Whoo-boy. Happy Friday to everyone else. Today is the first anniversary of my father-in-law’s passing, so the L household is a bit subdued tonight. FIL was a nice man who made several very bad decisions in a row and died shackled to bed with prison guards who couldn’t care less about my wife’s pain while he was passing. I don’t wish that on anyone. So, I’ll raise a bourbon and coke (Jack Daniels was his brand) and we’ll tell the boys story of the nice man we loved.
I wonder why the Haiga Sophia needs to be a mosque when the Blue Mosque, one of the most beautiful works of art in the world, and I believe the place we get our word “turquoise” from is directly across the square.
Florida Man will be safe(r) from cops, as St. Pete PD decides to no longer send cops on non-violent calls.
Ugh. Pinellas Park, why? I mean Park Place Estates is not the greatest neighborhood, but still.
I assume they’re changing the name to “Redskinana”
“Florida Man will be safe(r) from cops, as St. Pete PD decides to no longer send cops on non-violent calls.”
I would not underestimate his creativity.
How long are we expecting this to last? 2 weeks?
What better way to ensure violence than having the cops show up?
You could always initiate the violence yourself.
Cut out the middle man.
Smart.
Yes, clearly we are all safer because the demon police won’t show up to investigate when someone breaks in and steals all our stuff. Because the
niggerspigs are the real danger. Do you guys realize how much your thinking about cops parallels the outright bigot’s attitude toward black people?Appeasing the religious bigots to keep them from questioning his authoritarian rule? Oh Erdogan does that too?
That and showing the Kemalists that they are truly out of power.
I’m sure they would be cool with turning The Dome of the Rock into a temple.
Deus Vult
Turn the blue building into an orthodox cathedtral. In fact, turn both of them into orthodox cathedrals.
Islamist’s want all religious buildings to be mosques.
All the more reason to replace their mosques.
Coulda sworn HS was already a mosque (for at least the last few hundred years) – did I miss something?
It was turned into a museum in 1934.
Turn the Dome of the Rock into a synagogue.
Damn your nimble fingers.
“Geissenberger said the LPR camera takes a photo of the rear of a vehicle to capture the license plate. The image is then stored for 30 days, before it’s deleted.
Police are only alerted when a vehicle is stolen or there’s an outstanding warrant for the registered owner.
The police department will also create a policy that will prevent improper queries of the LPR database, according to Geissenberger.
“If we go with this technology, the policy will absolutely be that it’s not going to be a spot check,” he said. “This is absolutely going to be a response to a concern or a response to an alert.”
Still, privacy advocates like Heine believe gathering data on law abiding citizens is invasive government overreach and amounts to warrantless dragnet surveillance.
Geissenberger said the agency will be responsive to the community.
“We understand that there’s always going to be that concern of ‘big brother.’ How much technology is too much?” he said. “‘How much technology do I need to feel safe and it’s getting to the point where my individual liberties are being jeopardized?’ I don’t have the answer.””
Not that I think Geissenberger actually cares. Although, couldn’t he just link them to traffic lights? I don’t remember people complaining too much about those.
Though we fought against them, most of our neighbors wanted license plate readers for the main road entering our neighborhood several years ago. They’ve actually been able to catch some burglars using them (a couple times even recovering all the stolen merchandise). Have barely noticed them otherwise, tbh. And if I want to be nefarious, I can just drive out the other side. But yeah, I’d still prefer not to have them.
Does your HOA own the readers, or do the cops?
That image makes me remember when I had network shows I regularly watch and new which night they were on. Friday nights were for Miami Vice and sometimes Crime Story before going out drinking. A few years later The X Files were my Friday night habit.
Crime Story was great.
I loved the opening.
“‘It’s suppression of speech, I’m not apologizing!’ Goya CEO defies boycott led by AOC, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Chrissy Teigen after he said ‘we are blessed to have a leader like Donald Trump'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8510213/Goya-CEO-praises-Trump-White-House-backlash-swift.html
Today, I went to the Goya aisle and bought stuff, even though I didn’t need anything.
An impressive trio of luminaries. ?
Deep thinkers, all.
So true. Why do any of them believe I care what they think?
Was absolutely expecting this. The Unanue families are my neighbors (CEO is about 10 miles away, his brother lives in my town, his sister in the next town over). The CEO’s sister’s son was a grade school classmate of my son. I’ve been to their home on several occasions, it’s upscale but not ostentatious. They are extremely generous, genuinely nice people. Although they do have a rather strong authoritarian (conservative Catholic) bent. And they don’t take no shit. Good for them.
I doubt that AOC, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Chrissy Teigen spent one second looking into their character. Instead, it’s LIBERALS POUNCE!
American: we can criticize our President and suffer no repercussions.
Chinese: and we can praise our President and suffer no repercussions.
We need a new Radio Yerevan, but for China.
New America: You will praise BLM or suffer repercussions.
I am about this far {} from going out and shooting socialists in the street. These irredeemable slime are destroying the country I love far more effectively and far more evilly than the Taliban or even the Nazis ever did.
Geissenberger said the LPR camera takes a photo of the rear of a vehicle to capture the license plate. The image is then stored for 30 days, before it’s deleted.
Police are only alerted when a vehicle is stolen or there’s an outstanding warrant for the registered owner.
Outsourcing around the 4th and 5th Amdts – hey the corporation is doing the surveillance, not us cops, so it’s all legal. I think it would be terrible if the home offices of Platesmart or Vigilant Systems burned to the ground, really just terrible.
the corporation
hmmm: takes “destroying public property” off the list
<—- has worked as a pro photographer and been down this road.
Public property…you are in public, you can have your photo taken.
Federal Judge Says Governor’s Policy Supersedes Constitutional Right
There’s no print story on this?
https://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/cuomo-guns-2nd-amendment-covid-19-1.46526733
Not sure their slant. Looking for the actual case now
Case is behind PACER i think. Maybe scribd has it
#courtfailure
Judge made argument that tough luck you aren’t essential and it doesn’t infringe on 2nd Amendment because you can go to Walmart still….
Beginning to think big-box stores lobbied hard for shutdowns
Really, really fake news.
After believing he had the coronavirus in spite of getting negative tests, virologist and NBC News science contributor Dr. Joseph Fair tweeted Tuesday that he had tested negative for the antibodies and that the illness that hospitalized him in May “remains an undiagnosed mystery.” Steve Krakauer reported on the developments for his Fourth Watch newsletter.
It was the flu.
Looks like he was already tested for the flu
“My path forward is a 2nd AB test,”
well, at least according to him.
Not the Rockin’ Pneumonia?
Fact: The first album I bought with my own earned money was Johnny Rivers. I had to get Mom’s approval.
My first was a second (Steppenwolf the Second). Bought it after seeing them at McCarter Theater in Princeton. Always liked Johnny Rivers. He did the theme song for Secret Agent; Patrick McGoohan apparently hated that song.
‘Today is the first anniversary of my father-in-law’s passing’
‘So, I’ll raise a bourbon and coke (Jack Daniels was his brand)’
Brett L, stick to one. Not day for regular amount drinking.
Based on the title picture this link is dedicated to one of my sources for cool music when I was a 8-10 year old.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLItlyeozfO65vWLHY8TqEiVXXb5w9j2XJ
I loved Fridays back then.
Last September I had a stopover in Istanbul and managed to visit the Haiga Sophia. My timing was challenging but I got lucky. The Blue Mosque was under repair: most of the interior was boarded up.
I thought it was cool that you could stand in a pre-Christian hippodrome track and look at archetypal examples of Orthodox cathedral architecture and Turkish Mosque architecture.
Visit the new and improved Blue Mosque – Now with extra Islam
It will be interesting to see the Department’s reaction when the first social worker dispatched to take care of the drunk panhandler hassling folks in front of the grocery store gets his or her ass kicked.
I like it in theory, though. Especially since today is the anniversary of Kelly Thomas’ killing. Maybe some lessons are finally being learned.
I like concept. I think it’s a good idea. But what is the threshold for acceptable losses. You are right. There will be a drunk who pulls a knife, a panhandler who throws punches, and mental health calls that turn violent. Do they accept the injuries and go on or does a cop get dispatched too?
Not sending in the brute squad on every call is absolutely the right move, and one that glibs have wanted forever. But here’s what’s going to happen – they’ll overcorrect, some do-gooders will get wrecked in situations that actually did require the brute squad, and in six months they’ll be back to sending out parking enforcement in MRAPs. Because it’s just too dangerous to do it any other way. Quote-unquote.
Yeah I like the theory of nonviolent civil safety type responders. But honestly, this is one of the areas where reality can trod on wonderful theories. I think there’s a huge difference between important services that are poorly provided, and things that ought not to exist at all. Police, in theory, are not the issue. It’s police in practice.
Like, thought experiment: postulate that Robocop exists, and you can have lots and lots of them. He never loses his cool, he is incorruptible, he never misses what he aims at. He follows the law to the letter, every time. At this point, the issue becomes the laws that exist, and that isn’t fixed by adding some new department of cops who aren’t cops. A social worker dragging you to a mental health facility via the authority of the state is not very different from a cop at all.
The question is, if the situation is too dangerous (real or perceived) for the responders, what do they do?
We have adopted the mentality that they must stay. They can call for backup, they can call in the cops, they can temporarily retreat for their own safety, but they can’t leave for good without making a good-faith reasonable determination that they’re not needed.
Allow them to leave for good for safety reasons and you can roll back a lot of the need to escalate and get violent. But then you will have sob stories of “EMS left my granny to die” that convenient leave out “after I threatened to cut a bitch”.
This doesn’t solve anything. The problem is overly militarized cops not sending police to deal with matters that call for police. Sometimes the items on that list are just situatioms that call for a peaceful calm interaction, sometimes they are disturbed people who are dangerous. Demilitarizing the police allows for an armed response when the situation calls for it without the over reaction when a situation calls for a gentler touch. Sending social workers is just stupid. No situation calls for social workers, they are useless marxists and have no value in any situation imaginable. We would be better off if every sociasl worker dropped dead right now.
Well, if you need your kids taken away who you gonna turn to? Take each and every kid at the scene, sort them out later. Social workers need jobs, unions like every one else.” No child left behind”, President Geo. W. Bush
Cucks Against Humanity
The popular card game company faced multiple allegations of fostering a long-standing abusive, racist workplace culture earlier this month. After weeks of discussion online, including a resurfaced 2014 rape allegation, the best-known Cards Against Humanity co-founder, Max Temkin, has left the company.
On June 23, Cards Against Humanity published a statement in a preemptive response to a pending report by Vox sister site Polygon. The company alternately confirmed and contradicted many of the allegations made against it while also outlining the actions it would take to rebuild its workplace to eliminate toxicity. “We are incredibly sorry, and we know our apologies are not enough,” a company spokesperson told Polygon. The company also told Vox in an email that it would pledge $100,000 to support organizations working toward racial justice.
Racist or “racist”?
A card game made to offend everyone was made by people who aren’t 100% politically correct all the time?
Where’s my shocked face…
If you are not being called racist by the worthless slime on the left you are probably a piece of crap. People need to start wearing these accustaions as a badge of honor.
Police are only alerted when a vehicle is stolen or there’s an outstanding warrant for the registered owner.
Or it belongs to a hot barmaid some cop is
stalkingenamored of.The company also told Vox in an email that it would pledge $100,000 to support organizations working toward racial justice.
Give it to the white knights at the SPLC. Or maybe help Sharpton pay his taxes.
Not parody.
Netflix has cast a transgender child in the role of a transgender character on an episode of the entertainment company’s new children’s series, “The Baby-Sitters Club.”
The child, a 9-year-old from Austin, Texas, was born male and went by Joseph Shappley until his mother said he started acting feminine at the age of 2 or 3 years old and insisted he was a girl. He now identifies as female and calls himself Kai. In the episode, Shappley portrays a young transgender girl, Bailey, who goes to the hospital where he is “misgendered” by doctors.
I guess the medical community has to cancel biology now. I’m sure this won’t have any negative side-effects.
I blame the parents for this.
Well, also, Netflix.
The Great 2019 Coppell Child Tranny Debate continues, but there’s good news:
(Georgulas) filed a lawsuit in 2018 in an effort to modify the joint custody agreement, after she said one of the twins is transgender and presenting as a girl at school and in public. Georgulas wanted (her ex) Younger to affirm the child’s gender identity and wanted to modify his custody of the child if he failed to do so, according to the lawsuit. She said Younger engaged in “emotionally abusive behavior” toward the child in response to the new gender identity, according to court records.
Younger – who contends the child always presents as a boy around him – started an online campaign over his concerns that the child could be forced into gender transition treatment. He filed a counterpetition asking for sole conservatorship, but the jury sided with Georgulas on Monday, essentially recommending she have exclusive custody and control over the children’s medical treatment.
Cooks said in her ruling Thursday that both parents will need to consent to those decisions. Additionally, Younger will not be required to identify the child as a girl, as Georgulas wanted.
He now identifies as female and calls himself Kai.
Tsk, tsk Townhall, you just misgendered too! Off to pronoun re-education camp for you.
The future’s uncertain and the end is always near
Woke up this morning and got yourself a beer?
No no no, this is the end is far more appropriate.
Another fine choice.
I rewatched Apocalypse Now for the first time in ten years or so the other day and that song’s stuck in my head.
+1 “Father, I want to kill you”
In 15 years the Daily Mail will be reporting on xer overdose.
Sports Illustrated will have a transgender model in the next swimsuit edition. I think they don’t understand their readers. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-model-valentina-sampaio-makes-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-history-n1233478
According to 2017 data from the National Association of Trans People and Transsexuals (ANTRA), a trans person is killed every 48 hours in Brazil.
For being “trans”?
“Sports Illustrated Swimsuit joins institutions from the Girl Scouts of the USA to Miss Universe in recognizing the simple fact that trans women are women,” Anthony Ramos, GLAAD head of talent, told TMRW.
No, trans-women are men pretending to be women.
I think they don’t understand their readers.
Indeed.
“No, trans-women are men pretending to be women. ”
That isn’t true, either.
Anyway, there is are “tranny mafias” in Brazil, and Brazil has a higher percentage of MTF than most countries. Although a murder every 48 hours sounds a bit much.
“… Brazil has a higher percentage of MTF than most countries.”
That is one way to put it.
“Although a murder every 48 hours sounds a bit much.”
You are right here too. It’s more like every 8 hours.
No they are not killed for being a tranny. 99% of them are killed by other trannies.
How aren’t we all cowards for not fighting against this? Children are being mutilated in service of an evil nihilistic ideology and we just grumble. I fear a cvil war as much as anyone, but I ma really struggling with the growing certainty that I am failing in the responsibility of any decent person to oppose evil.
Florida Man will be safe(r) from cops, as St. Pete PD decides to no longer send cops on non-violent calls.
I am all for the enforcement arm of government being restrained. I wonder whether the fascists have really considered the implications.
We need to restarin the rule markers. The problem is the extent of the rules far more than it is the enforcers thereof.
Priorities, man
Mayor Bill de Blasio is permitting Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through city streets while canceling all large events through September.
Speaking on CNN Thursday night, de Blasio said the demonstrators’ calls for social justice were too important to stop after more than a month of demonstrations have not led to an outbreak of coronavirus cases.
“This is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the kinds of gatherings we’re used to, the parades, the fairs — we just can’t have that while we’re focusing on health right now,” de Blasio told host Wolf Blitzer.
The exception came as New York’s rate of infections has remained consistent through the civil unrest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
A late-June study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found no evidence that coronavirus cases jumped in 315 cities in the weeks after the first protests. Researchers determined that protests may have been offset by an increase in social distancing among those who decided not to march.
It means what we say it means.
And if you go to a Trump rally, you’ll die.
Researchers determined that protests may have been offset by an increase in social distancing among those who decided not to march.
Sounds legit. I do try to keep a few miles away from riots if possible.
This is the kind of thing they’d do all the time if the 1A wasn’t a thing and is a good example of the left ripping the mask off. Speech they like is important enough to allow people to do their own risk analysis while speech they don’t like is not.
?
“Racist jokes and MAGA are white-supremacy. Someone better inform Dave Chappelle and Kanye West.
Kristina Wong
@kristina_wong
A U.S. Army employee on Monday sent an email invite to likely thousands of military and civilian members for a U.S. Army ‘Operation Inclusion’ listening tour, which included a graphic that said saying “MAGA” is evidence of white supremacy. The Army says it was “sent in error.”
The social justice parasites have been trying to latch on to the armed forces for a very long time. Their level of effectiveness is directly related to how close the host organization to the elements responsible for doing the whole killing people and breaking things bit. Actual pipe-hitters have limited patience for this crap, the 615th Mess Kit Repair Brigade is much more vulnerable to this horseshit.
@Rhy, how are you doing?
Fine. You?
PS. I don’t go under the knife until Monday in case you were wondering 🙂
Yes! That was what I was wondering. Thank you and good luck.
Thx!
Maybe tear gas cures the plague. Let’s test that hypothesis on the White House press corps. I hear they’re all in for SCIENCE.
That shit will clear your sinuses. I would pay to see some of them gassed.
To make sure that the glibbroads are all happy, I’ve scheduled a Virtual Happy Hour for tonight. I’ll kick it off at 19:30 Eastern, I made hibiscus and lavender simple syrup.
Rockaway Beach Brewing Co. is having trouble keeping up with the unexpected demand for their hibiscus witbier. I just want some more of it before I flee. It was so delicious.
My sister handed me ~1 cup of dried hibiscus flowers, so I needed to do something with it.
I have used hibiscus in both ale and mead. It is nice flavor.
I’ll be there w/Aviation in hand, especially after the disappointing one I had at Chima Steakhouse on Wednesday.
Thank you Neph
Of course, I’m still stuck on conference calls for work. There’s been non-stop issues for over 3 hours now being reported to us. None of them are our issue, but we want to look helpful so we get to be pulled in on these.
And I’m finally off the calls.
/cracks beer
PIE, this is what you are looking for!
Honk honk
The mayor of a Massachusetts town apologized Wednesday for an electronic road sign saying “all lives matter” and vowed to find out why the message was displayed.
Melrose Mayor Paul Brodeur ordered the message, which said “the safety of all lives matter,” to be taken down immediately, he tweeted Wednesday. The electronic sign was put up on Main Street and appeared to belong to the Melrose Police Department, according to the photo that Brodeur posted.
“I have just been made aware that the following traffic sign is being displayed on Main Street. I have ordered that it be taken down immediately and am taking steps to find out how this happened,” Brodeur said. “I apologize to the residents of Melrose.”
Melrose Police Chief Michael L. Lyle condemned the message and announced an investigation into the matter in an online statement. He noted that a traffic officer was recently ordered to put a message of general traffic safety on the sign.
“I am aware that the phrase ‘all lives matter’ is commonly used as a misguided counter to the Black Lives Matter movement,” Lyle said. “On behalf of the Melrose Police Department, I sincerely apologize to our residents and anyone who drove past the sign today.”
“Preliminarily, the officer reported to me that he did not post the message with either malicious or political intent,” Lyle continued in his statement. “The officer, by his account, was trying to type a traffic safety message in the limited space offered by the electronic sign and did not realize the totality or impact of the words he had posted.”
Dead Cat Receives Voter Registration Form by Mail; Would Have Voted ‘DemoCAT,’ Owner Says
So the Pet Cemetary vote is also locked in?
“This is for Santos L. Halpern”
Did the registration bounce?
deceased for 12 years
How could this be after Federal Judge Backs Georgia’s Purge of Nearly 100,000 Voters ?
Fair Fight Action argued that the state was disenfranchising voters after a name was purged because of the state’s “use it or lose it” rule, which bumps from the rolls voters who had not voted in the past several elections.
In 2019, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law requiring the secretary of state to wait five years before removing inactive voters. Previously, the state was allowed to remove names from rolls if there was no contact with a voter for three years.
I still don’t understand why we can’t just require people to register every year.
Or at least once every 4 years to be less onerous and cover a full election cycle. Doesn’t matter whether you vote in that time frame or not, in 4 years you’ll have to register again.
Dead Cats
“I am aware that the phrase ‘all lives matter’ is commonly used as a misguided counter to the Black Lives Matter movement,” Lyle said. “On behalf of the Melrose Police Department, I sincerely apologize to our residents and anyone who drove past the sign today.”
Not
good
enough!
We are going to need a human sacrifice to make amends.
How about just one who is without racism to atone for all of us?
Why yes, I am going to hell. Why do you ask?
Well, Shaun King probably does think he’s Jesus.
*Adds Shaun King to John Oliver face punching list*
How about all black lives matter? It’d be a good way to decouple the phrase that almost everyone agrees with from the horrible, suck ass marxist organization that you criticize at great risk because the two are conflated.
I once had a lighter that said “Mosque Saint Sophia” on it, and there are about 10 different ways that’s wrong.
(I got it from a tourist peddler outside Ayasofya itself)
I picked up a combination pen/cigarette lighter at a dollar store in Brooklyn because it was a poorly spelled tribute to a NASCAR legend – Dale Ernhardl Grr.
HAHAHAHA
NASCAR’s only murloc driver.
The FBI never thought Flynn lied or was a Russian agent.
At this point the only thing left to settle is how much Flynn spent on lawyers and when the DOJ will reimburse him.
Maybe they can do after that douchebag judge manages to stall long enough to get the case revived somehow and Flynn spends a decade in prison for things he didn’t do.
If someone from 40 years ago suddenly appeared and starting reading all of these stories, they’d be convinced we’re all batshit insane.
They’d be right…I mean we’re not insane but I’m beginning to think everybody else is.
What of there are 2-POC’s?
Moderators for popular subreddit r/JusticeServed on Reddit — one of the most visited websites on the internet with an estimated 12 billion page views per month — said Monday that due to new site policies they are no longer allowed to permit posts, comments, or any other content that shows a person of color as the aggressor.
Any content showing a person of color as the aggressor will be considered “hate speech and/or harassment toward a minority group,” the announcement warned.
That’s good. I’m tired of reading about BLM protests.
Reddit is a textbook example of a used to be good website gone to absolute shit. And lord have mercy, talk about patronizing.
wonder what aggressor will mean now ?
/ Orwell
Friday was superior to Saturday Night Live and SCTV trumps the both of them.
Creepy Big Brother Joe
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1281602829443112966
Here’s my promise to you: If I have the honor of being elected president, I will take care of your family like I would my own.
Why can’t you just leave us alone?
“That’s really cool, Mr. Biden. Can my son have the Ukraine concession?”
We’re all getting million dollar sweetheart deal from foreign entities? Cool.
My son wants an officer’s commission and a little bonus package
I’ve already got a family, Joe, and you ain’t in it thank God.
*raises pointed finger into the air*
“SCIENCE”
“So the reason we want you to wear a mask is to protect you, sure,” said Nye. “But the main reason we want you to wear a mask is to protect me from you, and the particles from your respiratory system from getting into my respiratory system.”
“Everybody, this is a matter literally of life and death,” he insisted. “And when I use the word literally I mean literally a matter of life and death. So when you’re out in public, please wear a mask.”
If masks are as efficacious as he claims, and if he is wearing a mask, why should he care about others doing so?
The mask does not protect the wearer.
You see, the thing about Nye is he’s an idiot. Also not a scientist.
Here, he’s not being an idiot so much as a parrot.
Once again, we’re being told to do something based on a hypothesis (last time, it was a model of disease spread and death, this time, it’s cloth masks protect others). There has not been rigorous testing on the efficacy of this approach.
However, saying he doesn’t understand the hypothesis is, in this case, wrong.
But the COVID has gone airborne!
Maybe.
We think.
COWER PUNY MORTALS! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR DESTROYER!
There’s so many “what you need to know”‘s yet none of them are founded on anything provable. I realize at this point that the disease is not going to be nearly as well understood as ones that have been with us for decades and centuries. But it’d be nice if the journalist class realized that too.
How do you think ChiComVirus is spread? Are there alternate theories to what Nye is claiming?
I don’t know how the disease spreads. Whether wearing cloth masks in public is effective at stopping the spread of the disease is a separate though related hypothesis and is testable in its own right.
an alternate theory
Campbell or Bragg?
[dancing “87” wearing a Talismask]
Relevant
No.
Thanks for stopping by. Door’s to your left.
I keep reminding people that we still take our shoes off at the airport thanks to one particularly dim bulb in Detriot. It was one asshole, two decades ago, this bullshit is not going away. The TSA is a complete shitshow staffed by chuckleheads that wouldn’t cut it at the DMV that couldn’t find their ass with both hands and a flashlight, but it still remains,
Elizabeth Warren Declares Herself Warlord Of Eastern Oklahoma Autonomous Zone
Democrats Call For Labels Warning Consumers If A Company’s CEO Voted For Trump
Warning Labels.
Jeebus, they don’t waste any time, do they? LOLOL.
They’re free again? Yay! Let us enslave them.
“…the bean discussion will be on the back burner…”
I love the Bee.
Aplut ffo kcuf!
(You can’t fool me! Cute kitty, though!)
Correct answer.
BRIAN KILMEADE: Are you getting a boycott? That’s I heard, because you had the audacity to show up at the president’s invitation and say some positive things about him?
ROBERT UNANUE: Yes, and it’s oppression of speech… You’re allowed to talk good or talk praise to one president but you’re not — when I was called to be part of this commission to aid in economic and educational prosperity and you make a positive comment, all the sudden that’s not acceptable. I’m not apologizing for saying. If you’re called by the President of the United States, you’re going to say, ‘No I’m sorry, I’m busy, no thank you?’ I didn’t say that to the Obamas and I didn’t say that to President Trump.
I know little about Goya or this guy. That being said, I hope I’m wrong but I’ll give it a week before he caves. If he does manage to hold out I’ll make it a point to buy his products because a modern day CEO with cajones is as rare as hen’s teeth nowadays and should be encouraged.
I’m almost always wrong, but here goes. As I mentioned upthread, I am (casually) acquainted with the family. They do not strike me as the type that would cave. Also, Goya is a privately owned family business, and does not have any need to kiss Wall Street’s behind. I’d say they’ll stay the course.
Black Lives Matter anthem
a few GlibFin related thoughts
Many things in my life have gone sideways, but I’m pretty sure I got the money part right. There’s never been a time in my life where my debts exceeded my savings. A few things that helped with that:
-no student loans
-never bought a new car
-cooked most of my meals until the past few years
-never married so never divorced
-no kids
-1 credit card, pay in cash for almost everything
-never had a mortgage, makes it way easier to move
-Army bonus and inheritance gave me a nice cushion. It’s nice not having to worry about having enough.
Of course, I’m a miser, a hermit, and a nomad so that made it easier too. I haven’t spent more than 3 years at the same address in my adult life.
My plan is to do another 15 years, get the pension, and move to Wyoming, where I will live in a Subaru Outback, dig up dino bones, and work part time for cash if need be.
I plan to stay busy, have fun, and die broke. I’m grateful for the lucky breaks I got. They seemed few and far between.
Debt is the entropy of money. Most people have some and every govt has a lot.
Sounds like the warehouseman at a place I used to audit. Companionship? Every six months or so, he went to Dallas for a long weekend and hired hawt call girls who were more interested in his money than his homely looks and lumpy body.
I haven’t taken the plunge on that and would prefer not to. After years of playing on hard mode, I see the advantages.
Whenever I see women marrying for money, my internal monologue in Morty voice says “that’s just prostitution with extra steps!”
Randy Newman sings about short people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfyS-S-IJs
I had a date a couple years ago with a gal who worked part-time, had a ton of debt, and lived with her mom. But for some reason, I wasn’t good enough for her. At least she was good-looking. I dated another one in a similar situation who was fat with a nose ring and a Skrillex haircut. She told me she didn’t want to settle.
Oh well. I’ve made peace with the fact that I’m what happens when Simon Birch doesn’t die at the end of the movie.
I’ve gone on a lot of dates and had a few girlfriends. I don’t think I missed out on much.
I had a lovely trip to Constantinople with the ex back in the day.
The Blue Mosque is gorgeous from the outside, and the interior is also stunning. We were disappointed, however. The lights hang from wires and they come RIGHT down to you. I would estimate the hundreds of them end about 10 feet above the floor. The architecture was inspiring, but watching people actively pray felt like I was encroaching on their session, being a tourist as they took it for its actual purpose. Also, with all of those wires, it was impossible to subtract them in your mind so that you could absorb the architecture and decoration for what they actually are. It was like having hundreds of singular spider webs coming down blocking your view.
Hagia Sophia, on the other hand, I think is the most beautiful and inspiring structure that I have ever been in. I might be misremembering, but it’s certainly in my Top 5 Hall of Fame buildings. That people were able to construct that 1500 years ago defies belief. HOW?! Both the design and the work that went into its creation is astounding.
Let’s just say it’s worth your time. We were in Istanbul for a week and we had such a great time. It was fascinating to be at the intersection of East and West. Don’t get me started on the food. Iskender Kebap was my favorite, though I’m biased. I studied in Freiburg, Germany for a spell and legit Turkish döners are on my About to Be Executed Menu.
Semi-random aside: When Germany hosted the Euro World Cup when I was there in ’08, when Turkey played Germany…shit went wild. That was I think the only time I saw people not just flying German flags, but also holding the outside their cars as they whipped around chanting pro-German cheers.
Hagia Sophia, on the other hand, I think is the most beautiful and inspiring structure that I have ever been in. I might be misremembering, but it’s certainly in my Top 5 Hall of Fame buildings. That people were able to construct that 1500 years ago defies belief. HOW?! Both the design and the work that went into its creation is astounding.
That is one building I would like to see. The Pantheon, which I’ve seen, is a marvel to me, but the Hagia Sophia seems to be that on mega-steroids.
The most impressive space to me that I saw in Turkey was the Selimiye in Edirne. It’s more symmetrical than any other dome complex.
Also in Istanbul not to be missed is Kariye (aka Holy Savior in Chora). The mosaics & shit are insane
The ruins of Ephesus look cool and are also in Turkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus
Ephesus and the pools at.. Pamukkele(so?) salt springs. Super cool.
Nope.
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2020/07/10/sports-illustrated-transgender-swimsuit-model-valentina-sampaio
I will admit that the surgeons did a good job. But they really should’ve done something about the adams apple to complete the look.
HATE SPEECH
Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that the Black Lives Matter movement “distorts” the important debate over systemic racism in the country.
In an interview with ABC News, Barr said the movement uses the phrase “black lives matter” to refer exclusively to African Americans who are killed by police instead of focusing on a range of issues.
“I’d make a distinction between the organization, which I don’t agree with, they have a broader agenda,” he said. “But in terms of the proposition that Black lives matter, obviously Black lives matter. I think all lives — all human life is — is sacred. And entitled to respect. And obviously Black lives matter.”
“But I also think that it’s being used now in a sort of distorting the debate, to some extent. Because it’s used really to refer exclusively to Black lives that are lost to police misconduct which — are — you know, have been going down statistically. Five years ago there were 40 such incidents. This last year it was 10. So at least it’s a positive trajectory there. But then you compare it to 8,000 homicides in the African American community, those are Black lives that matter, too. And those are lives that are protected by the police.”
Oh
my
GOD!
No nuance allowed.
Nuance is racist, sexist, xenophobic, antisemitic, and probably homophobic.
Wait for it…
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bud_Doggin/status/1281617745587482625
https://mobile.twitter.com/johnpecco1/status/1281616965279326212
Riot damaged cop cars. Crazy.
Also-
Barr maintained that he did not see Trump’s recent remarks about Black Lives Matter and that the movement should broaden its focus beyond police killings.
“I’d have to see what he said. I don’t know what he said. But I also think, you know, it’s not just protecting life. It’s also Black Lives Matter in the sense of ensuring that African Americans fully participate in the benefits of this society and their lives flourish. And I think it goes beyond just the physical safety. It goes to getting good education. It goes to having economic opportunities,” he said.
“So I think the Black Lives Matter, you know, has focused on a particular problem. And it is a problem. And it’s a problem that at least the trajectory has been improving. And they’re ignoring, I think, these broader issues.”
Republicans often cite violence in Black communities when discussing systemic racism, a tactic critics say is rarely followed up by action on relevant issues such as gun control and is intended to deflect away from conversations on broader social problems.
Always with the gun control. A lot of those murders would likely have been committed anyway, just with bludgeons or knives (fike in England, koff koof). And nothing about the lowest black unemployment rate in decades, prior to the plague freakout. That doesn’t count.
Democrats are still trying to prevent blacks from having guns.
I wonder why nobody has ever thought to bring up gun control in my city. It is a mystery.
One of the main problems I have with the left is their bizarre insistence that it is perpetually 1905. In their world, the New Deal never happened, the Great Society never happened, the EPA doesn’t exist, and there are no gun control laws.
Everyone spends six days a week, 12 hours a day, working in factories and the Pinkertons machine gun the workers at random, before they eat poisoned food and drink toxic waste out of the river and die penniless at the age of 62 because there’s no Social Security.
We have not achieved Heaven on Earth, therefore we must still be in Hell.
There is not going to be a national solution to local violence, and Republicans don’t win elections in those localities. There is, to a large extent, nothing to discuss. Chicago and Baltimore and DC’s murder rates are Chicago, Baltimore, and DC’s problems to solve.
-never married so never divorced
-no kids
This is probably the only reason I’m not living in a cardboard box under a highway overpass.
Word. If not for some lucky breaks and hard work, I’d be sleeping on a park bench.
***
The word Turquoise dates back to the 17th century, when trading routes brought Turquoise from Persia through the Middle East towards Europe. The traders passed through Turkey, known as “Turquie” in French, and the locals named the material “Turquies” (“Turkish”) in reference to its coming from Turkey.
***
Kind of like how turkeys got named after Turkey even though they came from Mexico and were sold to the Turks by the Spanish.
Contender for a profile in masculinity?
Or maybe just a lunatic.
“Words that were never spoken by Churchill for 800$”
Not that Churchill, though he was suspected of being a relation by the Germans who captured him.
His is a big family, I’m just a Fan of the Man
He was featured on Badass of the Week, the website and the book:
Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live
probably the single best history book ever, IMO
You’re a bit late.
Damn it all, I even thought about checking.
Peter Freuchen.
POOP KNIFE!
***
Freuchen wrote personal accounts of this journey (and others) in Vagrant Viking (1953) and I Sailed with Rasmussen (1958). He states in Vagrant Viking that only one other dogsled trip across Greenland was ever successful. When he got stuck under an avalanche, he claims to have used his own feces to fashion a dagger with which he freed himself.[15]
***
Killing Nazis with a longbow puts him pretty high on my list.
I would nominate COL Hackworth for the list as well, joined the Army at ~15, went to Korea, got a field commission, a Silver Star, and turned down a promotion to Brigadier General during Vietnam because he was sick of the Army’s bullshit.
tell me your favorite and/or reply with a suggestion
CNN Sues CNN for Libel Against CNN
China Threatens US With “Reply All” Cyber Superweapon
M Night Shyamalan to Write All Future Supreme Court Rulings
HBO To Remove Anti-Black Violence From Civil War Film ‘Glory’
Not to tell you your craft, but might Roots be a better selection for the last one?
That’s a good angle and I appreciate the suggestion. Maybe something like:
New Version ‘Roots’ Will be 60% ‘Black Panther’ and 30% ‘Big Momma’s House’
Speaking of Black Panthers:
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Cleaver also cultivated an alliance with North Korea in 1969, and BPP publications began reprinting excerpts from Kim Il Sung’s writings. Although leftists of the time often looked to Cuba, China, and North Vietnam for inspiration, few had paid any attention to the secretive Pyongyang regime. Bypassing US travel restrictions on North Korea, Cleaver and other BPP members made two visits to the country in 1969–1970 with the idea that the juche model could be adapted to the revolutionary liberation of African-Americans. Taken on an official tour of North Korea, Cleaver expressed admiration at “the DPRK’s stable, crime-free society which provided guaranteed food, employment, and housing for all, and which had no economic or social inequalities”.
***
[head desk]
Gobsmacking delusion.
I can’t say I’m surprised that a violent, paranoid, serial rapist would think North Korea is the best country.
Wouldn’t that be Somalia?
Depends. How are the roads?
Terrible, and such small portions!
Frankly I think the last three are all gold, but I particularly like the “reply all” cyber-weapon. Maybe that’s a side effect of working from home. I do enjoy dark humor.
I concur. Co-workers who insist on hitting “Reply All” are the bane of my existence, and I don’t even work from home. Heaven forbid management send out an e-mail giving an employee a shout-out for having done something good/above and beyond – a maddening number of folks will insist on hitting Reply All to say, “Way to go, [lauded co-worker]!” Even when the writer of the original e-mail includes the request “Please don’t Reply All,” some people will do so. Special Place in Hell.
/lifts finger
Counterpoint. Support e-mails work much better when people Reply All, instead of starting ten different threads with different groups and people. We actually have to make it a point to tell people to Reply All.
And… proper systems don’t let people send to certain distribution lists.
Now people who open multiple tickets about the same issue, without mentioning the earlier tickets (even if the ticket is still open). Burn them. BURN THEM ALL!
As with many things, there’s a time and a place…
::takes advantage of opportunity to link to hawt Busch Guy::
Yes, “Reply All” has its uses.
“Hide under your desks, there’s a shooter in the building.”
From the morning links about Seoul’s mayor committing suicide:
“Seoul — The three-term mayor of South Korea’s sprawling capital city was found dead early Friday morning in mountains north of Seoul. City officials said he left a short “will-like” message apologizing to his family and the Korean people just days after reportedly being accused of sexual misconduct by a former secretary….Police have not commented on the cause of his death.”
Uh, yeah. Korea does indeed have a strong cultural problem with suicide. Lots of stars–usually K-Pop but also actors and other famous people, get overwhelmed and end their lives. It happens with an intense frequency that even young students will talk about it, which always struck me as odd and unpleasant.
Straffinrun, Sensei, Tejicano: I know that this is also an issue in Japan. Their culture does overlap (Koreans…fundamentally hate the Japanese and I do not blame them) but I wonder how much of it is “Asian” culture and how much is “Korean/Japanese/Chinese/etc.” I didn’t follow things too closely, but this problem never ‘came up’ in Singapore when I was there. It’s an odd thing to think about. Saving Face by killing yourself and to end the shame on the family? That has always struck me as odd, though suicide exists everywhere and isn’t unique.
Just a relatively random aside. Koreans seem to be culturally sad in how they act. They work more hours than any developed nation and yet their work is also ranked as the least productive. They work themselves to depressed death, is my cultural hypothesis.
Does the same hold true for transplants in America?
My brother-in-law and wife were boat people and both med doctors, their 2 sons, also boat boys, were embarrassed that they couldn’t get in med school and ended up as dentists. I don’t think suicide is much of a VN ritual, hard work and sacrifice maybe, but I’m sure the latest generations have become totally Americanized.
paraphrased from Sowell
Believing in racial equality was radical 100 years ago, liberal 50 years ago, and normal 20 years ago. Today it is racist.
Another odd aside from me, sorry.
I broke the middle bone in my right ear in The Incident. I have tinnitus and I have long been used to it. I still have performed at bars on a drum kit and never had any trouble hearing bandmates. Which, if you’re a musician, you understand this, is the most terrifying thing to occur when you’re performing and rocking out.
It’s pretty much gone away, but today for some reason that ear is LOUDLY ringing. Not tones or beats, but a constant whine. It isn’t the biggest deal, but I’m curious if anyone else has this issue. Why would it semi randomly strike up and get louder? Not scared or worried, just interested.
Does anyone have this issue and does it fluctuate like this? Why would that maybe happen?
Mine has come and gone all my life, Right now it’s a super high pitched whine in stereo behind my brow, it can get lolud enough to drown out other sounds for a moment, so just keep jamming the song, your hearing will return….
Too much aspirin or Tylenol will do it. Other medications will do it too but those are the most common ones.
My medication history is lengthy and annoying, but for several months I’ve only been on Keppra and Prednisone (for my “dyshidrosis from hell”). They haven’t done this before.
Thanks! I’m just curious and think about things. I’m not worried about it. I’m sure it will fade back in no time. My best guess is stress, of which I have plenty.
Evan, not to compare, but My Dog Bella is now on Keppra for Seizures, 3x a day, how does it make you feel? Loopy or dinged out?
Tired? just curious,
I have never noticed anything. I take it just to be safe, but I can’t tell if the meds make me feel different. Neurontin, which I was on for a while, that was a fucking party drug. I (I’m stupid but human) actually would hold on to those and specifically use them to have fun when going out. That stuff changes how you work.
I’m not sure if I feel off sometimes because of meds or because of depression or boredom or whatever. I only take them for Play Safe reasons and also to keep Lady and family happy that I’m always taking what’s prescribed.
I don’t know how it would affect a dog. I certainly don’t notice any of the negative side effects that are on the bottle. I do make extra sure that I take them when I get the shakes, like last week when I got them real bad after kayaking. They seem to help, though I do think about how much of it is because of placebo effects.
I didn’t know about Tylenol, but NSAID’s do it. That’s why I can’t take them.
I found out the hard way that too many NSAID’s are bad for your innards too.
*looks at hospital bill for peptic ulcer*
Yeup.
I had a cold that made my ears ring pretty bad for a while. When I went to the audiologist, she said basically there’s no effective treatment if it’s persistent. Fortunately, it wasn’t.
My last hearing test showed some slight loss, which shouldn’t be a problem unless everyone on the planet starts speaking in the form of high-pitched beeping noises.
I avoid loud noise and always have earplugs with me. Wax ear plugs are mentioned in The Odyssey. Not sure why so many people don’t use them.
*takes out high-def earbuds cranked to 10 with Motley Crue*
What’d you say?
If there’s one language worth bringing back, it’s Plains Indian Sign Language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfT2a5SGDFA
Fun fact: the name of Flathead for the Salish people was based on a misunderstanding of sign language
reading this, I realize mine was ringing just now
probably was ringing already but I just tuned it out
so I don’t know if it comes and goes or if I only notice it some of the time
you hear with your ears, but then you hear with your brain; who knows what’s going on
That’s me, I mostly ignore it
I blame the power tools. Gives me something to listen to, anyway.
My ex’s dad was thrown off his bike by some jackass driver and lost a bone in his inner ear, and suffered terrible vertigo as a result. He was a two or three-time triathlete and had to train himself to stay upright. Only part of the breakup I regret was not getting to cycle with him anymore.
Apropos of nothing but inner ear bones.
adolescent dolphins take turns getting high on pufferfish toxins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T5aGLybXEs
dolphins, the choom gang of the sea
Is that before they go out and gang rape a female?
Rape is such an ugly word. It’s more like what would happen if a dozen Joe Bidens showed up at a Girl Scout meeting.
It is wrong to criticize other cultures.
I have heard people say this in earnest before immediately launching into a tirade against Republicans, Christians, and Southerners.
come be pc song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmeSGwVBoao
Do you see how they dress?
“Perfect for a game of catch.”
Dolphins are assholes.
Here come the fun police.
“Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status…… and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1281616586273468416
I have no idea how that could work.
As if he does?
Funny/Not funny
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1281726443257561093?s=19
Definitely funny. LOL.
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1281727141319790593?s=09
Funny
I laughed.
Today, in long-winded horseshit:
“A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate”
https://theobjective.substack.com/p/a-more-specific-letter-on-justice
Poor Biden.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1281709138565709827
Justice <—– I hate this word.
jus•tice jŭs′tĭs►
n. The quality of being just; fairness.
n. The principle of moral rightness; decency.
Invariably when someone uses the word justice 'fairness' is implied in the definition. 'Fair' is a word used by children and it means what they want it to mean, which is usually them getting their way. In fact, all of the words used in that definition are subjective.
Fuck justice. Stick to the rules.
Ugh. Was supposed to be a reply to Count Potato at #54
I share in your hatred of the word ‘fair.’
Fare enough.
I saw a post the other day that said you could emulate pretty much anything Biden says by typing in “So here’s the deal,” (or somesuch) on your phone and then hitting the suggested text button 20 times. Not a bad experiment.
Taking one of the teens out to the lake for some fishing. Got my King’s stamp on what and how many I can catch, and also got my King’s stamp to access the lands.
America! Free to pay for freedom
What state are you in?
I buy hunting and fishing licenses here every year even though I dont hunt and rarely fish anymore. I do this because I believe the Louisiana wildlife and fisheries dept here is one of the good ones. Their deer and alligator programs have been wildly successful so I do support them. They have been less successful with Turkeys but then the biggest problem for ground nesting birds here is fire ants….not much they can do about that.
Not every state is that way.
Nevada and it isnt that bad. Kid gets a dual hunting/fishing for 16 bucks a year.
Mine 76 a year.
We have add ons, deer hunting, small game, pheasants, ducks(fed), turkey stamp, bear stamp. oh, maybe not pheasants since I don’t hunt them. Need a lawyer to go fishing, a lot of lakes have different limits, slot sizes, etc. Trout stamp. Need a license for the fish house (ice fishing), boat license renewed every 3 years.
DNR and walleyes have a special relationship that changes frequently, one never knows from day to day. DNR’s main job is changing the rules
She’s on the wrong side of the hot/crazy divide.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/10/woman-bikini-police-spain-dancing-crashed-car-accident/
“My husband @RobertCooper58
is Cuban and he’s been cooking with @GoyaFoods
for as long as I can remember — but no more. We just cleaned out our pantry closet and threw out EVERY one of their products. Adios, Goya!!
#BoycottGoya”
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1281398676548734976
It sounds like you deserve each other.
threw out EVERY one of their products
that’ll show ’em
“…and now we’re going to go buy some more and throw THEM away!”
I wonder if it occurred to them to donate the food instead.
You can’t feed hungry people wrongthink food!
You threw out what you already paid for? Seems like a loss and you are boycotting wrong.
And shouldn’t Cubans love the Donald, given his anti-socialism talk?
I added a couple Goya items to my gf’s shopping list for this week.
They’re not very keto friendly though. ?
I think I’ve had their beans before, but I don’t have beans unless it is in chili. Haven’t made chili for awhile. *ponders and checks pantry* Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow! Idk what else they make, but I’ll endeavor to purchase their products where possible.
I put olives, cheese, and chorizo on the list.
Derp sent me down a youtube rathole. Polar bears are like bigger, fuzzier dogs, and you should absolutely hug one.
Youtube has plenty of great nature videos. It is a great source of solace for me.
I saw a mostly hairless polar bear at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago in 2012 I think. I took a lot of dates there, because it’s free, I like zoos, and most girls like animals. One time, I howled by the wolf cage and they all howled with me.
That zoo also has a pygmy hippo, which is the size of a big dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-h4leEf4QY
I believe pistoffnick uses a pygmy hippo as an avatar.
Did you get that thing he sent you?
?
No, and I wasn’t expecting anything.
It is that thing that I sent to you.
Refresh my memory, please.
Click the damn link, I’m starting to look embarrassed here.
Oh, I get it now.
Sorry, I can outdumb anyone on the planet.
Until you matched wits with me.
Data from our county health department.
Spokane CCPV
Note: Last death recorded on 6/26 so there is a two week flat section not shown on the graph. Current number hospitalized is 40.
Jaw-dropping: Surfer fights off shark attack live on TV in S. African competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhRxIQutZ8
Amazing how calm he was when he was interviewed right after. Brass balls for him.
0:46 is how I leap back onto my paddle board regardless. The ocean is a deep dark mystery, and it can keep its secrets.
random satire idea
Indiana Jones Will Destroy Statues in New Film
“This *doesn’t* belong in a museum!”
Boss Fight!