Contemplate 118°, intense sun, not a hint of clouds, and no shade. But at least no church, either. And massive thanks to LCDR Fish for suggesting Everett True as a theme. Which it will be for me for quite a while.
I do like my birthdays, and here’s why: today we have a guy who got an orange drink named after him, no small feat; a guy who had basically the right idea, but wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it; a guy whom I blame for the existence of every bad movie ever made; a solid sort of guy who should be everyone’s model; a brilliant director of family-friendly films; a guy whom you could really have a ball with; a guy whose penis took as long to be born as the rest of him; the very worst Stooge ever; a guy who might be STEVE SMITH’s spirit animal; and Lindsey Graham’s stunt man.
With that, we move on to news.
Maybe they were just concerned about the cops’ girth?
“The crisis requires a large-scale government response, according to experts.” Doesn’t it always.
It’s a good thing that our government is tightly focused on the least important metric.
If he had said, “Go fuck yourself,” I’d be a customer for life.
The part that bothers me is that they aren’t even pretending any more. C’mon, have some respect.
Brave Hispanics gunned down by white supremacist. Or something.
Old Guy Music today goes classical because y’all hate it. But this one’s really fun- Vaughan William’s Tuba Concerto is a wonderful piece, this is a cool arrangement, and women playing big brass instruments has always been my kink. She does a great job.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
-Winston Churchill
If they fired all the teachers in LA would anyone miss them?
yes. the various places they spend their money at
My Aunt is a teacher in north LA. She’s terrified they’re going to “make” her teach kids in a classroom this coming fall. She’s a huge lib. I find it kind of amusing that in her head, there’s no scenario where they stop paying her.
There probably isn’t one. Unfortunately.
From CNN:
I teach public school. I love my students. I don’t want to die
No. I didn’t read that article.
It’s not quite “You take the Queen’s shilling, you do the Queen’s bidding” since you get a choice to walk away from your job in this case.
Contemplate 118°, intense sun, not a hint of clouds, and no shade. – well who’s fault is it you Americans like living in the desert.
I wasn’t going to say it. I’ve been to Phoenix, I’ve walked on the surface of the sun. There’s no reason to live there other than being some kind of twisted sadomasochist.
Been there isn’t like living there, I froze my ass off last winter
You’re making my point.
In the life of an itinerant scientist, you go where the work is. Sigh.
Shiro Ishii agrees.
So did von Braun.
well the issue is why the hell is there work in Phoenix? Why is that city more than 5000 residents?
It’s a training ground for crack HVAC technician troops.
Serious answer: many years of business-friendly policy. Traditionally low costs (not true now- this place is fucking expensive). Proximity to the Mexican border and California.
so nice places to live turned lefty hoping the niceness will keep people there and the shitholes needed to attract people
That’s one view of it. Phoenix has definitely brought in a lot of ex-Californians, which has not improved things.
Some people actually LIKE living in hot places, especially retirees. I don’t get it.
/dreams of returning to Montana
Will you raise rabbits?
Scruffy,
He’s going to be a dental floss tycoon.
Plus air conditioning exists. None of the rest matters without that.
meh I would rather live somewhere where AC need is minimal.
I’d rather live on that world in HHGTTG where nude women parachute in instead of rain, but I have to live near my ex if I want to see my kid.
Oh, I would rather live somewhere where I don’t need it at all. Just speculating that the South and Southwest would attract far fewer people if AC didn’t exist.
Not all of us, toots.
““The crisis requires a large-scale government response, according to experts.” Doesn’t it always.”
DRV
I loved Orange Julius when I was a kid.
#metoo
I too have fond memories of my “mall days!” Spending stupid amounts of money at the movie theater and swinging by spencer’s to see what ridiculous gag items they had in.
I would argue that Chick-fil-A had a better recipe back then as well.
I was North of Seattle in my teens. My mall was the one that weird guy from oak Harbor shot up a few years ago. The go to restaurant was either the pizza by the slice place (Sbarro’s) or the Asian place that would today be Panda Express.
My mother would give us some money, drop us off at the theater, and tell us to meet her at the fountain at a certain time. I was nine.
How times have changed.
The restaurant posted a message on Facebook saying that the actions it has taken include “termination and suspension of the employees involved.”
Well which is it? Should just be fired for failure to do their jobs because they’d rather engage in retarded political protest.
The franchise will temporarily close so that employees can receive “customer service training” with a representative from the Daphne Police Department, the statement added
This is unnecessary and unhelpful when all you need to do is say “You guys are paid to serve customers so serve customers.”
Why do you hate sensitivity consultants?
Because they’re all assholes?
The police department is giving customer service training?
Don’t bring a seeing eye dog in there.
My dad called the small town cops and asked what he should do about a neighbor’s dog that snips at his heels when he rides his bike. “Shoot it”, they said.
C’mon Old Man! it’s not like it can get worse, except for today of course,121 here, time for some Golf, it’s only 85 right now,
Stay cool!
“The benefits to restarting physical schools must outweigh the risks, especially for our most vulnerable students and school communities,” the document continues.
“As it stands, the only people guaranteed to benefit from the premature physical reopening of schools amidst a rapidly accelerating pandemic are billionaires and the politicians they’ve purchased,” it adds.
Yeah. Those schools provide free day care for the wage slaves, I guess. Also a place to go, for the unemployable retards churned out by “schools of education”.
Geez, I guess the nation’s lawmakers better get to work writing and passing these bills, or the kids in a certain coastal city won’t be subject to their local shitty propaganda factory.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. was experiencing what housing experts and advocates deemed an eviction crisis. More than 2 million people face eviction each year, far more than the number of people who faced foreclosure at the height of the 2008 mortgage crisis.
One of those things is not like the other.
Experts expect the eviction crisis to get far worse in the coming months. The Covid-19 economic recession has hit renters especially hard. They make up a disproportionate share of service sector jobs, an industry that has been decimated as a result of the coronavirus shutdowns.
So get the governors to stop acting like tyrants and let people get back to work? Nah, that’d be too easy.
I’ve been told that all the government has to do is pay people who can’t go back to work and the problem is solved.
median housing cost is approaching 5x median income. That number usually likes to hover just above 3x. Last time it crossed the 5x line was 2008.
2 million out of 340,000,000 under .6%. And that includes people being evicted because the landlord wants possession of the property and for criminal behavior in the property. So our country is so successful at making the poor wealthy that less than 1 person in 200 can’t afford their home!
Mythology
Still, Goya never saw the response to Unanue’s remarks coming and is still reeling: Press calls to the company are going unreturned, and its official response to the news, announced Friday on Twitter, is that the brand is working hard for the “prosperity & education of our country.”
What has clearly emerged from this debacle is how the company has actually always been out of touch with the community it says it serves.
To many, Goya is home — part of a Puerto Rican or a Caribbean or a Latin American identity that has spanned generations. It is, at least in their marketing, the food of the “new arrival,” trying to make it in a new country without losing the flavors of their heritage.
The truth, of course, is somewhat more complicated: Goya sells ultra-cheap foodstuffs often filled with sodium and other preservatives, telling us, in effect, that our “heritage” is chemicalized and dangerous, when little is further from the truth. The unhealthiness of sodium and preservative-filled foods (which are cheaper to manufacture, package, transport and sell in mass quantities without losing any to spoilage than foods without those ingredients) is part of what leads many to say that Latino cuisine — and thus Latinos — are inherently unhealthy.
But the true food ways of the myriad cultures of Central and South America and the Caribbean don’t come in a plastic bottle filled with MSG; huge, often white-owned corporations just told us they did, just as the colonizers who preceded them often determined what we were allowed to eat.
Still, Goya created a community that was deeply loyal to its products because of the myth in a majority-white America that they were “ours” and therefore also saw the company as a cultural institution; that is why the backlash has been so raw. Unanue, and Goya, misread how his words at that White House would affect the mythology the brand has spent years building and underestimated the deep connection — whether good or bad — that Goya has to the world of Latinidad in the United States.
It’s almost as if this white Spanish family never really saw U.S. Latinos as a community they served, rather than one they marketed to and profited off of.
Sometimes a can of beans is just a can of beans.
Oooooo…. They brought back the White Hispanic epithet.
Goya sells ultra-cheap foodstuffs often filled with sodium and other preservatives
And? Is it not affordable for the people you claim it mostly serves?
huge, often white-owned corporations
*Rolls eyes*
It’s almost as if this white Spanish family never really saw U.S. Latinos as a community they served
Fuck off.
True Hispanics eat only natural food they spend all day growing, picking, preparing, and cooking.
Going to be hard to find enough fresh Yuca to harvest in the Bronx.
Just more proof that leftists don’t give a shit about minorities other than as a vehicle for advancing leftism. Yes assholes, there really are such things as conservative Hispanics and black people.
Those aren’t real Scotsmen!
Bullshit. ← applies to every other sentence too
“The truth, of course, is somewhat more complicated: Goya sells ultra-cheap foodstuffs often filled with sodium and other preservatives, telling us, in effect, that our “heritage” is chemicalized and dangerous, when little is further from the truth. The unhealthiness of sodium and preservative-filled foods (which are cheaper to manufacture, package, transport and sell in mass quantities without losing any to spoilage than foods without those ingredients) is part of what leads many to say that Latino cuisine — and thus Latinos — are inherently unhealthy.”
Because food companies in Spanish-speaking countries don’t use salt and preservatives?
“A previous version of this article misstated the Latino unemployment rate. It is 14.5 percent, not 27 percent (which is the unemployment rate for Latinos 16-19 years old).”
News = garbage.
he chief executive officer at Goya Foods, Inc. said Friday that he will not issue an apology for positive remarks made toward President Donald Trump, and called demands to boycott his company “suppression of speech.”
You aren’t allowed to say anything nice about Bad Orange Man.
Silence is consent.
Caption, over a picture of a ball gag.
It’s the new blacklist.
Um, that’s “exclusion list”/continues to review hundreds of source files.
TCM is going to be doing a series on women directors this autumn, with 100 movies each by a different director. I looked through the list and noticed… no Leni Riefenstahl* and called it a glaring omission. Somebody responded “Yawn”.
They’re OK with a blacklist, as long as it’s not Communists getting blacklisted.
*Riefenstahl directed movies before the Nazis came to power, and I checked that at least one of them survives and could be run, so they wouldn’t have to run something like Triumph of the Will.
Grrrl power!
It is nice to see at least one person refuse to back down. We’ll see how long it lasts.
I give it a week from yesterday. Hopefully he proves me wrong.
L.A. teachers union says schools can’t reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded
They also want Medicare-for-All, a wealth tax, a federal bailout.
Fire them all. Fuck you for playing politics.
slain McAllen officers were identified as Edelmiro Garza, 45, and Ismael Chavez, 39. …
McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez
Bunch of white-supremacists on the McAllen police force I see.
Totes obvs.
They’re White Hispanics, just like the people who run Goya.
The Goya debacle is yet another example of how, even in the Latino community, there will be those who always choose a potential path to power over the community that set them on that path at all. This probably won’t be the end of Goya, boycott or not — fairy tales still hold a certain amount of cultural power, even when we know they aren’t real.
Some people (you know who you are!) won’t even care about this. They’ll just go right on living their lives and eating soup made by thought criminals.
Gadfrey, what a drama queen. Take your meds.
He obviously dreams of being able to severely punish the wrong thinkers.
I do care. Which is why Goya stuff is on this week’s shopping list. And next week. And the week after that.
There was none on the list last week.
They have a store on Amazon…. I’m so torn!
Between people like you, the vast majority of their customers not giving a shit about politics enough to change their buying habits, and 5 neurotic blue haired cat ladies boycotting something they didn’t buy in the first place, Goya will probably make money off this whole thing.
You get more of what you reward…
One of my better customers refers to himself as a Choco-Taco. He buys lots of guns and works six long days a week in construction. I doubt he’ll be boycotting Goya.
/points at Chick-Fil-A.
It’s sunday, they’re closed. We’ll have to eat someplace else.
After Dan Cathy’s woke speech, I think I’m out on them too.
You can put Sazon Goya in absolutely anything to unleash a torrent of tasty adjectives, it says it right in the instructions on the box! 😉 I love that box.
LOL
“So I’m leaving it.”
Well…bye.
*applies the “replace with white” test*
totally not racist…
Silence is consent.
No means yes.
Obligatory
https://giphy.com/gifs/love-happy-excited-y2giNwzUHN1p6
Apparently, SP had never seen Watermelon Man before. Last night, we remedied this. That movie has stood up well after 50 years. Funny as hell.
Apparently, SP had never seen Watermelon Man before. – is that surprising? how many girls her age have seen it?
Erin Moran.
Suzi Quatro.
The franchise will temporarily close so that employees can receive “customer service training” with a representative from the Daphne Police Department, the statement added
Will there be tasers?
So while I get charter schools mean less money for no charters, it also means fewer students right? While there are some fixed costs that don’t scale with the students, there should not be that many of those
No need to analyze this too much. This is all about eliminating the competition that does an objectively better job for less money.
Also consider that the teachers union exists solely to grow itself and amass power.
Letters to the Local Rag: I’ve Got Some Bad News For You
“Why do newspaper articles capitalize Black, but do not capitalize white when referring to people in the same article? Is this a recent change? Aren’t both races equal?”
“Aren’t both races equal?”
For the most part but leftists are trying to change that.
Something seemed off about the Bayonne bus driver story. Why no description of the men who beat him? At first I assumed it was because they were of terrorist descent. Another article about it said two were charged with attempted murder. Seems like a mugshot or name could go with that, but maybe it’s different in France. Then I saw an article saying it was five guys. Now, another article says some guys were already on the bus with no masks, and a new guy tried to get on sans mask and punched him. And finally, it was all because of a dog, not the masks. Get your stories straight, people.
Although face masks are mandatory on all French public transportation, union sources told a local radio station that the individuals attacked the driver after he attempted to stop them from bringing a dog onto the bus.
Yet another version crops up. He tried to stop 3 men and check another’s ticket.
Three other people have been charged in connection with the attack, two for failing to assist a person in danger and another for attempting to hide a suspect, the prosecutor’s office said. The two charged with attempted murder are aged 22 and 23 and were previously known to police.
Failing to assist? I wonder if police have a duty to assist in France.
I have also learned that his daughters are very attractive and I offer my services to comfort them in the creepiest way possible.
France has “Good Samaritan” laws requiring bystanders to render aid.
In most European countries they don’t release full names or mugshots. I assume it has to do with the presumption of innocence. It’s not a bad idea in my opinion, but it might conflict with habeas corpus.
I thought it was because they were so bass ackwards that they didn’t have full names or photography.
More Old Guy Music for OMWC
I’ve been told that all the government has to do is pay people who can’t go back to work and the problem is solved.
But even if they pay people not to work, that money will still end up in the Scrooge McDuck gold dubloon swimming pools of evil parasitic landlords. It’s just like the government is giving money away to landlords! Not fair!
and Lindsey Graham’s stunt man.
*snort chuckle
VICTORY
During a visit to Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday, President Donald Trump wore a face mask in front of assembled media for the first time.
Though the move was expected and had been trailed in a series of media appearances this week, it was still a noteworthy evolution for the president, who has balked at wearing protective face coverings as a deadly pandemic surged across portions of the U.S.
He should have blown his nose on it and tossed it at the reporters.
In the scenario, if so many in the media are sure that he’s already had the covids and recovered, then should they not be scrambling for those sweet, sweet antibodies like so many Karens grabbing for the recently discarded undergarments of a male stripper?
Letters to the Local Rag: Science Told Me So
“Not wearing a face mask is equivalent to having to breathe a person’s secondhand cigarette smoke; both will kill you.”
I knew they’d take that angle. It’s a shame these people have no realistic conceptualization of risk. Oh, it doesn’t matter because they aren’t arguing in good faith? Nevermind.
I agree, the risk is comparable to secondhand smoke.
This. The scientific literature agrees that the risks are similar.
That was an ironically perfect choice.
WEBINAR – Thirdhand Smoke: What Every Health Care Provider Needs to Know
April 15 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
The health impacts and clinical implications of thirdhand smoke are just beginning to be recognized. Are you prepared to discuss thirdhand smoke with your patients?
So it appears that, a month into LOCKDOWN, Rhode Island was still Very Concerned about the mortal dangers of thirdhand smoke, enough to keep spending grant dollars to fund webinars instead of buying PPE.
They are streets behind. I’m already on the dangers of FOURTHHAND SMOKE.
That dude looks crazy af.
However, Trump did not wear a mask while speaking with reporters outside the White House before departing for Walter Reed, where he further explained his rationale behind wearing a covering after telling Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday he expected to wear one during the visit.
“I think when you’re in a hospital, especially in that particular setting, where you’re talking to a lot of soldiers and people that, in some cases, just got off the operating tables, I think it’s a great thing to wear a mask,” Trump told reporters. “I’ve never been against masks, but I do believe they have a time and a place.”
The president stressed this week he didn’t believe masks were necessary in areas where frequent testing was available and social distancing practices followed.
Trump’s decision to wear a face covering comes after repeated calls from public health experts and lawmakers urging the president to set an example as infection rates rise in many Sunbelt states, many of which remain crucial to his reelection.
“Set an example.”
We have nothing to fear but fear, itself.
I wonder how the hat is going to react to the facemask.
With great jealousy.
Stop quoting a bigot to prove your point you bigot adjacent bigot.
To hell with myxoma virus. It’s tearing through the rabbit population round here. Supposedly European rabbits (introduced species here) had selected for immunity by now, but I suppose there are new strains of the damn thing in the evolutionary arms race between virus and host. They come here, blind, in terrible pain, to shuffle into the border and die, half in the shade, flies already swarming before they’ve even stopped moving.
My solution is to mandate that all rabbits wear face masks.
#rabbits #myxomatosis #offtopic
I’m sorry to hear that. Rabbits never were very good at social distancing, I suppose.
Last week I noticed a young rabbit keeping serious distance from the myxy adult that had shuffled in to die, so perhaps part of their adaptation includes some disposition towards distancing from symptomatic individuals? Anecdote not data, as they say. The current one I was certain would be dead by sun up today but s/he was right under my nose in the border this morning. Now still there. I thought about all the ways I could euthanize but all would involve some moments of final trauma and terror since I can’t just put a round of .22LR between the eyes #lightsout
They had difficulty getting them to pay the lettuce fines
Stop listening to politicians.
If she really is a Jew, that would explain the huge rack but not the low IQ.
Depending on your tolerance for cringe, there is audio of her becoming black, or attempting to do so, in front of a black crowd.
The Hillary method of crowd appeal
“the very worst Stooge ever”
Curly Joe > Joe Besser.
Come at me, bro!!!!
I lost it at “she’s Jewin’ it up!” She was!
Fun fact: “jew” is a legit word in Scrabble – as a proper noun it would not be acceptable, but it’s good as a verb (from dictionary.com):
verb (used with object)
(lowercase) Offensive. to bargain sharply with; beat down in price (often followed by down).
Offensive!
I think that’s one of the words that is now verboten.
It’s only money
The New York Times editorial board is calling for schools to reopen in the fall, with the caveat that school systems need the federal government to open its checkbook to make it work.
In an editorial published Saturday, the board advocated for children to return to the classrooms, saying that they “need food and friendships; books and basketball courts; time away from family and a safe place to spend it.”
The board said that in order maximize in-person instruction, “the federal government must open its checkbook,” citing an estimate from the School Superintendents Association that found necessary protective measures would cost an average of about $1.8 million per school district across the U.S.
The reopening of schools has been a hotly contested topic in recent days as the coronavirus rages on in the country and poses risks to groups who gather indoors.
——-
Educational leaders including those at the prominent American Federation of Teachers union have called for Senate Republicans to approve additional federal funding to ensure that both teachers and students are safe from COVID-19 in schools.
——-
At the end of the op-ed, the board also pointed out that schools provide childcare for families, some of whom may be essential workers, citing an estimate from the consulting firm McKinsey, that found 27 million American workers require the assistance of child care.
“Parents need public schools, too,” they wrote. “They need help raising their children, and they need to work.”
A trillion here, a trillion there… Whatever it takes to get the ship of state out of this ditch. Think of the babysitters.
CNN:
“Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents
31 minutes ago”
Someday CNN is going to be a business school case study in how a money printing machine like them went broke.
Let’s see we have a president who prolonged a depression, put Japanese people in camps, and nominated a Klan member to the Supreme Court. Then we have a president who said mean stuff on Twitter.
BREAKING: Poll results announced
https://twitter.com/relevantorgans/status/1281684030509977602
Answered that question.
Coming soon to the USA.
Is it wrong that I laughed at that?
Someday CNN is going to be a business school case study in how a money printing machine like them went broke.
Like a movie superhero who became convinced he really could fly, and jumped off a tall building.
Caption this (borderline NSFW)
Also, don’t let your kids intern in that politician’s office.
Keith Richards getting a tan while out and about!
Woman reacts to man hording two face masks in a time of shortages.
Two masks are better than one.
Meghan has a Dorian Gray-like picture in her attic.
I DIDN”T KNOW HE HELD ELECTED OFFICE!
And yet he’s still not the rapiest politician in DC.
mama
@_Mama_Tweets
Replying to
@RepStevenSmith
“Ma’am you’ve already explained that my mask isn’t to protect me, it’s to protect you”
Woman:” I never really thought about it before, but you’re right, fluids are expelled from there, too. And put the mask on your head back onto your face.”
I’m on vacation at the NJ seashore and I can report that in this generally mixed wealthy and working class town there is minimal masking and overt social distancing.
Lines at restaurants for takeout have been the only time I’ve had to mask up and people haven’t freaked about spacing.
Pleasantly surprised.
today we have a guy who got an orange drink named after him,
When I got up this morning I turned on NPR as is my weekend custom. It was too early for Weekend Edition to have started so I caught the tail end of weekend BBC. The first thing I heard this morning was this. Greta was telling of her travels in the USA and how she stopped counting the different drink flavors in the cooler at 200. Apparently we have too many cold drink choices. We also have “uncountable” oil refineries, and numerous other ills that are killing the planet. I turned it off, not because I don’t listen to propaganda but rather I find Greta’s voice too annoying to listen to.
I think it’s appropriate that they have her dressed like the promotional still from Midsommar.
How dare you!
What the hell is wrong with you?
Like Brooksie watching Press the Meat, just further proof that we have masochists in our midst. NTTIAWWT.
IIRC, MTP is the longest-running TV show in US history. On the air every week since 1947.
I really started listening to NPR during the early years of Dubbya’s administration. I tuned out during the lightbringer’s administration due to their dishonest coverage of Obama. He could do no wrong. Now I listen to see how far over the edge they are. They are way past the cliff and about halfway down to the bottom of the canyon but it seems the canyon is way deeper than I could have imagined.
I turned it off, not because I don’t listen to propaganda but rather I find Greta’s voice too annoying to listen to.
Shame on you.
#HowDareYou
We usually have NPR on 24-7. This morning I turned it off after about 3 min of greta…couldn’t take anymore, and I’m usually pretty good at ignoring stuff.
It just blows my mind the media and people take this UNEDUCATED, joyless kid seriously.
It’s ironic. The media and sheep love the credentialed classes and don’t make a move without an expert’s blessing but here they are listening to a person who’s the opposite.
You’re surprised narcissists like looking in a mirror?
Old Man, intentionally or not, your choice of music today is a nice memorial to the recently-departed online personality (and friend of Tom T.) known as TubaDiva. Thanks!
It was indeed unintentional. It must be something in the aether.
Not that anyone here would know anything about that…
While I am generally inclined to see myself broadly favoring austrian economics, I am usually eclectic in my views. THen again I never debated various minutiae of difference betwen this and that … And it all seems so pointless in the end.
I just ran into this
Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist
by
Bryan Caplan
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm
And I have to say I am unconvinced by many things said. First the concept of quantifying utility has always seemed awful silly to me.
Also when he disagrees monetari inflation causes malinvestment
“Why does Rothbard think businessmen are so incompetent at forecasting government policy? He credits them with entrepreneurial foresight about all market-generated conditions, but curiously finds them unable to forecast government policy, or even to avoid falling prey to simple accounting illusions generated by inflation and deflation.”
this is silly. government policy is often hard to predict as there is little logic to it. And if the signals in the marked are disrupted in unpredictable ways, it makes sense entrepreneurs are tricked.
Anyway the essence of entrepreneurship are risk and adaptability and trying things and competition and such… I would say, no one thinks entrepreneurs predict the future. and many fail. The point is all sorts try, fail, try again, and the better ones are left.
Entrepreneurs aren’t really tricked. They evolve to
maximize the bilking of government dollars instead of meeting consumer demand. Aka malinvestment.
I’ve listened to these ‘Sharks’ from TV interviewed over the years. The one common thing I noticed with them is they knew how to go milk government programs. They spent a good chunk of time telling people how to go get that money.
I’m always suspicious of all these entrepreneurs on TV. A few of them seem to have made their money either through perfect timing of being bought out.
I bet you half the demands they want from people looking for investors, they never did themselves. They all act like they carefully orchestrated their every move. Not buying it. I did my share of business plans. Talk about a ‘wink, wink’ go along with it game. Like they know anything. I have a buddy who everything he touches turns into a cash bonanza. I asked him how he does it and we was honest enough to say, ‘I don’t. I’m lucky. Always at the right place, at the right time.
Just like politicians know jack shit about what to do with Coronavirus. All they know is to push coercive measures. Nothing enlightening to these idiots.
Exactly. I was going to write, government policy is not rooted in anything rational. It’s literally at the whims of the leader. Look at how leaders are acting throughout this pandemic. They’re issuing edicts as if they’re Emperors. In normal times, in order to be able to forecast policy (and I don’t even think this is a thing even among political science pundits) you need to understand the pulse of the electorate. Good luck with that. Not even politicians read that well.
I’ve had first hand experience with how the bureaucratic mind functions. And if you think they’re sitting around dutifully reading all scientific papers, well-versed in political history, or base their decisions from a rational framework rooted in logic you’re an idiot. Even in cases where a policy is almost a certainty to pass, I’ve seen them get pulled of the table. It’s really a game for suckers.
My brother in law knows the deputy Mayo of Montreal. They’re all zombies with power. They’re so stupid it’s scary. I even asked my government to produce what study they’re woking off to justify mask mandates asking for empirical evidence. What I got in return was basically, ‘what you talkin’ ’bout, Willis?’ We don’t need no stinking studies. We decided, because fuck you.’
And then they all copy each other like a bunch of thoughtless, retarded, sheep. They can’t think beyond their little one-dimensional mindset. For example, as if it wasn’t bad enough they refused to consider trade-offs with the lockdowns, have they given it a moment’s thought what their doing to people with the mask mandates based on shoddy science? Have they considered the trade-offs there? Among the worse being giving people a false sense of security? Turning them into freaks with OCD? What about poor mask handling? Oxygen levels? How long do they expect to keep such a charade going? Masks are expensive and should be single-use. Do they actually think in an economic downturn people are going to add the expensive cost of buying masks to their budget? So what cloth masks are washable? It’s still a cost for low-income people.
Someone described it as Covid-1984. Perfect.
The oxygen level one is funny. I now see doctors with these machines saying, ‘see? Oxygen is fine!” behind their thick cloth mask. I have no idea if it’s true or not but on a basic logical level it strikes me as weird. I wear various masks for outdoor activities and who doesn’t lower the mask because the oxygen flow is poor and you need to breathe in air?
It’s like 2008 never happened for Caplan.
It’s PREPOSTEROUS if we’re going to keep the schools closed. They say they follow the science well there’s data from all over the world that makes it crystal clear children aren’t at risk and nor do they spread it. It’s a CRIME in my view if politicians and the CDC keep pushing this FALSE narrative. It’s a lie. Tens of thousands of paediatricians in Canada and the United States say BE OPEN. They even say without SD/masks. Kids are simply not the issue here. Toronto Children’s (one of the top hospitals on the planet) is even saying so.
Ah, but *what if* they get it and infect old people! Then everyone needs to stay home and pant shit if that’s the case.Then you’re setting up the society to remain in perpetual fear until a magic vaccine appears. What happens if the vaccine isn’t effective? Why are the adults projecting their fears onto kids. This angers me.
I have a friend, big buyer into no measure is too big for coronavirus. He dutifully stands by to wait his marching orders for the ‘collective good’. I asked him about what he feels about his kids potentially staying home part time or worse. ‘We’re ready. If they tell us stay home. We will’. What a champ. Yes, superstar family. Great income. Great kids. Super athletes. They just know how to roll with the punches. But that was the wrong answer. And that’s the problem.
Pisses me off to no end that they’re pushing this. They’re bent on destroying us for this effen virus.
What’s going fricken on?
Muh RIGHT TO KNOW!
Two Supreme Court rulings this week in cases about President Trump’s financial records add new obstacles to the public seeing Trump’s tax returns before Election Day.
The odds of Trump’s tax returns becoming public this year were low even before the Supreme Court’s decisions on Thursday, and there was no guarantee the documents would be released ahead of November even if Democrats had scored a resounding victory in the high court.
But the pair of rulings, which send the cases back to lower courts, give Trump new opportunities to run out the clock.
“It would take a miracle at this point for them to become public before the election,” said Philip Hackney, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
——-
Even if these cases are wrapped up before November, and prosecutors and congressional committees receive the information sought by their subpoenas, the chances that Trump’s tax returns would be disclosed to the public before the election would be uncertain at best.
The congressional subpoenas were issued to two banks — Deutsche Bank and Capital One — and the accounting firm Mazars USA. The banks have indicated in court filings that they don’t have any Trump tax returns that are responsive to the subpoenas. The congressional subpoena to Mazars does not explicitly seek Trump’s tax returns, so it’s unclear whether the accounting firm would provide them as part of a response to that subpoena.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, led by Cyrus Vance Jr., a Democrat, specifically asked for Trump’s tax returns in its subpoena to Mazars. But the materials requested by the DA’s office are subject to grand jury secrecy rules, so they wouldn’t become public unless charges were filed and they were used as evidence in a criminal case.
Do these morons seriously think President Cartoon Villain’s tax returns are going to be leaked, and published in the New York Times and the Washington Post?
And just in time for the election?
Do you want a banana republic? Because this is how you get a banana republic.
The hilarious part is being Trump-deranged enough to think there will be any surprises in them.
What’s that, he’s not quite as rich as he says? And he payed off some disgusting whores? Well, blow me down.
he’s not quite as rich as he says?
This is probably what he’s really worried about–the world discovering (as if we didn’t already know) that this fabulous wealth is equal parts smoke, mirrors, bluster, and bullshit.
Besides which, the Appropriations committees control a federal budget that spends a billion dollars every 90 minutes. Trump’s fortune is chump change in DC.
My wife is convinced Trump is essentially broke, but living large by skating on paying debtors.
“ The odds of Trump’s tax returns becoming public”
Oopsie. Not supposed to admit the point is to publish them after an illegal leak.
https://twitter.com/RebelACole/status/1282061281361616896
“This is a scandal begging for press coverage:
333 FL Covid Testing labs reported 100% positive tests today in State Report for 3,528 tests.
That is 34% of today’s 10,360 new cases.
Without these, today’s “percent positive” would fall from 12.6% to 8.7%.”
WTF??
Slutty Sunday brings bodacious booties and big back porches.
http://archive.li/i8wgn
37 represents some sort of extreme nose job? If you were to photo shop Karl Malden’s schnoz onto her it might look less uncanny.
Maybe a bad Photoshop job. All of her proportions are like an anime.
#1 can’t be real
I had a girlfriend with an ass like that. It was responsible for the relationship lasting about 6 months longer than it should have.
She sat on you for six months?
Facesitting is really more HM’s department.
I’ve dated women with much bigger booties than that. One had an absolutely huge butt that turned out to be solid muscle once I got her nekkid.
If anything good comes from the Kung Flu it will be drastic changes in K-12 and higher ed. I hope these Union shitheels continue to be transparent political hacks and more people pull their kids out.
“It is suppression of speech.… You’re allowed to talk good or to praise one president, but you’re not allowed, when I was called to be part of this commission, to aid in economic and educational prosperity, and you make a positive comment, and all of a sudden it is not acceptable,” Robert Unanue, the CEO at Goya, said during an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends.”
I will be buying Goya if he holds his ground.
More of these guys have to step up. Hold the damn line.
Sad state of affairs when we have to reprogram people about freedom of speech and expression.
Discrimination- it’s not illegal when we do it
Ever since Perriviia “Black Butterfly” Brown moved into her Memphis, Tennessee, apartment in 2015, she has been afraid to sit on her front porch. A Black transgender woman who is partially blind, Brown said she doesn’t feel safe in her neighborhood. She said she often deals with transphobic abuse when she ventures to the nearby grocery store.
“I just stay in the house and mind my business,” Brown, 46, told NBC News. “If I have someone come over, they just have to come over on the inside. I would love to entertain on the outside, but it’s … so violent out here, and you don’t know who likes you and who don’t like you, and you don’t know if they got a hatred against trans women.”
Despite her fear, Brown considers herself lucky to have a home. A 2018 Human Rights Campaign report noted that 41 percent of Black transgender respondents reported experiencing homelessness at some point in their lives, a rate five time higher than the general U.S. population.
“If you are experiencing the intersection of racism and transphobia that leads to social and economic marginalization without access to some kind of permanent housing support, it’s going to be very difficult to fight to try and access that stability that a lot of people in our country take for granted.”
But thanks to a recent campaign that has raised over $250,000 to build a small neighborhood of 20 “tiny homes” for Black trans women and nonbinary people in the Memphis area, Brown may soon own her own home — one with a porch where she can sit outside unafraid.
Okay. Good for you.
beep boop derp overload
you don’t know if they got a hatred against trans women.
Sounds like you are assuming everyone 1) knows you are trans and 2) hates you because of it. In reality, you might just be an asshole.
So they are going to build a small camp where the black trans can concentrate?
And these stories will continue to be suppressed.
https://thevelvetchronicle.com/double-mastectomy-at-15-detrans-16-year-old-now-seeks-reversal/
The youth trans movement is fundamentally evil.
Very common for FtM to de-transition. There’s a whole movement, but you’re right. They’ll continue to be suppressed. r/gendercritical, which gathered many of these stories was canceled. r/detrans hasn’t. Yet.
Girls who like dude stuff are being told (brainwashed) that they are really boys. There is no room for girls who’re hiding their bodies from sexual harassment and/or assault, tomboys, girls who just don’t like to wear girls’ clothes, or butch lesbians.
They’re boys. One-size-fits-all.
One-size-fits-all
maybe this all could be avoided if parents would just wait to see which of the eight billion genders they will bloom into ?
This is why they need therapy, not surgery.
Children should not be allowed to medically transition.
“In 2013, Mark McCloskey destroyed bee hives placed just outside of the mansion’s northern wall by the neighboring Jewish Central Reform Congregation and left a note saying he did it, and if the mess wasn’t cleaned up quickly he would seek a restraining order and attorneys fees.
The congregation had planned to harvest the honey and pick apples from trees on its property for Rosh Hashanah.
‘The children were crying in school,’ Rabbi Susan Talve said. ‘It was part of our curriculum.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8514029/Get-lawn-Gung-ho-St-Louis-lawyer-couples-long-history-legal-fights.html
Well, even assholes have a right to defend themselves.
That strip of land is literally between the wall and the gate that was broken into. There’s no fucking way you could put beehives on that spot and think you were in the right. If you walk through a gate, turn right, and place beehives up against someone’s wall, you’re an asshole, I don’t care if technically that little strip of land is MUH PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Fuck the media.
“A teenager is facing charges for a would-be armed home invasion robbery in Florida in which his two accomplices were shot and killed and he was wounded.
Jeremiah Trammel, 19, was shot after his accomplices, Luis Casado, 21, and Khyle Durham, 21, had already been shot dead during the alleged break-in.
The person who shot the two men was the homeowner who was using a gun to defend himself in Wesley Chapel, near Tampa.
Casado and Durham were shot dead as they were walking along a narrow hallway towards the owner of the house.
Both had their faces covered with black masks and had guns drawn according to Fox35.
According to Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco, Trammel was then able to make a quick escape from the home after the homeowner’s gun suddenly jammed allowing for a pause in the shooting.
Trammel was caught by a next door neighbor who also had a gun and held him on the spot until the police arrived.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8514275/Florida-homeowner-shoots-kills-two-burglars-injures-broke-house.html
Now we’ll be treated to relatives sobbing and saying how they were really good kids and didn’t deserve this.
Was he getting his life together? Or was he aspiring? Maybe both?
“L.A. teachers union says schools can’t reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded”
Evil.
LA teachers union are EVIL.
For the children MY ASS.
I’m so glad corporate American has whole-heartedly embraced these shitbags.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/d-c-black-lives-matter-protest-turns-anti-semitic/
“turns”
Marxism, communism, socialism, progressivism, and antisemitism go hand in hand.
Corporations have embraced a violent, racist, Marxist organization with a pretty name.
2020: Rise of the useful idiots, mob and sheep.
I wonder what is going on in the heads of all of the leftist Jews right about now.
How long before the real, no-shit shooting it out starts?
Massive cognitive dissonance.
“‘They are killing our nation’: Goya Foods CEO slams boycott of his brand and says protesters are the same people who are tearing down statues of Jesus Christ as he doubles down on Trump support”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8512787/Goya-Foods-CEO-doubles-Trump-support-amid-growing-boycott.html
At this point, maybe he should just stop talking?
Meh, it’s not like he isn’t right. They are the same people.
This is the correct response. Give ’em the finger and go about your business.
Agreed. Bullies must be stood up to. His courage may help others to stand their ground too.
He already refused to back down. So I don’t see the point of going on TV when he might say something that could be twisted around.
Meh. Woke companies never stop talking. Why should the only non-woke company behave differently?
For its own good?
Half the country is sick and tired of wokeness. Why not be the only company that publicly defies it? Everything is already politicized. Perhaps it’s too late to stay milquetoast when everybody else is participating in struggle sessions.
Because it’s a food business, not a political advocacy group.
That “everything is already politicized” is part of the problem.
Fox is the biggest news network because it isn’t part of the leftist herd.
Nah. The Buycott will greatly eclipse any boycott.
WTF with boycott? Why are there no girlcotts!?!?!?!?
Muh Patriarchy!
Had breakfast and went to take a nap *winks* with the lady. all the sudden it is 10am and the temp has gone from 70s to 90s. I guess it doesn’t matter what time of day I do the yard work now. So I’ll take some time to work up the motivation while having some coffee. This ain’t that dry AZ heat. This is that moist VA heat. And it kinda blows.
So your “nap” was at 9:58am then?
Interesting- Chuckie Todd is doing his intro, talking about plague scores. New “cases” are in actual numbers, but “deaths” are by per cent change. I wonder why that is.
Also, a bunch of small European countries have fewer new “cases” than the US. They’re winning. We’re losing.
Statistics don’t lie, but people lie with statistics.
“Lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1282281837159751680
OFFS!
??
There is no way anyone could have known that.
https://twitter.com/FistofEtiquette/status/1282302583982497792
Parody account?
Wow simple Google search of “eagle symbol” showed me that the Romans, British, French, Israel and Nancy Pelosi all must be Nazis based on that fact check.
Sounds like proof the Nazis have a time travel machine!
Clarification: The claim that Trump 2020 has put out a T-shirt with a symbol similar to a Nazi eagle and is being criticized for it is true. Worth noting, the eagle is a longtime US symbol, too.
It’s worth noting that many countries/regimes have used an eagle symbol. And it is worth noting that you people are hacks.
Looks a lot more like the National Recovery Administrations Eagle to me.
Whycome we don’t have instantaneous test result? Must track contact!
Avoid bars. Wear a mask.
fap fap fap.
I am not going to wear a farcemask. I am also not going to be beaten up by thugs for not wearing one.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a special good morning to Pie (well, cocktail hour, anyway). See, I waited for 172 or so comments in!
I won’t tell you how spectacularly beautiful it is here right now. Because then I would have to discuss the high 60s, low humidity, blue skies and puffy white clouds.
I wouldn’t do that to you.
…women playing big brass instruments has always been my kink.
My kink(s).
Have a wonderful Sunday, friends!
60’s sounds way too fricken cold. We are going to barely break perfect today and might hit low 100’s.
I’ll see that kink and raise it.
*wore that cassette out
Love that one.
It’s 73 now. Better?
Here’s the Kinks in ‘73. https://youtu.be/Cyh__QQD2js
Lovely.
Have a great run! I’m gonna go knock out some miles, too. Kinks will be joining me!
You too. Great suggestion about the Kinks. Got Kinks Kontroversy queued up for the run.
One For the Road
Good song.
55°F and drizzly here in Seattle. This morning is a good morning for an epic run. Think I’ll head down to the duck pond. Then some stairs. Lots of stairs.
First thing we do, let’s kill all the Public Health Experts.
From the look of the ones in my state, atherosclerosis and type 2 diabetes should be along shortly to do the job.
Here’s a headline I bet you thought you’d never see.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/lady-tramp-mum-who-left-22343133
Chuckie POUNCES.
“Is this a leadership problem?”
Blame You-know-who; first, last, and always.
I wonder how this happened…
Breitbart London
@BreitbartLondon
Leaked French Internal Intelligence Report Claims 150 Neighborhoods ‘Held’ By Radical Islamists
The franchise will temporarily close so that employees can receive “customer service training” with a representative from the Daphne Police Department, the statement added. Customers were also assured that those employees “do not represent Five Guys or the local franchise.”
“Hey, serve us or else!”
Experts expect the eviction crisis to get far worse in the coming months. The Covid-19 economic recession has hit renters especially hard. They make up a disproportionate share of service sector jobs, an industry that has been decimated as a result of the coronavirus shutdowns.
Maybe the government shouldn’t have shut things down.
Internal documents from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that fully reopening K-12 schools and universities would be the “highest risk” for the spread of coronavirus, according to a New York Times report, as President Donald Trump and his administration push for students and teachers to return in-person to classrooms.
The CDC can go fuck themselves.
A bus driver in France who was beaten up by passengers refusing to wear mandatory face masks died in hospital Friday, French Prime Minister Jean Castex and the victim’s family have said.
I’m an anti-mask person. This is fucked.
The chief executive officer at Goya Foods, Inc. said Friday that he will not issue an apology for positive remarks made toward President Donald Trump, and called demands to boycott his company “suppression of speech.”
Good.
A major teachers union is claiming that the re-opening of schools in its district cannot occur without several substantial policy provisions in place, including a “moratorium” on charter schools and the defunding of local police.
The teacher’s union can go fuck themselves.
“Prominent politicians attended the Zoom birthday party of a Washington Post columnist. But it would be absurd to suggest the media’s proximity to the liberal political establishment could possibly influence reporting.”
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1281982852616400902
https://freebeacon.com/media/capehart-birthday-zoom/
They just want cake.
I think WaPo’s “reporting” speaks for itself.
Adams County, PA commissioner called for removal of Confederate monuments at Gettysburg
Adams County Commissioner Marty Qually criticized counterprotesters who showed up at Gettysburg National Military Park on July 4 in response to online rumors of an Antifa flag-burning protest, which he called an “obvious hoax.”
“There are people walking around with not just handguns on their sides, knives on their sides, but with AR-15′s over their shoulders and confederate flags,” Qually told FOX43 on Friday. “Later when you see on social media and you start seeing Klan flags and you see people with swastikas tattooed on their neck you get outraged cause this is not what our community is like.”
Qually has received criticism for making a now-deleted post on Facebook calling for the Confederate statues at Gettysburg to be removed.
“My concern is not the monuments themselves. I don’t think you take down some monuments and racism in America goes away, ” Qually told FOX43. “It’s not the statue, it’s the reaction … if that’s going to happen every time someone says they’re going to threaten Gettysburg than our economy is going to collapse here.”
He has since deleted the post because it was receiving too many comments to monitor, but he told FOX43 that he might post it once again next week.
“Later when you see on social media and you start seeing Klan flags and you see people with swastikas tattooed on their neck”
Got a link to these things? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Cut them some slack, I mean it’s not as if everybody is carrying a camera around with them all the damn time… oh, wait
Exactly what I was thinking. Inquiring minds would like to know just to what “Klan flags” you are referring.
Ooh- now the plague is just like the Iran Hostage Crisis!
Hawt tuba action.
It is really hard to play those lowest notes at pianissimo.
Sessions weathers attacks from Trump as he vies for Senate seat
In May, Mr. Trump urged Alabamans “do not trust Jeff Sessions,” saying “he let our country down.” Mr. Trump later tweeted that Sessions had “no courage” and “ruined many lives”
Sessions is certainly no Roger Stone
The garden gnome is not even a Lindsey Graham.
Yes. Next question?
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/recycling-cost-benefit-analysis
Tow that lion
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan said Friday that U.S. growth would be faster if all Americans wore masks. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates a national mask mandate could prevent the U.S. from losing almost 5% of its gross domestic product.
Yet millions of Americans — especially Republicans — have been reluctant to embrace masks, with President Donald Trump himself resistant. That’s in contrast with Democratic opponent Joe Biden, who typically dons a black covering in public appearances. Gallup polling in late June showed 98% of Democrats said they wore a mask outside home during the past week, compared with 66% of Republicans and 85% of independents.
Adding to the confusion, medical experts have sent mixed messages about when and how masks should be worn. While the World Health Organization has recommended masks in general, it said last month that there’s “no direct evidence” on the effectiveness of mass mask-wearing among healthy people. Other health officials say that while a mask won’t protect the person wearing it, it can help stop sick people from infecting others.
——-
Without measures like mask-wearing to reduce the opportunity to spread the virus, the health and economic consequences will worsen, said Eric Toner, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “And we will have no choice but eventually to lock things down again, which would be devastating to the economy,” he said.
It wears the mask, or it goes to bed without supper.
“which would be devastating to the economy”
Feature, not bug.
Davis Senseman, a Minneapolis attorney who has consulted with small businesses on face-mask enforcement, said government regulations are a “floor” and businesses can put in place more safety measures that customers tend to appreciate.
Senseman likens face-mask requirements to the signs in some businesses warning: “No shirt, no shoes, no service.”
“That has helped a lot of business owners realize, ‘Oh yeah, I’m not asking you to do much. I’m asking you to have a shirt on, I’m asking you to have shoes on and to put on a mask,’” Senseman said.
Why won’t you engage in social signalling? Don’t you want to be liked?
“Don’t you want to be liked?”
Not by people like you.
Yeah, I really would like to… oh, “liked”,… not “licked”… …nevermind.
Good music choice. I never thought of the tuba as anything but a tertiary support instrument, but that’s good.
Don’t say that. They can and they have.
Things can *always* get worse.
Yes, but saying it out loud is virtually guaranteeing that it will.
/occasionally superstitious
There are memories I have of a small handful of situations I found myself in while living the life of a Marine grunt that have, by comparison, made everything else bad in life since then seem to be nothing more than somewhat bothersome.
Jordan Peterson says, “You have to determine whether you have problems or SITUATIONS.”
When I stop and think, “Is this a PROBLEM or a SITUATION?” and I determine that it’s a situation, it’s not bad at all.
Obligatory Sunday Music
I am going to roast a weeks worth of vegetables on the grill and smoke a thicc ribeye I was too lazy to cook last night.
Your grill must be huge.
Pictured
https://www.customgoldgrillz.com/products/custom-fit-solid-gold-iced-natural-diamond-grillz
I bet he has a really big deck too.
Moar Sunday music from my favorite finger-pickin’, circuit-ridin’ (really!) preacher-gittar man.
“L.A. teachers union says schools can’t reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded”
If we shut down public school forever, it would be the best thing to happen to this county in my life time. Defund public school now!
Muh equitable
Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Saturday said that Covid-19 medication and future vaccines should be distributed to people who need them the most and not to “the highest bidder.”
“If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust deadlier pandemic,” Gates, a billionaire philanthropist, said during a remote Covid-19 conference hosted by the International AIDS Society.
“We need leaders to make these hard decisions about distributing based on equity, not just on market-driven factors,” he added.
Shut the fuck up, Bill we already know you’re an idiot.
First question: “Are you a registered Democrat?”
Please feel free to distribute and test vaccines to “places where they are most needed”
Just give everyone Windows for free, Billy. And Office, give everyone that for free too, you evil capitalist.
Why do you hate people?
I had the same thought, and rejected it for the same reason.
“Gates wants to use the poors and Third World country as pharmaceutical guinea pigs before letting his rich friends risk it.”
Couldn’t they just sign up for a clinical trial and get paid for it? Billy will fund it all. $15 an hour for everyone, Billy.
This
|Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. was experiencing what housing experts and advocates deemed an eviction crisis. More than 2 million people face eviction each year, far more than the number of people who faced foreclosure at the height of the 2008 mortgage crisis.
I live in one of the hardest places in this country to evict someone and I have participated in hundreds of them. I’ve felt sorry for maybe a handful of those evictees and it’s not just that I’m a cold hearted libertarian. When you make it very hard to evict someone you encourage certain things, incentives and disincentives, crazy isn’t it? I have seen some absolute madness during those evictions. They are not the favorite part of my job. For those getting booted for rent non payment the average time here is 9-12 months, the quickest I’ve ever seen is 6 months. Many of these owners are small time people, they own one or two rental properties. It’s not like the bank is giving them a free pass on mortgage payments, or the city, which is often paying for the “free” lawyers for the evictees is suspending their property tax payments. Now the whole state has suspended evictions indefinitely due to their shutdowns.
What cannot continue indefinitely, will not continue indefinitely.
The worry I have is that this is being purposefully done to destroy small time property owners and force them to sell so that large scale owners and the government can take over more of the rental property market. I don’t even think I’m tin foiling my head at this point, it seems they are blatantly doing this. I see a fuck ton more Section 8 and taxpayer subsidized housing projects in our future. Maybe we can even employ that nifty Brutalist apartment block style from the USSR and its satellites.
I agree – big government, irs, and other agencies have always hated small/independent businesses. Go big and heavily regulate – nothing tin foil about it.
I would assume you’re correct.
The entirety of the US system, from regulations to monetary policy, is geared to screw over small business now.
They may or may not mean it, but that will absolutely happen. How can it not? Who would be crazy enough to buy a couple properties to rent out in this environment?
I’ve seen more than my share of small biz owners get absolutely ass raped by the government in my time, including my own family. Rent control always gets singled out as a terrible thing, and it certainly is, but there are other laws and regulations in regards to rental housing that are much worse in my opinion. It’s too bad that more people don’t know or care about this shit.
I’ve had a couple of conversations with local mom-n-pop operators & it’s exactly as you say. Unfortunately they are greatly outnumbered by useful idiots who have no idea about business.
This was the area the Barack Obama made his bones in: low-income housing tax credits. The theory was that the problem with the housing projects was concentrating all the low-income housing in a single area in large housing complexes. That turned those areas into crime megazones and wrecked poor communities. Hence the low-income housing tax credit was born. The idea is that if regular housing complexes set aside a small percentage of the proposed units for low-income housing, they’d get juicy tax credits from the federal gov’t. The idea being that folks in low-income housing would get dispersed through otherwise middle class communities. Promoting this program was the field in which Obama arose.
We are, after all, a libertarian site and so now comes the catch. What really happened was a massive binge of knocking down two flats (which could not qualify for the program) and building large sprawling housing developments which could. The wealthy builders (and their lawyers) raked in huge chunks of federal cash while renting out most of the units at the same price they were gonna rent out anyway, while setting aside a couple for Section 8 residents for whom they also get full rent (from the federal government again).
This drives out small apartment buildings (and their individual owners) and encourages larger complexes. Meanwhile not near enough low-income housing gets built to satisfy the demand. The end result, the program greatly benefits the rich and politically connected, and mostly harms everyone else.
Exactamundo. I was happy to see last week the Trump admin was talking about ending one of the shittier things that the Obama admin did with HUD. They were forcing communities (mostly well off suburbs) to add low income housing. It’d be nice to see that go (really would be nice to see HUD completely gotten rid of, but now we are getting into libertarian fantasy world).
That used to happen naturally before the government started picking winners and losers, as Jane Jacobs pointed out sixty years ago.
Well that’s the last thing we need, people making decisions on their own without the benevolent hand of government to making the correct ones.
NB. She was careful to emphasize that she was talking about urban settings, not suburbs.
“Antifa & BLM supporters were calling for the federal courthouse to be shot at and burned down because of that image. Even when their hoax was exposed, they still attacked the building last night.”
“We can confirm the poster spotted in a Hatfield Courthouse window this evening is in fact a Portland Trailblazers poster.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1282330412149362694
(sports fans) (antifa)
Sports leagues are the new crop fields for enslaving Blacks.
/narrative
The math facts used to get “33” = KKK should be a Schoolhouse Rock video.
Yeah that one was some serious number conspiracy going on.
Next they’ll be saying Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
LOL ?
Clark County Nevada publish a list of shame regarding failing to “mask up” or the new term I read and sadly will probsbly be part of American life….Mask It or Casket It.
Humans are gulliable creatures
Struggle Sessions – Mask Edition
As for the “mask it or casket” stuff. I thought the point here was to protect others, not yourself? Or is the point whatever they happen to say it is at the moment, as long as you do what you’re told? My misanthropy grows by leaps and bounds every day.
Ive risen to Bill Burr pissed offness. I am really starting to sound like him and it is diametrically opposed to my normal demeanor
It’s about control. It’s always been about control.
I’ve been saying for a month now that the masquerade is going to be the longest lasting part of our virus charade. This shit is going to go on for years. The only time I wear one is going into a store or at a customer’s home or biz when I see them wearing one or if they want me to do so. Luckily one of the good aspects of living in a place that has the police neutered is that the chances of me being hassled or fined by a cop are very low. I can take the sideways glances all day long, no way are my kids wearing them either. Clear the sidewalks as we pass. I feel like Moses and the Red Sea most days.
By the way, did you take your kids on a backpacking trip? Good on you for doing so. We just did our first with the kids a couple weeks back and it was great.
I’m in Ground Zero and at least half of us aren’t wearing them outdoors. I will wear them indoors when “required” in order to avoid any drama but outside? Fuck that. And I have only been yelled at once for it. Except that one instance, it is completely ignored by passersby. Things may be different in neighborhoods that have more Karens, I dunno.
I’ve only been actually yelled at once for it and it was too hilarious for me to even warrant much more than a laugh and a “no thank you.” I was riding bikes with the kids on a wide path a few weeks back in the park and these two middle aged Karens saw us and crouched down low at the far end of the path next to the bushes as we passed by and yelled at us to wear masks as they both held out foam pool noodles like magic wands to keep us at bay. It was so ridiculous I couldn’t help but laugh.
Thats planned in a couple weeks for backpacking hooefully. With the dog grooming business steady its been hard to find the time off
Right on, work coming in is good. Are you thinking of Nevada or California? We did an easy one to get them into it. 7000ft elevation with only a gain of about 700 feet. Two miles in and two out, with a side trip to another lake that added three miles on. My guys are young, 5,7, and 9 so we just gave them small packs with their sleeping bags and some snacks. Wife and I huffed up the gear.
If you don’t know this site it is awesome for trail maps and planning.
https://www.alltrails.com/
As for the “mask it or casket” stuff. I thought the point here was to protect others, not yourself? Or is the point whatever they happen to say it is at the moment, as long as you do what you’re told? My misanthropy grows by leaps and bounds every day.
You’ll never get anywhere in this world if you cannot believe multiple mutually exclusive propositions all at the same time.
What are you, some kind of simpleton?
I didn’t know about Milton Berle. From his wiki: 1908-2002. “Milton aided Fred Travalena, Ruth Buzzi, John Ritter, Marla Gibbs, Lily Tomlin, Dick Shawn and Will Smith.”
But i learned something that…interests me. His first marriage was to a showgirl, who was quite the looker. Her name is JOYCE MATHEWS. “Mathews, with one T.” (That’s something all of us have to say, as the one T spelling is very rare and mistakes happen unless we say that constantly.)
*Cough*
I imagine this is why my prodigious pecker comes in handy and where my rugged handsomeness comes from… *Looks around…Runs away!*