Welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. Let’s get started.
Thanks to Osita for the song of the day.
Now for the hunks.
This would be a good one for Ace’s “Who dis” series.
He’s birthday boy Robby Benson.
Now for a pair of photos of a pair of models.
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Broke my rule on no unsnapped pants, but worth it IMHO.
That’s all I have for today. Thank you for your attention, thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, and y’all have a good day.
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I missed the guillotine at the Virginia rally. Laughed at the guy in the banana costume with the diss on Northam and Bloomberg.
https://wtop.com/gallery/media-galleries/gallery-gun-rights-rally-outside-va-s-capitol/
Seemingly everyone has forgiven Northam for his blackface stunt. Well, everyone that matters like the Democrat Party and the media (BIRM). Imagine if we had a GOP governor restricting the sacrament of abortion and it was discovered there was a 30 year old blackface picture out there. Every single hysterical report from Ground Zero would lead with that picture and the party leadership would bounce him or her out of office tout suite
I’m wondering if or how Virginians can peacefully resist the gun grab. Everyone applauds BLM when they shut down traffic, well everyone but people who have a life. I’m thinking they ought to take a page out of the lefties’ playbook and do a rolling traffic jam with 18 wheelers driving the lowest legal limit around some of the big cities every so often. If that happens you can be sure the media will lead with the stories of people harmed by the traffic which they ignore when the right people stop traffic.
Need more passive resistance to cripple the state and make them mull their decisions over
wakey wakey
Watched the Joker last night and thought it was excellent.
Interesting article
Sure, Warren may be eager to sic her Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on your mortgage lender if you fall afoul of some obscure clause, but that’s not the problem for most Americans. They’re much more likely to struggle with finding affordable housing in prosperous cities. In fairness, Warren does have a plan to ease the zoning regulations that cause the shortage — but for some reason she rarely talks about it on the campaign trail, possibly because it’s constitutionally dubious, but more likely because it would alienate her affluent suburban base.
Similarly, Warren is eager to forgive student loans — a $1.6 trillion transfer to some of the most affluent members of society — but not to attack degree creep, which has walled off most of the best jobs for those who hold a bachelor of arts while enriching a lot of colleges. She targets insurers and drugmakers, but not the hospitals and medical workers who drive most of our health-care costs.
Too many of her proposals are like this; they focus on corporate villains or billionaires while ignoring the much broader class of people that Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution dubbed the “Dream Hoarders” — the well-educated upper-middle-class people who are desperate to pass their privilege onto their kids, and are unhappy about the steadily mounting cost of doing so. They’re Warren’s base.
Unfortunately, the Dream Hoarders — and I include myself in their number — are a much bigger problem for the rest of America than the billionaires whose wealth Warren promises to expropriate. Those billionaires got that way by building companies that disrupted cozy local monopolies, and they fund coding camps for high-school dropouts; Dream Hoarders protect their professional licensing regimes and insist on ever more extensive and expensive educations in the people they hire. Dream Hoarders also pull every lever to keep their own housing prices high — and poorer kids out of their schools — while using their wealth to carefully guide their children over the hurdles they’ve erected.
Fun fact: Bobby Benson was Beast in the Disney cartoon version of the movie.
“Hoarder” really isn’t the best term for someone who just wants simply to pass on earned posterity to one’s children. It’s only hoarding if you’re deliberately putting up walls to keep others from the same aspirations.
You want to talk hoarding, let’s talk about the connected overclass of credentialed-but-uneducated “elites” that are pilfering the taxpayer for worthless dungheaps like Hunter Biden, Romney’s and Pelosi’s kids.
I can’t get clarification on this…
I have a G17C. The barrel is compensated (has holes in it; for mare) which is I believe is now illegal.
WTF?
*cough Ivy League Admittance Restrictions *cough
The Dream Hoarder doesn’t want to simply pass on earned posterity. They want to codify their privileged to wall other’s out. It’s done in many, many ways. By liberals.
Assault Weapon, MJ. Please turn it in, along with any knives you might have. Preemptive.
watched the Joker last night and thought it was excellent.
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I’m glad you liked it. I thought it was really good.
Hard to watch…so much tension every scene. Ended with a bang for sure.
This is stupid though. https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/are-you-a-dream-hoarder/
I got to the first question and couldn’t answer. It’s not a yes or no.
I get it, the left wants to make it a $$ thing. And, the game is controlled by people with money. But not *all* people with money.
The questions are stupid and leading.
Unfortunately, the Dream Hoarders — and I include myself in their number — are a much bigger problem for the rest of America than the billionaires whose wealth Warren promises to expropriate. Those billionaires got that way by building companies that disrupted cozy local monopolies, and they fund coding camps for high-school dropouts; Dream Hoarders protect their professional licensing regimes and insist on ever more extensive and expensive educations in the people they hire. Dream Hoarders also pull every lever to keep their own housing prices high — and poorer kids out of their schools — while using their wealth to carefully guide their children over the hurdles they’ve erected.
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This is spot on and is def Warren’s base.
I can’t remember if we’ve ever discussed this but I believe that society is fracturing along class lines where it hasn’t in the past. It’s just the top few percent of the middle class and everything else basically because the distribution has shifted.
I want to pass on a working bidness to sell or operate as my daughter chooses. Pretty sure that’s the definition of posterity. The notion of “dream hoarder” is going to be twisted by Bernouts to include normal people passing on earnings and possessions.
Since when are ported barrels outlawed?
MJ – Ragnar road thinking. last year we did 6 runs each. The other option is three runs each but longer. THis is what they’d look like :
Runner 1 9.5, 13, 9, 11.6
Runner 2 13.2, 9.8, 11
Runner 3 9.9, 7.1, 11.7
Runner 4 12.5, 14.3, 5.6
Runner 5 6.4, 13. 5, 9.8
Runner 6 6.5, 13.9, 13.7
Longer runs, but also twice as much time between runs.
include normal people passing on earnings and possessions.
Death tax, take it all! It’s not theirs, it’s ours!
Dream hoarders have turned college degrees a requirement for simple jobs. Who won’t even interview someone if they don’t have the degree. Who decided that Dog trimmers need a license. WHo have made opening a business so FREAKIN hard, that only people with huge means can do so. Laws, and codes, and sign ordinances. ALL these things have made it harder to get your own dream. And, by definition, the people who hold these levers are those who have achieved these things.
It’s only hoarding if you’re deliberately putting up walls to keep others from the same aspirations.
That’s her point: they do just that.
Dream hoarders are college teachers and counselors who know all the tricks and use them to get their own kids in college – the stupid bs stuff that really has nothing to do with achievement or ability. They use the tricks and the universities set these mysterious hurdles up pretending that they mean something.
Dream hoarders have destroyed Hollywood and music industry.
I’ve ranted at Ace’s on the subject before; what I believe is that there is actually a cultural conflict being mistaken for a class conflict, as two related but different cultures that have uneasily co-existed for nearly 250 years have simply grown apart and gone from competing and grumbling to the edge of outright warfare. Making things worse is that one is also importing others to tip the scales in its balance for the immediate feud, without a clear idea of what happens after.
All the kids of famous folks just getting into Harvard – connected, etc. In my life, I don’t know a SINGLE person who was admitted to Harvard. not one. Yet, ask among the halls of congress, and every other one of them has a kid that was in Harvard or Yale. Because they’re smarter? yea right. These are the dream hoarders.
“Dream Hoarders” got theirs, then pulled up the ladder after them. Those people. Entitled fucks who think they should be a sort of American aristocracy.
I’ve ranted at Ace’s on the subject before; what I believe is that there is actually a cultural conflict being mistaken for a class conflict,
The two are intertwined, so you are correct that there’s a cultural conflict.
I think the entertainment industry is a prime example. The nepotism in there is probably worse than politics.
And meanwhile, we have to listen/watch their utter crap.
Big Tech are Dream Hoarders. They made it big, now they keep anyone else from doing what they did to get there.
All the kids of famous folks just getting into Harvard – connected, etc. In my life, I don’t know a SINGLE person who was admitted to Harvard. not one. Yet, ask among the halls of congress, and every other one of them has a kid that was in Harvard or Yale. Because they’re smarter? yea right. These are the dream hoarders.
I know one person who was accepted to Stanford. She was the daughter of a teacher, and was a couple years ahead of me in school. Her mom was a hard-core prog.
The cultural Left is trying to enshrine their culture as the ruling class, thus the confusion.
I think the entertainment industry is a prime example. The nepotism in there is probably worse than politics.
Gwyneth Paltrow is exhibit 1. Random women in community theaters are better looking and more talented, but aren’t descended from Blythe Danner.
See, now I’m curious. I just picked on talentless ego – and what do I find:
“Taylor spent her summers at her parents’ vacation home at the Jersey shore. Her first hobby was English horse riding. Her mother put her in a saddle when she was nine months old and Swift later competed in horse shows. At the age of nine she turned her attention to musical theatre and performed in Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions of “Grease”, “Annie”, “Bye Bye Birdie” and “The Sound of Music”. She traveled regularly to New York City for vocal and acting lessons. However, after a few years of auditioning in New York and not getting anything, she became interested in country music. ”
Rich dad moved her to Tenn and rich mom knocked on doors. They got a paltry record deal, but things really heated up when she re-signed with a label that was a client of her rich, stock broker dad.
I remember talk about that early in her career. Jessica Simpson followed a similar path IIRC.
Ariana Grande. Miley Cyrus.
Tool
*runs
Anyone named “Barrymore”. (She hasn’t done much lately outside Santa Clarita Diet, has she?)
https://www.tulsi2020.com/press/2020-01-22-rep-tulsi-gabbard-files-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton-over-defamatory-statements
L:R. MJ:Hotspur
https://tinyurl.com/sonfa64
I got March 7, 2020 in the Tulsi Gabbard Suicide pool.
yay, training class!
Jay, are you learning not to bite?
If they can just get him to stop peeing on the couch it would be a plus.
My advice to Tulsi is to make a public statement that she never bench presses without a spotter.
I’ll have you know I haven’t had to wear a muzzle in a long time.
“had to wear” and “choose to wear” are two different things.
I paid good money for that, harumphf
MJ – Ragnar road thinking. last year we did 6 runs each. The other option is three runs each but longer. THis is what they’d look like :
Runner 1 9.5, 13, 9, 11.6
Runner 2 13.2, 9.8, 11
Runner 3 9.9, 7.1, 11.7
Runner 4 12.5, 14.3, 5.6
Runner 5 6.4, 13. 5, 9.8
Runner 6 6.5, 13.9, 13.7
Longer runs, but also twice as much time between runs.
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Whoa. What do you prefer? I can train for either but I’m much more of a short distance guy.
What do you prefer? I can train for either but I’m much more of a short distance guy.
Your wee little legs can’t keep up?
I’m trying to step back a bit and look at the dream hoarder thing differently.
Is it people pulling up the ladder after they’ve climbed it? I think for the vast majority is no. They are just playing the game and are doing it well. Some of that is simply that they have the wealth to do so.
So who is pulling up the ladder?
I think it’s the technocratic politicians. They build a really complex machine because they can. It’s just so shocking that the machine they build basically represents their group. Sooo shocking. Some of that might be by choice but my guess is the vast majority of the maze is built to favor themselves because it’s all they know. They just don’t know how regular people live.
Everyone goes to college. Even their dumb kids go to college so if you can’t go or decide not to, you don’t deserve what comes next.
Everyone uses connections to get their kids a summer job, an internship, or a job. If you can’t do that, it’s your fault.
I dunno. Just dick sippin’ here. Not sure if this makes sense.
If it makes sense for you to dick sip?
Absolutely.
*kicks MJ and Hotsquirt in the giblets*
Laws, and codes, and sign ordinances. ALL these things have made it harder to get your own dream.
“Beasn, what is your problem, these are good things to keep you and the general public safe”. — beasnparentalunit.
Everyone goes to college. Even their dumb kids go to college so if you can’t go or decide not to, you don’t deserve what comes next.
Everyone uses connections to get their kids a summer job, an internship, or a job. If you can’t do that, it’s your fault.
See, this is the thing. I refuse to play that game – go to college just because it’s some bs gatekeeper thing. There are actually plenty of things you can do w/o a college indoctrination (hannah has turned REALLY liberal guys — thanks for that ). Unless you HAVE to go to college, don’t go.
But really, going to college no longer gets you anywhere, which is why it’s foolish to play that game anymore. Going to HARVARD does. Which is why it’s bs that it’s become the playground for elite connected idiots. David Hogg goes to harvard, for fuck’s sake.
I’m all about breaking down these barriers. Fuck ’em. DOesn’t mean they don’t “exist”.
As for the ragnar, I want to train for that type of running, and even we don’t do it that way – I’m just that much better off.
I was just throwing it out there. So far my one bud Bob is all for that. He wanted to do it that way last time. The other’s … less willing. BUt if it was going to happen, people would need to know well in advance.
MJ, agreed. At some point the “way the world works” got remade into these jackwagons’ image, advantaging them and disadvantaging everyone else, gutting real achievements and promoting bullshit as the height of humanity.
It will all fall, it can’t help itself, it’s just a question of what comes next.
Total in miles: 1 – 35, 2 – 34, 3 – 28.7, 4 – 32,4, 5 – 29.7, 6 – 34.1
I’ve had an Imagine earworm since hearing a bit of it on the radio last week, and I keep thinking that if it hasn’t been used as part of a zombie apocalypse movie over a montage of shamblers around the world, there’s been a criminal negligence in the genre.
Ragnar road thinking.
I think I need a dagum pizza.
Run the Ragnar and you get pizza and beer at the end.
If it makes sense for you to dick sip?
Absolutely.
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I never understood the phrase, ‘just spitballin’ so I’ve decided to replace it with dick sippin’. It’s my homage to you.
Cock gobbling is just to vulgar although I know you prefer to gobble rather than sip.
too
Mare?
BUt if it was going to happen, people would need to know well in advance.
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Yeah, I immediately looked at the calendar and started to checking the months.
It will all fall, it can’t help itself, it’s just a question of what comes next.
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I agree with you. The irony is that the idiots building the system aren’t smart enough to keep it afloat. The system has been totally exposed as BS.
They’re not smart or elite or worthy of gatekeeping.
Yep. Pizza and beer at the end. I have a picture somewhere …
I agree with you. The irony is that the idiots building the system aren’t smart enough to keep it afloat. The system has been totally exposed as BS.
They’re not smart or elite or worthy of gatekeeping.
The problem is that they didn’t build it. Their parents and grandparents did. They’ve just been living off the fat for a long time.
definition of crimes, I’ve been waiting for this:
Yes. He broke the law, the Impoundment Control Act, to withhold an official duty, releasing Congressionally appropriated federal funds, to extort a foreign nation to announce a sham investigation, a campaign finance violation, against his leading political rival. He then ordered Executive Agencies to illegally withhold Congressionally subpoenaed documents and witnesses to obstruct investigations into that abuse of power.
https://budget.house.gov/publications/report/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter
Seems like a stretch, since nothing has been produced about withholding funds that were actually paid.
The problem is that they didn’t build it. Their parents and grandparents did. They’ve just been living off the fat for a long time.
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Some of their kids are really smart but a lot of them are kinda of idiots.
They’ll fuck it up.
See the failure of Hollywood. Decades of people in the same industry, out of ideas, living in a bubble of ideology – have zero clue how to create an entertaining movie.
ClaireBear on twitter:
“I’m trying to think of what Ted Cruz has successfully done.” -@clairecmc, OWNING it.
Zodiac, in reply:
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
Won reelection in 2018
Why do you keep going?
Ted Cruz has a podcast.
That’s it. Close up the internet. We’ve run out of things.
https://elemental.medium.com/your-inability-to-do-pullups-is-all-in-your-head-191278c2f5aa
MARE – one week and the new Orphan X book gets released!
I have just completed the de-commissioning of a project that I worked on for 4+ years. I was the last one to leave and thus got the honor of turning out the lights.
I was the last one to leave and thus got the honor of turning out the lights.
Did you salt the earth, just in case?
I did. Tarred, gzipped, then rm’d the rf out of it.
David Hogg goes to harvard, for fuck’s sake.
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When will they offer Nick Sandmann a slot?
Oh … never
Carin, totally spaced on those films you mentioned. Glad to look at them but I’ll preface it with a few disclaimers. Without the full history, exam and films it’s sort of a crap shoot to give much accurate information. When I look at films in the office I have all that and can make sense out of it. Radiologists look at all our films too and their interpretations are worthless for the most part. (That being said, they do notice stuff I miss from time to time, like every month or two I’ll read the report and a light bulb goes off — checks and balances).
Carin! Can’t wait!
Hey, dickfaces! And by dickfaces I mean Hotspur and MJ.
Hi poonface.
And by poonface I mean Hotspur and Mare.
poonface, so that’s what all those wrinkles are
Y’all should’ve been Messican. I was recruited by Harvard, in Spanish. I have one Harvard grad cousin. He attended Stanford Law. 2 Stanturd grads. 3 MITs from one family. Cousin who graduated UNM, couldn’t get into UNM Anderson for Masters, got Masters and met husband at University of Chicago. Her dad got his Masters from TTUN. Hubby is white. TTUN undergrad. Daughter got degree from TTUN. One of my Stanturd cousins is UM Law. Illegals are starting to get the places at colleges and universities that used to go to American Messicans.
Kyle Kashuv got into Harvard based on merit. Cancel Culture found texts from when he was 15, where he used the N word multiple times. Harvard rescinded his offer.
hannah has turned REALLY liberal guys — thanks for that ).
Which never ceases to amaze me of how some really smart people go pure stupid when it comes to common sense identifying ideological sewage.
Maybe when they start paying taxes?
oso, did Kyle get offers from anywhere else? I don’t think I’d want my kid to go to Harvard. Lots of shit come from there.
The class before me in med school was loaded with Harvard grads. They all hung out together like a clique. After 4 years they all had the same letters after their names. Assholes.
Sorry, Harvard Asshole, MD
(hannah has turned REALLY liberal guys — thanks for that ).
Is she still dating the loser?
Oh goody, I see Val Demings is currently speaking to the Senate.
Jimbro, Hispanic roomie’s oldest brother was invited to Harvard for a Med School visit. He was miserable. He thought that the other med school candidates were uptight and had no sense of humor. Attended UNM. Navy paid for his Med School. He’s been a Navy physician since 1986.
physician, huh? He must have been good at physics.
Beasn, pretty sure. He’s taking a gap year to work on Trump’s re-election. Not officially. TPUSA had to distance themselves from him.
Oops. Well, I can’t call him Navy Doc. That’s what they call Corpsemen.🤣😘🤪
Understood Jimbro. He’s just a friend who is skeptical of the VA so not really expecting a complete diagnoses from you . Images are in the media folder.
SHe is still dating that loser. yes.
Hydraulics
My computer just crapped out when I hit post comment. I’ll wait a bit and try again. This is from my phone
I did get to see the images of a unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.
https://www.orthobullets.com/recon/5020/unicompartmental-knee-replacement
Can’t magnify the images. From what I could see it looked secure and I couldn’t judge the lateral compartment for arthritis. If he’s in pain it could be from the lateral compartment or patellofemoral arthritis.
Anyone want to rip out a Thursday post? We haven’t heard from MJ in a while
I just ripped out a Thursday post. I wouldn’t go in there if I was you.
I don’t like Bernie Sanders, I would never vote for his crusty Communist ass in a million years, but I did like, “On a good day, my wife likes me.”
Watching “The Big Clock” with Ray Milland and Charles Laughton. No, not the Big Cock, Hotspur.
You already saw that movie.
Your mom likes big clocks.
LOL, yeah, neither you nor MJ was in it, more’s the pity.
The only thing I ever starred in was your mom.
Your Mom.
You are supposed to capitalize the titles of gay musicals.
I’m pretty sure I’ve watched every Charles Laughton movie. My dad was a fan. See also Abbott and Costello.
LIV Dan is seeing Christine Blasey Ford level lying from the House Managers. Dan also thinks I’m a total nerd for knowing all the names of the House offense and Defense.
oso needs to do a poat
I haz no link fu skilz
I don’t know all the offense and defense, but I know most of the senators. Hawley from MO is doing well for a newbie.
Isolated vocal track of baby Grace Slick doing “White Rabbit”
The comments are interesting.
Grace was very talented, and a cutie, back then…
https://tinyurl.com/v5eu2q2
That was a pretty good movie. Harry Morgan (Col. Potter from MASH) was a young, menacing, bad guy with hair.
Impressed with Hawley. I’ve been cashiering. Livid. Just today, one transaction, we paid for $239 for an illegals SNAP. Wings, ribs, roast, ribeyes, and school snacks.
Fuckers can get all that, I gotta panic about rent. No wonder I’m fucking pissed off all the time. Wonder if there’ll be a market for middle-aged overweight warlords during Boogaloo…
Don’t ever reuse poultices.
Couldn’t sleep last night. So good morning.
Good morning.
https://tinyurl.com/toadaae
When’s our turn? Friday?
I laughed when Fox gave up and started running ads with the impeachment hearing in a sidebox. They’re not saying anything new, might as well make some money. I didn’t bother to see what CNN or MSNBC were doing.
Sorry you couldn’t sleep, Teresa, hope you feel better.
I can throw up an emergency poat, if no one else has one.
Feel free to add to it as you see fit.