Never has the question, “do you swallow”, carried such life and death consequences. The same goes for Karen Carpenter for completely different reasons.
SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH!!!
She was famous enough she sang duets with other famous people.
This kids, is what we call “irony”.
Cass had her own television show with some pretty high powered talent.
Truly the best timeline.
Here’s Mama on Sammy’s how. She was a little flat that night.
This is how you get others to enact your labor.
And who could forget where it all started?
First time I ever saw Mama Cass with Michelle, Denny and John was on the Sunday evening Ed Sullivan show in lack and white, circa 1966, I believe it was. I thought they were super, have a cd of the greatest hits. Still enjoy hearing them.
In a bio I read there’s a story of them beach bumming and broke in the Caribbean (St Thomas, maybe). Michelle uses a credit card, makes some ridiculous number of passes at the crap table and they get enough money to go back to CA and start Dreaming
#metoo
Love them.
La Raza Radio among businesses burned down in Minneapolis BLM riots: ‘It was my life’s work. Destroyed.’
I chuckled.
As well you should.
Every so often … a tiny bit of justice
I don’t see how that’s justice.
Commies burning down Commie’s stuff, it’s sort of like justice in a commie sort of stupid commie way.
OH-RA-LE!
Who could have seen this coming?
Anyone with an IQ over 70, that’s who.
The station’s CEO, Maya Santamaria, explained to the Star Tribune that the destruction from the rioting was a devastating setback for her business.
Not Mongo ?
This Mongo?
My parents had an old school juke box with an assortment of random 45s. One of them was Karen Carpenter singing Top of the World.
Then there was a TV movie about her eating disorder. It strongly implied that she became bulimic because her parents were so domineering that her weight was the only way she could assert control over her life.
And no one’s gettin’ fat except Mama Cass.
“Then there was a TV movie about her eating disorder.”
I saw a movie about that in an independent art theater. If I remember it was all done with Barbie dolls and action figures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H13d1nOorJM
Thanks
Found it:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094075/
I had no idea this exists. ?
If I remember it was good.
Gov. Jay Inslee accidentally gifts maggot-infested apples during wildfire visits
This is why I don’t buy organic. Of course, I wouldn’t be caught dead eating fruit.
How do ya like them apples?
Government. It’s the things we do to one another.
here’es a good one,
https://youtu.be/NKdknYaSHgE
don’t fly with John,
Lessee – Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Richie Valens, Jim Croce, half of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Randy Rhoads, and the aforementioned J Denver. If you’re a pop/rock musician, you really shouldn’t get on a commuter aircraft, ever.
Don’t forget SRV.
Damn. I knew I missed at least one.
Or Ricky Nelson
Or Patsy Kline
Or Otis Redding.
Sunshine, streaming through the wreckage of my airplane on my shoulder, makes me happy!
Sunshine, in the eyes of my severed head can make me cry!
Too soon!
After Denver died, Elton John considered rewriting one of his classics in Denver’s honor, as he’d done for Princess Di with “Candle in the Wind.”
Denver is travelin’ tonight on a plane…
My brother had the same airplane, a Vari-ez, I believe. I sat in it, and I couldn’t move anywhere except to move the controls. There’s no way i could have reached behind the seat to switch to reserve. Dunno, Maybe Denver had a long-ez, but the vari-ez, no way.
That sounds like pretty shitty design.
That’s exactly what I thought. I have a polaroid of us in front of it at Half Moon Bay airport, circa 1990. BTW, I believe Denver’s was modified and that’s what prevented him from switching it.
My understanding Denver’s airplane was modified.
The location of the fuel selector valve was non standard in Denver’s airplane. I can’t remember the specifics of where he crashed, but there is usually no reason that fuel exhaustion should result in a crash. Most forced landings are survivable.
He ran out of gas over the ocean, I believe off the coast of southern California. Pretty sure he got crunched up hitting the drink. He had lots of warning. He just got the warning at too low of an altitude to save himself.
It was Monterey bay. He accidentally gave it full rudder while trying to switch the valve. Here it is. It was a Long EZ. The difference was the long ez is a two seater.
Rocky Mountain High meets Saltwater Realities
She was a bigun, that’s for sure.
Lulz.
I’ve really gotten rid of all the hippie nonsense music I used to like as a kid. California Dreamin’ isn’t a song I got rid of. From that, I glean that the song isn’t nonsense, but rather an exceptional piece from a certain point in time.
Yes, it is. I think a good argument could be made that it is one of the most masterful works of art from that decade. I wish that California was still around.
Thank god the clothing from that era are out of fashion but the song will live forever.
Hippy music.
More here.
Well, I’d give you the Nash song (especially considering the moral). QMS, not so much.
That was my favorite album In the 6th grade. I have story about bring an album to school day in the 6th grade with Songs For Beginners, actually.
That is a cool AF Quicksilver song, with a similar message, though.
I guess I gotta pull out another chick singer/songwriter from the 1960’s (1970, actually) Give it a chance, it’s kind of cool.
I love it. I’ll drop the gloves with anyone who doesn’t think it’s amazing.
They were at times brilliant songwriters and/or arrangers.
Another interesting 60s song
Speaking of The Seekers.
Lynn Redgrave died much too young.
(Oh, there’s also a young Charlotte Rampling to ogle.)
“The Seekers Say Goodbye From the Talk of the Town” was one of the very few albums that my parents owned when I was a kid. Played it over and over. Then I discovered “rock & roll” (in my case Ballroom Blitz) and thought the Seekers were lame. About five years ago I went back and listened to it on Spotify and realized they were pretty damn good.
Sounds a little like they stole La Bamba there.
Spanish for “The Bamba”.
Ritchie Valen’s brother was in the same concentration camp ( juvenile reform school) I was in. Ritchie was from Pacoima, a city in the San Fernando valley. Fun fact.
You hear “Pacoima” a lot from the helicopters during police chases
Yeah, it’s the hood.
Decidedly non-hippie 60s music
Better non-hippie 60’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZ_b26F3g8
Non-hippie 60s music
Awesome!!!!
Seriously non-hippie 60s music.
Seriously non-hippie 60s music
The same song, arranged for youth orchestra
And in a creepy disco version for Rhywun.
Good cover.
You know, Jose Feliciano, ya got no complaints.
Wait, we’re posting good covers?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ieONOQtfU
Try this one.
My wife was playing that on her iPad today and singing along. She was doing oldies again today. I remember that one and CCR ‘have you ever seen rain’. I love both of those songs.
Thinking back to Urthona’s compliment on the excellent job that Antony Starr is doing portraying Homelander on The Boyz.
I was thinking how it’s often the villain who’s the most memorable role, and the one most important to get “right.”
Why do we like the villains? Is it the danger They represent, like driving too fast or being on a roller coaster? Or because we find those characters to be opposite of ourselves—or we see some elements in common with them?
Unfortunately the best “bad guys” often get type cast.
I think plenty of people find the good guys the memorable and important. It depends on the show.
And sometimes the villain can ruin a show.
Yes
The first season was pretty good though.
Yes, I loved it. Unfortunately it was followed by several more.
True.
A good writer makes sure all of the characters are fleshed out sufficiently.
I think a lot of times it’s because the villain is the only one allowed any character. They have something they want and they work for it. Too often these days the “hero” is just a cutout of righteousness with no flaws, no interiority, no needs except “do the right thing” because that’s what the writers think a protagonist is. The Star Wars sequel trilogy is a great example, because Rey got to have only two emotions (esp the last one where she’s even more cardboard than the first two), no flaws or struggle, no desires of her own except to be on the “good side” for no particular reason just her innate goodness. Why should any audience care about a character that the plot just hands stuff to? It’s boring.
This is why Dune is so good, the hero has flaws. Enough to not really be a hero, at least by Dune Messiah.
This is why God made anti-heroes.
Or, as it was explained to me once, “A hero has one fatal flaw; an anti-hero has one redeeming virtue.”
tangential
Friends are god’s apology for your shitty relatives.
Totally true!
The villains get to indulge in the worst impulses of humanity. The really good ones have enough shades of grey to allow us to see their point of view (from comics, but Mr. Freeze, Lex Luthor, and Jonah Jameson have stories that fill out why they’re doing what they do).
My theory:
People like villains for the same reason they like monsters: they’re big and powerful; they do what they want.
If they weren’t powerful, there would be nothing exciting about them being defeated by the hero.
For more humanoid villains, their evil is often the result of their desire for revenge.
The CIA teaches the acronym MICE – money, ideology, compromise, ego. These are the main reasons people become traitors. I would say revenge falls under the ego category.
In this case I’m also praising the acting. They have some great and varied villains on The Boys
But Starr’s portrayal of Homelander is just top notch. He can show vicious intent, anger, frustration without even using his voice. his looks … his mannerisms… . I am captivated by that bastard
I wish Season 2 were good. Seems hilariously unfocused.
Sophomore slump.
Why do we like the villains?
Because it is easier to do evil than to do good, so it is easier to identify with the villains.
But I do think that a well written hero will be more popular, as most people want to identify with the hero.
And then there are the designated villains who were actually right in both idea and deed, but you’re supposed ot hate them because the creator said so.
Villians get to be crazy and charismatic. Heroes often times are reduced to playing the straight man or woman.
Hence the anti-hero.
Jinx!
“Never has the question, “do you swallow”, carried such life and death consequences.”
https://twitter.com/nerdy__nurse/status/1306290056144064512
This article is so Boomer that it gave me rheumatoid arthritis in my knees and shoulders.
I flashed back to a trailer house that contained our first color tv and entered a state of depression that I am now trying to drink my way out of.
Bitch, please — osteo!
I don’t identify as a Boomer.
I’m ten minutes past boomer and five before gen X. Just like my IFLA score, right on the cusp.
I think I’m about 10 minutes before Boomer expired. I don’t feel like a Boomer, and I don’t identify as one. Can we get a tweener name?
2019: Gun manufacturer Colt announces it is suspending production of the AR-15 and other long rifles for civilian use following a series of mass shootings.
Palmetto picks up the slack, you cuntes.
In the middle of the biggest sales boom in history?
Shorter Colt: “Weer stoopid.”
“1881: James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States, dies in New Jersey two and a half months after being shot in Washington by Charles Guiteau”
First I’ve heard of it.
I recognized all of the musical references — I am old
One of my earliest crushes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxjgbrs
What a voice.
Me too, but I still hate the Carpenters.
As is the new normal.
Zoom/Happy Hour/Drunken Glib chat tonight starting at 20:00. Come sigh at the strange beers I have to consume (tonight is a beer that got me yelled at when I ordered it at the restaurant in the before times).
Thank you
Huh.
John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (for only 79 days in 1984 before Mulroney massacred the Liberals in the Federal election!) died yesterday, age 91.
I met the guy a few times, since my paternal grandfather was a Canadian Liberal Senator. Steel blue eyes and ice in his veins, that Turner. Smart as Hell, but he just couldn’t connect at all with the average Jane/Joe. Hence the massacre mentioned above.
Good god that Mama Cass, Joni Mitchel, and the other chick video is painful. I think I need to add hippie female crooners in with Jimmy Buffet and the Beach Boys as some of the most god awful music ever.
Shut your whore mouth! Joni Mitchell was cool. Not her best, but still, cool. (raised on that shit, dammit.)
Joni? She had one hell of a talent but dumb as a rock.
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Sam Clemens
Poor life choices led poor Joni down a tragic road.
And up thread they are praising Karen Carpenter, she may have a good voice but the music is so fucking milquetoast. One may argue that Karen sings better than Aretha or Gladys (you’d be wrong) but at least their songs had soul, so to speak. I mean you’re not cranking up the car radio when “There’s a kind of hush” pops up on the oldies station.
the music is so fucking milquetoast
Wasn’t that the point? The world’s burning down around you, so here’s some bland peppy pablum to contrast against it?
That as well may have been but I don’t believe in giving works of art any points for context, they either stand on their own or they are failures in the long arc of history.
Some songs are just fun to sing along with, and are thus hated for not mouthing the political platitudes of the time.
Consider Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” versus John Lennon’s horrible “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)”.
When I hear the latter, I always imagine the engineer thinking, “I wonder how deep I can bury Yoko in the mix before John notices.”
True, but the Lennon song (sans message) is a better-written song.
If you’re looking for decent ex-beatle music, try Harrison. No X-mas songs but way better music.
Little known fact but the Beatle with the most post Beatle success was Ringo.
To be fair, Harrison was stealing from the Chiffons.
“All Those Years Ago” was one of those “songs I grew up with”.
I am now listening to it for the first time in decades and it’s not as great as I remember. Oh well.
Harrison wrote most of my favorite Beatles songs.
People love the song that was on the radio when they were in high school. The song that was playing when they were with a certain chick, The soundtrack to their glory days. I even wax nostalgic with certain song I don’t really even like. That Laura Nyro song above, I used to sit on a chair with my feet dangling and watch my mom vacuum the living room carpets while it played at max volume. We had oriental rugs and the sun would stream in through the windows. I could see the dust floating through it. It was a weekly routine. The vacuum cleaner was a massive chrome and bakelight affair and it would roar, but not as loud as the “hi-fi” record player. That one song always struck me. Later, after I became a fan of the blues and the Allman Brothers, I learned it was Duane Allman on that one song, playing guitar. That song means something to me.
Look, I have no opinion on Karen. I just know that Joni was cool back in the day. I could totally drink a six pack of her. Huge fan of both Aretha and Gladys, btw.
Oh I’d drink a six pack with her, assuming that means she wouldn’t be singing for at least an hour.
Agreed. Karen had a golden voice but the songs…..not so much.
I’m a sucker for that stuff so I’ll respectfully disagree with all o’ y’all.
Move over. I’ll sit with you.
I love that song.
And because I am Gen X, the reason is because it was used on an episode of The Wonder Years.
I would have married a young Mary Travers, had she ever decided and I wasn’t at the end of a long line of wannabees.
JB is his own kind of music and has it’s place. The hippy shit on the other hand just made me sad.
Agreed James Brown is “da’bomb”, as the kids these day say.
YOU KNOW WHO I MEANT!
Well,it’s a Mans World, what do you expect?
/Brother James!
interesting stats
the US mortality rate by quarter from 2017 to 2019
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/mortality-dashboard.htm
The mortality rate steadily rose from 2013 to 2018
https://www.prb.org/usdata/indicator/deaths/chart
Between 2013 and 2018, the population went up 3.5% (316 million to 327 million) but the number of deaths per year went up 8% (2.6 million to 2.8 million). So the death rate went from 822 per 100k to 856 per 100k.
More old people per capita, for one.
The main local wildfire relief fund is being ran by United Way. This is the one the county and others have been publicizing if people wanted to make donations. Well, the first round of distributions (technically the second because there was an immediate grant round outside of their normal process) were made, and it’s absolutely fucking disgusting what they’ve done. And unsurprising. Many of the groups receiving funds have zero to do with either response or rebuilding. They’re just standard leftist grifting orgs that United Way has been pumping up for years.
https://www.unitedwaylane.org/stories/second-wildfire-investment
8:46 Justice Today ($5,000) – racial justice org started and ran by a wealthy businesswoman who made good off of underserved markets but is a perpetual victim
Community Outreach through Radical Empowerment ($5,000) – homeless youth group that is about enabling bums
Eugene Family YMCA ($5,000) – poorly run fitness club that let their building fall apart and got a sweetheart deal with the school district for prime real estate to build their new palace
Full Access ($2,500) – disability advocacy group
Rural Organizing Project ($5,000) – leftist organizing group dedicated to extending their control to rural parts of the state
One Hope ($5,000) – doesn’t serve the areas affected by wildfire
Oregon Community Programs ($3,000)- child treatment program, started by grifting local university professors to skim off federal funds and other grants in pseudo research setting
And a bunch of other less offensive but equally unrelated to the wildfires groups. I’m so mad. Those who have lost their homes, whether permanent or just temporarily, deserve better.
Geez, I’ve been hearing “don’t give to them” for decades. Ever since an employer hooked up with them to conveniently deduct “donations” from our paychecks.
Me too, on both counts. I had hopes that this would be different. Hah.
Kristen, been doing more research on Wyoming, etc (Montana has a bit more of my landscape preferences, but Wyoming is up there in terms of taxes and overall preferences). Take a look at Landsofamerica.com – search by state – you can look at acreage, etc. Not sure if it’s a search filter yet, but a lot of the listings specify requirements (or lack thereof) for building, etc.
Of course, at this point, I think my plan (in a few years once I get a job that gives me location flexibility) is to look at renting a cheap place for 6-12 months first in the “general” vicinity to ensure I can actually deal with the weather/etc requirements prior to making any real investment.
I don’t know if it’s the best choice, but many people who live in RV’s full time choose Nevada for their legal address.
Lotta people who “live” here do to. Not sure exactly why.
Nevada doesn’t have state taxes, it has decent gun laws, and condos with “RV Parking” seem fairly common in Clarke County. Also their RV parks (places with hook-ups) are mostly open during the Winter.
Good info – thanks!
The top picks seem to be Texas, Florida, Nevada and South Dakota.
I think she wants some snow nearby, so FL is probably out for her.
I’m looking at AZ. Probably areas just north of Tuscon. Because it’s a little cooler and cheaper than Scottsdale and also more scenic in my opinion.
Montana is beautiful, but the weather is extreme, it’s expensive, and in case you need to get work there, there is none, you’d have to telecommute full time.
I would consider the Cottonwood/Prescott area. It’s way cooler and still not wintery like Flagstaff. Reminds me of inland California mountain areas. Also, People’s valley. Great places In AZ, they’re just all north of the valley of the sun.
To me, it doesn’t really matter where my official address is. I imagine eventually I’ll find someplace that has everything I want and I’ll buy some land, park the RV on it temporarily, then have a house built.
Until then, I honestly do not want to live anywhere in particular.
Throwing in this M’s & P’s because when the harmonies first come in, it gives me goosebumps.
I recall from their Behind the Music, I believe, that when recording their vocals in the studio, they’d sometimes hear a fifth “overtone” part that they attributed to “Harvey.”
?
One of my favorites also with great harmonies
Both are good choices, Hyperbole has no understanding of ’60s kids and music. Like everything else. Lyrics than can be understood, even by old folks.
Hitler Learns About Coronavirus
lol
lol. A zoo isn’t an all you can eat buffet, you commie bastards!
hungry whale vs salmon hatchery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvGCF-K8SiQ
I will note that this does not happen in Japan.
We all know why.
Hiya Spud!
Thanks for bringing us all the news.
I’m getting tired of my city being in the fucking lynx, though. I had no idea that we had a LaRaza radio station here. This kind of amused me:
Sweetie, here’s the deal. It doesn’t matter the legitimate grievances, once this shit starts everyone is fucked. Welcome to the party, pal!
Other than Joni, this is an exceptional post.
The Latino community should have taken a page from the Korean community in how to deal with damage and looting.
an old story but still relevant
https://www.thecollegefix.com/teacher-displays-confederate-flag-civil-war-lesson-forced-retire/
***
“My son just pointed out that the eighth grade history books being used in our district have pictures of both confederate and union flags. If the district is going to punish a teacher for using two flags as a visual aid, then shouldn’t they also suspend use of the current textbooks and quickly replace them with textbooks that do not contain what our district has now officially defined as inflammatory illustrations?”
***
Also, still completely retarded.
I see this kind of thing and am made sad. History is often taught by experience and by observation, not just by reading a book. I still remember walking through a submarine in 8th grade at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. I remember a holocaust survivor telling his story to us in 7th grade. I don’t remember half the stuff I read in preparation for constitution day last week.
Taking away that experience, that connection with history… it’s a grave injustice.
pet crocodile comes running when called
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78CxqRl7NE
dolphins learn symbols so they can order their favorite fish from a click screen menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMZ7oOCXfP8
That’s really cool
The irony, it burns!!
great moments in lung capacity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkWI9L-854
I’m trying to figure out where this was filmed. My guess is some kind of training center for submariners. I know they have a big tall tank to teach them how to use the Momsen lung.
Looks like the Royal Navy Submarine Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBDlZ7EHx4E
***
Stig Pryds is a Danish record holding freediver. He was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008, which disabled him so much that he lost his business. After 5 years of intense pain and increasing dependency on drugs, he decided to quit all drugs cold turkey, and find alternative ways to deal with his disease. He began practising yoga daily, changed his diet, and started practising freediving. This caused drastic changes: within months he could walk without a cane, and he could play with his two young daughters again.
It also taught him how good he actually was at freediving; within a year he started setting Danish records. He started traveling the world going to freediving competitions, where the warm weather and sun also improved his condition. He used his increased exposure from the Danish records to tell the story of his recovery and inspire people to live a healthy lifestyle. He started teaching others how to deal with auto-immune disorders.
The downside of his new fame was that the insurance company, who paid his monthly disability check, noticed that he was doing things a healthy person does. Despite the argument that he’s only healthy because he can do these travels and trainings, the insurance company threatened to sue him for lying -he’d have to pay back all the disability checks plus a fee. With the help from his doctors Stig managed to convince them his disease is real, just that he manages it well, but the insurance company decided to stop paying him his disability. The stress this whole procedure caused was enormous and Stig relapsed into severe pain.
***
The Momsen lung is the fire shelter of submariners.
For reference, here’s experiences of those who survived
https://youtu.be/mpS-Dpu8jvs
Ah, so it’s like the mask I had to wear at the burrito place today.
Should have watched the video first. It appears that the fire shelters worked, at least for them.
And I should retract it some too. I’d heard that only 30% of deployments survived, but that’s 30% survived due to shelters while over half were precautionary and the shelters turned out not to be necessary.
Still, it sounds like an horrible experience for those 30% (and the ones that died).
reconsider your food choices for heaven sake!
My burrito had: 940 calories, 45 g protein, 18 g fiber, and RDAs of 57%, 99%, 10%, and 47% for vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and iron respectively.
I’ll probably consume another 400 calories today, and that’s it. My base metabolism is about 1600 calories/day.
Oh, yeah I crossed the 14 days booze-free mark this morning. I am celebrating with non-alky Beck’s.
And while I’m on this subject, I’m getting pretty good at jump rope. I can do a dozen hops or more before I get tangled. It really does a number on my legs though. When it gets a little darker and cooler, I will try to lift the atlas stone again.
Oops, I forgot the cheese – 51 g protein, 30% rda calcium, 64% vitamin A, 1050 calories.
Damn, one burrito is 2/3 of the calories and nutrition I need.
Congrats on your sobriety.
It isn’t for me, but a reset can be needed form time to time…
Not sure if the whole thing is reversed, but it looks like the last bit of him ascending was actually the initial descent.
Let the games begin.
“I think the choice will be next week,” he told reporters as he left the White House on Saturday for a campaign trip to North Carolina.
When asked if he would choose a woman to replace Ginsburg, after she died on Friday, Trump replied, that it was “most likely.”
“I could see most likely it would be a woman,” he said. “Yeah… I would say that a woman would be in first place, the choice of a woman would certainly be appropriate.”
The president reminded reporters that he had a shortlist of potential nominees.
“I’ve gotten to know many of them. From a legal standpoint, from a sophisticated understanding of the law, from a constitutional standpoint, I think it’s the greatest list ever assembled,” he said.
When asked about Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump noted that she was “highly respected.”
Most likely ACB at this stage. Wait for the anti-catholic rhetoric to boil over like her last confirmation.
On a much bigger stage. The Dems are going to turn off a lot of people over this but they can’t help themselves. It’s in their nature.
⬆⬆
I mean, they wouldn’t want big mean Catholics voting for them, just like trump should disavow his racist supporters, Dems should disavow all their Catholic support. It is the only moral thing to do, otherwise you’d think they stand with the idea of forcing women to carry babies.
‘Amy Coney Barrett’
But, how’s her tits?
A Boy and His Shark
This Shark Comes To Cuddle With Him Whenever He Goes Diving For The Last 7 Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=717uGY3nMn4
And who could forget where it all started?
That led to this.
These authoritarian cuntes cannot be allowed to have power.
Hirono said, “There will be a conference call. But a lot of us are already thinking about what we can do, whatever tools we have. But at the same time, what’s really important is for everyone out there for whom Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant something…that they need to be parallel organizing. I know they’re already doing that. And everybody better vote. … In the meantime, we are going to explore every avenue to stop Mitch McConnell from stealing yet another Supreme Court seat.”
Host Joy Reid then asked, “And does that include potentially making it clear that Democrats will vote on D.C. statehood and Puerto Rico statehood immediately upon taking power and taking control of the Senate, that expanding the Supreme Court…that’s going to happen if he goes for this, and then getting rid of the filibuster in the next United States Senate?”
Hirono responded, “All of those matters will be on the agenda, but first and foremost, we’ll have to take back the Senate. … If we care about her [Justice Ginsburg], we should be organizing, continuing to organize and vote. That happens in a parallel track to what the Senate Democrats are prepared to do. And we are going to be, in the next — today and thereafter focusing on that.”
And unlike the Pubs, when the Dems say this sort of stuff – they mean it.
Give Pubs a foot and they take an inch. Give Dems an inch and they (at least try to) take a mile.
/imagines Cocaine Mitch running out of the Supreme Court building with a chair slung on his back
Hirono is a stupid fucking cunte. I’ve had smarter bowel movements.
Wasn’t adding states a big nine of contention leading up to the Civil War? Are the Dems trying to start another one? You’d think they wouldn’t want to lose another one.
Here’s the thing. Whatever Trump does, whether he does or doesn’t (he should) nominate another justice and get a vote on it, they’re still going to try to do all of that stuff.
So it’s like ‘If you do that, we’re going to do this!’. So if he doesn’t, you’re not going to do any of that stuff? LOL!
It was actually grilled cheese.
Pardon me for quoting the whole thing, but they toned down the version posted on their website
They already weren’t getting another cent after their full embrace of BLM’s racist goals but this seals it.
When asked when there would be enough women on the Supreme Court she famously responded, “When there are nine.”
That ain’t equal. And ignores the concept of merit.
Justice Ginsburg’s staunch commitment to justice
The whole of your statement demonstrates a commitment to ideology, as opposed to rule of law and constitutionalism.
No justice for Susette Kelo.
I did not wish her dead but I sure wanted her off of the bench. “When there are nine” says all we need to know about her. Equality, my ass. She ruled on feelz, not rationality or law. Rule of man, not rule of law.
Once upon a time I did think that compromise and cooperation was the best way to govern a civilized country, our country. Then Obamacare happened.
Fuck those pinko bastards. They need a dose of their own medicine.
The Innocence Project does good work. I hadn’t heard about the BLM thing.
Is it possible that her “when there are nine” comment was a joke?
Sorry, folks, but I just got Netflix because Cobra Kai. Rewatching the first season. First episode. Somebody kicked up some dust in here. So cringe. So awful. So relatable.
You ran a dojo?
I didn’t RUN it but I was expected to help CLEAN it.
Wax on. Wax off.
Scrub a dub dub.
You mean there was never a Mojo Dojo?!
There was not. Sadly, I quit just before I tested for my brown belt.
fun fact – dojo means way place in Japanese, as in “the place where you learn the way”.
Do is garbled from dao, the Chinese word that means way (path or method, same connotations as English).
NO MERCY!
The girlfriend just binged both seasons this week. Then complained to me that I didn’t tell her how good it was (which is incorrect, I recommended it several times). My sister and brother in law are only a couple of episodes in so far.
And quit your bitching.
Sweep the leg!
Mr. Mojeaux wasn’t interested until I got him through the first 3 minutes. Also there are other things he’s interested in, like Schitt’s Creek.
Schitt’s Creek is entertaining. If you like dark fantasy, the Magicians is really good. Historical fiction, Halt and Catch Fire is good (if a bit on the computer geek side). Bates Motel is a really good prequel series. Ash vs. Evil Dead is a great comedy/horror series. The Toys that Made Us is a great nostalgia series documentary series. Black Mirror is a fantastic anthology sci-fi/horror series (start with the second episode).
Schitt’s Creek was fun.
This show would be ok if it weren’t full of teenagers
Dinner was good. Prime rib. Yum.
This was our first indoor dining since the shutdown. Same place we’ve been doing outdoor dining.
We were easily the youngest people seated in the dining room when we got there.
Servers were chill, as were the other diners.
Masks required for the minute walk in and out.
Dinner was a pizza I picked up at a local brewery on the way home from upgrading the nephew’s computer (it was crashing due to a small, old SSD that was getting choked under Windows Updates, so it got replaced with a 1 TB one). Unfortunately, during the restore, it wiped the application drive, so I needed to reset Windows, and reinstall applications. A simple ~45 minute job wound up taking several hours.
But I got to chat with my brother in law, my sister, one of their friends, and watch a bunch of kids play football.
I cooked breakfast this morning on the grill (scrambled eggs with onion and serrano peppers), bacon and grilled toast. I haven’t gotten hungry yet for another meal.
spooky – purple octopuses hanging out on a whale skeleton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmfiMy4CA6Y
Hagfish Ties Itself Into a Knot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1mQOnjh4Y
Also spooky
More spooky
spook etymology
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Meaning “undercover agent” is attested from 1942. The derogatory racial sense of “black person” is attested from 1940s, perhaps from notion of dark skin being difficult to see at night. Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe.
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It’s amusing that black pilots during the Jim Crow era had a more relaxed attitude towards racist jokes than today’s wokesters.
Burn the ocean down, lets get antifa down there and do it.
Be water, spread fire, amirite.
ahem
FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization
https://apnews.com/bdd3b6078e9efadcfcd0be4b65f2362e
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Wray did not dispute in his testimony Thursday that antifa activists were a serious concern, saying that antifa was a “real thing” and that the FBI had undertaken “any number of properly predicated investigations into what we would describe as violent anarchist extremists,” including into individuals who identify with antifa.
But, he said, “It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement or an ideology.”
…
Trump tweeted that the U.S. would be designating antifa as a terrorist organization, even though such designations are historically reserved for foreign groups and antifa lacks the hierarchical structure of formal organizations.
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Elsewhere: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/06/11/what-is-antifa-trump-protests
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Antifa has no leader and no clear organization. However, there are organized, localized groups who have followings on social media, such as the Rose City Antifa in Portland, Oregon.
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The greatest trick Antifa pulled was to convince everyone that Antifa doesn’t exist.
Fun fact: söze means words or verbal in Turkish. Kevin Spacey’s character Roger “Verbal” Kint.
So yeah, I don’t think the film’s ending was much of a surprise to Turks, unless they changed the character’s name.
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The name was based on one of McQuarrie’s supervisors, though the last name was changed. McQuarrie settled on Söze after finding it in a Turkish-language dictionary; it comes from the idiom “söze boğmak”, which means “to talk unnecessarily too much and cause confusion” (literally: to drown in words).[2]
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Made it safely yesterday to the first destination on my trip. The wifi hotspot I brought along kept constantly rebooting, only giving me enough time to maybe refresh a page. Looking into it in the small spurts I could get access seems to be a firmware issue that certain towers can activate. It lost signal long enough a bit ago that I could fiddle with the settings. I switched it from LTE to CDMA, and viola! I’ve had a stable connection go on minutes!
Nerd!
Check the email. Jimbo and I are meeting for breakfast. Mike S will probably be there too.
Have fun, hosers!
Wish you were here too!
GROOVY, workarounds FTW!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiSr-agU8AEpsDC.jpg
Interesting.
Oh, that IS spicy.
Gonna be chilly out tonight, so I brought in the pepper plants. It’s too early to be this cold.
Late in my view. I have been busting my ass in oppressive heat and I am worn out on it. Down from upper 90’s to 78 today but still the dead calm/high humidity that lurks around hurricanes. I am ready for some cooler, dryer weather.
Finally cool and dry in NYC. I love when my dishes dry in a couple hours instead of a day and a half, and the carpets don’t feel like wet sponges.
What exactly are you doing to/with your carpets?
Holding pool parties.
Walking on them with bare feet. Well, I was, but now it’s too cold.
Dropping down to 40 here tonight.
We’ve got frost advisories here.
Bring yer peppers in. ?
Lower 70s today and low 50s tonight, but it’s supposed to be back in the low 80s by Monday. I hope so, I have a lot of green tomatoes I’m worried won’t get ripe before frost if it doesn’t warm back up.
We played here today with some travelers, great fun,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/hkQGX3zwimD21Gfr5
and Jacob’s first Ace, 221 ft. blind shot,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ynYd6HV8sNZkYacb7
Tall cans! How you be?
I am off to bed.
Just in case y’all were wondering….it takes forever to drive anywhere. At least now we have to stop for crews cleaning the mess up instead of downed trees across roads.
This is more or less what happened to the entirety of the west half of Louisiana.
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5b9987bfc67d390189b13056/5f60f3415e50f571dbe24314_5f60d483aafe1.image.jpg
Thankfully my timber fared better. I lost some beautiful oaks but all in all I was spared the worst of it.
Ouch! Rest up and glad you and yours are safe.
Holy shit!
All the best, dude.
Do they have a shallow root system? Didn’t look like big mounds of dirt at the base of the trees. Sad to see that, nature’s an unforgiving bitch.
Best video version of California Dreamin
https://youtu.be/IAH-0GKvIrM
One of my best memories was going to Denmark to visit my brother as my graduation gift to myself. They were going through their graduation of “high school” when I was there.
Me being Californian of sorts, we sung sung karaoke all night long with me front and center for California Dreamin.
It is also the night I learned sexual education was different than the states when a girl trounced out in a thong and all the guys said “yeah, no big deal”
Trump rally ends with the ‘YMCA’ song. NPC’s probably don’t know what to do with that.
I don’t know what to do with that.
Make the letters with your arms?
great moments in final approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94f_b92wl4
longer version minus awesome music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgvzhJpyn10
You can see the wing flex…did the pilot actually manage the landing after that barrel roll? Wtf was going on there?
Fake. Fun. But Fake. Not Possible.
That….real?
You get inverted in a jet airliner, you’re dead. They are not designed for that.
And yes, I know a test pilot actually did a (slow) barrel roll once.
Rip AS261
I used to work on the actuator that drives that jackscrew. It’s like 8 to 10 pounds of super power. No shit. Run it on no lube, it will fuck shit up. This event changed a whole lot of things. I mean that for the better.
Yeah, similar with JAL123.
I’m not understanding what you mean. Alaska Air maintenance did not do its job.
The JAL123 crash was also due to incorrect maintenance (well, repair).
Both airlines made a hard turn afterward to correct culture and management that allowed the incidents to occur, and seems to have paid off since.
Sadly, upon further research, it is CGI. This is real though:
Boeing 707 barrel roll during demo flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk
Buzzkill.
But I’ve seen the 707 vid before and it is neat.
so is this: when aerobatics in a B-52 goes wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-S_NM–evM
Too bad the pilor was killed in the crash.
He couldn’t be court marshaled and executed.
His squadron commander was in the seat next to him. The whole chain of command new how he was going to fly that plane. I watched him do it before. (not the crashing part0
I knew those guys.
Little known fact: Tex had to start out with less than max fuel in order to compensate for the weight of his GIANT BRASS BALLS.*
*Probably not
A barrel roll is a 1G maneuver (as Tex notes in the video) – despite looking like it’s crazy, when done properly it is a very controlled and “gentle” aerobatic maneuver. Great “views” all around, as well, because of the nature of the maneuver.
True fact:** I have done barrel rolls in both a T-34C Turbo Mentor and an F-14 (as a pax in the backseat). I only vomited once of those two times.
**This is actually not bullshit.
Q400
https://youtu.be/HCtfYF3ITGE
You don’t need a license to fly. I believe one of the Glibs knew the ramper.
How did it end??
The Democrats to go truly nuclear?
Regardless of what Trump and Mitch do, the Democrats will (1) Eliminate the Filibuster, (2) Grant Statehood to D.C. and maybe P.R., (3) Expand the Lower Courts, and (4) Expand the Supreme Court
D.C. is not constitutionally permitted to be a state. And there is a process beyond “granting” permission for new states to be admitted to the Union.
As for court-packing, Dems have wanted this for a long time, and it looks bad politically.
Everything the Dems do looks bad politically. Their only hope is all the Trump BS starts to stick. They still have half the electorate, despite that, btw.
They are getting impatient. The Lightbringer was supposed to issue in the permanent Dem majority.
That didn’t happen so now they are using all means up to and sometimes including brazen violence to get power.
A few folks (blue collar union good ol boys) are starting to notice the leftie excesses and aren’t sure what to make of them.
“Everything the Dems do looks bad politically.”
This, and they’re not the sharpest tools in the shed and the new gen of them are downright insane. They’re going to commit political suicide, get the popcorn.
If FDR couldn’t get it done, it ain’t happening now.
I hope. The problem I see is that a lot of bonds of tradition and practice have been severed since.
The left is all fucking in. They have zero boundaries now. If they get the proggy camel’s nose under the tent, it’s all over. Then, even if the red team gets power back they’ll run with the newfound omnipotence. We are truly fucked if this happens.
Court packing is so short-sighted, as once that dam is breached it only benefits you as long as you hold the Senate+Presidency. When the other team gets that combo, they can pack it more to undo your gains. The Dems just don’t like playing by the rules, but the rules exist for a reason.
Harsh buzzkill, dude!
Process ha! We do what is ‘good for the people’! /Dems, progs, antifa (not an organization), BLM
nuclear?
colorized atomic blast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uveNLvPSx3U
So Nashville story is looking to be a bust but the reporter still looks good in my eyes.
what story?
That they decided to hide that no one was getting sick from restaurants.
The good kind of progressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9NCuOe4zJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgN4_tuKrnM
https://twitter.com/Libercon2016/status/1307444233658396672
neener neener
Well that is inconvenient for the narrative.
another great Trump ad: Biden’s teleprompter difficulties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XxA1ZIP4M
Brutal.
Oh wow. That is savage… particularly because of it’s true.
I hadn’t seen the hand-gesturing to have his handlers move up the text – that is just… whew.
Not a good look.
R.I.P. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now Fill The Seat.
Brilliant!!!!!
Trump speaks tonight on debating Biden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FQJFZqUkMM
So he does own a shirt, but still doesn’t know what color cameras are for.
“If Republicans recklessly & reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.”
https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1307378591097815040
CWAA
nothing is off the table
Such as the current government functioning until the next government takes office. . .
Organized invasions of thousands of aliens and now organized attacks of violent rioters all over the country. Fuck the pinko sacks of shit, they have already taken everything off of the table.
“I assumed deer dead bc it was night and no carcas”
https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1307453788815536135
What?
“I didn’t want hit and run vehicular homocide, potentially with DUI charges, but they found the corpse.”
Top men are so impressive.
great moments in politicians driving badly
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On August 16, 2003, Janklow was involved in a fatal traffic collision while driving his car, when he failed to stop at an intersection near Trent, South Dakota. Janklow ran through a stop sign, and collided with motorcyclist Randy Scott.[11] Scott, a 55-year-old Minnesotan, was thrown from his motorcycle and killed instantly. Janklow’s vehicle traveled 300 feet beyond the point of impact and hit a sign in a field. He suffered a broken hand and bleeding on the brain. In the ensuing investigation, officials determined Janklow was driving at least 70 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone and that he ran a stop sign at the intersection where the crash occurred.[12]
Janklow was arraigned on August 29, and said he “couldn’t be sorrier” for the accident. His trial began on December 1. In his defense, his lawyer said that he suffered a bout of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, and was “confused” and “mixed up”.[13] Janklow testified that he had taken an insulin shot the morning of the accident and had not eaten anything throughout the day.[14] Medical witnesses said this could result in low blood sugar, which might cause disorientation.[14]
Robert O’Shea, an accident reconstruction expert, testified that he estimated the Congressman’s speed to be 63 or 64 miles per hour at the time of impact, based on details from the electronic data recorder of the Cadillac and “his own analysis”.[15] The State Highway Patrol investigator had said in testimony that he estimated Janklow’s speed as “at least 70 mph”. From his analysis, O’Shea said Scott’s motorcycle’s speed may have been as much as 65 mph; this was in contrast to the Highway Patrol’s estimate of 59.[15][16]
Most of Janklow’s previous driving record was suppressed at the trial,[14] but the superintendent of the state highway patrol reported publicly that Janklow had 16 traffic stops during his last term as governor for which he was not ticketed, due to “respect for his authority”, and out of a “fear of retribution”.[17] From 1990 to 1994, Janklow had 12 speeding tickets, with fines totaling $1000.[17][18] Two troopers were allowed to testify that they had stopped Janklow for speed in excess of 80 miles per hour while driving on rural roads, but had opted to issue him written warnings rather than traffic citations.[14]
On December 8, 2003, Janklow was convicted by a Moody County jury of second-degree manslaughter, a felony, as well as the misdemeanors of speeding, running a stop sign, and reckless driving.[19] A month later, he resigned his seat in Congress effective January 20, 2004.[20] On January 22, Janklow was sentenced to spend 100 days in jail.[21] After 30 days, he was able to leave the jail for several hours each day in order to perform community service.[22] He was released on May 17, 2004.[23]
Scott’s family sued Janklow for damages, but the court ruled that because Janklow was on official business at the time, he was protected from any monetary claims by the Federal Tort Claims Act, which ascribes liability to the government as opposed to the individual who is acting in a governmental capacity. In July 2006, Scott’s family filed a $25 million wrongful death suit against the U.S. government. The lawsuit was settled for $1 million on May 14, 2008.
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some animals are more equal than others
Buckle up, buckaroos!
Because of the transphobia?
cool, but is this really the best way?
Helicopter Tree Sawing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pla06PO6Odk
Maybe for remote transmission rights of way?
I’m nearly certain that’s why it’s used.
Fuck Trump. Impeach his ass. Biden 2020!!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304787058330939392?s=20
It’s always one step forward, one step back with him.
What the fuck does that mean?
Also, with Biden there won’t be any gas at all, he’s flip flopping on banning fracking entirely and going ‘all green’.
“Toss A Coin To Your Witcher” METAL COVER
I am not sure why my last post/link is “awaiting moderation”. Come on, man. I am the most moderate.
Server squirrels have eaten a few of my comments tonight.
Because the site is acting up.
Help me, moderation fairy!
What is wrong with the site? Ya’ll is killing me!
It’s because Hyperion sucked so much dick that he broke the space time continuum.
Give it a rest, bro.
I was just thinking. I think bad orange man has the dems on the ropes here, because he’s going to nominate a woman for SCOTUS. And it’s a 100% guarantee, if it’s Barrett or any other woman on the short list, that woman is going to be treated 1000x worse than Kavanaugh was, both by the foaming at the mouth dems and activists, and the media, in front of the entire nation to see. I can’t even imagine what horrible things they will do. However bad you think it might be, it will be worse.
Most and worst of all by the women in all these groups.
They want to deter non-lefty nominees from putting themselves and their families through the vicious gauntlet.
I don’t think it’s that deep. When women get vicious with each other, it’s usually, “Don’t get uppity, bitch. Stay in your lane.”
A woman being nominated by Trump hasn’t learned her place.
^this^
https://youtu.be/d4hOmTm2tJ0
WTF is wrong with the Navy?
They stopped using this for recruiting.
“How Cher turned a generation of seamen gay”
a e Lincoln quote, freshly dusted off by Mark Steyn:
Let’s not forget this is the guy who suspended habeus corpus.
True. But he had a valid point about the importance of a single justice to define and redefine what our rights and freedoms mean.
Anne Coulter for the Supreme Court Nom.
Vermin Supreme to SCOTUS!
Just finished texting with my “boss” about a piece of missing equipment that I’ve been bellyaching about for a month and it turns out that my replacement managed to run it into the wall so badly that it is fubar. I sez “It was runnnig fine when I left” and he sez “I don’t care. Don’t break it anymore.” Grumbling intensifies…
I’ve also decided to ignore HR. They are tilting “woke”. Fuck you, fire me.
And yes, I do indeed need “personal days” added into my contract. There is no one to take up the task so here I sit, broken hearted, paid a dime and only farted…
https://www.wfmz.com/news/update-police-search-for-lehigh-valley-mall-shooting-suspect-or-suspects-no-victims-reported/article_8141b25a-fac1-11ea-96de-fbf173535bb6.html
Local news.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1307408502806269954
Lol, wut?
Be ready. Reeeeeeeehhhhhdee.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1307628923367219200
I…uh…umm…
Mornin y’all.
mornin’
Tho since Ive been working overnights, its my afternoon.
At least that explains the 6 beers Ive had
Mornin’!
https://mobile.twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1307526095944773633
Rock on dude.