Hope your week is going alright!
Better than this guy at least…
I can just hear his smarmy voice saying “Don’t you know who I am?”
Security Called in at Montana Airport to Handle ‘Frustrated’ Ted Cruz
https://www.thedailybeast.com/public-safety-officer-called-in-at-montana-airport-to-handle-frustrated-senator-ted-cruz
Stonks!
Stock futures are steady as investors juggle Fed comments and policy
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/22/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Sprots!
Look at these idiots!
Enjoy your Wednesday!
You can take Ted out of Boze, but you can’t take the Bozo out of Ted.
Look at’em Dook boys. Never meaning no harm, crashing Musk products since the day they were born.
Urban Meyer is a piece of shit disguised as a human being.
His success can be summed up as a slimy extremely overpaid dolt who lied and abused the fuck out of teenagers.
Yet completely failed when dealing with actual men.
His downfall shows how extremely inadequate yet somewhat talented (doubtful) people end up in jobs of high responsibility fuck things up and make extreme amount of cash.
However, to assholes like Urban power and status are the real currency. Cash is just a perk. To lose that power and status will eat away at that shit head despite his denials. Seen it many times reading about corporate types. He’s probably going absolutely insane with everyone laughing at him.
Every bit of thumbsucking about speech by psuedo-intellectual pundits boils down to blocking the speech of people who are abused by the Urban Meyers of the world.
The NY Times ought to be looking at the victims of people they have promoted and shielded over the years. But they want to put their thumb even harder on shutting the victims down.
It’s a longstanding problem at the paper — read this complaint which laid out the basic problem in*2015* but led to no change in the way they let victims speak in following years.
https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/lopez.513/Letter/Letter_to_NY_Times.html
NYT is about Comfort the comfortable, afflict the afflicted.
Aunt Pitty Pat had a spell of the vapors yesterday at Miss Ketanji Brown Jackson’s debutante ball yesterday:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lindsey-graham-melts-down-and-storms-off-during-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearing
(I cannot take the credit for the Aunt Pitty Pat sobriquet. That honor goes to Jerry-Netherland, one of the funniest and most interesting of Jezebel’s commenters.)
I love the fact that the judge calmly watched Lindsey’s hissy fit and waited for the next round of questions.
Do they really need to ask this question?
It’s interesting to me that 15% said they drank less.
It’s certainly possible a lot of people are lying. Although to be more charitable, I’m sure a number of people did a lot of drinking in bars with friends, and the loss of Tequila Tuesday Two For One Happy Hours at TGI Fridays after work had something to do with those numbers.
The guys and I are part of that 15%. I can probably count the number of drinks I’ve/we’ve had since March 2020 on my fingers because we pretty much only drank at the bar. I’ve never liked keeping booze in the house (4 boys and their friends in various stages of rebellion…), partly because my dad was an alcoholic and I prefer to keep temptation a little farther away than arm’s reach. I’ve always been far more likely to relax at home with an edible or a vape pen than alcohol.
I think we got a nice bottle of port on my birthday last year, there’s a small bottle of brandy for cooking, and we’ve bought a couple of single cans of beer here and there. Oh, and Husband has had the same bottle of Captain Morgan in his room since before the first lockdown, because he likes the occasional rum and Coke.
I’m one of that 15% too. I stopped going to bars and meeting friends at bars long ago. But for me, pre-pandemic, there was a lot of home entertaining going on among me and my friends, and a simple dinner, especially on the weekends, would turn into a well-lubricated hours-long gabathon. Not that anyone ever really got shit-faced, but two big glasses of wine an hour over the course of four or five hours adds up.
Now it’s just the two of us so dinners are quieter and the liquor volumes are way down and we’re on a Shady Pines sleep schedule. It’s a big reason why I rarely chime in on NOTs (we usually eat around 7 if Better Half isn’t on a call), then final walk with the dog, then a little reading/TV, then lights out) and why I’m often the first one to pitch my nonsense when the DOTs are posted in the pre-dawn hours.
I’m in the 25% that increased. Basically a ton of stress, and yes, alcohol is a shit coping mechanism. We’ve been scaling back but probably need to cut back even more.
I mostly drank at home and I drastically cut back when the pandemic started.
Alcoholism runs in both sides of my family and I noticed early on how I was coping with food a lot more, so it felt prudent to way cut back on alcohol just to avoid the risk of getting in a bad way.
So, clearly, those morons with the Tesla don’t understand that all those cars they see making street jumps on TV are specially reinforced so they don’t fall apart. Plus, there’s the whole making sure the street is clear thing. I’m also going to assume here that the driver is using daddy’s car and is going to have some ‘splaining to do.
It was supposedly a rented Tesla. I hope they sprung for the insurance.
Of course, once the insurance company spots this on social media, they’ll deny the claim. Either way, these idiots are going to need to pony up some money.
It’s amazing how stupid people are about TV and movie stunts. It’s like they’ve never watched a “making of …” show or Mythbusters or any of thousands of examples of how things actually work.
El Bitcoin Revolution no es bueno
https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-bitcoin/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Gee, who could have possibly foreseen that?
Oh, that’s right–everybody who wasn’t a crypto freak.
Our mayor, Mayor McSwagger, took his first three paychecks in crypto and robbed himself of a fair chunk of real money. He recently attended a crypto conference in Miami because he wants to turn New York into a crypto center, like Miami is moving toward.
Never mind the fact that we get frantic electricity conservation notices every summer from ConEd begging us to not use so much electricity because they and the grid can’t handle it as it is. Things will only get worse as the city oafishly and at great expense tries to decarbonize. There are plenty of people in New York who would like to buy and can afford to buy electric vehicles; that’s being held in abeyance because the city and Con Ed can’t get its act together to really authorize or, God forbid, actually provide charging stations.
I’d heard about that little stunt. NY state is already dealing with the problem of crypto mining and it’s only going to get worse.
https://www.marketplace.org/2022/03/11/crypto-miners-came-to-upstate-new-york-for-cheap-energy-some-regret-letting-them-come/
Our local Sinclair owned station had this guy constantly reporting on homeless people. You know you are a terrible person when even a Sinclair channel fires you for being too extreme!
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/03/proud-boys-jonathan-choe-fired
I hate this whole family as much or more than any republicans!
https://www.levernews.com/the-other-manchins-conflicts-of-interest/
Poor guy!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-jones-was-too-sick-to-be-deposed-by-sandy-hook-families-but-not-too-sick-to-host-infowars?ref=home
Don’t be fooled. Manchin is a Republican. He’s infiltrated the Democrats to fuck things up.
Paul Manafort was pulled off a Miami-Dubai flight for having a revoked passport.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-miami-europe-paul-manafort-de557d1773a150fa975769d7216fa54f
Note: that’s not an expired passport, it’s a revoked one. As in, did someone in the government know something crooked was up?
I assume his pardon would have removed grounds for revoking his passport based on his prior convictions. Dubai is where a lot of Russian oligarchs have been fleeing. This is weird.
It certainly seems like Manafort wasn’t planning on coming back.
oh i am praying alright!
You and me both.
“bless his heart”
https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/23/netherlands-says-goodbye-last-covid-rules
whoop whoop!
this isnt going to bite us in the ass at all!
anyways….interesting times suck and i hate them…i’d like to go back to just worrying about making rent k?
thx bai!
jeez… nukes,global warming,pandemic(s),rapid inflation,probable recession..
wheres my fucking meteorite?
i mean shit…one more cant hurt right?