Fun article below me where we can prove robc’s old aphorism: Slightly more flavors of libertarianism than libertarians.
Its fun to fantasize about a utopian state where we are left alone just enough. I am definitely NOT left alone just enough right now, although The State is falling way behind The Wife, The Children, and The Boss on people preventing me from doing as I would. Although it will probably be warm enough by March to abandon pants at the office. Gotta dig out the taint towel and get it ready for bidness
Why does everyone look nervous here?
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Today in school is no different from prison, guard (sorry, behavioral interventionist — no shit — probably has dozens of hours of specialized training) fractures skull of 12 year-old while restraining the boy to put him in the “Room of Opportunity”. Next up, another Floridaman tradition: “boy, what’s your dirt in the bosses’ ditch?”
How come all of these racist and sexist patients have expensive to treat conditions?
“Shut up and take my money!” Just kidding, I need to win the lottery first. And then when I come back to work a month later, people will shake their heads and mutter, “Floridaman”.
Bottom story of the day. JEB! wishes people weren’t so gosh-darned mean to each other.
I think
for music today.
They’ve taken the Hypocritic Oath.
For music today…. the sound of silence?
Here, have some death metal.
Lovely, thank you!
Hello darkness, my old friend…
So true…
https://stmedia.stimg.co/videothumbnail_baf56f7abb364ad7821e5e98a6f84286.jpg?auto=compress&crop=faces&dpr=1.25&w=1155&fit=clip&h=402
You shoulda seen the size of the squirrel that ran off with my link!
“The NHS will soon bar discriminatory patients from non-critical care”
One more step toward cleansing the nation of enemies of the people comrade!
Do they not have the hippopotamus oath there?
Yeah, they don’t give fatasses any care either.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN COMMENTING ONE. NEEDLESS TO SAY, IF IT RESULTS IN CLEANSING, ZARDOZ IS IN FAVOR OF IT. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
“Currently, staff can refuse to treat non-critical patients who are verbally aggressive or physically violent towards them.”
No complaints allowed!
“verbally aggressive or physically violent towards them”
We looked at his browser history and he watched some Jordan Peterson videos. This is obviously violence so we chucked him out on the street.
I’ve been listening to Michael Malice’s podcast while I jog or drive, and I heard an interview he did with this leftist professor from Canada named Heidi Matthews. Aside from a couple of decent points she’s pretty much why academics have such a shit reputation among some circles. She’s her own stereotype. Anyway, one of the seizure-inducing eyerolls I suffered was when she referred to the heckling of the audience a drag queen was doing during a drag show she was attending as “violent”. Like, not that she felt violence was about to happen, not that the person was becoming physically violent, THE SPEECH ITSELF WAS VIOLENT.
I admire that Malice seems to be willing to engage anyone willing to discuss ideas, no matter what they are, but I couldn’t pretend to take anything anyone said seriously after they said some shit like that. I wish he’d called her out on it.
His interview with the Babylon Bee was pretty funny,
A football board I post at has had a lengthy, largely pointless argument lately over whether “the pussification of America” is a real thing. While I largely agree with those who say it’s a silly concept that is largely overblown, and emblematic of the typical generational conflict you find throughout history, what you mention here is the one thing I do think is legitimately happening. This ridiculous notion that “I don’t feel safe because of someone else’s words” is taken seriously at many, if not most, colleges these days and it’s become a go-to tactic to silence people and drive them off-campus.
And the silencing of wrong-thinkers, often involving actual physical violence, is somehow not violence at all, no sirree.
But it’s a human rights violation if someone doesn’t bake a cake for a same sex wedding.
Rightthinkers can never be subservient to wrongthinkers . Wrongthinkers must always be subservient to Rightthinkers.
Remember – police in the UK spend large amounts of time tracking down people who write bad things on Twitter and threatening them with jail time.
They could take the strain off of the NHS by allowing private hospitals without harassment by authorities.
There is private healthcare here also. Some folks choose partial cover which means that if the NHS can’t see them/begin treatment within a certain timeframe, they are covered for treatment privately.
How much of a hassle is it to set up a private hospital?
I dunno. I’ve never tried.
This shit is the biggest boon that the left sees from government controlled healthcare: the ability to kill off those critical of or opposed to their evil shit by denying them treatment. But hey, it’s the private sector that is evil….
Humans can be so vile,
Farewell Albion!
“Free speech for me; death for ye.”
I guess Tourette’s is no longer being treated in the UK. Good thing Tim Howard is back in the US.
Oogadyboogadyboogadyblarp thank you, doctor. Fuck bastard but shit cunt do you have any cunt medication for fuck off this vagina fart condition?
I’ll scissor me timbers, you sexy dyke, see myself out fuck.
I think
for music today.
I’ve got it.
“It’s happening!”
[leaves Rhywun alone]
“our top priority is the safety of our kids”
How can they say this shit with a straight face? They just gave a 12 year-old life threatening injuries.
Their shit don’t stank, Q. They are the state. If the state says there are three apples on the table, then there are three apples on the table.
There are four lights!
J https://youtu.be/vtHYZkLuKcI
Japan is fucked, and about to get fucked even harder in a few hours when they start disembarking potential carriers from the Wuhan Princess.
Needs moar tentaclez.
The coronas are nothing but tentacles on a microscopic scale.
Are they going to release those passengers into the general population, or quarantine them?
30 days on Quarantine Island,
And on each episode one person will be ‘voted off’ the island (i.e. incinerated).
Release into general population without restriction.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200218/p2g/00m/0na/073000c
They do have to test negative but without knowing their last exposure, it’s a crapshoot. There’s also been a number of failures to detect Coronavirus using throat swabs because the viral load may not be high enough at the swab site.
That just sounds like a surrender.
I’m reading it while making a transfer at Yokohama station. LOL.
“Far too often I hear stories that the people you are trying to help lash out. I’ve seen it for myself in A&Es, on night shifts, and on ambulances.”
Screw the people that are sick/injured. All that matters is the NHS worker’s feelz.
Right, because there are no injuries or illnesses that could cause people to lash out. Assholes
Bingo! One thing we are always trying to teach emergency staff is what they might perceive as threats, harassment or aggression is often merely the symptoms of the patient’s illness, and you can help make it better, but not by being hostile in return.
You’d never say “stop having chest pain!” to a cardiac patient, but saying “stop being so loud!” is basically doing the same thing to someone in delirium.
The louder they got, the quieter I got. They had to calm down to hear what I was saying.
Exactly. The core tenet of de-escalation is ‘don’t be agitated back to someone.’
If you respond to someone who’s yelling at you with a whisper, soon afterwards you’re typically both whispering, not both yelling.
It really works well with agitated dementia patients.
This guy’s spurting blood all over me. Get him out of here!
It’s the best argument against nationalized healthcare I’ve ever seen.
As long as they only lash out verbally they should let it slide. People who are in the hospital or even just at the doc’s office are under a lot of stress.
Humans who are sick, hurt, and or confused lash out like wounded animals. Who knew>
And then there’s this gem near the end of the article – shocked face:
“A separate survey published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found that one in five mental health patients do not feel safe in NHS care.”
That’s because the NHS is run by aliens.
http://i.qkme.me/6h3g.jpg
That guy managed to make a whole career out of that… so good on him.
JEB! wishes people weren’t so gosh-darned mean to each other.
Please clap.
Rosario Dawson officially comes out as… something
She’s gay? She’s gay, but doesn’t have sex with women? She’s Cory Booker’s beard? Your guess is as good as mine.
Female presenting transgender gay male?
Everybody wants you when you’re bi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZwXSiU-zq0
Attention whore?
^^^THIS^^^
It sounds like something an attention starved middle-schooler would say.
“I’M SPECIAL BECAUSE MY HAIR IS BLUE AND I GET MY JOLLIES IN THIS VERY UNUSUAL WAY THAT NOBODY ELSE DOES AND I’M A VICTIM TOO. DID I MENTION I’M SPECIAL?”
This is what brainwashing looks like.
I’ve never had a relationship with a Ferrari either, but the yearning sure feels authentic.
So….she’s not actually gay, just a famewhore looking to gain a little extra SJW cred. Got it.
“happy pride month! sending love to my fellow lgbtq+ homies. ”
I’m thinking she identifies as a plus sign.
“Isn’t that special?” /church lady
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves. “Lincoln did what he thought was right even though it wasn’t popular,”
That would be news to the enslaved people in areas that were under US control at the time considering it did not apply to them.
“Don’t we all have friends that are crazy politically?” he asked. “But you have a brother or a sister that’s different than you ideologically, and you still love ’em right? So why can’t we translate that to a broader context?”
Please be civil.
…
Whycome you hate me?
I dunno, my sibling isn’t actively trying to enslave me at the point of a gun?
Yours isn’t?
Fuck off sibling slaver.
Translation: Buttigieg needs to be more faggy.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/gays-who-hate-pete-buttigieg/
Go put on a speedo and wave a giant dildo while dancing to Cher Petey or your gay card is revoked.
Makes me think of an amusing comment a gay acquaintance once uttered – “I’m not sure why liking dick means that I have to like Madonna and showtunes”
Heh, I have heard others say something like that off and on, and they usually are close to having their gay card confiscated for daring to even think that…
This guy kind of defied the usual stereotypes – wasn’t into art or fashion at all, wore ragged jeans and t-shirts most of the time, big sports fan, drove an old pickup truck, liked hard rock, went fishing all the time. He just was attracted to men instead of women. Having grown up in one of the last generations when hating homosexuals was entirely socially acceptable, even obligatory, knowing him was kind of a turning point for me. There wasn’t anything “other” about this guy other than who he had sex with. Once you can break down that mental wall, it becomes much easier to start realizing that sexual preference really doesn’t have any deeper meaning and it’s just another variation on the human condition. At that point, you become much better at accepting people for who they are.
This guy kind of defied the usual stereotypes
The stereotypes exist because the people who couldn’t (or wouldn’t) blend in were the ones identifiable to everyone else, and thereby set the type in people’s minds.
I never thought about it that way, but it makes sense.
There is also the effect where those hated and shunned for appearing, and thus being, homosexual, can strike back by adopting ever more ‘transgressive’ poses. It becomes a giant ‘fuck you!’ to live the extremes. See Divine, for example. Or Waylon and Madame. No shortage of examples.
It became toxic when ‘over the top’ replaced ‘fuck you.’ And we won, which left all the infrastructure of the battle in place, ready to be used for transgressing.
I wouldn’t put too much stock in the blatherings of the “activist” wing of any group.
But even the moderate gays tend to go along, or at least STFU, about the radical agenda. To do otherwise is to be a traitor, a self-loather, an enabler of ‘phobias.
Yeah, there should be more push-back but it’s not like the media are going to publicize it anyway.
Once the group has subsumed you, you must lose all individuality and work only to further the interests of the group, even if those interests conflict with yours. Otherwise, you risk being kicked out. And that’s, like, totes grody.
Yeah, it’s very silly.
The Politically Homeless Life of a Gay Conservative
#Red-Carded: How I Got Pushed Out of an LGBT Soccer League for Gender WrongThink
Speaking of gender…follow the money, people.
89 minute read? Yowzer! Barbara, clear my schedule for tomorrow morning.
The Quillette article is spot-on. Thanks.
The comments, though, are a seemingly unconscious self-parody of the author’s most valid critiques of conservatives.
*cough* snowconez *cough*
I don’t dip into the comments on Quillette but I guess it’s a pretty broad church.
The window has moved.
Gay men are the white men of white men.
You know who didn’t get a ‘taint towel?
Stormy Daniels?
About fifteen years ago I was teaching at a school that specialized for teenagers who were classified as being emotionally disturbed. Part of our TCI training involved “therapeutic holds”. Obviously this teacher is an asshole, but when you’re in an environment where you’re trained to take down and restrain kids every other day, it’s pretty easy to see how you could really accidentally hurt the kid in the process.
We call those ‘Lennie hugs”…
Why should my tax dollars be spent to help those piece of shit crackers who can’t come up to modernity? Good on the NHS for putting its boot down and saying enough is enough. Racism is wrong, and it shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone.
Ammo is cheap and think of all the cost we could save if we approached the problem more, shall we say, proactively.
Your not thinking economically enough. Ammo may be cheap, but think of all the labor that would be squandered…
*shoots Q and Leon*
Problem solved.
Well, that escalated quickly.
It was Q’s suggestion.
Kent State ‘gun girl’ says she received ‘riot’ welcome at Ohio University
“Stop going places just to get a reaction, you got a reaction.”
She shouldn’t have worn that skirt, she was asking for it!
How dare she exercise her rights right out in public like that. Disgusting!
And this goes with Naptown Bill’s post about Michael Malice above.
1620 Project
Plymouth Rock and several other landmarks in the Massachusetts town were vandalized ahead of the 400th anniversary of Pilgrims arriving at the site on the Mayflower.
Crews cleaned up the rock and other landmarks late Monday morning and Plymouth town manager Melissa Arrighi said police are investigating the incident.
“We are saddened and sickened by the recent vandalism in our historic town,” she wrote.
Plymouth Rock, a seashell-shaped sign celebrating the 400th anniversary, the Pilgrim Maiden statue and the National Monument to the Forefathers were among the monuments that were sprayed with red paint.
Photos of the rock showed “508” and “MOF” painted over Plymouth Rock’s “1620 inscription.
the hell is 508 and MOF supposed to mean?
508 appears to be the area code there. Gangbangers?
614740220 represent!The year 1620 the Pilgrims came over.
The good ship Mayflower brought them o’er the sea.
They landed at Plymouth Rock, then built up their houses.
Those MOF’s started 508 for thee.
Today in school is no different from prison, guard (sorry, behavioral interventionist — no shit — probably has dozens of hours of specialized training) fractures skull of 12 year-old while restraining the boy to put him in the “Room of Opportunity”.
Maybe they should just bring back the birch. I don’t think anyone every got a skull fracture from that.
“Today in school is no different from prison, guard (sorry, behavioral interventionist — no shit — probably has dozens of hours of specialized training) fractures skull of 12 year-old while restraining the boy to put him in the “Room of Opportunity”.”
My G-d, it’s supposed to get up to 82 degrees there tomorrow. Here in Minneapolis, I’ll be waking up to seven below zero. I gotta get the fuck out.
I’ll trade.
I don’t believe you.
I lived in Syracuse. We got 250 inches of snow one winter. I liked it there.
I *hate* the constant heat.
Sounds like unnecessary shoveling and wearing too many layers.
We barely made 67 in BhC, Trade ya
That’s not how it works.
“What about though, the fact that the president seems liberated … he was acquitted, his poll ratings are higher,” CNN’s Christiane Amanpour said before being interrupted by Pelosi.
“He was not, there was no acquittal,” Pelosi falsely claimed. “You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, and you can’t have a trail when you have witnesses and documents.”
“So he can say he’s acquitted, and the headlines can say ‘acquitted,’ but he’s impeached forever, branded with that and not vindicated,” Pelosi continued.
Later in the interview, Pelosi said, “I can’t even envision a situation where he would be re-elected, but we don’t take anything for granted. … but everybody knows that we must be unified in making sure that he does not have a second term.”
Pelosi continued, “Our country is great, the American people are wonderful, we’re a resilient country, we can withstand one term, but the destruction that he would do to the courts of our country and the environment … he must be defeated.”
Putting people on the courts who may restrict government power more than they restrict the people’s liberty is destruction. Got it.
I really, really underestimated the stupidity of Team Blue going into Trump’s presidency.
They probably could have gotten any number of concessions if they’d pretended to deal.
Outstupiding the Stupid Party is quite an accomplishment, really.
And Pelosi’s family is forever stained with Mafia corruption.
And then she called him fat and ugly and said nobody likes him.
The more I hear from politicians, the more I think that Washington DC is just like high school. Maybe Hollywood could do a remake of The Breakfast Club but with politicians. Nancy could take the place of Molly Ringworm. Trump would probably be Emilio Estevez. Bernie could be Judd Whatsisname. Klobuchar would be the weird girl eating salad with her comb. Bloomberg would be the nerd. Joe could be the janitor.
The guy who played the janitor in the original movie was one of the stars of the early 80’s Chicago Second City troupe. We lived near their theater, and used to go all the time to the free shows at midnight on weekends, when they’d try out new material, and he was always hilarious and engaging. He seemed destined to be the next Chevy Chase. But it looks like the janitor in the Breakfast Club ended up being the pinnacle of his screen career.
“we can withstand one term, but the destruction that he would do to the courts of our country and the environment … he must be defeated”
LOL. Go have another Chardonnay and take a nap Nancy.
She’s sounding desperate now. Something tells me Barr is getting too close to home.
“He was not, there was no acquittal,” Pelosi falsely claimed. “You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, and you can’t have a trail when you have witnesses and documents.”
You know if Pelosi spent the same amount of time reading the constiution as she does pretending to care about it, she wouldn’t say such stupid shit.
She’d still be a piece of shit, because reading the constitution isn’t gonna stop a tyrant, but at least she wouldn’t look like a fool. (as much)
Titty Tuesday is guilty of wrongthinking hate crimes.
http://archive.is/KTGc7
Overall I’m going with 18. She looks like she’s got some chutzpah.
The commentary on aliens reminded me – My dad and I are stopping in Roswell on our way to Flagstaff, and we’re looking for a good ghost town along the general axis of that leg of the trip. Anyone know of any?
Ft. Sumner isn’t a ghost town but it is where Billy the Kid is buried.
They have a cool little museum there. I drove a bit out of my way to visit back when I moved out to LA long ago.
Stop by any KMart.
I suspect he wants to see 19th century era structures.
In the 19th Century they called K-Marts “general stores”.
UConn law public interest law group hosts panel on gun control and the second amendment
Except there are no 2A supporters on the panel.
No wrongthinkers allowed
Planned Parenthood hosts panel on personhood and pro-life policy.
Chaired by Peter Singer.
Well duh. They hold a view of the 2A that is clearly not what it is supposed to be. We shouldn’t give a platform to charlatans. We can’t trust the people to hear two sides of an argument and make decisions about it. That would threaten democracy.
Words are violence, Nazis don’t get a platform, hate speech isn’t free speech, etc. etc. etc.
hate speech isn’t free speech
That one really gets under my skin. Probably because it’s the closest to “up is down” that I’ve ever heard any sane person say in seriousness.
Q’s kitty article in the last thread got me thinking about self defense against dogs. Recently, I was out walking on the trails by my house when three dogs came cruising around the corner and two of them started freaking out at me. I wasn’t terribly concerned as they were Goldens with collars, so it was likely just an irresponsible shithead owner walking them off lead.
I backed up slowly and after a few minutes they took off. I didn’t have a pistol on me, just my folder.
I have a ton of experience with large breeds, but I’m not naive enough to think that’s enough. I mean, Suthen got chewed up pretty good recently and I had to get a tetanus shot and stitches after another Golden attacked my dog (his fucking owner: “He’s never done that before!” Fuck you, lady, put your dog on a leash.)
Anyone have recommendations for effective deterrents for multiple dogs? I’d rather not use a walking stick. Collapsable baton? Pepper spray?
Outside of a gun, I guess I’d say bear spray?
Bear spray came to my mind as well.
Multiple dogs?
Climb a tree.
A very loud noise might buy you some time though. I think there’s a product out there called Dog Horn (basically an air horn).
What is wrong with Golden Retrievers in MN?
My wife carries pepper spray on her when she walks the dog. Not for people (although obviously it could be) but for other asshole dogs.
Pepper spray. But do be careful because it’s easy to get the stuff on yourself afterwards.
Yeah, I’ve carried bear spray many times. Maybe spray is the way to go.
Just be sure to spray the owner when you are done with the dog.
Aluminum Baseball bat
Nunchucks.
Duh.
How many nuns could a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck nuns?
42.
Claymore mines work well for multiple distributed targets.
Vice President Joe Biden tells America to “Buy a shotgun, buy a shotgun”
Halt! Dog repellent. It’s what USPS and utilities use. USPS also uses Back Off dog repellent.
It’s pepper spray.
Halt! can be bought from Amazon and a number of other places. Halt! II has higher percentage of pepper.
https://store.lhbindustries.com/maintenance-products/aerosol-dog-repellent-00j4——000
Dogs are, usually, more about bluster. But on those occasions when they’re not kidding, I’m not sure pepper spray is going to stop them.
Yep. I’ve been through it many times.
Just something I’ve been thinking about.
Pepper spray or a baton is solid for a single dog but isn’t going to stop multiple large dogs. I would act aggressive and do my best to make the pack rethink their assessment of me as a harmless target. Same as for any predator.
If the pack attacks anyway, you’re past the deterrent stage and need to put them down before they put you down. Pepper spray or a stick isn’t going to do that.
Aggressive golden retrievers exist? Amazing.
I only have a little wirehaired dachshund, but I always maintain control of her in public because she can be a cranky little shit when she doesn’t want to be bothered by strange people or dogs. I have never understood why people don’t do that without exceptions. All dogs are animals that can react under the wrong circumstances. Just keep them on the leash, it’s not difficult.
Bear spray would seem to be the way to go. If it can deter a bear, it seems logical that it would have to deter a dog.
Korean neighbors.
Larf.
We covered dog attacks in karate. The one and only time I was ever threatened (by a chow-chow) (I hate those dogs so, so much) I had no weapons (except my empty hands har har). I was half scared to death and half running through all the what-ifs in my mind. In the meantime, I stared the fucker down. I knew I was going to get hurt and I was prepared for that. I was also prepared to kill it or die trying. It backed down, tail between legs and everything.
Put a stick on your head to make you appear taller?
https://twitter.com/paulwebs1/status/1113083285729673216/photo/1
My wife’s Golden (I claim no responsibility) will charge full barrel at strangers only to somersault at their feet so they can better rub her belly.
She is always on a leash except for when in the house or at the fenced dog park.
According to Pinellas Park police, the 12-year-old boy had been “acting out” at lunch, so he was put in an isolated room called the “Room of Opportunity” with 34-year-old Dontae Thomas.
Orwell would be proud.
Dontae saw his opportunity.
I dunno, could be accurate if the opportunity is to get the shit kicked out of you by a grown man.
The Ministry of Love undoubtedly has many Rooms of Opportunity for at-promise yutes.
Here I thought feminism was about freeing women to make whatever choices they wanted about their lives.
https://humanevents.com/2020/02/13/the-tradwife-affair/
Silly me.
Maybe pre-1970 feminists.
Every other postmodern identity group has only ever been about one thing, power.
And Marxism. Don’t forget the Marxism.
Wow. That is how you propaganda – just balls-to-the-wall.
They’re testing the waters for a remake of Heil, Honey.
BBC or BBC?
Asking for a friend…
A good day of Champions League results.
I would have preferred more goals for Atlético.
Me too, but they kept Liverpool without an away goal (no shots even on target).
Both of you are literally worse than Hitler.
Then I guess I am worse than worse than Hitler.
Yes. Yes, you are.
Still better than Nikki. Or Liverpool fans.
Interesting piece on the problems at AM this season: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51524427
A few summers ago, I was traveling in Madrid and was there the same night Atlético won La Liga for the first time in forever. The entire city was a madhouse. I walked down to the big square and was accosted by some drunk Spaniard soccer hooligans who shouted at me, “who’s your favorite team?”
I said “Atlético!” and they cheered, and didn’t attack me after all.
So I’m fond of Atlético ever since, I think they saved me from a serious beating, so they can do no wrong in my eyes.
NHS staff can refuse to treat racist or sexist patients under new rules
Gonna be rough for their “Syrian refugee” patients.
“You need more cultural sensitivity training.”
There will be a Muslim exception to the rule.
Unrelated to anything: XX got the job at Walmart and her orientation is Sunday!
So far so good.
Now she just needs to stick with it.
Fingers crossed.
But I forgot to say that ALSO today, she had shadow time at the trade school in IT. She will be going there next year (should have gone this year but I didn’t have my crap together in time). She really really loved it.
I told her if she could do both for the 2 years she was in trade school, she would have options.
What do Sundays find attractive?
Morrissey?
That took me a few seconds. LOL
Congrats to you and Mo-the-Younger!
Boom chicka bow wow. Does XX mean what I think?
XX = female
XY = male
TD = tax deduction
I don’t say my children’s names on the internet and I don’t post pictures (and it’s taken me a while to convince Mr. Mojeaux to stop doing so).
Good idea. Problem is when someone else puts their pics online.
We put a stop to that at church early on. XY refuses to allow his picture to be taken at all. As far as what XX and her friends do, I have no clue.
It’s one of those things where I tell them the internet is forever, but XX is 16.5 now and she can build her own online persona. All I can say is that I didn’t do it for her and give her one.
The entire concept of “online persona” is creepy. The singularity is going to be an abomination.
Excellent! Congratulations to you both, jointly and severally!
Yippee!
Congrats to your daughter. Good luck to her. And you.
Congrats!
Excellent news!
Yaaasssss!!!
UCS ? Did I note that you had Dayton, OH on your travel itinerary for this trip ?
yes.
I would be happy to make myself available.
Have you given any thought to the Air Force Museum ?
I used to go to Dayton OH to work on the Navy railgun!! Cool little city. Very proud of their aviation history.
Why would we have Navy in a land-loc……oh, never mind.
Reminds me of my 1st trip to White Sands, where the Navy did missile tests. Weird to see those guys in their whites w/ dixie cup hats, in the middle of a bunch of sand.
I did my AIT at Ft. Bliss. White Sands is where we did our field exercises. USAF dining facilities have Army mess halls beat by a country mile.
Yes, they do.
Even tho I was in Army aviation, and we generally had the best mess halls on any post, AF still ate WAY better
We were stopping there to visit that museum. So yes, we’ve thought about it.
Any other recommendations? We don’t have scads of time, so lunch spots are probably going to be more useful.
Im not sure what fare you have in mind, but Ill assume its light-ish.
Yo GT !
You want to weigh in on this?
Well, since I’m not exclusively in control of where we will eat, and I can’t predict the mood at the time, I collect the locals’ opinions so an informed choice can be made on the day
I was at that museum about ten years ago.
It’s worth the stop.
Trump commutes Blagojevich.
I have a lot to think about this, but right now I don’t have a lot of time to do so.
(My passport is finally arriving back from the Korean consulate in Chicago TOMORROW….so lots of packing to do! Looks like my flight will be on Saturday. I’ll return to that once these errands right now are sorted.)
1. Fuck Blagojevich, but I will say that I’m happy he has served eight years, supposedly very well. *Shrug* Got what you deserved.
2. This is what all Ill. governors do. They are like S. Korean presidents and all end up in jail. Should surprise absolutely no one.
3. Trump has been vocal for 3 or so years about what Blagojevich and was positive. *Shrug* Not sure what to think. Don’t know the guy personally.
4. I GREATLY enjoy how this commutation frees a Team Blue and Obama-entrenched politician. That will be hard for them to wrap their heads around. Should be entertaining.
5. The other 11 people the article mentions as being commuted–eh, I’m not sure of their history or doings and will wait to read more to pass judgement.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/807057090/trump-commutes-sentence-of-former-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR01QLJqwlGrYlvKp7ZyZkddOMRcMaFg5SyhqigXiZQ5ei6rWbvU8fVJ2nU
Two of them were apparently non-violent drug convictions. Michael Millikan also got one. I’ve read before (but have no knowledge of whether this is true or not), that he really got screwed over.
Milken played by the rules. Boesky threw him under the bus.
^^This.
Someone who wasn’t pardoned today…Starkweather’s accomplice: https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/state-denies-pardon-for-starkweather-accomplice-caril-ann-fugate-clair
Ulbricht is still doing life.
You can’t have people not convicted of murder just running around not committing murder.
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide.
They need to learn some tips from New York governors. Only their toadies go to jail while the governors somehow remain squeaky-clean.
They learned well from Cris Carter – you have to have a fall guy
Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kck-Cq6wNLA
Young person learns about cops and the FBI and Qualified Immunity:
https://imgur.com/gallery/1y8mK39
The copsuckers on the USC will not help him.
This is brilliant
https://youtu.be/aau8qa3xgFs
so far so good,
/tall cans @ Nevada
HEY YUFUS!
You? in Nevada? where?
Brilliant, Seconded..
Ha!
That was great.
I would like to enter into the record that Meijer store-brand “Hot & Spicy” pork rinds are indeed that.
Pretty damn hot.
Tall Cans!
Heh, wait until tomorrow.
Oh, I know
Que?
Fortitude Ranch In Colorado Is An Underground Virus Pandemic Shelter For The Masses
Ok which one of you all runs this place?
I cannot tell a lie.
It’s not me.
Why do people say, “I was thinking to myself…”?
Because this could be heaven or this could be hell.
As opposed to “. . . thinking out loud . . . ,” ferinstance.
If you’re thinking out loud, you may need an oil change.
I said to myself, “Self,” I said…
I said to myself, “Self,” I said…
“Self, where did you put the car keys?”
You don’t have more than one voice in there?
Doesn’t everyone?
I am called Legion, for we are many . . .
You are Tulpa, All are Tulpa…..
Don’t Telepath Shame Us!
You people don’t understand that the sick and injured exist to service the NHS. How else are you going to keep all those people employed. It’s like you don’t even shitlord.
BUT BUT BUT THE NHS IS BEING STARVED BY THE TORIES.
Record levels of spending is never enough when the commie opposition can make promises of vajillions of magic £s.
Phew, I finally rid myself of that lovely old computer. The guy couldnt get it until tonight so I told him I was not putting my day on hold for his vague pickup. He dispatched a friend to get it for him.
She was a lovely lass but completely deaf, so we used gestures to get our way through the deal. She was worried that the cat got out and was near her car, so I gestured a casual hand flip then said as i gestured that as soon as she turned the ignition, the cat would be out like a shot. She gave a thumbs up and when the cat ran out like a shot, waved and pulled out of the drive.
That kind of deaf folk, I am pleased to deal with. Not a splinter on her shoulder, let alone a chip.
I have a nephew that is 90% deaf. He’s of that attitude.
Had a deaf guy come to our house to buy a car once – he was real nice, too.
Did he check the horn ?
*snort*
My roommate in college had a blind girlfriend, whom he affectionately called “Blindy”. To her face.
He also liked to have her naked on his bed and go down the hall and invite other guys to come have a look. “Don’t worry, she can’t see you!” he’d say.
Of course, people with deficits in one sense usually develop enhanced abilities in the other senses. So she probably knew quite well from hearing and scents that all these guys were coming in to check her out. She must have enjoyed it in some weird way or she would have stopped him.
Of course, you’d assume she’d tell him not to call her “Blindy” too, but never did. Strange gal. Even stranger guy. I think he’s in federal prison now.
I find in general it’s way easier to socialize with blind folks than with deaf folks, mainly because they blind don’t go all “Blind commmmmmunnnitteeee” on ya, whereas many deaf do. The blind just blend in with everyone else and have a lot of spunk.
In college I was in a park where a normally sighted dude ran into his blind friend and talked some smack. They exchanged normal pleasantries, and then the seeing dude says “Hey, what happened to your other dog? This is a black lab.” (it was a yellow one but he was yanking the dude’s chain). The blind guy zinged him right back and they laughed and went their separate ways.
My deaf friend on the other hand unfriended me when I posted how ridiculous it was that Gallaudet University (great Uni for the deaf, and her alma mater) had forced UC-Berkeley to take down their free lectures on Youtube since they weren’t “accessible” to the deaf community. UC-Berkeley offered free rights to Gallaudet to do the captions or ASL or whatever, but wouldn’t pay them to do it.
So Gallaudet sued, and UC-Berkeley took the only real course of action available: They took down the videos for EVERYONE so they couldn’t be excused of discrimination.
If you didn’t bring enough for everybody, you can’t have it!
Any pilots in here? 2 large jumbk jets just flew over my house in a line extremely close together. The rear plane was producing one large contrail. Seemed so strange that 2 jets would be flying so close together. Any ideas what was going on? Side note I haven’t noticed any gay frogs yet
Takes a while. They’ll be leap frogging each other by next week.
Jumbo jets*
Just gay jets, duhdoi.
Commercial, military, or completely unmarked?
/readies tinfoil hat
Couldn’t tell they were too high. Whiteman AFB is about 80 miles east of me and they were flying in that direction.
East? I thought you were in OP.
Sounds like a refueling taking place.
Cosby-style….amirite ?
That’s my guess. Front one was a KC-135, I bet.
Ever since 9/11 some planes are afraid to go out alone. It’s understandable really.
Sometimes they’re just too young to be out by themselves.
Check your 6,
My 6 ought to be in bed, along with the rest of me. It’s aught 55 in the UK. Goodnight, yankee doodles.
…called it Macaroni! Or Marconi…or something
Video killed the Radio star you know,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ
+1 Buggles
Call it blaming the victim, but when they dress like this they’re just asking for trouble.
You are my sunshine. Every one of you. Even Hyperbole.
Even Ted S.?
Even Ted. S.
Wait, aren’t you two related?
Um…no.
Ted, you are irreplaceable,
TedS’ is indeed;
You too Fuck face,
/First thing that popped into my thick skull
Interesting take, predictable changes for a musician, but well done,
Man the first few seasons of SoA were great.
I made something delicious for dinner that I will never be able to duplicate because a) I didn’t measure anything and b) the ingredients were of irregular quality.
But as a description, red cabbage with beets and apples, served with smoked duck.
Also consumption oriented:
While Rittenhouse is overwhelmingly my favorite as far as price-per-yum goes, this Old Overholdt is far and away the best $19/bottle whiskey ever. And when I say $19/bottle, I mean $19 for a 1 liter bottle.
You ain’t wrong. It’s pretty tastey.
I’ll buy a bottle occasionally.
I’ll keep a bottle around for mixing rye at the very least.
Shit, Abv wise that’s way cheaper than good craft beer,
Your comment just inspired me to pour a nightcap of Overholt. Good stuff.
This reminds me…anybody have experience with Ezra Brooks? The booze store has it on sale for $20, and the bottler is currently offering a $6 mail in rebate on top of that. For a 1.75 liter. It’s almost so cheap you have to buy it just because, but not being a big cocktails guy I want something I can drink with nothing more than a splash of water. Opinions?
LET’S GO FLYERS !