About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
It is a sobering thought that we will never have another president with this clarity of vision and this ability to articulate it. So… let’s drink. And grill. And watch the bang-bangs.
Of course, there ARE some birthdays, the national festivities notwithstanding, and quite a diverse lot they are. For example, someone whose name will be common at today’s parties; a guy I was forced to read in junior high and quickly learned to hate; the first of the Great American Songwriters; the last of the Great American Presidents; my professional inspiration; my Spirit Animal; the real (((Ann Landers))); the guy who did more to ruin baseball than anyone else; and another in the long line of Great American Songwriters.
Now for the meatier bits.
Trump finally gets Mexico to pay for the wall. I admit that the name of the Sonoran governor ought to set off the conspiracy buffs.
Local city pays over $100k for an assessment of whether they need their own crime lab. Punch line: the assessment will be done by the company that would build the crime lab.
“I know how to get a headline- say something blitheringly stupid ending with the word ‘Trump.'”
OMG, SHE DISRESPECTS THE PRESS!
Investment advice: go long on videogames.
Meanwhile, back in our former colonizer… “fear” “concern” “potential” “could” “possible” … fuck right off, mate.
Old Guy Music today is a Foster classic, with all instruments played by LJ. A trivia question: what’s the lead instrument?
I hope everyone in the pubs just go ahead and stand right next each, and say Fuck Off to the authorities.
Later today I’ll be exploding illegally large fractions of whole dynamite sticks. Just trying to do my part in any small way I can.
It’s almost certainly going to happen in some cases. Hole in the wall places with blue collar clientele, perhaps, while the health and safety Nazis patrol the large chains.
When I was in England a few years ago the pubs were already declining, and from what I heard, the blame was on the smoking ban. We got invited to a secret pub. Essentially, someone had gotten a few kegs and taps and turned his living room into a pub where you sat on home furniture. It was through two doors on a busy street. There was no signage, no windows, and we may have had to have a password, can’t remember. We were looked at with great skepticism but finally served without question and had a nice conversation with a guy there about hunting, firearm ownership, walking and driving on tiny twisting roads, pubs, and aviation (his profession).
Apparently there was a small trend of anonymous speakeasy-esque pubs at that time (2017). Maybe that outlet will crop back up as regulations on legal pubs inexorably tighten.
walking and driving on tiny twisting roads,
On the wrong side of them, too.
I mean, at these speeds, you kinda have to be on whatever side of the road the line through a turn demands.
Of course, that’ll just get the authorities to shut down the pubs again.
I am with you on this, Tardis. Of course, I sell medical supplies and equipment. Boom times.
They don’t need a crime lab. They need the Hardy boys.
“I’ve got a raging clue.”
Happy Freedom Nostalgia Day, you krazy kidz.
I shall be wearing my traditional Right Wing Crank shirt. It features this image.
Now go out there and mock the hive mind.
*strokes giant firework*
Thank god for Texas!
I thought this was a family-friendly site?
Try to contain your excitement, CNN.
I swear if the media and their fans starts to claim Trump is creating a brave new world or 1984 – a world they helped to bring in – I think it may be a bring too far for me..
I hate those brings too far. :-p
bridge…
this auto-spell is beyond weird.
I’d like to see someone quiz some protesters on the street, I mean BLM and antifa members, on things like who Marx and Lenin were. Because their own claimed philosophy is the exact same, but I bet 9 out of 10 of them couldn’t tell you a damn single fact about either of those guys and how that little experiment played out between 1917 and 1991.
I saw what you did there!
…and, of course, the real (maybe not original, but longtime at the same time as (((Ann))) (((Dear Abby)))!
I need to find a good bio of Stephen Foster because I’m fascinated by how he became essentially The Original King of Pop (AFAIK) in the era before mass communication and recording technology.
My favorite Foster, and about as close as I come to praying.
Ships were made for sinking,
and whisky made for drinking,
and if we were made of cellophane we’d all get stinking drunk MUCH FASTER,
WAHAHAHAHA!!
the lead instrument?
Acoustic version of a theramin.
I think this is physically realizable and I’m on the verge of being consumed by the prospect.
That theramin is such a haunting instrument!
Speaking of studies-
I had a conversation with a local city councilman, one day. He was talking about how the city needed to shovel a bunch of money at a consultant to do a big “traffic study” in order to determine whether “we” needed more stop signs in town. I said, “Instead of pissing away a bunch money on consultants, just go buy a bunch of stop signs and put them up. That’s what you want to do, anyway.” Which is what the apparently did.
Those poor consultants. How will they feed their wives and children with spoilsports like me ruining things for them?
In this case, it’s not even a consultant- IT’S THE COMPANY THAT SELLS THE LABS. No graft here, nossir.
He failed to mention his cousin owns a consulting company.
Colonialism and racism are alive and well in America. Indigenous people are still facing inequities in accessing education, health care and economic opportunities. We are confronting extractive industries and corporations that only want to further take from us.
We’ve been removed from our homes, and now some of the most impoverished places in the U.S. are Indigenous places of struggle and residence.
Our lives have been stolen from us; our lands are occupied by colonizers. We’ve been removed from our homes, and now some of the most impoverished places in the U.S. are Indigenous places of struggle and residence. In South Dakota, where I live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Indigenous people constitute less than 10 percent of the population but roughly half of those booked into the state’s jails.
Clearly the fault of George Washington.
What, the casinos didn’t fix all that?
Our local Miccosukees are doing pretty well. They still choose to live pretty simply but the tribe is sitting on a ton of cash.
Around here, that means the tribal government is corrupt as hell. The ordinary folks aren’t choosing to live the way they do, they are really poor because the tribal government sucks up all the loot from casinos and their other businesses.
There is always a fair amount of corruption wherever there is lots of cash, but they seem relatively open in keeping the books. Every Miccosukee family gets an annual stipend, sort of like Alaska. The most recent thing I can find is this 2016 Forbes article, which says in part: “Today every man, woman and child in the tribe receives biweekly dividend payments totaling about $128,000 a year. Indeed, by the time a Seminole child today turns 18, she is already a multimillionaire, thanks to tribal trusts that prevent children or their parents from touching the funds until adulthood.”
Maybe this is why the Seminoles don’t complain too much about their name being used for mascots.
Impressive. Not the way the tribes work around here, I’m pretty sure.
To me it’s just more corporate cronyism. It must be nice not to have to compete in a free market.
Cash is good, but so are investments and property out in the white man’s world. I’d love to have a gambling monopoly. I’d be like Biff Tannen.
Bullshit.
All of that misery is self-inflicted.
“We’ve been removed from our homes, and now some of the most impoverished places in the U.S. are Indigenous places of struggle and residence.”
There are plenty of people who have been removed and yet still seem to find a way to be prosperous in the next century. So fuck off.
I agree. It’s enough now of this victimhood. It’s self-inflicted. Same crap up here.
Fuck off.
I think this has to stop now.
That goes for blacks too.
It’s a constant loop of self-pity it’s disgusting. Stop indulging it.
Here the band chiefs have STOLEN billions from the Canadian taxpayers. I think they’ve gotten well compensated (oh but they screwed with white man contracts! Yeh well, lesson learned. Life sucks. Become lawyers like the Jews. Move on). It’s their problem the Chiefs stole the money. Not me.
It’s all so tiresome now.
The Navajo and Cree have my utmost respect.
mine
Relevant
Interesting.
Um, don’t look now but the Navajo tribe is looking into buying Remington and shutting down their AR manufacturing.
Serious question, why do they want to shut down AR manufacturing?
I would probably shut down AR manufacturing too. The AR market is oversaturated. If theyre smart, they’ll get on the next trend before it starts (current trend is PCCs, who knows what will be next).
How do citizens of the reservation end up in state prisons? Serious question. Does the reservation not have its own prisons and farms incarceration out to the state, or are the incarcerated “indigenous” (they have people over 400 years old?) committing their crimes outside the territory of the reservation?
The 4th of July: celebrating a declaration of war against being ruled by a tyrannical government with the most powerful military on earth, while avoiding the epiphany that you’re ruled by an even more tyrannical government with the most powerful military ever.
“Nick Tilsen, president of NDN Collective”
So, resistance is futile?
Trump’s Mount Rushmore fireworks show is a Fourth of July attack on Indigenous people.
Oh really?
What would Bernie say?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfpQRMRlTzU
Being that it was paid for by borrowed money, it’s an attack on indigenous people, an attack on non-indigenous people, and an attack on future generations of taxpayers.
Same with Trump’s golf outing yesterday.
Dude, take your meds.
Oh fuck off. Next he’ll hold a rally in Pennsylvania, and they will say it’s a racial attack on the Dutch.
They were actually Germans.
You know what happens when the Germans try to cancel you?
You’d better Dutch?
You get polished?
Or Double Dutch
Double Dutch, or: OMWC Makes a Music Video
They send you back Lenin?
The current White House Press Corps making accusations of political theater is pretty rich.
“Nick Tilsen”
What the heck kinda injun name is that?
It’s one of those rare Greek Injuns
Or Norwegian.
It’s one of them uppity Lakotans.
In the midst of a national reckoning on race, the hypocrisy of Mount Rushmore must be interrogated and denounced.
Only when we have waterboarded and humiliated History will we truly be able to holds our heads up.
Once we get rid of everything to do with Western culture, the media can turn their focus on making Marx and Lenin the heroes of all history and saviors of all people.
Now you’ve set me off on an Old Songs kick, Old Man. An ode to old songs, caught before it gets “canceled.”
The whole album from LJ, from whence the song today was snatched, is his versions of Old American Songs. Definitely worth a listen.
An ode to old songs
Hateful
When Mojeaux sees it, she’ll start squeeing.
This is the 4th of July, absolutely no squeeing!
Another ode to old songs
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-airport/check-in-but-never-leave-taiwan-offers-fake-flights-for-travel-starved-tourists-idUSKBN2430RV
I don’t get it. Fake airplane rides?
I guess some people like being grilled
Groped by strangers and treated like cattle going through security.
“groped by strangers”
Alright, I’m in.
NYT headline, via the google nooze:
“Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message”
Yeah. By not kowtowing to the Red Guard, he is sowing strife and division.
That right there is a communist headline.
How in the world can that be divisive?
Are they suggesting the only way to unity is through BLM and embracing socialism?
The rot at the NYT is a virus. I have no idea how they’ve existed for so long because they’ve already pulled this crap before.
Have some naked “climate” propaganda disguised as front-page “news”.
“I’m journalisming!”
Did you just tell us yesterday you were having thunderstorms?
Sounds like normal seasonal turnover to me.
No, but we get “stray afternoon thunderstorms” almost every day now.
“Dead fish are turning up in large numbers all along the Hudson River from Manhattan to Yonkers, according to environmental organization Riverkeeper.”
Call me a cynic but I’m not going to take an advocacy groups word for it.
The entire article is just a series of quotes from that organization. Can you imagine getting paid to do that?!
Why isn’t that news? There are a lot of dead fish and it’s because of the weather and not because Big Corporation or Nuclear Plant unleashed chemicals into the river.
Thank god Cuomo’s closing the nuclear plant up the Hudson. I suppose the rolling blackouts that will be the new normal because he is replacing that power with fantasies of windmills and solar panels that haven’t been built yet and never will be built are just a small price to pay for the satisfaction of patting ourselves on the back.
Okay so I guess it isn’t a story.
Also, the reality is that the replacements will be less eco friendly than Indian Point
It shouldn’t be news because the effects of dumping the sewage of millions of people into the river shouldn’t be a surprise in the modern era.
“Nuke plant unleashing chemicals…” *SMDH*
WARM WATER. Jesus Fucking Tapdancing Christ.
Here’s more ‘journaliisming’.
Superheroes are too white. They don’t talk enough about racism. I’m just a girl. I ate crayons and Tide pods until the government told me it’s not food on the food pyramid.
https://time.com/5857064/defunding-police-superheroes-onscreen/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=entertainment_movies&linkId=92273219
And the usual double down.
https://twitter.com/edockterman/status/1277777886485889025
“Eliana Dockterman
@edockterman
It’s amazing how many of the responses I’ve gotten totally ignore the undeniable fact that the **vast** majority of onscreen superheroes—enforcing their particular version of justice with violence—have been white dudes”
Or maybe….sidethrows pebble into water….you’re just a remedial hack with a stagnant and regressive mind polluted by intersectional gibberish?
Comic books are escapism and fantasy fulfillment. The vast majority of comic book enthusiasts are in fact white dudes(at least in North America). It makes perfect sense to know your audience and supply them with the outlets they crave(I can see myself as this dude). As the market expands so do the hero options. It’s a natural progression with no need to for the issue to be obsessed over…it’s a silly ass topic anyway.
Your not allowed to escape from progressivism.
Yep. See: NFL
The Chiefs may be on the verge of a dynasty and I may miss most of it due to the ceaseless preaching and social signaling by the league and its players…some progressives ruin everything.
So what you’re saying is, We Need A Hero?
/looks at Miles Morales
/looks at Kal-El
/looks at Ms. Marvel
/looks at the X-Men
Yep. All bigots and racists.
If only there was some series of books that would discuss such things. There could be a large story across the comics themselves about wearing masks and if heroes should be forced to reveal their true identity.
Nah… It would never work…
I see it in the link, but not in the akshual article:
https://nypost.com/2020/07/03/fish-are-suffocating-and-DYING-IN-SPADES-along-the-hudson-river/
In SPADES? Really? BLM should be over there burning the entire building down for that.
LOL I didn’t notice that
VC’s vs NYT
Who ya got?
I’ll take the ones with the money, the VC’s.
A rabid lefty friend posted this article, How Far do the Tentacles of the Jeffrey Epstein Case Extend?, and I clicked, foolishly thinking it must have new info with a title like that. No, as I read I was first struck by the poor quality of the writing, then by how it offered no new info, just a pathetic attempt to create a narrative where the government’s various actions were an elaborate scheme to cover up Trump’s involvement with Epstein.
So I got to the end, wondering who this Heather Cox Richardson was. Surely she’s an intern. A high school student who turned in an essay with this many grammatical errors would need to buy the teacher a new red pen. Nope, she is a history professor at Boston College who has published books and writes a “nightly” newsletter. How the hell…? I clicked on her Twitter. She tweets several dozen times a day. After a marathon scrolling session, I got back to July 1, 2020. In all those hundreds of tweets she did not express a single thought. They were ALL retweets (I was hoping to find more awful grammar) of absurd conventional wisdom TDS talking points.
This has been an investigative derp report by special Glib correspondent Atanarjuat. I don’t really know what to make of this. Aren’t most people in academia, you know, smart?
Boston college. Beloved alma mater of AOC
She went to Boston University.
How much book leaning does one City need?
All them books must be propping up some big brains, right?
Wikipedia says BU.
I seem to recall it being angrily referred to as “maybe the 5th best college in Boston” in the movie “Gifted” 😉
“Once a person has become demoralized you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them forever. No matter how much authentic information you give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion.” – Yuri bezmenov
That seems kind of like a demoralized view on humanity.
Have you been out and seen humanity lately?
?
Bezmenov is an interesting character. Only ever gave an interview to a John Bircher.
If you are interested in why are culture has unraveled, I’ve been re-reading a book from 1979 – The Culture of Narcissism. I remember reading it years ago, and the things it talked about as budding then are now in full bloom. Anyway, it gives you an entirely different rationale for why our culture has been decaying without relying on the malevolent force of international communism.
I notice the quality of links sent to me by a couple of people infected with TDS have been shoddy.
I’ve been in your position. It’s now just plain sad how they just can’t get over themselves and seek help for TDS.
These people don’t want a debate. They’re too far gone. They send the link because ‘See? SEE?! WHY CAN’T YOU SEE? WHY!??!’ Not to discuss. For example….one of them laughed – of course – about Trump’s rally. I could have responded with some ‘on the other hand’ thoughts and put things into better focus.
NPC Zombie: Ha, ha! Your boy Trump got only 6500 hundred people after bragging he had registered 1 million people and was fooled by teenagers on Tik Tok! Ha, ha, HA!
Rufus: Well, that’s true he didn’t fill it up. But did you consider….
And then you mention the millions who watched live. Or that every single of his rallies in the past were full so it’s like without the pandemic and rioting this one would have almost surely filled up too.
People stayed home likely because of the pandemic and potential for violence. Or that reports said fake protestors were blocking metal detector entrances and temperature gauging slowed the process down to the point Secret Service closed the doors once Trump appeared leaving people with tickets out in the cold.
Stuff like that. But don’t you dare. They’ll lose their minds.
NPC Zombie: You’re a groupie! Ha, ha! He got only 6500 people.Get over it! Biden is in the lead!!!!!
They did and said the same things in 2016. Trying to reason with them is pointless.
“But I dont know anyone that voted for Nixon!”
Wait until Trump gets this one in the bag. Ya’ think the tears were epic in 2016? I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if they tried some kind of civil war shit this time around.
I got five sentences in before I realized that I wrote that well in eighth grade.
I’m still embarrassed by it.
In the process of looking through that bizarre Twitter account, I found this.
Is there any more unholy alliance than George W Bush people and DNC types? Barf. This account, by the way, has over 100k followers, and shills shamelessly for Biden.
Again, who needs Antifa or BLM when we have the Republicans?
Smells that? It’s fear. The single party system is fully revealed, da comrade?
Wow. Just wow.
Remember Bush Derangement Syndrome?
I ‘member.
Just shows how much it’s an elites v. everybody else dynamic that rules politics.
Certainly looks like it.
I await a flurry of ‘See? Even Bush hates him!’
Aren’t most people in academia, you know, smart?
What a knee-slapper. Thanks. I needed a good laugh.
I went to college, my professors in organic chem, biochem, cell biology, genetics who I interacted with were wonderful, brilliant people.
Although now that I think back, I was also required to take anthropology and religion as “multicultural credits” and those professors were babbling morons.
Same here, though we did have one physics teacher that was a booger-eater.
Do you mean “on the spectrum” or actually dumb? Cuz physics is hard.
My freshman advisor was an anthropology professor and classmate of Ted Kaczynski.
OK, Ted “S.”. Is that your real initial? Hmmm???
“S.” is the correct initialism for how you pronounce that, I think, the accents are missing.
Most of the academics that I encountered in both the sciences and the liberal arts were very smart people. Of course, that was at an excellent university.
As things open up – even for a short period of time – there will be an increase in Covid infections. Is the plan to close back down again? Is that the plan going forward?
Are we all going to die poor and alone in our homes?
Yes, yes, maybe.
We have to close down again, or else people might get their jobs back.
Y’all know me. I try to be fair and even handed, and have no love for Trump. This Mount Rushmore shit has really pissed me off. I don’t even like Mount Rushmore, doesn’t really interest me. But the full on racial strife that the left is perpetuating on every single one of Trump’s campaign events is pissing me off. Come at him with actual things you will do to help the American people. Don’t moralize and at the same time try to stir up racial hatred as your strategy to win.
If the Indians try to rise up we will once again put them down with some bottom shelf vodka and China-made quilts.
They are not protesting Trump. They’re protesting and trying to oppress Americans who don’t agree with their Marxist policies.
“When I get through with those niggers they will vote Democrat for 100 years.” – Lyndon Johnson
That has been their strategy all along they just have it turned up to 11 now.
I would say that the seeds of the civil war were planted before the Revolutionary war….that was about the time people began to see slavery/racism in moral terms. The civil war and the ensuing battles over racial issues are between people who view those issues through a moral lens vs. people who view them through an economic lens.
We are still struggling to become civilized.
Another 40 years to go.
I thought it was 200 years. Apocryphal, anyway.
Come on, dude. Do you think they have any desire to *help* the American people? They want the American people impoverished, miserable, and dependant.
You obviously don’t have the correct definition of “help”. Attendants from the local re-education camp will be buy soon to assist your transition to temporary residence in said camp in order to help you learn the correct definition.
What pisses me off about the Mount Rushmore nonsense as a fiscal conservative is the cost to taxpayers. How much did it cost to fly him out there so that he could bloviate monosyllabic platitudes that mean nothing? The building of the stage, the security, the police up and down the mountain …. meanwhile the CBO is projecting the budget deficit to be more than three trillion dollars this fiscal year.
Hey, any of y’all who know anything about “Hamilton”….
I’ve picked up that it’s a Broadway show (never seen one), and that it’s very popular, and that a version is on Disney or something. Some of my kids have been asked by another family “do y’all want to come over and watch?”. My three datapoints above (“Broadway”, popular, and Disney) each make it a “NO” for me, plus being more Jeffersonian anyway.
Mrs. Tree would like a better explanation to give the friends. I have PluggedIn’s comments on crudity and vulgar language on deck already.
Can any of you give me some Glibtastic historical/accuracy/political reason? This would actually resonate with them, believe it or not.
It’s a re-imagining of Alexander Hamilton’s life translated via hip hop music and dance.
And I think the founding fathers are all black and hispanic guys for some reason.
And the writer/star, Lin Manuel Miranda, is an unrepetent shitbag apologist for Oscar Lopez Rivera, mass-murdering commie terrorist.
I will not commit any money to him, ever.
I would have suggested showing them the George Arliss Alexander Hamilton, but it doesn’t seem to be on streaming video.
It’s got the bold casting of putting a guy in his mid 60s in a role of somebody who died in his 40s and was in his 30s at the time of the events in the movie.
I am completely ignorant of the history. Ancient times are just more interesting to me, sorry. Someday I’ll look into it. Michael Malice is a big Alexander Hamilton fan, I think. No idea why.
I only comment to bring up this: if you are a straight male who is unfamiliar with Broadway musicals, be forewarned they are somehow sprinkled with magic homo cooties that make every element (the singing, the word choice, the gestures, the costumes, the cutesy puns, every aspect of the style) incredibly grating and repellent to every sense, despite the performers usually being undeniably talented.
“I only comment to bring up this: if you are a straight male who is unfamiliar with Broadway musicals, be forewarned they are somehow sprinkled with magic homo cooties that make every element (the singing, the word choice, the gestures, the costumes, the cutesy puns, every aspect of the style) incredibly grating and repellent to every sense, despite the performers usually being undeniably talented.”
*Whistles and refuses to make eye contact*
You said that, not me. I am also not going to say that ‘showtimes’ make me gag, but hey, to each their own. I am not qualified to tell people what to like.
The IT Crowd did the joke already.
The “spectacle” has some value for certain shows as well. One that comes to mind right away, even if you hate hearing “Circle of Life” it’s pretty neat when all of the cool animal puppets walk through the crowd at the beginning of “The Lion King”.
Just let them watch Avenue Q or Book of Mormon.
Avenue Q is the only Broadway show I’ve ever seen – the free tickets helped. But I enjoyed it.
*I meant actual Broadway – I’ve seen shows in other towns and countries.
I’ve seen both when they came to Cleveland (second largest theater district in the US – And we’ve got a world class orchestra), and was entertained. The fact that the LDS church bought out almost all the ads in the book for Book of Mormon was entertaining in and of itself.
But you only have ONE Skyline Chili.
SAD!
Yeah, we’ll get rid of it soon enough.
Tell them it’s just a lazy recording of a stage performance, not a film.
Saw it in Chicago. Thought it was brilliant, though the veneration of Hamilton himself was a bit nauseating.
The day I got back, before I even went home, I stopped to clean out my mailbox and, whaddaya know, there’s my favorite bar, right across the street.
I go in to grab a beer, and see if anything has changed. Not much. You still are not allowed to walk up to the bar and just get her to hand you a beer. That would spread the plague. Instead she has to come out from behind the bar to where you are and hand you a beer, take your money, go back bhind the bar, make change, come back out…. Rinse, repeat. As I’m grinding my teeth, watching this moronic charade, she says, “Yeah, they’re dumb rules, but we have to follow them.”
Right. Rules are made to be followed, durr huur. Much goodly. We follow ’em like good boys and girls because otherwise Big Nanny will spank us. We live to please Big nanny.
This stuff really grinds on me.
“This stuff really grinds on me.”
Like a stripper on meth.
it used to be “I strip because I want to go to law school’. Now it’s ‘I strip to replace my teeth.’
Im stealing that, and I intend to use it in conversation today.
In fairness, if the bars/restaurants didn’t follow the rules, they could lose their liquor licenses.
Now… let’s talk about why they need a license to sell liquor.
Because of Suffrage?
Political theater at a press conference?
*collapses on fainting couch*
Political theater at a press conference?
*collapses on fainting couch*
The President’s press secretary always sticks up for him, and takes his side?
NOT FAIR!
Good morning, Old Man!
A happy Fourth to you and all the rest of the awesome Glibs!
It’s a singing saw, isn’t it? So weird.
Regarding the kids moving home, I am hopeful. Both of mine are chomping at the bit to get the hell out of here. I’ll miss them, but… bye!
Silent Cal wasn’t perfect, but that speech absolutely was.
I’m a little embarrassed how far we have fallen. Can you even imagine a pres today trying to deliver that speech?
My musical contribution today.
A beautiful song for a beautiful day.
Have a great one, people. Don’t blow your fingers off!
Cal is a close tie for my favorite president and that quote is one of my favorites.
Thanks OMWC!
“You have to stand, every day, three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead still, they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile, they will start up all over again.”
?
I’d better see some kick ass civil disobedience today.
Happy 4th America.
The world is watching.
“Celebrate freedom by staying home.”
Fuck
off,
slaver.
Every day, a celebration!
Reason to stop paying attention to sports #45855:
Looks like the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians may give in and change their names.
Might I suggest:
Washington Whiteskins.
Cleveland Cucks.
Washington Wokes
Cleveland Intesectionalists.
Left-wing headline:
“Do we need names for male sports teams?”
Time to do away with racist nicknames and logos.
Come to think of it. Do we really need sports with all its racism and toxic masculinity? Just take the money and give it to women’s sports.
The end.
I vote for Washington “Fuckallyalls”
So really we are just going to be down to trannies?
I was never a sports watcher but even I find that depressing.
Every boy/man is just an imperfect girl/woman and before too long we’ll correct that mistake.
Basically.
Well, it’s DC so the Washington Grifters would be appropriate.
You know. If it were me, I’d make a complete mockery of the whole incident.
Washington Paper Clips.
Cleveland Staplers.
Washington Walnuts.
Cleveland Cumquats.
Washington Paper Clips
The mascot can be Clippy from MS Office.
Capital City Cronies
Can’t believe you didn’t consult The Bee!
Lizard People – to properly represent DC.
See, they just need to go full bore and run with the Cleveland Colonizers.
It didn’t backfire at all when it was the Fighting Whites.
Can any of you give me some Glibtastic historical/accuracy/political reason? This would actually resonate with them, believe it or not.
Tell them if they want to watch creepy propaganda, they should tee up “Gabriel Over the White House.”
Any GTO fans?
https://appletowing.hibid.com/catalog/218994/fdic-as-receiver-for-ericson-state-bank–auction-7-13-2020/
I’m about to finish the restoration of my dad’s 1968 GTO. Just needs paint job and interior, though I believe I have spent much more than it’s worth seeing those bids.
Way early days in that auction. No way that convertible Judge doesn’t get 6 figures, even during the Current Unpleasantness.
Celebrate freedom by staying home, or we’ll toss you in the clink
Miami-Dade County in Florida is imposing a curfew heading into the July 4 weekend to try to prevent exacerbating the burgeoning coronavirus outbreak in the state.
The curfew, starting Friday night at 10 p.m. and lasting until 6 a.m., will be implemented “until further notice,” said Carolos Gimenez, the county’s mayor.
“During curfew hours no one shall use streets or sidewalks for any purpose, except first responders, medical personnel & essential worker going to/from work,” he tweeted.
Freedom is too important to be enjoyed by just anybody.
Fucking Curfew? Fuck theses City and State governments thinking they can do whatever they want.
I don’t know if my city has done anything, as i don’t pay attention to what they do, and it seems like barely anyone around does.
Silicone Saturday declares independence from brassieres.
http://archive.li/5zp6G
Needs nekkid ladies with gunz.
Come back for Glibs After Dark.
It’s giving me some weird captcha virus warning thing.
I like the reimagining of bag lady.
“I know how to get a headline- say something blitheringly stupid ending with the word ‘Trump.’”
I noticed on my way to the Quickee Mart for ice, that this seems to be the angle for NPR this morning. Concerning the whole Mt Rushmore drama……’It is obvious the route the President is taking with these racist dog whistles to rally his base’
I also noticed a lady wearing yoga pants and a flannel shirt walking a pet rooster on a leash. Don’t see that every day. Happy Independence Day!!!! Unless you are a pet rooster. In that case you are fucked.
I think its funny that America is simultaneously a terribly racist country, and Trump making all these racist dog whistles is a bad electoral strategy.
I am so sick of this dishonest “dog whistle” crap. It’s blatantly obvious that it’s just a way to accuse someone of being racist when they haven’t actually said anything racist. Guess what? If you hear the racist dog whistle, you’re the racist dog.
“…a lady wearing yoga pants and a flannel shirt walking a pet rooster on a leash.”
Look, you dont get to drop something like that with no pics. Go to your room!
FREE THE COCK!
“Nice cock, lady,” would also be acceptable.
Where’s HM these days?
Did I miss something?
He pops in occasionally, I don’t remember seeing anything saying he was going away.
It’s idiots, all the way down
Two women were struck by a car which sped through a protest-related closure on a freeway, authorities in Seattle said early on Saturday.
One woman suffered life-threatening injuries and the other had serious injuries, Washington state patrol spokesperson Rick Johnson tweeted. The Seattle fire department said the injured women appeared to be in their 20s.
“A vehicle drove through the closure and struck multiple pedestrians on the freeway,” Johnson tweeted, shortly after 2am. Just before midnight, he had said portions of Interstate 5 were closed because of protests.
The vehicle was stopped and the driver was in custody, Johnson said.
Seattle has been the site of prolonged unrest following the 25 May police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism.
Interstate 5 has been closed at times for protests in the weeks since. Dozens of people were arrested this week in connection with protests, after authorities cleared the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone on Wednesday morning.
Early on Saturday morning, video on social media showed a white car traveling at a high speed navigate around two vehicles which were positioned across the lanes as a barrier.
They’re making the world a better, more caring place. They’re reaching out to establish bonds of friendship and mutual understanding. Let’s all hold hands and sing.
The wording makes the “closure” sound official, but if it was official why was it blocked off by stopped vehicles instead of roadway signage?
“Two women were struck by a car which sped through a protest-related closure on a freeway, authorities in Seattle said early on Saturday.”
That’s a really nice way of saying people ran out onto a freeway to ‘protest.’
Obviously their mothers never taught them to not play on the freeway. Boomer parents – the worst.
They should send all the protesters here to try that on 695. That’s a good way to end the protests. They’d be busy cleaning up the body parts for a while. Jobs!
#ShovelReady
The driver was apparently fleeing police in a high speed chase. The protesters just happened to be in the way, although they’ll probably try to say the incident is right wing hate.
More victims of the patriarchy.
Did it not prominently mention it was a WHITE CAR???
Left-wing protest movements seem to have as much concern for their foot soldiers as a Haitian warlord. Especially when it comes to young women. The worst thing you could ever do as a parent is let your daughter get involved in lefty activism.
Yeah, well, the first thing you figure out about them (especially if you look on the world as a father of daughters) is that the proggies actually view the degradation and debauchery of women as a GOOD thing.
And social media has the added cost (which those girls don’t comprehend at all yet) of preserving that forever. So the ability to walk away from one’s past, present even just a generation ago, is gone. They’re locking themselves into their degradation forever.
“multiple pedestrians on the freeway”
I think I see the problem here.
The driver was apparently fleeing police in a high speed chase. The protesters just happened to be in the way, although they’ll probably try to say the incident is right wing hate.
How odd, that the Guardian would not include that seemingly helpful little tidbit of information.
If you are interested in why are culture has unraveled, I’ve been re-reading a book from 1979 – The Culture of Narcissism. I remember reading it years ago, and the things it talked about as budding then are now in full bloom. Anyway, it gives you an entirely different rationale for why our culture has been decaying without relying on the malevolent force of international communism.
Interesting, Juris-
Let me guess; narcissism, in its full blown manifestation, requires the utter rejection of speech (and speakers) not in complete agreement. Because it’s literally murder.
End result: totalitarianism, both in law and philosophy.
It does point to the self-obsessed, which is both Trump and his most vociferous critics – such a beautiful and ironic symmetry; the disconnect of history/tradition is another key element – which supports the maxim that the politics follow the culture.
“*Are* culture’? Really?
Because it [contradiction] is literally murder.
Ribs, hickory smoked baked beans, cheesy corn and coffee for breakfast…
*hits bowl, checks clock, shrugs, cracks a beer*
Happy Birthday, America!
At this hour, you should be having mimosas.
I’m already tempting the Heartburn Fates as is. Orange juice and champagne now would ruin my day before it really starts.
You mean cheese grits?
Nah, the kernels are still whole and intact.
Huh, never had that.
A midwesterner thing? I don’t know:
https://www.tasteofhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/exps8812_SCM153676C01_27_4b.jpg
*hits bowl again, ponders*
If St. Louis is The Gateway to the West, would that make places like Illinois and Ohio the Western East and KC residents part of the Eastern West? And wouldn’t that make the residents of the Rocky Mountains the true Midwesterners?
It’s all the Midwest before you get to St. Louis, so Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, all those corn places. If you see lots of corn, you’re in the Midwest. I remember when I was a kid and we did quite a few cross county drives, from Cali back to the Ohio. One of the things I always enjoyed seeing was that arch and saying ‘and now we’re in the West!’. Now St. Louis is just that hellish place you give a wide berth and keep driving.
Look, man. I’m trying to be pedantic here. Don’t pee in my Wheaties.
“…Now St. Louis is just that hellish place you give a wide berth and keep driving.”
It seems all of the deep blue cities are rapidly becoming exactly that yet people can’t see the pattern.
SW Ohio is considered by some to be the Upper South.
Take that.
Daytucky?
Karentucky
“SW Ohio is considered by some to be the Upper South.”
From Cincy to Portsmouth, that’s all Northern Kentucky, bro.
I’ve got a 107 dollar brisket on the Big Green Egg. At 4:00 p.m., give or take, it’s showtime!
Shocking tragic
An 11-year-old boy from Miami-Dade County has died from Covid-19 complications, according to the Florida Department of Health, making him the youngest person in the state of Florida to die from the disease.
The boy had severe underlying health conditions, the health department told CNN. The latest health records show the 11-year-old’s case was not travel-related, but it’s unclear if he recently had close contact with anyone who had Covid-19.
I’m surprised CNN put the part about underlying conditions in there.
And now I have this vignette running in my head.
I love how that show thought it was pushing liberalism.
Happy Fourth of July!
I’ll give Obama credit, this is actually a good, self-deprecating line from the 2008 primary campaign:
“Jim Acosta (voice-over): It’s a fitting campaign stop for a presidential contender looking to make history. Standing before Mount Rushmore over the weekend, Barack Obama was asked whether he sees his face joining the likes of Washington and Lincoln.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Presidential Candidate: I don’t think my ears would fit. There’s just only so much rock up there.”
4 years ago, the media wanted to put another president on Mount Rushmore, now they want to tear it down. At least they’re consistent.
“You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it, and now you wave a flag celebrating it.” -Doug Stanhope
I float around the system more than most here because like Doug, I recognized long ago that I was unequivocally fucked. 😉
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8489273/Demi-Rose-turns-heat-flaunts-sideboob-pert-posterior-scarlet-swimsuit.html
Happy 4th of July, wokesters and Bronies.
Sorry if this has already been posted https://mobile.twitter.com/LarrySubramania/status/1279336600330067968
See above…
Damn.
A good start?
Come on, man. That’s a bit much.
I’ll just toss this out, in regard to all the petty tyrants who want to control my every movement and association, in order to save me from myself, and who believe they have not merely the power, but the DUTY to control me:
Nobody ever ran for office so they could leave me the fuck alone.
Most Libertarians have but the results show that not many really want to be left the fuck alone.
“Kimberly Guilfoyle tests positive for coronavirus after traveling to watch President Trump’s Fourth of July rally at Mount Rushmore – and now she and Don Jr. are self-isolating”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8489019/Kimberly-Guilfoyle-tests-positive-coronavirus-ahead-President-Trumps-Fourth-July-event.html
Well, if you’re going to self quarantine…
“Noah Cyrus seemingly confirms romance rumors with Smokepurpp as she tenderly holds his hand during stroll for two in Calabasas”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8488645/Noah-Cyrus-seemingly-confirms-romance-rumors-Smokepurpp.html
Does that guy have the stupidest name or the stupidest looks?
“Smokepurpp”
What the fuck is that?
Smoke Purpple is the one who sang “Deep on the Water”, I think.
That is A-list funny.
Wait a second. Noah’s a she?
Yes, and her boyfriend is named Purple Puppy or something fucked up. Reality just keeps getting weirder, soon there won’t be anything left to parody. It’s like the Island of misfit Toys on a national scale.
I too am confused. Also, who the fuck are these people? Never mind, I don’t care.
Yeah, it’s probably best you don’t know them.
I looked him up and tried one of his videos. For as much as I enjoy ‘urban’ music, I made it about 30 secs before I closed it.
“Does that guy have the stupidest name or the stupidest looks?”
Both?
I have the perfect solution for the Redskins, satisfying traditionalists and Jew-hating leftists at the same time.
According to Mormon doctrine, the Indians are actually Jews. So… Washington (((Redskins))).
So the Washington Foreskins would be right out?
Ha!
So… Washington (((Redskins))).
Or, as i said the other day, a potato in a war bonnet.
OK….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJXWkWeS2k
Today, in pathetic whining-
I watch a few things on Pluto teevee (via Roku). However, everything is suddenly awash in Steve Bullock ads. Like every commercial break, the same two or three ads will run end to end. Is it going to be like this ’til November?
Also- if that cocksucker tries to institute a mandatory mask policy, mine will say VOTE FOR DAINES.
Leave it to the trained professionals
But dealing with raw meat can be tricky, and cooking it improperly can be deadly.
“Cooking food thoroughly and handling it correctly is critically important,” Carmen Rottenberg, a former administrator with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, previously told USA TODAY. “The food produced is not sterile. … People want to cook raw food and prepare it at home. If you prepare it at home, you have to know there are some risks associated with it.”
It’s a wonder humanity has survived this long.
See, things like this, you deplorables are always going on about, is part of what we have to get rid of as hate speech.
In the real history being written for you right now, by your benevolent betters, in the beginning there was government. And then government made regulations and rulez. And government looked and saw that it was good. And then on the 7th day, government gave the grateful humans free healthcare and paid maternity leave.
It’s a numbers game. Humans love to procreate.