Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is!
Senate Intel Panel concludes what everyone else did.
The Democrat National Convention is a complete and utter shitshow with abysmal viewership.
You can’t even satirize the DNC anymore.
They are embracing all the shitstains from the Republican Party who got us into the Iraq War.
The most banned woman on the internet wins the Republican Primary for Florida’s District 21. I never understood the deep hated for her from not only the left but many from the right. She continually gets kicked down and just comes right back.
After a flurry of batshit crazy conspiracy theories, the Postmaster general says he is suspending USPS changes until after the election.
That is all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning Banjos, it’s probably for the best for the DNC that no one watches their convention.
Mornin’
“The most banned woman on the internet wins the Republican Primary for Florida’s District 21. ”
More like this..
Yes, LL is cray-cray. But she’s the entertaining kind of cray-cray. While I don’t know that I’d want her to get withing sniffing distance of actual power, it would be a better ride than Brianna Wu.
At a minimum her cray-cray forces the left to show their true colors and to waste money & time…
I’d rather put up with her nonsense than any of the “Squabs”. A least she’s not a communist…
Just a fascist.
Maybe she can lock herself to the front doors of the Capitol?
I had never heard of her, so I looked her up. School Shooting conspiracists are too much for me, but I suppose that makes her no more out of touch with reality than a typical mainstream Dem.
It’s alright… we’re still getting USPS stories here in the local news.
It’s a good thing the OrangeManBad started his plan to start slowing down the mail in August, otherwise, he may have gotten away with it!
It’s a good thing the union didn’t publicly declare its support for Biden or anything.
Mornin’ Banjos! Can confirm that Camelids are bitey.
Mornin’
You can stop riffling through my music feed, too. About once a week when you are posting links your song choice is something that I listen to pretty regularly.
Meant to say “keep” not “stop”. Drunk again.
Rode camel for a few days in the Sahara and can confirm that they are nasty beasts…..how else could they survive in that harsh environment? I would take an Arabian horse over them any day….and I think Arabians are the psychos of the horse world.
Which is more obscene: Warren speaking at the Native American Caucus or a Rando stripping on stage in the middle of the convention.
It’s as if they WANT to go over the top with their shit to see if the people will still keep sucking donkey dick for the free shit promises….
It’s a good way for them to smoke out the journalists who may have a smattering of integrity left in them. They need to know who those people are before sending Biden to an interview.
It’s as if the other team is writing their scripts.
Warren. The Stripper-Dude was making a statement. Warren is pandering for votes.
I’m waiting for a national televised struggle session.
You mean this isn’t it???
Democratic Convention Viewer Wishing They Would Just Get To The Part About All The Free Stuff
https://babylonbee.com/news/democratic-convention-viewer-wishing-they-would-just-get-to-the-part-about-all-the-free-stuff
They should watch Cardi’s interview with Biden. He promised her all the free shit she asked for.
I was just scanning it this morning…
Cardi B: But what a lot of people are concerned about is, if the government gives us [these things], are they going to raise our taxes? Because clearly nobody wants to pay so much in taxes. Sometimes, when my taxes come in, I’m like, “Oh my gosh, I’m depressed, oh Lord, let me see my Birkin collection.” That is a little joke. [But] when you see the taxes coming off your check, you don’t understand, because you feel like you’re putting in so many hours. People want to know, can you provide college education, this [health care] plan, without a big chunk of taxes coming out of our checks?
Joey B: Yes, we can. And the way we can pay for all of this is doing practical things, like making sure that everybody has to pay their fair share. [For example] no corporation should pay less than 15 percent tax.
A staffer cuts in to say their time is coming to an end.
“Joey B: Yes, we can.”
*11 pinocchios*
Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
Everyone freaks out about the DNC going to far left, when all I see is that it has been taken over by the Never Trump neo-con grifters.
They’re just useful idiots.
I look at it the other way. The neo-cons have proven that there was never anything remotely conservative about them. They’re willing to get on bed with communists if it means they get to start another war.
Trotskyites arent far left?
Heh. So the realignment has really just been putting all the commies in one party.
same as it ever was.
Goodyear hates their customers.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/want-some-virtue-signaling-with-your-tires-goodyear-is-your-brand/
I’ll keep this in mind as I tire shop before winter.
Goodyear sucks anyway. Michelin is the better choice.
FREEDOM TIRES.
Actually I bought BF Goodrich last time around, and they are apparently owned by Michelin.
I like them because their mascot is a realistic role model for me.
A Leap at the Buffet Line?
Maybe they are just trying to save themselves from being sued as the manufacturer of the tires that ran over people.
….. Is this like when your dad doesn’t say anything, but you know you’ve disappointed him?
Haha, I never had to go through that because wen my dad doesn’t say anything to me, its because he doesn’t love me.
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There’s a high likelihood that slide comes from a third-party “diversity” grifter with Goodyear’s logo slapped onto the template.
Of course Goodyear had to have hired the diversity grifter in the first place, so It’s still on Goodyear.
Right. I’m implying they all do.
Well yeah, that does seem to be the latest thing in corporate America.
This wouldn’t surprise me…
I just got some Douglas Tires put on, I read they’re manufactured by Goodyear, this is a week too late for me. DO BETTER NEXT TIME DRAKE!
Assume eveyone hates you and make your own stuff!
Everyone does. I just don’t have the resources to make tires.
I usually buy Pirellis or Yokohamas.
Customer says to deliver equipment between 8:00 and 8:30.
Customer calls at 8:00am to bitch because we’re not there yet.
Can you afford to tell them that you’ve cancelled their order due to their behaviour?
If they pay their bills, it’s usually “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
When the remittance arrives in the account we refer to that as “La petite Mort”. CWAA but you just got paid.
“Check is in the mail”, expect delivery within 3-4 weeks or until your regular carrier returns from vacation
How is he gonna deliver the check xhe cashed to go on vacation in the first place?
Scruffy isn’t telling us that he works for the cable company.
*deadpan voice* Pizza delivery…
“After a flurry of batshit crazy conspiracy theories, the Postmaster general says he is suspending USPS changes until after the election.”
Hmm this must be a way in which he’s interfering with the election!!!
What is funny is that these states want to go mail in voting and then complain about interference. It’s you guys who are inserting this third party into the process. Use your own mail system if you don’t like it.
A: they’re convinced they’re going to lose. B: they want to increase the margin of fraud C: they’re worried B might not be enough, and want to undermine faith in anyone else winning.
It’s about undermining his ability to run the country when they fail to steal the election. Team blue is hell bent on making sure people understand they will not tolerate anyone else being in power. They want the unwashed masses to get the message they are expected to, like you do in good marxist countries,pick the leader the establishment wants them to. Not the one they want. Or else…
They’ve flat out said they will not respect any election result where they don’t win.
I think they are playing the long game here not convinced they want to win at the top of the ticket at all just trying to preserve the down ballot. Not that it matters a Trump presidency with a democratically controlled congress is the stuff of nightmares.
Lysander Spooner says hello!
Smart move, for once. The Dems think they “won” this one when of course they knew it was all bullshit to begin with.
How are these states having such late primaries?
What is the need to have them earlier? I think Wisconsin may be in September.
Have primary, start general campaign immediately, no need for a 3 month gap.
Primary election day should be the monday before election day. – ie, the day before tax day
You need to keep at least one of them close to the general so that McCain-Feingold keeps the private citizen media bans in place.
There were primaries here last week. I don’t know what for, I didn’t bother.
Did Florida Instagram babe win?
Yes.
Woo-Hooo! https://youtu.be/SSbBvKaM6sk
NH’s presidential primary is in February. NH’s state primary is in September. September 8th this year.
Putting the presidential primary in February is a gimmick to get the state attention.
Love the “true” conservatives getting all whipped up for the gop to allow Laura Loomer to win a primary, how bout none of this matters and everyone in politics hates us and wants us dead. I hate our chattering class so fucking much. Get whipped up about the crushing legislative and regulatory on slot that is creating the largest wealth transfer in american history and devastating the working class. You might be content from choosing to either working for amazon or walmart but I’m not.
I started reading Propaganda by Edward Barnay’s, good lord it really puts everything in perspective for what’s happening right now.
Funny how I used to think Buchanan was wrong on everything and Alex Jones was a conspiracy nut.
I no longer respect anyone who bought into the lockdowns or doesn’t think they were the most destructive thing to ever happen in my lifetime.
In fairness, Buchanan is still wrong about most stuff; and yes, I’ve agreed with him a time or two myself (which makes me double check my premises).
I would have agreed with you a few years ago. Now his 90s speeches seem prescient.
On a whim I picked up a copy of The Death of the West. Vintage Pat – preaching one thing while he did the very thing he preached against (childless marriage). What Pat couldn’t account for (because it would have meant thinking) was that the fecundity crash happens everywhere that becomes prosperous (children going from being an economic asset to liability) – he kept ranting about his usual fetishes. Like I said, I agree at times, mostly as coincidence – not because he’s particularly astute.
“The report, which clocks in at 966 pages, also offered a scathing assessment of the FBI’s handling of the Steele dossier, ”
The FBI must be very sorry and will change it’s ways.
Yeah, I am told unless Biden is elected the FBI will need to reform, and we can’t have an FBI (or any other weaponized unelected government bureaucracy that Obama weaponized for team blue) losing that mission (serving team blue’s power-brokers).
Funny…According to Yahoo News, the most important thing about the report is that it “Confirmed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help get Trump elected”.
That’s definitely the spin. The report changes nothing really.
Didn’t some FBI top lawyer, which the usual dnc operatives with bylines have been hard at work telling us was a nobody, get convicted of changing the facts to reach the conclusion they wanted (which the facts actually denied), just get dick slapped for?
Well he assures everyone that he didn’t mean to mislead anyone. Sure i mean he changed the meaning so that it had the exact opposite meaning of the original email, but it was not his intent that someone would miss that original meaning.
Right….
Supposed to plead guilty on Friday.
That asshole (Dilanin?) at NBC is pimping that too.
You would think though that Yahoo News would show a modicum of humility though, seeing as how they were the ones- of all the news sites- that were willing to run with the Steele dossier story back in 2016 after every single news organization had declined. And it was this action that allowed the FBI to claim they had “Multiple” sources for the claims in the story, thereby allowing the FISA application.
Man, what it must be like to work at that company. I’d go as far to say that if I worked there for, say, 17 years, I’d be ashamed at what it has become. Contributions to Apache, creation of Hadoop, YQL, and other technical innovations coming out of that company would- to me- pale in comparison to the sick joke that the news staff became as the company was merged with AOL and HuffPost. What it must feel like to be a cog in that machine with libertarian leanings to see the staff of that company enable one of the dirtiest tricks ever perpetrated on half of the country. If I were such a person working his way up through the ranks there, it would leave a black void cut out of what I had once considered a rather impressive career.
Yes. I would certainly feel that way. If I worked at that company.
“You would think though that Yahoo News would show a modicum of humility though, seeing as how they were the ones- of all the news sites- that were willing to run with the Steele dossier story back in 2016 after every single news organization had declined. And it was this action that allowed the FBI to claim they had “Multiple” sources for the claims in the story, thereby allowing the FISA application.”
Doing this would require you to actually want to just report the news and hold your reputation high, rather than being a political psyops arm of team blue politics. In the case of the later, it is more important to repeat the lies so they become the perceived truth.
“The FBI must be very sorry and will change it’s ways.”
Sure, just wait until the dems win. Then we get Comey, Clapper, Brennan, the entire gang of them back, along with an assortment of batshit crazy commies wanting to make law and no one to stop them.
Excavator in my front yard this morning. They’re (Town? County? Who can say?) putting in a new water line. They did assure me that the cut through my driveway is going to be cleanly done and easy (for me to hire someone) to repair.
*awaits Nelson Muntz laugh from Mojeaux*
Narrator: it wasn’t easy to repair.
Why the fuck would you pay? Serious question. Never mind. FYTW.
It’s not a taking, because you shouldn’t have put a driveway over the governments easement/ Roberts?
I would sue them for destruction of property…
They would counter-sue for Not Adahn having his dirt in Boss Govt’s hole.
It’s odd- most sewer/water lines stop at the property line, with your main line going from there to the house. If they are cutting in, it is off your property, and their responsibility to fix. If they are cutting onto your water line, then why aren’t they charging for it.
Do you live somewhere rural? Is there an easement on the property?
Yes there are easements. I’m sure some would consider it rural, though I, having gone to school from 1st grade-12 across from cows, do not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_(town),_New_York
Not from me. I winced in empathy pain.
You have a driveway?
*envy*
According to half of the comments over at the Senate panel on Russia article, the conclusions of the report actually prove collusion. They’re never going to let it go, and I mean never.
Just wait until the next generations kids are learning the approved history.
“In 2020, Donald Trump released a virus that caused the complete collapse of the United States. He did this under orders from his Russian handlers.”
Yeah, I strongly disagree with the opinion I sometimes see that history won’t look kindly on what the Democrats have done in recent years. Something something who writes the history books something.
All you have to do is look at FDR’s perception among historians and the general public to disabuse yourself of the notion that the historians will put these lunatics in the proper context.
They aren’t even McCarthyites. There actually were Communists all over the government, just weren’t as many as he thought there were.
+1 FDR and the New Deal
Of they won’t let it go – it is a central tenet of the faith. Sheesh, don’t you religion bro’?
In Virginia legislative news Democrats voted to allow for remote legislative/committee sessions (government by Zoom) and voted to give themselves a per diem while doing so.
Well you know, all the travel that will occur to get to the zoom meeting needs to be paid for.
This must not stand! I’ve run some Zoom chats for this very site and I swear that I’ve only passed out during one of them. Where are my sweet Glib-Bucks? Harrumph!
I keep seeing references to these Glib Zoom things. Is there a link or something, in the event one would decide to attend?
I generally host Friday and Saturday evenings, and drop the link in the afternoon comments. They usually start around 20:00 Eastern. Others have stepped up to host on days when I’m not available.
Noted, thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die#/media/File:Benjamin_Franklin_-_Join_or_Die.jpg
Crazy how that wasn’t reported in the local news article about the session. Looks like we are getting a ban on no-knock raids, which might be the first good thing the Prog Ascendancy has wrought.
“The blow from the battering ram is now to be regarded as a ‘knock’.”
Yeah the usual work around the cops use for that is Knock once at 2 AM, and give them 10 seconds to open the door, and then kick it in.
voted to give themselves a per diem while doing so.
Why do they need this if they are “working” from home? (I know, I know…)
Orange man does a lot of things that make me wonder, but the guy also does some things that show you he is not bought & paid for by the credentialed elite class and their masters – things that are existential threats to America and the American way, but have made our credentialed elite class really, really rich (and owned by entities that are enemies to the concept of free people) –like this one.
Cock-blocking the ChicComms on this is absolutely huge for security and to derail China’s world domination agenda. The old establishment members would sell us all out to China for a bunch of beads. In fact, they already had done just that.
Speaking of purchased people.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-national-security-law-reaches-into-harvard-princeton-classrooms-11597829402?st=ty0uc1ayl4hqnaf&reflink=article_copyURL_share
The Ivy League is bought and paid for by ChiComm agents and their sympathizers. There is a reason the left loves them people with degrees from these institutions. My experiences have left me believing most Ivy League grads are absolute morons. Their heads are full of information that is not just wrong but downright destructive. I had several of these snowflakes become enraged when I told them that while I agreed with them that our CIO was also a moron, they were themselves disqualified because they were too dumb to know how much they really didn’t know.
I’ve worked with countless ivy grads. At least in my age cohort they were smart, but their perception of their intelligence was off the charts. That was their downfall. They couldn’t be wrong.
Smart people realize that no mater how much they know, the reality is that there are orders of magnitude of information they don’t. That was one of the first lessons I learned. No matter how much you learned, there was always far more you just didn’t know (or had wrong). It keeps you humble and forces you to rely on common sense as well as listen to others. Impatient credentialed douches that think they are better by virtue of some piece of paper given by an institution where the paper gets issued for being woke, doesn’t make you smart. If anything, it makes you dumber.
“You don’t know what you don’t know” is something that was pounded into us n00bs as we started out in the medical transcription business. Look everything up.
That was the advantage of going to a school that was (relatively) easy to get into and hard to get out of, versus the opposite, which is the Ivy/Stanford/Duke/etc model.
Ivy grads had to be smart to get into the school, then their grades just validated their view of themselves.
Meanwhile, I went to a school that was easier to get into (I wouldn’t have got into an Ivy probably) but that if you survived the first year and the second year, you were top tier. Graduating with highest honor probably overinflated my ego, so I get the problem the Ivies have, but at least I had a legitimate chance to fail (I waited until later and life to have the humbling failures).
My sister works at Harvard and just got an early retirement offer. Because the endowment has dropped like a rock, allegedly.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with so much of the campus being closed and all that sweet tuition money from foreigners not coming in.
Guy makes another informative Youtube video, but fucks up one of the most important details.
Removes video, redoes it, and makes an 18 minute apology/explanation video
Senate Intel Panel concludes what everyone else did.
And nothing else happened.
You can’t even satirize the DNC anymore.
But you can pass the peace pipe.
embracing all the shitstains from the Republican Party who got us into the Iraq War.
Interesting strategy. Despite being the president, Trump remains the anti-establishment candidate.
She continually gets kicked down and just comes right back.
Relevant.
Knew it would be that before click. You know that they are Commies, right?
I think they had that “libertarian socialist” comedy descriptor. There’s nothing more punk than an oxymoron, right?
I would push back on that a bit. While they are certainly collectivists, they are Bakuninite Anarchists, not Marxists of any flavor. They did a great album with Negativland titled The A B Cs Of Anarchism that had some interesting lectures on anarchist theory.
That’s a mouthful for an album cover.
So… If I fall back down, are you going to help me back up again?
More commie douches
SJWednesday: I’m Enacting Your Labor To Tell You How I Enact Your Labor
So femmes aren’t women?
WTF is a femme? Is that some slang on Canook womenz?
Swishy gays.
WUT?
The sassy gay best friend There’s a reason it’s a trope.
I guess it’s a way to allow some gays back onto the victim stack.
Dang, I am too old for all this constant change man…
It also is half of the butch/femme lesbian dyad.
Lipstick lesbians? Nah, they’re the bad kind. I’m sure they’re referring to males.
Yes, but in this instance, “femme” lesbian is already covered under “women”.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Redundancy for emphasis (BIPOC anyone?) is a staple of SJWism. It could be a way of excluding butches, or a way of including female-performing genderqueers, but I really doubt they have any sympathy for cismales of any type.
No. Butches are the good kind of lesbians because being butch is “transgressive”. Lipstick lesbians are too much like real women and are frowned upon by progressives.
Damn, the most obscure shit being discussed in the quantum physics realm are easier for me to stay on top of than following the left’s logic, Rhywun.
We were both wrong. “Femme” in this article refers to what normal people consider a woman.
We made the mistake of assuming that we knew what “woman” meant.
I’m not reading that shit.
Aww. You aren’t interested in the soul-crushing oppression of
I’m not reading that, but yeah way to crush that stereotype of a frigid, miserable, anti-sex prude.
*sigh*
Isn’t that always the way?
Eh, she’s not wrong but emotional vampires gonna emotional vampire and trap anyone with half a listening ear.
Er, I meant to then say, the key is to just stop listening. Stop making yourself a ailable. There are two people in that conversation and you choose to listen. So stop doing that.
Huh. Never found “Judgemental Meddling” part of any course syllabus during my brief College career but it was practiced by nearly every young woman that I knew. Truth be told, now that we’re nearly “Seniors” everyone of them seems to be teaching a Master Class.
Back in junior high I remember a teacher asking the question if women should be paid for running a household. It might have been social studies or Home ec. class.
Point is, this stuff has been swirling around for years.
You can never put a price on a priceless and indispensable noble role. If you were to ever peg a wage to that, it ceases to be an ‘unseen’ crucial aspect of human life and becomes another commodity to become politicized eventually to manifest itself in ‘Mom’s want better wages’ marches. You’d be in a situation like education where shitty teacher’s can’t be fired and get paid way more than they’re worth.
Therein lies the irony and unfairness of it all. There can be no more important role in human affairs than a mother running her house and it can’t be viewed as labour and thus compensated. The compensation is what she leaves the community.
This is priceless.
Oh, Rufus. You are so wrong. Wronger than wrong, and I am entirely serious about that, not agreeing in a sarcastic manner.
When you work for somebody free, the people you are serving take it for granted. Your “valuable” work and indispensable presence is just there to be expected, demanded even. Everyone in the household will feel entitled to her work product without ever thinking about the person performing it.
Even SHE will start to believe that she’s just the invisible hand. If a man is bringing in all the money, he stops seeing her work AND starts resenting that he’s the one making all the money and what does SHE do to contribute? She is no one, has no identity except “I am my kids’ mom and my husband’s wife.”
So yeah, emotional labor is a thing, mostly because people are draining and women don’t know how to say no, but I fully support every woman’s right to choose to do that.
“The compensation is what she leaves to the community.”
I’m kinda flabbergasted by that, really. Who’s it compensating? The community? She should do this for the “good of society”? Is it a social contract? Nah, bruh. Would YOU work without getting paid?
That’s love. And caring. It’s fully sacrificial.
Is this where I pull a Constanza ‘was I wrong?’ routine?
And here I thought I was giving a compliment of the highest order.
Was I being too social-conservative?
I can see that point and agree but maybe it’s the other extreme of my point? Maybe we can agree on a….living wage?
Sorry to have upset you! Don’t worry, I’m not married to that point (and kinda wondered what the response would be like here) but I think raising children is just one of those acts of selfless humanity and it’s the mother who holds the key to that more than the father.
“selfless”
Well, yes, that’s my point.
There is no compensation involved.
We *could* compensate that but how is my point?
Unless you simply reject such notions (selflessness – and I admit it can sound patronizing by just declaring it is so) and feel it’s a job like any other then I suppose the market (or government interventionism) will decide that but again, we come back to the dilemma: I think this would end up being a problem (because everything ends up being politicized and the family is the last institution where its not) when you do this but you seem to assert ‘what problem?’ It’s labour and therefore it should be compensated. If women feel this way so be it. I can see what you mean.
You said it’s compensated by All The Good Feelz of giving something (give=non-compensated) to the community’s benefit.
We were talking about money.
Selflessness is, by definition, not compensated by money.
M, got it.
I’m more on your side of this, but I’m an icky socon at home, so my opinion may be dismissed out of hand.
Entitlement isn’t saved only for the reaction of the family to the stay at home mom. Lifestyle inflation is an entitlement. one directed towards monetary income.
I’ve always told my wife that her financial contribution, while not income, is still quite valuable. There are two sides to the ledger, and she’s on the cost reduction side. Talking about homemaking in terms of compensation never made sense to me.
Even SHE will start to believe that she’s just the invisible hand. If a man is bringing in all the money, he stops seeing her work AND starts resenting that he’s the one making all the money and what does SHE do to contribute? She is no one, has no identity except “I am my kids’ mom and my husband’s wife.”
That’s a little insulting to both the wife and the husband. I am the sole earner in our household and have no resentment whatsoever that my wife does not work outside the home. She quit a very well paying career because we decided it was in the best of our family. I am greatly appreciative of the hard work she puts in and she certainly has her own identity. Her identity doesn’t revolve around someone else giving her money in exchange for services.
Standard disclaimer: Not all women, not all men.
As an economic decision, it’s the equivalent of bartering and I appreciate your pointing out the relation to the state’s wanting its cut. I can see that.
However, during WWII, women were asked to go out into the world and work. They did. They earned money. They found independence they never had. Bit when the men came home, they were told to go back to being good little homemakers. That fuelled a lot of resentment.
I also say this as someone who demands to have my work appreciated and also someone who sees and honors the sacrifices her husband makes to support us. If I want to be appreciated, I must also appreciate in return and publicly give that its due.
I also say this coming from a religious culture that puts mothers on a pedestal and treats fathers like second-class citizens.
Huh, i find that interesting. I’ve never gotten the vibe of fathers being second-class citizens, but more the expectation of stoicism from men and fathers. I can totally understand your point of view, though.
Yes, the genteel stoicism, never getting praised, always being exhorted to be better fathers and providers AND perform your church duties that take up the equivalent of a part-time job. Remember, we are a lay clergy with all the hours of uncompensated labor.
I actually made that point in a book and I got lots of male fan email that said, “How did you know?!”
I am not dismissing men’s sacrifices and contributions.
I am objecting to the idea that the woman’s compensation is All The Good Feelz.
I never picked up that vibe back when I was a Temple Recommend carrying Mormon. I thought it was, “women do the most important work ever, and men run the priesthood. If anything, I felt it condescending to women – and especially so for men like me who were househusbands.
Typical exchange: “Brother Prolefeed, why do you let your wife keep working?”
Me: “You don’t get my marital dynamics if you think I “LET” my wife work. Wasn’t my call.”
“If a man is bringing in all the money, he stops seeing her work AND starts resenting that he’s the one making all the money and what does SHE do to contribute? She is no one, has no identity except “I am my kids’ mom and my husband’s wife.”
Sure, and when a man spends his entire life working to provide for his wife and children (speaking of a traditionalist socon dream home) he sacrifices time with his loved ones, sacrifices his freedom to be a cart horse. Because the wagon must be pulled. He misses games and recitals and first steps and first words and bedtime stories. Those hurt, and that’s the issue I have with this gripe of the feminists.
The feminism “emotional labor” critique is based on an incredibly faulty premise: that sole breadwinner men are not making any sacrifices by being the breadwinner. In their psycho little minds, men go to the office and just hang out with their friends, grope the admin assistants, have a meeting, and then knock off at 2 to get 18 holes in. There’s no stress at all, in their Marxist minds, with being the sole thing keeping your wife and children in their home. It’s a breeze, in the minds.
This is of course, laughable. It’s an incredibly stressful position to be in, just like its incredibly stressful to be the sole provider of meals and clean laundry and keeper of appointments etc etc.
I’m not disagreeing and I deliberately left off the sacrifices men make because that wasn’t the topic at hand.
Gotcha.
My own parents both worked. But my mother absolutely got stuck with “the second shift” situation where even though they both left the house in the morning and went to work, dinner was her thing most nights and somehow the house was her responsibility to keep clean, even though my dad was home a ton during the day and could have easily run the vacuum or mopped the bathroom.
I just hate the 2010s feminism where everything is a giant strawman where every man is Don Draper or some shit.
Didn’t corporate America really push for double-income families in the early 1970s?
He misses games and recitals and first steps and first words and bedtime stories. Those hurt, and that’s the issue I have with this gripe of the feminists.
My daughter will never know how much it hurts when she asks me each morning, with a twinkle of expectation in her eye, whether today is a play day or a work day. This morning was “aww, but I wanted to play blocks with you”.
In some ways I really envy my wife. As hard as raising a 3 year old is, she gets to do all the important, fun, impactful stuff. I shuffle spreadsheets that nobody reads for a department the company would just as soon jettison, and the company could disappear tomorrow for all I care. In my mind, the only important part is the pile of cash they shovel into my bank account.
I’m going a bit tangentially here, but I’ve never been able to relate to people who find personal meaning in their jobs. I’m sure there are more meaningful jobs out there, but I’ve never worked one.
Back in junior high I remember a teacher asking the question if women should be paid for running a household. It might have been social studies or Home ec. class.
It’s an end run for taxing unpaid labor (e.g., housekeeping, child raising, etc.). The New York Times ran an article not long ago about not taxing the labor of the non-earning spouse in single-income household is a loophole in the tax system.
It’s a Marxist shift from an income tax being about actual income to a tax on labor instead. In other words, the State owns you and your labor.
^^^^ This. It’s not about appreciating the labor of women working as mothers. The people making this argument are making it because there is a lot of value that is produced that is non-taxable because it isn’t done via money and the open market. If everyone was forced to hire a Nanny/Governess then they could tax that income.
Good point.
“if women should be paid for running a household.”
Proper response: Who are her uncoerced customers?
Her husband and her children are the beneficiaries. Raising your kids is something you owe them when you decide to bring them into this world. And it’s up to the husband and wife to make whatever division of labor arrangement they prefer. Since nobody outside of this circle could be considered her ‘customer’, no one else is obligated to contribute to her for her labor which benefits her own family.
I am slow. I didn’t realize we were talking about the STATE paying stay-at-home moms.
Um, no.
My point was asking such a question to a teacher would point out the stupidity of the question, as only a teacher or an unfit mother would ask such a question.
“TDS Telethon”
Nice.
Because we’re assumed to be naturally emotionally intelligent and nurturing, people don’t always understand that this is work for us.
Yeah. Whatever helps you sleep at night, hon.
“I never understood the deep hated for her”
Because you’re not crazy and have TDS-19.5.
Covid has mutated with TDS expected to end by early November.
Not if Trump wins.
The Democrats believe in a post office conspiracy and think Antifa is a myth.
And they say Alex Jones is coo-coo?
Crazy ass denials of reality are OK when they do it. If a right winger was pushing what the mainstream left is pushing right now they’d be deplatformed.
The left is losing touch more and more.
More and more?
They’re in full deranged mode since 2016.
I don’t even know if they can seek help at this point.
It’s full blown paranoia.
Oppan
GangnamWuhan-style.Thousands attend pool party in Wuhan, China, the city where COVID-19 first emerged
When the Chicoms are more liberal with their return to normal policies than the west…
But they don’t have a bad orange man problem, so it’s OK.
I heard there might have been pool parties in Spain between 1920 and 2019.
What is it with New York officials telling people to get tested and often?
The city is burning to the ground and they’re telling even people with no symptoms to get tested? Wtf?
At this point, anyone who still thinks this virus is remotely threatening needs their head examined.
They need to have lots of negative tests to keep their “positivity rate” low to justify keeping out the unclean.
They need to keep those case numbers up to justify their unconstitutional abuses of power.
Yeh I was listening to the police chief talk about visitors and quarantining rules and thought to myself ‘who the fuck is visiting that hell hole at the moment?’ When I go to NYC (as I was planning to do in October but no more of course), it’s for a few days at a time at a time because it’s relatively close. Why would I lock myself up for 14 days or put up with check points and be part of a theatrical charade as if I’m an extra on Broadway?
The people running that city are moronic buffoons. I believe De Fucksio is up for reelection in 2021. I’d be stunned if he gets re-elected and equally stunned if he’s not replaced with a Republican who has the guts to run.
Paging Ryhwun, Who’s this Johnson chick doctor I keep seeing on TV telling people to get tested?
No idea. Maybe the replacement for that SJW person who resigned in disgrace a while back.
Also, Deblasio is term-limited.
Ah on the commie.
I saw a bit of Cuomo’s convention speech and he made a big deal about how good thinking people from other states rushed to NY to help them survive the Rona epidemic because Trump’s FedGov wouldn’t lift a finger to help.
I sat there thinking, “and to thank them, we are now telling them they have to quarantine because we want the MSM to think we are doing great”
And they also got thanked by needing to pay taxes to NY as well.
Trump’s FedGov wouldn’t lift a finger to help.
$64B in coronavirus aid flows to NY
Don’t forget the hospital ships the state didn’t use.
Good morning everyone. Sitting on the front, sippin’ a Bourbon drink, watching surfers all rush to the beach for high tide (in about 10 minutes). A fellow just parked in front of my house, changed from chinos\polo shirt to wetsuit, tucked his tiny surfboard under his arm, pulled a skateboard out of his trunk, and wheeled the final thirty or so feet to the beach.
He drinks a Bourbon drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Feel pity. They just can’t help themselves.
They know it is raining and storming out… right?
That’s when the waves are at their best here. It was nice on the porch, the temp dropped a good 15 degrees while the clouds rolled in.
Yeah, I’m lovin’ it. Actually, any time I can use a fan instead of the AC, I’m lovin’ it.
Confusion
Representative Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic National Convention speech sparked some confusion on Tuesday night when she nominated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the party’s presidential candidacy.
The freshman congresswoman used her 90-second speaking slot on the second day of the DNC to praise the “mass people’s movement working to establish 21st-century social, economic and human rights,” and formally nominate Joe Biden’s leading primary rival.
Delivering remarks in a pre-recorded speech, Ocasio-Cortez said: “In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crisis of mass evictions, unemployment, and lack of health care.
“En el espíritu del pueblo, and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America.”
The progressive lawmaker’s formal nomination of Sanders triggered inaccurate claims that she had somehow snubbed Biden, the presumptive nominee who officially became the Democratic presidential candidate after winning more than 3,500 delegates.
Now they can revolt, and make Bernie the nominee.
“Presumptive” candidate Joe Biden, indeed.
Isn’t that how conventions are suposed to work? everyone who has been campaigning still needs to be nominated in the convention.
Yeap. In a normal year, the nomination is still supposedly up for grabs.
I still think she’s a performance artist, though.
Yes.
They just asked “Which member of the party wants to be the lunatic who nominates the guy who isn’t a member of the party?” and she enthusiastically volunteered.
The Bee, of course, predicted AOC’s participation.
Oops, I forgot that my article dropped last night. I was out playing with my new telescope instead.
Thanks to all for the great comments, and to answer Sean’s question, no, Mrs. trashy doesn’t read the site, but she has heard almost everything that I have written. We have given talks at church in the past about the topic, and the resentment is something that I focus a bit of time on, given how much of a marriage killer it is.
I think it might be one of the more helpful financial sanity-guides I’ve read in terms of getting to the real nitty-gritty of how young married couples can get themselves in a real shit-sandwich in a hurry. And how it can be a marriage wrecker, as well as how to find your way out of it. I’m passed a lot of what you describe in there, but boy, is it familiar. Especially the emotional part of finances – which is what drives a bunch of the underlying behaviors. I’m planning on linking to these for all of my daughters. Really great stuff, Trashy.
https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1295881765995917314
“Fairfax County is reopening 37 public schools for their “Supporting Return to School Program”
But they are charging families up to $368 per child per week.
That’s on top of what families already pay through property taxes.
That’s unconstitutional.”
This is tar and feather shit.
Double taxation. Ain’t socialism grand?
At least it will keep the riff-raff that can’t afford the double bill home..
Paying tuition for Public school? Why not pay for a private school?
This is why we must outlaw private school.
Heh:
An the average income in the country is 39K. Remember that, the next time a teacher complains about not being paid enough.
And for 3/4 of the year.
And less than that figuring in holidays, breaks, and non-teaching days.
But, they have to spend all that extra time doing grading and lesson planning.
And because the schools are so underfunded, teachers have to spend more than their salary on supplies!
And unless The Wire lied to me, teachers also make loans to their students without expectation of repayment.
Actually the supply issue is bullshit, but I haven’t heard why 1) current admin aka former teachers are ok making that a thing and 2) teachers unions don’t use their considerable power to ensure that’s not required instead of, oh, say, tenure (for teaching doing 0 original research…).
What does research have to do with teaching?
Tenure is a mechanism created to protect people doing research in university settings. It is a protection to allow them to ‘follow the truth, wherever it leads’, even if it challenges those in power. Those researchers also are supposed to then disseminate their original findings among their students.
Somewhere along the way, kindergarten teachers (or their bargaining reps) decided that they needed it too. But primary school teachers are not doing their own research. They are half coach, have rearticulators of common knowledge. Therefore, the original justification for tenure doesn’t apply, and is just an expression of political power (since it only usually shows up in public-administered schools).
I’m seeing average income at about 61K, so teachers are actually just about right at the average.
Thats the Average Household income. The Average Individual Income is around 39K. At least according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States
OK, this appears to be almost as bad as coronavirus stats!
How about $48K individually?
The Catholic-school plans were all over my local news this morning. In case you thought they were free to do what they want, think again. Apparently they’re being required to submit to His Nib’s panic-demands. Yet somehow, 95% of them found a way to stay open for business five days a week. Funny, that.
Tomorrow, my kids (who are signed up for traditional schooling) will grab the chromebooks that I bought them, and walk across the street to their elementary school. They will cross the blacktop play yard, passing their classroom where their teacher sits inside. They will continue walking into the after school care building that is at the back of the campus. Then they will sit down and open zoom so that they can have class with the teacher who is in an empty classroom 150 feet away. They will try to concentrate as the other kids in their daycare all have class with different teachers in different grades. And this is all for the children.
Extra cost to me? $400 per month.
the new normal.
“Extra cost to me? $400 per month.”
For what?
Just rename Virginia to Panem Province. It was nice while it lasted.
Funny how quickly the Middle East diplomacy story disappeared from the headlines. Now we’re on AOC nominating Bernie, Goodyear, Susan B Anthony. And the USPS non-story continues apace.
It will be harder to ignore if others join the peace party. What’s the top pick for next to sign on?
That’s happening, but the usual suspects are looking for a way to credit team blue with this, despite team blue undermining every single real effort to do so because of solidarity with people that prefer to murder their kids because they hate Jews.
D’oh!
I can’t believe there was any advance notice that those talks were being held. I would have thought they’d be secret and once an agreement had been finalized they’s spring it on the world. You know, Sudanly without warning.
Very well done…
I hear the Sudan foreign minister said they were in talks
Palestinians (in Bullwinkle voice): And now for another magic trick!
World (in Rocket J. Squirrel voice): What’s that?
Palestinians: After I pull this hat out of a rabbit, I’ll make the Arabs sympathize with the Jews!
Which diplomacy? UAE and Israel?
To be fair, the Susan B. Anthony story was only 79% of a regular media freakout.
In ther news, I can’t wait to see the new Bill & Ted movie. I can’t remember the last time I saw Keanu Reeves being silly. Okay, he’s not the best actor, but he’s a super nice and humble dude, so he gets a pass on his acting.
I’d count most of his roles as “Keanu Reeves being silly”, but not in a mean way.
The John Wick movies were nothing if not silly.
His worst role I can recall was in Much Ado About Nothing – where he had the misfortune of appearing with a bunch of real actors. Michael Keaton had a bit part in that and stole the show when he was on screen.
Point Break was silly-AWESOME.
YES! I was just going to say he had a turn at Shakespeare that didn’t go well.
“super nice and humble dude”
That’s because he’s….CANADIAN.
Like me.
I always say hockey players are the best athletes. Wayne, Gordie, Bobby, Mario and Sidney. All superstars regarded as gods and all super nice and humble.
Ahem. I’ll just put these in the correct order for you, Rufus, so no one pulls your Canuck card.
Mr. Howe, Mr. Orr, The Great One, Super Mario, and (down a bit) Sid the Kid
I used to think Keanu was just a run of the mill dissipated celeb, but I started seeing stories about him and how nice & cool he is and I 100% changed my mind.
Normally I hate him, but I thought he did a great job spoofing himself in “Always be my maybe” (or something like that)
Seriously, who would’ve made better Neo? Steve Buscemi?
Ouch.
SJWednesday: Sounds Like A Good PhD Thesis In Grievance Studies
I’m pretty confident in the ability of engineers to design a plane with controls, feedback, and appropriate electronic assistance suitable to allow a blind pilot that would be every bit as effective as a sighted one. Most flight is automated, anyway, and based on instruments rather than just looking out of the window, right? Human innovation and resourcefulness FTW!
These are the people that will tell you that you are the problem for wanting someone that is qualified to deal with when the situation is dire to you instead of the top woke person in the profession. Stupid fucks the lot of them.
Anyway, I will never forget when I had a black friend tell me he wouldn’t let a black doctor tell him anything, because the guy was likely to be an affirmative action case anyway. I was floored, had zero comeback, and told him to just get better. Sure as hell leaves you feeling like things ain’t right.
Look, even if he wasn’t a affirmative action doctor and got great grades and studied their ass off, you still couldn’t use them for medical care.
Who wants to have some fake minority who spent all their time acting white for medical treatment. That ain’t keeping it real.
The more I think of it, the more I find it would really hurt to live in a world shaped by this sort of thinking and acting…
Maybe it is time for another space rock to reboot this world…
Well when you reject common sense, this is what you end up with. The hope is that they have thoroughly indoctrinated people enough that they can get them to accept this kind of thinking.
She should be introduced to a blind surgeon who is going to work on her.
Because “every white person is racist” wasn’t ridiculous enough.
I decided to place another bet on the NBA via flipping a coin. I flipped 4 times and got tails each time. Then I flipped 10 more times and got a total of one heads. Weird.
You should have bet on tails.
Or just gotten some tails…
Or some tail.
Beef and bacon are on to season the pan.
One of the packages of beef was still partly frozen, but this should fix that.
Looks like I’ll be making stew today.
It is to how for stew.
I’m going to assume you meant “too hot” and say that this morning is actually rather cool by summer standards. And once it’s cooked today I’ll have it for the rest of the week.
eating reheated stew how lower class… Well the fact that tit is stew and not boeuf bourguignon proves that
Sniffle with envy all you want. It won’t dissuade me.
lol. stew envy. that’ll be the day
Being the generous soul I am, I’ll even share if you show up.
Suffer food poisoning in the US? I would go bankrupt
I get it, you’re afraid you’ll like American food and have to cope with all your years of bashing the euro-imitations of it.
Highly unlikely
Then what are you worried about?
food poisoning. I just said.
Damn, the onion is odiferous. Looks like I’ll have to cook it longer to get some of that out.
All right, the overpowering onion sufates odor is gone, the carrots and wine are in. How long does this wine need to simmer before I go on to the stock?
*contemplates, tries to ignore wine aroma in house*
How long does this wine need to simmer – depends by recipe
Beef stock is in, herbs are in, aaaand I have too much liquid. This will have to simmer all day.
Don;t forget the knorr cube
Until you no longer smell alcohol.
Wine doesn’t smell of alcohol.
The Strange Theory of Coronavirus from Space
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-strange-theory-of-coronavirus-from-space
If your blood pressure is too low…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo hits hard at the Trump administration response to the coronavirus pandemic during his speech at the DNC.
By “hit hard” they mean lies out of his ass?
Is there any good site that lets you look at the US data, excluding states from it?
SJWednesday: If You Go All The Way Around The Gender Circle, You End Up… Somewhere…
Frightening that that actually seems to make sense to them.
The college collapse can’t come soon enough.
” I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
So that their children may study wokeness and intersectionality. WTF John Adams.
That does not sound like prosperity, that sounds like decay.
Our prosperity has lead to too much navel-gazing and overthinking. Just fuckin’ be, and STFU. Damn.
So, let me see if I’m understanding this correctly – the gist is that men who aren’t feminine should be recognized as women.
A girl petting her giant Flemish rabbit
https://twitter.com/welcomet0nature/status/1295830831286685697
Well that was a disappointment. Needs more euphemism.
White wine, kidney beans, some fennel, a bunch of spices & salt, and some cream, and that thing will be TAY-STEE!
I didn’t want to ask in a dead thread, but regarding the new proposed onerous emissions regulations in California; could something like this be challenged at the federal level using the interstate commerce clause? A regulation in one state will essentially force automakers to comply with one state’s rules because nobody will make (or buy) a car that they can’t drive in all 50 states.
The biggest issue is determining who has “standing” (a bullshit limit on access to the courts if you ask me).
Not bullshit, it should be keeping all manner of frivolous litigation at bay. Sadly, environmental groups have standing (by law in CA if not federally) to sue on behalf of the environment. That needs to be taken away from them.
It is bullshit when you can’t sue against a facially unconstitutional law because the court decides you haven’t suffered ‘actual harm’ having your rights taken away from you.
Tort is a foundation of our legal system. How do you think it should work – just allow anyone to make any speculative challenge to a law that they like? Do you have any idea how big a court system it would take to handle that?
Force the legislators to come in and defend their law, and it’ll reduce the number of causes of action while they’re tied up proving they aren’t being oppressive.
I understand the sentiment, but I think it lacks practicality. Unlike below, which would be eminently practical.
Also, “loser pays,” will exhaust vexatious litigants really fast.
The way it will play out depends on the 9th Circuit and upward from there. Roberts is a squish so look forward to your Flintstone-Mobile.
Probably not. And it’s not unreasonable that there would be CA compliant cars. There are non-CARB approved power equipment models after all. It’s just the fig leaf car manufacturers are using to do what they already want to.
Part of the problem is that Congress authorized CA and CARB to set their own standards. Repeal that first.
So what happens if Joe wins the election? Do we still sit here at the “Nerd Table” sniggering at the “Normies”? What’s next?
We look for the fraud.
I don’t want to play this game any more.
How about Monopoly?
I’m told that Trump will refuse to vacate the white house.
The Democrats have already promised a purge, so i expect criminal trials for all the Cabinent members and Trump. Probably some investigations into GOP congressmen.
Life, grasshopper. Life
*Continues Tai Chi*
Do they call it that, or have they renamed it like they did with karate?
Karate is no longer “karate”?
It is when I use it! 😉
空手 (からて) – karate
You just have to pronounce it like a pompous douche aka Japanese accented.
When it was first taught in Japan, it was written as “China-hand” instead of the modern “empty hand.”
I didn’t realize that!
唐手
However (at least in my dictionary) the kunyomi is still “kara” so I’m guessing it kept the same pronunciation.
onyomi: トウ
kunyomi: から
namae: かろ, たん
pinyin: táng
T’ang, China, foreign
Generally they keep the Chinese characters, but use an Japanese “onyomi” pronunciation.
Frequently sounds funny because you are used to hearing the English version of Chinese. But it’s basically the same thing we do in English.
太極拳（たいきょくけん）= taikyouken
Same thing that happens every election, the loser skulks off and the winner fucks us over for 4 years. Why would anyone expect different?
Because this time the Dems will rig things to ensure one-party rule going forward.
Right – every time someone says they are on the verge of a permanent majority, reality bitchslaps the hell out them the next election.
This is the kind of raving I come here to get away from.
You know, four years ago I would have considered that crazy talk as well. But given the realities of recent years, I’m not so sure.
And elections only work if the game isn’t rigged.
Uh-huh, and the Dems have a conspiracy to rig elections even in locations run by Republicans. Amazing.
Well it worked in clearing out Orange County Republicans when they imposed ballot harvesting.
Seriously? You don’t think the majority of the dem-controlled urban centers aren’t ripe for fraud, and that dem control won’t lead to gerrymandering and implementation of rules to ensure permanent dem majorities, as in California? Is it really so far out a to not even be thinkable?
The Dem majority in California is because the Repubs there committed seppuku as a political party. The Dems could never have achieved that without the active help of the Repubs in the state at the time.
Things continue to work the way they have been working…
…until they don’t. Entire industries have been annihilated, everyone is walking around with state mandated masks glued to their faces and Governors around the country have entirely seized powers previously delegated to legislatures.
Now, I don’t think electing Republicans has any good chance of reversing that as Republicans like having unlimited power as much as Democrats do. Trump is a bit of an outlier here as ‘unlimited power’ seems to sound like too much work to him. But otherwise the elections at this point seem to be an afterthought.
There’s a difference between the bog standard fucking we normally get and the anal reaming with a chainsaw we’ve gotten so far this year. There’s WAY too much talk going around saying this is “the new normal” and I’m sorry but standing up and saying “no fucking way” is not paranoia.
Maybe it’s different where you live, but where I’m at, this is not a sustainable way of life for me.
We raise our dishes and beg for “more, please”.
I regret not paying the low low prices of ammo today.
“So what happens if Joe wins the election? ”
Have a boat accident before Beta shows up?
I’ll probably start polishing up my resume, since nationalizing the industry I work in is goal #1 of the modern Democratic Party.
I didn’t want to ask in a dead thread, but regarding the new proposed onerous emissions regulations in California; could something like this be challenged at the federal level using the interstate commerce clause?
That horse left the barn, sailed over the horizon, and died of old age.
Lanvin Denim Culottes with Belt. Yea or Nay, Darlings?
https://tomandlorenzo.com/2020/08/yea-or-nay-lanvin-denim-culottes-fashion-trends/#.Xz0kbTVRWUk
That’s not a breezy summer dress. -5 Glib points.
NEIGH
That bitch needs some tiddies… Paging Q!
Q is on a sabbatical. He will return a changed man who likes b cups.
May the fleas of a thousand camels roost in your private parts…
/Old Arabic curse…
PSG qualified for the finals and the French celebrated. And burned shit I assume. No transmission there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2WVCdXZVJ0&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejyZSDojcSk&feature=emb_logo
I said City would steamroll and I was hopeful for RB Leipzig.
Don’t listen to my takes.
Pep has passed his best-by date.
PSG can eat a dick and take its petro-dollars with it.
I am sure in Lyon they quietly toasted their win.
I won’t post the link because of our family friendly rating, but, if you are brave, I recommend looking at McAffee’s twitter and clicking on the video with the chick in the white sedan.
McAffee and I do not share the same taste in women. Not clicking.
But she squirts!
I saw a cheap bourbon in a store in Bucharest called McAfee’s Old Nº 8 Brand
Uffda. You don’t see that in Minnesoda (especially in January)
Considering their motto, I assumed it was Missouri.
Oh,my internet was out yesterday morning when I wanted to post this, but I wrote it up in word and will post it now:
To all you techinical writers here who want to write fiction, I have this quote I just read:
That is from the forward of Fight Club 2, written by Chuck Palahniuk’s editor.
What if those TV ratings are bogus?
* No idea if this is photoshopped or what, but it makes me laugh to think that it is true.
Seriously, did anyone really watch this outside of the talking head profession?
1A, you cunte.
According to the syllabus obtained exclusively by Young America’s Foundation, Chloe Clark includes a “GIANT WARNING,” for her English 250 class bolded near the top of the document:
“GIANT WARNING: any instances of othering that you participate in intentionally (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, sorophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, body shaming, etc) in class are grounds for dismissal from the classroom. The same goes for any papers/projects: you cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn’t deserve the same basic human rights as you do (ie: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc). I take this seriously.”
I remember in (public) high school we had a public speaking class where I delivered a speech against govt funding of art (it was during the time of Maplethorpe). I did my final junior year English paper on The Fountainhead. Senior year, I defended the “radical” ideas outlined in “Invictus”.
I wonder what would happen to me if I were in public school these days.
CONFORM WITH MARXIST IDEOLOGY OR BE OSTRACIZED!
In college, I took a class in public speaking and one of my topics was on how hunting big game in Africa was actually a good thing for large animals there. Hunting provided a way to “monetize” those animals so poaching dropped in the countries that allow it. In countries like Kenya where no hunting is allowed, natives simply shot elephants that were eating up their crops.
At the end of the speech the prof (who was ultra lib) was upset and started debating me. I gave example after example of countries where hunting = lots of animals and no hunting = endangered herds. At the end the prof was sputtering that he didn’t understand my argument, but the rest of the class was nodding along with me. It was a great day for me.
Shouldn’t he have been judging the quality of your speech and not the content?
I keep telling all the older Glibs. College is very very different. If you never miss a class, get As on the two exams, and a B+ on the final paper, how is your grade a B? If your professor disagrees with your POV, no matter how well its argued.
Waitm your professor disagreed with your point of view and you got more than an F?
College was like that in the Liberal Arts in the early ’90s too.
The trick was to argue as much as you want during class, but when the test came, you parroted back whatever the prof said/argued for and you’d get easy A’s.
I had a freshman class called Reading Texts run by a total Chomskyite. It was fun pretending to be like him and writing idiotic papers about the rampant misogyny in Top Gun just to get a good grade. He was actually a nice guy for a commie and had a really cute kid he would sometimes have visit the class.
There is no POV in engineering classes.
“You see, you are the tragedy of the common moron.”
I’ve had that debate. It’s fun. One of the times I got into it, when that dentist killed Cecil the lion, this nice vegan girl said “Well why can’t he just take pictures of it.” I said “Would you pay an African guy 50,000 bucks to take a picture of a lion?”
If you have 2000 acres of African savannah, you can leave it as it is and charge rich American hunters the price of a car to go on safaris to shoot the animals, or you can kill all the animals and raise crops or cattle on it. One of those choices preserves the species, the other doesn’t.
Chickens will never go extinct, because we eat them and their eggs.
I once wrote an essay about my experiences in a foster home. Got an A and the teacher published it in the literary journal. My biological mother, who I lived with my whole life, was pretty pissed.
Another time, I got called down to the guidance chancellors office because there were so many deaths in my creative writing class journal. I explained that I was retelling the stories of the old testament, replacing all the main characters with the McDonalds characters (Ronald had a many colored wig, iirc).
If I knew then what I know now about counter intuitive econ and public choice theory, I probably would have ended up in juvie.
Similarly, I did a pro-littering speech in college. Mostly just to be an ass, but I had some good points.
Other than being the coolest chick in school? Probably expelled.
I wrote a paper in sr year HS english entitled “The Necessity of Terrorism”.
Even at the time I wouldn’t have wanted to defend the ideas, but today, yeah….
On the Invictus thing, I remember the teacher trying to get the class to agree that the ideas in the poem were nice and all, but that they went “too far”. I was the only one that disagreed.
Anyway, I got A’s in all of these instances. Maybe the teachers sensed they might have a fight on their hands if they failed me.
They always look almost exactly as you would expect.
http://www.artontheprairie.org/poets-2019.html
This is why i can’t argue abortion. The complete unwillingness to see that abortion is easily argue to be an deprivation of a basic human right…
There’s no point in arguing with someone who i have zero baseline basis to start a discussion with.
^this & it’s basically every subject now. The left has redefined everything such that you cannot argue with them about anything.
I barely think about abortion tbh. But the left literally doesn’t seem to understand why anyone objects to it (while simultaneously patting themselves on the back for being cleverer than anyone else).
IASIP had an episode recently where they “satirised” the issue by having men object to women going and getting short haircuts as a heavy handed reference to “men controlling women’s bodies”.
It wasn’t remotely effective satire because it completely failed to see that pro-lifers think that (at some point in gestation) there’s another human life whose rights need to be defended.
I say at some point in gestation because I used to assume that most people thought that there was a point where a foetus was basically human (and were therefore at some point pro-life), even if they don’t think that’s at conception. That was before I realised how loopy American lefties are though.
For fun sometime, ask them why bodily autonomy doesn’t extend to what you put into your own body. They of course have zero consistency, but it’s fun to watch them sputter.
I took a class called “Terrorism and Revolution in the Modern World”, ran by a very left professor. One of the books he assigned the class was so biased and misleading I made my final paper an exercise in discussing a section of it, quoting what the book author had included from a given source (there were footnotes and references throughout the book, giving it a superficial air of a scholarly work), and then going to the referenced source and quoting the complete passage, and showing how it was misquoted. It was very easy, because virtually every reference was making a point opposite to what the book author claimed.
Anyway, my point is that I got a good grade in the class – the professor probably disagreed with me, since he assigned the book, but he could still grade my work based on how I argued my point. This lady, and she is probably the norm now rather than the exception, has no business anywhere near a university
Don’t you literally exile anyone or else I will literally exile you., as you do not deserve the same basic human rights as someone who agrees with me.
A teacher once asked our class if the minimum wage should be higher. Most of the kids raised their hands. Then he asked if there should be no minimum wage at all. I was the only one to raise my hand.
“sorophobia”
Is that a fear of George Soros?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfxpO76T6ps
Camels seem a little ornery
Tis gonna be one of those kids of humpdays…
Camels are known for loving to spit on people. Huge, slimey, gobs of spit the size of a small melon.
Meanwhile in Canada, Justin has been nowhere to be seen because he’s a little drama-queen twerp but Finance Minister Bill Morneau resigned in disgrace. Didn’t like this pompous douche from Day One. Now Screech Monkey Freeland takes over. God help us all.
Justin then prorogued (remember when Harper did that and the media went bananas screaming ‘dictator’ and ‘not in the spirit of!’?) government to take some heat off while it automatically suspends committee hearings into the WE Charity scandal.
What a leader. Every year a scandal and multiple apologies with this degenerate.
An Iraqi-born man deliberately drove his car into motorcycles along a stretch of Berlin highway, leaving at least one person in life-threatening condition in what German officials said Wednesday was a terror attack.
https://apnews.com/10174a1e9a6ce89e8c1b846febc9f02e
This is a brand new MO
Google looks for badthinkers, turns their gmail over to the cops.
Is that like legal and shit?
if you don’t get prosecuted for it, of course.
Wasn’t much of this covered by Snowden’s disclosures? It sounds quite a bit like what he talked about (just with the spin of pinning it on Google and not NSA).
LOL I stopped using gmail more than a decade ago. Assholes.
while being viewed as extremist
“Extreme” is a relative term.
Land of Milk and Honey
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Tuesday to ensure the states receive vital resources amid wildfires that have exacerbated a stifling heat wave.
At least 27 fires are raging across the state, including some caused by lightning from a rare summer thunderstorm Sunday, according to a map by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The flames have intensified temperatures from an already serious heat wave that rolled in over the weekend.
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The emergency order will allow agencies to deploy every possible resource to keep residents safe under such “extreme” conditions, Newsom announced Tuesday.
“California and its federal and local partners are working in lockstep to meet the challenge and remain vigilant in the face of continued dangerous weather conditions,” Newsom said.
The state has experienced rolling blackouts as the high temperatures have stretched the state’s energy grid to its limits.
The governor signed an emergency proclamation Monday to prevent rolling blackouts. The order allowed some users and utilities to use “backup energy sources” during peak times.
“The order allowed some users and utilities to use “backup energy sources” during peak times.” What does that mean? Nuclear? Coal? And- are private citizens barred from using backup generators without permission from the king and his men?
It may not be self-inflicted, but I cannot help thinking much of this could have been mitigated, with a different set of priorities over the past four or five decades.
California, where normal life is an emergency to be exploited for political power.
imagine how bad the energy crunch would be if they lifted their lockdowns. 30% of business’s are probably not operating in that state right now helps a great deal with rationing.
Good thing California still doesn’t do controlled burns of the underbrush. Could lead to environmental impacts.
WILDFIRES NOW. WILDFIRES FOREVER.
https://www.local10.com/vote-2020/2020/08/18/south-florida-august-2020-primary-broward-county-sheriff/
Amazing it was that close.
Being Broward county, I always assume there are ‘discovered’ votes for the establishment candidates
And-
Will the sheriffs be enforcing social distancing requirements on the fire lines?
I had a revelation about this mailbox thing. Maybe it’s my white male privilege showing, but whenever I had to mail something important I’d drive to the post office. Every post office has a row of mailboxes in the parking lot that are available 24/7. And I’d guess every post office has some type of cameras around the building. So if you are worried about your mail in ballot, just take it to your local post office.
WTF? I’d take it to the polling place, as I slightly trust those workers more than I trust the lazy POS’s at USPS
Any American should need to travel to Washington DC to vote. To see who is really dedicated about it.
More evidence Europeans don’t understand how big the US is.
Anyone who wants to visit or live in DC should be disqualified from voting.
Oh, wait…
My beef is with the protestors. If you can go outside and stand with others without socially distancing, you can get your ass to the fucking polls and vote in person.
Outdoor polls, problem solved.
I would support making election day a national holiday. I’ve always resented having to rush to get to the polls after work or before work when EVERYBODY ELSE is voting then too.
Yep, we could even do it 1 for 1 by getting rid of Columbus day and making election day a holiday instead (not that I get off for Columbus day).
Clearly you’re doing it wrong.
“I would support making election day a national holiday”
Only if we move Tax Day to the day before. Shit, make it a four day weekend. Get rid of Presidents Day.
I thought about a weekend, but then I didn’t want to ruin a weekend either.
This is a great idea. By having the election on a Thursday or Friday, you can get your post-results parties and/or riots in and still be able to get back to work on Monday.
Interesting.
I believe that, by law, every provincial or Federal election in Canada requires employers to give their employees half a day off in order to vote. When I used to work for others instead of that asshole (me), I certainly took advantage of that, although I don’t remember if the requirement was mandatory for the employee (i.e., the employee didn’t have to take the time off if he/she didn’t want to). I also don’t remember if it was paid or unpaid, but I never remember a cheque getting docked, so…
No weapons on the Post Office (not even in the parking lot) means the Post office is the least safe place that i might go to.
Some great advice..
She interviewed Biden recently, right? Did she ask him about this stuff?
Copy/Paste from above:
Cardi B: But what a lot of people are concerned about is, if the government gives us [these things], are they going to raise our taxes? Because clearly nobody wants to pay so much in taxes. Sometimes, when my taxes come in, I’m like, “Oh my gosh, I’m depressed, oh Lord, let me see my Birkin collection.” That is a little joke. [But] when you see the taxes coming off your check, you don’t understand, because you feel like you’re putting in so many hours. People want to know, can you provide college education, this [health care] plan, without a big chunk of taxes coming out of our checks?
Joey B: Yes, we can. And the way we can pay for all of this is doing practical things, like making sure that everybody has to pay their fair share. [For example] no corporation should pay less than 15 percent tax.
A staffer cuts in to say their time is coming to an end.
no corporation should pay less than 15 percent tax.
No consumer should pay less than 15 percent tax…
Dems trotted out that Kahn guy again in order to claim Trump praised neo-nazis in Charlottesville. I can’t believe they are really so cynical as to proceed over and over again with something so patently and easily identifiable as untrue.
Most people can’t be bothered to discover the truth, nor do they really want to as it complicates things.
The Nazis knew what they were talking about when they introduced this concept. And it is NOT a coincidence team blue has wholeheartedly adopted this ideology… Today’s collectivists profess to hate fascism, but they switch between marxism and fascism without batting an eye.
they are having congressional hearings about how disastrous mail in voting is because trump is in charge and at the same time actively endorsing it and promoting it for nationwide application. Their mendacity knows no bounds.
Sure, but the people they are talking to aren’t going to check if it isn’t true. This is one of those things that in 30 years will be common knowledge, and then the “smaht guy” on whatever platform they have then will make a video or whatnot and talk about how this is commonly believed and taught in schools, but isn’t true, haha aren’t you smarter than your teacher.
And people still won’t make the connection that public schools are just propaganda indoctrination factories.
I can’t work out whether the left is wilfully evil or if they actually believe this shit. Are they privately disturbed by what Antofagasta are doing and just keeping quiet because they want Trump out? Or do they genuinely believe what they say?
Antifa. Not sure who Antofagasta are.
Antofagasta goes best with Pesto!
I think 95% of them are true believers. They’ve been indoctrinated.
The other 5% are pulling their strings.
Nostalgic
After pointing out that Clinton has played a featured role at every Democratic convention since 1988, Wallace noted that “things have changed for Bill Clinton and his standing in the party. The #MeToo movement, people looking back at the Monica Lewinsky scandal in a very different way, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and he seemed to be a much more diminished figure — until he gave this speech.
“It was only five minutes. As I say, it was pre-taped,” Wallace said. “But I thought he made a more cogent argument … about how Donald Trump has mishandled the coronavirus than any I’ve heard from anybody.”
During his remarks, the former president stated that the U.S. has “just 4% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s COVID cases. Donald Trump says we’re leading the world. Well, we are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple.”
Wallace then recalled another one of Clinton’s most effective convention speeches, his 2012 address in Charlotte making the case for Barack Obama’s reelection.
“After the 2012 speech, Barack Obama called him the ‘secretary of explaining things,'” Wallace recalled. “And even today, even in this diminished role, Bill Clinton is still the ‘secretary of explaining things.'”
Chris Wallace yearns for the good old days.
I yearn for a time when vacuous platitudes and factoids devoid of context are banished from the land.
Unemployment in the U.S. (as in Canada) during the ‘Vid has been driven by the actions of state/provincial governments, not the Feds in either case. Yet I’m sure that neither the average American nor the average Canadian either knows that or will be effectively reminded of it by their media outlets.
We deserve every bad thing coming our way.
the U.S. has “just 4% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s COVID cases
Only if you believe the numbers coming out of China and even India, where they are testing a much lower percentage of the population.
And cases are irrelevant, let’s talk about deaths per million.
And let’s also look at the percent loss in GDP, where the US is doing better than everyone.
Adaptation has always been our superpower.
“the U.S. has “just 4% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s COVID cases.”
And 65% of the TESTING, you lying asshole.
Interesting take on NYC’s shrinking tax base:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-half-of-nycs-tax-base-leaves-and-never-comes-back/
NYC is fucked.
If they’re lucky, it will just be another round of the 1970’s.
Actually, it’s the rest of us who are fucked after they become our neighbors.
They will blame it on people not wanting to pay their fair share to live in a dystopian leftist hellhole…
Which means they’ll look to the rest of the state to make up the support.
Or maybe they will just claim the right to tax the people who leave for the next ten years, like California wants to do.
And make it retro-active for the last 5!
PRIMA NOCTE!
This is one of the strongtowns.org tenets. If your city requires continued growth to survive, you done screwed up. It would be tough for any city to survive losing 1/2 its population, but a strong one can cut back in certain areas and survive to thrive again later. A weak one falls over and dies.
It is also a Talib thing. Anti-fragility. Fragile cities can’t survive a big shock. Anti-fragile cities can.
“It would be tough for any city to survive losing 1/2 its population”
Baltimore took about 10 years to go from 1 million to 600K and the bleeding is not even slowed down. So the city survives, just as a shithole with a bunch of ultra corrupt politicians scrambling around to snatch every vestige of the last remaining crumbs.
Hat tip to the NoDaks.
I called out to the Buckboard Inn in Beach,ND yesterday to make reservations for a hunting trip. The lady who answered the phone took my reservation without requiring anything more of me than my name and a phone number I could be contacted at. “I’ve put you in the book, you are ready to go” is what she said.
Man is it refreshing to deal with simple processes.
APL won her primary for FL-13, hooray! Looks like the Dem critter that holds that district only won by +2, so I speculate APL has a real chance of flipping that district.
Besides Loomer, any other interesting primary wins last night from FL or elsewhere?
Still trying to find a good source for FL primary election results, anyone have a link?
I hear that Joe Biden is running for Senate.
I’m beginning to suspect that Reason doesn’t miss us.
What gives you that idea?
These kind of references.
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1296086394797002752
Doesn’t Robby know how problematic Friends is today? For shame.
Never cared for Friends. Who does he think Kramer’s going to vote for?
In his mind, he’s Chandler?
They’ve always been lefties, it just started to become obvious after the bout of mass TDS they suffered right before our exit.
I don’t miss that place either, so we break even?
Why Most Gun And Ammo Makers Aren’t Expanding Production
They don’t want to get burned like in 2016, when sales surged to record levels only to implode on Election Day. Sales then were driven by fears of gun control fueled by mass shootings, but those fears evaporated with the election of President Trump, a Republican endorsed by the National Rifle Association. Gun sales plunged immediately after his election, resulting in layoffs and sliding stocks for Sturm, Ruger and Smith & Wesson.
Gun makers fear that fickle consumers could slow down spending, depending on election results, the severity of the pandemic, or the persistence of clashes between police and protesters.
In other words they suspect Trump will win and the panic buying will stop.
If Trump does manage to win it’s going to be a sweet buyer’s market for a while.
This is what I’m betting on. Hold the line for a couple more months and then when the panic buying and pricing stops, I’ll get myself a nice Christmas gift. I’m (finally) going to drop the $$ on either a semi-auto shotgun or a silenced, pistol-caliber shoulder weapon (think MP5 or the like).
i.e. Real good killing guns for when the commies get their plans together for the next four years.
I swore I wouldn’t take a life after I left the profession, but I just ain’t made for pacifism. I’m too much of a coward to die on my knees watching horrible things happen to the women in my life that I love so dearly and have sworn to protect. If the BLM/Antifa/DemOp Sheriffs start going after normies, I’m going loudly.
A shotgun’s always a good investment but, yeah, not right now (Ruger actually makes a pistol caliber carbine that will accept Glock mags that I intend to get once this madness recedes,you might want to check that out…way cheaper than an MP5). The prices are nuts.
I already got my PC9
Looks like ~$650 MSRP. Interesting. We only own one 9mm pistol but the compatibility with Glock mags is pretty cool. Interoperability is a big plus for when/if “shit is really bad.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJyvofCjens
8 Reasons Why I Wanted to Hate the Ruger PC Carbine (and the 8 Reasons I Don’t)
For Swissy!
Loomer – who has been systematically targeted by Big Tech firms and appears to hold the title for the most banned person from the most apps in America – now goes on to face Democrat Lois Frankel in the Florida 21st Congressional District race.
Nice!
Soothsayer predicts end of world
A former senior Trump administration official who is endorsing Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said Tuesday that if President Donald Trump wins a second term he will “align with dictators around the world.”
“There are people serving very close to the President that have told me verbatim we should expect, quote, ‘shock and awe’ if the President wins a second term. You will see a flurry of executive orders. You will see the President pull out of foreign alliances. You will see the President align with dictators around the world,” said Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.”
“And if right now we’re less safe because we have fewer friends and stronger enemies than before, you can expect to see that on steroids in another four years of the Trump administration,” Taylor added.
On Monday, Taylor endorsed Biden’s White House bid, becoming one of the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to do so.
Taylor has accused Trump of repeatedly using his office for political purposes, including directing officials to cut wildfire relief funding to California because voters there overwhelmingly opposed him in 2016.
A longtime Republican and political appointee at DHS from 2017 to 2019, Taylor endorsed the former vice president in a video produced by the group Republican Voters Against Trump in which he also made several allegations about Trump’s conduct. He also wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post calling the President “dangerous” for America.
Chief of staff for Homeland Security chief? That’s like a glorified executive assistant, right?
But he’s completely attuned to Trump’s every thought process. He knows what comes next. Believe him. Trust him.
Major player indeed! No doubt he will be welcomed back into the ranks of Republicans in the post-Trump era. After all, he is an experienced young hand in DC.
“A former senior Trump administration official who is endorsing Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said Tuesday that if President Donald Trump wins a second term he will “align with dictators around the world.””
So the one guy that told the fucking ChiComms to pound sand, the guy that tells the UN (the biggest den of thieves on the planet) to fuck off, the guy that actually has told Iran to pound sand instead of giving them pallets of money they use to then pay people to kill Americans, that guy.. That’s the guy that aligns with the fucking dictaros. Not the asshat that bowed to the king of a middle age kingdom or the ones that sold the country out to China. No, those guys will save us,……
Fucking up is down, indeed.
But he shook Kim Jong Un’s hand…HE SHOOK HIS HAND DAMNIT!!!
(Repeat as necessary: Putin, Orban, and Bolsanaro work too)
Obama all but sucked the fucking Ayatollah’s dick, but that was presented as an incredible accomplishment…
Hiring those old guard neocon pieces of human garbage didn’t work out too well for Trump too well did it? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer my ass.
I can’t believe a president would use a political office for political purposes.
stronger enemies than before
You know what strengthens enemies? Shipping them billions of dollars on pallets. Now, who was it that did that?
” he will “align with dictators around the world.”
I thought that Hitler flies solo?
Glibs meet-up?
Portsmouth, NH is considering a mask ordinance. The city currently has a mask resolution asking people to wear masks. There is no teeth behind it. Some of the city council doesn’t like that, so they are talking about a mask ordinance. The city mayor opposes it, and it sounds like the city police have no interest in enforcing it.
The ordinance is making its way through the city council. It will come up for a final vote on August 31st as I understand it.
There will be an anti-mask ordinance protest in Portsmouth, NH on Saturday, August 22nd, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM in Prescott Park Gardens.
It’s a four hour drive, so at best I might be able to appear around noon.
Good afternoon, Banjos
Are you somewhere near/on my line of longitude?
Nope, it’s just been a long morning.
Mystery
Conservation measures helped avoid rolling blackouts in California on Tuesday as a scorching heat wave has stressed the state’s electrical system to a point not seen in two decades.
But the Golden State’s recent power problems have drawn anger and new focus over an increased reliance on renewable energy and gaps in storage capacity for an event like record-breaking heat.
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On Monday, Newsom ordered an investigation into outages that occurred Friday and Saturday.
“We’re doing everything in our power to understand the root causes of this,” the governor said.
But Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson of Fresno, the vice-chair of the Committee on Utilities and Energy, said Monday that the state’s reduced dependence on natural gas has fueled the recent troubles.
“I have been warning over and over again that the policies coming out of the Democrat-controlled legislature and governors’ office are creating the conditions for blackouts and brownouts and here we are seeing the evidence,” Patterson told FOX26 News.
Last September, officials during an ISO board meeting had warned that electricity shortages were possible during a heat wave in the near term due to the shift to renewable sources like solar and wind energy that are less reliable.
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Newsom in a news conference Monday said there were gaps in the “reliability” of power as utilities continue to transition from natural gas plants to renewable energy.
“Our capacity for storage in particular … substantially needs to be improved,” the governor said, “but I am confident in our capacity to deal with that.”
Newsom said the state “cannot sacrifice reliability” going forward.
“We failed to predict and plan these shortages. And that’s simply unacceptable,” the governor said.
And by “we” I mean “they”. Off with their heads!
Newsom truly is the Queen of Hearts [as originally depicted by Lewis Carroll].
NPR had a spokesperson from the Union of Concerned Scientists who said this was just more proof that we needed more solar power.
I too advocate solid state solar power – aka coal.
They’ve found a way to store the energy? I mean other than in its’ fuel source form?
In all honesty I’m beginning to suspect half the reason their metrics are so harsh about opening up is then it will expose the fact the grid can’t sustain the increase the business’s turning on their lights would cause.
This is a preview for what will come in Virginia thanks to Coonman and his merry band of scumbags. Gonna be a real treat!
On the bright-side It’ll take them 10 years. And who knows with this remote work decoupling contractors and gov drones from their brick and mortars we might actually luck ourselves into an exodus of these cocksuckers to cheaper pastures.
As soon as I get paid for my condo, I’m out. COVID has greatly increased my chances of being able to retain my job as a full time offsite.
The rats will miss you.
GAH!
Found the scapegoat!
In response to the (often deserved) criticism of National Review that I saw here recently, I’d just like to point out that the Victor Davis Hanson podcast that NR puts out has been savage of late, raining down the the fire of ire on the George Wills, and Bill Kristols, or ideological compagnions thereof, etc. tO bE SuRe, NR isn’t what The Weekly Standard was. Someone said that National Review were the kind of milquetoast big govt Republicans who would rather lose than fight dirty, and VDH echoed that sentiment directly this week, ironically, on a podcast he does for NR. Jack Fowler laughed along with some of the shade being thrown therein. I enjoyed it.
Hanson’s a sharp guy who gives a good interview (he’s all over YouTube). I didn’t know he had a podcast, I need to check it out.
Well, he has two now; The Classicist from Hoover, a semi-regular show which is probably the more scholarly of the two being chaired by Troy Senik, and The Victor Davis Hanson Podcast for NR, which is more recent. If you listen to both you of course get overlap, but I find it worth listening to anyway. He’s come a long way from being someone with whom I would have profound disagreements over military intervention overseas. It seems like a world away. He’s very much in tune with the domestic situation nowadays.
He does a weekly one with the Hoover Institute: https://www.hoover.org/publications/classicist
Don’t know if that’s the same as the NR one or not.
The squirrels ate my reply apparently, but it was just to say he has two regular/semi-regular podcasts; The Classicist from Hoover, chaired by Troy Senik who is another smart guy. That one is the longer-running, and more scholarly in terms of questioning, naturally, and the more recent Victor Davis Hanson Podcast from NR, with Jack Fowler asking the questions. There is some overlap if you listen to both, but certainly worthwhile.
Okay apparently the squirrels didn’t eat my reply but never mind.
Hanson has done some really good commentary on the (correct) decision to drop the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He goes so far as to opine that millions of Japanese today are alive, and should thank Truman, because the bombs were dropped.
I wrote a long-form paper about this very fact, and how it saves millions of not just Americans and Japanese, but millions in southeast Asia, then occupied by the Japanese and being forced to send all of their food back to Japan
I wrote a long-form paper about this very fact, and how it saves millions of not just Americans and Japanese, but millions in southeast Asia, then occupied by the Japanese and being forced to send all of their food back to Japan
ended up getting a D in the class though ?
BTW, MS Flight Simulator 2020 was released yesterday. I wonder if I can actually learn to fly a plane on it? Like, are there beginner tutorials that tell you what levers to pull, etc.?
I think the interface abstraction makes that difficult.
You certainly can learn to fly a plane using a computer console (after all your are just modeling flight characteristics and the physics of flight)…
But unless you have access to a flight simulator (and these vary by aircraft), I don’t think the lessons learned will be applicable in real life. The input mechanisms are too disparate.
I think MS Flight Sim has all kinds of different aircraft models that are true to life with their cockpit configurations.
At the end of the day, I have no desire to fly in real life. I just want to learn how it all works. I don’t have the first clue about the actual technical details of an airplane cockpit. I only know basics like lift and drag and pitch and yaw, but not how those things are dealt with in the pilot’s seat.
Well, in that case, you’ll probably be able to pick that up.
You’ll want to check the specs. From what I’ve read the new Flight Simulator has hardware requirements that aren’t really met yet for some of the highest level graphics. It’s also a 127 GB download.
On the other hand, if you’ve got Windows 10, it looks like it’s part of the XBox Game Pass, which is a subscription model. First month is usually free, and I think it’s only $5 a month to keep it going. So you’ve got a relatively inexpensive way of testing it out (minus the time to download the software).
There’s no way I can use it on my current computer, that much is obvious. It looks really good, though. Airforceproud95 has been testing it for a while, doing some landing challenges.
Not interested in becoming a pilot either, mainly due to motion sickness but I’ve been looking at online ground school as a lark. Less than the price of a cheap pistol.
In that case just get a yoke and throttle quadrant (or joystick and throttle for hotas if you are feeling more zoomie) and rudder pedals. You can skip the aircraft specific instrumentation.
From previous versions… yes. With a big if you pay to setup the full cockpit controls and the like for your machine.
Yes. You can create a true cockpit simulator with a yoke, pedals, and all of the actual controls you will find in a plane, and there are people out there who do exactly that. Some of them build really elaborate setups. That will cost you thousands of dollars though. I researched it a bit a while back when I was playing around with the mobile version of X Flight.
^This – Entirely, no. Enforce what you learn elsewhere, sure. Be prepared to drop semi-big bucks on controls and instrumentation that looks like the plane you’d like to fly. Bunch of videos on YT about it. Stevo1kinevo has done at least one, FlyingChops has done a few and I’m sure there are a bunch more.
You can even get a subscription for a live person in game ATC.
For what it is worth, I knew a flight instructor who hated all the students that learned to fly using MS flight simulator. The students spent way too much time heads down looking at the instruments instead of looking out of the windows.
The information outside the windows is less precise than the instrumentation.
Those instruments aren’t going to tell you if you’re about to collide with another low flying aircraft or a guy wire.
Not to mention that instruments lie.
Except when they aren’t.
John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash
My understanding here was that the inexperienced Kennedy kept flipping the autopilot on and off because he didn’t trust it or the instruments.
As is so often the case in amateur pilot crashes, Kennedy overestimated his abilities and attempted a flight he was not qualified for.
He tried to make it from Long Island to Martha’s Vineyard (i.e. over ocean) at dusk and then dark, with a little bit of haze. Fundamentally instrument conditions and he was a VFR pilot. The he got vertigo (a very real and horrific hazard for overwater flight), likely from the buoy lights on the black canvas of the ocean with no horizon and the stars overhead. It’s like flying in space – and he wound up power on, pointed down, at the ocean, and accelerating.
The information outside the window is exact. The instruments are an approximation.
Your brain may process the latter better, but their is more info outside the window, and better info. I think the more info is the problem.
You can’t see a damn thing out the window.
Functionally, it’s about piecing together multiple sources of information to arrive at the best conclusion.
Reliance on a single source will always go wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Airlines_Flight_201
I found the Uberlingen crash to be an interesting study of ATC vs. instrumentation (in that case, TCAS).
I think aviation authorities ultimately concluded that pilots should always follow TCAS instructions when they conflict with ATC.
Do you avgeeks agree?
Do you know what it means to “fly by the seat of your pants”?
The instrumentation tells you virtually nothing about the physical experience of flying (or driving for that matter).
It means you dun fucked up and would be lucky to not crash and burn.
It means you dun fucked up
Thanks for clarifying.
Further discussion is pointless.
If not being forced into an improvisational situation by failure of planning and preparation, what do you think it means?
Just like in driving a car, you feel the longitudinal, lateral, and vertical accelerations of the airframe. In the vertical axis, you feel being pushed down on the seat or lifted up off of the seat. You know whether or not you are going up or down based upon the seat of your pants. {real language used by old time pilots misconstrued by the general public}
A long time ago, I worked with engineers that built the first couple of generations of autopilots. The pilots would turn them off because the autopilot didn’t fly right based on the seat of their pants. The OEMs spent enormous amounts of money studying how pilots flew aircraft; what the resulting accelerations where; and how to make the autopilot do the same thing.
How the plane feels, helps you to know when the instruments are lying to you.
I wonder if there’s such a thing as a seat/chair, like a gaming chair, that would give you that kind of force feedback? I mean, for home use – I know they have very expensive such things in arcades and pro sims that they use for professional pilots.
Think about the disconnect between controls on things you have piloted.
In my case automobiles and both powered boats and sailboats.
You can simulate them on a PC for sure, but you’ll never reproduce the feel and response. For example on a sailboat the wind is going to impact how the helm responds and you can actually feel it on the wheel or tiller.
I have good friend who is a pilot who really enjoys the sims and finds them useful for practice, but recognizes the shortcomings. For example when flying into a new airport he can simulate it.
You can familiarize yourself with the process.
Flying a plane is more about understanding your machine and managing yourself and the situation.
“Long periods of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror.”
I think the only simulator detailed enough to be realistic was the old Falcon game. 4.0? I can’t remember anymore.
The engine start up sequence alone was about 40 steps IIRC.
And FSX is a CPU killing hog. I hope 2020 is more efficient. Trying to avoid an upgrade.
As far as simulating the physical control inputs to fly an aircraft, that’s going to depend on what investment you make into a joystick/throttle/pedal controller. The MS Flight Simulators do good job of faithful replications of various aircraft cockpits, and they also do a good job of simulating navigational instruments, radios, etc. The controls for a lot of avionics aren’t very intuitive compared to modern consumer electronics, so it’s a great way to learn how the interfaces work. It’s a great way to see how some of the more advanced navigation equipment like VOR and ILS work in practice as well. There are plenty of youtube tutorials and demos.
One former pilot’s opinion: Those programs are great at simulating what the instruments do, but there simply is no substitute for getting in a cockpit and practicing the necessary movements, especially since starting out you’re not going to be flying A320s or anything like the panels on those programs. Useful intellectually if you plan on becoming an instrument pilot at some point, but in the beginning, learning how to fly VFR means head up and out of the cockpit and learning to see and fly the real horizon, rather than the artificial one. In a Cessna or a Commanche, you just won’t have the instruments – and if they do, you won’t be using them while you learn to maneuver that thing through time and space.
Learning to quickly scan the gauges and then get your head back up and out is a real skill that needs to be learned in a plane – can’t do it on a screen. Indeed, I might argue that those screens teach some bad habits, namely of hyperfocus on instruments and those almost-but-not-complete visuals, as opposed to the necessary timing to come back in and check every so often while flying. It’s another essential (learned) skill, very much like when football announcers talk about “the clock” in a quarterback’s head. You cheat death by checking certain gauges on a schedule in order to catch shit instantly when it goes bad. Then, of course, there’e the “diagnosis” issue of knowing the aircraft systems so well that you instantly recognize the difference between various problems that can manifest similarly on the gauges.
All of that is missing (IMO) in flight simulators.
I wanted to give my some simulator time for his birthday. I think it’s over $400 now.
I have an article coming up in a couple of weeks about learning to fly. I didn’t cover simulators for primary training because of exactly what Ozy said here. Once you know what the macro controls do at a visceral level and how everything fits together you can use a simulator effectively. I have a sim and set of controls for keeping up currency and scan but it really is just a rough approximation. I really enjoy flying, especially on instruments in IMC (can’t see the ground) but doing the same maneuvers on the sim, even a good one, is just a grind.
Thinking about it more, there are some people who just do ATC in the flight simulator games. Not sure if it’s supported in the latest version or not, but that may be something you’d be interested in as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1Tofqrc1A
LOL. That was fun.
He doesn’t do as much ATC now as he used to, sadly. His Princess Juliana videos are hilarious.
Priceless?
It’s 2020. For all I know that could be true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He didn’t say it was gay, he said wearing a mask will give you AIDS.
Isn’t that how you catch the gay though?
“Mayor de Blasio’s wife is branded ‘a disgrace’ for having staff of 14 – including a $70k videographer who filmed her BAKING COOKIES – while crime soars after $1bn NYPD cuts and trash piles up on streets as 22,000 city job face the chop”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8641213/De-Blasios-wife-14-staff-including-70-000-videographer-22-000-city-workers-face-job-cuts.html
CWAA
Staff of 14….that’s precious.
How does MY film school degree not net me this???!!! I couldn’t even make that filming local infomercials and TV shows! (Not to mention my very popular cartoon series watched monthly by DOZENS)
Their daughter is such a laughable stereotype of a spoiled rich kid who never had to work, think, or experience consequences. Talk about “affluenza”!
I just realized today was Wednesday, we get a post DNC Sugarfree story! *shudders in excited terror*
Breaks out the cookies and Hot Chocolate.
:Remembers it’s 100 degree outside:
There is a morel to this story:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8320045/Demi-Moore-home-Idaho-movie-star-57-shares-image.html
Are all of the people in that house on meth?
Shrooms, apparently.
Someone ate all the shrooms, cause the rest of them are starving.
I always try to study background, to see what’s there that provides information they didn’t mean to convey. This one shows (at least – didn’t look wrong) that even with the carefully-chosen artistic arrangements on the kitchen counters, there’s still a coupla big honkin’ bottles of dish soap on the back of the sink. Somebody’s hand-washing.
Does Ashton Kucher have SAD? Demi is finally looking like an old lady, but at least we will always have Disclosure.
“Loomer – who has been systematically targeted by Big Tech firms and appears to hold the title for the most banned person from the most apps in America”
That’s qualified if I’ve ever seen qualified. I’m just sorry I can’t vote for her. Any chance she wins in that district?
“Three hours of bloodshed in the Big Apple: One person is killed and six are injured in shootings across NYC – as a 20-year-old woman is stabbed to death in day of violence that kicked off at 4.30pm”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8643143/NYC-sees-six-people-shot-one-person-killed-three-hour-period.html
“Yet ANOTHER riot is declared in Portland on 83rd night of trouble: 200-strong mob of protesters ‘rallying for BLM and the total abolition of prison system and police force’ torch city’s famous Multnomah Building”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8642373/Portland-Government-office-set-fire-200-strong-mob-smash-windows.html
This is Trump’s fault, apparently.
All it would take in Portland is for the rioters to be charged and held in jail for a couple of days where the inconvenience outweighed the fun. It’s obvious that these have become social events for violent opportunists at this point.
I see the Mail is sourcing their news from identical headlines in the Post again. Frankly, I don’t see this as any different from the ‘vid panic fear-mongering. It’s literally picking and choosing which news to report and reporting it in the most shocking! manner possible.
That job sucks. I’d rather see you starve.
Uber and Lyft drivers are bracing for a shutdown in California, one of the rideshare companies’ largest markets. For drivers it is a bittersweet moment. One that couldn’t come at a worse time and yet holds the promise of a better future.
The coronavirus pandemic has hit so-called gig economy workers hard and ramped up local and state efforts to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as employees rather than contractors, a move that would improve minimum wages and benefits for drivers.
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Chris Arellano, a Lyft driver and organizer in San Francisco for eight years, waited four months before he started receiving unemployment benefits during the pandemic. He claimed the declining pay for drivers since he started driving in 2012 has fueled organizing efforts to push for drivers to be classified as employees in California and around the US.
“In those early days we were making $30 to $40 an hour, if that was still the case there would be no AB5, no groups like Rideshare Drivers United,” said Arellano. “It took a lot of miscalculations over time and broken promises to get drivers this angry and motivated to join a group like ours. But when you make half of $30 to $40 an hour now and have to pay up for expenses, you create this sort of atmosphere.”
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“Companies like Uber and Lyft have built their empires precisely by bullying regulators, lobbying lawmakers, and deceiving the public, anything to stay one step ahead of accountability,” said Brian Chen, staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project. “Finally, they are being held to account in their home state of California, and they’re turning to the same tricks as usual: threatening to suspend operations and funding a dangerous ballot initiative to buy their way out of their obligations.”
Some Uber and Lyft drivers allege the companies are planning to shut down operations as a tactic to try to manipulate people in California to support Prop 22.
Back in the good old days, when supply was constrained, they made better money. The state needs to help us erect barriers to entry.
Isn’t that all that Unions have ever been arguing for?
“In those early days we were making $30 to $40 an hour, if that was still the case there would be no AB5, no groups like Rideshare Drivers United,” said Arellano.”
I love how journalists make sure they find the stupidest person involved as an example of their “credibility”.
There was clearly a case of demand exceeding supply – so much so that the earliest drivers made good money. And when other people figured that out, the supply of drivers went up, forcing the cost of drivers down.
Rather that approach the supply part of the issue, Arellano – a supplier – made a concerted effort to squelch demand.
Someone that stupid deserves the results he works toward.
I would respect the guy more if he was evil – lobbying the government to make it harder to become a cab driver would at least make personal economic sense despite the hate at its base.
^^^ Yes. Driving is a skill 80% of Americans learn how to drive, and most do so by the age of 16, it doesn’t quite make sense that they would all be earning $30 an hour to do so.
“built their empires precisely by bullying regulators, lobbying lawmakers”
Not buying this doublethink either, you lying asshole.
“her workforce to 14 with a $2 million price tag”
At least none of that was spent on beauty products or treatments.
Here’s a fun story – UC Berkeley’s student newspaper apparently has a columnist whose bailiwick consists entirely of “decolonization”. Said columnist recently wrote a column with the now-standard issue by-any-means-necessary pablum advocating violence. That’s not the part that interested me. What did interest me was the name of this fellow – Khaled Alqahtani. As I’m reasonaby certain that Alqahtani isn’t a Kiowa or Arapaho name, why isn’t this colonizer getting the fuck out of North America?
WAIT!? UC BERKELEY IS ALLOWING STUDENTS ON CAMPUS DURING A MOTHERFUCKING PANDEMIC!? MUTHERFUCCING REPULICICANT ASSHOLES!!!???!!?!?!
Does anyone, except maroons, believe Biden/Harris will “unify America?” First, we hold an election to divide the deplorables from the compassionates and then, if Biden/Harris wins, the deplorables will roll over and forget their differences as the compassionates refuse to compromise one iota? Elections have divided America since Washington stepped down. We only unite over things like Pearl Harbor, 9/11, rebuilding after some devastating storm, not over having our money stolen so corrupt politicians can buy votes from corporate and individual moochers.
Trump is retweeting for Loomer.
Also,
“Why are Republicans allowing the Democrats to have ridiculous Post Office hearings on Saturday & Monday, just before and during our Convention. Let them hold them NOW (during their Convention) or after our Convention is over. Always playing right into their hands! ”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1296104752284082176
Well they are the “We like to play into their hands party”. That’s what they do.
Just discovered this live feed of trains in CA (Tehachapi Loop). Now I want to play “spot the hobos”.
Tehachapi to Tonopaaaaaaaaaah
Upmost. UPMOST. Y’all.
https://twitter.com/goodyear/status/1296111292827283462
Fucking Twitter with it’s new ‘who can reply’ it’s facebook for people without friends.