Yesterday, I descended from my office to find a very large puddle of water in my living room. I have a split level, so the living room windows are about six inches above ground, but the source was pretty surely one of the windows. I had a previous incident where I found water under a towel I had put down for my mother-in-law’s dog while it was raining sideways a couple weeks ago. I blamed the dog. I went out and bought some sealer and sealed the edges of the windows inside and out. So far, so good. It is raining sideways today, but the living room is dry. Also, the youngest is home sick because his school decided to take his temperature yesterday despite no apparent sign of illness. School rule is that if the temp is over 100.5F, you have to stay out the next day, too. Although they didn’t actually send him home yesterday, so I can only ponder when they took his temperature and why. Anyhow, taking a three year old to Home Depot turned into a lot of fun. He was fascinated by the Halloween decorations displays. I explained to him that Halloween was fun, because people like the feeling of being scared when they know they are actually safe. He said, “I not scawed.” But he was holding my hand pretty darn tight. We also had a fun discussion about whether the fog-breathing dragon liked tacos or not (reference here for those of you who don’t have a kid under 10). Its a pretty good life when you can blow off a morning at work because your kid is sick. Now I got to get out some links and squeeze 3 hours of productivity into 3 hours instead of my normal 8.
I hope no Glibs are thinking for running for office, because if this facebook group is racist, lord only knows what they’ll say about us.
The group’s members have shared racist, misogynist, and offensive posts, including posts slamming Parkland shooting survivors and disparaging Black Lives Matter activists, comparingboth toHitler. Members have made statements against NFL players who kneel during the anthem in protest of police brutality, calling them “overpaid ball chasers” who “kneel like ISIS.” Users have also posted bigoted statements against Muslims, referring to Islam as a religion of “pedophilia, sex slavery, rape gangs, and honor killings.”
In other words, a day that ends in “y” around here. (I don’t think y’all are racist or misogynist, but many comments would be interpreted as such)
Dear Floridaman, do not bring a mobile phone to a gun fight. Crazy ass stalker acts crazy and gets shot. All the other rookie cops are gonna be jealous that this guy got his first “good shoot” before he even swore in.
I think Robert Heinlein covered an emergency procedure for just this sort of space incident. The real astronauts will probably not be so cheeky.
Mr. Lizard, one of your people forgot to put on his skinsuit before going out in the backyard yesterday.
And since I’ve been so Florida-heavy, I’ll tie it all up with one from Florida’s original Lizard King.
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467 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Dry Links”
I do like that the sheriff called him a ‘goofball’.
Now hit my mother-f’in Theme Music !
He was a complete stalker. Goofball is a compliment.
Linking to Think Progress? That’s a paddlin’.
Unlike y’all here, DeSantis is a racist asshole, Facebook comments feeding nothing into that decision.
Have I mentioned that our choices are so bad I’d rather them be Crist vs Scott again? Yes. Well then I’m saying it again.
Well, just look at all the brain trust we have up here (thankfully, Kasich is out due to term limits) to pick in November:
Ohio Attorney General and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine, civil rights attorney and former Green Party co-chair Constance Gadell-Newton, filmmaker and journalist Travis Irvine, and former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director and Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray will face off in the general election.
Andrew Cuomo or Cynthia Nixon.
I rest my case.
I thought you had Larry Sharpe.
Oh, we’re including people who don’t have a shot? 🙂
I suppose there’s a Republican in the race, too.
I’ve seen Larry Sharpe run the numbers. He could actually get elected if everyone who usually doesn’t bother voting voted for him.
But, that is highly unlikely.
Stop bringing me down, dude.
I know nothing about DeSantis. Why is he a racist?
He’s White, duh!
Anyone running for any elected office as a Republican should simply assume they will be tarred as racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, and xenophobic, and Islamophobic. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you’ve done, or even if your a black gay Muslim – you will still be called every single one of the aforementioned slurs.
It’s a shame, because I’m sure there actually are some people running for office under the Team Red that are bigoted towards some group. Everyone has biases after all. However, the way Team Blue launches into the exact same diatribe against literally almost every Team Red candidate regardless of their background has destroyed the meaning of all those terms.
Worse is that the Team Blue footsoldiers really do believe every single Team Red officer is 100% bigoted against all the groups, so these charges continue to be leveled without them realizing they’ve destroyed their legitimacy and making them look like the biggest bigots humanity has ever produced to anyone with half a brain since they focus so zealously on those qualities without ever debating the issues, except to say how evil capitalism is (but even that comes back to it being because America is just so damn racist).
A good example of what you are talking about. The woman running for a Minnesoda Senate seat for the GOP used to write a humor column and she made crass jokes!
Milk toast lame jokes are shown to be monstrous actions. How dare she make fun of John McCain!
He said a black dude is articulate and said monkey.
For those who missed it, within 18 hours of the primary closing the race-baiters had collected proof of DeSantis being a racist in the mold of hitler… Twice!
First, he said the economy is running well and we shouldn’t monkey with it. That is obviously racist and calling his opponent a monkey.
Then, when asked about his opponent he said that he was ” an articulate spokesman for those far-left views. And he’s a charismatic candidate. I watched those Democrat debates. None of that was my cup of tea, but, I mean, he performed better than the other people there.”
Did you catch that? No?
He said he was articulate! That’s racist! (no, really….. they are super cereal about this)
This idiot at the Washington Post went full tard on the topic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/08/30/ron-desantiss-monkey-comment-was-just-the-start-of-his-racist-dog-whistling/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6a2d127a3957
He actually added that saying “he performed better than the other people” is racist.
No, I am not kidding. Here’s his take on why that is a racist dog whistle.
“The other ugly DeSantis utterance was “performed.” For certain people, the one thing — maybe the only thing — blacks excel at is performing, entertaining other people. Unless you’re in the same line of work as Beyonce or Jay-Z, the “compliment” is as dismissive as it is patronizing.”
LOLWTF
It sort of sounds like desperation to me. The democrat is a far left socialist touting higher taxes, single payer, $15 an hour and I guess all of the other far left stuff. I know almost nothing about DeSantis. Unless he really is Hitler, considering what I know about the other guy, I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. Of course I’d actually vet him if I lived in FL. Here in MD, we have a choice between a commie and a do nothing Republican. To be fair, there’s nothing a GOP governor can do here except veto stuff since the statehouse is overwhelmingly democrats. When I voted for Hogan, it was the only time since I’ve lived here that my vote ever counted. What has he done since then? Answer, he can’t even if he wanted to.
Maybe, but they are all in!
just search for desantis and articulate on google
https://www.google.com/search?q=desantis+articulate
Pages and pages of results.
Every news organization you can think of, print, web, video, radio… every one has an article calling him racist because he said his opponent was an articulate spokesman for the progressive position.
They are all in.
Google does not have a political agenda. And to prove it, CNN says do.
Another Soros group is digging in on the Facebook group angle.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/08/30/five-republican-candidates-are-administrators-racist-facebook-group-pushes-conspiracy-theories/221153
They’ve decided to go with the “conspiracy theorists” angle.
The spaghetti theory of political attack… just keep flinging stuff against the wall, hoping something sticks.
Reporter: So what’s your platform this election?
Democrats: They’re racist!
Reporter: What else?
Democrats: They’re Nazis!
Reporter: OK, that’s bad, but what about the economy?
Democrats: I just said they’re Nazis!
Also: I get to spend the long weekend at a work-related conference. Spending the weekend in a room talking with Tulpa and John seems like it would be a better use of my time, and less likely to drive me insane.
Ouch – what are you being punished for?
Seriously? What is so important they chose to do it over a 3 day weekend?
Yeah, that’s deeply f’ed up.
Are they compensating you for a federal holiday?
Someone is compensating me for a federal holiday on Monday, but it’s not the federal government. They only give away other people’s free money.
Monitor lizards are no joke. Fast, smart & aggressive. Keep your head on a swivel fellow Floridamen.
Are they better fried or baked ?
When preparing tropical game I like to eat like the locals.
https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/six-ways-to-cook-iguana-6392248
Yummy tree chicken!
I used to have one as a pet. I’ll give you the fast and aggressive part.
But how do they taste?
Better than nutrias.
I dunno, but man is that a freezer full of tree chicken or what? If it’s good, yummy, if it’s not, oh well at least it got off my lawn.
“According to Martin County Trappings & Removals, a six-foot Nile monitor or an Asian monitor is driving a Davie family nuts. So far, it’s not cooperating with the rescue group’s plans to capture the remnant of the late Mesozoic era.”
Why can’t they just shoot it?
Journalists are fucking idiots.
You can kill them, but it has to be humane. You can’t shoot a gun in city limits.
Oppression!
Even if you are the police or animal control?
There are private agencies that catch these animals so they usually don’t carry firearms. The police are bound by no laws that I’ve seen.
This reminds me of a story.
When I was stationed in CO I came across another Airman I was taking a class with. He looked like he was up all night. Turns out he was. He went out to a town on the other side of the mountains to hang out, but on his way back to Colorado Springs he ran into a cop that hit a deer.
The deer was still squirming. The guy was a hunter and had a rifle in the back of his truck and offered to put down the deer. The cop refused, saying he already called it in to the state’s wildlife department and he had to put it down, he was just deciding between his shotgun (with #4) or his 9mm. Naturally, he says he has a rifle in his truck, and will let the cop borrow it. The cop says nope, can’t do that either because he can’t account for the round if it’s not issued, or something.
So the cop finally decided on the 9mm, and it took several rounds to put down the deer. I guess after watching that, it kept him up all night.
Animal control in CA won’t kill an animal unless it is rabid or dangerous. We were trapping skunks that were living under our shed, and animal control wouldn’t take them unless they were dead, and that we couldn’t kill them. It was easier to drown them and dump the bodies ourselves.
So, what do we pay animal control to do exactly?
Get paid to do nothing for the state?
Like with any city employ them so they can retire early.
I’m in the wrong business, apparently.
They scrape up dead animals from the pavement and deal with lost dogs.
You can’t shoot a gun in city limits.
No 2A for you!
Interesting SYG case. Does the fear for your life have to be provided by a human to immunize you against charges?
I knew a guy in Ocala that shot at a raccoon he claimed was rabid. He was charged.
Huh. I’ll have to check my locality. Tallahasssee had a vermin exception that would definitely apply to rabid raccoons but maybe not big frickin lizards.
You can’t shoot a gun in city limits
Then were do all them city kids come from?
thicc?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6113911/Demi-Rose-opts-flapper-chic-fringed-mini-sheer-body-wows-fashion-shoot.html
Well put together. But not THICC.
What is your obsession?
Thicc.
I’m not sure if they’re being charitable or using this term because “powers-of-ten-size” lacks brevity. Either way, I’m sure those tattoos will look great if she ever does decide to shed some pounds.
I think this should be our next weekly poll, just so we can settle once and for all this burning question.
She’s just not starved to death and looks healthy. NOT thicc.
She looks more thicc in the bikini, the dress is downplaying her curves comparatively, or she lost weight.
^This^
Three cheers for Inclusion & Diversity!
Treating everyone the same and not worrying about outcomes makes you rabidly racist these days.
We are diverse, we insult everyone.
Equal Opportunity Offenders. I like it.
I just inspected an AC unit that was Shot, By a Gun, and yes, it Died
Bubba shot the A/C last night? It wouldn’t cool his ass down, made him cry?
Damn. Riding the yellow dog to school in Texas in 1992 for 40 minutes each way subjected to the pop country station really messed me up.
It was more Mexican Gang land than Bubba
*hands Brett a bag of chesnutts*
My sister’s 4Runner got shot last weekend. The drunk across the street was stumbling around firing a gun. My parents called the police and they arrested him. He was back home the next day. They charged him with “felony mischief”. I thought shooting into occupied property was a bigger crime than that.
Its a felony. If he gets convicted, he won’t ever legally possess a gun again. Was your sister in the car?
Wrong question.
Is she hot?
She is single. Send a copy of your bank account statement if you’re interested.
I’ll vouch for him. It’s well into the three digits, so she should be good to go.
He dodged the “is she hot” part…
No. It happened at night. They didn’t see her car was shot until the morning and had to call the police to report it. My parents where in the house.
Not necessarily, some states give you back your gun rights after a certain amount of time. You may have to petition a court ala Virginia, but its not necessarily permanent
The first shitty apartment my wife and I lived in had something similar happen.
We came home one day and there was a small hole in one wall of the living room. I thought the neighbors had drilled through the wall for a peep show. I was sort of flattered because it was a mother/daughter living next door. While I was up looking at it, I saw a similar hole on the other wall into the next apartment.
Turns out that the daughter’s boy friend had been over and an argument had escalated to “pull a gun out and shoot at the wall to make your point”. Luckily we weren’t home at the time, but holy shit.
I learned all this from the land lord when I went to show him the holes. The boy friend was locked up for some time and did get rung up. He also never came around the apartments anymore.
“The drunk across the street was stumbling around firing a gun”
There goes the neighborhood.
I’m done for the day. El Pollo Loco or Taco Bell?
Taco Bell!!!!!!
Combination Pizza Hut Taco Bell?
That has potential.
See if they’ll make you a pepperoni taco.
No. They are the worst of both worlds.
Those used to be together under the stock ticker YUM.
No KFC*/Taco Bells in your area?
*Popeyes > KFC
My inlaws’ small town briefly got a combination Taco Bell/ Long John Silver’s.
I tried eating Taco Bell there once and everything tasted like fish. It went out of business after a year or so.
Great. Now I’ll have that stuck in my head AGAIN.
For the uninitiated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04
I can’t believe that you’re the only one who got that.
DORITOS SHELL CHALUPA
http://gothamist.com/2018/08/21/los_pollos_hermanos_better_call_saul.php
Dammit!
Los Polos Hermanos!
Pollo loco has mojo & yucca.
Taco Bell. Also, swing by the local Sam’s and pick up a 24pack of double roll TP.
Don’t forget the Pepto.
I had a soccer game awhile back finish up at midnight (indoor game). For some reason I hit up taco bell afterwards…
At 4 am sitting on the toilet hunched over, I was basically sobbing, “I did this to me.”
I’ve eaten at Taco Bell probably a couple dozen times, at least, and never had any problem.
It’s not Chipotle.
Does the Loco have a Foster’s Freeze with it? If so, then Loco with a malt.
They got rid of the fosters around here. Bummer, because it was the best ice cream cones available.
I’m pretty sure you’re going to El Pollo Loco.
I did. 2 avocado burritos and a 3 piece. I’m having it for breakfast tomorrow too.
Jimboy’s
I miss El Pollo Loco.
They’re heavily franchised, so the quality is highly variable. I went to my local one at 10am and they have me a burnt chicken the size of a Cornish game hen. I have no idea how they managed to burn a chicken 5 minutes after they opened their doors, but they did.
I never go to that one anymore. The one in El Segundo is outstanding, and it opens at 9am.
Did you leave your wallet there?
If so, he’s gotta get it back, gotta get it back.
“they managed to burn a chicken 5 minutes after they opened”
Yeah. I am guessing that chicken is from yesterday. Or the day before.
I haven’t been to one since I left Phoenix 25 years ago.
But as far as finding fast food the kids would eat that actually tasted pretty good to adults, it was top of the heap.
It’s great fast food. Unfortunately, their business model isn’t great, and they’re barely profitable, if at all.
When I go to McDonald’s (very rarely) I get the Filet-o-Fish because I find it to be the least likely to taste bad.
A Big Mac, fries, and a coke tastes good. It’s just too many calories.
There is nothing that tastes good about a Big Mac. That special sauce is the most vile substance on earth.
Not sure if serious.
Can we at least agree that Nachos Bell Grande and Meximelts are good?
You sick little monkey!
“Mr. Lizard, one of your people forgot to put on his skinsuit before going out in the backyard yesterday.”
That is one big-ass monitor. Somebody needs to give him a chicken, quick. And check the neighborhood for missing cats.
No that’s just Frank, he’s probably drunk and more of a hazard to outside coolers
I don’t think y’all are racist or misogynist, but many comments would be interpreted as such
Meh, there’s at least three maybe four here, but defending the undefendable and all that.
I’m racist towards terrorists, gang-bangers, and illegal immigrants.
“Cheeky.” Heh.
Thanks for the Heinlein reference. I remember the story but forget the name. Also IIRC the story mentioned the engineers smoking on the space station.
I didn’t get the Heinlein reference.
In the stoy there’s an air leak and they have the fat guy plug it by putting his butt cheek up against the hole. I think that was the entire story. Very short and from the pre-Stranger period.
The Green Hills of Earth. Every story in there was great. Highly recommended.
The name of that story was, aptly enough, “Gentlemen, Be Seated”.
MA School District Offers New Way To Confront School Shooters
It’s as dumb as you think.
A school district in Massachusetts thinks it has found one solution to the problem of school shootings: equip every schoolroom with a 5-gallon blue bucket containing a wooden doorstop, a 1-pound hammer, a 50-foot length of rope and a roll of duct tape.
The Brockton, Massachusetts mayor’s office worked over the summer with the Lowe’s location at the Westgate Mall to assemble over 1,080 buckets this summer that will equip district classrooms this fall, according to Deputy Superintendent Mike Thomas. Thomas stated, “If something bad happens, you have to think quickly on your feet. Teachers can’t be running around the room looking for cords, or looking for something to smash a window. Now they know exactly where everything is.”
Mayor Bill Carpenter echoed, “It is without a doubt that these coordinated efforts will assist in the efforts to strengthen existing safety initiatives and ensure Brockton Public Schools continues to be a safe learning environment.”
They forgot the WD-40.
a wooden doorstop, a 1-pound hammer, a 50-foot length of rope and a roll of duct tape.
Duct tape the hammer to the rope and you’ve got a reusable ranged weapon.
I know something else that is small, can be attached to a belt or waistband easily and will stop someone with a small finger motion.
“Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?”
Prediction for length of time before items go missing or are used offensively against classmates?1
If they hired MacGuyver as a school teacher, it might just work.
I like Lowe’s. I’m glad they profited from their stupidity.
I could see someone getting arrested for having rope, duct tape, and a hammer in their car.
Well, at least one of those items is usable as a melee weapon, so its not completely useless in a school shooting.
And, yes, hammers can be devastating weapons.
A few days ago you suggested an article on Rome.
Now that I’ve heard this podcast, I couldn’t do it without plagiarizing it.
I guy could have a pretty good time in Vegas with that.
The MacGyver of crackheads.
https://abc13.com/man-admits-cutting-girlfriends-brake-line-to-make-crack-pipe/4097597/
BITCH SET HIM UP!
referring to Islam as a religion of “pedophilia, sex slavery, rape gangs, and honor killings.
It’s not?
Well sure, but it’s totally racist to notice.
It’s the Religion of Peace you bigot.
Know what we need? A Facebook page that does nothing but tell stereotypical jokes.
So just a bunch of “knock knock”, “Guy walks into a bar” and “why’d the chicken cross the road” jokes?
Q: What’s the difference between a (insert group/minority here) and a bucket of shit?
A: The bucket!
Small Air Leak Detected on International Space Station
Easy fix. Are there any dutch astronauts?
Not at this time. All the females in the current crew are heterosexual so they thought they could leave the Dutch support crew behind.
IMPEACH! COLLUSION!
I wonder if any of them started to sing Toots and the Maytals?
I hate You! and You! and You over there yea You, I hate You as well!!!!
*sobs*
You get a hate! YOU get a hate! Everyone gets a hate!
/Oprah
“PETA hopes to build memorial where lobsters died in Maine crash
BRUNSWICK, Maine (WGME) – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to build a 5-foot tombstone where lobsters may have died after a crash on Route 1 in Brunswick, Maine, last week.
According to the Brunswick Police Department several of the crustaceans that a Cozy Harbor Seafood truck was carrying got crushed as a result of the rollover.
“Countless sensitive crustaceans experienced an agonizing death when this truck rolled over and their bodies came crashing down onto the highway,” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said.”
https://wgme.com/news/local/peta-hopes-to-build-memorial-where-lobsters-died-in-brunswick-crash
I just have a really hard time believing PETA isn’t the all-time king of trolls.
They are definitely the king of putting puppies in a sack and hitting them with a hammer. I know that.
This guy trolled PETA for years with this page at peta.org.
PeTA is a fundraising organization, the primary purpose of which is to pay for lavish parties so Ingrid Newkirk can hang out with a few brainless Hollywood celebs and occasionally get her name in the papers.
Do lobsters have a nervous system that’s capable of feeling agony or do they just respond unthinkingly to positive and negative stimuli?
That’s more of a philosophical question. Even far simpler organisms avoid pain.
Whatever the answer, I wish I had a couple of those poor deceased crustaceons right now along with some butter and lemon.
There is at least one researcher attempting to tackle that difference.
The CBC podcast Quirks and Quarks covers science – with a decidedly left bent. They covered the “do they feel pain” angle in response to new regulations banning cooking lobsters by boiling them alive.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/do-lobsters-feel-pain-fighting-cocaine-addiction-monkey-fight-club-for-peace-and-more-1.4489613/do-lobsters-feel-pain-when-we-boil-them-alive-1.4489616
The researcher determined that they do indeed feel pain…. at least as far as can be measured. He designed this experiment to see if it was “reflex or pain response”: he put a little acid solution on their antenna. This noxious substance caused them to repeatedly groom that one antenna, presumably in an attempt to remove the noxious substance.
So since this is a complex behavior instead of simply withdrawing from a stimulus, it must be a pain response.
Now, the obvious flaw in this argument is the mental awareness that is required for “pain”, as opposed to “response to stimulus”. They have very small nerve ganglia – it would be difficult to argue that they have much of a concept of self or anything like what a mammal would experience.
Still, it was at least a decent attempt at parsing out the difference.
And it was successful as argument, since the conversation has been moved in many areas from “why on earth would you ban…” to “how can you justify treating lobsters this way”.
David Foster Wallace (RIP) goes into that quite a bit in Consider The Lobster, which I will recommend.
Non-PDF link
One young man remarked to his father, “This sticks in my craw, dad.”
Craw? Is that a chinese joke?
LACIST!
Work it like a claw….and call me Randy!
Are they not aware of how crustaceans are cooked?
Yes. That is the play. They are trying to draw attention to the “poor suffering animals” in order to inspire legislation banning cooking live lobster.
Switzerland already has done so:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/swiss-ban-boiling-lobster-alive-1.4484642
The day they go to Dearborn, MI and protest meat in front of a Halal butcher shop, I may pay attention to them.
The dude who butchered a deer (leg) in the front window of his restaurant as a FU to vegan protesters is still my hero.
I get being a meat eater because I used to be one. Being deliberately cruel to an animal, including one you are going to eat, makes you an asshole.
I believe the deer was already deceased. He just sectioned it in the front window to piss off the vegan protesters who were already there protesting because he had the temerity to serve what he wanted in his restaurant.
I dare em,
Sup Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
Keep your head down when you’re working around those vatos locos, amigo.
Crushed crustaceans?
Hasn’t this site already been listed as a hate group by the SPLC?
If not we aren’t trying hard enough.
Badge. Of. Honor.
How do you think we earned the Family Friendly Certification?
If not, we need to rectify that.
We’re probably too small for them to care about. Also, we don’t seek publicity.
We don’t have money to be shook down for either.
Bingo.
Spoiler: F91 Dudelange become the first team from Luxembourg to qualify for the Europa League.
Dude!
Bro!
OT; So this happened:
As some of you know, a while back I bid on a 9-12 month gig in New Joisey. The client took the bid, so Mrs. Animal and I threw our travel boxes in the company vehicle, signed a lease for an furnished apartment in Raritan, NJ, and drove on out here from Colorado. The start date got delayed by a week, but that’s not unusual, so this week we’ve been camped out in the apartment in Raritan, generally kind of exploring the area (there’s a gun shop in Raritan; did not expect that), eating some good Italian food, and settling in.
Got a phone call from the account manager for the project this morning. Good news: The project has been extended already, from 9-12 months to 24-36 months. That gets my last two kids through college, and since they accepted my first bid without haggling (probably should have asked for more) it’s a profitable gig. And if it goes 36 months, that takes me across the Big Sixty finish line, at which point I was hoping to back off and only work six or seven months a year.
But the bad news; They can only do my required training and onboarding in Lake Forest, Illinois.
So this weekend, Mrs. Animal and I have to drive back halfway across the continent we just crossed most of a week ago. We stay there for 3-4 weeks, sucking up the cost of a hotel in addition to the apartment here, because the client wasn’t sure where I needed to be first. I’m intending to hit them up for some consideration on the extra hotel cost, but looking at the contract, they’re under no obligation to do anything.
Sometimes this self-employment business is just too damn complicated. Although, in the end, this is still gonna be a moneymaker for us, but still.
Just venting, folks. Thanks for reading. Or not. Either way.
Congrats on the moneymaking gig, but that extra hotel cost does bite a big one.
Write off. That’s what I hear rich people do.
Mrs. Animal is a wizard with our taxes. We pay every penny the law requires, and not one penny more.
Yeup. I have ordered my family’s financial life around the Schedule C.
I thought I was pushing it and doing some questionable stuff. I was wrong. Once I got an accountant, he pushed things further than I would have ever dreamed.
All of the soccer moms in Ranger Rovers around here? They’re shady business expenses and tax write-offs.
Someone once told me that the IRS expects you to take every penny you can, so do that. I will admit to being very creative, but I can justify everything.
There’s an accountant around here that specializes in setting up shell husband and wife s-corps for the purposes of buying luxury vehicles. It’s pretty shady, but you can use accelerated depreciated on any truck that weighs more than 6000 lbs. And that’s how soccer moms end up in Range Rovers and Escalades.
When my wife bought her car through her law firm, the accountant gave her a list of cars that she was allowed to buy, all over 6000 lbs.
*checks curb weight of stock FJ cruiser, does math on misc. accessories*
So, can that 6,000 pounds include aftermarket accessories?
It goes by GVWR. Check the plate on the inside of the drivers’ side door.
I think they are tightening the rules a bit. My F-150 with the 6 1/2 foot bed qualified for a better deduction than the short box.
They loosened some aspects for 2018. It used to be for new vehicles only. Now you can do it with a used vehicle.
It was explained to me I can lease a car off my company but it had to be a car that makes sense. That is, if the tax man came knocking and I had a Mustang they would ask why I need a muscle car for a daycare? That sort of thing.
People, of course, take advantage of it because they drive Cayenne’s and Jaguars to their printing company or restaurant or textile business. *Technically* if audited they could ask for some pay back.
They being the tax reaper.
That sucks. Always try to get the T and the E in the contract. Also, invoice them and see what they say, as long as the training stay wasn’t explicitly spelled out in their request.
That wasn’t an option in this case; they were only accepting all-inclusive bids. I kind of prefer those generally, as then the client can’t put any limits on what lodgings/flights/whatever I arrange, and it works out easier on taxes. This is the first time it’s bitten me like this.
I’ve been doing this for fifteen years, so this ain’t my first rodeo. I’ll nag them a little about the cost, but I’m not expecting much. And given the duration, I’m going to make plenty of money on this deal.
Cool. Different industries, different standards. All-in custom software deals always seem to turn in to nightmares. The client (not wrongly) thinks they paid to get the system they want. The seller (not wrongly) thinks the client paid for what they asked for in the bid. Those are never the same thing.
Yeah, change orders are a major pain. Even if everyone operates in good faith, there are “small changes” that are not small at all.
I had a payment tracking system that needed to be really cheap and really fast. The rules were “the payments will always come from the insurance company, will always have the exact amount and will always come according to the set schedule.
So we built a list of payments expected under the contracts that could be set up as each deal closed, listing the payment amount and date. It had a “collected date” for the date the payment was collected. I had added a “collected amount” on my own initiative but they declined – it just added unnecessary work. So I took it out.
Well, two years later a payment comes in that isn’t for the full amount. And another starts coming in from a third party that isn’t the right amount – taking multiple payments to cover one payment…. or one payment covering multiple receivables.
That was an interesting discussion. They wanted to know why it was going to take much work to change from a “push the button when you receive the payment and the system will stamp the date” to “track all payments on a list of receivables and provide a method for tracking disbursements to multiple accounts and track who checked payments in and who distributed them and, and, and…..
They went from a single table with one record per payment to a dozen or so tables with essentially unlimited many-to-many joins and wanted to keep it super simple at the interface so any low-level clerk could handle the system with minimal training…
Their “one little change” was many times bigger than the entire original project. The original project was live within two weeks. The change took a lot longer than that just to gather requirements.
all-inclusive bids
Your business, your risk, your call.
Never claimed anything but.
There’s a hare staring at me.
What industry are you in? If I may.
Medical devices and biotech.
So that’s where all the ‘gently used’ speculums and catheters on ebay came from.
About 3 years ago my mom and stepdad went completely broke in Europe and I had to bail those losers out (read: scramble to find living accommodations for them in a tight 1% vacancy rental market around these parts). First thing that saved my ass was finding a “short term rental” type deal, and then 3 months of AirBnB. The costs were about half of the burden of a hotel, so substantially cheaper. Both of the places were great and had full kitchens with lots of room. My 2 cents.
How the hell does that happen?
What? The going broke?
I have a relative that can throw money to the wind like nobody’s business.
Give her a million bucks today and in three months she will be flat-ass broke, have nothing to show for it and have no idea what happened to the money. That is no exaggeration.
Yeah…. were they on vacation when it happened, or were they “living” there?
Mixture of a lot of financial stupidity and some of what you could characterise as bad luck.
My stepdad has been a very sought after hot shit programmer specialising in real time platforms for financial applications, and things of that nature. He’s a 9/11 truther too and was absolutely convinced that he was going to get detained into a FEMA camp on the flight back from Europe…I share some of Juvenile Bluster’s animosity for Alex Jones in the sense that nutcases take this shit seriously…it’s definitely caused me a lot of aggravation. My stepdad’s has also always been a “just put it on the credit card” type of person and made a ton of retarded financial mistakes when he should otherwise be essentially into early retirement and independently wealthy at this point. The kind of guy that takes out a home equity line to buy stupid shit like lawn tractors and other frivolous bullshit. Sold their house in New England $200k above purchase price, bought a similarly priced house in Phoenix metro at the same cost at the peak of the housing bubble. Didn’t have a good nest egg in place. Gets laid off. Panicks, takes a hotshot financial programming job in Europe, spendthrifts over in Europe whilst maintiaing that underwater mortgage. Starts to run out of money. Disregards my advice to short sale or default. Takes a job with a Canadian software company that has a 9/11 truther CEO at half his previous rate (because the Feds are going to throw him in a camp, naturally). Canadian company begins a pattern of behaviour that evolves into constructive dismissal.
I was out $33k in capital (I was able to recover 70% of it via a lawsuit) and went 50/50 on a really modest condo with my father in order to short circuit the possibility of losing money on rents in perpetuity. I’m pretty fucking bitter at this point because this hotshot programmer hasn’t done fuck all on software project plans I wrote for him to do in lieu of cash for the last 2 years…he seems to have some kind of hangup about working “for” me.
Fucking A though, before I even met him, he gave his deadbeat mom access to his bank account, she buys a house with his money at auction without notifying him. He’s always sucked with money. The paranoia is really sad and everything, but my empathy dried up a while ago.
My mom lost her mind 15 years ago and he also doesn’t know how to push back on some of her irrational requests. That’s a really big picture overview of how that happens.
JFC. That’s brutal. Sorry to hear all that.
It could have been a lot worse if I had decided to take them into my home and I wasn’t a successful working professional with several sources of income. Could’ve easily ruined me and destroyed my marriage under different circumstances. Letting them live with me wasn’t something I was going to allow to happen.
3 years ago my stepmom had opined that I would have been better served not intervening. At times I wish I hadn’t.
One of my better developers had that happen to him…. before he even got married.
In-laws somehow ended up moving to Nashville and not making a go of it. Mom came to live with them and step-dad stayed and lived out of his car for a while. My developer ended up putting them up in an apartment rather than letting them move in…. eating $2.500 per month for a year or two.
Love is crazy. The girlfriend – later wife – wasn’t exactly a prize in her own right. My developer just didn’t have the self esteem required to cut his losses and move on, this being his first serious relationship. Pretty terrific guy. Too bad he got stuck on something less than he deserved.
That’s the kind of things we generally do. I have an account with a corporate housing specialist, they usually get us the best deals.
Oh awesome.
Mrs. Dean basically doesn’t stay in hotels any more on business – she AirBnBs (I think that’s who she uses). We use it sometimes for our short and rare vacation trips, too – vastly superior, IMO, as a lot of what you pay for in a hotel is stuff I don’t really care about.
But by staying in unregulated housing how does she know everything, say the plumbing, will be up to codes like a hotel would have to be?
But the bad news; They can only do my required training and onboarding in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Apart from the bad news of having to spend three years in New Jersey.
They pay me to go where work is, not where fun is.
It can be fun here – I like Morristown a lot – good food, a theater with decent shows. On the other hand, we have asshole politicians, ridiculous taxes and cost of living, unconstitutional guns laws…
Welcome to New Jersey – I’m sorry – none of it is my fault.
+!
That’s not very far from Casa OMWC/SP! When are you coming over for dinner?
Too bad you aren’t here already. RAHeinlein and spouse will be here for dinner Saturday.
We’ll be in NJ for a good long while; we’ll have to organize a Glibs meetup.
No, I mean Lake Forest. Literally down the road a piece from us.
Yup, just got your email. We’ll be in touch.
Hey Animal, I grew up in Lake Forest and still have a lot of ties to the area. And we’re about the same age, so I might be able to give you some good inside info. Email me at c.anacreon at gmail.
Welp. I’m getting my right rotator cuff repaired tomorrow. When that one’s done, we’re gonna start working on the other one. Getting old sucks. I’m totes 25 in my head.
Ours too, Mojeaux. Ours too.
I LOLd.
#metoo. Bravo.
*imagines*
Gook luck, M! You’ll do great.
Been there, done that. When you’re all healed, try a daily glucosamine tablet. I’ve torn both my rotator cuffs at one point or another, and I find my shoulders stiffen up and get sore if I don’t take the glucosamine. Might be all in my head, but I reckon it’s worth a try.
Will do, thanks!
Owie! Sorry, hon. Hope all goes well.
Thank you!
Damn, I’m hoping that kind of thing never happens to my shoulders.
They’re both torn. I’ve been working on steroid shots for the last 4 years. Now I have no strength at all, and this surgery is just to buy me a couple of decades until I can get a new shoulder.
Man that’s rough. Best of luck on the procedures and recovery.
Best of luck.
My VA doc has been wanting to cut on both of my shoulders for a couple years now. I tell him to suck it.
And having a birthday looming this weekend, I doubly feel your pain.
Thanks. I just want the functionality in my shoulders back so I can do stuff I want to do. Not being able to lift a screwdriver at the angle you need to use it is very demoralizing.
When mine acts up, I get these really cool chest pains, accompanied with pain shooting down my L arm, numbness, tightness in chest, etd.
It was happening frequently enough that my non-VA doc sent me a cardiologist, for the whole battery of tests. Since (according to him- I think the guy strung me along cause he had a kid that braces) everything was inconclusive, I had a heart cath.
Surprisingly, based on how I generally treat my treasonous body with excess drink and shitty food, it came back clear. It was then that someone decided an MRI was in order, and BLAMMO! Torched shoulders.
Dont know if you’ve tried lidocaine patches, but they work really well for me. Allows me to sleep for at least a solid 5 hours.
Hey! that sounds exactly like what I’m dealing with, and my Heart checked fine, so Thanks for giving me another thing to check out…..
That’s scary, dude!!!
It would be easier to dismiss if I didn’t come from a family with a long, proud, history, of falling over dead from cardiac events.
*thanks for the inbred Mennonite genes, assholes
#metoo I watch my ticker like a hawk. It’s right and tight, but heart disease kills more women than all the cancers combined.
When I had a plate installed in my neck, they went through the Front, past mt Trachea, so no muscles needed cutting, Don’t let em cut Your Muscles!
Ugh. Good luck with that. I also know think I am 25 in my head.
Good luck! My wife has had three repair surgeries.
Best of luck, and hope it’s not major – I had a massively torn left rotator cuff (rugby practice injury) and had to wear the pillow/brace thing for two straight months. It was awful.
Good luck!
Get well soon!
25? I’m still 17.
Good luck. I work with a few “25 Year-Olds” who have had RC surgery. Their results range from eazy-peazy, to being denied return to work status by their doctors. And these dudes are not the malingering disability seeking types.
*checks leave roster vs skin suit inventory*
Damnit Frank! Quit going out naked!!!!!
There’s always that one who gets naked after the sixth drink.
The reptilians have a Ted Kennedy, too?
Shit we’ve got a few Dreadnaught Captains that act like Rob Ford
Crackheads get shit done tho.
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1035049411028504576
GAAAAAH!
Who is that? Somebody who’s twitter famous for no reason at all?
Scroll down a bit and Bridget “shows” you the “goodies.”
A bit further down there’s this beauty
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dl3B4ABUYAA5wfH.jpg
No, not that kind of beauty. But pretty pithy.
If you want to see the utter absurdity at the end of the post modernism tunnel; look no further than the body positive movement.
I think she’s a little big even for John
Totally would.
And Id livestream it, too.
Totally Wouldn’t, even with Your Dick
Aren’t you even a little worried that you guys would fall asleep after and then she’d roll over on you? Because you could die.
I just feel bad for the layout editor who had to figure out how to get text around that ham beast. Not much empty space that isn’t eaten up.
@OMWC I have the Ruger LCP.
Sorry to keep plastering stories about Keith Ellison here, but this one is interesting for a couple reasons. The local lefty rag that linked to this story said it is “A pretty comprehensive summary of the whole Keith Ellison abuse-allegation matter.”
Which is interesting, because it is another story about the one accuser (who probably isn’t telling the truth) that sounds like a nut every time they talk to her. They – like all the other MSM outlets – ignore the story of a previous girlfriend. That accuser has a 911 call to prove that Ellison might have a temper problem.
The other reason for posting the first story is because it has what may be a leading edge reference to the new hip victimhood: Narcissist Abuse
“Narcissist abuse” aka gaslighting.
I’m not up to speed on the allegations.
Is it anything other than him being a bad boyfriend?
Not really. He sounds like a dude with a short temper who has bad taste in women.
The 911 call has a record of him threatening the woman he was having an affair with, before busting her screen door as he stormed off. The one everyone talks about is also semi-crazy.
The only reason that this is really a story is because the PoundMeToo movement has legs. After trying to weaponize accusations by women, they have only managed to keep shooting themselves in the face.
“Narcissist abuse is very difficult to understand,”
No, it isnt.
I would have thought the Farrakhan links and similar stuff would be enough to make him unelectable without having to dig into his girlfriend problems but what do I know.
My wife moved to Minnesota 40 years ago and lived there a short time. She entered college and stayed for one semester. She said the proggy horseshit was eyeballs-deep even back then. She came back to Louisiana and attended Louisiana Tech.
I dont get Minnesota. My stepfather grew up in Shakopee and he was as solid a conservative as you could meet.
Minnesota is loaded with non-proggies and most everyone has guns. Our politics makes zero sense.
Trump came very close to winning Minnesoda, so maybe it will change.
Over/Under on how long it will take for a new law barring sex rooms near schools?
Sounds like we need some sex laws.
I don’t even have to click that link to know where it goes. Thanks for the earworm…
Great. Just what we need- more sex crimes .
Nice. I love that movie. The song’s OK, too.
Every room is a sex room!
Only if you’re doing it right!
Goodhue was our main rival back when I wrestled in high school. I always miss out on the good stuff!
STEVE SMITH LOBBY ZONING BOARD
“Michael and Heather Germain were arrested in April 2017 after an investigation into reports of a juvenile being sexually assaulted and exploited.”
I don’t think the room is the problem.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/trump-cancels-federal-employee-pay-raises/index.html
President Donald Trump told lawmakers on Thursday he wants to scrap a pay raise for civilian federal workers, saying the nation’s budget couldn’t support it.
In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Trump described the pay increase as “inappropriate.”
“We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,” the President wrote.
An across-the-board 2.1% pay increase for federal workers was slated to take effect in January. In addition, a yearly adjustment of paychecks based on the region of the country where a worker is posted — the “locality pay increase” — was due to take effect.
Trump said both increases should no longer happen.
“I have determined that for 2019, both across the board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero,” he wrote.
This guy keeps doing things to make me not hate him.
I wonder what the tab, all in, would be for those raises.
“In 2017 wages and benefits for executive branch civilian workers cost $276 billion.”
2.1% of that is 5.7 billion.
Don’t worry, the cucks will be all over Twitter explaining how a 5 billion dollar cut means absolutely nothing.
Worse. Than. Hitler.
Great. Now a bunch of starving elderly schoolchildren won’t be able to get abortions anymore, thus dying from underfunded food deserts.
*opera applause*
Good, now if he can keep Congress from spending that money somewhere else he may be onto something.
Not mentioned by CNN, but mentioned in the last paragraph here.
“Trump’s predecessor, President Barack Obama, froze federal pay for three consecutive years, between 2011 and 2013.”
Just an oversight, I’m sure.
Holy shit. They were expected to get that much across the board??? I presume these typically don’t preclude any sort of merit pay bumps either. Also, “locality pay increases” for the very people whose jobs are largely responsible for the abnormally high costs of living in certain areas in the first place seems kinda tone deaf to me. Fuck these people.
I’ve spent a lot of time working around civil servants and they’ll now spend the next two weeks doing nothing but complain about the injustice of this and how hard they have it.
What is with the way deplorables think government employees should live like the common folk?
They’ll get to keep more of their pay due to the tax cuts, so they should be happy.
Minnesoda Yusef is in the news.
Personally, I more impressed by Yusef’s pics than this guy.
Thanks Pontiff, I could build a better version of an X fighter too, that looks Fake, and mine would be a Gimballed riding toy with lights and Sound, that guy’s an Amateur…..
Anderson said an online search revealed “there are very, very few of these.”
He found a full-scale model, worth roughly $250,000, sitting in London. “A guy in China has got one that actually flies. There’s a few million dollars,” Anderson said.
Holy shit.
Bull, Shit.
/Aerodynamics you know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HCstPqeI_M
It is basically a bi-plane, right?
I guess the biggest problem would be that the wings are too far back (?).
CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE, WHITEY!!!
(Just covering up my racist misogyny)
Don’t call me w-word, n-word .
OT: the “I have to get a paid lawyer.” ,
I have two cases that are almost the same, where I am defending the guy accused of domestic violence (DV for short). And invariably there’s a threat that “I have to get a paid lawyer.”
In other words, the “you’ll try an force me to take a plea / accept lesser service / sleep with the prosecution but still can’t get me a better deal” rap, Either from the client, his family, or his new (eek) GF.
My first wife’s uncle practiced criminal defense but quit after a few years. I asked him why.
“I have had enough bricks thrown through my windows that I could finally build my dream home out of them.”
Criminal defendants are prone to bad judgement. That usually means they aren’t into lucrative business. You dont get paid and when they lose their cases, it’s your fault. I would rather stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork.
You are a saint Elspeth.
Wow, you are a far better person than I am. But I think we already knew that.
WTF?
“If you are a US government official and you are deporting Americans be warned,” Arizona Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego tweeted early Thursday. “When the worm turns you will not be safe because you were just following orders. You do not have to take part in illegal acts ordered by this President’s administration.”
ICE is deporting Americans? Have the Democrats lost their fucking minds? Because I cannot believe that is a real thing.
Not deporting, but they have a bad habit of holding them on immigration detentions for a few years before saying “lol yeah you’re a citizen, sorry bout that”. Actually, now that I think of it, there’s been a deportation or two.
(While I’m sure it’s still happening now, the cases I know about happened under Obama, so…)
Do you have some links for that? I have never heard of a US citizen being held for long periods of time and never being deported.
Here’s one example. There are a few others I know about.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html
Er, hit post before I finished typing. Several more I know about, and many described in the article itself.
Thanks. How trustworthy are the LA Times? They seem pretty far left. I mean I don’t know, really. I’ve never heard of a US Citizen being deported. If they shot and killed the person because they were holding a cell phone, I’d believe that in a second.
ICE fucks up ALL. THE. TIME.
I don’t see why that’s so hard to believe; they’re just another species of cop. The “Thin Green Line” isn’t any brighter, more honorable, or professional than the wretched blue one.
I have no problem believing that any government agency fucks up all of the time. I’ve just never heard of a US citizen being deported. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, which is why I asked JB for a link.
Clearly the idea with camps didnt work out, so now Trump is just exporting them.
Someone hasn’t seen Born in East L.A..
I have. I didn’t think it was based on a true story. My bad.
It’s good enough for CNN.
Very low bar.
“One of my favourite things ever is the 300 year gap in Irish inventions after whiskey was invented”
https://twitter.com/trickaduu/status/1026296402207375360
“after whiskey was invented”
So now we know why the 300 year gap?
Family Guy explains it .
These fine fillies are bound to make your genitals sneeze.
http://archive.is/Gm04m
More of a collection for ass Glibs, but I’ll take #9.
#6
This is a re-run. I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
Since WS is not having any, I’ll take his.
I’m pretty sure #17 has a penis.
You mean, in a jar on the mantel?
4, 14.
Not Woke Food
Gee, why the hell would a business donate to people who want to cut their taxes and not force them to pay $15 an hour to their lowest level employees? I don’t get it, they are supposed to want to be driven out of business by economically clueless lefty policies. What you want? Stay in business or get woke? Nazis!
In and Out is the Original Fuck Off fast food Restaurant, they don’t take shit from anyone
As to Nile Monitor Lizards…….They will scare the shit out of you when trudging through a swamp. They are big but the sound bigger when you can’t see them and they are fast and you think you are going to have a violent quick death. Luckily they run away from you not toward you.
So almost like there’s a timid version of……SWAMP SMITH ?
SWAMP SMITH would rape you then eat you.
Dude, we don’t even have SPACE SMITH yet and you’re already pining for SWAMP SMITH?
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1034914564503035904
Alyssa Milano, Constitutional Scholar
Poor thing, has to hold up her little Boobies so we can see she has some……..
Boy, she REALLY loves her some abortions.
She doesn’t even know what a Brett Kavanaugh is, or a SCOTUS.
What kind of weirdo has the stomach to read through or participate in that discussion…? Holy fuck.
Don’t read the comment below yours. Ya who would do that? *looks shiftily side to side
Hillary?
A reply to the first comment in disagreement to the scholar.
I wonder what other false results she speaks of? The two term President who held the office prior to Trump?
A girl named Rug Burn just HAS to be a joke…
I saw that….
Still would.
That’s the spirit.
I couldn’t make it through a minute of her talking so I’m not sure I’d go for it.
I used to think she was cute. But now, I’m sure any would, would need to include one of those ball gags, so if she’s not in to that, it’s off.
Shorter Alyssa – “I live in a bubble”
NO!
Sarah Palin shoulda been McCain’s pallbearer so she could let him down one last time.
In his last hours, they told McCain that Trump was being impeached and removed from office.
Beer OT: Picked up some Sierra Nevada Southern Gothic Unfiltered Pils today. Not bad, too hop-forward for a Pils IMO but it’s doing the trick.
Also they released this years batch of Southern Tier Imperial Pumking Ale! I picked up a 4-pack but will be saving that for the first few crisp, fall days in September or October.
I picked up another craft pack of Breckenridge brews and a 15 of the Founder’s Gold someone mentioned on here a couple of days ago. Had a couple of the Gold’s, not bad. 3 day weekend, wife working, needed some beer.
Founders Gold is decent for a session, but I prefer Devils Backbone Vienna Lager or just plain Yuengling (or Longboard).
I found Sierra Nevada’s Oktoberfest is out early. So I picked up a few of them.
I’m not sure if you can get Pumking where you live but it’s a real treat. I think of most Pumpkin beers as an insult to beer and pumpkins but on that one they really did something right. When’s the next BIF?
We get Southern Tier. I’m sure I can find it somewhere.
I drive past their brewery several times a year, I’m way overdue for stop in. Everything I’ve had of theirs tastes like they took the time to get the recipe right before they distribute it.
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter is a good one in the wintertime. I see plenty of their stuff in stores, I need to try more…
Yeah, that’s the best one in the craft pack. It’s so freaking hot here right now that I’m mostly going with the lagers.
Brooks-ed!!!
One of my faves.
So, has anyone read the latest bullshit from CNN? They’re already blaming the Swedish elections on Russian bots before the election even happens. They have all their bases covered.
+1 parallel construction…and de-legitimize anything.
They already have the narrative written if things go to shit for the dems in November.
Things are going to go to shit for them in November, and they know it.
Running around with your hair on fire screaming that no elections are legitimate is very telling.
Well, unless its in their favor.
I am fairly certain they would rather do away with elections altogether. They dont want you to have any say. They want some jackbooted commie shitweasel to be crowned for life and rule by fiat.
“I am fairly certain they would rather do away with elections altogether.”
I’m still half convinced that the next time a Democrat occupies the Whitehouse that they will refuse to leave office under the guise that someone like Trump might be elected again. It sounds total conspiracy, but the way they are behaving right now leads me to believe it’s not all that far fetched.
I don’t think we’re that far down the rabbit hole yet. The mayor of NYC doing it? Sure. The President of the United States? Nah.
I hope you’re right.
It’s fair when they win.
Anyone here used filmstruck.com yet? I apologize but I’m horrible with names and I can’t remember the other guy here who has the classic film blog….
Looks like the affordable solution ($99/yr) to viewing classic flicks whenever I want – as opposed to buying them occasionally on blu-ray or DVD since you can’t view them on netflix/amazon/etc.
Won’t stop me from building my Fritz Lang/Kurosawa/etc collections – but a nice way to hit up a lot of other classics – my interest has been growing with a lot of the reviews at cinemasavant the last few years but my budget has shrunk.
You are horrible with names. :-p
I can’t do streaming, since I don’t have the data to do it. From the people I know who do do Filmstruck, they add and remove films all the time, which may either a plus or minus for you.
Appreciate the reply. My backlog is pretty bad right now just of blu-rays and dvds sitting on my shelf not to mention my streaming queues – but it is nice to have it as an option (rather than defaulting to buying as I’ve done for roughly the last 20 years or so).
Although irritatingly it doesn’t seem to be an option on my xbox app list…so that basically forces me to sit in front of my laptop for this too.
https://twitter.com/GamingAndPandas/status/1035076951080361984
She seems nice.
Whoever wrote that really underestimates most guys ability to not give a shit. I’m guessing she’s mostly dates sensitive soy-boy’s.
“Martians observing Earthlings today: OH MY GOSH, THE EMPEROR OF THE AMERICAS HAS DIED!”
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1035225293060026368
No shit, even my flag-waving co-workers are starting to roll their eyes over the McCain coverage. I told them “Don’t worry I’m sure the media will cover something else once the live-feed of the grass growing on his plot gets boring.”
What’s the chance that someone better than McCain replaces him? Repealing Obamacare now would hopefully be something he feels in the ass like a red hot poker with a built in cattle prod in hell. The way the left are praising him right now just … it’s like you didn’t need anything else to tear off that mask, we know who you are.
That would be amazing.
BTW, what happens to his seat?
2 words…
Cindy. McCain.
Who does the appointment?
The Governor. Special Election in 2020 to fill the last two years.
Is he a Democrat? Because why else would he appoint a far left prog like McCain’s wife?
He’s an establishment Repub. And McCain was a proggy in his own right.
I believe he asked in his will to be stuffed and mounted and left in it and that someone always vote for him along bi-partisan and/or pro-war lines.
I’m sure of it.
Governor of Arizona appoints a replacement until whenever the special election is.
…what Ted said
https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=http://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00222.htm
And you think he would appoint a far left prog just to please a dead guy?
A few names have been thrown around.
His wife, Former Sen Jon Kyl, a few former Congresscritters, and a few political hacks affiliated with Gov. Ducey.
The wife is a far left prog.
Isn’t Cindy odds-on favorite to succeed him? I doubt she’s going to want to do a single thing differently. She’s the one passing on his funeral wishes, after all, and that involves people like OBama being a pallbearer while excluding Palin. So I’m gonna guess chance of better is between slim and none.
My 1st thought was “they saw Sarah Jessica Parker?”
There are many reverse centaurs among us.
You mean a…..xhe-taur
Citation.
Ann Coulter walks into a bar. Bartender says, “Why the long penis?”
Oh come on, people were making the horse and tranny jokes 20 years ago.
So what you’re saying is…?
So I went to see the green chili dealer today. I can’t remember what he called the chilies, but damn they are fricking huge. He wanted $30 a box roasted and I told him I didn’t have that much cash at the moment, (forgot to go to atm when in town) and he said “What do you have?” I said i thought I had 20 or so bucks. He said If I had 25 he would do that. I ate one in an omelette when I got home and these are damn good chilies. I am going back in a few days and get another box and give him the 5 I shorted him on this one. These are not wealthy farmers.
YUM!
My shipment should be here any day. I am so excited!
Nice. I am stuffing a couple with pulled pork tonight. One for dinner one for lunch tomorrow.
Do you have a Hook up for Plastic Straws? Asking for a Friend………………
If you start jonesing for those and get all itchy I can ship you a box.
We used plastic straws in root beer floats the other night. I felt a little thrill to be doing something so edgy.
Are these some special green chilis some of you have been going on about or are they just green chili peppers? Peppers are like the easiest thing in the world to grow (save weed) and I don’t think location matters that much, I know a guys, one in upstate New York and one in Wisc. that grow an ass-load of peppers.
Tell that to the ghost pepper plant I threw out. It made Charlie Brown’s Xmas tree look vibrant and bushy.
Now, my habanero is doing ok. Mostly.
Yes, they are very special chiles.
I’ve grown the same varieties elsewhere, and the soil makes a huge difference in how they taste. New Mexico grown are just better.
(I suppose the western slope of Colorado could be a close second.)
SP speaks wisdom. The terroir is strong with New Mex chilies.
I have a jalapeno plant that is more than 2 years old now. I have more peppers to pick after the first batch I took this summer. Most of them were red when I picked them and most with the cracks in them. Because it rained so much for 2 months, I couldn’t get out there to pick them. I froze them. I made some soup with 2 small ones in it. Holy fucking bejeebus those are deadly hot for jalapenos. I’m going to pick the other ones tomorrow while they are still green and no cracks.
I’ve got 19 different pepper plant only three haven’t produced well, of course one of those three was the one I was most excited about, it only has maybe 8 peppers and they came out really late.
They say the SW has the best climate for green chilies. Hot temps and dry. The ones I bought today were some of the meatiest peppers I have ever seen. Not the thin walled Hatch some people think are the best.
“green chili dealer” — Wait, is this an actual thing?
I know, right?
Man, these euphemisms…
Wife just changed the TV. Some crime drama set in today’s Las Vegas where the villains are tattooed Nazis. I have heard the phrases ‘white supremacist’, ‘Nazi’ and ‘Racist’ about fifty times in the last five minutes.
Clearly anyone who isnt a raging pinko deserves death.
Are you sure she isn’t watching Maddow?
It’s just about that bad.
I think the networks are slowly killing themselves the way cable news is. Netflix and Hulu have their share of groggy bullshit but there is plenty of quality, non-political stuff too. It might not be fast enough for our tastes but I think the free market is slowly fixing our media problem…….waiting for the government to intervene in 3,2,…..
I keep seeing where they stomp their feet and insist they are in the majority by far. They only lost because of a few dastardly, stupid deplorables and RUSSIA. It really is derangement. What I find most troubling are they extraordinary rationalizations they have for committing violence against people that dont agree with them.
Progressivism: “Our Policies are so good they have to be enforced at gunpoint!”
It’s a broken worldview held by [mostly] broken people.
I despise legal and police procedurals. They’re the lowest form of entertainment, and I include glory holes in that comparison.
Short of cutting it with an X-acto knife, any way to deal with a cork that expanded and won’t fit back in the bottle it came out of?
Just drink the rest of the bottle.
There’s like three glasses left. (It’s a magnum of Chianti.)
Reach deep. I believe in you.
And ^^THIS^^ is why we can be friends in spite of your horrible taste in flatbread products.
Does your Dad imbibe?
Three glasses? Slam it. Would it make you feel more comfortable if you put it in a paper bag first?
That’s why you should get of them fancy smancy wine openers like wifey bought. You take out the cork and you can put it right back in the bottle, every single time. Other than that, you’ll need to get some corks that will fit. We have a bunch of those also.
We can’t find the stopper that came with the rest of the corkscrew set.
You need to drink the rest. And then tomorrow go out an buy yourself a fancy smancy wine opener and a box of stoppers.
You wanna go fancy, Coravin is fancy. However, in practice, “drink a single glass of this awesome wine and keep the rest for some weeks later” never would happen around here. There are ~ 4 glasses of wine in a bottle – if it’s that good, 4 glasses are easily consumed.
Why would you do that?
Just vacuum.
Correct, use your vac-u-vin. If you’re some sort of philistine and don’t have a vac-u-vin, plastic wrap & a rubber-band is fine – the cork isn’t magic, it’s just keeping air out at this point.
Did you try turning the cork upside down? Other than that, I got nothing.
I’ve just covered a bottle top with plastic wrap if I’m going to get back to that bottle the next night.
Pour the wine into a ziploc and chuck it back in the wine fridge.
These thingies
https://www.amazon.com/Norpro-288-Bottle-Stoppers-Set/dp/B000LNTMTG/ref=asc_df_B000LNTMTG/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=194899782153&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8454743831758644216&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021314&hvtargid=pla-310423563499&psc=1
Just don’t let your fancy friends see them. You do have fancy friends don’t you?
He’s a fancy-boy!
Just cover the end of the bottle with a condom and a rubber band.
Try to make sure the condom has not been used.
This is why I only buy screw tops.
Turn it over and use the other end.
Open another bottle. Use that cork…
Oh wow look at mister fancy pants drinking wine out of a bottle instead of a box.
Plastic wrap over the top, push the cork down gently as to not tear the plastic or fragment the cork. Just tap it in as far as it can go, even if it is a quarter inch. It will seal and be okay. Otherwise, plastic wrap and a rubber band.
Huh, corks go back in the bottle? Signed, someone who finishes what he starts.
Huh, corks go back in the bottle? Signed, someone who finishes what he starts.
On the “by their own pitards” beat, that ThinkProgress article has an appeal for members at the bottom. Apparently they’ve been labeled by the ad networks as fake news.
Of course, they don’t see it that way. They are claiming it is because they expose racism, and therefore they use the same keywords when exposing racism that racists use when being racists.
Either way, it sure is funny!