Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
First, the song. Let her cry…
Yeah, I did my share yesterday, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
Now for the hunks. Fake redhead for Carin.
Yesterday’s birthday boy Jason Statham.
Today’s birthday boy Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
Boxing (still can’t remember who Dave was spoofing, but it was funny)
Julian McMahon.
Last, but not least.
Thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the links every week. Love you guys. Y’all have a good day.
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Nice Morning.
I hope all have returned safely.
Wiser, Andy and Broont are still waking up in their hotel rooms. I reached home before midnight yesterday
Thanks for representing Tushar et al
Asian Squat Shops make the best egg rolls
Jay came through big time. He gave me a treasure trove of photos. Got a few from Roamy and Geoff too.
wakey wakey
More honest US citizens : https://www.soonerpolitics.org/crowder/honest-us-citizen-here-did-the-white-house-really-get-desperate-enough-to-use-a-bot-farm-to-fluff-biden
An answer to the bots…Biden has been in government for 500 years. How much more time will it take?
Another night of downpours and flooding….with more on the way1
I confronted one of the honest citizens and exposed her. Read upthread.
Some scrambled eggs and fried potatoes sound good about right now.
This is really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zazsZ_HO3LM
haha, Wesley is you? nice!
My nephew signed on the line in Phoenix yesterday. I guess that means he’s officially reported to the Dodgers’ Cactus League team and he’s begun his pro career.
I could not be prouder.
…well, I could if he was with the Braves or Rays, but still.
that’s incredible. Not many realize how good you have to be to make it to that level. I do. I’m pretty good at baseball, went to state twice, won 5 sectional titles in high school with our team (in the middle of 20 for our school, we had awesome little league coaching). And only 1 of us even sniffed at money in baseball. (no, not me)
Honest US citizen here, Biden is a cunt.
but why would you want him to play little league down in GA and FL? He could play in St Louis, right oso?
Honest citizen here, this is perfectly normal and instills confidence …
https://mobile.twitter.com/POTUS/status/1551665866764390406
a) My local minor league team is Rays affiliated.
b) He has much family in Georgia, both sides.
c) I wish to spare him the hell that is California.
And yes, technically it’s “Rookie League” or “Arizona Complex League”…I ain’t touching the second, referencing ACL around a pitcher seems unwise O.o
relax, I’m twisting your tail in sportsball
Followup to Carin’s comment. There’s some fuckery going on.
Why is j’ames sniffing money?
This exercise/mobility guy is freakin’ hilarious. I’m not gonna do any of that stuff but I still want to watch his videos.
https://is.gd/mvlZs3
No worries, J’Ames. Honestly I’m still stoked on him even getting into pro ball.
That…those can’t be the same person hours apart. Something not right.
Andy headed out about 30 mins ago. Wiser and I are actually on the same flight to Charlotte and then, obv, connect to different flights. We’re boarded and waiting to head out. One of the flight attendants has an ass wider than the aisle and another was handing out water and oj to first class while the rest of us were still trying to board. 🙄 I do so love flying.
>>One of the flight attendants has an ass wider than the aisle
She was hired for wide body jets, but then Boeing 747 and Airbus A-380 stopped production. So they squeezed her in elsewhere.
Wave with all your fingers when you land in Charlotte so I know it’s y’all.
twitter: WTF happened to Patterico?
Trump ruined another. Mollie Hemingway is dishonest? Presents without context? Bitch please.
Patterico
@Patterico
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Jul 23
Your friend ought not have participated in drafting that letter. It was the wrong thing to do. Anyone who participated in Trump’s attempts to steal the 2020 election harmed the Republic. Cheers to Liz Cheney for her selfless courage.
When the economy is hot, and inflation is due to demand is exceeding supply, raising interest rates is an effective move. But when the economy is cooling off and there are supply chain issues, layoffs are starting, and you supposedly believe that pandemics are looming, raising interest rates seems like a great way to aggravate the problem.
Looking forward to the Fed’s rate hike launching us into the spiral of doom.
they do seem to find the exact thing to make things worse, don’t they, geoff? Almost like it’s on purpose.
why is this different than what Reagan/Voelker did? Reagan basically told us to suck it up, and endure the rates, and everything would be better than it was before. And he was right.
They kicked the can on student loan payments again for the Big Emergency that started 30 months ago and just won’t stop until it’s convenient.
Does the Fed even have another tool to slow inflation from all the money creation in the last 3 years? Seems like a hefty contraction (timed to coincide with the Red Wave) is about all they’ve got to reduce the money supply at this point.
As a saver, I’m rooting for higher interest rates so I don’t take it in the shorts quite as much XD
More seriously, I’m really lucky on the timing here. My time horizon for retirement is far enough out that there is plenty of time for recovery by then (and if the nation has collapsed by then, I’ll have bigger problems than retirement savings). My parents, who are staring forced retirement due to medical reasons in the face? Not so lucky…
Guys,
I sent Dave’s sister the photos we collected.
She wants to reply to us all. She was having trouble commenting (it is WordPress after all), so I am posting the comment on her behalf. I will be forwarding this post’s url to her.
Hello All! This is Linda, one of Dave’s sisters. We are all overwhelmed by the pictures and sweet remembrances of Dave. I had the honor to meet Steve, Brent, Andy, Mrs. Peel and Tushar yesterday. I was so pleased and in awe that they travelled from so far to attend. This community was truly represented with stories that brought both laughter and tears. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being Dave’s sweet friends and loving him for who he was.
I have heard they could start to sell off the “investments” they gobbled up in the TARP timeframe, but they can only do that so fast without tanking the instruments being sold.
I’m similarly sanguine, Peel. We have land now, and high rates just mean eventually I can pay my 2019 refi’d mortgage with a second cutting of hay. I had been paying it off as fast as I could but now I’m just buying infrastructure improvements as fast as I can.
I hate that we’re going through this, and I’d rather have low inflation and a strong dollar, but I will likely be personally benefiting.
I will be forwarding this post’s url to her.
Seems like a good one to start out on. Pretty tame. Wouldn’t want to start out on BBF.
Welcome, Linda! Dave’s family is family here, too.
ba haaa haaaaa …. democrats are so fucking stupid. Just found the #gaspricesaresolow stuff.
dumb. mutha. fockers.
If you think gas prices are ‘so low’ you probably also think Biden is a good president and got 81 million votes.
Cmon, man!
why is this different than what Reagan/Voelker did? Reagan basically told us to suck it up, and endure the rates, and everything would be better than it was before. And he was right.
That’s a great question. I would say the differences are: 1) Volker cranked rates up very high (like 20% at one point), while we are currently raising them minimally (to something like 2.5% when the announcement comes out). Aggravates the pain with little effect on inflation; 2) Our economy wasn’t being propped up with the degree of deficit spending we’ve been enjoying currently; 3) Our national debt was a tiny fraction of what it is today; 4) Our economy and infrastructure were stronger (Volker pushed us into a recession; now we’re starting from one), and 5) Reagan cut taxes, cut social programs, and increased defense spending, which even by Keynes’ admission was an efficient way to get money into the economy (not sure that’s as true today).
Bottom line: the negative effects are going to be worse and the positive effects are going to be negligible.
Oops – I don’t think it was Keynes, but it was some Keynesian guy.
Yeah, I think the starting point is different, but taking the reins off the economy was the main reason for Reagan’s success. Trump did that too, and look what happened. Up until he listened to Fauci/Birx and company.
Does this blog have an ESG score?
weren’t we already in a recession, like we are now? Carter years seem kind of the same. Media was labeling it the same way they are now. And they demonized Reagan the same.
man, I hope we get DeSantis. And a HUGE red wave.
pretty sure it’s on the bullwhip scale, car in, haha
“Stagflation” is what I remember from the Carter era, we definitely weren’t in a period of growth at the time. Our institutions and nation were a lot healthier overall then, though.
We are not in a recession, remember?? It’s not TECHNICALLY a recession just because it fits the definition of recession we were all using before the last NPC programming update a couple months ago.
You…*did* get your NPC programming update, didn’t you, citizen?
I know I have keys, but I don’t know how to change the number of days you can comment on a poat. The Sad Puppy poat is closed to comments, and I’d like to open that back up for at least another day.
We’re also redefining “dementia”.
No reason. It just needed updating.
I assume that the problem is that there’s too much money in the economy and the fed is trying to take it out via interest rate increases.
Less investment = less jobs = less money.
What I keep hearing is that we need higher unemployment.
We have to decrease wages to bring prices down!
We have to destroy these old trucks to encourage people to buy more fuel efficiency!
We have to destroy all these apples and dump this milk to make farmers solvent!
We have to punch ourselves in the dick if we want to get laid!
They are pushing the vax at work again. Let’s see, you’re forcing me to test weekly to do my job, forcing me to wear a mask anytime I’m outside my office, threatened to fire me for my disobedience, my co-workers are openly saying on Teams meeting chats and social media that if the unvaxed get sick (which I did), we shouldn’t get medical care (didn’t need it), and we should die (which I didn’t). If I haven’t given in after getting beaten over the head with this for well over a year, I’m not giving in now.
I know I have keys, but I don’t know how to change the number of days you can comment on a poat.
Well, you go down to “Settings” and then “Discussion” and then change the number of days people can comment (currently set at 5). But it changes it for all the posts on the site.
I assume that the problem is that there’s too much money in the economy
Yeah, but it’s exacerbated by the economy already sucking wind and by supply shortages as well as too much money. Stagflation+
1/5000 doses in Germany caused ‘severe complications’ up to and including death, the ‘vax’ is built for a version now extinct in the wild, and it’s nonsense to vaccinate for a disease one has already had.
But sure, I’m in, shoot me up quarterly.
Jay, somewhere I read the speculation that it would be Trump with Desantis as VP. That way Desantis would have 12 years to be in the picture. Forget where I saw that but it does eliminate a lot of the potshots in a primary. We’ll see, let’s get through the midterms first.
You could always … cut and paste the thread, and link the old one at the bottom. That would create a bridge to the previous one. Just a thought. And you wouldn’t have to open up old posts to spam.
Lemme see if I got this right :
It would have been a recession if Trump was president.
I think that about sums it up.
I think what they’ve decided is that they can’t fix the supply side of goods so they’re going to fix the goods demand by reducing the supply of money.
Im also a bit of winner in all of this. I bought a house at last year’s prices and it was finished about 30 days ago. Ended up selling the other house at the absolute peak of the market.
uh … ok.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1552328606302576642
I assume the new push is because Biden bragged about how much easier he had it than Trump. Difference between Ba1.5 and the original Chyna virus, derp. Bets as to whether he gets paxlovid rebound? (Sorry, Lord, I know I should be nicer.)
But it changes it for all the posts on the site.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure we wanted to do that, so I punted.
Chicken.
How about Sad Puppy 2?
I don’t have a problem raising the deadline to 15 days for now, and bringing it back to 5 after a few days
Libs of TikTok is a treasure.
Her essay about why she does it was really great.
Annd, my nose is tired of the commie infiltraters and has decided to go on hiatus.
Makes perfect sense after six days of assault..feeling raw and on fire.
I can still taste salty, sweet, and sour.
I don’t see any harm in changing that setting by a couple of days.
changed to 10 days, tested a comment
The press:
BroTim, pretty cool about your nephew. My nephew is still playing in a developmental league in MI.
now even libertarians can attack conservatives
twitter: Kennedy and Brad Palumbo and Marie Arf Arf call ned ryun bigot for correctly noting the primary victims of monkeypox
hey car in, has ethan said anything about woke BS in the navy?
Short story –
We recently had some managers and ALL our bartenders quit. Not worth going into why, but basically the bartenders followed the manager to another local place because they’re all friends and reasons.
Some of our bar regulars (whom I hate) were outraged by the event (the why they left – blaming the owner, bla bla bla) and so now have ALL FOLLOWED THE BARTENDERS TO THEIR NEW PLACE.
Which is hilarious to me. NO one likes these regulars. They are annoying as fuck. They are there 5 nights a week, sit there for hours- all night some times, and tip like shit.
The new bar has about 8 bar stools. So these asshats are now going to be taking up the entire bar.
So when I covered a shift the other night I didn’t have to deal with any of them. I had normal bar guests (and some normal regulars who I don’t mind).
I sorta feel bad (no I don’t) for the ex-bartenders. I would actually feel bad if they all hadn’t been such dicks when they left.
He saw zero woke stuff in BUDs. In his new field, there is simply waaaay too much information being stuff into their brain to mess with woke bs, but I do know that there are a lot of lesbians in that area of the Navy.
I saw that earlier. It’s dishonestly that causes those libertarians to be woke about it. I mean, the NYC numbers were MOSTLY men, then a small number of “trans” people (all men, I bet) and then a handful of “unidentified” folks.
Again, they can ALL be (gay) men in NYC who have it.
It doesn’t really help when you have gay men announcing to the world that the whored up a weekend then SHOCKINGLY got monkeypox. Who would have thought that sleeping with 6 guys in one weekend would have that result?
I mean, shit. It’s no wonder aids tore through their community. If they hadn’t lied so much about it perhaps we wouldn’t have lost so many people. I lost a friend to aids. Yes, he was gay. He wasn’t a slut – but had gotten it from an ex boyfriend. I didn’t know that guy. When I met my friend, he was in a committed, normal relationship.
If I were to guess, SpecOps is one of the last places I’d expect to get drowned by the woke. because results matter too much. The Naval aviation community went through some levels of it a while back … and it arguably put some pilots in aircraft they were not all that qualified to pilot. Can we all say Kara Hultgreen?
Ward Carroll has a good you tube discussion about it. I’d link it but don’t know how to do those minimal URL links.
I know I have keys, but I don’t know how to change the number of days you can comment on a poat. The Sad Puppy poat is closed to comments, and I’d like to open that back up for at least another day.
Pretty sure that is a “Cyn Level Decision”.
I thought it was because of their dig bicks.
“New names for Monkeypox” is Rosetta and Wiser level thread shenanigans.
Homocooties.
Dickbutt
Equalrightsbuttbumps.
Buttigeig
Just got home. Unlike the flight to Texas, the return trip was uneventful.
twitter: letter to jesse kelly
I asked what Ethan’s experience was because of this. I know recruitment numbers are way down.
thanks for going, andy
muddybuddypox
San Soo Guy
@Idahoguy74
Replying to
@JesseKellyDC
The Marines lost a hellava recruit when my 18 year old enrolled in a diesel mechanic school. Wokeness is a county killer.
twitter: Arnold Palmer for HHD
On the ground and in the car about to head home. Obv love the convenience of flying about, but I despise the actual process. I’m gonna go eat dinner, hug all my girls, and faceplant.
Thank you Andy, Tush, Mrs Peel, Bcoch, and Wiserbud
twitter: Pupster, wanna play pool?
twitter: Brittney Greiner is surprised the laws aren’t the same out of the US
People that are stupid, wow.
We had a great delegation that attended. Tushar, I didn’t realize that you had literally just gotten back from India.
And I thought I was tired.
Wankersores
W⚓️
I’m ever so slightly cautiously optimistic that this might not suck because it’s Stallone.
Andy, ‘just got back from India’ doesn’t begin to cover it.
I landed in India, reached home and found that my fractured hip/bedsores ridden/bedridden father is alone in the house with a caretaker. My brother (who lives with him) and his family are gone because his MIL expired in other side of the country. I stabilize my father, borrow a friend’s car, drop off wife and one kid to my MIL’s 100 miles away and come back with other kid. I reach home and the mother of all rainstorm starts. Before I get my bearing, the street is waist deep in water, there is six inches of water in the house, and all the muddy nastiness that comes with it. Friend’s car drowned, and so do all the motorcycles/scooters in the house. We somehow endure through the night. Next morning I get to work. Move father to nursing home (he doesn’t want to go, because he has turned back into a child), get car and bikes towed away for repairs, get house cleaned and sanitized, there is mud in drinking water tank – get that cleaned and sanitized, my kid falls violently sick, handle that, resign my job over email. Next day I fly to another city to see my kid brother, have 2 peaceful days, come back, house still not livable, so move everyone to a hotel, try a relaxing cup of tea and pour boiling tea over my chest and wrist. Somehow reach US, a day passes and get that evil text from Wiser. I have taken 10 flights in last 20 days, slept very little, still can’t tell between day and night.
So… yeah… rough.
But I did manage to meet a ton of relatives and old friends.
Holy crap! So sorry, Tushar. But your dad is taken care of now?
Our new regional doesn’t believe in locking anything up. We have lost $2000 in liquor since he made us put it on the shelf. In one week. He made us stock electronics. He doesn’t understand New Mexico.
Like, I felt that part of me that used to get excited for movies start to perk up, and I silenced it. Burned too many times. Too cynical to hope.
Yes, Peel. Brother is back home, and so is dad, bedsore almost healed, doc advises that his hip is fine and if he doesn’t walk for 15-20 minutes a day, throw him out of the house. So, he is grumpy, but in good shape.
So sorry, Tushar, that sounds like quite the ordeal.
So very sorry, Tushar.
I feel exhausted, I hate travel, so I can’t imagine how you feel Tushar.
I mean, you still almost got us thrown out of a bar, but it’s understandable.
Broint, it was physically impossible for me to stay awake. But you know what, I thought I was getting old. But I now know I can still handle a ton of crap. A lot. Except losing a friend. That part is still difficult.
I was just telling my wife about the waitress’s recommendation for a bar. ‘All my older friends go there’. Yes, child. You are 19, your older friends are 21, and I am older that your father. Wiser probably closer to your gramps. Their taste in bars won’t be same as ours. But her recco turned out to be fine.
I thought the Texas meatup at Michael’s house happened like 2-3 years ago. It was 9 years ago!
Holy shit, Tushar. I’m amazed you aren’t comatose from exhaustion.
Michael started the meat ups when he lived in Ohio. My splitter memory may be suspect
1 in a million.
Poor tes-ti-cles.
I hope you are getting some rest, now, tushar.
Tushar, you are a man of steel. That was an incredible thing to read. Now get some rest, do you ever deserve it!!
Better a man of steel than a man of stool
And I agree, that was some ordeal you all went through. It sounds like everything is back in some sort of equilibrium aside from exhaustion. You deserve to sleep in for a day or two.
This is some major bullshit right here
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/klondike-discontinues-choco-taco-after-nearly-4-decades-market
never had a choco taco
Yeah Tushar is the winner of the “Damn, man” award.
Truthfully we all got to talking and realized we all had insanity going do to work or family or whatever. “Fuck it, fuck that, fuck salt, I’m going.”
I know Tushar is whooped. I am tired. I’m gonna guess Mrs Peel, Wiser, and Andy are all movin a bit slow.
Thanks everyone.
Jimbro, my kid was the man of stool for a day. Things almost near normal now.
Off to catch up on some sleep.
I’ve had a few Choco Tacos over the years, none recently. Back when the boys were in middle school we’d hit the ice cream cooler at the convenience store every now and then and that’s where I first saw them. It’s basically a taco shaped Drumstick ice cream, my usual go to convenience store treat.
Sweet dreams and a more pleasant tomorrow for Tushar.
though I do want to hear about why you quit your job through email when you feel up to it. That alone is a huge amount of stress.
The people minus one manager and one scientist from The Project That Must Not Be Named are proposing another telescope and want me to work on it. Trying to decide how much of a sucker/masochist I am.
Pupster, I don’t have 100 memes, but I have enough for a reasonable Saturday meme poat if you would like me to do the honors.
Michael started the meat ups when he lived in Ohio. My splitter memory may be suspect
Yeah, January 2008 was when Mrs. Geezer and I flew to Columbus to meet a bunch of ‘Online’ strangers. I think the very first post about it was Michael mentioning that Dave had arrived with a special guest.
You’ll have to scroll through the poats from January though the first week of February.
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2008/01/
For some reason you have to scroll backwards through the month to get to the beginning.
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2008/02/
Roamy, I worked for a certain huge bank for 11 years. I got the offer from a little known company named after a huge river that you all are customers of. Please don’t name it. I got this offer 15 minutes before I boarded the flight to India. I wanted to resign properly, but didn’t have a proper internet connection for a video call. Remember the huge storm? So I had to do it over email. Better pay, and I will be doing some cool stuff.
I can’t believe Tushar is going to work for Mississippi. We’ll have to make sure he knows to say “N’Awlins” whenever he goes down there.
Happy for you.
Kick butt.
Don’t worry, Mrs Peel would never name it.
I thought the Texas meatup at Michael’s house happened like 2-3 years ago. It was 9 years ago!
Yeah, Michael passed away in January 2015, and Rosetta the next year. Internet time is funky.
Better pay, and I will be doing some cool stuff.
Congratulations!
Glad it was that and not “take this job and shove it” and beginning the hunt for a new job.
Scott’s in de-nile. He might be feeling a little salt-y because he hasn’t had properly cooked lavaca or other red meat for a while. Or he might be the volga type who thinks we’re in poor oder when we get just a little bit in-seine.
(the ones you don’t recognize are Texas rivers; geography isn’t my strong point, and Will just kept naming Arizona rivers when I asked him for help)
Anyway, yeah, super exciting and big congrats!
Comment by roamingfirehydrant on July 27, 2022 9:40 pm
Yeah have at it babe.
Andy mentioned doing a post but I’m not sure what his poating plan is, I just un-stickied the sad post.
Degenerates enjoy repulsive playthings.
Thanks everyone! 🙏🏻🙏🏻