Sure, it seems like the world is falling apart. Like the crazies have just taken over and there’s no turning back. But it’s a source of entertainment, at least if you’re not the one getting his skull cracked by a billy club. SP and I took Wonder Dog for an outing last night. Unfortunately for Dog, it involved getting a bath, trimming nails, and other things she hates in order for her to be presentable. And me as well. SP made me put on my muzzle.
Birthdays today include a spy who was certainly not a cat; a champion cyclist; a famous Jew-hater; a pianist whose work I love; a bass player whose work I love; a singer/songwriter who made a career out of being a lesbian; an actor who made a career out of being a flamboyant gay; a bizarre and usually unfunny chick who was in my favorite Jerry Lewis film; and a guy who was in the worst film about wine ever made.
Screw that, let’s look at the news and laugh our asses off.
Trump: reporters = Jim Florentine: telemarketers.
This would have been great if it weren’t just a shell game. How about, I dunno, BRINGING THEM HOME?
Fuck you, cut spending. OK, well, just fuck you, out of principle.
After I thought WaPo hit Peak Stupid, NYT says, “Hold my beer!”
I see the lawsuits coming. And deservedly so.
Old Guy Music features an old girl. Well, she wasn’t too old at the time but still. I saw a Rick Beato video about the chord and melodic structure of this song, which was perfect for my geeky side, but it did remind me of what an amazingly great song this is. I could live without the Pat Metheny solo, though…
“C’mon, admit it, all the shit going on is entertaining.”
It’s also very worrisome.
Nah.
It can be both. I do not see how months of shutdowns and burning down businesses can be good for the economy.
That’s why we’re printing money at an even more absurd pace. To help the economy!
Don’t worry. The Fed has successfully decoupled the stock market from the economy by printing trillions that have to go somewhere.
Isn’t that grand?
Yeah. I’m not even sure what the right play with my investment money is now. Cash/savings accounts seems like a losing prospect with inflation. Precious metals haven’t been rising like I would expect, and have some manipulation concerns. Crypto is like metals, but more so. Lead would require a time/training commitment (and doesn’t quite track as an investment).
So into the market it goes.
They’ve managed to completely destroy small businesses and preserve the insanity among big business and their over-leveraged stupidity.
Think about it for a minute. Hertz is the only major company to declare bankruptcy that wasn’t already the walking dead like JC Penney.
At this point it is just green paper, with a diminishing value. If you are stocked up on TP and a few groceries you are ahead of the game.
Real property would seem to be a good play.
Hertz was among the walking dead too, just on a more hidden way.
They took a super risky path for marginal gains.
I’m staying in cash until November. I want to see what our market does after the Fed has thrown in the towel, the unemployment runs out, the rent payments have started drying up, the looters have been put int heir place (most likely through some harsh violence) and some of this dust has settled. As of right now, I don’t see much positive happening in the next 12 months. Also, i think Corona isn’t just going away, it’s still going to affect hings.
*I do own some DRV.
Yeh, the fact corona isn’t going away leaves them all kinds of excuses to do bad things.
They can – and will – always say ‘no vaccine ergo we must…’
I don’t see how we come out of this completely unscathed. We just have to hope it’s not as bad as we think and bitch about.
Two things I was wrong about on the ‘Rona:
I thought the hot weather would really knock it down.
I thought a lot more people would have antibodies.
I don’t see how months of destroying race relations and promoting Marxist agitprop can be good for the country, either.
The pre-positioned bricks worry me. How much does a pallet of bricks cost? $800?
Next time it might be cases of hand grenades, dynamite, or firearms. Where did those guys get the explosives to blow up Arms?
Conservatives have 2 settings – peace and war. Leftists are fine sliding along a scale and tossing away pawns like BLM.
ATMs
Blowing up arms sounds like fun though.
+2 Harold Russell.
“Where did those guys get the explosives to blow up Arms?”
And who showed them how to blow an ATM open without ruining the contents? Not a trivial skill.
I expect that the CCP has had their hand in organizing/funding some of these riots. It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that they taught some people how to bust an ATM open.
I thought the same thing, my very limited experience is that dynamite blows in the direction of least resistance.
Dynamite is egalitarian.
Looking at it from a design engineer’s perspective, I expect ATM’s are built so you can’t blow one open in a single strike. Even if you know how they’re built I expect you would have to set a first charge to remove enough of the surrounding machine so you can get access to the vault structure to blow a hinge or lock off to get at the cash.
I know shit about it, other than a client of mine had a portable ATM machine in their store, but there was never more than $2,000 in it. I doubt it was dynamite proof.
No idea how much is in the larger machines built into the side of a building.
I don’t frequent the twatters etc, so I haven’t seen any of the wildfire propaganda stuff but was that ever verified? The pallets of bricks? I know some folks were pointing to the gabion baskets on some streets that have been there for years. Also as I neglected to point out to my sister, when she was irately talking about how police had put out bricks for people (I didn’t want to invoke full autistic screaming and eye gouging), just because the bricks are there doesn’t mean you actually have to throw them. There’s something to be said for individual agency and personal responsibility.
The pallets of bricks magically appearing in different cities, nowhere near any construction, where protests turned to riots is pretty well documented in a lot of places.
It should be a priority focus of federal law enforcement.
Yeah, I saw several pictures of pavers in stacks in areas where there were no pavers… on downtown sidewalks. And not “I just got delivered and I’m sitting on a pallet” pavers, these were “i’ve been placed here in a stack by hand” pavers.
There were also a couple of videos of people handing out bricks from cars…one of which had a black lady chase them down and give them the brick back before ripping them a new one. That last car appeared to be young, white adults – the type to be Occupy veterans.
There were also videos of Antifa types who came with tools for smashing bits of curb…. one of whom got a taste of street justice.
So who knows. When you have tens of thousands of people in dozens of locations, you are going to get all sorts of stuff. There’s no question in my mind that there was a concerted, national effort from the anarchist types – antifa – to foment riot and looting. There’s also no question in my mind that there was a gleeful concerted effort among the national media to push for and promote protest and riot.
A third leg of the tripod – there were definitely coordinated efforts on social media to promote riot and looting in areas not affected – my town being one of those targeted. This could have been a Chi-com exercise, as was promoted by some. I sincerely doubt that it was an operation of some white nationalist group as was promoted for a couple of days by the media. It was too large in scope – this wasn’t a single twitter account with 100 followers, it was multiple networks on facebook and twitter, all promoting locations in small cities that were supposedly being targeted for looting and rioting that night. It was picked up by local media and local law enforcement, which gave it an air of credibility. Definitely an attempt to use the media to set an appointment time via remote control without having any boots on the ground.
“Trump then dismissed a reporter who asked “how can a better economy help George Floyd,” ordering them to hold off on asking questions while he signed the bill.”
Well, he got a gold casket.
I know it is trite and done to death… but can you imagine anyone shouting such a question to Obama?
a bizarre and usually unfunny chick who was in my favorite Jerry Lewis film
Relevant
“Alcindor recently faced backlash for asserting there was “no evidence” to the president’s claim that “anarchists” were involved in the violent riots that took place amid the George Floyd protests.”
So she’s an idiot.
But TEAM BLUE mayors and the Deep State say there’s no evidence Profa was involved!
Well, that’s lying, not idiocy.
“faced a backlash”
Meaning that a handful of conservative sites called her out. Ooooh! Backlash!
Every major news outlet made similar claims, all while claiming that white nationalists were behind the rioting. At least in that case they found a tweet a couple of days after they started making the claim.
Can someone elaborate on what is meant by “added 2.5 more million jobs”? I’m so used to being lied to I’m not sure I understand what it means. Sorry, I’ve been really down and I want this to be good news.
The US Government took 3 TRILLION dollars and threw it at the economy, they put a caveat int here about the loans being forgiven if used for payroll…. VOILA!
They were expecting 8 million more people to go on unemployment, when in reality, people are getting called back to work. That’s what those numbers represent. But as Cy point out, much of that is at the cost of 3 Trillion dollars.
Plus, the government counts total payroll every month. It comes out in the jobs report – literally a count of jobs. It had shrunk by 30 million as people were laid off due to governments shutting businesses down.
Trump: reporters = Jim Florentine: telemarketers.
I heard a report out of Canada this morning bitching that too many of the new jobs are going to men.
All for the narrative, nothing against the narrative.
I’m not going to weep or even feel a little bad when the media gets sent to the camps.
Yeah, I heard that one this morning. Always the CBC trying to fit the facts to its narrative.
Most of those extra jobs for men are as security guards. I can attest that at least a few of them are authoritarian assholes.
As I drive passed a cemetery, I wonder, do any of our lives matter? Only to a few and only for a very short time.
Is it strange that this just made me feel better?
Really Doesn’t Matter https://youtu.be/tcPmBRBVm4A
You’re just a figment of my imagination anyway.
“That’s because bamboo is 40% more absorbent than “the finest organic cotton,” and can take in “three times more water than its weight” when woven into a piece of fabric, according to Cariloha, a bamboo retail store.”
No conflict of interest there.
What makes so-called less organic cotton less absorbent?
Because it’s not organic!
Jesus, it’s like you don’t science.
I like how vaping coils use “organic cotton” to inhale synthetic chemicals.
I like how they sell organic all natural dog food on TV for pets that like their own ass.
My eye-roll is always for the all-organic vegan dog food.
Uh… it’s a domesticated wolf.
The most non depressing thing about those links was the Old Guy Music and that was depressing. I, however, do find government sanctioned graffiti kind of funny.
Really? I thought the song was absolutely delightful. But I’m not exactly normal…
My favorite Mitchell, which no one could find even a tiny bit depressing.
My favorite Michell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09d7yp1CkA
A little depressing
Not this one
That should have had a question mark after it.
How about this Michelle?
I wore out the vinyl on that album back in the day. Not a clunker on it.
Not this Mitchell?
I was never a Joni fan. Cranked up the U tube and
fucked up posting a comment. Ahem, meant to end with this popped up.
You know who else moved troops out of Germany?
George Patton?
Not in the direction he wanted….
I sure am glad we moved right before the crazy hit, as our new location has been very isolated from the parts of the world that seem to be falling apart. Bought a house out in the country in January, and got settled in right before the COVID lockdowns hit. We went from a pleasant little neighborhood just north of Tampa (Carrollwood) into a more pleasant rural area near Plant City. Very glad we did – if I had been stuck in the old house through all this I think I would have gone a bit more crazy than normal. It wasn’t a bad area, but we had the ultimate Karen living right next to us, and we were not that far from some sketchy areas. New house is on a couple of acres, and the most annoying neighbor we have is a cow that comes up to the fence closest to our bedroom window and moos at 02:30. The only time things showed signs of the chaos that is hitting other areas was in the day or two leading up to the one protest we had in Plant City, and those signs were that people all around my area were out in their backyard gun ranges practicing in case things went sideways. Yeah, there are some racist rednecks out here, but the overwhelming majority are the leave me the @#$% alone type.
So far my telework days have been filled watching the otters, bobcats, raccoons, turtles, anhingas, herons, egrets, etc. that live in and around our back yard. We’ve been spending our days working in the orchard, eating the blueberries, blackberries, peaches, plums, and other fruits/veg that have already ripened. Not a bad way to spend the apocalypse…
Good for you.
Remember to take pictures to chronicle your descent into Florida Nature Man. You’ll be wrasslin’ gators while wearing flip-flops and cutoffs in no time flat.
Sounds rough…
I see the lawsuits coming. And deservedly so.
It’s not racist if it helps black people!
/leftists
Seriously though, I’m running out of food delivery services. Doordash got summarily uninstalled and unsubscribed when their CEO spammed me with leftist pablum. Now Uber eats is gone, too.
*crosses fingers that grubhub doesn’t do anything stupid*
One of our local places (that has the best named dish ever: Vladimir Poutine), has started re-opening, but the website still has the blurb from when it was takeout only:
I got the uber lefty email, but I need uber. I assume Lyft people got a similar email though. Can anyone confirm?
I can confirm Lyft sent an email too. They even had the gall to lump in the incident involving Christian Cooper with what happened to Floyd, Taylor, and Arbery.
The answer is cooking your own food. Also, we have plenty of cooked food delivery services around here that don’t do the virtue signaling shit, they’re apparently just happy to get your money.
Today is the anniversary of D-Day
I’m not bending the knee in penitence for my white privilege, but i will bow my head in honor of those lives lost.
My parents were married on the 20th anniversary of D-Day.
How many casualties as your father stormed mom’s beaches?
At least we know that one soldier came out of it alive.
I’d get banned from Twitter just for saying “alive” there, wouldn’t I?
Viruses are alive, zygotes are not.
What about feelings? 😉
I do have good news! We just paid off my truck three years ahead of schedule. We are now officially debt free and will be saving for a house and a shitload of land from here on out.
Congrats Mustang! What an excellent feeling from that!
You da man! You’ll remember that the next time you have to buy a new truck/car.
Dave Ramsey approves.
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Way to go!
Thanks all, feels pretty good.
What’s the best kind of car? PAID OFF!!!
Good work! It feels awesome, don’t it?
Sure does!
?
?
Excellent.
We just paid off my truck – if it was a small electric car I would have congratulated you but as is you are killing Gaia
That new tesla monstrosity would tick both boxes.
I saw a clip of Jay Leno and Elon Musk talking about it on “Jay’s Garage”. Jay asks “why bullet proof windows?”
Elon says, ” Because it’s cool. Who doesn’t want bullet proof windows?”
Who doesn’t need a steel-body crew cab with a rolling, retractable bed cover that can hold the weight of a 200 lb man jumping up and down on it, with bullet proof windows, adjustable pneumatic suspension and a zero to 60 time in the sub 4 second range?
“Real leadership exercises ownership. Real leadership solves problems. It unites us. It brings us together. And, she did none of those,” Harris(police union chief) asserted.
Yeah, about that ownership thing…
“Well, I think you’re looking at a philosophical idea that the police are the root of all the ills in society and that’s the wrong approach to take,” he remarked.
“And look, if we want to have a real conversation about decisive actions that we can take to move us forward and to build trust we can do that,” Harris encouraged. ”
I’m sure that real conversation and those decisive actions don’t include repealing qualified immunity or direct payments to the victims from the pension fund in his eyes.
0i like Monty’s piano, he is also a pretty fair vocalist, and a really funny guy. Years ago, Gary Walker had him on the WBGO morning show. Monty kept switching back and forth between the king’s English and Rastaman, frequently in mid-sentence. Walker was in stitches, as was I.
Letters to the Local Rag: Anonymity For Me But Not For Thee
“I should be easy to find, I’m apparently the only one not wearing a mask! Sincerely, Spartacus”
Two words for the ninny: Stay. Inside.
The world isnt going to bubble wrap itself for you.
Dude, don’t threaten me with a good time.
Letters to the Local Rag: Run the Little Bastards Down
25? So 10 miles over the limit?!
6-year-old vs. 25 miles per hour.
My money is still on the car.
Alright all. Have a great day. I’m off to ride ~20 miles and grab some brunch.
Reports from the ride. Only one boarded up establishment with BLM slogans painted on them. They were also.open, and a barbershop. Place I’m at has even staff not wearing masks now. Huevos Rancheros on the way, and rehydrating with a local hazy pale ale.
Booze dehydrates you, Neph.
So you better drink a lot of them.
There was water as well. And I carry two water bottles on my bike. One with sports drink (usually Nuun), one with water. Total of 21.3 miles. I went through the downtown area to see how bad the damage from the riots were. The fucking looters ignored empty buildings, and went hard after the local places. Pretty much every window for an occupied store front on East 4th was smashed. The casino and Tower City (if you’ve ever watched the Avengers or the Christmas Story, you’ve seen it) were boarded up (with no slogans up).
So I get RFQs from the state on equipment and construction.
This week, I’m seeing more things like blasters for graffiti removal and security lockdown shades.
From what I read above I thought blasters is what you withdrew money from an ATM with.
So no point in planning to visit the US in a few years since there will be no US to visit…
Meh, there may not be a Philadelphia or Minneapolis to visit, but the rest of us are OK for right now.
Besides, we’re training our youngsters to deal with the problems.
https://gfycat.com/positiveweeleafwing
“BREAKING: Lancet, NEJM Retract Surgisphere’s Studies on COVID-19 Patients”
https://twitter.com/TheScientistLLC/status/1268644101517447171
“Today, three of the authors have retracted “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis” Read the Retraction notice and statement from The Lancet”
https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1268613313702891523
Beware the Boogaloo man: Young white men with long guns at George Floyd protests likely affiliated with far-right group Boogaloo
You’ll spot them as they’re looting the Tommy Bahama and Oakley outlet stores….
Heh.
How many of these people are wearing the Hawaiian shirts just to wind up the reporters?
If I had any Hawaiian shirts I might think about doing it, but I just by cheap solid color T-shirts.
My Facederp friends are fairly convinced they’re EVERYWHERE AROUND US
I don’t know how you can stand to weather such stupidity. Delete.
“Stand to weather”; is that like “endeavour to persevere”?
I don’t weather stupidity; I patina it.
They’re coming from inside the house!
Y’know, if I thought I was surrounded by a bunch of far-right revolutionaries, I don’t think that broadcasting that fact to Facebook would be my first move.
Buy, not by.
4chan strikes again.
Somebody needs to tell them about the “aloha casual” uniform at INDOPACOM.
““They have stolen that, as they have their whole regalia and their appearance,” he said. “They think that by putting on the costume, that makes them Special Forces. Perhaps they’ve spent too much time playing Call of Duty,” he said, referring to the militaristic video game.”
OK, now do cops.
Damn..my FIL better keep a sharp eye cause thats all he wears. He will limp his way to cause mayhem and lead the frontline troops slowly.
Shit. If the Hawaiian shirt thing goes until next spring, I’d like to see some young punk try to go after half of the Viva contingent.
The hacker known as 4chan!!!!!
It’s getting disgusting how many boogeymen the left is making up while their ACTUAL FUCKING MOBS burn and riot things. But yeah, be afraid of the neighbor in the Hawaiian shirt when he’s sipping a beer at the grill.
Makes me want buy a few Hawaiian shirts and go LARPing, I even shaved half my head in semi solidarity with the skinheads…
I am very pissed off. Hawaiian shirts are basically what I wear all summer when we go to BBQs and Brunch. For 15 years or so, my wife has bought me Tommy Bahamas shirts for birthdays or fathers days, and these asshats have ruined it.
I hear you. The Kung Flu shit down libraries and the art gallery, which are my sane/tranquil/Zen spaces and I need them.
It never ceases to amaze, the consistency with which the media gets everything wrong. They’re in the odd position of being too ignorant to deliberately lie. That shit takes some work.
https://twitter.com/learyreports/status/1268992265663455232
You can have a reggae dance party, but you can’t visit people dying in the hospital.
“No no, my aunt is dying from irie jams so it is different…”
Tony Levin was a great bassist.
The dangers of seeing the world thru a lens
https://i.imgur.com/Rx0h2Hp.gifv
The Coin of the Realm
I think we need to bring it back.
Do you put it in the slot?
“How White Women Use Themselves As Instruments of Terror”
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1269082882406068231
BREAKING: THE MEDIA SUCKS ASS
https://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/1269048894161391618
https://spectator.us/andrew-sullivan-new-york-column-riots/
So the media is HM?
I thought that was Alex Jones that wants to eat ass
Nope, he wants to eat your ass if you live next to him.
I’m beginning to think that the worst thing to ever happen to America was the anti-bullying movement.
So propaganda it is then.
I’ve thought that for a while.
Except bullying is encouraged if it fullfills the narrarive: mock and bully mask wearers, people who want to get back to work, who think the rioters are bad, etc. All acceptable under them.
*non mask wearers
Both ways are correct. And I guarantee that the Karens will harass allergy suffers or immunocompromised individuals in the future after they feel masks are no longer needed.
Thats true. Why you still wearing a mask and outside! Go home you will kill us all!
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1268887669200883714
CWAA
LOL
Just now Krugabe is beginning to suspect the numbers from the BLS.
Someone made sure to point out his article from ’15 calling them “employement truthers” hahahaha
Its just sad because in principle, yes we should always be critical of the information that the government is peddling, regardless of who is in office or what letter is behind their name.
Alcindor is the very definition of fake news.
Funny before the pandemic not a mention of how well blacks were doing.
Barely coming out of the pandemic, there’s great news and she focuses on an incremental and meaningless stat – even though it’s still in POSITIVE territory.
Amazingly evil.
I take particular offense to the fact that I pay her salary.
Shit, i pay for many people like that with the CBC. First up, Rosemary Barton.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you rouges, knaves and miscreants!
*sees who is featured on Old Guy Music, gathers courage, clicks… taps out after 15 seconds*
I know she is a legend, but that voice is nails on a chalkboard to me. Sorry.
I’m gonna go back to another friend of yours.
Ahhhh. Now that’s just the thing!
I hope all of You People have a great day! Send some love out to Brooksie. He deserves it.
Don’t be. I’m right there with you.
I know no one wants to see any more bad news right now, but Russia has just caused an enormous oil spill in the Arctic. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who would stand up to Russia, and who had the slightest bit of concern about the environment?
https://twitter.com/MichaelDavSmith/status/1269222415084793856
If Hilary was president this spill would not have happened.
TRUMP KILLED THE BABY SEALS!!!!!111!1!
lulz
Look at the dude’s twitter profile pic. It’s the douchiest of douchey.
At least he doesn’t have a man bun.
Editor at Pro Football Talk?
Whatever.
I didn’t realize that was a quote when I read your post… I was quite puzzled. Then I clicked the link.
Holy crap.. Peak derp just keeps getting further and further away.
I suppose that if Trump really cared about the environment and dared to stand up to Russia, he would bomb that oil tank farm to prevent the possibility of any more tanks rupturing.
Re Uber.
The amount of virtue signalling face palming stupidity is breath taking.
Do we even know race was a motivating factor in Floyd’s death?
I find it hilarious that a career criminal, who among other things an autopsy showed he apparently has Covid, got a public and televised funeral in the middle of pandemic where no one wore masks and didn’t social distance. Funerals denied to citizens across the West.
For me this has been one gigantic: FUCK. YOU. And. FUCK. OFF.
Worth noting: 4 in 10 000 whites arrested end up killed. It’s 3 in 10 000 for blacks.
Just check out BLM’s platform page for clues that none of this has anything to do with race.
And now big companies are making donations to them.
*facepalm*
It’s useful idiots all the way down.
It’s amazing. BLM learned well from Jackson and Sharpton.
They have begun repeating Brianna Taylor’s name as a victim of racism.
She was shot in bed as her boyfriend confronted a group of officers kicking the door down in the middle of the night in a no-knock raid for which there is no justification. There’s zero chance they fired because of race – hell, they didn’t even properly identify their target.
That case is actually the perfect poster child for needed reforms – a warrant that never should have been granted, tactics that never should have been used and an investigation that was a component of a drug war that should have been abandoned long ago.
But the lesson the left wants to take away is that the police are racist.
Well… there ya go. We’ll get right on those “don’t be racist” reforms.
If its racism, then that means the 50 years of Democrat mayors in Louisville are absolved. Just like the 60 years of Democrat mayors in Minneapolis.
https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/06/state-trooper-stalked-woman-he-stopped-on-turnpike-followed-her-home-authorities-charge.html
Sounds like a training issue. ?
Who writes that article without pictures? How are we to judge if we cannot see just how hot she is? I mean, if she’s a 6 and he chases her all the way home, he needs to be committed. But if she’s 1984 Kathy Ireland…
You’ll want to break in and loot Silicone Saturday.
http://archive.li/x1iqT
Arghhhhh….
So this tripe is making the rounds on Facederp.
https://imgur.com/a/633ysIv
My response:
Define “Nazi”.
Define “extortion”.
Define “war crimes”.
Also: LOL@President abuse of power. As long as it’s the right TEAM I’m sure this individual is completely fine with it considering Obama was elevated beyond monarch to deity.
“Definitional fallacies” probably goes over their head even though they’re Ivy League educated. It’s sad really.
Maybe I should have just gone with “I unfriend people who can’t recognize a strawman argument, false choice, or fallacy of definition.”
As long as wommen aint paid I’m good
Also why not communists are bad?
Probably because they have some communist friends that they’re afraid of losing.
I like that the arguments that “are” political are all within the 3×5 card of allowable opinion. “How high should taxes be?” Not are taxes immoral?.
Also I think “Abolish the police (but don’t really because we need enforcement of our favorite laws)” seems to fit in the right hand column.
It’s basically announcing that they have no intellectual spine.
Like I said, this is an Ivy League educated person. This is what they have been churning out for over three decades.
I just did my occasional peek at Facebook to look for invites and then just “noped” the fuck outta there. Too many people I like saying stupid shit.
I’m not going to abandon multi-year friendships just because they have opinions I disagree with (and even think are stupid). My greatest fear is that attitude would not be reciprocated – that’d be too depressing.
I’m not going to “unfriend” them, but I’m going to try to force them to come outside their echo chamber. If they don’t want to, then they’re free to unfriend me.
Well, black people are bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUXAEzaC3Q
Not. Black.
“Can Presidents abuse power?”
You mean like when Obama extra judicially murdered a teenage US citizen in Yemen?
Dick.
The UK made wearing masks mandatory.
That country is beyond weird and idiotic with its fetish for authoritarianism.
That shit always worries me because it can easily spread to places like Canada with the sort of governments we have here. And the USA ain’t safe either.
Tam here just said, ‘Covid case can explode if we don’t re-open safely’. The numbers are done to 500 cases a day in a nation of 37.5 million and they still pump the fear mongering.
Explode? Why did she use that word? She could have just framed it more delicately like, ‘We could see cases rise if we don’t progress. But we remain confident things will go well’.Keep people positive and calm. After all, it’s not a killer virus for most.
Nope. It’s ‘IF YOU DON’T DO THIS CASES WILL EXPLODE!’
Tam, if she had a shred of dignity, would resign.
That’s by DESIGN and I don’t give a shit what they say.
Good morning.
I have successfully spanked to the George Floyd porn video.
We were all hoping…
And it’s only going to get better
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-bans-police-use-of-tear-gas-for-30-days/281-2d557bfc-c6dd-428f-9715-b418301dfaa6
Just cede the cities and encircle them. Have em, you think you can run a just society better? Here is the real estate to do so. Good luck.
+1 Escape from New York
I see soft-segregation on the horizon.
Things are too far gone.
The way I see it? Those who share ‘x-values’ (say, sane people) and those who want to go another way. Go.
I just don’t see how we can ever bridge that gap.
Corporate America’s response to these things is interesting. I wish a company like Nike would drop because it would mean the market is sane but clearly their signalling works. Maybe I’m wrong to even look at it this way.
I just quietly boycott all these companies like UBER now and Lego and Ben & Jerry’s and everyone else piling onto this farce based on a faulty premise of ‘white supremacy’. It blows my mind how this became an article of faith and proof based on ZERO evidence.
Try and tell me this isn’t a Dark Age.
Bill Gates and company really destroyed what had been a cute little gem of a city.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/the-week-in-pictures-what-pandemic-edition.php
LOL
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/06/Stimulus.jpg?w=751&ssl=1
Party in my pants
Except you can’t vote if you’re a felon.
Except by mail or ballot harvesting.
In terms of a city getting in on the groveling, Henderson lays out a generic statement at least. Dont know why, but they did
The City of Henderson is comprised of diverse ethnicities, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds. That diversity is what makes us special. As grief and anger is being expressed across the country, we invite you to be an example to the nation. City leaders, residents, police officers, and business owners stand united: Henderson values human dignity. Let’s do what we’ve always done and take care of each other. #HendersonCares #TogetherWeCan
Is the Mountain still lit up?
the LED Nevada state? That was cool
I think BLM allowed it to be up longer. Since it doesn’t get dark until 9pm now I haven’t been out to looksie.
I thought it was cool and done at the cost of an individual and their son. No government cheese needed.
“That diversity is what makes us special.”
Nah.
Do we get free delivery from blackface-owner restaurants?
Cuomo wants state lawmakers to pass ‘Amy Cooper’ 911 false accusation bill
What about one based on religion?
Make sure “red flag” calls are included. Call it the “Duncan’s law”.
It’s in there but STFU we’re talking about race now.
I have a lot to say about the subject of BLM, Antifa, the rioters/looters, and all the unwarranted/unasked-for apologies, but I don’t know where to start and there are precious few places I can vent (two: one is my husband; the other is here). I can’t separate the George Floyd and others’ killings, the economic damage of the small business owners INCLUDING black business owners, from BLM.
My feelings of outrage are squarely in favor of the business owners being completely destroyed because of the whims of the government and whoever’s left is being burned and looted out, and NOW the municipalities are abandoning the inner cities altogether.
“An armed society is a polite society” is about THIS. Not your nosy Karen neighbor who’s afraid you’re going to come after her if she tattles.
So I want to vent lots of words, but I can’t separate them. The Venn diagram in my head is too blurry.
And so I ostrich.
You are not alone Mo. My wife is tired of my daily rants after my morning coffee and news.
My OCD compels me to compartmentalize so I can be solidly with one or two ideas/factions, but there are no factions. Each faction consists of 1 individual.
It’s driving me batshit insane when I think about it, so I don’t.
And yes, I am a coward. I’m not putting my neck out on social media at all so I can get it chopped off because NOTHING I say will be exempt from SOMEONE’S angry bullshit.
Mojo – if it makes you feel any better, nothing you would say on social media would change anyone’s mind. You could be Winston Churchill eloquent, and it wouldn’t matter.
Also, Churchill got voted out almost the second WWII ended. Whatever his eloquence.
I know nothing I can say will change anybody’s mind, but I did once inform someone of their misconception and change her mind.
Proggy blaming Republicans for not allowing easier access to birth control. I felt compelled to dig up the legislation where Republicans were trying to get it sold OTC and Democrats were actively blocking it. I pulled out every proggy talking point about easy access to birth control, but kept hammering that Democrats didn’t want this to happen.
She was shocked and unhappy, but happy to know the truth even if she didn’t like it.
Then some self-proclaimed ob/gyn comes along and talks about how different formulations and people don’t know what to buy and whatnot. I shot that down too with a jab at her profession for rx’ing whatever they’d been given samples for that day. “Well, if they can’t get the rx fille—” “Right. Because it’s not OTC.”
Then I pulled out the liver failure rates and death rate of Tylenol usage and that ended the discussion.
No, I disagree, it will do good. It will make Moj lose all her ‘frenz’, like happened with my wife. Then she will get off social media. WIN!
Dude, I’m peddling fantasies. Gotta stay.
It all boils down to this: BadOrangeMan is bad and all our plans to this point failed so our fourth quarter Hail Mary is to intentionally destroy the economy and hold the country hostage with violence unless and until people vote him out. There are also indications that Trump was enjoying more support among blacks since the Civil War so we have to try and kneecap that. Therefore, we’ll mostly destroy black businesses in the name of “racial equality” *and* simultaneously say that the reason their livelihoods are wrecked is BECUZ DRUMPF.
It’s coordinated, planned and executed by deep-pocketed Leftist groups working hand in glove with the DNC and the Agitprop Media.
^this right here, it’s all in the Plan
Well if the project veritas videos are any indication, the Bernie Bros went early knowing Biden is the presumptive nominee.
Actaully, I think the guy recorded saying they will make cities burn actaully was arrested I thought I saw they other day. Could be wrong though
My wife is going on a boat trip with a neighbor that she’s been looking forward to for a year. They’re just taking a little center console he has (named “The Pug Tug”) with some of his friends (the “DC gays” as he calls them) to tie up at a nearby wharf, get toasted and goof around in the creek. Anyway, ironically for her, this neighbor, his partner, and most of their friends are Trump supporters, or conservatives, or something on the way towards libertarian. She has a hard time having non-confrontational discussions about politics, so in the past she has had very uncomfortable moments where she’s butted heads with the host’s partner, for instance, and felt damned awkward for the ride home. So she told me she’s going to make a point to avoid political topics.
I looked her square in the eye and said, “That’s what it’s like to be me pretty much everywhere.”
Ha! That’s a good punchline.
Yeah, it has been a long time since I’ve had any friends that can take having their ox gored. And ox goring is what being a libertarian is all about.
The only guy I can really talk issues with is a christian conservative police officer. He actually understands the Balko-esque police critique. He doesn’t always agree, but he can actually process and understand the arguments. I have zero proggie friends who can even hold a civil conversation on any topic any more. They are all completely deranged.
I’m in a similar mood. I just shake my head and look for something to laugh about (like the dude who was slapping MAGA stickers on protesters’ cars so they would destroy their own vehicles).
This is kinda my MO. I was once on a biz trip in the Philippines, in a two-engine plane which, on landing, veered off the runway, across an open field and ended up nose-down in a ditch (luckily no injuries). Later my boss, who had been sitting next to me, said I was laughing through the whole thing. What else could I do about it?
The solution?
At the election:
Write in your own name … The name of your dog … any name except those that are offered by the establishment.
Exercise your power of protest.
It will be heard.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1269256841067929601
is there a list publishes with every person that received at least 1 vote in the presidential elections?
If there is, you’re gonna see yours truly on it this time next year.
Also.
Dear attorneys and others with perpetual project-fires raging:
How do you spin all the important plates and keep them going? I have been working like a fiend for days upon days. I’m working on one particular client, but feeling guilty about all the other clients I’m not working on and feeling as if I should be working on those.
I have no unimportant or non-urgent projects. Did I overload myself? Underestimate the time it would take? Bad timing on when people wanted to start projects they paid to queue up for? All that’s rhetorical.
Not rhetorical: Do you just spend your work life in constant crisis management mode?
Yes.
When I was consulting I was always either too busy or without work.
Yup. Feast or famine. We’d get busy with so many projects Id tell my boss “Im not sure how Im going to staff them”. He’d say “its the best problem to have.”
No asshole, its still a giant problem if I cant deliver what I promised the client and when.
Also, if I got slow, the best way for me to generate work was to plan some time off, make reservations, purchase tickets, etc. Every time Ill have someone insisting on doing a project that week.
I operate on that type of environment. Idle hands and all. I am an agent of change so I need conflict to always be happening to be productive. That said, I don’t actively seek conflict to create an ordered chaos.
I need to plow through this stuff so that when we move I can dedicate myself to this. However, I also need to make money. AND I’m taking myself and my kids to doctor and therapy appointments constantly. And to you who said I don’t care about my kids, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Oh god..hope that wasn’t me.
No.
Telling you to check the spot-prices for them isn’t the same as saying you don’t care about them. 😉
HA! That’s still funny.
My workflow tends to have a sizable component that is pretty steady, which I think is pretty typical for in-house lawyers. I have tools and processes that are highly efficient, so I don’t get behind on that stuff (as in, physician contracts are turned around in less than an hour, sometimes a lot less; the delays are nearly always other people).
The one-off stuff is either highly specialized and goes out, or is generally a variation on something I have already done. I invest hundreds of hours in templates and tools, so even the one-off stuff generally has a running start.
Doesn’t sound comparable to your workflow.
I am on absolute monkey fucking tilt over all the #BLM virtue signalling right on the heels and concurrent with the coronavirus kayfabe. I’m seriously just reflexively doing things like subscribing to BlazeTV and closing websites that have black banners on them before they load. I have had enough. Just popped Birth of a Nation on Amazon Prime Video. SIGNAL THIS, BEZOS!
Also, regarding the person who died in Washington, I wonder if, tactically-speaking, using “I can’t breath” as a protest chant might be a little shortsighted in those instance where you actually can’t breath. Sort of along the lines of, “There’s a wolf!” or “I’m having a heart attack!”
I was in the same place yesterday. Surfing through the channels with no satisfaction. ESPN is nothing except assholes analyzing tweets by people who would be pro athletes if allow – fuck no. The news is all bad and I can’t watch any of it without getting pissed. Most everything is boring, crap written by Hollywood leftists, or so filled with ads for shit I’ll never buy it’s unwatchable.
I need to queue up some Eastwood and Bronson films just calm myself down.
I really enjoy Homeland not only because I dig spy stories but, in spite of it having a slight left tilt, it’s never condescending, on-the-nose or purely black and white. It portrays events as in the gray area and explores all sides of a potential issue in a real way.
I’d recommend any J. Walter Thompson / Bronson vehicle.
Or J Lee Thompson.
So this, then?
Dude – I got Unforgiven and Outlaw Josey Wales in the same DVD package for $5 prior to the cofefe19! Also, the original Westworld, Shining, and LOTR end movie
?
Nobody’s gonna Duncan Lemp me, chief, I sleep on the second floor and rotate rooms like Stalin!
* bunker buster away
Same here man.
Same with my buddies.
Sickening stupidity.
They go apeshit over a criminal but a cop killed in cold blood or ladies getting beaten up they ignore? I don’t even recognize or understand people anymore. Worse, even companies are responding in troubling ways. When Steve’s Music store was robbed here, apparently the owner responded ‘it’s just equipment. The problem is bigger.’
What the fuck are you talking about you fucken idiot? Don’t you see how irresponsible and beyond dangerous that is? You’re giving into NIHILISM under a false notion of righteousness. Those people who stole your guitars and then smashed them aren’t speaking out or looking for justice. They were just lashing out at a system in misplaced anger for its OWN SAKE.
I’m very careful where I shop now. One whiff of idiocy and I’m out. Maybe I need to compile a list of stores/companies to support. I will definitely slow down Amazon and will likely cancel Prime.
I won’t be watching movies or sports anymore either. I’ve been bored with it for a few years now but I’m done. You can’t open the TV or radio without some illiterate buffoon lecturing you. Go fuck yourself Nick Wright.
I like Clay Travis, Gavin, Di Paolo….we racists have to stick together.
Fuck ’em all.
Maybe I’m over reacting but between the pandemic and this, yeh, enough.
I’ve begun actively shaming people who wear masks. If you’re wearing a serious mask and look like there’s a reason, fine. If you’re wearing a musty-looking surgical mask with your girlfriends powerwalking in a six-foot gap row down the street, chatting about your plans for the box of Chardonnay you’ve got in the fridge, I’m going to look at you like you’ve got the walking farts. If you’re sitting in your Passat by yourself at a traffic light wearing a mask, I’m looking at you like you just tossed a half-eaten box of fries out your window onto a duckling. Social pressure be damned, it’s time for the adults to take this shit back.
Lol.
I’ve done some of that too.
Probably not the right thing to do but it’s therapeutic.
I don’t know, I think we’re seeing a lot of Progressive psyops happening right in front of our eyes, and combating that isn’t just worthwhile but necessary. In under a year we went from a normal society to a majority of the population not just standing an arbitrary distance apart from everyone else and wearing a mask to go out in public but accepting the almost total shutdown of the economy by executive fiat. And here’s the kicker: not only did the press go along with it, but they did everything possible to bring social and professional ruin to anyone who was the least bit skeptical. This worked, too, because most people are afraid of losing relationships and livelihoods over standing against the social tide they’d been convinced exists, and so even if a sizable number of people were actually skeptical of all this shit even in part they were convinced that speaking out would result in virtual exile.
“In 2019, nine unarmed black men were killed by cops in America. There are around 16 million black men in the US. The chance of this dude being killed by a cop in 2019 was 0.00000056 percent. Did the NYT fact-check this op-ed?”
https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1269009777306357760
I appreciate facts but that is just an exercise in white privilege to point it out. The protesters are not listening and won’t until they have their special privileges carved out. Companies are lining up to give them their much wanted reparations it seems.
I’d spend my money with an eye on which companies are paying out but they’re almost all doing it, the big ones anyway.
For these purposes, Thomas Chatterton Williams is white, of course.
The fractures are really going to open up then. No fucking way are grievance mongers going to allow only blacks to cash in. And then it’s going to look like tossing stacks of $100 dollar bills into a crowd.
Better the companies pay reparations than me.
If you buy products from them then you are in a sense.
But I’m not being taxed for it.
I saw that earlier and thought it’s a bullshit misdirection. How many of the “armed” killings had drop guns planted on them? How many unarmed blacks were shot but survived? Were beaten and then had phony “resisting arrest” charges piled on? Had their livelihood destroyed? Were sent to rape cages for victimless crimes?
Blacks have been systematically brutalized by police and its absurd to pretend they haven’t. So have whites, Hispanics, Native-Americans, Asians, and everyone else across all races and ethnicity.
Downplaying LEO brutality to counteract white privilege isn’t a winning scenario.
Should have put “white privilege” in quotation marks as this is fiction and I didn’t mean to give it any validity. My point is its better to hammer police brutality across all races and ethnicity rather than say black don’t really have it that bad.
Too bad doing so can cost you your job and all your friends.
Yeah, that’ll be picked over with a fine-toothed semantic comb.
This
Armed or unarmed is an irrelevant detail. This place should know better.
Fair, though I wasn’t commenting on how worthwhile the stat was, just that anything that runs counter to the narrative will be dismissed out of hand as “white privilege”, even when coming from a man most would consider black.
Yeah not to get too tin foil, but I think ” he was unarmed” is another subtle way to criminalize carrying a gun in the minds of the normies.
A man pummeling an officer with his fists might be a good shoot. Depending on the totality of the circumstances.
A man with a gun on his hip is not a good shoot just because hes armed.
Remember the case in Las Vegas a few years back where some coward saw a gun on a mans hip in Costco and called it in like it was an active shooter. Dude finished his shopping, walked outside, and got shot to death.
That’s one of those statistics like shark attacks. Yes, if your population is all of the United States, your odds of being attacked by a shark are trivial. But if you’re in Oklahoma in a field your real odds are 0. If you’re off the NC coast on a surfboard around dusk it’s much, much higher.
If you routinely have interactions with police, your odds of being a victim of brutality are higher. If you’re of a lower socio-economic class (or perceived as such) your odds are higher. *I* am probably more likely to be killed by police than the author of that op-ed. He is much, much less likely to be killed by police than the guy who’s a cashier at the Walgreen’s up the street and lives in the public housing next door.
And I agree 100000% with Semi-Spartan Dad that race is a canard that distracts from the real issue of actual police misconduct.
Agreed – anybody that just talks about race and never mentions QI or police unions is entirely missing the point.
Yep, I am willing to bet that rates of brutality per police encounter are the same, it’s just that poor people encounter them more, and urban people encounter them more, and black people are disproportionately poor and urban.
Take three drug drealers
Cletus sells weed and shine. He has 27 acres off a dirt road, with a gate. If you come to buy from him, and you forget to close the gate behind you, you don’t get to buy no more. There’s five deputies on the county force. He’s never been arrested for drugs.
Taylor is big in the rave scene. He moves large quantities of molly and other party drugs at festivals, raves, and parties at his large public university. He got caught once with a small amount and his dad’s lawyer pleaded it down to community service and counseling.
Dante slings dope and coke on the street corner in the middle of a large city. He’s been arrested multiple times, and convicted multiple times.
If Cletus had to go down to the middle of town and stand next to the Tractor Supply to sell his weed and shine, he’d get busted just as often as Dante does. But he doesn’t.
Exactly. You could take these vaunted models that have been used to analyze the spread of disease within a population and do the same thing with police brutality.
That percentage is way off.
Furthermore 6 of those 9 unarmed blacks were actively attacking cops when shot.
The numbers are so small here we can actually drill down.
By no means am I saying cops don’t murder the innocent. It happens more than once a month. But there doesn’t appear to be institutional racism involved.
I categorically reject the premise that there is institutional or “systemic” racism in policing. I do not believe there is systemic racism in the United States outside of various affirmative action policies, but would love to see evidence to the contrary. There is certainly racism, and the conduct of people in authority who are racist is likely influenced by that racism, but that is not a function of the system itself. There are also plenty of bad laws that disproportionately affect some demographics, but, again, this is a function of socio-economic class and power, not race.
The problem is the state and the law, not people’s thoughts and feelings.
I agree on Sideways, but what is the best film about wine?
Yo have to see it in the original Dacian to truly appreciate it
Bottle Shock, but only because Alan Rickman is awesome.
That thing on Chris Pine’s head is, frankly, distracting.
On the documentary front, I really enjoyed “Somm”.
Bottle Shock was awesome.
That wig, tho
You guys are so wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPKdHP8zWuo
That movie singlehandedly decimated the merlot market.
I like Merlot, so lowering the price was good for me.
A good year has pretty views but that’s about it
I think I read the book.
Any time I read a Peter Mayle book I ended up reaching for a wine bottle. I love his writing.
The Days of Wine and Roses.
My belief is that commies and nazies were basically just as bad, with commies lasting longer.
Morons on the left say stupid shit like no its not the same the communists had good intentions.
This is retarded
One, it is not true. They did not have anything but genocidal intentions. They were power hungry murderers.
Two, intentions in general can never be truly known so any nebulous appeal to good intentions is bullshit.
Three, commies are in this way worse cause they sold the terror wrapped with well sounding (to the leftie morons) pleasantries and so called good intentions.
I don’t know how the fascists can’t have good intentions but the commies did, since they shared the same intentions.
The commies co-opted the educational institutions more than the fascists did because higher ed hates business and religion. The fascists wanted to preserve those institutions and bring them to heel, the commies wanted to eliminate them. There’s nothing more appealing to a member of the higher-ed community than the thought that they would finally be in charge and get the respect they deserve because they’re so much smarter than everyone else. They’re insanely envious of successful business people in particular.
Mises touched on this in the Anti-Capitalist Mentality.
The economic fascists won the argument.
Cases and point – the United States and now China.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, it’s results that matter. Communism is arguably worse unless you’re a Jew or a Gypsy.
I dunno (((we))) didn’t do so hot in the Soviet Union either.
Russian chicks do have small tits.
You haven’t met (((all))) of them.
Saw this the other day:
I only kneel while shooting commies.
I’m so stealing that!
Pie, you had a front row seat to socialism/communism.
What’s playing out now, here–how do you think that is in comparison to what you’ve experienced?
Are we going downhill or can we right ourselves?
I did not have a front row seat to how it started and the late stage was a different beast entirely and is not really that relevant.
anyway how it started in Romania was imposed by russian tanks. There was no strong love for communism here and without russian force it would never have come about.
Communism by culture and institutional march is a new and exciting thing, in the past it was by the gun. It is still by the gun I suppose but in more roundabout way, with extra steps.
But I would not get to far ahead of comparing US now to communism, you are not nearly there yet.
Michigan Supreme Court Unanimously Sides with 77-Year-Old Barber over Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Ha!
Well I’ll be damned, some good news! I’d forgotten what that feels like.
Thanks. I needed that.
I am sure a justice in Hawaii will overturn it though.
But seriously, good news is still good news.
You’re right. But haw haw haw, take that, Karen Jong-un Hitler!
Excellent news! Whoda thunk it?
I LOL’d
Heh. Thats funny.
What are ya’ll doing up so early, nobody here works?
Here’s a good article that I like to think adds some confirmation to my assertion that the left are an anti-human death cult.
Thielism
EXCLUSIVE Page one story in tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph
No fault divorces to be voted through on Monday amid backlash from MPs
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1269005982052605953
I see some pro marriages conservatives in the UK are against this but what is the alternative being stuck in a shitty marriage?
Sue for release from the contract.
I have a friend who is. They act like roommates who don’t particularly care for each other, but have to stick together financially because a divorce would destroy them both. The kids love them both, so they’re staying together for that reason also.
Do they bang other people? Because if not might as well hate fuck each other.
Neither of them bang anybody. He’s too lazy. She’s too busy.
No fault divorce is anti-contract*. Eliminating it should be in the LP platform.
*Unless you specifically contracted for it.
but the thing is marriage is not exactly a contract like any other. It should be but it is not
The issue with no fault divorce, coupled with a patriarchal law code of alimony and child support, is that it has perverse incentives.
The old way was divorce required an actual court case, and the judge would rule on alimony and child support considering all the facts. So if husband was banging his secretary, she could prove it in court, and the judge could tell him to get an apartment and start writing alimony checks. If wife was banging the milkman, she could move out and go live on the milkman’s salary.
An actual progressive code would be no fault divorce, but no alimony at all, or at the very least very very strict limits on the situations it can be awarded. But in a lot of places, there was a two tiered system in place where old school alimony and child support laws were still on the books, but with new school divorce laws. So the low earning spouse could divorce and collect fat cash payments, move their new lover into the house and never marry them, and collect alimony for years and years.
Oh, and child support in a lot of states has this insanely unfair doctrine where child support is not only for the support of the child, but for harmonizing the childs environments. So if Daddy is a bank executive and Mommy is a school teacher, then its not fair that Daddy has a big house with a pool and the kids have to share rooms at Mommy’s house, so the Daddy pays Mommy extra child support, even if the kids spend 50% of the time at each parents house.
that is a problem with child support and alimony laws though
a no fault divorce is we decided we don’t wan to be married anymore. it should come default without alimony and child support should be decided in a court if the case.
If no fault divorce exists then what is the point of the marriage contact in the first place?
The problem is that the government should not be involved in marriage.
in case of death or injury, traveling to Muslim countries etc.
Because sometimes people’s ability to make good long-term decisions is poor? Or people change in ways they couldn’t anticipate that make them incompatible? This is one of those areas where I separate my personal feelings on the matter, which are much more traditional, from my feelings regarding the law, which are much more liberal, in the sense of loose or unrestricted.
Well, it’s an issue that’s all tied together. Divorce, child support, and alimony are inextricably tied together.
Basically, in the US right now, the laws heavily incentivize, almost require, a two income earner household. Because if you decide as a couple to do breadwinner/homemaker, the breadwinner is exposed to an enormous amount of risk that the homemaker is not exposed to. The homemaker, in a no fault divorce situation always retains the power to withdraw homemaking without losing the breadwinning. That’s the unjust part.
Under the old system, the breadwinner of the pair was protected from a frivolous divorce +alimony+”child support” by a court system which required the homemaker to demonstrate the breadwinner had broken their vows. Under a truly progressive and gender neutral system, the breadwinner would be protected by the fact that the homemaker would have to immediately restart as a breadwinner, and thus would be disinclined to leave for trivial reasons.
But right now, a homemaker can spend a decade as a homemaker, and then for trivial reasons break the marriage and continue to collect the money the breadwinner earns, but the breadwinner has lost all the value provided by the homemaker. Instead of exchanging the labor of homemaking for the money the breadwinner earns, the homemaker is now collecting money without providing that value in return.
The Results Are In for Remote Learning: It Didn’t Work
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-coronavirus-remote-learning-lockdown-tech-11591375078
well did anyone expect something implemented in a rush by government to fully work?
And I am sure it worked for some…
Married glibs:
Would you be ok with your wife turning to porn if it made you $25,000/week?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/ex-racing-driver-porn-star-22148026
Nope. Didn’t marry a whore.
Not married but divorced. Not into open relationships myself, but if I were o.k. with, this I would at least need to have sex with the female co-stars.
well there is a difference between posting nudes online and being in a porno movie fucking people.
I am not married though
Define porn.
Would you jerk off on camera for $25K a week?
Negative. I don’t have any problem whatsoever with porn and I’m not trying to tell other people what to do, but, personally, marriage means stuff like that is off the table.
I’m not married, but I would marry a porn star for $1M a year.
They said thunderstorms today and it is just cloudy. Dammit if they call for thunderstorms I wants some real thunderstorms with lightning and shit. This is just ruining my Saturday pool day.
It’s approaching ‘sidewok’ temperature in Texas, I’m not looking forward to the next couple of months. This spring has been really enjoyable with all of the rain and cooler temps!
It’s been in the 90s here last 4 days and heading to at least 90 again today. Good thing is the humidity has stayed in the 50-60% range. Last week, we had a couple of days in the mid to upper 80s, but the humidity was more than 80%, I just turned the AC on and shut all the doors and windows, that shit is unbearable.
give it a few hours to build, you’ll get your wish…….
After my wife first came here to the US and had moved in with me, we’d have a little thundershower and we’d get an occasional ‘boom’ of thunder and she’d practically get under the bed and hide. We don’t really have thunderstorms here, I’ve seen a few very mild ones in 10 years living here. I told her that she could never live in the Midwest, the first time she’d see a real storm, she’d go back to her country for good.
You could probably make it to Louisiana by tomorrow if you start now. I am building an ark in preparation…
2020 is the year of the Leftist Cult. The only way to understand the bizarre reaction to a corona virus or the riots is to realize that the left is practicing a new religion with new rituals – like kneeling to random black people.
The white people bowing down and begging for forgiveness for things their ancestors might have done is the most disgusting thing to come out of all this. Have some fucking dignity for Christ’s sake and stop doing meaningless and stupid gestures.
It has replaced the notion of “original sin” in Christianity. To reach progtopia, you have to admit your original sin of being born white and grovel for forgiveness (which you’ll never receive).
Watched a livestream of the DC protests last night, and yep. At one point, all the skinny little white leftists not just kneeled, but literally prostrated themselves facedown, arms out in the middle of the street for several minutes, whilst a few of the march organizers stood facing them, arm raised with a power fist. It couldn’t have been more humiliating for these kids unless they’d been forced to crawl forward and lick his boot before rising.
I even took a screenshot.
It’s just disgusting.
It infuriates me, more than anything because it’s so misguided. We could fire every single white cop nationwide, and restaff the police with nothing but minorities, and they’d still shoot and abuse people, because it isn’t a race problem, it’s a power problem. As long as the police have the power – in the form of union backing and qualified immunity and a host of petty laws they can enforce – they’re going to use it. Take away the power and stop trying to worry about thought crimes.
You’re not the only person it infuriates. There’s lots of us. And all of them are not white. The problem is that it will not get any mileage in the media. In truth, I believe the media and social media, big tech, may be creating the largest silent majority in history.
“host of petty laws they can enforce”
Big part of the problem. End the WOD, legalize all drugs. It solves many problems.
1. Don’t need as many cops with nothing to do most of the time.
2. Clears out our prisons and lets cops focus on real crime.
3. It’s unconstitutional, it goes against the idea of self ownership. Does the government own you? Or do you only own your own body when you want an abortion?
4. Clean the gene pool of idiots. Let people take all the drugs they want and eat tide pods.
I’m sorry
For something that I didn’t do
Lynched somebody
But I don’t know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Oh, I’m sorry
For something that I didn’t do
Lynched somebody
But I don’t know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
I’m a convict (Guilty!)
Of a racist crime (Guilty!)
I’ve only served (Guilty!)
Nineteen years of my time
I’m sorry
For something that I didn’t do
Lynched somebody
But I don’t know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
Guilty of being white
A song for these troubled times. See how we all got sucked into the identarian shitshow now? A masterstroke of the identity grifters.
“the Leftist Cult”
They’re an anti-human death cult. It all stems from how much they hate themselves, and who can blame then for that?
But they absolutely refuse to Heaven’s Gate or Jonestown themselves. It’s always someone else that has to pay the price.
The only way I’m kneeling in front of a black person is if I’m motorboating my wife or some such.
https://twitter.com/Roran_Stehl/status/1269286050431721473
LOLOLOL
Get your Saturday jam on…
https://youtu.be/WY-Z6wm6TMQ
https://youtu.be/TSOdnD0o3mE
https://youtu.be/Jn2PNlhvy8E
Category: Women singers (with talent) I’d LFT back in the day: Linda. And, Belinda.
Hmm. I seem to like that name.
If you like Linda, I can enthusiastically recommend the recent biodoc about her. Caught it a few months ago at the local arsty fartsy movie theater. (Remember movie theaters??) Apparently now available on DVD and possibly streaming on Amazon, maybe even other sources. I also like her past work with Dolly and Emmylou.
So you like that name, huh? ::smiles quietly to herself::
Jane “d’Arc” Wiedlin performs weddings now. You get the whole package of ordained minister to perform the service, and band for the reception.
GT: thx for the rec. She was great artist, and then sullied herself with Jerry Brown and disco. Brilliant voice, and rare talent, though.
I’ll avoid guessing what your name might be, lest I fall in love with an already involved woman.
JD: Weidlin’s angelic voice was a great counterpoint in some of the Go-Go’s songs, especially “Our Lips Are Sealed”. Also, she was a decent rhythm guitarist. I’m not married, so that option is still open to me.
Last line: Regarding her wedding band. Also her, if I can make myself substantially more attractive.
Seen on FB: “My Etsy store got looted.”
Me: LOL
Everybody else: *unironic and sincere outrage at the mockery of what’s going on*
ALOL
“The section of 16th street in front of the White House is now officially “Black Lives Matter Plaza”.”
https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/1268928589975695361
Whatever….
The physical streets are now the equivalent of Twitter hashtags.
Bam! Problem solved.
“Red Square” was taken.
LOL
*Scans news stories*
I think I may have to subscribe to the notion of con-trails. Either they are spraying LSD on us or there is something in the water. The stupid just gets worse by the day.
Jesus.
The lockdown broke people’s brains.
I’ve taken a hell of a lot of acid in my day. It’s not drugs or airplanes, it’s the Progressive takeover of education, media with an agenda, and nearly 100 years of constant indoctrination. I am 100% sure it can get even stupider. This is probably only the tip of the stupid iceberg.
On that note, I’m going to have a drink.
I am worried because I know what lies down this road. We joke about the camps, but they are no joke. It is inevitable that any society obsessed with right-think will eventually try to purge wrong-thinkers.
I think I will have a drink too.