“What the shit?”
No sports today.
Pam and The Hoff.
Philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on this day. He shares it with French soldier who helped us Comte de Rochambeau, baseball HOFers Roger Connor, John Clarkson, and Ben Taylor, civil rights activist Walter White, actor Charles Laughton, cosmetics magnate Estee Lauder, actress (who is still alive!) Olivia de Havilland, gender-bending actor Jamie Farr, rocker Debbie Harry, white nationalist racist asshole David Duke, acting great Dan Aykroyd, Princess Diana, sprinter Carl Lewis, actress Pamela Anderson, rapper Missy Elliott, and actress Liv Tyler.
That wasn’t a half-bad list. Now on to…the links!
To gulag with you!
That didn’t take long. Expect this to continue as human rights get completely erased over there.
This is actually a decent idea that I hope works. Hopefully the next step will be to simply change all the laws that criminalize things that shouldn’t be criminalized in the first place.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. (Somewhat) seriously…why?
Wait, what the fuck? You mean he’s not going to move it just so it has a higher possibility of being a fair trial and not an absolute circus? That would just be common sense at this point.
What was he supposed to do? Oh yeah, I guess he could have bought less of it and then be accused of not caring enough about American lives to have bought it all. Because that’s how the media would have painted it.
Oh, you poor thing. Christ, what an asshole.
This is getting trippy. I’m fine with it because people should be able to put whatever they want in their own bodies. It’s just funny to me.
Get out of the streets, you stupid assholes. Seriously, get out of the streets. Because…
RUN THEM ALL OVER!
…as more people expect shit like this to happen, expect them to hit the gas when surrounded by a mob on a public roadway. I hope they start arresting anybody stopping traffic and surrounding cars. You know, since its assault and pretty much kidnapping.
Let’s play the blame game! Heaven forbid you’d identify and address the root causes.
Facebook removes hundreds of “hate group” accounts. They’re cutting out accounts that advocate violence. But don’t expect them to remove antifa accounts or those of about half the imams in the UK. Because those people are a-ok.
Lol, ok. these so-called experts are missing something…that the government is the cause for all the anger. But since the government will be the ones funding their studies, expect that to be left out of the assessments.
According to Silverglate, we all do this daily. And it’s a solid theme for America! Enjoy it.
Now have a great day, dear friends!
Akroyd married up. He gets kudos for that.
https://i.imgur.com/ewvgIxt.jpg
Well that didn’t go as planned
Jordache Jeans FTW
Didn’t he meet her in the set of Spies Like Us?
Or am I getting my timeline wrong and she got the role because they were together?
Either way, she was a hottie.
I think so. The fact that he was able to keep her after Dr Detroit is the real accomplishment.
Dan Akroyd was always gonna marry up. Funny and money are better odds than Sex Panther.
I thought Aykroyd was already cancelled for Trading Places. He’s still working on that Ghostbusters sequel though.
Don’t you dare cancel Lionel Joseph. Don’t you fucking dare!
? Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, Sunny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080202/mediaviewer/rm11116289
(Wait… “Sonny”?!)
Hey Toxteth! Missed your comments in the long ago regarding my cat. Yes he is the grey one and yes we need to get him to a vet. There’s probably little that they can do except drain my meager savings if previous experience has taught me anything.
Is she the reason he’s insane now?
I for one look forward to our new monkey-pig overlords.
“You get Swine-Flu Aids and you get Swine-Flu Aids… Everybody gets Swine-Flu Aids!”
*throws swine-flu feces
Check under your seat!
MonSownto
‘..Seattle can and should peacefully demonstrate but should not put families and children at risk.”‘
Something, something, chickens, something, something, home, something, roost, something.
Tough titty, shithead.
Relax Mayor Jenny…it is just the summer of love!
Why are you so afraid of democracy?
Poor Mayor Jenny is having flashbacks from the time she watched “Zulu” with her Dad about forty years ago.
What do you know about Zulus?
They act in technicolor films and carry rubber spears?
That would be a “rubber Iklwa”, but I would have accepted “rubber Assegai”.
*sigh* This fucking place… You know I knew that but you just couldn’t ackchewally help yourself. I love this site.
The Age of Aquarius ain’t what it used to be.
“Flowers in her hair…Vermin everywhere….”
She just got herself a jumbo order of deep-fried schadenfreude. And I hope she enjoys every bite.
STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX!
OR STRUGGLE. STEVE LIKE THAT TOO.
I’m gonna correct her quote…for honesty:
‘..Seattle can and should peacefully demonstrate when they’re at my house but should not put my family and my children at risk. But fuck those people held hostage in the rest of the city”‘
The rapes robberies and murders kinda make the demonstration seem less peaceful.
“Right wing infiltrators and government false flag operations won’t deter us from our peaceful movement. Now put that camera down or I’ll split your fucking head open.”
That’s the reason corrective action must be taken quickly after the causing event, can’t wait 2 weeks because the wound only gets worse.
The “Wait ’til your dad gets home” type of discipline only results in resentment.
It always scared the shit out of me. Dad had a temper.
Right?
Mom sending me to my room didn’t correct as much as dad saying “go get my belt” did.
Opposite here. Dad would cuff the back of our heads when we acted the fool but mother would full-on go banshee. When he got home he’d try to calm her down enough so she would make dinner and leave the rest of us alone for awhile.
When I really screwed up, mother would pepper the top of my thighs(not the ass, the thighs are more sensitive) with a large wooden laddle/spoon thing that had little splinters shooting off of it. After that, dad would drive home the splinters with the belt.
Fun times all around.
Ugh. mother’s favored weapon was an electrical cord from the coffee pot. Mighty bendy and soft, perfect for wrapping around extremities. Welts and blood. Sorry for your experience and double sorry for sharing mine. At least no one fucked me in the ass, so that’s something, I suppose. Nobody cared much when she died…
My condolences, you guys. I had a not-mourned relative.
Festus, is it you with an ailing old cat? If so did you get an answer? Apologies if I missed this.
No need to feel sorry for me over that. I deserved those whippings more often than not. My folks would give me many chances to stop doing whatever it was I was doing before resorting to that…except for that time I hit my older brother with a baseball bat. The beating I received was prompt, brutal, and drove the point home well enough to keep me from ever doing that again.
@ Toxteth see above. I’m gonna be gutted when he goes. Thanks for your concern, it means a lot. He’s my boy and he glommed me like a duckling. The only cat that I’ve ever befriended that was actually mine in heart and soul. We’ll see what happens but I fear the worst. Thank You, again.
I never got a spanking I didn’t deserve.
My dad was a yeller but mom was the spanker. It wasn’t that frequent, only when I did something really bad, but it was never dad. I don’t think he ever laid a hand on me.
Exactly my experiences, CW. Mom was a single or two love pats on the butt, usually doled out equally to my brother and me since we always had the sibling rivalry going on and always immediate. Dad’s harshest criticism was to tell my mother to make us kids behave and we’d get a stern look or the fanny pat.
Yeah, letting Chop set up shop was the stupidest decision ever. And now Deblasio is repeating it in NYC. I imagine they’ll have franchises in every major city before long.
I find it interesting that unlike Occupy Wall Street, the local media hasn’t jumped in with both feet to show their solidarity with the choppers. While it’s possible that they learned a lesson from that disaster, that doesn’t really seem plausible. S I wonder why they’ve decided to stay a little distant this time.
Self-preservation instinct?
Possible what happened to CNN actually made them take notice.
Don’t mess with the bull, young lady.
Show Dick some respect!
A great character actor.
On Facebook, their event page was originally titled End Police Brutality but was later changed to Marching for Racial Equality.
We could go with the name that will give us almost universal support, or we can continue to divide the country. Which should we use?
Sawant is a no-shit Che wannabe.
Gives truth to the maxim that “All politics are local”. This is where it starts and ends. We should have stopped worrying about what happens in Capitol City and been more concerned with which Ken or Karen we elect as a school trustee. Now we see the result. It’s too late. We’re done.
So many Kens and Karens in my family. I really wish they’d used other names to shame these people with. The Sloopy clan is being maligned by these twats.
(Full Disclosure) – My middle name is Ken.
Quit being so white and wealthy.
“I’d like to bowl with tha gangstas, but it’s obvious I’m too white and sloopy…”
ISTR she recommended seizing Boeing to stop making planes and start making environmentally friendly busses for the masses.
That song is probably my favorite Beavis and Butterhead bit. Well, except for the visit to Hoover Dam in the movie.
I think I just combined Butthead with Butters from South Park.
Well garsh Beavis, it’s just the greatest.
“Beavis and Butters” seems like it could be absolutely hilarious!
Yes, yes it would.
+1 Beaver and Buffcoat [sic]
At least 70 people were arrested on Wednesday, with two on suspicion of violating the national security law, according to police.
I hope they are not simply ‘disappeared’.
Oh no…show trials. Then disappeared.
Lockdown protests caused statewide spikes in cases. BLM protests caused cases to drop.
Lockdown protests were an unacceptable display of weaponry. BLM protests are mostly peaceful.
If there’s anyone who isn’t redpilled on the media at this point, they’re not reachable.
110%
I don’t know how anyone could still say these things with a straight face
Fauci says: “Up to 100 K a day of new cases”
!00K a day = 1 Mil every 10 days =3 mil a month =36 mil a year
US Population 360 mil = 10 years before I start to worry. Bring it on, Fauci
Fauci is just pissed that nature is doing a better job of vaccinating people than government could.
Was it just a couple months ago that the news seemed more interested in hospitalizations and deaths? My local news is wall-to-wall porn of “new cases!1!” If they move the goalposts any further we’re going to have go find them on the moon.
Personally, I think if we push the goalposts any further they’ll come around and hit us in the ass. I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Critical goalpost density is still a matter of intense debate.
I wonder if they’re also lumping the positive antibody tests in with the active infection count. That would also give them the benefit of being able to double count if someone tested positive for the virus and later tested positive for antibodies.
It’s just a hunch based on how much fuckery they’ve been doing with the numbers. It’s obvious that they want the highest numbers possible, probably to justify the economic havoc they’ve created and also in the hopes of damaging Trump’s re-election chances.
I’m willing to chalk a lot of it up to “more clicks” but yes for much of the media it’s also what you say. I mean, the only local media I look at are the NY Post, NY Sun, and one or two local bloggers – none of whom are known to be in the tank for Biden with the possible exception of the millennial stringers that seem to write most of the top-of-the-page articles for the Post lately.
So look…I went into that study full of fire and brimstone muttering about models and predetermined outcomes, but…I have to say it isn’t that bad.
The study wasn’t a model, it was based on real data. They searched up protests, categorized them (violent or non violent)[*], and then localized them to counties where they used cell phone data to identify the behavior of people in those areas. They also included cities where no protests occurred (control cities).
Overall they “prove” two points: 1st and most important, is that they cannot correlate a rise in COVID by county with protests happening in that county. The second point they show is that in those counties, they actually see decreased net travel. Sure, a bunch of kids went out but for every kid going to protest, 5 people stayed home to avoid the protests. (This is definitely what was happening in my neighborhood). They also expanded their testing to secondary (nearby) counties and saw basically saw the same results.
The untested (and perhaps untestable) hypothesis is whether or not people in OTHER counties who saw leaders’ indifference to the protests suddenly decided to start traveling more. I mean, you could use cell phone data to determine if these other counties started to see more travel, but you don’t know the cause.
This all leads me to believe that, while there may have been some specific super-spreader events associated with the protests, overall what we are seeing is what would have happened no matter what. This virus had to spread, and it was going to. At first it hammered New York, but there are hundreds of other cities where it is going to end up.
[*] – This all depends on the accuracy of the data of course, but their data sets are public and well annotated.
Interesting.
If the tens of thousands of people jammed together at these riots/demonstrations aren’t spreading covid, then why was the country locked down and the economy whacked to enforce “social distancing”?
One way or the other, we’ve been bullshat.
US sparks global outrage after buying nearly all the world’s supply of Gilead’s remdesivir as Trump is accused of undermining the international fight against Covid-19
Didn’t they just say the US is the worst in the world (Lol bc China…) for the CCP cough?
But America is mostly white and therefore deserves to die.
Durkan’s office said she supported peaceful forms of protest and the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole.
Looks like you are getting the consequences good and hard.
No, the violence is from the white supremacists embedded in the area to run black flag ops
Imma steal AlmightyJB’s thunder and repost this bit of insanity.
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1278248454934781952
Senior at Harvard with a job lined up at Deloitte. This is our future.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claira-janover-665268131/
Alright. All lives except yours matter. Better?
Or, don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.
Fix Bayonets.
Like so?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuXFSmhS_1c
Pournelle has a line about how every soldier thinks his will be the last war with bayonets. And it never is.
In his Falkenberg’s Legion stories, there is FTL travel between planets but the soldiers on the ground still fix bayonets.
I miss that guy.
Given what is going on and the propensity for the mob swarms, I was seriously looking at getting a bayonet and the adapter to affix it. I can still name and execute the 7 killing blows.
I can’t find his exact quote, but something like this: “I grew up thinking I would live to see the first man on the moon. I never thought I would live to see the last.”
Of the 4 living men who have walked on the moon, the youngest is 84 years old. I was born less than a month after Armstrong took the first step and it won’t be long until I will be alive with no moonwalkers.
Seven? Huh….when I went through PI we just had the straight thrust and the slash.
I still have a small scar next to my thumb from where the forward assist dug into my skin on the straight thrust. Bled pretty good.
From the right: vertical butt-stroke, horizontal butt-stroke, stab
From the left: slash, smash
whoops – Five – need coffee.
Aha, I wasn’t counting buttstrokes because they don’t use the bayonet.
Making sure there was a bayonet lug on my ar (the tragic boating accident still gets to me) was an important minor detail I made sure of.
I’ve got a m7 and a M9 in a storage box somewhere. I prefer the m7 myself although the new (well to me, it’s after my time) marine bayonet looks pretty good.
It’s a good line, but really, the last war with bayonets is a ways in our past.
Doesn’t mean that some fool won’t get muzzle-stamped with a plasma projector in 2135 though…
That’s West of Honor. Great story. I’m re-reading it right now.
She is cute but has that crazy look like she would kill your cat. But anyway, don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
What’s really sad is that she doesn’t look unattractive. Although the cameraman could have at least given us a full body shot to properly assess her.
She needs to relax and tone it down a little. Otherwise nobody is ever gonna want to stick it in her.
She’s got a herd of simps trotting at her ankles. Have you even seen the type of “man” that shows up for these peaceful protests? I used to pretend to like a certain band if it would get me some but these guys are super novae.
“Otherwise nobody is ever gonna want to stick it in her.”
You can’t possibly believe that, can you? Of course guys are gonna want to. Marxists may be dumb, but they can’t hold a candle to the stupidity of the average guy in his 20s when it comes to his dick.
You’re right. I should have said “no real man is ever gonna want to stick it in her.”
Stick what in her?
My reply:
“You’re not gonna do shit. Shut the fuck up, you stupid asshole.”
Two thoughts:
She seems typical of a lot of these protestors – hyper emotional, not quite right in the head. I wish Deloitte the joy of her.
I’d be tempted to hand her a knife and say “Do it. I believe all lives matter. Look me in the eye and stab me, or shut the fuck up.” She’s all drama. She ain’t stabbing anybody.
Five years on, she’s gonna be arrested for stabbing someone she lives with.
So the Common Sense Knife Control people were right?
A good handle is key to knife control. If it’s not comfortable, or if it moves around in your grip, you’re not going to have good control.
She gets stabby.
I’m tempted to send her message on LinkedIn: Hi! All lives matter!
Message is locked, but you can try to connect with that custom message. We could all spam her.
And then we’d all get banned from that useless site.
SJWednesday: A Musical Interlude
Do yourself a favor and watch the video before you have breakfast.
Pass
Just finished eating. Guess I’ll just have to take a pass on this one. Damn the luck.
Finally the queer community will have their voices heard in musical theater. It’s about time!
Heh.
I lol’d
Color me skeptical.
“This is the governor, my governor, who’s supposed to be representing me,” he said. “I’m sure that her car is not going to intentionally hit me. I was wrong.”
The driver is also the gov’s security and you are standing in the street threatening the governor. Play stupid games…
I’d point out that the Governor is not technically a Representative of you but a person hired to be the executive of the government.
I didn’t see the need to pedant that but of course this person does not understand gov’t or civics.
Oh noes, global outrage!
Too bad Gilead can’t make more.
Lol the Left will surely claim that the drug does nothing now because TDS.
So, there’s at least one black conservative living in Cleveland.
For reference, Kinsman is not what would be considered a good or safe neighborhood.
Get a load of the Karen whining about the police asleep at the wheel instead of “defending murals”.
I literally can’t even any more with this year.
everyone has lost their minds.
Go away, rain. I want to make some money today.
That’s one of the only positives about current job. At least I work indoors. 40 below is no joke when you get stranded out past hell’s half-acre.
“More recently, officials have identified violent adherents to the movement as those responsible for several attacks over the past few months,” the company wrote in a blog post.
Citation?
Officials. Identified. Why do you deny science?
The aggressiveness of the censorship to shut down anything that contradicts The Narrative on this “boogaloo” thing is insane. The MSM/big tech/D-holes have created a total fiction (again, lol) and will defend it to the bitter, bitter end (again, lol).
It’s almost as if 4chan runs society.
It’s not just the aggressiveness its the complete attempt to cast all the blame at the hands of the boogaloo bois. There are riots going on, and they deny that it is Antifa and then blame it on the boogaloo bois.
Pretty sure he was there last year and told one of my kids to stop smacking other kids in the head with her sword.
Did she grab him by the crotch and throw him out the window ?
Well this sucks. The links won’t load worth a damn. I’m sitting in an urgent care lobby with no cell reception and I am not going to use their unsecured Wi-Fi.
Feeling all right there?
Ruh roh! UOK??
I’m not sure what the urgent care is going to do about your links problem…
Seriously though, I hope everything is OK.
Suspected blood clot in my calf. Heading to vascular clinic by the hospital. Yay! What fun.
Bon Chance, mon Ami!
Had that about 40 years ago, spent 2 weeks in a recliner with blood thinners. It showed up the day after I ran 7 miles. Started running again after that and no problems ever. I’ve been on an 81 mg aspirin daily for 30 years though. Hope the news is good and that rest will cure it.
SJWednesday: YES PLEASE DO IT… C’MON JUST DO IT
They need a socialist workers part for the nation
Another day, another screed with a new -ism word.
Well, a newly appropriated -ism word, anyway.
glancing, it would seem that an Argentinian doctor might see and report things in interesting ways
I’m not going to read it, but it’s worth noting how few of the SJW barking about workers have never much worked or, apparently, ever opened a book to see how socialism turns out.
That wasn’t real socialism!
You know who else had a struggle?
“The stubborn continuation of (or even deepening) of electoralism without class independence…”
Made it that far
What’s the matter, you don’t like buzzword salad?
Jaylen Cavil, an organizer with Des Moines Black Lives Matter, said he stood in front of the governor’s vehicle outside of an event in Ackley, hoping Reynolds would roll down her window
That sounds like a great way to get punched or shot.
To no ones surprise…
Joe Biden has once again demonstrated he knows little about U.S. history and the Second Amendment thanks to a recent sit down with Wired in which he was asked about his support for gun control.
Biden responded by launching into a rambling tirade directed at AR-15s, which he says “should be outlawed.” After all, he continued, “From the very beginning you weren’t allowed to have certain weapons. You weren’t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.” …
During the Revolutionary War, not only could individuals own cannons, they could own an entire ship equipped with them. Privateering was an important part of the war effort, especially since the new United States had virtually no real navy of its own.
Simple Joe is unfamiliar with this and the specific constitutional provision regarding it.
The only recent presidential candidate that I have heard mention it is Ron Paul.
I’m done with this level of correction gotcha from conservatives. None of this matters they don’t care, you can’t shame them they either know they are lieing or they don’t care anyway. Biden doesn’t even know where he is why should we expect him to know anything about policy, he should be treated only with pure disdain or like your senile uncle at thanksgiving.
This. Correcting the record gets you nowhere.
I can’t wait for Philip Bump from WaPo to fact check that and say “Biden is correct as only a few people had the money necessary to acquire their own cannons during the revolutionary war.”
You are probably right, but it is a bad argument. Not that they care but you do not forgo a right just because it might be expensive to practice.
forgolose or not have*, of course you might opt for lessor hardware..50 S &W qualifies as a cannon, if you are on the wrong end of it
…totin’ fifty grand, cannon in the waistband…
“Biden is correct as the British did not allow colonists to own weapons.”
You got there better than I did. Send WaPo a bill for your services to their efforts.
Interesting fact, that I didnt know. The Paris Declaration of 1856 banned the use of Letters of Marque and Reprisal, but the USA is not a signatory to it.
How much is senility, how much is just natural stupidity? The questions of our age…
The sheer audacity of this class of politicians never ceases to amaze. As the kids say I. Can’t. Even.
I have lost the ability to be amazed years ago
I thought myself cynical before this. I was wrong.
I’ve found this story more interesting, because : Local News. Rarely go to Provo, for a host of reasons, but will have to keep an eye out for Salt Lake. The fact that this idiot chased after and shot at the car after it was gone, means he’s fucked even if he tries to argue that he was only shooting cause the old man was “Plowing” through them.
Are there even any blacks to jail in Provo?
heh. I’ll note that Salt Lake City PD is notoriously (throughout the state at least) happy to shoot people. I think there were more homicides by SLCPD a few years a go than by criminals. So i would be very supportive of a protest against police brutality. But not when they throw their lot in with “Insurgence, Solidarity for Justice, .. and Salt Lake Antifascist Coalition”.
This one weirds me out a little. About 30 years ago I lived about 3 blocks from there.
Yep, me too. I lived across the street from the Academy when it was still a run-down POS and used once a year for a haunted house.
I would never have expected something like this in Provo, of all places.
Long time no see. Still around in the state? I’ve never lived in Provo, but have lived in SLC, and it seems the instigators were from SLC.
It’s good to be back. I’ve been lurking for a while. Just never get here in time to participate. I’ve been living in Dallas for about 20 years.
Echo @leon’s long time no see. Didn’t you say you had a new job or somesuch that limited your time here?
Same job, we went to work from home in July of last year and the transition was a little difficult schedule-wise for me.
“The driver of the SUV was taken to Utah Valley Hospital. ”
He drove himself there, know-nothing news people.
This sort of shit is gonna end well for us all. Wait till they decide math is patriarchical and physics is racist & misogynistic, and we end up with people designing and building airplanes that ignore these outdated laws! Then we will show whomever created these evil laws what social justice really is about!
The president of the university is a goddamned coward. I hold him responsible for that decision and him alone. He should be run out on a rail and Hsu should get his job.
Rather than debate the findings they force a resignation. They should be HAPPY that it’s not the case.
Try and tell me this is not a Dark Age.
Ga’head.
Dark ages always seemed gloomy and rainy in the textbooks, and i can tell you that it is sunny right now. So it can’t be the dark ages.
I always wondered how we got to certain calamitous points in history, and never could quite make things make sense. How did intelligent people let these stupid and horrible things happen, was where I always ended up stuck. I think this past year has basically proved to me that a mob hell bent on dumb shit practically always is the reason for insanity and stupidity to prevail. We should have a law banning appeal to emotion for anything legal.
Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks
Truth > Facts, comrade.
It gets better with Durkan. Now she’s going after Idiot Sawant (get it? I did a joke there). This is just a cluster fuck of a shit show. I would love to hear from the Seattle brigade here about this. Are citizens in Wokeattle really ok with all this?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/durkan-asks-seattle-city-council-to-investigate-sawant-for-contemptuous-behavior/#comments
I see Canada is still using ‘projection models’ warning of us all of a ‘resurgence’. Stay thirsty and scared my friends. 285 cases reported yesterday. ACROSS THE COUNTY.
Looks like we lost Belichick. He brought in an ACLU SJW to speak to the team and everyone was just so happy about it.
/face palm.
Does Richard ‘I want to Stanford’ ever shut the fuck up?
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THe residents/Businesses of CHOP are suing seattle, and every step the city council and mayor do to ensure that it looks like they support chop, the more likely discovery is going to happen….
Or they settle and then the rest of the cities taxpayers get to pay out for the Mayor and Councils socialist project downtown.
Seems to me this is one of more egregious example of gross incompetence and negligence. Clearly these two low IQ buffoons allowed for identity politics to prevail over the health and security of citizens culminating in the death of a 16 year-old. It’s a close to ‘blood on your hands’ a case there is.
Yeh, well I read the court document from the people. They opened up with something like ‘we still support the protestors’ so not so sure they get it.
They know who the Judges and Jury are going to be and so are trying to ingratiate themselves to them?
Argue on the basis of the case or not at all.
went
“Contemptuous behavior?”
You can get booted out of government for that?
I’m uncertain whether to be horrified or rub my hands together and formulate an evil plan.
Some animals are more equal than others, eh?
Dooo Eeeeet.
And I’m really curious who that little exception was carved out for.
Doesn’t Seattle do this every year, and the state come down and kick their teeth in because it is illegal. IIRC Washington state has preempted any income tax by municipalities. At some point you think the state might deny the cities charter if they keep doing this shit.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washington-state-supreme-court-denies-seattles-bid-for-income-tax-on-wealthy-households/
Also makes you think about how SCOTUS was A-Ok with NYC’s pinkey promise to not institute the gun travel ban out of city limits that they had tried.
Revoking Seattle just means the whole place is CHAZ.
WIN WIN ?
That just means that Seattle isn’t in full control of the state government yet. Give it time.
Cancel Hamilton.
Of course I am not actually in favor of “canceling” America’s founding statist shitstain, but the truth should be known about him as opposed to the whitewashed (heh…) “history” displayed in the musical.
He gets a pass because he has a play.
I laughed my ass off when I found out there is a song called “Immigrants Get the Job Done” in that fucking show.
But AH was good-lookin’.
I have zero interest in that play. I think I’d sooner attend Cats.
First the hippsters came for facial hair, and I gave it to them.
Then the hippsters came for historical figures, and I ceded it away.
A nice reminder that despite the complete insanity in the Blue states, drive 30 miles out even the craziest city and you’ll find pissed off normals.
Governor Jay Inslee Booed Off Stage in Eastern Washington
If Phil Murphy held an outdoor presser in my town, the locals would tar and feather him or worse.
Awesome. Get lost asshole. And not a single brick thrown.
Saw this in the thread.
https://www.westernjournal.com/exclusive-gen-flynn-dont-act-2-people-control-98/
pissed off
This is the standard, though, going both ways. It’s the tone of twitter. It’s implied by the head-shaking at both FoxNews and MSNBC. The tsking has been evolving for about ten years, the ostensible goal being the raising of anxiety as an end in and of itself.
Of course, I’m not defending insanity, and who needs to: the extremists are never the majority. What’s important is that normal people on all sides and in all places are essentially pissed off all the time. We are a petty and pissy people any more: that’s where the derp and the karens both come from.
It was the perfect year for a calm and rational person to lead the national discussion back to first principle, but few are keeping an even keel in these waters . . . . and the few who do are essentially drowned out.
I would really welcome a calm and rational discussion. It isn’t going to happen with Phil Murphy, Jay Inslee, or Joe Biden.
We speak different languages.
Calm and rational means nothing less than “comply with the leftist demands of the moment.”
After Chavin murdered Floyd we had a nationwide consensus about modifying policing in this country to protect the lives of citizens who were being killed by cops.
A month later, its a full on Cultural Revolution where, if you aren’t a Marxist wanting the violent overthrow of the US government, you’re part of the problem.
We live in the stupidest timeline.
Nice.
How much does a bucket of tar go for in your neck of the woods?
We priced out roofing tar, I think around $50 for 5 gallons.
Fuck, how is gas cheaper than the shit they take out of gas.
I hope instead of civil war 2, Marxist boogaloo we just cut some cities out.
Offering a perfect movie quote that could probably apply to every single link:
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
Wolf of Wall Street?
The Hunt for Red October, Fred Dalton Thompson as Admiral Josh Painter. It was a small part but he had several choice lines.
“What’s his plan?”
“His plan, sir?”
“Your average Russian, son, don’t take a dump without a plan.”
One of my favorites! I use that line all the time.
Unfortunately, this one might be appropriate too.
I wonder what date historians will use to mark to beginning of this war.
I have a hard time comprehending a full-scale civil war. The original one had strict economic and geographical lines. This time, there’s too much noise to understand what the sides would be and how it would play out.
I could see smaller conflicts and skirmishes breaking out in urban areas. There’s no way anitfa is going to get rural anytime soon. That would be a disaster for them.
Same here. Phase 1 at least would likely be an ugly, ugly fight with competing insurgencies. We’ve already been introduced to one of the insurgent movements, and I expect if we get to failed state status where the government can’t get on top of it, we will see a “militia” counterinsurgency which would probably be in conflict with the government as well.
Whether it would ever get to a true civil war, with putative sovereign governments fighting each other, who could say.
Give me one ping.
*plays sequence from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ on sonar*
Give me a ping, Vassily. One ping only, please.
I…would like to have seen…Montana.
Another one – This used to be a hell of a good country, I can’t understand what’s going on with it.
Have we put an wifi embargo on CHOP yet? Turn the signal towers and cables off and those little trust fund deadbeats will be out of there in no time. They’re mostly “doing it for the Gram,” after all.
What was he supposed to do? Oh yeah, I guess he could have bought less of it and then be accused of not caring enough about American lives to have bought it all. Because that’s how the media would have painted it.
I have seen nothing to convince me remdesivir is anything but an overpriced placebo. You would get the same thing with hcq and zing plus some vit d / c for 10 bucks not 3 grand. But its good business for Big Pharma
A man wrestling a beaver in the middle of traffic with a hockey stick.
Doesn’t get much more Canadian than this.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1278116493289500672
Man, that Mel Gibson is nuts
Goes to the backhand too often. Goalies are going to catch on and eat him for lunch.
True.
Fun Rufusian fact: 94% of males in Canada carry a hockey stick in their trunk. I carried one for over twenty years.
Hey, you never know a game will break out on the highway or something.
Sher-wood Chelios edition: because there’s no substitute for big wood
My dad still has his old Sher-wood Stan Mikita model he used as a kid in his garage, even though he last played hockey in 1983 or so.
I got two the other night with the old Sherwood – real lumber! The first was one of those fortuitous “heel-jobs” where you’re looking high glove (over the shoulder), except the puck slid a little and you heel it… but get enough for a perfect five-hole shot! Ahhh, just like I planned. All of the guys I play with give me and another d-man max shit for using real wood sticks.
Bah. There were neither moose nor maple syrup involved.
There is a faster solution, beavers aren’t a threatened specie and are generally not too welcome in some parts of the North Woods.
As someone who will probably need a new liver someday, a pig liver is better than no liver. People die waiting for those things.
Keep a compatible orphan on hand?
In China? It’s not like they’re running out of political prisoners. And sadly they have a new bunch from Hong Kong.
I’m gonna start camping out in line for a new pancreas soon.
“Hopefully the next step will be to simply change all the laws that criminalize things that shouldn’t be criminalized in the first place.”
I’ll take 500 for ‘things that won’t happen’, Alex.
That’s no way to keep revenue up. Have you seen how short we’re gonna be?!
We’re going to legalize destruction of public and private property, looting, rioting, and arson. But we have to keep marijuana illegal, it’s dangerous!
Again, referencing Durkan, she could clear the place in a week with the following easy steps.
Give them one day before wifi goes off.
Give them two days before electricity goes off.
Give them three days before water goes off.
Give them four days before bulldozers go in.
Give them five days before everyone goes to jail with felony charges.
Give them six days before everyone is arrested for treason.
On the seventh day, rest and ponder the violence and death you have allowed to happen in the middle of an American city.
Step one would do it.
But instead do this, send them all to her home to set up their new autonomous zone. That way she doesn’t need to turn on the TV to experience the summer of love.
How much would it cost to rent a bust to transfer the choppers to her house? Obviously we’d need to put down a much larger cleaning deposit than usual, but I’d donate to that gofundme.
Give them one day before
wifi goes off.everyone goes to jail with felony charges.Give them two days before electricity goes off.
Give them three days before water goes off.
Give them four days before bulldozers go in.
Give them five days before
Give them six days before everyone is arrested for treason.On the
seventhsecond day, rest and ponder the violence and death you have allowed to happen in the middle of an American city.FIFY!
One day more!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv-BxH3SVS8
Lol “everyone will be a king after our revolution!”
Nah bro, just Napoleon.
Imagine the exploding heads if the feds showed up outside the perimeter and made everyone exiting the city go through immigration and customs as foreign nationals trying to enter the US.
A guy can dream.
Maybe I’m a bad person but, to me, if you’re blocking the street and/or jumping on cars scaring people, if you get run over it’s deserved and brings a tear of satisfaction to my eye.
Yep. Zero sympathy from me. Stay outta the fuckin’ road and you won’t have that problem. I didn’t have any sympathy for St. Rachel of the Blessed Pancake and I don’t for these fucks either.
We need a new national law allowing you to run over people if they are blocking your way. And just throw in running down bicycle riders on the street, whether they are blocking anything or not, give an auto insurance discount for everyone you take out.
Where would you like us to ride?
And use your damned turn signals cars!
Indoor rinks, where you are no longer a danger to others.
So… you’ve never rode at a Velodrome before then, huh? There’s some more options for mountain bikers in my area at least.
I don’t ride bikes.
“Where would you like us to ride?”
In the damn 10ft wide bike lane they had taxpayers fund.
I had an idiot on a bike do a left turn in the middle of the freaking road, right in front of me. I had to slam on the brakes to keep from hitting the moron. And there’s a damn 10ft wide bike lane right there, that no one ever uses.
In places with bike lanes, I use them. And cyclists should damn well be signaling, I want to make sure all of those cars can see me, and know what I’m doing. We’ve got some areas with the most useless bike lanes ever though. They run for 2 blocks or so, and not even in an area with a hill (we’ve got a couple areas with climbs, and the uphill route has bike lanes so cars can easily pass).
Has Machine Gun Joe Vitetbo taken over your account?
Curious. If these degenerates swarm a car and the car ploughs through in fear, I know a lot of factors come into play where the law is concerned, but does the driver have a chance to get off more often than not?
I ask because I heard a 911 call (I forget where it was) replayed on Patriot Radio (I think on Wilkow Majority) where a woman with a child in her car was surrounded by ‘peaceful protestors’. She pleaded for help but was told nothing could be done and to, get this, call City Hall with a complaint.
Basically, sorry lady. Take your beating and hope you both survive.
What does it take for Mayors to simply say, ‘hey, you can protest but if you do that shit we’re cracking down’?
I don’t know about other places, but for the guy in Provo this is what i can see: In Utah you have a right to use deadly force to end deadly force. The laws does not specify what kind of weapon you can use. So using a Car is legitimate. So the question comes down to – Did he start running people over before the guy shot him or after, and does that count as legitimate? I’d say that getting yourself out of a situation that these people are helping to create, fair game for them being run over, and that they probably won’t have any civil action against him.
Watch the video. He was driving pretty slowly, and even after he got shot he wasn’t flooring it. That was not a self defense shooting.
Also, being swarmed by a mob provides justification for self defense against
the mob. He wasn’t the aggressor, so nobody in the mob was entitled to use deadly force against him.
That was Fredericksburg VA. Some asshole jumped on her hood and they just brushed her off on the phone.
What’s the point of being Mayor if you can’t let your friends and political allies do what ever they want to terrorize the rest of the people in your town.
Hans Hoppe’s “Physical Removal” of socialists is starting to really make sense.
It’d be the only workable solution in a libertarian society. Socialists are predatory and they never quit.
There’s room for socialist ventures in a libertarian society. I’d reckon there would almost certainly be some collectivizing for certain services.
The key is the voluntary entry into and out of the arrangements remaining. And that’s the part the socialists hate.
exactly
my two favorite phrases: knock yourself out . . . . and . . . . leave me out of it
Exactly. I think kibbutzim would naturally fit within a libertarian society.
As opposed to kibitzing.
The problem with libertarian society is the same as the problem with communist society. Dunbar’s number is as large as it can get and work.
150 is the general estimate, I would even go as high as 150 households. But anything larger than that is either going to fall apart of have some level of tyranny.
Showing how old I am…
Jean Shepherd (of A Christmas Story fame) had a syndicated version of his WOR radio show in the 60’s. Some of these are available on CD or audiobook download. One episode called “The Master Plan Illusion” where he talks about the hundreds of small utopian towns founded in the US, for example New Harmony, Friendship (Indiana, Shep’s home state), Englewood NJ, Zion IL, etc.
“Oh, you’re socialist that wants to impose your will on us by force? Yeah, good luck doing business with any of us and never mind the rifles we constantly have trained on you and your house.”
I’m shopping for a dashboard camera for the Taco. If I do end up having to put the tires to someone, I’d like to have some camera footage to use in my defense.
I have a Rexing V1LG that I’m quite happy with. It has a front and rear facing camera, and records time, date, speed, and audio.
The moment they start beating on a car or even surround a car so they can beat on it and yank the passengers out, the use of the vehicle itself as a means of self defense is justified.
“Wait, what the fuck? You mean he’s not going to move it just so it has a higher possibility of being a fair trial and not an absolute circus? That would just be common sense at this point.”
Doesn’t matter. The goal is he gets acquitted a few days before the election, which will oddly coincide with the next round of complete lockdowns because some 97 year old died in FL and he might have had commie cough when he died, we can’t be too careful.
Yeah, sure.
Cooper said, “When the president isn’t ignoring the coronavirus pandemic or not reading the president’s daily briefs on intelligence, he can be found stirring racial divisions online. Just last hour, he tweeted this, ‘This is a battle to save the Heritage, History, and Greatness of our Country! #MAGA2020[.]’ If you’re at all confused by what he means by ‘heritage,’ just remember that, earlier this month, he tweeted a defense of U.S. military installations named after Confederate soldiers as ‘part of a great American heritage[.]’”
Confederate soldiers ARE a part of American heritage.
Reconciliation is dead. The losers in the next civil war will be put to the sword wholesale. Gee, what incentives would that bring?
With charity toward none and malice for all!
“Hopefully the next step will be to simply change all the laws that criminalize things that shouldn’t be criminalized in the first place.”
Not likely, actually there may be more laws and calls to enforce those laws because the perceived threshold for ratting someone out will be lower. “It’s not like I called the cops on him, they just sent out the community response guy.”
https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/06/atlantic-city-trying-to-ward-off-george-floyd-protest-that-could-bring-pagans-bikers-to-town.html
*pops popcorn*
But not the ones that bring Antifa to town?
Pagans versus Antifa, what are the odds in AC?
Altamont here we come.
“The Pagans have been beefing up their membership in New Jersey, state officials said this past October during public hearings about outlaw motorcycle clubs.
The club has always been strong in South Jersey, but evidence shows they are growing in the north too. State law enforcement officials estimated then that they have 300 members in 17 chapters throughout the state – with a 50% increase in chapters over the past three years.”
See, if Mayos and Governors had done their JOBS and actually tried to stop protests morphing into riots, citizens wouldn’t feel compelled to mobilize like this. Of course, it starts with the more ‘extreme’ elements like bikers but it can spread to common folk – eg like those who booed that hobo Inslee off the stage.
There has to be a push back. A minority of commie punks are causing angst.
People Against Goodness And Normalcy?
I miss funny and unserious Tom Hanks. Maybe I’ll rewatch Bachelor Party tonight.
Hahahahaha…..Dragnet is an underrated movie. Aykroyd really nails the Jack Webb mannerisms.
Is he on a mission from God?
Not that time.
“Like every other psycho with a perfect plan, you forgot one thing. You’re facing the finest fighting force on the face of the earth.”
“The Israelis?”
Boston strong.
Although the monument was created to celebrate the freeing of slaves in America, its design disturbed many who objected to the optics of a Black man kneeling before Lincoln.
“What I heard today is that it hurts to look at this piece, and in the Boston landscape, we should not have works that bring shame to any groups of people,” said Ekua Holmes, vice-chairperson of the arts commission.
“After engaging in a public process, it’s clear that residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement.
More than 12,000 people had signed a petition demanding the statue’s removal. Officials did not immediately set a date to take it down, and said details would be worked out at their next meeting on July 14.
It should be removed because Lincoln did not free anyone, not for your stupid reason.
It should be removed because nobody in Boston is free.
DD employees are free to make coffee and donuts for cops.
And now because nuance is weeded out from the artistic viewing experience, you’ve now opened a whole new Pandora’s Box to art now in danger of being removed because illiterate and illiberal losers only see ‘optics’.
Caving like this is just weak and will only embolden them.
Boston Lame.
Boston Chicken
12,000 out of…how many people live in Boston?
Then the ‘silent majority’ need to speak a little louder then. If they can’t be bothered, then they get what they get.
Their silence is well, consent.
They fear being labeled as racists and having to deal with all of the headaches that can bring. It’s as simple as that.
Boston now has a Chief of Equity. My God.
https://twitter.com/marty_walsh/status/1278080858373738497
Job mandate: If you don’t be equity we will cut you up.
“After engaging in a public process, it’s clear that residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said in a statement.
If they’re being honest, the visitors were probably uncomfortable because it looked like the black man was subservient you Lincoln. And the Bostonians were uncomfortable because they thought the black man being portrayed should be shackled and Lincoln should be holding a whip.
Isn’t that the statue that freed slaves raised the money for?
And?
The goal is to burn down all of history.
I still don’t know where the statue is. Perhaps, I should go and see it before it’s gone. Why don’t they ever mention the location?
Frederick Douglass haz a sad.
Toppling statues, indignant indigenous hardest hit.
April McGill, executive director for the American Indian Cultural Center in San Francisco, said she is disappointed that despite the center’s partnership with the city’s Arts Commission and past work with Mayor London Breed, it wasn’t contacted about the Columbus statue decision. And although its removal felt like closure for a lot of American Indian people, they shouldn’t have had to witness it from afar, she said.
“To be silenced again, and not be included — that’s the problem,” said McGill, who is of Yuki, Little Lake and Mishewal Wappo tribal descent. “You’re on Native land — and when you remove something like that, there should have been someone there. We missed an opportunity here that was really important.”
“ To be silenced again, and not be included — that’s the problem,” said McGill”
THE LEFT DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU. You’d think it would be obvious by now.
Know who else thinks the masks are just bullshit health theater?
Actions speak stronger than words.
Scroll down a little…
Death by Clinton
Holy shit.
Like watching the Ring video.
I wonder if its true.
It’s the CV equivalent of anti global warmers who charter jets to fly to Australia. Do as I say, not as I do.
Fuck these people.
Cards Against Humanity workers are unionizing following allegations of toxic culture
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/6/30/21308708/cards-against-humanity-unionization-toxic-culture-chicago
Both of them?
The entire point of the game is to be offensive.
Meh, they’ve been woke for a while. They banned the t-word hooker card first, then others that were denounced as “that’s not funny!” or otherwise objectionable to recognized easily offended groups.
Self-awareness, you have none.
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Either he knew and chose to do nothing, or he didn’t know because he couldn’t be bothered to do his job.
On the plus side she changed her pic from that retarded mask one. ///loading…
What officials are saying they briefed Trump on this? If they’re unnamed or named Bolton I’m going to call bullshit.
Of course its anonymous.
Everyone who is in a position to know what Trump was briefed on has denied it.
This was basically a rumor that got vetted out immediately.
Hillary Clinton will never be allowed to plunge this country into a war with Russia, and that makes her so so sad.
Hillary helped Russia buy uranium reserves, helped fund their military technology park, took tens of millions from Russian oligarchs. Why on Earth whould she go to war with Russia?
Because they have information which would lead to her conviction and imprisonment.
No idea. I just remember that vicious harridan’s eyes lighting up when she was talking about shooting down Russian warplanes in Syria.
There’s plenty of bad shit that Trump has done, but I will insist to the day I die that we dodged a nuclear war by not electing Hillary.
Yeah one of things that annoyed me the most about the anti Trump libertarians and supposed antiwar types in 2016 was they completely ignored, in my experience/opinion, just how terrifyingly prowar Hillary Clinton is. This is a woman who, as far as I can tell, as supported every single war, punitive airstrike, police action, peacekeeping operation, expansion of entangling alliances, and all the other various tentacles of empire of the past 30 fucking years.
The only reason anyone needed to vote Trump over Hillary was that Trump didn’t casually, offhand, suggest committing an act of war against the only other nuclear armed state that actually has the theoretical capability of killing every single person on the planet
This even happened in the Obama presidency, when he carried on every aspect of G.W. Bush’s foreign policy, which the Left had called inhuman and savage for years.
It was a big political turning point for me when I realized that the Democrat Party is not remotely anti-war. That was pretty much the last positive thing I saw in them.
Remember when leaking classified foreign intelligence to the press was a serious crime?
Oh wait, it still is.
You know….at least Pie honoured Canada Day with a link to a piece of Canadiana.
Would it have killed you ugly Americans to link to a Canadian singer or porn star or something?
How about my favorite punk drummer of all time, Chuck Biscuits?
Now I’m wanting Q to find pics of augmented chicks wearing scarlet wool and campaign hats.
You got Dan Aykroyd today. That’s the best I’m willing to do.
Fine.
The drummer pointing at me…changed my life.
Sorey.
The lady that runs a local gym is from Canada. She has an annual celebration for Canada day. Lots of poutine and Labatt’s. Always a good time. She usually makes up T-shirts as well. Red of course.
In the words of the greatest Canadian Norm MacDonald, ‘Canada blows’.
Toronto made mask wearing mandatory.
157 cases…in all of Ontario. Pop. 14 million.
That is monumentally stupid, but if that’s your metric for whether a place blows or not, we’re all in a world of shit.
I was trying to show some love for regular folks that just want to enjoy life, no matter where they come from. Why you gotta ruin everything!?
On a side note. I typically love your rants and would love to have a beer with you some day. I think we’d get along famously.
That’s code for “Your tanned skin would look great as part of my new jacket collection.”
Well, I am from Sconnie…
I just got up and have been scrolling downward. Some of us aren’t on Maritime time.
No, some of us are on God’s Chosen Time, i.e., central.
You misspelled eastern standard time.
No, no I did not. Central daylight time.
As to daylight v standard, I want them to change to daylight year-round, not standard. I love it being 8:00 p.m. and the sun’s still out.
I want them to change to daylight year-round, not standard.
Marry me! ?
Seriously, this is the correct answer.
I don’t give a rat’s rear end what time they pick, just so long as the clock doesn’t change twice a year anymore.
Move to AZ, UnCiv. We never have to change our clocks.
Instead, we change time zones twice a year.
I know i’m old fashioned, but i’m partial to the “Noon is when the sun is highest in the Sky”. Of course standardized time zones threw that out, so i guess even arguing for Standard time doesn’t get that.
SJWednesday: How I Crushed My Three Year Old’s Gender Identity With My Cis-Privilege
Better cut his dick off before he turns four or you are gonna cause some real damage.
Kick him in the balls as well.
Mmmm, my favorite Doritos.
Kid has good instincts. Better than Mom’s.
The mental devastation this gender shit is going to have on kids is incalculable.
This. Completely unable to handle adversity, and completely fucked up in the head.
The teenagers today are already about as tough and resilient as balsa wood. I don’t care to imagine how much worse the kids coming up behind them will be.
With slab foundations on sand.
Ironically, I was watching a documentary on the Burj Al Arab, and it’s a slab* on sand.
*the slab rested on piers sunk 50 ft into the sand. I’m not sure how that was still considered a slab. ?♂️
Yeah, exactly.
Then again, people have built in stupider places like, say, Holland.
GRRR. Got the “You have to be logged in” after writing a bit ol thing. Here’s the short of it.
1. 3 years old, i don’t believe this happened.
2. Even if it did, just because your son has a plan that he thinks will get him the attention of all the chicks, doesn’t mean that you are wrong that he would get made fun of. Now you can tell him tough titties and to get used to that shit cause that’s all that happens to boys, and let him wear those pink shoes. Or you could do what you did and then tease him about his schemes to get the ladies when he’s older. Just cause a kid has reasoning for his hairbrained schemes doesn’t mean that they are not ill advised.
Kid, your father is a girl. But he’s your father so you have to still honour him. But you should still kick him in the cuck.
OFFS. Maybe he just liked the color. It doesn’t make him a tranny.
Was this antifa training video covered round here?
Shit no link
https://twitter.com/kelseyfairleigh/status/1276737427797757953
So, it’s satirical, but according to her it’s not satirizing Antifa? I guess I don’t get it.
Remember kids: Dispose of your T-1000’s properly!
https://mobile.twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1277694918593589251
Yikes!
Lachowsky? You ok?
“This is the governor, my governor, who’s supposed to be representing me,” he said.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that the governor is not a representative? They are executives in charge of running the state government. They only “represent” you in the sense of representing the state.
For your deep historical thinkers.
America’s decline: More like Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome?
I’ve been reading “The History of the Pelopenisian War” and pretty much every argument the Corinthians makes to the Spartans to go to war against Athens are the same ones the Neocons use to justify belligerence against [NAME THAT STATE]
I read the Donald Kagan book. I had no idea how the Athenians imposed “democracy” on client states – but if they stopped paying their tribute, the Athenians dropped the hammed. A couple of the island “allies” had every man killed and all the women and children sold into slavery because they voted not to pay their taxes to Athens.
Hence why we weren’t supposed to be a democracy.
Highly recommend his Ancient Greek open course. Started listening to it as a podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ancient-greek-history-audio/id341651987
Open course material
https://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205
Thanks for the link brah.
I’ve started reading a lot more ancient history lately. It’s part of my goal of having a better knowledge of how the world today came into being. I plan to read books about the most significant empires, time periods, religions, ideologies, and people.
Just finished Paul Krawiczek’s Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization a couple weeks ago, and I started on Toby Wilkinson’s The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (trying to go in roughly chronological order). It’s all very fascinating stuff. I’d go for a history degree if I were 18 years old again and if the job prospects weren’t so poor.
Can’t it be a mix of both?
1.5 hours? aint nobody got time for that
Anyhoo I will say neither. While history rhymes some I would not draw a direct comparison between either society.
rome we are far more decadent and dumber than the greeks.
??
Don’t underestimate the stupidity of the Greeks – particularly the Athenians. They voted to invade Sicily, everyone who like the idea got on the ships and sailed off. Since the only people left in town were against the idea, they put the leader of the expedition on trial in absentia and sentenced him to death. They sent a messenger to the fleet telling him to come home so they can kill him. Of course he runs off to Italy while the expedition sails on to disaster.
I realized I had three knives in immediate reach.
I then went and got a fourth.
Don’t tell UCS “all lives matter”
We’ll just call you Shiv-a from now on.
Shiv-a the Destroyer of Seasoning
I was tired of having to hunt around for knives, so I cleaned off a shelf on my Wall of Books and dedicated it to knives.
I’m much happier now.
Breaking the Law was the first riff I learned on guitar, 30+ years ago. It became the first riff my boy learned on guitar a couple years back as well. Classic and simple. One of the great things about Judas Priest is that they weren’t afraid to NOT throw a solo into a song if they didn’t feel like it, despite having two great guitar players. That makes them pretty unique among metal bands of the time.
Conker’s Bad Fur Day advertising was A++
https://twitter.com/AlphaOmegaSin/status/1278106644954648578
What was the last big thing you were wrong about?
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1277666813690535936
Is it bad I don’t remember? I do not think I had a major change of opinion recently and all things that changed did so gradually so I cannot think of one big thing that I had some revelation like wow I was wrong… I don;t think I am right about everything but still I struggle to find one big thing I was wrong about in the last couple of years (not day to day personal life stuff I mean). Ort maybe I exaggerate what a big thing is.
Whether I could shut down that Exchange server without breaking anything. Last week.
Ouch. There are few things worse then that sinking feeling when the error reports start flowing in that are related to something you changed.
I would think “using an exchange server” would be on the list of things you were wrong about.
I don’t like it, but all the other options are worse.
Foreign adventurism. I was all for it until maybe 6-7 years ago.
That the Covid-19 hysteria would die down by summer.
If by summer time you mean the second week of November, then you weren’t wrong.
This.
I thought it would not be heat resistant.
I thought a lot more people would test positive for antibodies.
My opinions have changed about death penalty (formerly in favor, now against), abortion (formerly in favor now…well, I’m still working on it), climate change (still believe data on human impact, but no longer concerned about it), Islamic terrorism (formerly in favor of stamping it down, now just happy to see it out of our borders) and Trump (thought he was a dangerous asshole, now see him as an asshole who is a better choice)
That’s just in the past five years.
Core philosophy has remained the same (“fuck off, slaver”) but I can always be persuaded of the particulars.
I haven’t quite written off the death penalty in principle. The way we do it, though, is worse than useless.
Abortion: quite some time ago I was pro-choice. Now, I draw the line at viability.
Pretty much the same on Islamonutters.
My views have evolved on the death penalty.
Previously I only advocated for it in cases of certain categories of murderer.
Now I’m in favor of the death penalty for race baiters, commies, talking heads, politicians, and certain categories of murderer.
Death Penalty: Was For/Now Against (prosecutors are humans, therefore fallible)
Abortion: Was Against/Now Pro-Choice but Anti-Abortion (state should not intervene in choices, but abortion should be treated as a drastic solution)
Foreign Adventurism: Was Sort-of For/Now Against
Systemic Racism: What is this?/I do believe as Bret Weinstein puts it, there is some ‘latent programming’ that exists that doesn’t promote equal opportunity but it was mainly created by white liberals)
I’ll add … Police Brutality: Was “yeah sure”/Now I recognize that it can be a problem and needs to be addressed.
I used to think that religion was a bad thing for humanity.
I no longer believe that, mainly thanks to discussions with people in the libertarian movement (mostly on TOS and this site). There are still some things I don’t get about religion, but I don’t think it automatically makes a person stupid, childish, or intellectually lazy. I’ve actually gained a tremendous amount of respect for the intellectual traditions (e.g. monastic study) that exists among many religions today. It’s kind of funny how Leftist history would have you believe that science has been nobly struggling to bring us the truth while religion has endeavored to stamp it out, when that’s nowhere near accurate.
In short, I think religion is probably a net benefit, but I don’t know how to square this with the fact that I don’t believe it myself. Very strange position to be in.
Happy Canada Day to our northern glibs. And to my late asshole grandmother who became a bit of a bigot in her senility. And her father, a true French-Canadian, not the fake Quebecki kind. Well, if you accept Bretons as French. Thanks Gr-grandpa for getting on the boat and putting up with the sea sickness.
Music!
https://youtu.be/v5tr_L31StI
https://youtu.be/T6wbugWrfLU
If you don’t like it, get stuffed. Played regularly on AFN when it came out, and a woman’s voice while sweating my balls off im a plywood shack in the sand was like heaven.
She always was. Senility often brings out the worst in people.
Probably so. She was a kind of a jerk before. But that could just be memories be a child me reacting.
My MIL became this sort of serene mild mannered easy to like person. Which is quite different that she was during much of her life according to the wife.
If she’s a huge jerk now, your memories aren’t wrong. Gma from Hell #1 was sharp as a tack and just as narcissistic in her old age as she ever was. Gma from Hell #2 just got more unpleasant. She drove my mother to a therapist, which was no easy feat, lemme tell you.
That’s a blessing!
Favorite Canadian blog
http://kayokyokuplus.blogspot.com/
And one more music, because the hat punches above its weight in the arts (and that includes my hero Glenn Ford)
https://youtu.be/el6AZ5QEU5I
“Facebook said it has been investigating the movement for months and started connecting the online activity of the movement to real-world events at a gun rights rally in Richmond, Va., when members of the boogaloo movement showed up clad in the shirts.”
Fashion police?
“President Donald Trump and other government officials have pointed to antifa as a major instigator of violence at the mostly peaceful protests in the past month, but experts have noted that antifa members were responsible for few incidents and that the government needs to devote more resources to investigating heavily armed right-wing extremist groups such as boogaloo adherents.”
“experts”
This group is responsible for few incidents of violence. But being heavily armed and anti government is all the evidence needed to show that they were responsible. Fuck off.
“experts”
experts have noted that antifa members were responsible for few incidents
Based on what? I sure saw a lot of videos of people wearing black and red busting windows and throwing molotovs.
^^^ False Flag Boogaloo Bois
“experts”
Without weasel words there would be no journalism.
And did they do anything? I don’t think so.
gun rights rally in Richmond, Va.
That was entirely peaceful.
Amazingly so. I was expecting a minimum of one ND, probably two or three. We ended up with zero. I was shocked and delighted.
I don’t ever recall a gun rights rally with an ND. The average person at those rallies is way more disciplined than the couple from St Louis.
Will never happen
This is all about racism. They’ll never go after religious statues, that’s just right wing propaganda! Shut up you wingnuts!
Sirois said the crime occurred May 22 and was reported to police at the time, but wasn’t made public immediately as investigators wanted to first explore leads.
I’m thinking it’s just vandalism.
“Residents were pleased to find that the residents of CHOP left the neighborhood better than they found it.”
CNN
All that graffiti is beautification.
Wow. . .
Not really. At least for now…
What happened to their garden?
It was some dirt thrown on stop of some cardboard. Seriously, that was done the first time it comes a hard rain to start with. Then some ‘artist’ dude decided it was his stage and stomped all over it. Beautiful how anarchy works, isn’t it?
Pure propaganda. I’ve seen the videos. The place looks like Shithole Town.
About that crazy stabby Asian chick at Deloitte. Pretty amazing she’s likely to keep her job given the cancel culture virus.
“Princeton Learning Experience
Teacher
Company Name Princeton Learning Experience Part-time
Dates EmployedJun 2020 – Present
Employment Duration2 mos
Creates and tailored Model UN curriculum for multi-week online teaching courses via Zoom to middle and high school students around the world. Responsible for all academic instruction (curriculum design, assignments if any, zoom teaching, etc).”
High school students around the world she teaches.
Then we wonder why.
Deloitte is in the business of selling bullshit anyway.
Touche.
The best part is watching this high-achiever Asian girl from Princeton spitting out “I’mma stab them!” as if she were a member of the Bloods’ girls auxiliary. I thought cultural appropriation was bad?
Just occurred to me that the Alien series with the uber-white progenitors of the human race is the ultimate expression of white supremacy.
I’m almost certain Alien Covenant was Ridley Scott giving the fans and the studio the finger after everyone criticized the Prometheus seeings how he literally doubled down on every part everyone thought made Prometheus bad ie lazy terrible writing. I actually think he had an interesting kind of concept with Prometheus and the xenomorph parts were completely unnecessary and was probably shoehorned into film at the studio’s request.
Strange new respect for the Crips? A video purports to show Crips members chasing BLM types out of their neighborhood.
Zero respect for linking.
Dammit
Crips are capitalists.
I once read a great article about lessons economics students could learn about the free market from successful drug dealers (the ones at the top). Now I can’t find it. Boo.
Freakanomics covered this. The typical gang structure closely resembles that of McDonald’s.
And the low level dealers would love to make 15$ an hour.
Freakanomics might indeed be where I read it.
They don’t want outsiders shitting up the place. It’s territorial, not altruistic. A more long-lasting evil chases out an immediate threat. Woowee. Even the crips know they have to have certain above-board commodities and they don’t want the place trashed.
Yeah i was gonna say, it’s just one gang fighting against another.
Bingo. This isn’t the first time the Crips have protected their turf from another gang.
Oh, I know it’s territorial. I just enjoy watching those shitbirds get run out of the place.
By, as Scruffy said, capitalists.
We’re all going to be forced into underground capitalism eventually, but as I’ve noted before, the black market is part of a healthy economy and sometimes is the only thing healthy about it.
Reminds me of the discussion I had with Scruffy back when the rioting was at its peak, about how this kind of thing, and the widespread abdication of responsibility for stopping it by local municipal governments, could bring the Mafia back in spades.
Also those business’s probably have been paying them for protection and they are just fulfilling their side of the bargain unlike the gov.
Right. I’ve had this discussion before with Jarflax, about which gang (mobsters v government) is the worse enforcer of demanding your money and you handing it over.
No doubt, gangs/mobs can be vicious if you get on their wrong side. Boss Tom Pendergast was awful to those who opposed him or crossed him (refused to pay). (Although if you crossed him with a measured response and gave respectful reasoning, he let you off the hook and even befriended you or at least saw you as an equal. See: Harry Truman)
However, Boss Tom and his policy of ignoring Prohibition altogether also pulled Kansas City through the depression with paid make-work (yeah, he was making a fortune anyway) and those effects were still being felt well into the 60s.
Latin Kings were doing the same thing in Chicago. See gangs unlike pols understand economically what happens when you destroy the livelihoods of the people you are extorting and are more than willing to stand up to their side of the bargain.
Here’s some more derp on our favorite gun-toting St. Louis couple. Apparently they are quite the art collectors.
So’s my aunt. She’s got millions in art.
She also lives in an extremely modest house (in a tony neighborhood, though) (@leon, the Avenues in SLC) to disguise the fact.
Wow. All the way to Hitler.
Effing Christ.
No mob justice, no peace.
the threats against people of color
Trying to dissuade a violent mob. And it doesn’t matter what color they are, it is their behavior.
This along with the push for investigating boogaloo bois for being “heavily armed” makes it clear to me that a big agenda item is that they want merely owning weapons to be a sign of white supremacy. Or at least owning weapons and not being part of the hive mind.
Hey, you know what I’m really fucking tired of hearing about? Online petitions. They mean absolutely nothing since anyone can sign it as many times as they want.
Never mind that they are known BLM supporters and useful idiots in the Biden cause.
Sometimes you must sacrifice even your own for the cause.
Christ. A literal, non-ironic argument of: “You know who else was into classical art and design?”
The picture of the middle-aged white couple pointing guns at a throng of peaceful protestors in front of their ornate St. Louis home
Aaaaannnd I’m out.
Look they were just peaceful protesters that had broken down the gate to get onto private property.
And supposedly heading to the Mayor’s house, which the Pistol Packing Lawyers say you can’t get to from there.
Make fun of Pink Polo Shirt all you want, he gave an excellent interview to Fredo.
And I’m pretty fucking sick and tired of hearing every single mob of commie scum in this country described as “peaceful protestors”, too.
Neglected to mention that they bought the place 32 years ago when it was a broken down relic. They spend decades of hard work and savings to restore the place as a home and place for their business.
Fuck the commies and their despicable envy.
I have seen people bewildered that someone so wealthy would be waving a Jiminez.
How do I destroy the city code enforcement office without them knowing it was me and retaliating? I just want those busybodies to stop poking their noses into other people’s business and get a real job.
Anyone want to help me break down ten thousand boxes so I can have space to move my trash can inside and not have to waste time (and money) fighting a fine from the city because there’s nowhere to put the stupid thing? Apparently up against the building is too far “out front”. Nevermind the fact that there’s no back to this property.
That is either an enormous trash can or those are tiny boxes.
It’s from his Funko Pop collection.
It’s a hyperbolic commentary.
*grabs lighter fluid and a match*
I’ve got a quicker way.
I need to keep the house intact.
It’s where I keep my stuff, and where I sleep.
*kicks pebble*
I guess you’re right.
Who said anything about your house?
If you drag them outside and burn them in the street, they’ll mistake you for a rioter. So dress in antifa colors.
Break down boxes?? But…but…they might be USEFUL!! ::admitted box hoarder considers two-car garage filled with boxes and other stuff that leaves no room for a single car::
Aside from the threat from the city about my trash can, I want to make sure there’s no place that might be attractive to mice. And a cardboard box collection is kinda up their alley – so I need to get rid of it.
Unless Hollywood is lying to me, first you hack into the darknet and put their security cameras on a looped feed.
Hollywood lied to you.
That’s their entire job.
Well, shit. I had a whole lot of improvised incendiaries from McGuyver to suggest to you, but now I’m not so sure.
And that probably also rules out my backup plan of contacting the A-Team.
Hollywood also taught me how to close em tags.
https://twitter.com/alimhaider/status/1278344007219806208
Commies dude. I can’t believe it took this long for this take to occur to the intellectual Taliban.
“Their Share”
Then buy some land.
Welcome to Zimbabwe.
Ignoring the Mugabe angle, there is a history of blacks losing their land to whites or being forced off during the Jim Crow Era.
I would be happy to see more enrollees in agricultural programs at major universities, no matter their color. Addressing the economic damage with more collective action is correcting a wrong with a wrong.
I totally agree. But there’s also a history of this happening to everyone at anytime throughout American history. Pretty sure there’s a reason a ton of people were pissed off at the banks and the FDIC was invented after the 1929 crash.
1929 = Jim Crow Era.
You can use “depression” or “jim crow era” in your argument depending on what agenda you’re trying to push.
Reconstruction included redistribution of land. Many of the poor black (and white) farmers left their land and moved north to work in factories during the industrial revolution.
Where are these “young, black farmers” and what is “their share”. If you want land to farm buy some.
Getting started as a farmer is pretty daunting for anyone no matter what their skin color.
White, black, red, yellow, whatever it takes a big chunk of change to buy enough land to start a farm. Then you also need to buy lots of expensive equipment to plant, grow and reap those crops.
Just enslave some Irish indebted prisoners. Problem solved.
Oh, wait.
And have plenty of working capital to keep the lights on until you have a crop to sell.
A long time ago, in a fit of alienation from my law firm job, I looked into it.
No. Fucking. Way.
Luckily one doesn’t need to know much to be a farmer. The seeds do all the work and the instructions are on package
/looks at garden and a tear or two rolls down my face
I mentioned it last nite, but will do so again this morning. Looks like Colorado’s western slope has booted the incumbent Rep and a very pro gun woman is going to be the Repub nominee. They are already going for the “she’s a QAnon nutball.” She has a good chance of winning the general though.
https://apnews.com/bd43efaf54b8c2bb9049931885110822?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
Ten years is too long to be in office. Good riddance to the incumbent, get a real job.
Joseph Biden has been in some sort of office intermittently since 1972.
That only reinforces my point.
Exactly!
She owns a restaurant where all the staff carry a sidearm, and she opened said restaurant in defiance of the shutdown order and lost her license as a result. So that’s five establishment GOP losing to conservative challengers? Interesting stuff, interesting stuff.
Maybe the GOP can be fixed. Maybe.
hahahahahahahahahaha.
Come on, I was trying to talk myself in a little false optimism. 🙁
She’s moderately cute, too
Not a fan of her drop-leg rig. But if that turns out to be the worst thing about her, she’s among the best politicians ever.
*Narrator’s voice: ” That was not, in fact, the worst thing about her.”*
Whoo, yeah, that thing screams ‘low effort’.
But I’d cheerfully put up with it if she turns out not to be a complete smoothie.
Good. The moderate republicans in congress and the senate seem to think that the commies are going to go away when trump leaves or they can somehow placate them.
I generally like seeing the incumbents lose, regardless of party. It is interesting that there have been a few establishment Republicans that have gotten kicked to the curb this cycle. I like that the pro gun chick is a small biz owner to boot.
I like that the pro gun chick is a small biz owner to boot.
Well, used to be, anyway.
Would.
That articles is totes objective.
It’s never the ones you want to act like this.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/florida-teacher-busted-after-bragging-about-oral-sex-with-teen/amp/
Today is the 66th anniversary of the day I joined the National Guard. So many of life’s turns came from that decision, a career or two, 2 marriages, a college degree. Almost every life’s event can be traced back to making that decision at 17 years old. Later I got out of Podunkville and discovered that there was a lot more world that I’d never even thought about. Life takes so many turns on what ifs and what is. We live in the what is part called reality. The ride has been bumpy at times but in retrospect not so rough.
I might change a couple things but we’re never sure if that would be for the better or the worse.
Congrats Fourscore. The date I remember is 6/26/1986. That was the day I got out of boot camp.
I didn’t make a career out of Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children, but like you I look back and realize how big of an impact that it had on my life. Got to see a lot of the world, met people from even more parts of the world (including actual Hoosiers).
One of the things that I agree with the yahoos who want to bring back the draft is that an enlistment does have a lot of positives. You meet different people, you see different places and you learn to distrust authority.
Biggest Shockers:
* The first winter in NAS Memphis it never snowed. I knew intellectually that there were places that it didn’t snow, but it was weird to actually live it.
* Black people. I grew up in NW Minnesoda. The only black people living even remotely close to me were all athletes at the colleges in Fargo/Moorhead 45 miles away. So living with a bunch of black guys in the barracks was an eye opener.
* Realizing people didn’t know what Uffda meant. I mean, how can you grow up and not know what that means?
* Big Cities. My hometown was about 5K people and we were a BIG town for the region. Turned out I was not as urbane and sophisticated as I thought
And now the Return to Podunkville. Been to Paree and now back to the farm
Atlanta Mayor Bottoms: ‘We’re Now Paying For’ Reopening ‘So Aggressively’
No mention of protests and riots, strange.
It just tells me that the BLM polling is not going the way they want it to.
https://imgur.com/a/TxM1Pd9
I am not seeing it.
I see a pretty straight line trend down since the peak. Its noisy, but that is because the sample is so small.
Get back to me when the hospitals and morgues are overwhelmed.
RE: Time zones from above.
1. Get rid of daylight savings time.
2. Switch to 15 minute time zones, with each US county closest to real time as possible.
3. Switch to 5 minute time zones.
4. Switch to 1 minute time zones.
Put a 10 year adjustment period between each step. Yes, it puts us back in the pre time zone days when train schedules and communications made it difficult, but computers have it handled now. Plus, it will make Leon happy, as the sun will be at its highest point at noon, or close enough to it. At the center of the county, it should be within 30 seconds.
Fun fact – solar noon is not a constant time. If you stick to a 24-hour clock, solar noon will wander back and forth across the noon line throughout the year.
Yeah, I know that too, so my 30 seconds is an underestimate of the max error, but still close enough for government work, as you should know.
This is one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me.
:tears up:
I was doing it for myself, but that included evil-me also.
computers have it handled now
Fer fuck’s sake, I get appointments bollixed up on Outlook now with different time zones.
I go the other way. Get rid of time zones, and just use GMT.
This. If we’re not gonna get rid of DST, let’s just go to a single global standard. It’ll take a couple years to get used to, and then the world will be better off.
The only downside to this is it will eventually make part of the lyrics to One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer incomprehensible for future listeners. But you know what? Fuck those guys.
“The clock on the wall says 3 o’clock. Last call. For alcohol.”
3 AM will be last call somewhere.
“It’s past 5pm somewhere.”
So we’re already using global timezone in certain cases, and it works fine. Let’s do it.
You’d still have problems figuring out when “daylight” was when you are trying to setup meetings with your colleagues in Europe or India.
Sure once you picked your time, it would be the same for everyone, but you still need to know that “06:00” is just getting to be daylight in EU, middle of the night in America and afternoon in Asia.
Every time you move you will have to learn what time daylight is. Especially for big moves. Now I have a pretty good estimate, no matter where I am.
“In space, every day is the Fourth of July,” Space hat said confidently.
The tz database has it handled. Who knows what Microsoft has done.
Screw GMT. The Brits surrendered, they don’t get to pick the meridian anymore.
EST is God’s time. We can standardize on CDT for those that want daylight savings year round.
” Get rid of time zones”
How CCP of you.
More power to St. Paul mayor who wants to lure all of Minneapolis’ lazy assholes across the river by offering a basic income to them
Of course the plan for the money is going to come from somewhere else. Heaven forbid that Mayor Carter actually taxes his own citizens to fund this scheme.
https://pagesix.com/2020/07/01/alyssa-milano-slams-accusations-that-she-wore-blackface/
LOL. Poor Alyssa.
OK. Brownface, then.
I believe Snooky is white, and therefore privileged. Nice try.
Ironic that she’s the one who knows how to properly react to the mob, given that she’s often leading the mob against others.