, currently raises lambs on his farm. The enthusiastic tone he took when speaking about “eating fresh farm-to-table lamb” in an Instagram video earlier this year — “They are the happiest lambs on the planet, they are so sweet and then one day they wake up dead and they’re in my freezer” — sparked backlash from a number of fans, and not just those who are vegetarians or vegans. The next day, Pratt posted a photo of several pieces of fresh lamb meat and even compared said lamb’s death to something as easy or trivial as “unplugging a TV.”
Beyond animals: In May 2015, perhaps in response to a controversy that sprung up in the wake of his Marvel cohorts Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans making an inappropriate joke about Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow character during an interview, Pratt mocked outrage culture in a Facebook post, pre-apologizing for something he’d probably eventually do.
Oh, I see. He’s just a guy, but he doesn’t toe your ideological line.
So how do you navigate liking Chris Pratt as an actor and (usually) finding him charming on Instagram when you also know he’s kind of problematic offscreen? Well, honestly, it doesn’t have to be one or the other. Although he’s frustrating and doesn’t appear to have a filter or even think before he speaks, his candidness is also a large part of his charm. His uninhibited, spontaneous nature is what makes his Instagram such an addictive follow, and it’s also what gave us one of the greatest Parks and Rec lines, which Pratt notoriously improvised.
Taking issue with some of Pratt’s real-life remarks doesn’t mean that you can’t still find him funny as Andy Dwyer or Star-Lord. Those two things can absolutely exist in the same space. It’s actually one of the fundamental rules of understanding celebrity. And once you know that, you’re not only wiser, but you simply continue to apply that knowledge moving forward.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Here’s my line – Is somebody who is being paid to provide entertainment trying to tell me how to live my life? If no, then I don’t care how they live their life. If yes, they can fuck right off and die.
From the evidence thus presented, said entertainer is not trying to dictate how others should live – unlike many of his peers.
I don’t get the lambs thing. Those aren’t pets.
Whatever, Clarice.
See, I never cared about him, but now I kinda like him.
Huh. All this article accomplished with me is making me like the guy more.
What fucking mistake? So no one can say anything, ever, which might possibly be taken out of context as being offensive to some group or another? OK, got it.
Also, Chris; never apologize.
FFS
I know these types use that social media shit for publicity but at some point they have to realize it’s not worth it.
U.S. stocks have fallen sharply in recent weeks on concerns over slowing economic growth, with the S&P 500 index .SPX on pace for its biggest percentage decline in December since the Great Depression.
Yeah, okay. Now tell us what your bat skulls and chicken entrails say about the super bowl.
The “market” is not the economy. It’s a lot of inbred retard “wizards” who think of themselves as geniuses when are really just susceptible to that crazy birdflock behavior where one bird turns left and the other 9,999 instantly do the same.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. And it will.
Dem Senators Target Trump Judicial Nominee For Membership In Catholic Charitable Organization
A Nebraska lawyer who was nominated by President Trump for the United States District Court was targeted by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) because he is a member of a prominent Catholic charitable organization.
Attorney Brian C. Buescher, from Omaha, is a member in the Knights of Columbus, which bases its values on Catholic teaching. In questions submitted to the candidate by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hirono stated, “You reported that you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus since 1993. The Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions. For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage. If confirmed, do you intend to end your membership with this organization to avoid any appearance of bias?”
Buescher answered:
The Knights of Columbus is a Roman Catholic service organization with approximately two million members world-wide. I have not drafted any policies or positions for the national organization. If confirmed, I will abide by the Code of Conduct of United States Judges and will not affiliate with any organization in violation of the Code.
Reverse cowgirl? ///Jk If only they had reasonable, commonsense positions like complete banning of private firearms ownership or taxpayer funding of abortions through the third trimester.
KofC is the Rotary Club or Lions of the Catholic Church. Hirono is an insane nutjob.
There are plenty of Democrat KC members out there. They should be outraged. Can you imagine the outcry for right and left if a US Senator had told someone they needed to end their membership in the KC’s 20 years ago? Even 10? The far left have gone full-on crazy. The moderate left need to start disavowing and disowning them.
“The moderate left need to start disavowing and disowning them.”
Much like with blacks like Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain, moderate lefties who question the direction of the party get the worst of it in terms of social pressure to conform.
is there an actual moderate left, well, left? Besides in the Republican party?
But they won’t dare say so out loud.
Leftist politics and the Democrat party have supplanted religion among Reform Jews. I wouldn’t be surprised if similar things happened with Catholics.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) are assholes.
Incorrect. Sen Harris is a socialist and acting like one. On the other hand the freshly reelected Sen Hirono is a non-sentient life form.
E-minus 5 hours and counting until I tap into the eggnog I made Thanksgiving weekend. Can’t wait!
When are the KC going to be designated a far right hate group by the SPLC? That’s the real question.
Being against same-sex marriage wasn’t exactly an “extreme” position back in 2008. I mean, Prop 8 passed (in California!), and the guy who won the presidential election was claiming to be against ssm, so that position seems pretty mainstream to me.
It says here you were a men’s of CPUSA, will you disavow them Mrs Cortez?
Pratt mocked outrage culture in a Facebook post
I don’t even know who that is, but he seems pretty okay to me.
Actor. Started on Parks and Rec and got huge. Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic Park. He does come off as a pretty down to earth guy, as much as one can be in Hollywood. Of course, that means he must be destroyed, or at least shamed back into paying lip service to Proggy causes.
Also-
After watching that game last night, I’d say the ol’ Seachickens are looking strong. I watched a game early in the season, and I thought they were doomed. It’s better to finish strong than to start strong and fade away.
They are strong at home, but they lost on the road to SF last week.
Shrimp and grits, bitches – bye!
Now that’s how you Christmas
Stuffed
Can’t walk
Send MOAR whiskey
Renewed my license to carry this morning. Took less than 15 minutes in and out. Very friendly staff and the exchange ended with a “Merry Christmas”. To be sure, asking for permission isn’t libertarian, but at least PA makes it pleasant and cheap ($20).
Merry Christmas!
Wife is talking about rejoining the gun club and going shooting on a regular basis. Merry Xmas to me! (And to all you glibastards!)
Guardians of the Galaxy
I have actually seen that. I liked it.
I also recently re-watched Kick-Ass. That’s a damn fine piece of cinema.
The apology, which he also gave in American Sign Language, was earnest and extensive, and it appeared as if Pratt sincerely learned from his mistakes for once.
Was he wearing a dunce cap and a hair shirt? Was there a sign around his neck?
NOT SUFFICIENT.
One of the first things I remember reading in the comments at TOS:
Person 1: Why do you hate deaf children?
Person 2: Because they don’t listen!
That’s when I decided I had found a place I could hang out.
I went to the White House the other day and there were at least 14 ppl in Mick Mulvaney masks.
I don’t care what anybody says. That was funny.
Alright I’m off to go put my brand new RTX 2080 TI in my new computer *drools*. Thanks to everyone who makes this site possible. Truly an oasis of REASON in a desert of insanity. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever the fuck you celebrate and joyful fuck off slaver to all.
Lucky bastard. *contemplates 970 on the tree of woe*
COMMODIOUS!
I’m not in ABQ 🙁 . Sorry. I’m thinking of coming home in Feb though. I will be sure to let you know when I do.
Pity poor deadhead. The guy’s stuck trying to arrange an outing with me.
I swear to fucking Christ that if you’re using that for mining as opposed to gaming, I will hunt you down and gut you like a fish in front of your entire family.
Lingerie-laden ladies begging to be unwrapped early!
http://archive.is/XCSWr
1 and done. Damn.
#98
I’m not saying it’s Rooshunz, but…
Some commentators drew a parallel between Mnuchin’s calls and the calls made by then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson right before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Others lambasted the Treasury Secretary for inducing panic: “it’s like standing up in a crowded theater and yelling “everyone remain calm, the fire department is on the way,” an anonymous trader wrote on Twitter.
Donald Trump has a serious problem on his hands and no easy solutions are available. He thinks (and rightly so!) that the Federal Reserve is ruining the economy and that its policies of raising interest rates is the reason why the stock market is falling. However, he can’t just fire Jerome Powell and appoint a new President of the Federal Reserve because it is unclear whether the US President has this legal power (the experts are divided on the issue) and because such a radical move would likely destabilize the markets and make matters worse.
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There is no way a massive economic crisis can be averted. It can only be delayed and that is what Trump is fighting for. He knows that the US economy is (in his own words) a “fake economy” but he obviously is unwilling to shoulder the blame for a market crash. Trump’s predicament fits the description of a systemic crisis made unavoidable by the insane monetary policies of the previous administrations and presidents who systemically chose to kick the can down the road and used an exceptionally lax monetary policy in order to create the illusion of an everlasting economic boom.
Maybe we can get Greenspan back.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/22/worst-fake-news-stories-cnn-nbc-2018/
That’s just a partial list of fake stories. It doesn’t include all the emotional hysterics and insane opinions. For example, how this past week all these people on CNN and MSNBC-13 we’re going on about how they were scared for the country.
Great googly moogly
Dyno testing Bugatti’s 3D printed titanium brake caliper. Stand back.
I bet the pads weigh more than the caliper.
Magnificent.
I shudder, however, to think of what one of those beasties would set you back.
Well, if you can afford a Bugatti, not enough to be concerned about.
That’s one hot rotor.
I really despise this slow-motion-makes-things-more-dramatic filming technique.
I bought a water pump for a 2001 Audi S4 a few years ago, I was thrilled when it came out of the Audi box with the Bugatti logo stamped into it. VW owns them all, so not shocking, but still.
I had a new 2000 S4. I used the hell out of the warranty. Fun car, but it had major issues.
Yeah, I kept mine around, the lie I tell to justify it is – to remind me of how unreliable Audis are. It’s a blast to drive…when it’s running.
Audis are like boats. Your two best days with them are they day you buy them, and the day you manage to pawn them off on some other sucker.
“My Favorite Story About the History of the Vibrator Isn’t True
About a decade ago, I came across a book entitled The Technology of Orgasm by Rachel Maines. It quickly became one of my favorites on the history of sex because it presented a fascinating and scandalous story behind how the vibrator came to be such a popular device—a story that appeared to be grounded in rigorous academic research. It turns out that there’s a major problem with this story, though: it’s not true.
In a nutshell, Maines argued in her book that vibrators were once used as therapeutic devices by physicians on female patients who had been diagnosed with hysteria, a medical condition that has long since been debunked. She claimed that “pelvic massage” culminating in “hysterical paroxysm” (or, as you and I know it, orgasm) was a “staple of medical practice” in the Victorian era. She further argued that doctors started using vibrators to perform this task because it was a more efficient way of stimulating women than doing it by hand—in other words, vibrators allowed physicians to cut down on the length of office visits and to see more patients each day.
Maines suggested that doctors didn’t view this practice as sexual in nature because no vaginal penetration was involved—they supposedly only used vibrators for clitoral stimulation. It was only by viewing the act as non-sexual that it came to be a standard of medical care, as the reasoning goes.
However, in a new paper published in the Journal of Positive Sexuality, Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg performed an extensive review of the sources Maines cited for her book and came to a drastically different conclusion, which is as follows: “We found no evidence in these sources that physicians ever used electromechanical vibrators to induce orgasms in female patients as a medical treatment.””
https://twitter.com/RealYeyoZa/status/1076859577742839810
https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2018/9/17/my-favorite-story-about-the-history-of-the-vibrator-isnt-true
“The most bizarre aspect of Rachel @Maddow’s deep anger over troop withdrawal from Syria is that she wrote an entire book in 2012 denouncing illegal US Endless War without congressional approval – exactly what Syria is. I interviewed her about it here: ”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1076100614202028033
“Orange man bad”
“I don’t actually want change, I want to be righteous in condemnation of the way things are!”
“Gun deaths in America have reached a record high. Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns last year, marking the highest number of gun deaths in decades, according to a new analysis of data from the CDC”
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1076723093412986881
Because guns are a disease?
“Roughly 75% of those are suicides and, out of the remaining 25%, appx. 55-65% are drug/gang related.”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1076727092841189377
What’s the per-capita rate?
What’s the rate if we excise the worst municipalities from the set?
What’s the rate if instead we excise the regions with the strictest gun control?
Not to mention that overall population plays a factor. With that in mind I’m pretty sure the gun related homicide rate is still lower than it was in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
Quiet, you.
Don’t you know, silly? Everything a majority of physicians don’t like is a ‘public health crisis’.
CNN’s entire Tweet is disingenuous as fuck.
And, of course, they won’t cite the CDC who, for reasons unknown, did a study that estimated that the LOW end of defensive use of firearms is 100 times the murder rate with firearms.
Stats are a dead end I never discuss. My rights have zero to do with rates exhibited anywhere regarding anything.
Meeting the parties and the media on the stats battlefield is the same sort of mistake as weighing feeling in policy decisions or discussing the world in terms other than property rights and economics. To go down these roads is the same as asking a hillbilly how his alien sex encounters have affected his love life: it’s irrelevant; it’s not real; it doesn’t work that way.
Stats are what you discuss when you don’t have principles (or you don’t have the thought behind your principles required to defend them). Utilitarianism is a convoluted appeal to emotion.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1076680517758668800
Progressives are so butt hurt that they are the War Party now (as if allying with neocons would not have led to that).
Good on Ro Khanna and Tulsi Gabbard for voicing support for Trump’s troop withdrawal.
Argh!
I’ll have to see you guys on the flip side. I thought I had another bottle of Jameson in the liquor cabinet, but as I was setting up the bar for the people coming over, I just realized I am holding the last two fingers of Irish whiskey in my house.
No idea what could possibly have happened to that other bottle. Will have to sit my wife down and explain that I don’t mind her sharing my booze but she needs to stock up when she does.
Off to resupply before the rest of the mob shows up. Hope everyone has a great Christmas Eve and Christmas.
Sure it wasn’t the kids?
My little sister used to drink my vodka and then refill back with water. My parents don’t drink so I always kept a couple bottles at their house after I moved out for when I visited. After realizing what was going on, I had to explain that I didn’t care if she drank the liquor, but I did care if she ruined the rest of the bottle by watering it down.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Jimbo. And godspeed on the liquor run.
Christmas here is just me and Dad, and he only drinks wine.
I’ve got enough vodka to spike my eggnog.
“Did Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth get married? Instagram pictures show the singer in a white dress cutting a tiered cake with her suited actor beau, while ‘Mr and Mrs’ balloons can be seen in the background”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6527091/Miley-Cyrus-Liam-Hemsworth-quietly-wed-low-key-ceremony.html
Who cares?
?
It would be her first marriage.
It is hard for me to think of anything I give less shits about.
“Armageddon Harassed”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5aP2s-Y-eI
Made and decorated an almond cake with ermine frosting. Now working on making caramel rolls.
Do you just puree the ermine?
Good you didn’t weasel out on the frosting.
I knew they used beaver gland extract as a flavoring, but didn’t know weasels were also used.
Laugh all you want. I may never make regular butter cream again
Too much work for me. I add equal part almond flavoring to vanilla in my buttercream.
Did you skin it first? Are these home raised ermine, or did you buy them at the weasel store? Raw, cooked?
You can’t just throw comments like that out without the details.
Care-a-mel, or carr-a-mel?
The Mormons are at it again, threatening Christmas attacks and even Santa himself. Just kidding: ISIS Threat Depicts Vehicular Attack on Santa
I mean, Santa DID run over Grandma, but I think that was an accident.
Continuing a spree of threats in the run-up to Christmas and New Year’s Eve, an ISIS-allied media group depicted a vehicular attack on Santa.
The image circulated by al-Taqwa Media Foundation shows a red bus with the words “Islamic State” emblazoned beneath the front window and an ISIS flag plastered on the side.
It’s chasing Santa down a street. “The Christian holidays are approaching… and the lone lions are lying in wait,” reads the text on the image.
A week ago, the media group depicted a jihadist shooting Santa to death outside the Fenwick & Fenwick antique store in the Cotswolds village of Broadway, England. “O pigs of the cross, the day is near when your carnage will be gifts for your children,” the image said.
Al-Taqwa quickly seized on the Strasbourg, France, Christmas market attack to warn of more holiday assaults. Days after the Dec. 11 attack, al-Taqwa issued a stylized image of a suit-and-tie-clad gunmen firing a handgun in each hand, a black beanie on his head and a black mask over his nose and mouth marked with the ISIS flag. Lights on a building behind him spelled out “Magic Season.”
The poster included the hashtags in English and Arabic for “Soon in your holidays.”
“The era of surprises has begun,” read the text.
///ReligionofPeace
Are they turning into a comedy act or something?
In the oven: a ham
In the steamer: carrots
In other steamer: potatoes to be mashed
On the stovetop: butternut squash simmering in butter and a pan containing cranberries and all the various apples I’ve accumulated
In the glass: cider by Lake George Cider Project
Timer set.
Can i come to your place? I can bring cake.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvKd4Q3W0AEbtS7.jpg
LOL
Ha!
This is retarded:
“Prostitution is not work: The crib sheet”
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/12/17/prostitution-not-work-crib-sheet/
Profoundly so
Thanks for the bit of stereo advice a few weeks back CP.
Years ago I casually dated a girl who really wanted to be a prostitute. It wasn’t like she had no other options in life, she was college educated and pretty smart, she just liked the idea of having sex for money. We had some fun times, once when I was living in Amsterdam she brought me over for an evening at The Happy Hookers house. We eventually parted ways partially due to her freakiness. For example, she wanted to have sex in front of people paying to watch, which wasn’t really my bag. Years later I’m watching Penn and Teller’s Bullshit show and who is one of the prostitutes interviewed for that epidsode but my old fling. She got her dream job.
https://youtu.be/dIfyuSgzfq4
Há! I don’t know if she ever told her parents, but from what she to,d me she had a good relationship with them and a happy childhood.
That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo.
It’s like the idiot has never heard of day laborers. You literally drive up, wave some cash at a complete stranger, and they do some manual labor for a few hours.
I’m sure she would classify it as “exploitation” as well.
Unless they’re white. Then it’s “privilege”.
Oh yeah, I forgot. Exploitation is voluntarily engaging in commerce that is icky to the pampered commies. Compassion is forcing people onto welfare by regulating the alternatives out of existence.
Yes
Exploitation is paying people in Idaho to pick potatoes.
Socialism (compassion) is most of Ukraine’s season rotting in the ground because no one wrote a plan to enact enough proles to pick them.
Compassion doesn’t feed anyone; markets do.
Mmm, caaaaaaaaake.
I’m digging JDM Legends. They’re working on a classic – a 240Z restoration. Awesome.
Did you skin it first?
Of course.
“Carefully remove skin from ermine. Set aside for garnish.”
Merry 3 days after midwinter glibs.
I can say Pie’s first sous vide rib roast went quite well. 5 pounds of it, 3 bones frenched 5 hours at 60 sous vide, herb crust and 10 minutes at 250 in the oven. Not bad. I would show a picture but I have not yet mastered the art of picture sharing over the internets
I will try using this very site
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181224_171817.jpg
No idea if this works
Works for me. What time do we eat?
Nice plates. I like the simplicity of the design.
Whoa, that’s gorgeous.
Is that grass fed beef? The fat has a yellow hue.
It’s actually beeswax…
I did not explicitly ask the butcher but it usuallt is grass fed. Tasted like
Got it from a halal butcher because the lines were huge at my regular and as halal don’t have pork romanians don’t que to it come Christms
I was entertained in Ireland, where most of the places were bragging about corn-fed beef.
Looks delicious.
*stands and salutes*
Had some Negru de Purcari with it. Quite nice
Thanks E from E! Watched the Star Wars special for the first time.
https://youtu.be/S8MrPe6i5YU
That is… in a league if its own. Bonus are the commercials. I don’t remember any specifically, but I remember the style, particularly how the product would be displayed & lit at the end. Takes me back.
Two and a half pounds of lovely dark red pork country style ribs just went into the crock pot with some beer and fajita seasoning, other chili fixins to follow in no particular order.
Doooooom
A former United States Department of the Interior official warned on Friday that keeping U.S. national parks open during the partial government shutdown can be dangerous.
Tim Fullerton, who served as director of digital strategy for the Interior Department from 2010 to 2015, saw firsthand the effects of the 2013 government shutdown over President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
“As someone who worked @interior during the shutdown in [2013], let me tell you how dangerous this is,” Fullerton tweeted on Friday.
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In addition to possible dangers for police and visitors, Fullerton also cited the potential for major damage to the parks themselves.
“[Keeping parks open] also puts our parks at risk. No one to protect against damaging sensitive habitats, landscapes or historic sites. And trash will be a serious problem that will damage our public lands,” Fullerton wrote.
So I’m supposed to care what the guy who ran the fucking twatter account says about the “danger to precious habitats”?
Whatever.
Why the fuck was the director of dígito al strategy working during the last shutdown? Doesn’t sound essential to me. WTF does the DOI even have a director of digital strategy? Or any strategy?
The real danger he’s worried about is people waking up to the fact that they don’t need a huge parks bureaucracy for public lands. Or that we don’t need so much public lands either.
I am in favor of legislation requiring that all public lands not currently containing an active military base, the halls of congress, the white house or the supreme court must be sold off at public auction, with all proceeds being used to buy down the national debt. Upon completion of this task, any agency previously tasked with managing these lands is to be dissolved, with no transfers to other agencies permitted.
Why, people could skin their knees on rocks without anyone nearby to file a request for budget increases to post warning signs!
The shutdown affects roughly one quarter of the Federal Government, leaving 800,000 federal employees without pay.
If
only.
Not enough.
Nobody needs 800,000 federal employees.
MmmmmDISAGREED!!
Please ignore the Ms
So soon after she was in a car accident? You’re heartless, Trashy.
Not heartless. My heart is merely two sizes too small.
My resident liberal at work was whining about how awful it was for fed employees to out of work without a paycheck this holiday season. Yeah, real awful to get back pay for not working. Aka extra paid vacation and at a choice time of year.
They get paid on Friday. The shutdown will apply to the first check in January. So they have money through the holidays. Not that your liberal coworker cares about facts.
Apparently, the DNC’s plantation “economists” have gotten their new talking points
The reality has been that privatization too often only boosts corporate bottom lines.
For example, consider Trump’s proposal for infrastructure. It depends on private developers, who would make money off of both tax subsidies and private tolls. So the public would get charged twice, without any guarantee that the resulting roads, bridges, or rapid transportation systems would be where they’re most needed.
It’s true that private for-profit corporations can do certain tasks very efficiently. And some privatization has worked. But the goal of corporations is to maximize profits for shareholders, not to serve the public interest.
“I’m not saying we should nationalize *everything*, mind you…”
Krugabe puked up a “mixed economy good, dog-eat-dog kkkapitalism bad” column the other day.
Sounds just like any public infrastructure program to me.
+1 Montana Amtrak
Good grief, the little homunculus is utterly without shame:
4. Don’t privatize when those who are getting the service have no way to know they’re receiving poor quality.
The marketers of for-profit colleges, for example, have every incentive to exploit young people and their parents because the value of the degrees they’re offering can’t easily be known. Which is why non-profit colleges and universities have proven far more trustworthy.
There must be two or three baristas smart enough to get a good chuckle out of that.
No way to know if they are receiving poor quality. There is just no way to know. The value of the degrees they are offering cant easily be known. Unlike $500,000 masters degrees in cripple tranny people of color studies.
TBF: there are some for-profit colleges that are borderline shady.
SLD: regular colleges aren’t above reproach
College
Hah!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/23/opinion/trump-mattis-syria-afghanistan.html
Susan Rice has a blood lust and the only cure is more war.
FTA:
“But a second factor — Mr. Trump himself — has dealt the death blow to effective policymaking. The president couldn’t care less about facts, intelligence, military analysis or the national interest. He refuses to take seriously the views of his advisers, announces decisions on impulse and disregards the consequences of his actions. In abandoning the role of a responsible commander in chief, Mr. Trump today does more to undermine American national security than any foreign adversary. Yet no Republican in Congress is willing to do more than bleat or tweet concerns.”
Maybe only a crazy man, such as the president, is capable of ending these wars, because any sane politician would realize the severe backlash they would receive from the foreign policy establishment for questioning their wisdom? Either way, the architect of the War in Yemen and the War in Syria doesn’t have much room to criticize here.
Say what you will of the president, but ending our commitment in Syria took real bravery. Consider how much praise he received from the corporate press and in Congress when he bombed Syria. The easier choice for him here would have been to launch another bombing campaign against Assad for some good press. He did the opposite- either because he’s too stupid to realize all the negative reaction the action would receive or because he genuinely disagrees with these conflicts.
Regardless of what motivated the action, it was the right action.
It’s a good start. Now lets have a look at the other 8 or 9 Goatfuckistans we are pouring lives and money into for no conceivable reason. They are literally deserts with no paved roads and a smattering of savages living in single story mud huts. There is nothing to be gained there. Nothing. There will be no democracy, there will be no wealth creation. Americans are losing their lives and limbs so that contractors can fleece the American taxpayer. When we leave there it will be no different than it was 20 years ago, 100 years ago, 1000 years ago. Our involvement in Afghanistan is the greatest squandering of wealth in history.
Susan “we have to intervene in Syria” Rice?
Yeah, she should shut up and go away.
“The president couldn’t care less about facts, intelligence, military analysis or the national interest.”
Well, that’s true. Oh wait, you are talking about Trump, not Obama and Benghazi. Never mind.
For the first time in years, I’m not the one cooking the Christmas Day feast.
But…. I saw rib roasts on sale and couldn’t help myself.
You’re making Cindy Lou Who cook it?
I’m making a 7 bone roast all to myself on a day other than Christmas.
I’m going to roast a nice big fat chicken, served with chopped cabbage/kale slaw. Rice, fried in the rendered chicken pan drippings, with green onion and a runny egg served on top. Vodka cranberry with Perrier. Researching some keto/paleo cookies to bake today.
I have to get back into chicken at some point.
I used to roast 1 or 2 a week, but nothing for the last few months.
A properly brined and roasted chicken is one of my favorite meals.
Roast chicken with homemade noodles and gravy may be the pinnacle of the home cook’s art.
And egg nog. Heavy cream, coconut cream, eggs, spices, Jim Beam. Merry Christmas!!
Just came in from shoveling the first real snow of the season Only about 1.5″ but that means the mountains will have gotten a lot more and there goes my plan of spending the week exploring the trails on my mountain bike Christmas present.
What do i install on my android so i can filter Glibs for new comments like i do on my laptop?
I have it on my phone. Firefox for Android, then install as per PC. https://glibertarians.com/2017/02/monocle/
I’m goofed trying to figure out / reset password. Will worry about it some other day.
My gf is making a garlic herb NY strip roast. It smells yummy and I’m getting hungry.
Noice!
Watching about Apollo 8 on CSPAN. I remember the mission from my youth. If you told me in 1968 that 50 years later we would not have low Earth orbit since 1972 and in 2018 the US would be unable to launch men into space I would have called you crazy. On the plus side on Jan 1st the New Horizons will fly past the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule. This encounter will be with an KBO body that had not been discovered when NH launched.
Lunch will be left over BBQ buffalo ribs. Dinner will be grilled salmon in white wine and homemade pesto, salad from the garden, sauvignon blanc with homemade limoncello.
Tomorrow I break open the aged nog with some friends.
Happy Glib day to all and to all a fine drink of your choice!