June showers make July flowers?
Evening Gliberatti! Let’s see if there’s anything fun out there to snark about.
They’re not sending us their best and brightest…or healthiest?
Maybe it was because Donny was trying to reason with a paranoid, despotic dictator?
The cluster at the top has me most amused. I’ll be happy with any of the three.
Space is starting to look like the 405.
For a dreary wet Saturday, this seems to fit. What can I say? I like Blues Traveler.
Please let it be Warren. I just can’t get enough of the shrieking harpy. ?
Warren will tell you when you’ve had enough Warren.
You don’t need more than one Warren.
And how!
Heap big applause
pick your punchline
Lie-a-watha
Spreading Bull
Crazy Purse
Fauxcahontas
Geronimom
Imma get me a beer
Oh, I LOVE those rain chains!!! Beautiful, Spud.
I like them in the winter when they ice up. You do have to make sure to get the water moving away from the house with those.
Japan has had ornamental versions of those for ages. I sometimes wonder if I missed a business opportunity exporting them to the US and Europe…
They’re all over Pinterest, all sorts of different designs and some that “sing”. ❤️❤️❤️
Well, dang. I couldn’t be first because I was eating a delicious pork roast.
A fair trade off.
I’ve got a nice baked potato and a big ole pork chop (about a pound). I call this good.
Biden’s VP list narrows: Warren, Harris, Susan Rice
It’s like he wants to lose.
A hardass prosecutor whose record knocked her out of the race before the primaries; an apparatchik whose grandiose socialist plans were too unrealistic for even the faithful to believe; and a relative unknown whose sole claim to fame is being neck deep in the collusion insanity. Backing up a guy who should have been packed off to assisted living years ago.
Christ.
Yeh but will the voting public consider this calculus or care?
No, not at all. All they see is vagina, skin color, and a D after the name.
Didn’t Rice famously get caught telling big fat lies to Congress and the press?
Yes, but if you point that out, the TV news would say you “said without evidence”, even if you piled a foot-high stack of documents in front of them.
So gender is just a construct, but we need Kamala because she’s a woman?
And race doesn’t matter; but Kamala has an advantage in the VP chase because she’s black?
You need to stop denying science with your facts and logic.
It’s perfectly logical
Given the current climate, if Biden doesn’t pick a black woman you can expect the rioting and looting to begin anew. So in delicious irony, Warren will miss out because of affirmative action.
Oh, that is rich!
How dare you deny Susan Rice’s blackness. Rosanne haz a sad.
He picked three people who are so bad that even people who are not big on Trump will now actually make an effort to vote against him to keep these nutjobs from power.
How dumb can you be?
“It’s like he wants to lose.”
So you’re saying he is sane?
Remember when they ran Hillary against Trump? Ha, ha, good times. They seem hell bent on finding the worst people, kinda like when the (R)’s ran Romney to defeat Obamacare. These people are the “elites” ?
But what about Abrams?
Kamala Harris is on even stronger footing in Joe Biden’s search for a running mate as he faces intensifying pressure to choose a black woman in the middle of a national debate over race.
But Horizontal Harris ain’t black*.
*Is POC out as the preferred term now?
“She’s black by injection.” – Willie Brown.
In her case, POC means Politician Oralizing Cock.
The fact that she is leading BECAUSE she’s a female African American is a stubborn fact for those preaching about white male privilege.
Speaking of that… I saw a meme on the girlfriend’s computer screen today that one of her friends had shared on Facebook. The text was, “Ending white privilege ends Jewish privilege”, and it had a percentage breakdown of three ivy league schools showing over 20% (((attendance))).
There’s a reason I’m not on Facebook…
“But Gab is full of racists and anti-semites”
/clueless
An article popped up in my news feed about the rise of right-wing antisemitism.
I didn’t even bother to read it considering the vitriol that’s being said by mainstream D’s.
Someone linked a gab link last night and the replies were pretty cringey.
It’s not antisemitic it’s just anti-Israel!!!! (somehow)
As African American as Barack Obama.
Just amazing that they are going to try and hold up Kamala Freaking Harris as the #BLM legal system reform candidate.
Up next, Harvey Weinstein as the DNC choice as women’s rights candidate.
Yeah, if facts mattered, they’d see that she loves locking people in cages. Hell, it’s scary to see the glee she took in it.
Now that the deal has collapsed, some experts expect North Korea to do something provocative in the fall to punish Trump during the political campaign.
And? That puts Trump in the same position as any other president on the issue.
Now, on the second anniversary of that first Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, North Korea is renouncing the diplomacy while promising to expand its weapons program, even as experts say it is ever closer to perfecting a long-range missile capable of reaching and destroying an American city.
I assume Xi Jin-Pooh has something to do with this.
They also probably believe that we are having a moment of weakness and they are seeking to exploit it.
I wonder what could give them that idea?
Sounds like CHAZ better get working on their missile defense system.
The White House is floating a theory that travel from Mexico may be contributing to a new wave of coronavirus infections, rather than states’ efforts to reopen their economies.
///BuildtheLysolWall
If you are going to make Spiderman black he should at least look like Steve Erkel (because SM is supposed to be nerdy). This guy looks like Akon.
Those PS5 graphics are pretty impressive.
Miles is a decent character, and keep in mind that Peter got built and no longer needed glasses after his radioactive spider bite. Miles’ dad is a cop, his uncle is a supervillain, and he made mistakes early in his career as a superhero as well. It’s also a great go-to for those who complain that comic book fans are misogynistic racists who can’t handle a character being redone.
Agreed. Into the Spider-verse was shockingly good.
For those interested, I have set up a Zoom for tonight. I’ll open it up at 20:00 Eastern, next week I’ve got to work Saturday night, so I won’t be able to host.
I can’t, I have to get up early.
When I attend these I end up staying up far too late.
No worries. I’m mildly entertained that these have become a thing during these taxing times. Only thing I’ve got on the docket for tomorrow is a spin class and then stopping to get a bagel (Rosemary sea salt) and schmear (Chipotle chorizo) at a local bagel place that just recently opened back up.
We have a bagel place that does green chili bagels. Damn they are good but I try to avoid them. I often times fail at that.
It’s simple enough not to go to the bagel place at all.
Then again, I’m cheap and not well-to-do, so I very rarely go out to eat.
I am far from well to do anymore and I don’t think getting a bagel toasted with butter for a couple bucks is going to break me. I can find that in the change cup in the truck. It is more they are addicting and I don’t want the carbs/bread.
I, too, am trying to be low-carb. But carbs are the best. So it is difficult. I mostly behave during the work week, but I’ll have bread/biscuits on the weekend.
There’s a reason I only go there after a spin class. Based on the data from my Fitbit and the bike, I usually burn ~500 calories in 45 minutes. I figure I can afford a bagel and schmear after that.
exercise alone is a horrible diet- but its an awesome adjunct to low-carb
Keto changed my life.
How you doing with it, Tres?
Im still trying to keep below 50g-carb/day. Lately (well during “quarantine” Ive been drinking way more light beer than usual….so Im likely over that)
I generally skips breads, starches, and stuff.
Thanks for setting up the zoom.
My plan tomorrow is to get an outdoor seat at the Irish pub for brunch.
#metoo and I often think I make an ass of myself but I am pretty used to that since I have been perfecting it for over three decades. It is really nice to talk to people of like mind on liberty but in now way agree on just about anything. My meat space friends are not as plugged in as #youpeople and most have a shallow view on events. Thin blue line types and the sort.
I would, but I’m just Italian enough to be genetically adverse to being photographed. Slightly luddite adjacent as well.
Half the people converse without cams. It is all good.
Slightly luddite adjacent
my next band
What can I say? I like Blues Traveler.
#metoo
The singer lost so much weight he is unrecognizable now.
I think the bass player overdosing threw them all for a loop.
Or he got tired of walking with a cane.
John Popper was beating off to pr0n and had a heart attack. Real talk.
So like Kevin Smith, he went on a keto-like diet (I think) and cut mad amounts of weight.
That’s either some serious beating off or some serious cardiovascular disease.
why cant it be both ?
The saddest of the three options. His cardiovascular system is compromised to the point he can’t jerk off until he has a heart attack.
It’s a good song.
I’ve loved Blues Traveler ever since John Popper and one of his buddies got busted doing 130 in his Gelandwagen full of high-end guns, including a .50BMG sniper rifle, and reefer.
And yeah, The Mountains Win Again is a good tune regardless.
Saw them on Roseanne – that’s about all I know aside from frequent MTV plays back in the day. But good stuff.
Dayum. That is zero fucks given on many levels.
Hillary Clinton✔
@HillaryClinton
If your rallies come with a liability waiver, you shouldn’t be holding them. https://twitter.com/KellyO/status/1271192765850963968 …
The riots didn’t require waivers, so they are ok.
The Mexico story is correct. I live in a county in California that borders Mexico and we have seen a huge spike the last two weeks. The public hospitals in Mexicali Mexico are at capacity and the only way to get hospitalized down there is to pay $5000 for a private hospital bed. Sick people with dual citizenship and green cards are flooding into our local hospitals and are being taken by ambulance to other cities in California. Still, the average age of death is over 70. I’ve now had numerous friends and a few coworkers test positive (some with bad flu symptoms and others with just mild cold symptoms). One of my coworkers lost his wife last week from Covid, she was 48. A lot of obesity, diabetes, and poor health in this community which isn’t helping the situation.
Well, howdy neighbor! I’m up in San Diego county.
Howdy. I’m an SDSU grad, lived in SD for 4 years and loved it. Unfortunately, the cost of living sent me back to the desert. Are you in the north county area?
I remember there being an absolutely killer Mexican place downtown.
Yes, I live a tad north of Escondido, in North County.
I’ve only been here for 2 years. Not taxed to death yet.
It’s beautiful up there, a lot of ranches and almost a straight shot to Julian for apple pie.
I have yet to make the trek to Julian for the famed pies, but it’s on the to-do list. I had considered Ramona but the daily commute would have been too long.
So Hidden Meadows it is.
You have to do Julian. Beautiful drive and awesome little mountain village to waste the day in.
I’ve been to “Hell Centro,” and I gotta ask what border patrol agency do you work for?
Ha! Most decent paying jobs down here revolve around policing (prisons, customs, and border patrol). Luckily I found a good gig outside the law enforcement field. I actually work in a lab.
Never tried cooking meth myself. Does it pay good?
I need to change my handle: Breaking Bad Hell Centro
Can confirm. A goodly chunk of AZ new cases are overflow from Mexico, and specifically Mexicali. Not just duals and green cards, either.
A lot of rumors of people getting across the border by any means necessary and then calling for an ambulance. Once they’re here they can’t be turned away.
Because we’re all so mean and racist.
I can confirm that indirectly. I had to reported a medicaid member to the state earlier week because we were able to confirm he lived in Mexico.
Meanwhile, in CHAZistan:
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1271895685873295360
I rather like the moniker “Soymolia.”
As do I. Michael Malices response was great too:
ELIJAH SCHAFFER
@ElijahSchaffer
· 3h
“the autonomous zone has the right to reject you”…
@michaelmalice
“im old enough to remember when secession was a euphemism for slavery”
also: Veganzuela
That includes Arizona, where hospitals have been told to prepare for the worst, and Texas, which now has more hospitalized patients than ever.
So a big nothingburger like the first time around?
North Korea’s strategic goal is “to build up a more reliable force to cope with the long-term military threats from the U.S.” Ri said.
Given what happened to Qadaffi, probably not a bad idea. On the other hand, fuck Kim Jong Un.
Some allies suggested right away she should be a woman of color, and since the national protests over the killing of George Floyd while in police custody, the pressure to choose a black woman has increased.
How many blacks did she put in jail?
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for tonight.
“Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for tonight.”
Racist.
There’s a stout for that.
A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR THE INJUSTICES PEOPLE OF COLOR FACE DAILY AND RAISE FUNDS FOR POLICE BRUTALITY REFORM AND LEGAL DEFENSES FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WRONGED.
Am I no longer allowed to say “Modelo Negro“?
Just start asking for more schwarzbiers.
/thinks that would have been a better option then a stout going into summer
Only Nazi’s drink German bier. ///jk
/hides his Maß glasses.
Modelo Negra, please.
But from now on it’s Modelo, Strong African American Woman.
Negrx?
Yep, surprised there hasn’t been a demand yet for the Spanish language speakers to change their racist word for the color black.
Negrx?
FFS.
Tried to order that at one of the bars last night, but they were out. I had to settle with a Two Hearted.
My fridge is filled with IPA’s now. Southern Tier’s Unpacked collection, Working Class Aviator, and Bookhouse (who got a winery license since I was there last) Celestial Map.
Two Hearted is pretty good.
It finally unseated Pliny as best beer (for AHA members) for the past two years. It’s an iconic American IPA.
When I met Greg Koch (Stone Brewing, before the crazy hobo look), and offered to buy him a beer, that was his pick.
The Stone Brewing beer garden at Liberty Station in San Diego is great. Love that place.
I’d like to make to one of the locations, but I’ve moved Stone out of the general rotation in exchange for more local breweries after the Im-peach-ment ale shite (and the changes to the base IPA and Ruination that have been made). My niece is moving to Orange County, so I’ll probably be in the area in the next year or so.
I’ve been enjoying the offerings from Modern Times lately. Fortunate Islands and Star Jungle were my two favorites but I’ve been impressed with all of their beers, good stuff.
Modern Times doesn’t distribute to Ohio unfortunately. I’ve enjoyed all of their offerings that I’ve had so far. Locally, I’m spoiled. There’s over 30 breweries in biking distance of my house.
Two Hearted?
It is my favorite beer.
ICU capacity in AZ has been just under or at 80% for the past week, with about 1/3 of that being COVID patients. The remaining capacity is about 350 beds. In AZ 11% of cases require admittance to the hospital. Unless this trend changes that means for every 1000 cases, about 36 will need an ICU bed ((1000 x .11) x .33). We hit 1000-1200 per day for the last week. Even if that doubles that still only requires about 88 beds.
https://azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/infectious-disease-epidemiology/covid-19/dashboards/index.php
That also assumes the hospitals do absolutely nothing to adjust, which I seriously doubt.
Just because 1/3 of ICU patients are there for coronavirus doesn’t mean that 1/3 of hospitalized coronavirus patients will wind up in the ICU. It could be more or less.
Thats an estimate, it has gone up slightly in the past couple day. My point remains that most in the hospital now aren’t there for COVID. More likely its for another ailment people waited on during the ban on elective procedures and it manifested into an emergency now that they can actually go to the hospital and get it treated.
But for the state to say that is to admit they were wrong to shut those down in the first place.
2000 cases per day is something California is experiencing for the better part of two months now and has a similar population density. Arizona simply doesn’t have the population to maintain those kind of numbers.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
Unless there is something I am missing here, (feel free to tell me where I’m going wrong) I‘m not terribly worried.
I don’t know and this shit is weird. Here a nearby smallish county is racking up more numbers than the largest county up the road that does more testing. I am to the point I am not really trusting the numbers or the way they test and wondering possible contamination blah blah blah. As the positive cases track upward the hospitalizations don’t in that case. For now anyways.
I’m wondering if they tested a nursing home.
There was an outbreak in a nursing home. Well, several and that is where all the deaths came from early on, but the latest was where the staff were not wearing masks or following other protocol to not scare the residents. They ended up testing 160 people with an association to the facility and 14 positives. It is infuriating. This counties health department will come inspect your restaurant and write you up if your hand wash sink does not get to 130F but the fuck chops can’t ensure that the old folks homes aren’t going to kill their residents. Government is useless and ran by idiots.
“Government is useless and ran by idiots.”
This. All day long.
PA had a real plan to protect old people, 10 days in (I think) they abandoned it, cuz it was too much effort. Then Wolf and his tranny murdered a whole bunch of old folks, after giving almost a million dollars to an outside firm to remotely monitor the murders.
As Sean notes, the nursing home carnage in PA has been spectacular. Of the ChiComVirus deaths, almost 70% have come from nursing homes. Cuomo takes a lot of shit for putting CCV patients in nursing homes but NY death rate is something less than 30% from homes. Somebody has to shine a huge spotlight on Gauleiter von Wolf before he can manage to wiggle off the hook by blaming Trump and the Feds.
Here, Polis demanded a “plan of action” from all the long term care facilities on May 1. A month and a half after he locked the state down. Ya, idiots.
Some of that low NY death rate is because Shithead Cuomo ordered a change in the reporting of what constitutes a nursing home death.
Murphy paid some crony consultants a lot more than that to help kill old folks.
Unoriginal and obvious thought:
I can’t help but contrast the difference in the way the media is treating the CHAZ incident with how they treated the occupation of the Mahluer Wildlife refuge. It’s literally the exact same thing, the only difference being that the Bundy supporters chose to occupy [vacated] government rather than private property.
Something tells me that if the cops decide to make an example of a member of Antifa, the Left and the Corporate Press won’t celebrate the way that they did when they killed LaVoy Finicum.
It is interesting/hilarious. How many neighbors of the wildlife refuge did the Bundy group extort money from?
Thank you! I gave this example to my wife the other day. She’s all excited at the rebellion and disobedience aspect. I told her that it’s a one way ratchet and if WE tried to rebel and disobey, they’d kill us dead ala Malheur. That, BTW, was after the celebrated “Occupy” protests. Nobody batted an eye at the scummy assed BS those guys did, yet they called for heads because of Malheur ( and actually got at least one.)
They were carrying scary GUNZ!! and were mostly white!!!
oh wait…..so is Antifa
/Corporate press glances around and tugs at collar
Well not really, they’d have to have an ounce of self awareness and give .02 shits about consistency
They agreed to a meeting with Finicum, then ambushed and executed him.
Murdered, not executed. He wasn’t convicted of a capital crime.
Thanks. This led me to look up the outcome of the fed who lied about shooting into the truck’s trial. Acquitted, of course. Doing the lord’s work forgives all transgressions, apparently.
I just finished “Up in Arms” about the Bundys. Very good, mostly objective account if you want to get a deeper look. The cops definitely lied about who was shooting as evidenced by the physical evidence. The FBI agents in particular whom were indiscriminately shooting at the vehicle before it was fully stopped. In my opinion, Finicum sacrificed himself to draw fire away from the vehicle that his friends were in.
He’s a house-negro, obvs.
“Senator, you have faced a fair amount of criticism,” Melvin said, “especially over the past few days, because you are the only black Republican senator.“
The NBC anchor, who is black, added, “Some have said that your party is using you, they’ve even thrown around the word ‘token,’ as well. Your response to that criticism?” …
But rather than get mad, the senator responded to the insulting question with characteristic grace.
“Well, I am also the only person in my conference who has been racially profiled, driving while black,” the senator said. “I’m the only one in my conference that’s been stopped seven times in one year as an elected official, perhaps the only one in my conference wearing this senate pin that was stopped from coming into the building.”
Some have said that your party is using you, they’ve even thrown around the word ‘token,’ as well.
Who are these “some”?
CNN MSNBC NYT WaPo NPR CBS ABC NBC Huff Po Slate Politico
Yep, a couple hours west and we are getting pelted with the rain. Also, a good friend (and bartender) from Sac was the Blues traveller drum tech in the nineties.
Silicone Saturday has a plan for peace with the Taliban.
http://archive.li/rYck4
peace with the Taliban
I maintain my peace with the tailiban.
3, 5, and I’m spent.
I don’t get the whole foot fetish thing. Not saying you have one but the heels theme brought it to mind. Feet are ugly, feet are dirty, feet smell.
Not everyone would agree with you.
Was expecting Rex Ryan. I’ll take KotH.
Thank goodness. I was expecting Tarantino.
Well, on hippies that is certainly true.
Oddly enough, some hippie chick once sucked my toes (unsolicited).
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to walk barefoot across my gravel driveway for no particular reason.
Foot Fetish, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch edition
What is it called when you use a serrated blade on your Swiss Army Knife to cut excess calluses from your heels and what’s the going live cam rate?
Use pumice. Really, seriously, use pumice not a knife.
Oh, I’ll be fine. The messed up thing is I can cut off about a quarter inch once a year or so and still have as much or more still remaining on my foot.
I’m not saying I’m a Hobbit, I look more Elven than Hobbitish but…
How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
Relevant
JF was having a hard time getting the Navy to release the movie so he arranged to have it shown to FDR. FDR was making lots of comments about the movie until he saw the footage with his son (a serving officer) on Midway. From that point on he was silent. After the movie ended he ordered it released for public consumption.
A bunch of the facts in the movie are incorrect. In part because it was rushed first version of history, in part to spread credit, and in part to hide the existence of the MAGIC program.
Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda kicked some kamikazi ass, that’s how!
Yeah, finding a YT video from that was my other choice.
My first thought too…
gist – The US Navy had broken the Japanese codes. They intercepted many Japanese messages indicating a big future attack near a place the Japanese called AF. Someone guessed this was a reference to Midway. They told the US guys at Midway to broadcast and unencrypted messaged that they were running low on water. The Japanese starting talking about how AF reported being low on water.
That’s a bingo!
One of the reasons the Battle of the Coral Sea was such a close battle was that US scout planes broadcasted their reports without encryption. The Japanese intel guys intercepted those messages and were able to work out the position and courses of most of the US ships.
Oopsy.
a Navy report from the time
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The Jap Army and Foreign Office are known to maintain radio intelligence activities, although organizational details are lacking. Information is apparently exchanged between the Army, Navy, and Foreign Office, and documents reveal the high importance attached by the enemy to data derived from this source.
The Japanese conception of radio intelligence is illustrated by the following quotation from the 6th Communication Unit Secret Order No. 1, dated 15 January 1943:
“The designation of Radio Intelligence in these regulations is a general term for attacks on the communications and operations of enemy communications. It includes the interception of enemy messages, RDF and its control, searching for enemy messages, the receiving and transmitting of intelligence, the treatment of related wireless messages, interference, deception messages and the exchange of deception messages.”
It appears that Japanese Navy radio intelligence activity is carried out by special sections attached to certain regular Communications Units, as well as by certain special semi-independent outfits. RDF activity is extremely widespread, and is carried on by all regular Communications Units, and on occasion by ships and shore stations independently. Analysis of traffic load and call signs, and cryptanalysis, are apparently restricted in general to the regular RI units.
***
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/j/japanese-radio-communications-cincpoa-5-45.html
One of the things that made the Japanese codes easier to break was that they tended to put the same phrases at the beginning and end of every message. The formula was basically “it is our pleasure to inform His Majesty that…” and the end was always basically “…glory to the empire”.
For this reason, random phrases were added to US Navy messages, which led to the “world wonders” incident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders
The language school they set up to teach Japanese was also quite interesting. Naturally while interning native speakers…
An interesting autobiography that includes part of going through that here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0834800330/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
That said this book is essentially unsellable now. Guy stayed in Japan and parlayed his Japanese into doing business in post war Japan and having a great time with the women. But the whole book has a look at these crazy (and inferior) Japs vibe of the times. That said he isn’t shy about remarking on many things he likes.
I know a guy who was in the Navy in the 60s. His job was to send messages with the big light with the shutters on it. Anyway, one of his buddies got in a bar fight in Japan while on liberty and ended spending 3 years in a Japanese prison. The upshot was that when he got out, he understood Japanese very well and got a nice gig where he got paid to play dumb and eavesdrop during corporate negotiations. Made a nice living so I heard.
Even with the Navy breaking the Japanese code, victory was not a sure thing. Where the Japanese fleet actually was, faulty coordination of air attack, atrocious torpedoes, and some obsolete airplanes caused the US problems. The best explanation on why – other than breaking the code – the US won is the book Shattered Sword.
Look up the young fella named Montemayor who does battle history videos. His are really interesting and entertaining (and brief). He’s done the first half of Midway. Been waiting like a year for the second.
IIRC, waves of US planes attacking at various intervals and keeping the Zeros busy shooting them down, until finally the Zeros were out of fuel and ammo and some US dive bombers showed up and sunk the carriers.
How long before we get a nationwide cop strike. Not that I care. Those battered women need to gtfo.
We are gonna stop doing anything that protects you!
Or…We are gonna stop doing nothing that protects you.
Mark my words, LAPD is waiting for a high profile case where they can drag their feet getting there and something terrible happens. They probably already wrote the presser talking points. “Despite our valiant efforts, we were simply stretched too thin with all these budget cuts and just couldn’t make it on time. Sure would be a shame if this were to happen again!”
deep thoughts by NPR
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Many of the changes taking place, while notable and even newsworthy, can be said to be more symbolic than real. A renamed Fort Bragg will not raise wages for blacks in North Carolina or enhance their voting power. Renaming a boulevard for Martin Luther King Jr. or a park for Malcolm X will not lessen the chances of police violence targeting the people who use that street or park.
That said, it is undeniable that names and flags are symbols that convey historical values. These symbols meant approval to people when they were created, and they convey much of that same meaning now.
Surely there are those who brandish the Confederate flag — whether at a stock car race or on a truck — for its air of outlaw cool. But what is signaled here to an African American is a more than a casual attachment to the Confederate cause — in the present as well as the past. People do not cling to the emblems of the past that represent things they abhor.
Statues and flags may not do physical harm to anyone or suppress anyone’s vote. But they meant something to the people who put them up, and they have meaning for people who see them today. They connote a social order, a cultural hierarchy, the holding of power. Ultimately, they signify white supremacy.
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https://www.npr.org/2020/06/13/876442698/will-this-be-the-moment-of-reckoning-on-race-that-lasts
Next up on NPR: Burning books, a renewable fuel to power the green energy revolution.
You don’t say.
*Prolonged groan*
I’m so glad our institutions of learning churn out binary thinkers who have to reduce everything in history down to Rankin-Bass plot levels of simplicity.
Yes, the Confederate cause was 100% all people whom wanted to preserve, promote and expand the institution of slavery. In fact they actually wanted to genocide all black people, they just couldn’t quite get it done. They used to make them fight to the death like gladiators for their own amusement as portrayed in the documentary “Django Unchained.” They worshipped Adolf Hitler even though he wouldn’t be born for 30 more years. This is known. And anyone who doesn’t shiek autistically at the image of the confederate flag is 100% in agreement with what these protocols-nazis stood for.
*proto-nazis*
Twitter doesn’t provide enough characters for nuance so it’s racist or something.
I thought they were all vampires.
I wonder if there’s a single prog who knows that the secretary of war for the Confederacy was Jewish, or that about 4,000 Jews died fighting for the South, or that 2 Indian tribes fought with the South.
They Confederates were traitors, they say. Well, George Washington was a traitor in the eyes of the British.
something something none dare call it treason if it prospers
How do you suggest we “enhance their voting power”? Maybe we could make white’s vote count for 3/5’s. Reasonable compromise.
*Drops the mic*
I wonder how much staff meeting time has recently been spent hammering out policy on when it is more appropriate to use the term “Black” over “African American”? I’m sure it’s tying them in knots.
I can only guess that IF this is really a thing – and I’m not sure it is – it’s by association with “black and brown”, and “black and brown” is definitely a thing.
Well, with “Black Lives Matter” right on the label, and the possibility of having to carry water for Horizontal Harris – who has no possible claim to be African anything – I can see their predicament.
I’m not a racist but I’ve only ever had the black and tan.
How about we name things for Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Sowell, and Walter Williams? Clarence Thomas? You know, black people who were patriotic and productive.
You know, black people who were patriotic and productive.
I think I see why not.
We shall name it Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
*wild applause*
Inside The Cockpit – F-5E Tiger II
The cheapest plane in Ace Combat and the “Mig-28” in Top Gun. Pass. Just kidding. It’s a neat plane. Kindof like a smaller,less sophisticated F/A-18.
I had a math teacher in High School that flew one of those. Really weird dude.
That must have been an interesting commute!
I meant he….bah
…Touchè
Best fighter the RCAF ever had (CF-5/116). Also looks totally cool.
Used to see them flying in Yuma. There was an Aggressor squadron based there – those are squadrons which simulate enemy aircraft. They’re positively tiny when you see them next to Hornets and Harriers.
Always loved that generation of twinjet fighters like that and the larger F4. I built models of both as a youth.
You are all psychos.
Psychopathic traits linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic
New research provides some initial evidence that certain antagonistic personality traits are associated with ignoring preventative measures meant to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
I’m an aspie and a psycho? Well shit.
It just adds to you being a Tulpa.
Now I’m really feeling marginalized.
This is getting downright Soviet.
You’re a wrecker. I’m just a kulak.
I’ll take an iceaxe over enforced starvation any day.
Gotta love how the picked the most Karenesque picture to kick off the article.
I wonder if Karen thinks all the BLM protesters are psychos?
They got a note from their doctor. A hall pass from their teacher. A get out of jail free card from the monocle.
Soviet system it is. Skeptical of the government? Well then you are a psychopath.
I’ll show you fucking antagonistic…
My response:
:Sorry, I’m not an adherent to your religion. I know you think your magic totem wards off the evil spirits and I support your right to bear a symbol of your religion. I can only assume your insistence that I wear one is an attempt at proselytization by force which I categorically oppose. Please, kindly Fuck Off Slaver and get off my lawn.”
It’s amazing how all of these “studies” confirm exactly what these people want to be so. Almost like they started out knowing what it would conclude with.
Pretty sure that by their own standards, that would make George Floyd a psychopath.
Tangentially related:
For a few day my BommerCon dad was in agreement; “Yeah those cops really messed up”
But a after a few days of news cycle he’s moved on to “George Floyd deserved to die anyway, he’d held a pregnant woman at gunpoint and therefore deserved what happened to him”
Progressives are the worst but boy do conservatives give them a run for their money.
It’s only murder if they were good people with right think.
More or less. “Silly libertarian, the state is for wielding against your enemies, duh”
It’s almost like we’re the meat inside a retarded sandwich.
Chauvin: Murderer under color of authority, danger to us all, can fry for all I care
Floyd: Vicious thug, danger to us all, can fry for all I care
One can despise the victim AND the perp.
Sure, but binary thinkers can’t comprehend that. If you oppose one, you defect support the other.
“It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
Holy crap look at the woke shit in the sidebar.
Seems legit.
Mechanical Turks? Call out the Robot Winged Hussars!
Also:
Psychopath
\m/
2021 Ford Bronco will finally debut on July 9
I told myself I was done with American cars after having 2 lemons in a row. However I do like the look of the new Bronco. Maybe I’ll check in after a year to see how reliable it is.
If you play Sim City long enough, you just get the irresistible desire to destroy your simulation.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1271975419743334400
And, hes chased off. God, I hate ancoms.
Wake me up when they start having pitched gun battles and the place becomes Fallujah.
Amazing how much anarchy resembles autocracy.
The internet ( which never lies) is abuzz with the rumor the Hells Angels AND the Mongols are heading up to straighten the whole thing out. I hope it’s true, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Are there any Chinese restaurants in CHAZ?
It’s like a street festival. I’m sure they’re going there just to provide security for the musicians.
http://archive.li/0YD3Q/433756adbff52a700a67186e8c87f06c6137b6df.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/fSDhU/f2cc6f47b4cd08095e3e2fdc95275b0c315c3e72.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/vmjbA/257f943d48adbda519105d6d1b9d1316716c3788.png
NSFW.
http://archive.li/5qfHS/0b810b61916bad89e5f2260d9c626bfac82076c5.jpg
NSFW.
Sweet. A no knock panty raid.
It’s a Q link, there are knockers aplenty.
All are good.
yes
I would not protest seeing the rest of her.
Request for the great Q: Do a Karen themed one. I love hate wanking.
She wants to speak to the manager.
http://archive.li/pGat9/c0987e262ee94a2fe3041e90ad560523b466c929.webp
NSFW.
PUT YOUR MASK ON
https://i.imgur.com/DKUm4Xv.jpg
NSFW.
Damn. Imgur blocked.
http://archive.li/CV2yO/e41e8a1b34b57f8bd82d37e8958af2d0119897c7.jpg
That’s the first Karen who makes me want to wear a mask. Damn.
Looks like it came out of a classic Playboy.
*Applause*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsV74b-C1jM
At a bar I worked in many years ago the phrase talk to the manager was a euphemism. Every time I see a Karen meme I get a chuckle out of this memory. This girl can talk to my manager any time she wants.
Winner.
archive.li still doesn’t work for me
I’ve noticed that it works fine on Firefox on my Win10 PC, but not on whatever the built-in web browser is on my older iPad Air.
Are you using Firefox?
Try this.
Reminds me of Mitzi Kapture.
Hehe.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eabx4NfWAAEgQqZ?format=jpg&name=small
To be fair, Philly putting up a statue of a fictional midget played by a guy from Hell’s Kitchen and not Joe Frazier was lame.
The only statues legally allowed in Philadelphia should be of Ron Jaworski.
What about Rocky?
Woops, should have clicked link.
Caveat:
Lawrence Taylor should be standing over his broken body.
Philly needs a statue of Santa being hit in the face with batteries.
Green Man, or GTFO!
Snorting a line?
He smoked rocks, yo.
The guy from the Liberty Mutual emu commercials looks like the Green River Killer.
Well, their other spokesman is the leader of a white supremacist prison gang, soooo….
Ah, so that’s why I’m now paying a lower premium and monthly rate after leaving Progressive.
I think that is State Farm.
He was also the yellow m&m.
Heh, I thought he meant the emu looked
Iiked a methed-out psychopath in shades.
Allstate. Mayhem.
Jake from State Farm leads a prison gang?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Schillinger
Farmer’s insurance or something like that.
Oh, yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oviT6nebx7Q
Tonight I am drinking Funkwerks Raspberry Provincial
The 88 rating is probably generous.
Fuck, the Greg Gutfeld show got preempted because of shit in Atlanta.
In other news, a skunk felt threatened.
I can smell it through my window.
Hawt.
Relevant.
https://twitter.com/BadCrippIe/status/1271983019021045761
LOLOL
Professional organizers do God’s work with hoarders.
Them: We’ll just look around and come up with a plan …
Me: OMG CALL 1-800-GOT-JUNK AND GET THIS JUNK OUT OF HERE!!!
Hoarders is an addictive show, albeit formulaic. There’s always some tragedy: death, divorce, adultery, etc
The most depressing was the old lady who in addition to the regular hoard, had a room filled with dozens of pet cages, all of which contained skeletons.
https://youtu.be/lbXb6EI5uh0?t=1132
And then there was the one with the model married to the heir to the Learjet fortune. She went off the rails when he dumped her for someone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH7Y9v1f2Ds
Hoarding shows make me feel like not such a loser.
That’s how I felt years ago when I was between husbands and Cops first came on the air. “Well, I may be divorced and lonely, but at least I’m not out driving drunk and getting my car stuck straddling railroad tracks because I tried to make a U-turn.”
LOL!!!
Another take on Hoarders:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MXeUszvYAY4
LOL
Crazy eBay Mom
*shudders*
Yeah, that’s hell on earth to me, or at least a lite version of it. I’m a borderline minimalist at this point in my life. NOT having a lot of stuff can feel quite liberating.
I hate that show.
It’s a bandaid on the real problem. Just cleaning up the house isn’t going to do anything for those people, it’ll be back the way it was within a couple of months. The people they feature on that show are so far gone the only way forward is inpatient, intensive psychiatric treatment. Cleaning the house is like taking a heroin addict’s drugs away and saying “ok, you’re all better!” without addressing the underlying problem.
True. They really do have a sickness but it’s not one that can be mitigated because most of the time they don’t think they have a problem, so they’re not going to accede to therapy.
My husband hates those shows too. Can’t have it on when he’s in the room. He can’t stand seeing the filth. It reminds him of his childhood.
2018 Kia Stinger GT: Regular Car Reviews
That dude has the best car reviews in the history of car reviews.
https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1271943911527743491
LOLOLOL
A high school friend always complained about eating at my house because mom made food with exotic ingredients like squash.
The absence of Mr. Lizard explained. His people are moving into position.
https://www.space.com/amp/nasa-new-horizons-star-shift-parallax-photos.html
Nah, but this is still pretty cool. A first for humankind.
“Harvey Weinstein’s deformed penis explained
Harvey Weinstein suffers from an acute infection that contributed to his deformed penis, according to a recent report on the convicted rapist.
The disgraced movie mogul’s deformed genitalia is the result of a life-threatening bacterial infection known as Fournier’s gangrene, according to reports in Graydon Carter’s Digital News Weekly Airmail. The infection can strike middle-aged men and diabetics — Weinstein, 68, is both — when bacteria enters through a cut or scratch in the genitals and spreads through the bloodstream. Some patients require skin grafts, but more extreme cases, such as Weinstein’s, require an operation to remove the testicles.”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1271816118156623878
https://pagesix.com/2020/06/13/harvey-weinsteins-deformed-penis-result-of-acute-bacterial-infection/
I saw Deformed Penis open for Flying Testicle back in ’92.
The scientific name for the Corpse Blossom (also potential band name) is Amorphophallus titania, which means giant deformed penis.
I remember seeing some late night weight loss pill infomercial years ago and that name was given as the active ingredient. They may be scammers, but I’ll give them some credit from humor.
Flying Testicle is a real band, btw, although it might not be to everyone’s taste.
I feel bad for that guy. He’s in prison, and everyone there knows all this shit about him. He can’t even reasonably claim to have raped anyone, after that whiny bullshit taped by hidden mic from the Italian chick. Even though he got with some hot chicks, he still had to beat off into a plant when they said no. Pathetic, really.
True story: My sis is an ICU doc. She was treating a youngish guy with this condition (probably early 40s) and he was in really bad shape; in a coma. Since he was incapacitated, the wife was the medical proxy and my sis told her that the only way the guy had any chance of surviving was to lop off everything; Ken-doll him. The wife said let him die.
I’ll take things I didn’t need to know for $200.
“Yes, Silence Can Be Violence — But These Celebs Should Shut Up
Too many Black stars have made comments condemning the movement for Black lives. It may be time to leave some of your faves behind.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/celebrities-black-lives-matter-responses_n_5ee2afb6c5b6c95050ea8d5f
Um, uh, fuck it.
“Get back on the plantation, you!”
Holy crap, that must be seen to be believed. That’s completely unhinged.
One dude had the temerity to complain about kids ransacking his store…. and only donated $50 to bail them out! How dare he!
“Celebs making offensive and erroneous claims about Black communities isn’t a new thing, of course. Black folks who identify as LGBTQ often bear the brunt of this. ”
Whut?
Apparently Micheal B. Jordan is a hero of the “defund the police” movement because he has pledged to hire private security for his productions.
2 guys named Bigfoot
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Spotted Elk (Lakota: Uŋpȟáŋ Glešká, sometimes spelled OH-PONG-GE-LE-SKAH or Hupah Glešká: 1826 approx – December 29, 1890), was the name of a chief of the Miniconjou, Lakota Sioux. He was a son of Miniconjou chief Lone Horn and became a chief upon his father’s death. He was a highly renowned chief with skills in war and negotiations. A United States Army soldier, at Fort Bennett, coined the nickname Big Foot (Si Tȟáŋka) – not to be confused with Oglala Big Foot (also known as Ste Si Tȟáŋka and Chetan keah).
***
Warty Hugeman in another life?
***
Born between 1837 and 1839, Touch the Clouds was the youngest son of the influential headman Lone Horn, leader of a Minneconjou band called the Wakpokinyan (Flies Along the Stream). Touch the Clouds was known for his height and great strength, to which his name relates. Lieutenant Henry R. Lemly, who met Touch the Clouds in 1877, described him as a Minneconjou “of magnificent physique, standing even in his moccasins, and without an ounce of surplus flesh, weighing 280 pounds”.
…
By the time that Touch the Clouds had reached his thirties, he had earned the respect of his peers and had been selected as the head of one of the tribe’s warrior societies.[3] In this role, he often led war parties against enemy tribes. White Bull later recalled an occasion in 1872 when Touch the Clouds led a horse-raiding party but decided to turn back upon discovering that they were greatly outnumbered by the Crow.
***
Wah? Indians fighting each other? I thought they were all holding hands and singing kumbaya.
It’s almost as though human nature defaults to tribalism.
Someone at Fox News has a good sense of humor
3 Insane CHEESEBURGER Recipes
Not the Babylon Bee:
Popular ballet brands respond to online petitions demanding pointe shoes in darker shades
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/popular-ballet-brands-respond-petitions-darker-shades
[head desk]
The Arterial Blood Red Shoes?
humor practice
Grim Reapers Demand US Military Eliminate Skull Logos
Biden Continues Running For President, Women Continue Running From Biden
Thousands Flee From Path of Peaceful Protesters
Illegal Immigrants to be Deported to CHAZ
I will pull the lever for Biden if he would use this as his main campaign music
https://youtu.be/Hbjz5UpJeu4
Back from a day of working on the other side of the hill. Driver educations in flat states needs to include when the road slopes upwards, you must press the gas pedal down further to maintain velocity. Usually it’s the Califuctards on I5, but today it was someone with TX plates.
Had a meet with a colleague in another office. Stereotypical suburban soccer mom (or was, kids are grown up). Was concerned about the protesting/rioting and said if she was in (different, larger city), she’d pack a gun. My inner monologue was “I hope my (lighter) isn’t printing too much”. Later was bitching about a coworker who would pull out a large knife (?) to do his nails because it unhygienic and more it violated a company policy against weapons. Mentally rolled my eyes and was glad I had used scissors to open a box just then instead of my autofolder.
Got a text…. Atlanta burning. Turn on CNN.
Mistake.
They are in full on incite riot mode.
Seems a DUI suspect resists arrest, fights two officers and wins, steals taser in struggle, runs away, points taser at pursuing officer and seems to pull trigger. Cop shoots him dead.
Atlanta mayor, being in a unique position to quell the violence as the black female mayor— calls it murder and calls for him to be fired.
So they burn down the closest building.
CNN already has multiple “hero dad” stories profiling the victim of senseless police violence.
Burning down the Wendy’s where he passed out in his car makes no sense.
They asked for it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/wendys/status/1224709867753168899?lang=en
Nota DUI suspect, he was just sleeping in his car. Not passed out, in or blocking a drive thru lane.
And fuck WordPress’s garbage false logged out crap when switching browser windows (and shitty browsers that reload pages when switching).
Are you sure GL? The report I heard said his care was blocking something (I forget what) in their parking lot.
Sorry. Was being snarky about the narrative.
https://fox6now.com/2020/06/13/atlanta-police-shoot-kill-suspect-after-struggle/
“Atlanta’s police chief resigns after officers kill man who was sleeping in Wendy’s drive-thru”
Officer fired already.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/us/atlanta-police-shooting-wendys/index.html
As if that helps.
Sure it does. There can be another riot when he’s rehired after the the employment lynching he just got.
I didn’t think a case could be made for police unions but here we are.
Yup. He’s going to win that one.
Derp, what is it with Chinese speakers sounding like something Merriam-Webster could hardly hope to pull off? This man sounds like he was made in a lab to speak English.
Not sure if you’re serious – that dude might be based in Shanghai right now but he’s from Idaho
He speaka the tluthuha!
They’ve got FNC this time! No news outlet has ever photoshopped their pics.
https://apnews.com/8a8676ff7b743506ac08f28d54e10d75
Um, so it is a picture of someone from there with a gun, but the EVIL NEWS used it in a phto montage out or order?
Nobody reads past the headline.
Red Guards are out of control
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20200613/photos-activists-topple-pioneer-statues-on-university-of-oregon-campus
This isn’t going to end until either the commies are taking dirt naps or the normies are.
This really is out of control. Brendan O’Neill has a good piece about this at Spiked!
There’s already been pockets of reactionary violence. It’s only going to escalate. The blue checkmarkers are really going to be in for a shock if the reactionary violence starts organizing. Lots of people not hiding behind phalanxes of armed security or police, advocating for political violence with their names attached.
This might cheer you up GL.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/06/13/man-arrested-for-vandalizing-statue-of-christopher-columbus-is-a-middle-school-social-studies-teacher/
Not only is a shitbird, he looks like one too. And that’s an acceptable look for a teacher standing up in front of a class.
Advice from Lemmy
Screw em all!
I show up and the World is falling apart, Coincidence?
Pleased to meet you. hope you guess my grain,
but what’s puzzling you, is why eat
Raisin bran, aw yeah, get down…..
Changed the oil in the truck yesterday. Was able to wrangle the filter off with bare handed armstrong. Superman Lives! Heheheh.
Dayum, I hope there was something left of the threaded stud to screw the new filter on to.
I was just glad to be strong at 55. Plus I didn’t feel like digging up the filter wrench when the skeeters were feasting.
I was just glad to be strong at 55. Plus I didn’t feel like digging up the filter wrench when the skeeters were feasting.
BTDT – changing the oil filter on my truck in Arizona summer heat – filter strap wrench wasn’t getting it. I had a better tool back in the garage but Eff that – hammered a screwdriver through the filter and used that to lever the filter off.
Many years ago I used to have an old Teryota with THE WORST oil filter location for getting at it without major contortions and or stripping off of parts. I’d definitely have opted for a relocation kit before the next change but then I sold her, which I have regretted ever since. The one I let go.
Ugh…
I had a Ford Contour back in the 90s. Reasonably nice car, actually. European design. The ex-wife’s daily driver.
The oil filter was conveniently placed low on the engine block behind the wheel, making it really easy to change if you were standing under a lift or in a pit.
But if you were changing it in your own garage…..
It made it impossible to remove the oil filter without placing your head under the oil filter. That was the end of my “doing my own oil changes” days.
Somehow I just assumed it was Father’s Day today and planned to do a BBQ for dinner. I got everything prepared and ready to go before I found out I was a week early. Wife didn’t care – she doesn’t have to cook and there’s bubbly iced and ready.
The first Asahi is done and I’m feeling good.
Everyday is Father’s Day if you let it be so.
In Japanese Father’s Day is “Chichi no Hi” (“Chichi’s day). “Chichi” is one of the words for “father’ but it is also a word for a woman’s breasts. So basically it can also mean “Tittie day”. Once I tried to use it as an excuse to go to a strip club but my wife wasn’t having any of that.
is hi pronounced differently from hai?
/ arigato
I read that as Chachi’s Day. Now I miss Erin Moran.
You should’ve invited her along.
It’s my birthday, so that’s what you’re celebrating.
That works for me as well.
Happy B’day! I toast you with this Kirin.
This was also my first day of Boot Camp in 1976.
I had my 18th birthday in basic training
Happy Birthday!
All the best people had a birthday yesterday though ?
Happy Birthday ???
its you’re birthday? wye didnt ewe Cey sew!
Hey Ted’s
Its your birthday
Thats for real-real
Not for play-play
Happy Birthday
‘sup, Tres! Hey, I saw your comment yesterday re: my mention of Sowell’s Black Rednecks & White Liberals about the difference between Southern whites’ and Northern whites’ attitudes toward blacks. The way I heard it was “Southern whites let blacks live close as long as they don’t get uppity. Northern whites let blacks get uppity as long as they don’t live close.”
Hope you have an exciting celebration!
That looks like a nice piece o’ property.
ps – good morning! damn that’s twice I’ve been rude already today
No worries! Good (::checks watch, does math::) afternoon to you!
Ain’t no laws…
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1272058159146782720
I don’t think it would be possible to wall off CHAZ a la Escape From New York without further harming business and property owners who would prefer a peaceful return to their businesses and property, but I can see the appeal.
ps – good morning.
Good mornin
Just like it was 3 months ago….chuggin pickle juice before church