Our dear friend from Europe arrives today, so I am extremely pressed for time attempting to get the house in an order that will meet his tidy preferences.
(Oh, who am I kidding? He knows we’re slobs who own too much stuff with which we pursue all our various avocations and vocations. But I can at least try.)
And Brett seems to be somewhere in the air flying over flyover country, so, you get to mostly do links yourselves. Which, if we’re being honest, is what you really want anyway.
I’ll believe this when I see it.
This is from last week, but I hadn’t seen it.
Apparently, several of the PHX Glibs are lining up to do this. Silly kids.
You know what? Having rubber gloves and Bar Keepers Friend is almost like having a super power.
Later, friends.
Thanks for the Lynx, little miss can’t be wrong.
I could see McConnell starting it soon. The impeachment trial sucking all the media air out of Iowa and New Hampshire results would suit Mitch just fine.
If the results show a widely divided party the DNC might prefer the air getting sucked out.
The party is widely and viciously divided. Ideological purists with a watermelon agenda on one side, a coalition of realists and party hacks on the other.
Some people say Nancy is timing things to favor Biden, who is not a senator.
So a presidential candidate with dementia.
Not the first, and probably not the last.
Birds of a feather?
I’m not even sure which candidate for the dems is the “Biggest Looser” when it comes to the Impeachment. I guess if it is a total flop then maybe Tulsi would be the winner, but at this point she is a non-entity.
She has been sitting on the impeachment for a while. Warren and Sanders would have to return to Washington to sit the trial. And Nancy knows she can push Biden around.
Sounds like a win-win-win for Nancy, Mitch and Gropey Joe.
Starting Tuesday, per Drudge.
Looks like no dismissal; not enough votes.
So, witnesses. Go long popcorn.
Not dismissing is the smart play for the Rep side. Take it seriously, don’t grandstand (yeah, I know), and subpoena everyone even remotely involved with this fiasco.
This is from last week, but I hadn’t seen it.
The correct terms are Small Oil and Big Government.
The Spin Doctors…..now that really came outta left field
Would you say it came from the Outfield?
A guilty pleasure, I must admit.
How about these two?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rILKm-DC06A
*Thanks Wall Street Journal!
so, you get to mostly do links yourselves.
Challenged Accepted
Kansas man asks Iowa judge for sword battle with ex-wife, lawyer
He’s taking the case to the point of know return.
But there will be peace when he is done.
I assume the wife will fight fire with fire.
In the end, all we are is
dustbloody bits of eviscera in the wind?trial by combat! YES!!
He seems like kind of a bastard, but that broad probably isn’t much better.
Your rapier wit did not go unnoticed.
Then I won’t feel guilty posting this so early.
Tard Tuesday: Explaining Privilege to a Broke White Person (without seeming like a total douchebag).
Just kidding about the d-bag part. I know the article is over two years old but apparently Medium just picked it up (though I can’t link there since it requires registration). Originally published at something called Feminist Breeder. LOL
Page called Good Men Project. Article written by a women, telling men what to do.
Feminism, Fuck Yeah!!
I do think it’s funny that the Women who are most likely to use “Mansplaining” are also the most likely to talk about the experiences men have in our culture and how that create “Rape Culture” and “Toxic Masculinity”. When do men get to say, you know what, “You’ve never been a boy and never had the experiences of a Teenage Boy among other Teenage boys so maybe you should shut up”.
Sure it might not be a valid argument, but it is fun to throw their own rhetoric back in their faces.
“You’ve never been the cabin boy on a sailing ship.”
Like this?
But luckily my college education introduced me to a more nuanced concept of Privilege; the term Intersectionality.
I cannot possibly roll my eyes enough.
That college education didn’t teach you the rules governing capitalization though, I see.
my college education
Even if it was free, you paid too much.
Not even worth your time.
For emphasis!
Seriously, though, that used to be a thing, capitalizing nouns to emphasize them.
Read original Winnie the Pooh. Tons of additional capitalization.
Seriously, read them. They are funny.
Does Microsoft’s dictionary still flag “internet” if it’s not capitalized?
That one, I hate. Really hate. There was never anything capitalization-worthy about the word “internet.” It’s like capitalizing “computer.”
The argument was that it should be treated as a proper noun since it is usually referring to a specific idea, and should be left uncapitalized if used as a generic; standard rule for English. I don’t particularly agree that it should be treated as a protest noun, but there was at least some reasoning behind it, flimsy as it may have been.
I remember when it was always capitalized. I think with constant usage people just stopped doing it.
Like the Enlightenment kind of idea?
Pretty much, yeah. When you write “enlightenment” it is just a general noun, but when you write “Enlightenment” you’re referring to a philosophical movement and lighting the Just Sayin’ signal. Similarly you could use internet to refer to any network of a specific topology, the word is usually used to denote a specific network, the world wide web and it’s related ideas. Since it is ring to a specific thing it would normally be a proper noun and capitalized.
That’s the argument for it, anyway.
Yes.
Nouns are still capitalized in German.
You know who else liked to capitalize nouns?
The Order of Saint Clare?
oh wait, you said nouns…
The article is a historical timeline of her progression from enlightened to useful idiot.
Theo Vaughn on WP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvzwmoZaNHQ
“We’re either in serious danger from climate change or we aren’t. Our leaders need to figure out the answer and respond accordingly.”
We aren’t. See, isn’t that easy? And I never even went to law school.
“Apparently, several of the PHX Glibs are lining up to do this. Silly kids.”
Was it SugarFree’s idea?
I get blamed for everything.
You & Trump.
Not true. Most things are Los Doyers’ fault.
He’s really more of my Zwarte Piet.
It’s coal dust, not racism!
If it’s turning black, it could fall off.
The California plaintiffs have not yet formally responded to the ExxonMobil countersuit claims, though a few of their representatives have been quoted saying they won’t be intimidated or or dissuaded by the company’s “attempted end-run around the California courts.”
Is this the same ExxonMobil that was just completely exonerated in the same kind of fraudulent suit that was being pursued by New York? Why yes, I believe it is. Have fun, California taxpayers.
Next up:
Exxon buys CA bonds, sues CA by doing a global search and replace of “California” for “Exxon” in the complaint.
haha, if only. I’m so tired of these greenmail lawsuits.
You are American, no?
That’s some expensive cleanser.
“American Airlines employee ‘took a passenger’s number from her luggage tag and followed her onto a flight before bombarding her with more than 100 creepy text messages'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7886583/American-Airlines-employee-took-passengers-number-bombarding-messages.html
Did he think that was going to work?
Is that a PUA strategy?
Maybe?
“January Jones confirms that she once dated The Bachelor star Nick Viall after he ‘slid into her DMs'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7886885/January-Jones-confirms-dated-Bachelor-star-Nick-Viall-slid-DMs.html
Euphemism alert?
He learned it from the police.
E.g. this, although I know I’ve read stories of cops using it to look up hot chicks they want to pick up.
At least cops know there are are cop groupies that might get off on such a thing. An airline employee? Pilots have groupies, but I can’t think of any other airline employees that do.
Stewardesses?
I have not heard of stewardesses stalking chicks.
Maybe at Aer Lingus.
No; I was suggesting that there would be male groupies of stewardesses. Or at least a hell of a lot of guys down to fuck with the young ones.
Of my last 3 – 4 flights, there was one, maybe 2 stewardesses who were . . . interesting.
It would be a cunning strategy.
Should I not have done that?
I bought 2 boxes of BarKeeper’s Friend today! But rubber gloves? Pffft. Pansy. ?
Would YOU want to clean OMWC’s house without them?
As I said, I can be persuaded.
I am persuaded.
OMWC does things to his house that are so foul, even Heroic Mulatto won’t visit.
Fake News. HM has in fact visited us.
Has he been back?
I heard he refused to sit on the furniture.
His tongue scared Wonder Dog.
Don’t ask.
Oh HM, that’s a step too far.
“Teen missing for three weeks is found dead after getting ‘trapped’ inside the chimney of a vacant house across the street from his home
Harley Dilly, 14, went missing December 20 and was discovered dead Monday after police decided to search a summer home that was under renovation across the street from his Ohio home.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7886911/Teen-missing-2-weeks-dead-chimney-vacant-house-street-home.html
At least he learned that Santa wasn’t real.
Dang…. I guess the moral is if you are going to go down a chimney, make sure its of a house that is inhabited?
Hot take guess here. Was trying to access unoccupied house upon a dare or egging on by friends. Then he could open up the door and let his buds in.
Was trying to access unoccupied house upon a dare or egging on by friends.
But then why didn’t his friends tell anyone he was stuck? I mean i could see being embarrased for a few hours but to leave him there for weeks?
ohh, perhaps he did it solo that he would be able to provide open house party later on.
Nobody wanted to call the cops for fear of accessory or trespass charges.
Someone said he’d call the cops, but didn’t. When it became obvious that he was still there after a day or so nobody wanted to call because of possible manslaughter / negligent homicide charges.
Imagine having that on your conscience for the next 65 years or so. Enjoy hell, lad(s).
kid sounds a bit odd. reported that he would spend the night outside the house when he was upset. and video showed him alone. me thinks he was just making a really bad decision.
died from dehydration, i assume. that is fucking tragic.
Could be suffocation, depending on how tight the fit was.
just read through.. 18 degrees so possibly exposure.
9″x13″ but he was 4’9″ and 100lbs.
Ultimately a gruesome combo of the three, plus starvation. Normal incremental dehydration is exacerbated by cold, presumed yelling for help. Cold temperature accelerates burning of fat, then muscle to maintain core temperature. At some point you just become too tired to hold your head up, or if your head is flopped back you slip into coma.
About once a year you read about a chimney body, though usually been there much longer. Always attributed to attempted use of chimney as entry point for burglary.
Apparently, several of the PHX Glibs are lining up to do this. Silly kids.
https://www.abc15.com/entertainment/events/for-246-you-can-drive-the-mortymobile-for-a-day-in-phoenix
They are losers.
Try this
“J. Yaniv just punched me in the back of the head. Just spoke to police. Luckily there are two security cameras directly overhead at the courthouse. I need an advil.”
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1216885630182907904
“Jessica Yaniv is proof that trans fats are bad.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1216893338286034947
JY is not trans fat in the least. Genuine, bona fide 100% real cis fat.
*snort*
Moar.
Not shilling for them, but they seem to have a good background on the whole thing.
Where does he get the money to continue these shenanigans?
From suing people.
From the previous post, particularly the sub-thread on Paul and Christianity, this was interesting:
https://strangenotions.com/paul-christianity/
is one of the books referenced in the blog post.
We’re either in serious danger from climate change or we aren’t. Our leaders need to figure out the answer and respond accordingly.
Just what a science denier would say.
Don’t even talk to crazy…
So you’re saying there’s a possibility you might grant the request? Bitchin’.
I’ve heard a judge can do whatever he wants in his own court room.
Or was that in his chambers?
Apparently not.
Three words:
Pay
Per
View
Oooh! And you could use the proceeds to pay for Public Defenders! That’s a troll on par with “Islam is right about women.”
Proto-SF? (SSFW)
From a site that was totally devoted to pictures and fiction revolving around women in cars getting stuck in the mud. Different twists for different folks I guess.
*Sadly SFW
Michelle and Melanie in “The 2nd pedal pumping stuck” video
I’ll be in my bunk.
https://sputniknews.com/russia/20130519181229470-Sasha-Greys-Trip-Across-Russia-Ends-as-Her-Car-Breaks-Down/
As much as it pains me to do so, Titty Tuesday will indulge Glibs who support the itty bitty titty committee.
http://archive.is/cStCO
Never let it be said that I don’t suffer for my art.
Some of those look pretty big.
Seems like a lot less ink than the usual suspects, coincidence? Or do big tits lead to bad tattoos?
Causality arrow is the other way — tattoo ink causes hypermastotrophism.
I’m going with Hype on this one, on the theory that big ‘uns divert blood flow from the brain.
Big plastic boobies and bad tattoos.
Two great tastes that go great together!
One bad decision leads to another.
Nine is fine and twenty is plenty.
Never let it be said that I don’t suffer for my art.
You’ll live. Not a bad collection.
And you didn’t let them do the links?
He isn’t here yet. And lest the Glibertariat worry that we wouldn’t admit knowledge of this site to him, he has met several of TPTB, and apparently liked them. He and Swiss especially hit it off.
Has anyone ever not liked Swiss?
Probably some Afghans.
I have never met him.
Friends don’t let friends do the links, because therein lurks Steve Smith.
“Nearly 10 years after Australian camels (and their methane emissions) were identified as a factor in climate change, 10,000 of the country’s wild dromedaries now face a slaughter.
The cull, which was scheduled to start Wednesday, comes as part of an effort to help conditions in fire-ravaged Australia.
According to the Independent, the camels are drinking up valuable water and exacerbating the country’s drought.
Citing The Australian, the outlet also noted that the camels are being slaughtered over their greenhouse gas contributions.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/australia-slaughtering-10000-camels-combat-global-warming/
How long until they ban human farting?
So the eco-nutters are now exterminating wildlife?
Did not see that coming.
Like PETA saves animals …
Look up “wild animal welfare.” There’s a… I hate to use the word significant but a noticeable faction in the Rationalist/Effective Altruist community that have determined (using actual math!) that euthanizing wild animals is more utilitarian than allowing them to be born, suffer and die.
Don’t they cull reindeer for that reason?
Reindeer make excellent sausages.
Reindeer is excellent. I had some in Finland years ago and loved it.
One of the fancy-pants stores here (literally. They sell fancy pants.) sell reindeer leather driving gloves with cashmere lining. Oddly enough, I wasn’t all that impressed with the leather.
Did you get a pair for UCS?
YOU ATE RUDOLPH?!
YOU ATE RUDOLPH?!
Yes.
Reindeer and caribou are the same. I’ve had caribou steaks. Delicious.
Reindeer are better than people.
For eating or making gloves out of?
I have heard nothing beats the taste of human.
I wouldn’t know, personally.
But California can’t do proper water management because of smelt or something. What a world.
He who smelt it, delta it?
They have been for a long time. Most green policies are ecologically destructive and are intended to satisfy their primitive animist cult’s demand for sacrifices to propitiate their angry earth/sky-goddess.
*Beano’s legal department begins drafting legislation*
i assume they’ll be thrown on the barbie.
Stupid work getting busy all afternoon. Trashy, I really enjoyed reading your piece, and look forward to the debate I’m sure it caused.
/currently agnostic, was raised Roman Catholic.
Third link is broken.
Like my heart.
They moved the story after I had scheduled the links. They are losers.
RE: Grandpa Bernie’s Gulags.
I won’t post the video here since I’m sure someone has already posted it, but refusal of the MSM to cover that should, IMO, be interpreted as complicity. This isn’t just an off the cuff gaffe; this is a paid campaign staffer openly advocating mass incarceration and genocide.
Can you imagine if a Trump staffer, even off the record, said “yeah man, once we win, we’re gonna kill all them Jooz and Messicans!”? Wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage until the election. Sickening.
The dude’s probably been fired already, right? Right, Bernie? Good question for tonite’s “debate.”
Oh hell… really?
Yeah, that’s why Warren leaked the “Bernie hates wimmen” story.
Hopefully, she’ll follow up with something about liberals being first up against the wall and gulags.
Yeah, but they want to whack the liberals first. I’m kind of conflicted on this one.
It’s Project Veritas. It’s all fake. Probably Russian deepfakes from the darkweb. At the very least selectively edited. Definitely doctored video.
I don’t know why, but I believe you
Straight from horses mouth. As if we didn’t know this was the end game for those pigs.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/bombshell-video-shows-bernie-sanders-field-organizer-advocating-for-riots-and-gulags/
I’m telling you, this socialist thing has to be nipped in the bud. Laugh at AOC but that bitch can easily get the gulags up and running.
Free helicopter rides?
Free? Sounds commie to me.
Nope. They should have to pay for them.
Diesel engines run on basically any kind of fat, right?
You can’t be a student of history and at the same time treat this lightly.
Ooooh, check out the black leather jacket on O’Keefe. Who does he think he is, Nick Gilliespie?
The Nick Gillespie of investigative journalists?
XY has a friend who, last month, attempted suicide and was in Children’s Mercy for a few days (a week? not sure).
Today, said friend went up onto the roof of the school building. Lockdown commenced. XY got home and went straight to his room, where he is brooding.
At least these two brushes up against the reality seems to have diminished my XY’s suicidal ideation.
Glibbies, I gotta tell you. Mr. Mojeaux and I are at a complete loss as to how to deal with all this bullshit so as to help the tax deductions through it. I am not capable of homeschooling and we can’t afford private school (as if that would be any better).
Just show him documentaries of lions culling the weak from a herd of gazelle. He’ll get the idea.
Sorry 🙁
Do you think it’s the school’s fault though?
Oh goodness, no. It’s his friend group. All a bunch of drama kings and queens. On the one hand, some of his behavior problems at home started to lessen when his friends started cutting him off (temporarily) for the exact same behavior he displays at home, and he is trying to improve and be a better person. OTOH, most of my son’s psychological issues (the ones that need therapy, not drugs) are because of his friends and all the freaking drama, not anything at home. I have reason to believe that home really is his safe space no matter how much tension and contention there is here.
That sounds terrible.
Why are kids doing this?
Kids are stupid and hormonal.
No perspective. “That girl/boy I like rejected me. Bits the end of the world”
Yeah. First time I broke up with a serious girlfriend, I was a wreck.
Second time, meh….
But there is so much strange at a young man’s beckon call nowadays. How could you be depressed to be a teen and not have a girlfriend?
How could you be depressed to be a teen and not have a girlfriend?
Because a lot of times people don’t want a girlfriend/boyfriend, they want that girlfriend/boyfriend. Eventually people realize that there are a lot of similar fish in the sea, but it doesn’t always feel like that.
Also crippling social anxiety and extremely low self worth, or at least that was my friend’s problem.
my wife will cite some junk science to put the blame on screen time.
whatever the cause, suicide rates have been edging up for 15- to 19-year olds over the past decade.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/youth-suicide-rate-rises-56-in-decade-cdc-says-11571284861
Disturbing
Seems to rise and fall in waves. Wasn’t there a big teenage suicide (Don’t Do It!) panic in the 80s?
Heathers was prophetic.
I’ve never investigated this, but is suicide more common among well off communities than poor communities? Because if so, my guess for the reason behind the rise in teen suicide would be too much luxury and not enough hardship.
I would agree with that. See my above comment about too much choice.
They have the luxury of time to think about this stuff and fall in with it.
I have hypotheses.
One of them is that with everyone being accepting of any and all identities and psychological issues clouds real issues.
It’s the curse of choice. How many choices do you have to be whatever you feel like at the moment? You feel like a girl? Yay! You’re a girl! You feel pansexual? Yay! You’re pansexual! (“Cut the bullshit. It’s bisexual.” “No, pansexual is not the same as bisexual. You’re old.” “There are girl parts. There are boy parts. There are very few both parts. There are no no parts. Pansexual is bisexuality with new branding and less meaning.”)
So instead of getting through puberty with the two options you have, boy or girl, you’re given an alphabet soup of things you could might possibly be and how awesome is that!
Add in trying to figure out a future occupation or underlying mental health problems (my kid is ADHD and OCD) getting through the next test with a C or any home problems with parents who are wishy-washy, and it’s a tangle of options and possibilities and you cannot capture any clear direction. The kids with wishy-washy parents come to school with attitudes and freedoms the other kids don’t get, but without guidance, they’re foundering too and it infects the other ones.
I give my kid a kind of freedom his friends don’t get, but he has to not fuck up to keep it.
So the way I see it is that suddenly, there’s too much information, too many possibilities, all of them are valid, they can’t figure out which foot to put in front of the other, and they just go with whatever garners the most validation.
I like your thesis. It’s interesting to consider.
I also liked your comments at the end of the last thread regarding legalism and religion.
Oh, thank you! I came to the discussion late because I was at Walmart.
When I say “valid,” I don’t mean actually valid. I mean, they are being validated everywhere (peers, teachers, maybe some parents) so that their fragile egos aren’t crushed. I don’t know whether the adults do this with a roll of the eyes and an under-the-breath, “When is this phase going to end?” or if the adults really think this is a good move.
Mr. Mojeaux and I try to keep the bumper pads in the gutter and just pray they don’t get pulled out while he’s rolling down the lane.
Pansexual is bisexuality with new branding and less meaning.
Pansexual ought to mean one who likes men, women, and other…with other being potentially very broad. Like the god pan. (link may be NSFW, but in a classical statue sort of way)
Not a Calphalon fetishist?
Have you spoken to the school counselor for resources? Usually there are pay by ability therapist.
sorry to hear this. is therapy an option?
I’m sorry, Mojeaux. I can from personal experience with one of my XY’s during HS that therapy was beneficial, although suicidal thoughts weren’t among his issues.
Regarding homeschooling – is the concern that you are not emotionally prepared to deal with the option?
I am financially and temperamentally and logistically incapable of it. In short, I am a crap teacher and I mangle everything.
There’s an episode of Happy Days where Fonzi is hired to teach shop in the high school. So the first day, he rolls in, has everybody stand around while he disassembles a carburetor. Then he puts it back together again in a flash. Then he points to a kid and says, “Now you do it.” Kid can’t, obviosly, and Fonzi is truly flummoxed why he can’t.
That’s me. That’s the way I teach.
And I have to work.
Are there any charter schools in your area? Maybe even a statewide online charter school?
I can look.
I’m not sure taking him out of school will help. I am at once wanting to protect and shield him from stupid shit and from doing stupid shit, but ALSO I want him to learn how to deal with the world on its terms because the world will most certainly not deal with him on his.
I look back at the stupid shit I did. It was fine for ME. But I look at him and think, “Little Dude, WTF are you DOING?!”
I think Gender Traitor’s suggestion is good.
Also, about homeschooling, from the homeschoolers I know some have set up networks where they help each other out with teaching topics.
Sorry to hear that Mojeaux. My boys teen years were “difficult” also.
Thanks, Spud. I thought XX was going to be my drama princess and she is in a way, but XY keeps so much of himself to himself I didn’t think he had any drama in him, much less how much.
XX had drama. Lots of drama. It was over the course of about four months. That burned her so much she wans zero drama ever again and keeps herself aloof enough to get friend time but also mostly drama free except for small irritations.
You have a lot going too, and I want you to know I think about you and pray for you.
Thank you. I need all the help I can get.
That’s because of their Uncle.
How did your parents handle you? Did it work?
What would have worked?
You’re not your parents, but abstract that out as much as you can — gives you at least 1 thing with data behind it.
My childhood was such that I don’t have much useful to say other than that.
I didn’t have 25% of the opportunities to be stupid as he does and I have no way to restrict those opportunities other than taking all his electronics away and locking him in his room.
I’m not trying to evade the question. There is really no extrapolation possible from what worked for me and what might work for him. He is a lot like me, but he’s far more headstrong, ambitious, driven, and clear-headed about what he wants to do in life and I admire that. I wish I’d been like that.
I LIKE that he is the way he is with his headstrong-ness, but MANAGING it in the meantime (wrangling it, more like) is a constant challenge.
The rest, all this drama– I just can’t even. It’s 1000-fold worse with social media, and that is with his severely restricted social media and nanny guards and everything.
Changing up his “friend” network seems to be what is needed. Which is really tough without moving to a different town.
A different school might do that, but might not. Homeschooling probably wouldn’t.
My classmate’s older brother committed suicide when we were in high school. She found him hanging from a tree. Everyone was stunned… he was probably one of the last people anyone would suspect. One of my best friends was killed a year later in a car accident. I don’t think there’s really anything you, as a parent, can do to help your teenager deal with the death or attempted suicide of a friend. My way of dealing with it was to be there for his mother and sisters. I sent his mother flowers on Mothers Day for several years afterwards.
Anyone can homeschool who has a desire to do so. There’s many free online programs that can help in any areas you might be deficient in. In your son is miserable in school, you might want to seriously consider homeschooling. My wife homeschool’s our children.
I happen to think this kid is doing it for attention, but I made the mistake of telling XY that boys who threaten (or try and fail) aren’t serious and boys who never say a word succeed.
So he now points to this kid and says, “You were wrong,” and I go along with it and say, “Yes, I was wrong,” because I don’t know where that line is between threatening and doing it, and I don’t want to make my kid afraid to come to me. I have no pride. I’ll tell him he was right all day long as long as I can keep him talking to me.
Now is not the time to express any skepticism or disapproval.
There was a kid in a different stake (Catholic diocese) who was a star student and athlete, getting ready to go on his mission. He went missing a few days before he was leaving for his mission. They found him hanging in the woods a week later. Nobody knew.
stake* = in my church, some ways away, in a different geological boundary
Ugh, so sorry to hear that.
Sorry.
He has his business. A job helped me through some unpleasant times in high school and knocked through my thick skull the reality that high school and high school drama are only temporary.
Yes, he has an occupational goal. It is lofty, but he’s got it mapped out and I have no doubt he can do it—if he stops spending all his money on junk.
That does not mean he can’t ALSO participate in school drama, unfortunately.
Toxic work environment
Abby Huntsman, who has co-hosted “The View” since 2018, announced on Monday that she was departing the popular ABC daytime talk show. The move came amid Huntsman’s complaints about a troubled culture at the show and recent tensions between her and co-host Meghan McCain.
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Huntsman and McCain, both of whom hail from famed Republican families, were allies behind the scenes until recently, when there was a dispute between the two women, some of the people familiar with the matter told CNN Business.
The conflict was over Huntsman’s on-air enthusiasm for her children, the people said. McCain, who wrote an op-ed in The New York Times about her miscarriage last summer and has continued to talk publicly about her fertility challenges, suggested to Huntsman that the child-centric chats were insensitive.
Following one episode, McCain confronted Huntsman for bringing up her kids on the show. Word of the “baby fight,” as one person called it, quickly spread around “The View” and strained the relationship between the two women.
“Abby was sick of being berated by Meghan for perceived slights,” one of the people said. “She ultimately decided she didn’t need this job and it wasn’t worth it.”
I thought womynz were empathetic and supportive.
I was hoping that once Mr. Maverick died we’d just forget the rest of the family.
From your lips to Gods ears.
Unfortunately, Miss McCain doesn’t have anything else to fall back upon, so she’s be grabbing for the limelight as much as possible.
Tom Cruise died!?!?!?
Decades ago. Some crazy scientologist has been making movies under his name since.
Seriously. Look at pictures of him in Top Gun versus now. He hasn’t aged a day. It can’t be the same person.
Jack Kelly or James Garner?
Oh I knew Garner died years ago. The renamed a street in Norman after him.
Best street is Gabby Hayes Way in Wellsville, NY. I only know about it because that’s where the liquor store is.
Was there ever any doubt that Meghan McCain was a narcissistic bitch with a persecution complex?
HOW DARE YOU INSULT HER FATHER!!!!!
Something about apples and trees.
There’s a first time for everything, I suppose.
womynz were empathetic and supportive
reminds me of that scene with Michael Madsen in Species..
scientist: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
hunter: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don’t get out much.
I’m not sure why anyone’s surprised about the gulag video, and you know he’s not the only one in Bernie’s campaign who feels that way. Campaign’s full of tankies, and tankies LOVE gulags.
What is a ‘tankie’?
In the tank for communism, particularly Stalin apologists.
People who thought Stalin was right to “send the tanks in”
With regards to the Hungarian revolution, i think…
But, he was right. Look at Hungary today. Without the Soviets, Hungary has democratically elected a man who doesn’t go along with Brussels. That’s literally fascism
^This. People who were supportive when the USSR would militarily crush dissent in whatever Iron Curtain countries were having second thoughts about that whole “communism” thing.
I am not surprised that any true believer in any candidate believes that the supporters of their adversaries should be locked in gulags. When people convince themselves that paradise can be created on earth, if only their candidates were in office, they always make excuses for genocide.
As I commented before, political field workers are usually idealistic true believers. I don’t find the existence of that asshole surprising at all.
What scares the shit out of me are all the grievance studies asshats that are filling up the bureaucracies and lower level elected positions.
You nailed what I was trying, but failing, to communicate.
I worked on Jerry Brown’s 1988 primary run. Not because I supported him, but because my nookie supply did.
Everyone is getting laid on a campaign, for the most part. You get a bunch of young twenty-somethings to work all day with little pay and suddenly the field director guy doesn’t look half bad and the volunteer coordinator girl is like an “Iowa eight”.
I’m gonna apply the 48-hour rule on this one.
“Anti-Semitic killers had bomb capable of killing ‘five football fields away’ ”
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/anti-semitic-killers-had-bomb-capable-of-killing-five-football-fields-away/
For some reason this isn’t all over the news.
“capable”
I’m really curious as to who made that particular calculation.
“Well, the fastest shrapnel could land that far away…”
Well, the FBI probably built the bomb, so they had a pretty good idea of how effective it was.
500 yards?? What did they have, a fuckin’ MOAB? I’m gonna have to say I am skeptical of that claim.
Can we NOT gender bombs?
Too late.
/Fat Man
I think 500 yards would be beyond the serious danger zone for a 500 pound Mark 82 bomb. So I am very skeptical.
Rule of thumb from a Forward Air Controller – 1 meter per pound for “danger close”.
So a 500 lb bomb (less than half is explosive) is dangerous but probably not deadly at 500 yards. A 1000 or 2000 pounder will kill you in the open at that distance.
Part of that rule of thumb also has to do with how precise the guy in the plane may be when dropping it.
Bigger bombs have bigger CEPs.
Reminder, you no longer need a color TV to watch the Democratic debates
The last line is pure gold: “The FCC will soon ask viewers to upgrade to color television in advance of the presidential debates this fall, as the incumbent will require televisions that display a brilliant orange hue.” (Well, gold is close to orange.)
“Supermodel Gigi Hadid among potential jurors for Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial”
https://abc13.com/5845419/
The lead I’m wearing in cath lab smells strongly of cologne and I’ll I can think about is Hat & Hair and the Persian missile strike.
Holocaust!
In a report released Monday, the Council of Regional Homeless Advisors is calling for an amendment to the California Constitution that would create a legally enforceable mandate to reduce the homeless population. The Legislature would have to craft the plan, which would then appear as a statewide ballot measure in November.
If approved by voters, the mandate would allow the state to sue cities and counties — or even itself — if the number of people living outdoors in encampments and vehicles doesn’t decline.
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“We’ve tried moral persuasion. We’ve tried economic incentives,” Steinberg said. “But all of it’s optional. Why should this be optional? It shouldn’t be. It mustn’t be. Thousands of people are dying on the streets, and people are telling us this is a priority.”
Wait, what? Thousands of people are dying in the streets?
If we just had one more law!
GOOD! everyone junkie in North America will relocate to California.
Maybe some sort of “hospital” for the ones with mental issues.
One-way bus tickets for the rest.
You’re welcome.
Relax zoning and open up affordable flophouses where drug enforcement is relaxed to nonexistent and all but the craziest bums will be happy to stay there. Maybe relax the liability laws for the owners a bit too.
Agreed, Bring back skid row. Flophouses, cold water flats, boarding homes, cage housing even.
If thousands of homeless are dying in the streets wouldn’t that reduce homeless population in accordance with this legislation?
Opening the door to a massive blank check to the homeless activist industry.
If we just had one more law!
Abracadabra, bitchez!
The hell we are. It would have more takers in Vegas.
Sanders campaign exposing itself. Warren suiciding with a lie about Sanders. Booker out.
I’m calling it: the Dem nominee will be Bloomberg
The only good good commie or socialist is a dead one.
Rufus, you’re like a throwback to 80’s bumper stickers:
Better Dead Than Red
Kill A Commie For Your Mommie
Wishing death upon commies never goes out of style
Nope
Better Dead than Read,
Karl Marx
*applause*
You’ll love this then.
The other day some asshole stole all the salt from our bin at the daycare. After the snow company came back to refill it, my sister put a note in the bin saying ‘Do not steal. Shame on you. You’re jeopardizing the safety of the children’.
I got more to the point. I uploaded and printed a ‘Kill a commie from mommy’ pic and wrote on a piece of paper: Don’t steal like a commie or socialist.
Same thing with varmint poontang!
I’m a total pacifist.
Also, we should kill all the commies.
on TV at the gymn The Five are having fun with this right now. (Except for Juan Willoams, bless his heart)
Hey, chicks love french fries.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/mcdonalds-worker-hand-pants-pictured
That reminds me of this video I saw recently:
https://youtu.be/NHxYXFH92JM?t=161
If I saw that guy cooking my meal, I’d get up and leave.
I agree
If a white guy is cooking your meal in a restaurant these days, it’s almost guaranteed he looks something like that.
That was my only exposure to naked racism when I lived in Bryan, TX. A little old lady told me she only went to Chicken Express because you could see into the kitchen and “they have nice white boys working there.”
LOL she probably hasn’t witnessed the freaks that work in the restaurant industry in hip cities.
500 yards?? What did they have, a fuckin’ MOAB? I’m gonna have to say I am skeptical of that claim.
Speaking of which…
I saw a story earlier about some woman who made a BOMB while meandering around some Walmart store. With, like, nails and string and alcohol and a candle. I am not a chemist, but it didn’t sound to me as if it would even qualify as a functional Molotov cocktail. She was probably going to drink it, once she found the Sterno.
But it was an excuse to panic the herd animals. Not to be passed up.
Eh…I don’t know.
You’re telling me that if you saw MacGyver at a store assembling such sorted items you’d think “Yeah, we’re good”. Maybe she was MacGyver in disguise
Excuse me, can you tell me which aisle you keep the potassium nitrate in?
Gardening.
https://twitter.com/ZachWritesStuff/status/1217107369559318528
Damn, #expose2020 exposes that a Sanders organizer is against Nazis.
That’s the approved take away.
True story- the Soviets accused people that they threw in the gulags of being ‘Nazis’, so they’re good too.
Of course that pajama boy writes for the NYT, The Nation, and New Republic.
And they believe everyone who isn’t a Communist is a Nazi.
Natural causes. Good work LAPD.
“The evidence suggests the person passed away and animals may have gotten to it,” said Lt. Ryan Rabbett of the Los Angeles Police Department.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-griffith-park-dismembered-body-found-hiker
You’re telling me that if you saw MacGyver at a store assembling such sorted items you’d think “Yeah, we’re good”. Maybe she was MacGyver in disguise
If it looked like she actually knew what she was doing, I might go to the sporting goods department and get a dumbbell to drop on her toe.
“get a dumbbell to drop on her toe.”
Do you even MacGyver, brah? That would never work
My father in law loves McGyver, but is not a native English speaker, so for his screen name he put “McGayver”. His kids pointed out the spelling years later, but he kept it anyways because that’s how his online friends knew him.
That’s hilarious.
My dad is not a native English speaker and throughout my childhood he always struggled to pronounce “Hamburger” as it always came out as “Humbooger”, which for some reason we thought was hilarious when we were younger.
Hats off to anyone who can speak another language, even with a heavy accent.
You speak yankee.
Wicked Guud.
I’m calling it: the Dem nominee will be Bloomberg
And Tom Perez goes out and buys a new house.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOQVtMhX0AAKQTe.jpg
Without comment
Natural causes. Good work LAPD.
“It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.”
What’s in the trunk?
Plastique
“I learned to make it as a kid…”
Only what you see, pal.
Junk?
“Oh… you don’t want to look in there.”
They should get medals for being heroically racially sensitive.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/01/14/manchester-police-knew-ring-pakistani-men-abusing-young-girls-nothing/
Our dear friend from Europe arrives today, so I am extremely pressed for time attempting to get the house in an order that will meet his tidy preferences.
Pie is coming to America?
He should look for a bride. In Queens.
Zany hijinks will ensue.
Oddly, this is a guy who was one of my favorite magazine article writers during my college days and for some years after that. Thanks to the miracle of the internet, we met ftf in Belgium about 16 or 17 years ago. They always say, “Never meet a writer or artist you admire, you will be highly disappointed.”
I wasn’t. And we almost immediately became close friends. When I met SP, they hit it off as well, ditto WebDom. So he has separate correspondence with the whole family. We have some mutual professional interests, so we’ll be spending the next 2 months geeking out and writing papers about it.
Excellent.
Daisy Cousins on Aussie bushfire fake news.
Do you even MacGyver, brah? That would never work
Well, I guess I could rig up some levers and pulleys and ropes and counterweights, and throw it at her, trebuchet-style.
Now you’re thinking
Just popping in, sorry if this is gonna make drugs fall out someone’s ass:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/why-there-no-anti-alcohol-movement/604876/
Progs wanna MAKE PROHIBITION GREAT AGAIN!
It would be awful…. But there would be a bright spot in that dark future. The US Constitution would have an amendment repealing and amendment to repeal and amendment.
Amendments For EVERYBODY!!!!
A control-freak writing for The Atlantic? Get out!
When my great grandfather (who ran with Meyer Lansky for a time and spent time in jail in the 30s) was alive, he once described something as being “as dry as a WCTO meeting”. Still makes me laugh to think of it.
You knew your great grandfather? You are very fortunate, I only knew one grandfather, and he passed before I hit puberty.
I vaguely remember a great grandma – we visited her in PA a few times and it was always a treat. She made it into her 90s.
I had one grandparent who wasn’t particularly interested in kids. The rest were already all dead.
Having rubber gloves and Bar Keepers Friend is almost like having a super power.
Preach it, sister. Bar Keeper’s Friend is the shit.
Damnable meeting made me miss the excellent History of Church article and the attendant discussion, which made me sad.
Tim O’Neill, whose review of Agora was my entry point to “no, most of the shit you think you know about The Church vs The Science is wrong, and our fellow atheists are at fault” series of articles on his old site, has a great in-depth examination of Tom Holland’s book on the topic, and Holland is generally an excellent writer (also an atheist). Disclaimer: I’ve not followed O’Neill’s new site, so there might be some stupid shit on it, too, I dunno, Trump and Trump-related derangements ruined the Internet.
Also, as a third-generation Atheist Nobility who finds American Atheism so…quaint (OK, mostly I’m joking), what I want in my churchman? What Dave Mitchell plays here, and unironically so. Or as Terry Pratchett’s fifth greatest creation would say:
Granny’s only fifth??
1) Sam Vimes
2) Death
3) Moist von Lipwig
4) Vetinari (would be higher, had he not been ruined by over-indulgence, fuck the end of Making Money
5) Granny Weatherwax
Believe me, I counted and she almost – almost – lost out to Tiffany Aching.
Well, I can acknowledge the ordering without fully agreeing with it. I would put Granny above Moist, although it’s fractions of a point off from a flat out tie.
And will once again get on my soapbox about Joseph Paxton: The Busiest Man in England by Colquhon. Worth it in its own right, but we’re looking at reality and fiction both doing the coming of steam.
Since “fairness” is the Word of the Week shouldn’t the Dem senators running for President recuse themselves from Donnie’s trial?
Sent a question to my lawyer this morning. So the court wants to know about intellectual property. I’m like, well I’ve got plenty of that! Let’s start with the cross stitch patterns. So I had to explain about ancillary “assets” like domain names and ISBNs and having published other people’s books, not a lick of which I wrote myself, and that I have a publishing partner with whom I have a “gentleman’s agreement” that has worked for 12 years and…what do I do with this work that is not mine but I am responsible for?
Her admin sent back: “Uh…I’m going to have to ask because that is not what normal people have.”
“I run a small business where I edit and publish written works. I also provide services for supporting and creating author websites.”
Don’t overthink it, don’t overdo it. I know, I’ve been there, and all the ‘gut instincts’ to disclose down to the last nickel are wrong and counterproductive. Talk again with your lawyer if need be, but lumping and generalizing are your friends, or at least they were mine. As are presentations that don’t necessarily elevate the potential value vs the niche nature of stuff. Ultimately, they’re looking for stuff that’s worthwhile for a conservator (or whatever in your state) can take and sell. I had electronic music gear and fine art lithographs (Dali, probably fraudulent) and they didn’t touch them.
Thank you!
I did ask her how specific the list should get, but I have not gotten an answer yet.
Oooh, you’re (kind of) in luck. Get cracking on lumping and joining and have something for her when she calls/emails*. Doesn’t have to be complete, so use it to at least manage the ‘worst stuff’.
*It’s easier to make unreasonable demands of people before they’ve started than it is to make them undo or redo work they’ve finished.
Trshy, great article earlier.
My parents didn’t raise us in the church because they thought it would be wrong to tell us what to believe at a young age, and we could make our own decisions when we were older. I understand their reasoning, but the result was that I didn’t know enough about religion to make a decision.
I still don’t know what to believe (or not). I think that Ozy’s mention of the blind men and the elephant is exactly right. The questions religion wrestles with are the most important ones there are, and the answers are probably beyond what we can ever fully understand. But people smarter than me have been working on these questions for thousands of years, and I could easily spend a lifetime trying to understand what they’ve already figured out.
I’m working on reading the Bible. I’ve also gotten a lot out of C.S. Lewis’s fiction and Jordan Peterson’s biblical lectures. Aquinas and Lewis’s nonfiction are on my to read list.
I’d be interested in a church that serves theological meat instead of milk, but I don’t have the faintest idea how to find one.
There IS a purpose and time for milk. If you don’t have the basics, it’s hard to build a solid view.
To torture the metaphor further, it might be better to supplant milk for broth. Taking the big meaty questions and diluting them into something easier to digest is different to offering sweet platitudes to satisfy an underdeveloped intellectual palette.
Ok, stretching that any further will end up in pun territory, so out of respect to our alpine guards I’ll stop.
Or supplant broth for milk, rather. I just got home, my brain hasn’t rebooted completely yet.
What about curdled milk? Are we talking a clam broth or chicken broth?
I’m so confused.
A church that did both would also be good, but I don’t know how to look
I haven’t read trshy’s article yet.
My parents shipped us off to Catholic school when it was possible. We stopped going to Mass on Sunday at some point. I can’t remember when. If I remember correctly, my parents were pissed at our inability to behave during the Mass. However, we still got Mass at school.
I really have nothing to do with organized religion any more outside of weddings and funeral Masses. I think my brothers are the same. My sister occasionally goings to Mass on holidays.
Have you read Ethics philosophy or Evolution based morality?
A little, but I’d definitely like to learn more in depth. Any particular titles you’d recommend?
Well Michael Shermer has probably done the most that I’m aware of relating evolution/science to morality. While I really like Shermer, I find most attempts at this, including his, involve baking conclusions into the premise. As far as Ethics Philosophy goes, it’s an entire branch and most philosophers in history had something to say about it. I would look for a very brief overview of philosophers through history as a starting point. Or you could save years of studying theology and ethics with the realization that it’s all bullshit:) lol. I don’t mean to say it’s all without merit, just that there is no gnostic enlightenment waiting for you on the other side.
I believe this was one of the Shermer books I read years ago but I know he has more recent stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805077693/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_OWLhEb5DW4YQG
baking conclusions into the premise.
A universal problem, which philosophers are definitely not immune to.
Yeah, it’s like, your logic is impeccable, only one problem. Lol.
I have an older version of this book (Amazon is listing the version I have for $865. There’s a decimal mistake there:)) Very brief summary of Philosophers though history. Not going to go into any detail at all but nice overview of concepts. You might be better off with something specific to Ethics, I don’t know.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1465445641/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_T3LhEbPF442WF
I would recommend Huston Smith’s The World’s Religions for a theology primer.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062507990/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_T8LhEbC6XT4R2
I’m sure there are newer editions.
Thanks!
I would call what you guys are referring to milk as the sales pitch and what you are calling meat as the actual product. “Jesus loves you he died for your sins so you can live forever in heaven” is sales pitch for a much more elaborate explanation that has to touch on subjects like the nature of creation, the nature and known purposes of the Creator, the necessity for, value of, and limitations to free will, as well as many more. If you can be satisfied with the sales pitch version it makes life easier in many ways, but it leads to those agonized crises of faith when you find yourself confronted with apparent contradictions like the existence of evil and the seemingly pointless pain we all suffer.
The explanations of those contradictions have been attempted but you aren’t going to get them from Pastor Bob on Sunday, you’ll need to dig into some of the more complex writings of the past, and I suspect you will generally find better thought out answers in faiths with lengthy histories.
1. Story.
2. Wisdom conveyed by story.
3. How you can apply that wisdom to your life (in a positive way).
To me, that’s the best you’re probably going to get from a contemporary church. Except for of course, networking and hot chicks:)
Milk beer
https://youtu.be/37Kh5b35c4Q
Isn’t that called Mead?
No, I believe mead is honey based. No milk involved.
Correct. Mead is fermented honey.
An interesting church recommendation for anyone looking:
https://youtu.be/-t4rYy8766k
Faith only, no CroFab allowed, although it might almost be worth it for the music.
Wooo – where do I sign up?
There’s only one snake Ima handlin’.
Relevant
Word! That’s a song that will get you moving:) How it all ends:)
https://youtu.be/FUVo4K_Rx3E
*headdesk*
I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT!!!
Lol.
Interesting development on the gun control front.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/design-ar-15-derail-charges-tied-popular-rifle-68252403
Are you suggesting I should buy more stripped lowers?
Yes, and quickly lose them in a boating accident.
If Mojeaux is still around:
How old is your son? If he’s 17, I recommend getting him a GED and putting him in the military. Family friend had problems on top of problems like your son. His mom pretty much dragged him down to the recruiter and signed him up. Totally turned his life around and he’s a happy, productive person now.
14
I’ve thought about a boot camp, trust me. Can’t afford it, but if this is still an issue in 3 years, I will definitely talk it over with Mr. Mojeaux.
Mr. Mojeaux was emancipated at 14, BTW. He got a CA certificate of completion when he was 16. The upper-class GED, I guess.
Send him here. SP will put the fear of Yahweh into him.
I got that Cert when I was 16, send him to my place, fun, Heat and Work….
He would do well with you, Yusef, and I would trust him with you. I just can’t pay you. :/
“… I recommend getting him a GED and putting him in the military.”
I will not advocate this course of action, Mojeaux.
It seems to me that this idea has been supported for a great many years before I was conceived.
May I recommend that you research “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” and the number of military (and related) service members who have killed themselves in your own lifetime?
+1
Charles, the numbers are 24.8/100K (AD), and 22.9 (Res), with Guard being 30.9 – which is weird, but the numbers aren’t far off from US suicide data as a whole by age. I know PTSD isn’t a perfect correlate with suicide, but they should generally track each other. If there is a difference, I suspect that might be more to endless war than to being in the military per se. So, I’m not sure that’s really a fair reason. Her son has a marginally slight statistical increase in his risk from the general population, but I imagine there are professions with worse.
By way of other answer, I will offer a paraphrase from General Mattis – yep, everyone who’s ever served under him has a good Mattis story up their sleeve! Mine came when I was a defense attorney and if you check on military suicides you’ll find the numbers run something like 40-50% of the people in the military who kill themselves have an administrative or military justice (i.e. court-martial) “issue” going on. IOW, it was our clients killing themselves and it was taking a toll on our attorneys. When asked – in light of this – about PTSD among our clients, Mattis’ response was something like this:
I say that as someone with firsthand experience of what you speak, but I’m not sure you’re asserting it as a reason to NOT join the military is really as valid as you seem to think it is. (What I wrote about the AVIP, however, would be a good enough principled reason to avoid it, in my mind. So there’s that.)
Ozy: “Defense Department officials have released a report focused on prevention and analysis of service member and family member suicides.”
I hope their efforts come to fruition.
Unfortunately, many of our fellows will kill themselves in the interim.
My opinion regarding “Mojeaux”s more recent situation stands
That’s a good thought.
I’ve got 3-4 years to think about this.
The thing that makes me hesitate is that he has his mind on a singular goal: To build a landscaping company. He’s got his little lawnmowing business right now and he goes out to shovel snow and makes decent money with that. This winter, his mentor is having hip replacement surgery, so XY will be taking over those shoveling duties. He put the Christmas lights up on the house and I told him that he could add that to his service list.
He is a VERY hard worker and his clients love him.
He wants to go to college and get a degree in landscape design. There is a local landscaping company, the son of a doctor that lives 2 doors down from us. It’s very successful. XY knows to the year, make, and model (not the VIN) of that fleet, how many other assets that company has, and he can extrapolate how much the owner brings home a year.
He also gets good grades without having to be told…in fact, we don’t say a word to him about it. We don’t have to.
He will be out the door the second he turns 18 because he wants to be out on his own. I respect that. If he wants to stay while he gets his GE requirements, that’s fine.
So if he continues along this path, I will let it play out and see what happens.
Yet another fine reason to not be a hardcore Trump supporter:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/trump-slams-apple-refusing-unlock-terrorists-iphone-yet-fbi-could-simply-use-private
It seems like he’d be a little more suspicious of the FBI.
Privacy’s great; until it isn’t. Deep State sucks; until it doesn’t.
Yeah, Apple doesn’t have a “back door”, idiots. The only way to get in is via the cracker outfits mentioned in the article.
I didn’t realize they were so effective. It sounds like getting into your phone is a snap if they really want to get in.
It’s a constant battle patching up security holes. These outfits hire sketchy kids who grew up breaking into shit.
At the end of the day Apple and friends are never going to open the “back door” the FBI wants because that would be the end of their business.
Give a Prayer for Tres, Just sayin’
Oh no!
Will do!
Something going on?
There seemed to be a new article up briefly if that’s what you’re asking.
Hmmmm.
Say a prayer
Pizza ? war marches on.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/x5iog31
I’m enraged! I have to go back and play those ZZ Top tunes again.
Bella and I went to Vegas today to see Wendy, She’s in great spirits but still very ill, we still dont know the outcome.
Took the dog home and sat, alone, again, naturally….
I did play 9 at the disc course and hooked up with a guy I met earlier, Kent is real good, has his own course etc. gave me great tips, and we are having a play date tomorrow,
New Friends! YAY!
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Best wishes as always
Best wishes!
Excellent! I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again — Yusuf needs cared for too. I’m really glad you’ve got Bella and disc golf and a new buddy.
“…alone, again, naturally….”
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