Well, the thermometer finally got off of -1 degree…all the way up to 0. *narrows gaze at weather station*
I had one errand to run today and got the post-Christmas clean up finished this morning, otherwise it is a hide in blankets, with coffee and Bailey’s day for me. I can hear the snorts of disgust at my weakness from the Minnesoda and Montana and Dakotas Glibs …
So, I offer you Links as absolution:
- Trumputin punishes our poor, selfless civil servants in DC, once again. That doesn’t look very swampy drain-y to me, Cheeto Mussolini!!!!!
- King says, “don’t leave my kingdom.”
- Um….when I was in the US Army, I was vaccinated against anthrax. I am not sure it means what the headline hints at.
- You can’t spell “Untied” without “United“.
OK, time to crawl back under the blanket on the couch.
Chuck the bitch off the plane. Sheila needs a seat.
You like me. You really like me.
Fuck the congresscritter but I am pleased to see an article about this that didn’t repeatedly make a big deal about the other woman being a teacher, then after seeing that for two days I see on twitter BB types claiming the MMS is ignoring the story. God I hate people.
They bumped a FF miles bonus passenger for a cash customer?.. *Shock*
I’m sure their contract says “we do do this if it is in our best interest”…. They should just say “we are sorry but FF vouchers are lower priority unless you are a platinum elite member… we offered X as compensation even though our contract doesn’t require it.” If you want a guaranteed seat, $$ up front.
But they want to keep the facade that they don’t overbook and boot lower level tickets. Standby used to mean something.. (good luck if you get on that plane)
If you want a guaranteed seat, $$ up front.
Dr. Dao was unavailable to comment.
Still, they keep managing to put the worst public face on their actions they can.
If you want a guaranteed seat, $$ up front.
Maybe this is a practice across the industry, but I’ve never been treated any differently than a cash-paying customer when using FF miles. Perhaps there technically are differences, but it’s really shitty customer relations to give “rewards” and then treat those rewards users like shit.
I’ve had airlines restrict the use of points to book travel, but once travel has been booked, yeah, you usually get treated the same as anyone who has paid for it. In theory, if you’ve flown enough miles to get first class tickets, you’ve more than paid your $$ to United.
It is also one thing if you bump the FF person because you overbooked first class. But the article said that SJL had been upgraded into her seat. That is BS.
I think a lot of what happened there sounds like asshole gate agents.
Some years ago, I was flying with my elderly parents, who never fly, and our flight from western co to DIA was late arriving in Denver. We arrived at our connecting flight late just as the jetway was being retracted. I said damn and was trying to figure out where the closest United counter was so we could get another flight. My little old lady mother was asking the gate agent what could be done? The gate agent had them hold the plane, send the jetway back out and let us board. She said they had already given our seats away and to find an empty one. The power of little old ladies on full display. I had never seen that before.
They should have told SJL they gave her seat away and gave her an empty one.
The power of little old ladies on full display.
Back when she was a spry young lass in her late eighties, grandma would crank up the theatrics and insist on a wheelchair while in the airport, which in fairness no doubt was a tremendous relief for her. But it also guaranteed her and dad first boarding, and he suspects that’s why she really went for it.
Now that she’s in her mid-nineties it’s not really a lark anymore.
The original story said Lee was upgraded into the seat. She didn’t pay full freight to sit in front. United upgrades her because she is a loudmouth who can harm them.
You don’t understand. I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen
Wuu? Ya, that kind of changes things.
She has a long history of this kind of thing.
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-insider-6570168
By all means, please click and read that entire article. It is a treasure trove of SJL shenanigans.
I guess she never read Article I of the Constitution which prohibits Congress from awarding titles of nobility. In other words SJL, you are the hired help SO ACT LIKE IT!
Christ, what an asshole.
Holy jesus, that article is like “Hush Hush” for DC
i always knew it was slimy, but *congressional reps* acting like they’re Nobility is a bit far fetched. Having ‘a staff’ seems plausible. Having a ‘staff driver’ sounds like she’s got an entourage.
She has a government car and driver for a 1 block commute in a nice section of DC every morning.
He car and driver have to wait on her and screw up traffic every day.
Most of the voters in her district applaud her behavior because she is sticking it to the man.
-i should know better.
i have noted before that black politicians have a very different cultural dynamic vs. their white peers.
black congressmen always dress like they’re billionaire pimps. See: charlie rangel. being dapper is basically a form of cultural signalling that you’re making the most out of the power you’ve been granted. constituents see that as a *good thing*: as you say, “getting over on the man”
whereas, in most middle-class white districts, white congressmen are expected to dress like public-employees. cheap suits, boxy, loud tie. They can’t flaunt money, else their voters will think, “he’s ripping taxpayers off!”
but the hubris of SJL seemed a cut above the norm, frankly. even if you act like a prima donna, you normally have to pretend you don’t when the media starts focusing on you. she seems to celebrate it.
Her apology from that story in the links is about as fatuous as I’ve ever seen:
What a charming person to say that she is sorry! To a commoner even.
I saw that. It sounds to me like example #6,784,884 of ‘Congresscritters are lying sacks of horseshit’.
“I asked for nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary”. Pull the other one, it has bells on it.
Just because your constituents are stupid doesn’t mean the rest of us are as well.
She’s a piece of shit racist that drops the race card at the slightest slight. Fuck her and the constituents who keep electing her.
The reason it’s not exceptional nor out of the ordinary is because she pulls this shit on a daily basis.
She has an Ivy League degree and can’t speak English.
Scott Ian isn’t as cool as he used to be.
*narrows gaze*
They’re marvelling at the miracles of Communist medicine that even defectors get vaccinated!
They didn’t say if it was an effective vaccination, right?
Oh, sort of the like the partial series that the DOD did before shipping me off for an all expenses paid vacation in sunny Kuwait?
I was in Korea for 15 months about 10 years ago. I think that got me 4 or 5 shots out of the total maxi series. Not sure if I’d have to start from scratch now or what. Timing is everything.
The DoD series was effective against standard agricultural anthrax and was a modification of what veterinarians get. However against weaponized anthrax it is believed to be much less effective.
I got 6 out of the 7….and a doc told me that after 5, it was just piling on.
Glad I never got the chance to see if he was right.
I might be buying an old Eldorado. It occupies four British parking spaces. I’ll be the ultimate asshole.
Well some people try to pick up girls
And get called assholes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare and
So Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Well the girls would turn the color
Of the avocado when he would drive
Down their street in his El Dorado
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole
Not like you
Alright
I got a Eldorado Cadillac with a spare tire on the back
I KNOW THAT SONG!!
/repo man
Details for the nerds?
1977 Cadillac Eldorado, 425ci V8, THM-425 (three-speed). It’s in immaculate condition, and prices for them are at rock-bottom right now. I have a real soft spot for these obnoxious tanks.
Pimpin’!
Sweet!
I love those too. Where did you find it?
When I was a teenager, the old man had a ’77 Cadillac Fleetwood – in light yellow with a gold leather interior. It was – uh – eye catching. His cousin, who was a small lot used car dealer, sold it to him.
My girlfriend lived on the other side of town and I often drove through the ghetto-ey part of town to visit her. When I borrowed the Cadillac I got a lot of looks from the black gentleman of the neighborhood.
Oddest car sighting during any of my vacations: A 50s Cadillac Fleetwood parked on the streets of Vienna.
Oh, right, pics. Sorry… I didn’t have my camera with me. Sad really, that would have been a neat picture to take.
Ramming Speed!
I’m a little disappointed. I was it was a clip from Animal House.
Does it have foot rests for the back seat passengers?
I had one of these when I lived in the states. My other car was a Super Beetle. Fun switching between those two.
Question – How common is it for someone to be allergic to just one varity of tree nut?
I was staring at this label and wondering why a product containing almonds would have to contain a warning that it was processed in a facility that also processed other types of tree nuts.
That’s an interesting point. Up until this weekend I’d never met anyone with a nut allergy, but my SIL’s new boyfriend apparently has one. I’ll ask him and get back to you.
Sometimes you react from a nut,
Sometimes you don’t.
*applauds!*
My wife is deathly allergic to many tree nuts – hazelnuts and walnuts especially – but not almonds. It apparently is pretty common.
NOKO has a robust early vaccination program – no soldier left behind!
When did Dennis Miller become the King of Spain? I need to get back to reading the news.
Just judging by those stills, the King of Spain is stoned.
His Majesty, King of Spain, King of Castile, of León, of Aragon, of the Two Sicilies, of Jerusalem, of Navarre, of Granada, of Toledo, of Valencia, of Galicia, of Majorca, of Seville, of Sardinia, of Córdoba, of Corsica, of Murcia, of Menorca, of Jaén, of the Algarves, of Algeciras, of Gibraltar, of the Canary Islands, of the East Indies and the West Indies and of the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Burgundy, of Brabant, of Milan, of Athens, of Neopatras and of Limburg; Count of Habsburg, of Flanders, of Tyrol, of Roussillon and of Barcelona; Lord of Biscay and of Molina…is not amused.
This Jon Snow. King of the North.
… half of those aren’t even in his country anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_the_Spanish_Crown
All titles that the King of Spain had at some point. Corsica was never ruled by Spain but the Pope did make the Aragonese King ruler of Corsica and Sardinia in 1297 but they only conquered Sardinia. I recall Jerusalem and Cyprus were claimed by the King of Naples before the Spanish took over.
No he’s not, we fought a war to get rid of kings!
*waves ‘Murican flag, pets blad eagle*
Murci !
/Roy Orbison
Or Canadian.
It’s good to be the king, UnCivilServant.
Whatever it pays.
If I can’t be an autocrat, I’d be willing to accept the post of ceremonial monarch.
https://youtu.be/xpGV1jOqk4I
I can hear the snorts of disgust at my weakness from the Minnesoda and Montana and Dakotas Glibs
I wouldn’t worry about it. It is impossible to snort when your snot is frozen like all in the listed states. Only freaks like the cold.
Mr Splosives and I are headed on the train back from Chicagotown, where it was a balmy 7 degrees, to Minneapolis, where today’s high was supposedly 1 degree. Woot!
We will have hot toddies and stay indoors for a few days to wrap up the holiday break til Jan 3.
We will have hot toddies and stay indoors for a few days to wrap up the holiday break til Jan 3.
That’s the ticket!
Damn straight! Gotta relax after this vacation before work resumes.
(Middle aged 17 year employee privilege)
A coworker and I took the Amtrak train from Chicago to Sunny Minnesoda once. It was fun. A liter of Jameson and 19 beers disappeared during our trip. Would have been more, but we stopped for an hour to have dinner in the dining car.
The Amtrak is a fucking strange place. The steward looked at us like we were crazy when we asked if there was a password for wifi. There was no wifi. Everything in the sleeping car was vintage analog controls. And for some reason there were tons of Amish folks on that train. What is up with that?
Trains are plain?
Trains are Plain Amishmobiles
/sorrynotsorry
*applauds*
We took the California zephyr all the way from Chitown to San Francisco this July. It was lousy with amish/menmonites/whatever. Funny thing was, they were mostly in the sleeper cars, which cost way more, so it wasn’t just about being humble or whatever. I think they just didn’t have dependable long haul vehicles. The Amish are prevalent in the West.
Unrelated, but the mid-1950s movie Violent Saturday is set in Arizona and has as one character an Amish farmer taking his family west to Arizona to start farming there. (The farmer has to go up against the bad guys at the end, struggling with whether to commit violence.) Said Amish farmer is played by… Ernest Borgnine.
Don’t take the Empire Builder toward the west coast in the spring. The roadbeds are horrible after a northern plains winter, the train crawls across ND and MT and you’ll miss the daylight views of Glacier NP. Give the BNSF time to do their annual track repair.
Duly noted! Thanks!
A liter of Jameson and 19 beers disappeared during our trip
Impressive.
Almost all Amish sects prohibit air travel. A handful allow air travel only in emergencies. Air travel is seen as a luxury and too worldly.
Some Amish sects allow travel by car only if someone else is driving.
For practical long distance travel, this leaves trains.
Someone stole your alcohol?!
No, but we were slowed down in the first several hours as we finished up some conference calls.
It is a good time pontifidrinking with my boss.
I kind of like train travel. They have wi-fi on the train I take through New York State. Unlike a plane, the conductors actually are there to help you, and not nag you. Want to drink? Go ahead. Need a smoke? Step off at a stop, light a quick one and hop back on.
Good way to travel!
They saw somebody get murdered in the restrooms.
AND it did not go unnoticed that you dissed Chez OMWC/SP on your trip!
A different member of the Glibertariat did NOT! Their family was welcomed here for a Christmas Eve Mini-Glibfest.
Hey, I said we would pay attention to threads on get togethers and such!! But in all seriousness, Mr Splosives was very under the weather for a decent portion of our trip, so our plans became humble indeed.
But he is from Chicagotown, so this was by no means our last trip down. My email is Hayeksplosives at protonmail, for better future planning.
The Mr is 2% one of (((them))) according to Ancestry DNA, so we could even pretend to do Hannukah some time.
Hope y’all had a great get together.
We did! It was more fun than anyone should be allowed to have.
I’ve noted your email address. As I am sure have all the stalkers here. 😉
I’M NOT A STALKER!!
Looks around. Huh? Me?
*tugs collar*
What?!
How was the Chicago trip? I hope you guys had a great Christmas!
Only freaks like the cold.
*drops gloves, reconsiders, puts gloves back on*
*thinks about dropping gloves, realizes he’d have to put down the peach schnapps in one hand and the jig stick in the other hand, shrugs goes back to fishing*
The spawn has been out on Prior all day. You in MG?
Just got back on Xmas Eve. Yesterday was recovery and will be hitting the lakes soon.
How did Permafrost (I’m assuming that is what Tundra would spawn) do?
I have been at work, but the last I heard, a ton of gills and some decent crappies.
Warms my heart that I’ve been able to spread the correct spelling of our fine state to you guys.
We put hollow points through the guns for the first time. Trying out Sig Sauer V-Crowns (124 gr). Three guns did 60 rounds without a problem. My EMP 4 jammed just after the 50th round. Used a q-tip to clean the ramp and shot the remaining 6-7 rounds without problems. The V-Crowns have a very thin leading edge on the hollow point. They dig into the carbon build up on the feed ramp. But 50 in a row with out a problem is sort of usable. 200 rounds each of Speer Gold Dots and Federal HSTs on order to try next.
Fewer than 200 rounds? She’s still breaking in.
*should be 500
We should have 500 through each gun withing another week to 10 days.
Each gun has 300 rounds of FMJ plus 60 rounds of JHP as of today. And like I said, three guns ran 60 rounds of JHP without problems. Only one jammed at round 51 or 52 when the feed ramp was covered with residue. The V Crown have a wide opening with a thin edge. It seems to hang up when the ramp is dirty.
From a practical point of view, you can shoot three full magazines in a clean carry weapon with complete confidence.
We are just going to try a few more brands before we settle on a defensive round.
I’ve enjoyed how the 135 critical duty from hornady has done through my ppq.
Yeah – replaced the battery in my wife’s car… started it up with no problems. And then I turned the engine off, exited the car, and noticed the driver’s window was partially down. Now none of the locks / doorhandles work. They move and but there is no resistance. Very odd.
of course it’s 8F outside so lots of weirdness going on /Eastern Front flashbacks
Yesterday we went to get into our car, and realized it had a tire that was flat as a pancake. I get to take it in for repairs after work today. Luckily we have another car that sucks but is still driveable. This sort of thing is even worse when it’s -2 outside.
Isn’t global warming wonderful?
Convertible?
Weird. Does the ECU need to be reset?
I tried the old remove the battery connections and even “resetting the windows”. I can’t find anything online – though the windows, if not in the proper position, will stop one from opening the doors. Meh – too cold to dig into it. I’m bundled up like an Eskimo and having my wife – who has a cold – hold open the hatch so I can crawl in to mess around. Otherwise I could be locked inside the car.
coffee and Bailey’s
The choice of champions!
leave the coffee, take the liqueur.
“Minnesoda”
Some sort of in-joke I don’t get?
Ask your mom.
Uffda. I should have scrolled down a bit further.
The Scandahoovians who populated Minnesoda have a tendency to turn any ‘t’ in a word into a ‘d’ sound (unless it starts a word). I didn’t realize how bad it was until I was putting in leave papers and the MSgt who was filling them out looked at me strange and said “How many d’s are in Minnesoda?” He was serious. After that I realized how many of the natives do pronounce it with a ‘d’. So I’ve always spelled it with a d, both at TOS and here. The smarter Glib editors have learned the correct way and use it now.
The only other way to identify a native of Sunny Minnesoda is to ask them the difference between “loan” and “borrow”. Here, a loan is something you get from a bank. Borrow is used for everything else. As in “borrow me a couple bucks for a beer.”
Aw, thanks.
Incidentally, the loan/lend/borrow thing is a holdover from Swedish and Norwegian, in which the verb is the same, and the context lets you figure out who is lending and who is borrowing.
(Spent 2 years in Sweden, never mastered the language)
It is hard to learn a new language when you spend all your time frolicking in nature and playing volleyball
Or getting an MSc in electrical engineering. But I’ve heard it both ways.
I must have midwest roots I don’t know about because I pronounce “sota” and “soda” exactly the same – the “t” is not a full “t” and the “d” is not a full “d”. (That sound is called a “flap”, FWIW.)
Yet you betray not being from the midwest because you don’t call it “pop”, or, more accurately, “pahp”
^this^
to be clear, there are areas of the midwest where it’s called “soda pahp” or “sodee pahp”, but you’re practically Canadian at that point.
That may be true somewhere in the Midwest, but I can say that I’ve spent my most of my life in northeast North Dakota and I’ve never met any native NoDak who calls it soda pop. It’ pop.
IIRC, it’s more of a Wisconsin thing.
I was just throwing out syllables there.
I grew up in pop-land. The extreme east end thereof (Rochester, NY).
And yes, it’s “pahhhhp”.
Speaking of Rochester, I think they’re supposed to get hammered with lake effect starting tomorrow. My grandma and great aunt were bracing for the obligatory 4 months of being snowed in that comes with living on the leeward side of Ontario. Hopefully they don’t get slammed like Erie did. 5 feet of snow in 48 hours? No thanks!
I like a good snow-in. Staying inside toasty warm and doing nothing… wonderful. Here in NYC we get most of the cold but not nearly enough of the snow.
Finger Lakes childhood, Mom from Rochester. It’s pop.
Learned to say “soda” when I went to university in the Mid Atlantic, and now that’s what I always say.
Yeah, I’ve been in soda-land for ~20 years. It was an easy change to make because people here will look at you funny if you try to ask for a pop.
This should stop all the debate on where it’s appropriate to say what.
That is a map of lies. I have never heard anyone say “pop” in Oregon. They do in Washington, though. It’s weird.
Ever heard one of the natives pronounce the name of the place? They make it sound just like that. Well, except with more oooooo sounds.
Not all of us.
Oh yah, fur sure.
Minnesoda is the home of ooooooo’s and aaaaaah’s.
The most glorious place on earth.
*angels sing*
This is where the NoDak comes along and informs everyone that like many other Midwestern idioms, Minnesodans like to act like they are the only Midwesterners who do this. They are not. In other surprising news, the mosquito is also the state bird of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, etc.
Oh yeah?
Well you know why the SD/ND border is so windy?
Because SDak blows and NDak sucks.
Whatever, stump-humper.
I remember that particular vaccine…woof.
My shot list is about 3 feet long at this point.
My son is fascinated by all the smallpox scars…
When I started working at the VA, they couldn’t find the antibodies in my blood, so I wound up getting half the shots I got before I deployed all over again.
Nurse: You’re not coming up with any of the Hep antibodies. You don’t work in the clinics right?
Me: No.
Nurse: Let me ask you this, if somebody started bleeding in the hallway would you help?
Me: *opens bag, reveals CAT* Probably.
Nurse: Hold still….
I always forget my gloves in the car, then when I need to go out in the cold my hands freeze, and when I get to the car the gloves are so cold they can only make things worse. I need those strings on them like mittens when I was a kid.
My gloves are in the pockets of my winter jacket.
4:50 this morning, the sidewalks around the building where I work hadn’t been shoveled off yet.
I was worried the walks would be unshovelled this morning.
Luckily I shovelled yesterday and there wasn’t any new snow.
That’s why I shove my gloves in my pocket. Of course, that comes with its own complications.
Yeah, I take the gloves off in the car because I can’t drive with gloves on, then if the gloves go in the pockets the coat is too bulky to be able get the seat belt on. So I just toss the gloves on the passenger seat, where they are forgotten when I get out of the car again.
I get those guilt-tripping (joke’s on them–
As a cis hetero shit gentlelady, the guilt trip attempt doesn’t work on me) gloves made of dryer lint mailed to me by charities from time to time with a note begging for money. I always put the gloves in the car console in case I am caught without real gloves. They suck, but they are better than nothin’.
I have extra gloves in my truck and backpack. I will not tolerate cold hands.
I will not tolerate cold hands.
Me either. That’s why I keep my hands in Florida.
Does Florida ask you to clap once you have her hands in her?? And when you can’t brag about how tight she is?
“You’re a sick motherfucker, Mac.”
Don’t lie Tundra. You could care less, but Mrs. Tundra insists that you keep your hands warm.
10/10
Would laugh again!
Gloves, hats and chapstick are all things that you buy a lot of and randomly leave everywhere you go. That way when you need them, there should be some available. Each jacket has some, each car has some, a bag in the fishhouse has extra. The list goes on. The trick is to saturate the environment.
I have little tubes of Bag Balm hiding everywhere. Gotta have my udder softener!
Hawt.
I wear fingerless / shooting gloves. Gives better grip (euphemisms!) on the steering wheel. Also have a pair where you can flip a pocket over the fingers, making them mittens.
Good for fine finger control (more euphemisms!)
Not surprising. This was the same guy who wrote in Reason that feminist complaints about video game violence do have merit. I pointed out in the comments that Reason would never publish an article admitting that socons have a point when they complain about sex or violence.
It’s interesting that the new Puritanism has been brought not by socons but by sjws.
The original Puritans were the SJWs of their time. They opposed the corrupt Monarchy, corrupt Church and corrupt theatres (funded by aristocrats).
It’s because we mistakenly think the Catholics and Southern Baptists of the 1960s-1970s were the only people in history to complain about sexual licence.
Not to mention that those two groups were considered to “reactionary” therefore puritanism is only “conservative”.
It’s OK though because sjws are anti-Christian.
Where you getting this, Willis?
https://glibertarians.com/2017/12/a-deep-dive-into-cryptocurrencies-and-their-operation-part-2/
no.14
Phoenix police ID man suspected of shooting family on Christmas Day
Dude, at least wait until New Years…
… and he’s still alive?
Believe it or not, cops in AZ aren’t always the best shots…
It’s too bad he couldn’t have shot the police instead of his family.
On the way home from the family party last night I noticed the indoor gun range parking lot was more crowded than a bar on the night before Thanksgiving.
Fun fact: I dated the daughter of this article’s author for a few months this year.
And?
She has amazing tits.
Pics? We here are known for our expertise.
I second the call for pics.
Example no. 234132494172384713027843125084190281495713245348925031458394765 why the libertarian moment is not happening. These guys want their free shit and why would DC object?
Trying to brainstorm revenge for the narrator on a pair of corrupt cops.
Not sure how severe I want it to be.
Maybe like in American Graffiti?
CAN YOU DIG IT?
United did not apologize, apparently.
I hear rumors I might be able to get my badge tomorrow. Woot! Because I quite literally did nothing today that anyone in their right mind should be paying for.
Our boss sent around this little article. It mentions our old boss, Bacon Phillips, flying to England to interview some guy from Twitter. Fuckin-a. I loved working at State right up until this sloppy FaFu frat boy and his sub-human cronies took over.
His first name is Bacon?
No – I just always called him that because he looked like he ate nothing but bacon 24/7. He was a fat, pale, sweaty blob with a weak chin.
Gosh. I hope you never have to describe me to someone.
If he looked like that and wasn’t a 100% garbage human, I wouldn’t describe him like that.
A bacon diet would probably lead someone to be rather slender.
Perhaps you should call him “Sugar Pops”.
Bacon Phillips and Evan McMuffin.
Trumputin punishes our poor, selfless civil servants in DC, once again. That doesn’t look very swampy drain-y to me, Cheeto Mussolini!!!!!
They received a 2.29% raise! You can’t imagine the sacrifices those people have to make!
I got 3% this year. I was a good year.
2% for me this year. Lots of folks got nothing.
0% and $0 bonus. It wasn’t entirely unexpected. I’ve only worked there for 9 months, so I wasn’t expecting a raise. The lack of bonus was less expected, but they announced it early and shook up the C-suite partially in response, so I’m not as pessimistic about next year.
I make what I produce.
Nothing more and nothing less.
And so it has been all of my adult life.
I haven’t gotten a raise in five years.
Probably because I’m overpaid as it is.
That’s not stopping the FedGov workers.
Was it supposed to be 2.50% before Trump’s budget cuts?
My favorite was when the local DC news did a man-on-the-street with a guy who they identified as a “Government IT manager” about some kind of pay freeze or shutdown that was being debated (this was 5-6 years ago). The guy was bitching about making ends meet, etc. Bitch, if you’re really a “Government IT Manager”, you’re in the motherfucking $110k – $130k range.
Spending more than you make sure does make life difficult.
Yeah but in DC…that qualifies you for WIC. [Sarc]
I drank too much last night. Actually had a headache when I woke up. If I have a headache from drinking, that means I drank way too much. Ugh… I finally feel a little better after a couple of beers. Cachaca, that stuff really put a whumping on me, lol.
It was even worse, because my wife went to work and I didn’t even wake up, and I’m thinking oh shit, she’s probably mad because I guess I’m silly and annoying when I drink a lot of rum… but she called me a couple of hours ago and seems in a good mood, dodged a bullet on that one. The only thing worse than hungover is hungover and mad wife.
She was probably just happy not to have you pestering her for sex.
I called my doctor and she said I was too drunk for sex… wait, that never happened… I … ugh, never mind.
Wife: “My doctor says I need to abstain from intercourse for 4-6 weeks.”
Husband: “What does your dentist say?”
That’s the spirit!
You’re putting a dent in that collection of yours?
It’s seriously dented. Thing is, there’s always more. I gave my son-in-law the Blantons and the bottle of Four Roses single barrel.
Anyone of you guys “pragmatic” libertarians? Problem is I don’t see how that will work. Libertarianism doesn’t promise the elites anything except losing money and power so them adopting minor elements is unlikely.
And while Fabian socialists can claim any new program or budget increase is a victory for libertarians it doesn’t work the same way. Any lower budget increase or new government program that is not as terrible as its proponents wanted is more government and more spending. Not even an actual budget cut is possible.
Also libertarians suffer from serious factualism and poor leadership. I mean libertarians have not been shown to be even good pragmatists. See Johnson/Weld.
Weld is not a libertarian and Johnson is a goofball. That being said, libertarianism is always going to be a small very loose knit thing, by it’s very nature. Most humans are dumb and perfectly content to be slaves begging for handouts, as long as they’re getting those handouts and don’t need to think about it too much.
Nick Gillespie has a sad…
Also not a libertarian.
Anyone know who else was not a libertarian?
Most Reason writers?
Michael Hihn?
Bully! Goober!
Who do you consider to be a libertarian?
Pope Jimbo is the only True Scotsman.
Well he is Pope after all…
*blushes*
Is it because my eyes glaze over whenever the rest of you guys go on a rant about the various philosophies/flavors of libertarianism?
And would HayekSplosives be the closest we have to a True Scotsman given that she consorts with a kilt wearer?
Her name is RoadSplosives now.
/new split
The kilt is cultural appropriation!
I am more Scottish than he is, but he is 25% Irish, so there is that.
He does say “Fuck off, Slaver”, a lot to the pretentious liberal musicians with whom he plays and hobnobs, so he is being a brave glib when possible.
I will be Hayeksplosives again when back home…
Have you considered publishing a newsletter?
Comment sections are the new newsletters.
Also Goober Bully!
Libertarianism doesn’t promise the elites anything except losing money and power so them adopting minor elements is unlikely.
You just have to make them an offer they can’t refuse (and hope they don’t know about NAP).
Oh the irony.
Minnesotan Glibs – How worth it, or not, is a trip from the Twin Cities to Mount Rushmore? My wife wants to go. I… can’t imaging anything worse. Sit in a car for 10+ hours to go look at a monument to Big Government doesn’t do anything for me.
Are there any other cool things to do within a closer distance that do not involve the words “cabin” or “camping?” Nothing against those two thing, in fact every vacation we’ve taken in the last decade has included those words. I think my wife is looking for something a little different.
(The Dells are too commercial for either of us to enjoy, I think)
Are there any interesting American Indian heritage sites to go see? Any impressive industrial or natural phenomena worth drive to and checking out?
I hated the Dells before it was cool.
I hated things before hating things was cool.
I’m getting my son to read A Wrinkle in Time now so that I can take him to the movie and teach him 1) everything you like will be shit on 2) how to hate.
I hated a Wrinkle in Time.
Before it was cool?
It, along with Lord of the Flies, were two early books that stoked libertarian / anti-authoritarian understanding in a very young Leap. My parents, and especially my Dad, came from the same strain of Catholic / hippie / anti-authoritarianism that the book is written from.
I’ve been secretly attempting to replicate it in my son, and it might be working.
I actually really don’t remember much of. I read it in 4th grade. I just remember I didn’t like it. Then again I never enjoyed any book I was forced to read, so that probably has something to do with it,
I recently read the whole series. They get progressively more Christian as the series continues.
I *love* Wrinkle in Time, read it a bunch of times when I was little and once or twice as an adult. I got the whole series from Book of the Month forever ago and haven’t read them.
I’m not a very good Catholic but would you recommend them anyway??
There
‘swill be a movie??? Chris Pine is the dad. Huh?OMG the casting looks…. um… I don’t know how to put this.
Forced?
It’s the MOST IMPORTANT MOVIE OF OUR TIME*, dontcha know?
*according to Vanity Fair, or Slate or some other rag like that
Not a Minnesodan. But, I did drive from Indiana to Mount Rushmore. It was very worth it. Check out the Badlands and Wall Drug. Of course, you will be reminded to check out Wall Drug by a road sign every mile or so, for about 1000 miles, so you probably will not forget. I enjoyed SD a lot, you should definitely go, when it’s a lot warmer than it is right now. And if your wife likes black hills gold, there’s an added bonus.
My wife is the kind of woman who would rather spend a weekend learning to pan for gold than to wear it.
Aka a keeper.
You’re lucky. And you can do that also.
Aberdeen has Storybook Land which I think I liked more than my nieces.
Continue on to Colorado and get some intoxicants?
I’ve only visited Mount Rushmore because we were driving from Boston to Calgary. I don’t recall any other sights around. Also, it was in January.
The Black Hills are respectable and have lots of space to get away in. The Roosevelt National Park (which is less about him and more about the grasslands/ mountains transition) has free ranging mega-fauna but lacks most top of the food chain predators.
Devil’s Tower NM has great climbing and is fairly unique as a large geologic formation.
There are number of interesting battlefields from the Indian Wars period scattered throughout the area. Some are well known (Little Bighorn) and others less known but almost all look like they did during that period.
Of course there are many sights related to Lewis & Clark anywhere close to the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. With luck you can accidentally “forget” to see Rushmore since I hear rumor that “Team America” has changed their base of operations.
Absolutely worth it. Rushmore is the least interesting part of the trip.
The Black Hills are one of my favorite places. As Hyp mentioned, you need to visit the Badlands on the way. Wall Drug was funny, and worth a single visit, anyway.
Once you get into the Black Hills, I recommend Custer State Park. You can stay at the State Game Lodge, where my favorite President, Silent Cal, used to hang out. Civilized place and good restaurant. Bison wandering everywhere. Lots of hiking, fishing and beautiful drives. Definitely check out Spearfish Canyon and Deadwood, both fun places.
The Dells suck.
Yeah, I definitely agree, Rushmore is the least interesting part of SD. Drive up just to see it and take some pics.
Thanks Tundra. I could get behind a trip like that with a visit to Rushmore tacked on as a side thing.
Maybe I can convince the wife to do a rolling trip where we break the travel up into 2 or 3 days on the road with over-nights in campgrounds. Or maybe I can suck it up and just sit in the car for a whole day.
It’s an easy drive. 80MPH limit where everyone drives 90.
Rapid City is a nice town, too. Surprisingly cool with a lot of fun restaurants and bars.
Man, I went and it was totally worth it. Not so much for Rushmore itself, but the Badlands are terrific. There are other cheesy things to do along the way too, like the Mitchell Corn Palace (fun place for a photo opp and to stretch your legs), Wall drug (cheesy but fun), and the Black Hills, which aren’t cheesy but are very cool. If you like caves and history, that is. Then see Rushmore, and go on to the Reptile Zoo/Museum. Then either drive back, or go to Devil’s tower. Flying back from Colorado is definitely an option, cause it’s a long drive that’s fun the first time, but kinda tedious the way back.
Btw, the reason the Badlands rock is that they are gorgeous, and every time it rains Sweet new fossils (like entire bones and skulls of mammals and tortoises) are exposed. Illegal to pick up, and I’m not saying I have, but…
That is how you met your squeeze? I thought he looked a bit older than you at our meetup, but I didn’t realize he was an outlaw fossil…
It ain’t the years, it’s the mileage.
Nah, in seriousness he has about 16 years on me. We met in Blaine at a bar he was working at. Could we be less classy? I don’t know. All I know is that he gets all the attention when we go out, because he’s got that charm that could sell ice to an Eskimo.
Maybe we should do a mini twin cities Glib get together for his 60th birthday. It is Jan 5. We could go to Maple Grove–not a bad drive from where we are. Or if you want to slum it, there is Route 47 bar in Frdley very near our humble home.
Hayeksplosives protonmail etc etc.
He’s a veritable child compared to OMWC.
Hmm, if I recall right, you booked a homicidal maniac to play music for my 60th party.
Pretty sure that’s what Hayek is doing, too. Did you see the guest list?
(But, wow, that was a GREAT party!)
He’s a veritable child compared to OMWC.
There’s a joke in there somewhere, but I’m too lazy to find it.
That was a fun place, and there was a little dinosaur museum next door to.
Let me say, that I would never have voluntarily gone to Mount Rushmore on my own. I agree with most of the other commenters here that you can see it, but that the stuff around it are much better. In fact, the Black Hills would have been awesome if they would never have built Mount Rushmore in the first place. It would have been like the badlands around Medora, ND. Beautiful, wild and not visited by many people.
Have you been to the North Shore? Pay the Bluefin resort their money and stay in comfort right on Superior. They also will borrow you mountain bikes or kayaks. The scenery is just as nice too.
If you do go to Mount Rushmore, my tips:
1) Corn Palace is a nice stop to break the tedium.
2) Deadwood is a nice afternoon trip to see a corny tourist trap
3) Wall Drug is also a corny tourist trap, but you have to stop to appreciate the true genius of capitalism that it is.
4) Mt. Rushmore is a couple hour stop at best, so go see the Badlands and Custer state park. You can try fishing, but it is tough because the lakes get hit pretty hard.
5) For a return trip, head north into the NDak badlands/Teddy Roosevelt National Grasslands. I like them better because they are prettier/bigger than the SDak ones and hardly any people. And on the way home, you can stop at MikeS’ house and visit him.
* I like the Dells for multi-family vacations. The kids can run rampant while you parents can sit in hot tubs and drink.
** NEVER pay to go inside the Crazy Horse monument. You can see that half-finished piece of rock from the hiway just as easy as you can see it from their parking lot.
One of the things I like about entering Western NoDak is they have (or used to have) big signs saying “welcome to North Dakota. We proudly announce the completion of our mountain removal project,” since visitors have either come from the Black Hills or the Tetons/Northern Rockies.
There used to be (still is?) a billboard just before you crossed into Montana that said something to the effect of: “Custer was alive when he left North Dakota.”
Hey Jimbo! Haven’t seen you on here for a while. I hope you had a great Christmas!
And yes, everyone is welcome stop by and visit me. I never get any visitors. 🙁
Yeah, crazy start to December workwise, then went on a week long vacation with the family. It was hard to get my usual allotment of fuck off time on here.
Hope you had a great Christmas too.
If you need to set up a corporation with legal residence in a state that doesn’t hassle you much, stay overnight in a hotel in South Dakota for just one night. Get a Driver’s License and become a resident. Incorporate. Life is good.
What, is it a haunted hotel?
Nope, they seriously allow one to be a legal resident if sleeping there (and can prove it) one night per year. Many full-time RVers are residents of South Dakota because one must have a fixed address for all sorts of things.
Gotta take a detour through the bad lands – incredible and you don’t really even have to get out of the car.
Stop a Wall Drug for the giggles – you’ll see all the signs
Nobody’s mentioned Wind Cave NP yet.
The only reason to go to Mt Rushmore was during Independence day celebrations when they would launch fireworks from atop the monument. This was the most kick ass fireworks display I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately they stopped doing the fireworks in 2011 because they claim the fireworks put a bunch of perchlorate in the local ground water.
Without the fireworks is a 1-2 hour visit max.
Other than that, Badlands NP, Wind Cave NP, and Jewel Cave NM
If you have kids, in Rapid City there are two bits of kid entertainment. A Dinosaur Park in Rapid City atop a hill overlooking the city, and Storybook Island.
Then of course Wall Drug is good for a couple hours fun. Whenever I travel through SD on I90 I always stop and get a few donuts.
Heh. All this talk of the Badlands reminds me of how in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in the very beginning the first translator mistranslated it as the “Disagreeable Territory of Nebraska”.
Lol. Reminds me of the bad translation of General Electric “We bring good things to life” got translated into Chinese as “We bring your ancestors back from the Dead.”
I read the same about Pepsi’s “Come alive with the Pepsi Generation” slogan. Urban legend probably?
Maybe. Probably. It was before the interwebs were everywhere.
Remember “Dear Cecil”?
Because you ass Glibs may occasionally feel neglected, here are some asses just for you.
https://archive.is/DqhCt
Didn’t need to go past 1.
Nice.
Orgy.
However, I wonder what is going on with #27 and #28. Photoshop? Butt implants?
15
I will frappe to that.
5 and 15
32. I don’t think she’s doing that right.
I’m not sure if I shared this story a couple of months ago when it happened, but the story about the Egyptian Tramadol smuggler reminded me, especially when someone wrote something like “why smuggle that garbage drug?”
My 82-year-old father fell in October, breaking his ankle and two vertebrae. He needed surgery to have a plate inserted in the ankle. Wow, a broken back and a metal plate screwed into the ankle bones, sounds super-painful, doesn’t it? Ouch. Certainly a legitimate candidate for top pain medications.
But no, the hospitalist caring for my father apparently was taking the ‘opioid crisis’ very seriously, and decided that he wouldn’t give my father something simple like Vicodin or even a very low-effect opiate like Tylenol with codeine. He told my mother ‘he didn’t want to turn (my father) into an addict.” At 82. Not even temporary meds for multiple broken bones right after surgery.
I could get on my soapbox just about this part in general. A few years back they required all us docs to take ten full hours of pain management courses to renew our licenses, because the conventional wisdom was that we were ‘under-treating’ pain. (This is also when pain became the ‘fifth vital sign’ and they started those silly, invalid 1-10 pain self-rating scales with the ridiculous little smiley face guide). But no sooner was every doc treating pain appropriately, that now we were ‘over-treating’ pain, and it’s non-stop ‘opioid crisis! opioid crisis!’ all across the land. (Too often in medicine, you can see, like in this case, how things are done according to a huge pendulum swing to one extreme or the other, and the pendulum almost never returns to a logical middle setting).
But my old man is one of those classic stoic midwesterners, so he could probably tough it out when Dr. Do-little was too scared to prescribe appropriate analgesia. But here’s the kicker: this doc thought he should give my dad something for pain, so he put him on hearty doses of the aforementioned Tramadol.
Well, while Dr. Do-little was probably patting himself on the back for avoiding opiates, he failed to recognize that Tramadol is not to be used in patients with major kidney problems. Well, my dad had kidney cancer, and after having one removed, is only getting by on only one kidney.
Not long after the Tramadol started, my Dad started getting very confused and went downhill quickly from there. An actually competent doctor was on -call that night in the hospital, and realized my dad had gone into kidney failure, and was hanging from a thread. He had to be med-evac’ed emergently over 100 miles away from the little central Wisconsin hospital he was in to a place that could do emergency dialysis, which saved his life. And fortunately, within days his kidney came back on line, so he doesn’t need any more dialysis.
Yet he still has an indwelling Foley catheter in his penis now, with no timeline for removing that. I can just imagine how fun it must be to constantly have a tube way up into your pee-hole.
The important thing is, though, he was prevented from becoming an opioid addict! Score another victory for over-reacting to every damn thing and considering it a crisis, with no reasoning allowed.
Wow. Glad your dad is doing better. What a shame that happened to him for no reason other than hype.
started those silly, invalid 1-10 pain self-rating scales with the ridiculous little smiley face guide)
Those things are so stupid. I had to fill them out every visit after I broke a bunch of ribs. I always asked. “should I rate this in the non pain state I am in now, or for when I move wrong, yell FUCK ME and piss my pants moments?”
Ugh, 1-10. Right off the bat my personality doesn’t lend itself to stuff like that. I dislocated my knee during a jujitsu belt test about ten years ago and I was laying on the ground with that leg spasming, trying to reassure the nice girl sitting with me waiting for the paramedics who looked like she was going to cry, when they finally arrived and started getting me sorted out. They were awesome, for sure, but I remember when they asked me the 1-10 question I was stumped. I mean, it was hands-down the worst pain I’d ever felt, but were we talking an absolute 1-10 or a relative 1-10? It had to be absolute, or else the number wouldn’t mean anything to anyone else, right? Well, what’s the worst pain a person could feel? I’ve never been shot, or set on fire, or flayed alive, and I imagine all that hurts a lot more.
So we’re not 10. Is it 7? What’s a 5? I’d better not overrate it, because what if something hurts more later. Then the whole scale will be fucked up. So I said, “A 4, I guess”, which provoked shock and surprise, so I said, “…5? 6? I don’t know, it hurts, but I’m sure it could be worse.” Also, I didn’t have insurance and I knew pain meds cost money, so I wanted to keep my costs down. Also, I was working on not going into shock, so I was a little distracted.
^^this sounds like my thinking. Unless there’s bone protruding or arterial blood flowing, it’s not that serious, right?
Not anywhere near to that scale but strained my foot a little while walking last month on vacation. I tried not to let it interfere too much– those stairs aren’t going to get shorter/destination appear sooner/etc after all. Suck it up and keep moving. Bitching about it won’t help either.
Funny thing about strains is that sometimes if it’s a light strain working the joint out helps, as long as you’re careful to be easy on it and keep it well within the normal range of motion. Supposedly keeps the swelling down and lets blood get to the area.
Morphine is your friend. And you aren’t getting it for a 5 on the stupid pain scale.
Yeah, after I refused to commit to an answer (full disclosure, if someone asks me if it’s raining outside and I’ve just come in soaked to the bone, I’ll say, “It was when I was out there,” because I don’t want to be inaccurate) and asking how much more it would cost one guy was just like, “Look, we’re gonna have to put a drip in anyway. Just say 7 and we’ll give you some morphine.” “Do you think I really need morphine?” “…yes, when we walk down these stairs you’re gonna need the morphine.”
Exactly.
He was right. And then they had to saw the splint short to fit my leg in the ambulance. And then we drove through Baltimore. I think now I’d just ask for a notary, enough paper for a brief will, and a shotgun.
Anytime I’m asked about my pain on the 1-10 scale, my first thought is, “What the fuck does 1 mean and what the fuck does 10 mean?” I’ve never actually asked that question as I don’t think it would be helpful.
To me, a 10 is after you jump off the empire state building, that split second when you make contact with the pavement before life ends. So yeah, that’s always my problem as well. As for Tramadol; for me it has worked better for certain pain than oxycodone. When I take oxycodone I kind of get some relief, but with Tramadol I don’t even limp.
So outraged on your Dad’s behalf. Pretty damn close to my late Mom’s experience with pain meds. She was also 82 at the time.
Absolutely insane.
Uffda. I’m sorry to hear about that. I know how you feel. My father had Guillon-Barre disease that was misdiagnosed at the beginning.
You want to beat the quack with an iron bar.
Rawr! This crap makes me mad. I had a severe ankle/leg injury years ago (foot 180 degrees and about an inch gap from broken rib and fib), and have never been the same. Add to that an immune system type arthritis and whammo, I have occasional major pain at unpredictable moments. So I take about 40 Vicodin a year, and only when I need them. Last time I requested a refill, doc paused and said it had been less than 1 year since the previous 40. I pointed out how long We had known each other, what my job is, and that an average of less than one per freaking week is unlikely to be an addiction, so she relented. But, man what a pain.
Best wishes for your dad. Opiods are gifts from nature.
Sorry. I’m glad your dad is doing better. I hope he continues to get better.
Ugh. Sorry Doc. I hope he is as tough and cantankerous as you are.
ugh, that’s awful. And it is really frustrating.
My husband’s dealing with shingles right now and getting the same damn thing. They want to give him only seven pills of Tyl/cod at a time. Tthat’s maybe two days worth. It’s absurd. THE original oxy prescription no pharmacy would even fill. DUDE FEELS LIKE HIS SKIN IS ON FIRE, can we please get him something for that?
The War on Drugs is truly morally wicked.
Nowhere near the same deal your dad had to deal with, but I’ve got umbilical hernia surgery coming up on the 22nd. I’m trying to get laparoscopic but it looks like they’re gonna do it the old fashioned way. Everything I’ve read online is people regretting not taking the oxy or the fentanyl that they’re prescribed for fear of getting addicted or what-have-you and then being in severe pain for the first few days. In the current climate, I’m worried they’re gonna send me home with a pile of Advil and tell me to put ice on it. I’m planning on stocking up on bourbon, which has been my family’s tried-and-true pain reliever and general purpose restorative for generations.
Yes, take every pain med offered. Stay ahead of it. I had two c-sections. First one, no pain meds after the fact. I WAS A MORON. Second one, stayed doped up and healed faster and was more mobile much faster.
Jesus.
That’s enraging.
Was just reading the “drug-free school zone” story in the ol’ mag. This shit has got to end. But how?
Time to purge Oscar Wilde?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde#Wilde_v._Queensberry
Since he:
On the other hand he wrote this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_under_Socialism
And this:
Nothing like a bunch of cucks chasing their dreams at Starbucks.
In a socialist society, people will have the possibility to realise their talents; “each member of the society will share in the general prosperity and happiness of the society.” Wilde added that “upon the other hand, Socialism itself will be of value simply because it will lead to individualism” since individuals will no longer need to fear poverty or starvation. This individualism would, in turn, protect against governments leveraging their power over their citizens.
This is orbital bombardment grade derp right there. A dash of naive utopianism mixed with a complete ignorance of incentives followed by a pinch of conclusions not borne out by their premises.
It’s literally saying “people will get to be their true selves when they can spend all day at leisure” followed by “people, by virtue of being at leisure, are protected from tyrants.” The first statement is weapons grade stupidity, but the second statement is burning out the crystal in my derpometer.
Seems to forget that someone is going to have to produce goods and services.
Probably can’t have everyone constantly at leisure, or how will they avoid that starvation they don’t need to worry about? I don’t think ‘sending out for pizza’ will even be an option.
There won’t be protection from tyrants, Mr. Wilde, as one would quickly arise, first to get everyone working again perhaps, but then the most scary part will inevitably follow.
Sounds to me like Scarlett and her sisters on the porch at Tara while Mammy and Big Sam and the rest of the darkies provided for their every whim.
Back at Casa after a very nice visit with family. Slick flight home – no delays.
No politics to speak of (sister in law works in news media and is an off-the-rack liberal, but was pretty chill on the rare occasions it came up). Younger niece’s boyfriend not predicted to make it to summer; nice kid, but the vibe just wasn’t there. Eldest niece’s boyfriend looks like a future husband; steady guy with a sense of humor.
Dean Beasts now snoring on their beds, Mrs. Dean pondering dinner (looking like steak!). Not going to work tomorrow – the damn bond lawyers can sweat another day, we’ll still close in time. Life is still good.
Any day I wake up on TOP of the ground is a good day. 🙂
Thoughts?
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice…?
*fool me once, shame on you
Screwed that one up.
Sort of reminds me of the typical media feel good story, like Arab Spring. I don’t expect this to tun out well. Maybe the new guy, same as the old guy, is just setting this dude up to steal more from.
I’m sure the “new guy” was a major part of the redistribution in the first place. Not sure what his angle is though? Maybe he realizes that their redistribution was a disaster? Or he wants to show he is different to appease other countries? Or even his own citizens to keep the situation from going from under his control? China might want to buy the land? Or that the guys seizing the land are Mugabe loyalists?
I don’t think anything good will come of this. I’d love to be proven wrong.
“…people used state security forces to force them off their farms, sometimes in the middle of harvesting…”
Sometimes, my ass. ‘Land reform’ nearly always takes place just before or during the harvest. Afterwards the fields fall fallow. Look at Mexico. Look at Venezuela. Crops in the field, ready to harvest after all the hard work is done and risks taken? Here they come. Rob Smart is an idiot if he returns there. He’s gonna end up on the wrong end of a machete as sure as the sun rises in the east, probably during next year’s harvest season.
re: weather, Albuquerque is now 81 days without precipitation, the eighth longest stretch since some time in the 1880s of somesuch. Supposedly we have a big high-pressure pocket parked over us driving off wintery weather systems. So it’s been fairly warm for December. Like, warmer than some weeks in October.
So it made a wrong turn, doc?
It got all the way up to -10 today. Heading for -23 overnight. *snort*
50s today.
One year, maybe 2011? we had negative temperatures. -7 in the valley, plus tons of snow. Like, a foot. And the roads were so icy. I worked for an attorney then and he was a hardass, so he insisted we come in despite half the city being shut down. I must have spun out twice in my Corolla. So scary.
Shit, man, it wasn’t even *hat* weather in Chicago today. (And I was outside for about five hours.)
Yeah, it’s a balmy 2 outside of Chez SP at the moment. I’m sure this is a polar vortex deal, because it’s unheard of to have cold weather here in late December.
A few days ago our weatherman explained that, due to the way the jet stream is set-up, some Siberian air was shooting over the pole and down central North America. Even for the ice box I live in, this is the coldest Christmas we’ve had in 30-ish years.
So, Russians did it?
Just more proof that it’s always the Russians.
Russian conspiracy theorist.
ALOL!!!!!!
Thnax. Made it mself. I suck at Photoshop but my intentions are pure.
Fucking too cold here. 29F, fuck this shit, it’s not fit for human habitation.
-3 F in Minneapolis right now. (Wind chill– -16F0 Should be a balmy 7F tomorrow morning on my walk to work. I call this “swearing weather”, because if it’s windy I just walk around exclaiming: “FUCK.. fuck fuck fuck fuckity-fuck-fuck!” Don’t care what the other lunatics in this neighborhood think of me.
Was 9F when I went out to run some errands. Don’t know what the wind chill was. With the heated seats my buns/back of my thighs were on fire, while the top of my legs were still frozen cold. It’s like frying a frozen hamburger in a pan.
Just saw that Tucson is 80 degrees warmer than Minneapolis, including wind chill.
I changed out 2 Compressors today, Drove to Commerce near L.A. 55 minutes, not bad.
Decided to bump a compressor to check phase and nope, switch legs and nope. I said Huh? and found I dropped a leg and was single phasing on both units.
So now I’m an Electrician, I found my shorts high on a wall, but the Taped Kearny nuts were in the way, and improperly sealed, creating a very sparky scene. So I get to go back and fix a Commercial Electricians incompetence, at least I get paid well, and didn’t get the pissed shocked out of me.
I found my shorts high on a wall, but the Taped Kearny nuts were in the way
Which was the style at the time…
I laughed,
Rum and eggnog, yummy… oh noes, I’m drunk again!
?
I thought you made ‘nog with brandy
*not that it matters.
I make it with rum. Sometimes I use cola and skip the nog, too.
Bourbon for us, but, as noted above, we use that shit for just about everything.
We are out of eggnog. Damnit.
eggnog martinis for all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyKfRv2vNds
Political Immorality and Personal Immorality
. It is thus inevitable that many of those participating in this immoral system will combine their immoral politics with immoral personal conduct.
I think the connection is reversed. IMO, authority isn’t inherently immoral. Improper use of authority and/or overstepping one’s authority is what is immoral. Who tend to do such things? People who are personally immoral.
Was it Frank Herbert who said something to the effect of, “Power doesn’t corrupt, it attracts the corruptible.”
^This. Does it really matter which way it is? Same result.
That was a major point of “the Road to Serfdom.” Hitler didn’t create the situation that elevated him to unchecked power, he took advantage of it. He would never have made it in a healthy and free society that had a check on power.
To my chagrin I’ve never read “The Road to Serfdom” although it’s on my list.
It’s an interesting point. There wasn’t anything particularly unique about Hitler. Every society and every generation has any number of Hitlers, Churchills, Alexanders, whoever, who go about their lives as regular people. I suppose it’s a case of “cometh the hour, cometh the man.”
And that last bit was a late Christmas gift to y’all. I pitched it nice and slow, right over the plate.
I was firm yet polite when I called a major corporation’s call center today. We sorted it out. I will dutifully fill out a change-of-address-form to change my address from the address where I am currently residing to exactly same address, where I have not stopped residing, and where I continue to receive mail that the United States Post Office considers officially undeliverable. Because the USPS, despite the wild advances in IT, no longer feels capable of sorting street addresses to PO Boxes. And then some clerks will hand me boxes from Amazon without even asking me for a POBox #, because, yeah I know that guy, here ya go. Have a nice day.
I got some letter from the Post Office today wanting me to become a Postal Reporter.
Fat chance.
“Mail Snitch Ted” has reality show written all over it. The poster has your barcode reader shooting lasers like Han Solo.
OT: After stopping at the overpriced modern furniture store (it’s not an addiction!), we popped into the closest small grocery store to buy some additionals to go with supper.
Man, anyone who slams Walmart can go jump off a cliff. We like to buy these sesame crackers. At Walmart the box costs $2.43ea. At the nearby grocery store? $4.95
A package of line caught tuna – is $1 at Walmart. Same thing at the local store? $2.45
The small grocery chain is locally owned and all that, plus they have a great deli case, while serving more of an upscale clientele. But the prices on their normal stuff is highway robbery, only buy a few items there for convenience. Walmart, or Aldi’s certainly lets us stretch our food $$$ a lot further. These “Big Businesses” help poor – or cheap Dutch – people more than anything else.
I paid Double for cheese and Tomato soup at Vons yesterday compared to Walmart prices,mine has good produce as well
I had a co-worker who hated War-Mart for the standard ideological reasons, but she would repeatedly show up at the SuperCenter to not buy the things she wanted at prices she could afford. And then she’d tell me about it, thinking I’d care about her wokeness. I have worked with crazy people.
I… What?
Yes. We fired her eventually.
There’s a local chain of grocery stores in my area whose motto is, “We’d rather be good than big.” To which I say, “Talk to me when your meat section is anywhere near as good as Sam’s Club’s. Or when you’ve got a butcher. Or when you charge me less than $5 for a gallon of milk.”
Imagine that is what happens for everything. Hardware, clothes, etc. That is how it was growing up in a small town in NW Minnesoda. Everything was at a premium because there were no big box stores.
Going back home now, they have several big box stores and the local stores now have to compete. I have one old classmate who inherited the old department store in town and she is always bemoaning the fact that people aren’t buying local. I sort of feel bad for her. Growing up she was one of the wealthier kids in our class because her parents’ store was pretty lucrative. Now she has to scramble to stay ahead of the big box stores.
Nope. Everytime someone complains about big box stores, they either a) own the competition or b) have never not had lots of options to choose from.
That is nice furniture. Drools.
I’m a bottom feeder there – hitting up their clearance section at least once a month to look for bargains. I’ve gotten some nice bookcases there, along with an American Leather Aaron chair.
The salesmen there are used to my wife and I so don’t bother us too much.
I like well done more dean, but am a craftsman guy at heart. I have one, maybe two Stickley pieces left to finish out the living room. I about cried when we had to pass on this last year, on sale:
https://stickley.com/OurProducts_Details.cfm?id=2949&referrer=search&q=Highlands&SearchSubmit=SEARCH&view=complex&finish=&Collection=
Full set, matching chairs they no longer list, serving table and all.
Me too, and it kind of goes with our house, or at least what people with more money in our area have done with houses like ours. I’ve always been partial to mission as well.
+1 Leopold chair…
Is that one of those things where I don’t want to know the price?
Full set, on sale, was $15K. List,$ 25K. I don’t see the chairs on the site now. The full set was spectacular, and I think it would be a custom order now.
Ah, well.
*recovers*
Yeah, it’s gorgeous stuff. Just amused that the site doesn’t show any prices.
15K? does it give you a blowjob everytime you sit down?
That’s the sale price.
What’s worse, its worth every penny. I wish I could find a pic of the full set.
You must tell me some time how you’ve managed to prevent your beasts from eating your furniture. We don’t have anything without scratches, gnaw marks, or marker anymore.
Jay Nordlinger brought up the Queen Mother of Romania, Helen of Greece and Denmark, and her efforts to save Romanian Jews from extermination at the hands of the Third Reich. Fascinating woman. I’m excited about reading up on her. But before I’d remembered her name I read about Queen Marie of Edinburgh, the last queen of Romania, who reigned in the thirties. Tons of interest and intrigue there, but what caught my eye is that she was hugely affected by the Bahá’í faith, of all things.
Prince Philip’s Mom has an interesting Holocaust story too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_Battenberg#World_War_II
Thanks! Every day is an education with you guys.
The fuckers at the World Health Organization are coming up with their latest moral panic: gaming disorder.
The perpetual desire to boss other people around, however, is not considered a disorder.
Sounds like they need to be forcibly medicated and by they I don’t mean the gamers.
Wypipo. Obsess much?
Cardassiasns are the Mooslims of Star Trek DS9?
Razorfist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSaKL1gpJY0 agout 17:00 in
Shit don’t go so well for them at the end of DS9.
i was sad, it was just getting good..
BTW, Did we ever get that lemon meringue pie recipe, SP? I may have missed it.
No, sorry, I found I didn’t have it in digital form and haven’t had time to type it in.
Here is a great pie crust that is actually even easier to make perfectly than the one I have been using for many years.
I’ll type in the lemon filling recipe after dinner, in another comment right here.
Thanks. No hurry at all. Probably be trying to make it later this week.
Ooh, thanks!
Be sure to put a layer of chocolate on the bottom of the crust
Tonight’s movie is the classic Horror of Dracula with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
We Do It My Way
It’s only Boxing Day, so I’m putting this here.
Love their versions of Funky Duck and Dean Town. Pop on the headphones and walk around. Everyone looks like they’re getting the funk on.
They wrapped the barriers for Christmas. Lovely.
This is fun,
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/behind-the-lefts-tax-cut-freakout.php
One of the fun parts is that it’s glaringly obvious that the left doesn’t give a shit about “climate change” – they want the communism that comes with “fighting” it.
I think they want be “seen” as fighting without any real sacrifice, typical
I like what John Tamny has to say here, NN and Innovation,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2017/12/24/free-thinkers-must-never-allow-the-left-to-live-down-their-net-neutrality-predictions/2/#380c0dba70c8
Indeed
I remember the first time I ever saw a Plasma TV sometime around 1999 I think. It was the most beautiful screen I had ever seen at that time. It was also 50 inches, suffered burn in something awful, and was $10,000.
7 years later I bought the same size TV but at 1/4 the price and it was far superior in quality to what rich folk had put in their media rooms 7 years earlier.
Another 7 years and the price of a 50inch was 1/4 what I paid for mine in 2006, and the quality still better.
I like the fact that being Glib means you get the Best, important stories of the day. everyone goes to different Websites, and drag links back here, it’s a great idea, glad {{{Them}}} Built this Place, Home!
/ Ant People
Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham’s son shoots himself dead, 54 years after his father did the same and days before Meryl Streep movie about his mother is released.
Yeah…About his father’s “suicide”:
[Katherine Graham] married Felix Frankfurter’s brilliant law clerk, Philip Graham, who took over running The Post, which her father purchased at a bankruptcy sale. Graham built the paper but became estranged from Kay. She had him committed to a mental hospital, and he was clearly intending divorce when she signed him out and took him for a weekend outing during which he was found shot. His death was ruled a suicide. Within 48 hours, she declared herself the publisher.
Katherine in the library with a candlestick….
Just because you’re cynical, that doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
I played a Sesame Street record backwards once and it said ‘Meet Colonel Mustard at the bus stop.’ It’s a conspiracy I tells ya!
Did you go to the bus stop? Inquiring minds want to know The Rest of the Story.
The closest bus stop was 45 miles away. So no, I didn’t buy into the liberal conspiracy of public transportation. Clearly, there was a deeper meaning, as Jim Henson wouldn’t mislead me. So I spent months playing Clue, and treating each time as Ouigi experience…until I played the 45 from Rice Crispies backwards, and the message was clear. “Pop Elkcacarc Pans”… and that’s why I don’t use nonstick pans, it’s a plot by ‘big elkcacarc’.
/SP scurries to make sure she doesn’t have any Pop Elkcacarc Pans eavesdropping in her kitchen.
I just want to note, I’m a gentleman who can help protect your daughter from Pop Elkcacarc Pans, and she just happens to be my age. I am not apposed to arranged marriages.
And she’s cute, too! A pretty blond libertarian geek involved in the fitness industry. It would be perfect…except for that pesky husband she’s already toting around.
Well, we can take care of him…Come on, admit it, a semit jewish mother wants to meddle as much a full blown jewish mother.
Ugh… John Oliver is a Liverpool fan.
“Let’s hope Robert Mueller comes through in 2018!”
Oh you sad, delusional man.
yet another reason to cheer for Everton.
Bah.
So this was on Men in Blazers. Last week the guest was another big Liverpool fan – John Lithgow. Which I thought was awesome. You win some, you lose some.
Yeah… That’s the reason to dislike him
I was just watching a show on myths and legends, and they jumped to the conclusion that wolves in myths must always represent humans, because wolves rarely attack people. Of course they only rarely attack people, we’ve hunted them down to manageable numbers. Clearly these ‘scholars’ have never had to worry about a pack of wolves living anywhere near them, so their conclusion is there is no need to fear wolves. Fuck sake.
SP, I haven’t been on here much since Christmas. I just logged on and saw you posted recently. My wife loves her cricut maker. The first thing she made was a t shirt for me. It says, “taxation is theft”
God bless that woman. she gets me.
Woohoo! I knew she’d love it!
We need a pic of that shirt.
Did you get my mail with My Girls? Posting it now would still be sweet!
@ SP
Found it in spam. It didn’t have a subject, just the FWD, so I’m guessing that’s why.
That’s my Daughter Destin’e, and Her Daughter Brin Lee, I got that for Christmas!
Beautiful!
Indeed. The grandchild looks . . . wise.
Thanks! She’s Q pretty, and Baby Girl is a Cutie!
Well done, sir! You must be proud as hell!
^proud papa^
& proud grandpapa
I was very happy, My little Girl is a Hottie! So’s my Daughter!
TY!
SP- maybe put this thread as sticky above the Movie List post?, at least until morning links. Otherwise usual top post=active post will end up with OT stuff there.
You people are so resistant to change. *sigh*
Did you see? Glibs Know good movies, A list is required, I can help…
We’re Pavlov’s commentators. And if you want progress….
Arf?
Maybe I should be YUSEF the Latter, I’m always Late…..
As promised, for straffinrun, who is an enabler. Now I need to make one this week, too.
Lemon Meringue Pie
Pie crust for a 9 inch pie, blind baked
1/2 cup (40 grams) graham cracker crumbs (optional)
Lemon Filling
8 large eggs separated, 4 whites set aside
1/2 cup + 1-1/2 tbsp (85 grams) cornstarch
1-1/2 cups (300 grams) granulated sugar
2-1/2 cups (590 grams) water
1/4 tsp (1 gram) salt
1-1/2 tbsp (9 grams) finely grated lemon zest
1/2 cup (125 grams) lemon juice
3 tbsp (42.5 grams) unsalted butter
Meringue
1 tablespoon (8 grams) cornstarch
1/3 cup (70 ml) water
1/4 teaspoon (750 mg) cream of tartar
1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
4 large egg whites (previously reserved)
1/2 teaspoon (2 grams) vanilla extract
Crust:
Optional step before rolling out and blind baking the crust: Cover work surface with a sprinkled layer of graham cracker crumbs. Begin rolling dough disc, adding graham cracker crumbs to the top of the dough and under the crust on the work surface as you go. The crust should be fairly heavily covered in crumbs when finished. Blind bake and set aside.
Make the Filling:
In a small bowl, lightly whisk the egg yolks.
in a heavy stainless steel saucepan, combine the cornstarch and sugar and gradually whisk in the water until smooth. Cook over low heat, whisking constantly, until the mixture becomes thick, smooth, and translucent. Check with a thermometer to make sure it has reached 190F (88C).
Whisk a few spoonfuls of the hot mixture into the egg yolks. Add the contents of the egg yolk bowl back into the saucepan. Cook over medium heat; whisk constantly until the mixture comes to a boil.
Remove from heat and whisk in the salt, lemon juice and butter until the mixture is smooth. Strain the filling through a very fine mesh sieve. After sieving, stir in the lemon zest.
Cover with plastic wrap pressed down onto surface to keep it hot and prevent a skin from forming while you make the meringue.
Preheat oven to 325F (162C).
Make the meringue:
Mix cornstarch with water in small saucepan; bring to simmer, whisking as mixture thickens. When mixture starts to simmer and turn translucent, remove from heat. Let cool while beating egg whites.
Mix cream of tartar and sugar together in a small bowl. Beat egg whites and vanilla until frothy. Beat in sugar mixture, a little at a time, until sugar is incorporated and mixture forms soft peaks. Add cornstarch mixture, a bit at a time; continue to beat meringue to stiff peaks.
Remove plastic from filling and return to very low heat during last minute or so of beating meringue to make sure it is very hot when it goes into the crust.
Assemble:
Pour hot filling into pie shell. Immediately spread the meringue across the top of the pie, starting at the outer edges, then piling in the center. Make sure you cover about half the width of the edge of the crust so the meringue doesn’t separate. Create decorative swirls if desired.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until the meringue is golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on rack. Serve at room temperature.
Th only pie I like is chocolate pudding in a graham cracker crust. I’m so-fist-o-cated
That’s why you hang out here, with the rest of us top hatters!
RIght on. I’ll be giving that a shot Thursday or Friday. Thanks.
Oh ya. I am down with that. Copied and Pasta’d. Muchas Gracias.
My God, that sounds good. I am going to have to try that with a sugar substitute. That is probably blasphemy but Mrs. Suthenboy wont eat sugar and my intake of the stuff is dramatically reduced from what it was before I met her.