Midweek [DOT 28/9/22]

28/9/22 MegMegMcGee 27

Hope you’re having a great week so far!

Aww I already totally forgot about Madison Cawthorn

How Kevin McCarthy’s political machine worked to sway the GOP field
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/27/mccarthy-midterms-gop/

Good luck and stay safe to all those in its path

Predicting Hurricane Ian’s track has been difficult. An expert tells us why
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125366281/hurricane-ian-track-difficult-predict

Get ’em

‘I hope you suffer’: Ex-D.C. officer confronts Jan. 6 attacker in court Kyle Young was sentenced to seven years and two months in prison for the attack on police officer Michael Fanone, who was dragged into the mob and beaten
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/27/kyle-young-jan6-fanone-sentence/

The kids are alright

Stonks!

Stock futures rise slightly after S&P 500 hits new low for the year
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/stock-market-news-open-to-close-futures-live-updates.html

Sprots!

US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson missing below summit of Nepali ​​mountain
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/sport/ski-mountaineer-hilaree-nelson-missing-nepal-spt-intl/index.html

So, do you?

I think I could take a penguin

Have a great day!

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27 Comments

  1. I would totally be the errant penguin that strays off with my two dozen new best friends. Better Half would be the penguin coming after me to pull me back.

    In other news, it looks like the SPAC trying to acquire Trump’s failed Truth Social is every bit as scammy as one would suspect. I guess while Devin Nunes was ruminating with his dairy cows he didn’t let his imagination wander onto the topic of “what if I were put in charge of a new social media project helmed by an unhinged charlatan and of interest to only his hordes of unhinged faithful?”

    With the pound dropping it might be time to scoop up real estate bargains in old Blighty. Boy George has a place he’d like to unload. Boy George bought this at the age of 23, after the wild success of the album that either was called Karma Chameleon or had that song on it. I can’t remember and I owned that album.

    This listing doesn’t mention much of its history but I have done a little further research (I get up very, very early and am very, very bored.) BG’s original house was only part of this. At some point he bought the neighboring property from singer Sam Smith and combined the two. One previous resident of BG’s original pad was Marty Feldman.

    Don’t worry, the place is not haunted. Boy George and his boyfriend chained to a radiator and beat the Norwegian male escort at BG’s other place in Shoreditch, not here.

     

    • …picking up that real estate deal might be harder than you’d think…maybe it’s still easy for people trying to convert sketchy funds into property assets to pick up places they don’t live in the way they do in london…but I think I read something about banks in the UK withdrawing mortgage products so the financing opportunities aren’t what they were for some people, anyway?

      • Why wouldn’t you just pay all cash? And with any luck Boy George uses the same shell financial institution you do, chartered somewhere like the British Virgin Islands, or maybe the Isle of Jersey, to make the transaction even more seamless.

        I’ve been reading about Mortgage Meltdown. When two dozen banks, some of them quite large, and some of them “Building Societies” (meaning their raison d’être is to extend mortgages) in your country stop making long-term loans, even at variable rates, that hints at broad-based uncertainty about the financial health of the state going forward.

        I fear the British are in for a 1978–79-style Winter of Discontent. Throw in another 1992 Black Wednesday (when the pound crashed and George Soros made his vast fortune by betting against the currency) and that’s quite a lot on one plate.

  2. My fighting skills stop at chimpanzee, with a skip over eagle. I’ve had to bring out of control large dogs to submission before (it’s not easy and could result in killing them if I meant it) but a chimp will fuck you up. Not for nothing but a grizzly bear can crush a moose’s skull with a single swipe of its paw. I don’t care how bad ass you think you are—that bear would kill your ass in 5 seconds.

    • Oh, yes it would. Any bear would. Including pandas, which while cool-looking, are still BEARS.

      An average chimp is something like 5-7 times stronger than a human being. If one comes after you, it won’t end well for you.

      • Upon further review of the animal fighting list, I have comments.

        Who in the actual fuck thinks they can take an ELEPHANT bare-handed? Elephants are mean as fuck and kill all kinds of people. And they weigh TONS. I doubt they’d even notice you until you pissed them off and they crushed you.

        We’ve covered grizzly, but lion, gorilla, wolf, crocodile, and even kangaroo are going to be well beyond any human being. What would you actually do to a crocodile? You could punch them all day and it would have zero effect. Same with the others except they’d get mad and that would be the end of you.

        We covered chimps. Bad idea. They’re solid muscle and they bite.

        King cobra is barely feasible. I could see it if you’re fast.

        An eagle is just gonna leave, but if it decides to go after you, you wouldn’t like it.

        I think I could handle dogs, cats, geese, and rats. But avoidance would be my prime strategy.

        • I’m assuming it’s a bare knuckled fight to the death. Depending on what counts as a medium sized dog (female pitbull?), that’s where I’d die from bleeding out and exhaustion. Maybe I could kill an eagle who is intent on killing me because it is not in their nature to take on larger prey and therefore they don’t have the experience or skills for killing humans. But I would be in rough shape (probably blinded and missing fingers). Everything else on that list is guaranteed to kill me. And yes geese are naturally aggressive but I’ve got long strong legs and a deep loathing for the Canadian ones which can be channeled toward their cousins.

    • From your Guardian link:

      House investigators have also spent time in recent weeks examining Microsoft Teams chats and emails [emphasis mine] sent between Secret Service agents on security details for Trump and former vice-president Mike Pence that day, as well as discussions about invoking martial law even after the riot.

      Why didn’t they just set up a Facebook group and share cat videos and quotations misattributed to Gandhi and Mark Twain while they were at it?

    • The key to fighting a goose is you have to kick that motherfucker like an NFL player going for a 60 yard field goal.  Having grown up on and around farms, I learned how to deal with those aggressive motherfuckers.  There was a particular goose in my youth who would just randomly charge people for no reason other than he was a total asshole.  Believe it or not, certain breeds of roosters are also pretty tough to beat, but the same kicking technique also works well.

      • Just remember the Patriots-Dolphins snowplow game, and make sure you have a stable place for your plant foot. Barnyards can patches filled with, um, insecure stuff.

        You wouldn’t want to loose your footing and land in a big pile of, uh, insecurity.

  5. Checking it, ya’ll. Seems Ian is headed straight for my house. I doubt it will be too bad, though, because it looks like it drops to tropical storm levels right after landfall. So this isn’t a “board up your house” event, it’s a “bring in all the loose shit that can blow around” event.

    Hopefully, anyway.

    Sorry for dropping off the grid yesterday. I busted my ass to get a bunch of stuff done for work in anticipation of power failures this week. So you guys had to take a back seat.

  6. I had the shit beat out of me by a friend’s 10lb cat. She was moving and I was tasked with shutting the creature, already agitated by a 2+hour car drive, in the bathroom so they could unload the truck. There was no carrier. The cat, unhappy about the new surroundings and being taken from the safety of its person, jumped onto my head and proceeded to bite and claw the hell out of my head, face, neck, and shoulders. It was an unfair fight from the first since I didn’t want to hurt the frightened kitty and it had no such qualms about inflicting damage on me. It also had the advantage of speed and surprise.
    I wouldn’t bet on myself against any animal on that list.

      • That little thing bloodied me up, lol. It was sort of funny because she wasn’t allowed to have pets in the apartment and her landlord was there with the keys. She told him I was a crazy cat lady who refused to leave the cat alone for any reason ever. And he watched open mouthed while my cat attacked me. I don’t think he believed us but he didn’t ask any questions.

    • So, Clarence Thomas … *reviews notes*

      Let’s see, accused of sexual harassment. Check.

      Harboring an insurrectionist. Check.

      Failure to recuse himself from a case involving his wife’s insurrection attempt. Check.

      Committed fraud on disclosure forms. Check.

      I’m starting to think that Pubes is not a nice person.

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