They just keep on rolling.
If debate was a sport (and thankfully it isn’t), tonight would be the Daytona 500: there will be a lot of boring shit, a couple of catastrophic crashes, and then somebody who doesn’t deserve to win something prestigious will win something prestigious. Oh, and the prize should no longer be prestigious. There’s that too. But we have real sports to talk about, not metaphors. And in real sports, Tampa Bay won the Stanley Cup, Villa beat Fulham, and Liverpool kept up their winning ways after thrashing Arsenal. The Gooners had about three whole chances to score for the whole game while the opposite end looked like a training ground. And it was awesome. Now more League Cup games for the next few days. Enjoy those, because they’re often a lot of fun.
Boss.
Pompey the Great was born on this day. He shares it with Spanish writer Cervantes, British Admiral Horatio Nelson, Economist and fucking legend Ludwig von Mises, racer and flyer Roscoe Turner, physicist Enrico Fermi, the singing cowboy Gene Autry, actor Trevor Howard, rocker and child-lover Jerry Lee Lewis, playboy PM Silvio Berlusconi, pitcher Mike McCormick, MASH actor Larry Linville, Polack president Lech Walesa, assist man John Paxson, musician Les Claypool, F1 driver Mika Hakkinen, and baseball player Rob Deer.
And now we can get on with…the links!
Truth.
Yes, I’m just starting with a tweet. The hubris of this asshole is just spectacular. 1: he’s wrong. 2: he’s a hypocrite. 3: his power doesn’t extend beyond his broke-ass state. So fuck him.
What an odd thing to hack. I mean…why? Sure, there’s some personal info. But all you did was make it public. Silly, really.
Wait, they destroyed the copies of basically all the evidence? This guy doesn’t need to be alone in being charged. Also, seriously, pulling people over for running with high-beams is fucking ridiculous. Sure, it’s a dick move, but shouldn’t be cause for initiating a police encounter.
The wildfires are back. And now they’re threatening wine country. Which ain’t good at all.
The circus is coming! The circus is coming! Have fun, Cleveland. You asked for this.
This has been going on a lot longer than this year. It’s how MN ended up with Franken.
I bet they’re really doing a deep dive here. Also, shouldn’t this be federal cops, since it’s effectively a RICO case? I’m sure nothing will happen and the election shenanigans will continue.
I guess they’re really gonna go there after all. Well, I shouldn’t be surprised. But seriously…this isn’t a wise decision.
United Airlines and pilots reach deal that keep their jobs…for now. Holding off the inevitable until that sweet government bailout comes such an airline play. Even without The Corona.
I’d be fine with this becoming a reality. Also, who gets salty about the design of a soda can?
Enjoy. Such a great song and a great band.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends.
The wildfires are back. And now they’re threatening wine country. Which ain’t good at all. – Have you tried making them illegal? maybe it works.
But these fires are just looking for a better life for their embers.
Gaia hates wine? Or is it the elitists that drink the over expensive dregs from California and feel superior for doing so?
There is plenty of good stuff from CA. Also, I don’t think the people who work at these vineyards are worth your scorn.
They’re better off not working for slave wages!
I am sorry I find practically all California wine overpriced for the quality.
And I was not picking on the workers, but on the idiots that put the policy in place that California couldn’t manage their forests to prevent fires. You know, the ones that say the problem is climate change, not the fact they let these things turn into fire hazzards.
Have you tried Opus One?
How about Opus 40?
Aren’t vineyards cleared for a good distance around to maximize sunlight?
I assume the smoke isn’t good for the wine.
smoke isn’t good for the wine. – smoky is more of a single malt flavor
So, add some whiskey flavor to your grapes.
Market it as “chipotle.”
I’m not going to look at what Andy twitted. He belongs in prison for six thousand counts of depraved indifference homicide and a few million counts of violationg the constitutional rights of a citizen.
Yes, he’s wrong.
A. There is no “law” to cite.
B. The current edict, at least in NYC, is wear the diaper if you’re not “social distancing”.
Maybe Bill will roll out of bed later this afternoon and alter the deal, who knows. But the luv guv is flat-out lying here.
“The hubris of this asshole is just spectacular”.
Sloop, you’re gonna have to be more specific with the headlines. I just knew that was going to be a local story (as was Omar’s).
“MN, Land of 10K elected assholes” We’re competitive, even if it snows on Nov 3rd (and 4th,5th,etc)
Wait, they destroyed the copies of basically all the evidence? This guy doesn’t need to be alone in being charged. Also, seriously, pulling people over for running with high-beams is fucking ridiculous. Sure, it’s a dick move, but shouldn’t be cause for initiating a police encounter. – here if you put your high beams on the other car usually turns theirs off.
Around here people who turn their high beams on leave them on, especially if they’re in a vehicle perfectly positioned to hit all your mirrors.
We need for even the smallest infractions to be articulable reason for traffic stops to give the officer a chance to visually inspect the vehicle to find reason to search said vehicle. Smooches. /Dunphy
The dog saw that you didn’t have your seat belt on.
Shit, I thought there was two of you…
A pair of identical twins walks into a bar, and one of the drunks recoils in horror. “It’s OK,” one of the twins says, “we’re identical twins.”
“That’s a relief,” responds the drunk. “For a minute there, I thought I was seeing four of everything!”
I think I found Dunphy. There’s this man I deliver too and he always has these fantastic stories. Don’t really believe many of them but they are interesting and he’s fun to talk to.
A couple of weeks ago he was telling me how he was slinging 6 Kilos of coke when he was in Las Vegas years ago and he was fucking Morgan Fairchild! LOL I thought, I have just found Dunphy! He also sold coke to Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker one night,
I passed her on a stairwell once. Didn’t notice who it was until I was told just afterward. No cocaine involved, at least not on my end.
Morgan Fairchild or Tanya Tucker?
M.F.
Cuomo knows.
I guess they’re really gonna go there after all. Well, I shouldn’t be surprised. But seriously…this isn’t a wise decision.
relevant
Brutal. And true.
In highschool, we used to play a game, cunningly called “penis” which would involve whispering the word, get this, “penis” just a little bit louder than the last person. We were looking to see who had the balls to say penis the loudest in the most inappropriate arena. I can’t help but think the Dems are playing the same game.
“I bet I can say ‘pubes on a can of coke’ on the Senate floor”
“I bet I can get a woman who has a paper trail of flying everywhere to fly to a strategy meeting where we construct a lie under oath about her not flying”
“I bet I can straight up object to a judicial candidate using a religious test!”
I’m not sure how you yell penis in the senate louder than that.
As much as I loath pretty much every senator, at least the R’s torpedoes Garland without using character assassination. Its also a circular firing squad tactic. I also don’t think Thomas would have taken the “Fuck you, fuck you, and especially fuck you (pointing at stare decisis)” approach he’s taken without the confirmation he had. I am sure the Senate would be in D hands right now if they didn’t do what they did in the Kav confirmation process.
in sports, I lost another dollar betting on the nfl. That is the last time I bet.
Exactly, the only way to win is to not play the game.
Look one of those fucking quarterbacks should have gotten 500 yards. Is that to much to ask?
Yes.
That explains the PAC12, maybe they are hoping for a championship spot this year.
I think they call that a push.
Meanwhile, in Baltimore, the favored Ravens got their ass handed to them by a team STILL playing sloppily.
[rant on]
They have a huge screen at the end of the field that they were broadcasting the game on. I can only imagine how badly a kicker could be distracted by watching himself on TV WHILE HE’S DOING HIS JOB. It was like trying to function between two mirrors facing each other. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to either put that there or to broadcast the game on it, especially when there is no one in the stands?
[/rant off]
Dude, seriously, the Chiefs tried to help the Ravens out but they just wouldn’t take it. Pride, man. Pride goeth before the fall.
?
“Lamar Jackson is a better QB than Mahomes.” Bitch, please.
@Pie, as for losing $1 over the NFL, maybe don’t go with the experts’ pick next time, especially when it’s almost unanimous.
Oops. Put that in the semi-wrong place.
I did not go with expert picks. I went to the apps request a bet tab which gives one all sorts of weird bets with high odds. This one was like 80 to 1
… I have the sinking feeling I was invited to this meeting by mistake.
I was. The meeting was entirely about internal workflows in the business partner, and didn’t even tangentially address anything within my agency, let alone my work.
I wonder who they left out because my name got suggested by the microsoft products they seem to be using too many of.
That person can;t have been very important so fuck em
It seems like a great idea in this situation, once you realize you’re not going to do anything useful in that meeting, to pull out your cell phone, look alarmed, and say, “Sorry, gotta go.”
It was a teleconference, and I was connected via the cell phone. It was easier to just leave it running and do other stuff on my computer.
I have the image in my head right now of a scratchy film-strip from the Fifties entitled “Your Government At Work!”
Not quite, but: https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E05/588070
There have been local stories about the National Guard being activated and street closures for the past couple of weeks. To add more fun to the mix, the Yankees are coming to Cleveland to start the postseason.
Baseball is fun?
Damn yankees.
Is the communist book store still an active beach head of violent trust fund kids like it was 15 years ago?
The one down in Coventry? Or is there one in the Case area as well?
Last time I was down in Coventry it seems to have gentrified out of the counter culture types it used to attract. Now attracting those same people, just older and with more money (usually).
The last time I went to Coventry, I was a tween and my mom sent me there.
Probably a different Coventry. The head of the Sub Geniuses lived there for a while. I spent far too many weekends in the 90’s there going to ska/punk shows (at the old Grog Shop location).
Most certainly a different Coventry.
Oh, I’m aware of that reference now. Of course, I had been a regular at the village before learning the reference, which lead to some mental confusion when reading the story for the first time.
Yeah, the one in Coventry. Idiots all wearing identical, and quite fancy, berets and immaculately clean black work pants and t shirts. Any time there was a remotely political event on CWRU’s campus, they would all show up packed in their mom’s range rover and make assholes of themselves. We had to call security a couple times when we showed political movies in the film society because they guys were true larpers and didn’t know the rules-of-the-road when it came to how to make an ass of yourself without getting bounced.
Mac’s Backs still appears to be there. The feminista store down the block from them appears to have closed. Record Rev is still there, as is Tommy’s and the Inn. Most of the other places appear to have changed in the past decade or so.
Investigators with the Williamson County sheriff’s department of internal affairs determined that the deputies didn’t violate pursuit or use-of-force policies. Their report doesn’t indicate whether the deputies were disciplined or forced to take leave.
They investigated themselves, and found no improprieties?
Case closed.
Sounds like a lot of people & investigations where some real bad shit happened, but when the people that did it investigated themselves, they found nothing…
It is almost like investigating yourself these days is just an excuse for you to pretend nothing happened..
And yet cop shows usually make the IA dept, aka “the rat squad”, run by vindictive people who actually punish other cops.
All that cleaving to your husband is a two way street, but what would anti Christian’s know about that yicky Bible thing anyway
They know it is evil crazy shit!
/idiots
I’m sure good Catholics like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden will leap to her defense.
Dick Durbin said something about views on abortion were offensive to pro abortion Catholics. ?♂️
Actually the Antichrist is likely going to be an expert in biblical dogma and minutia, based on the prophecy that he will take the place of Crist before the Second Coming….
The circus is coming! The circus is coming! Have fun, Cleveland. You asked for this. – I say Biden wins this one.
If he’s still breathing by the end, yes – he’ll be declared the winner.
I said days ago my bet is he is faking being out of it and I am sticking to it
I think so, because everyone is expecting a drooling moron and you’ll get just a regular moron.
And just for the local spin on it also, the city of Cleveland didn’t ask for this. Nor were they involved in the planning. This was planned and pulled off by CWRU and the Cleveland Clinic.
Biden’s debate prep – harsh but probably not far from reality.
Intramuscular meth injections?
Cognitive decline, like Joe is showing, is not helped by stimulants. The problem isn’t an issue of focus, it’s a problem of focus lacking continuity. A person with this condition loses their train of thought – the concept they were trying to express just evaporates mid-sentence. Sharpening their focus doesn’t help when they no longer have the concept they wanted to focus on.
“Enjoy. Such a great song and a great band”
Takes me back to the days my wife and I spent in Camden Town, back in the old times when you we’re allowed to go places. You know, 2019. We were shown at least two houses people insisted was Madness’s actual “Our House.”
That song always make me think about this episode of the Young Ones.
Loved that show as a kid. I’ve been kind of nervous about watching it again as an adult, in case I find out it’s not as funny as I remembered.
Better (IMHO) Madness:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3AovUZgvo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsME
“You hum it, I’ll smash yer face in.”
One of my favorites from the early MTV days.
Ditto, but I am obviously partial: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi5SJKI6RpU
Oops. Pronoun trouble. ?
Ha! Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson. None of whom I would have recognized at the time.
S. Fry was on Uni Challenge not long before this (only 21 sec): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_3LfuwVyw
I caught your name there at the end. 🙂
Who wore it (baggy trousers) best? Madness – https://youtu.be/Dc3AovUZgvo
or the Colgate Pump – https://youtu.be/18wxzA75-2g
I noticed that too while looking up retro ads.
Goddamn, am I procrastinating.
who gets salty about the design of a soda can?
People who value victimhood cred as social currency.
“the can printer cut off El paso!! waaaaahhhhhhhhh!”
In what world is that a sentence that comes out of a normal, well-adjusted adult’s mouth?
First world problems….
In a city where you can look over the barbed wire and patrolling armored vehicles to see an actual Third World city, Juarez, full of people who would looove to swap places with citizens of El Paso and have, as the worst thing that happened to you on any given day, seeing your city accidentally cut off a soda can logo.
Having been to El Paso, I’m going to give this one to them, they need it.
They headed down to, old El Paso,
Where they ran into, a great big hassle.
Take the money and run FTW!
Counter point: if people are bitching about pop cans, they probably aren’t burning down minority owned, minority service pharmacies in the name of protecting minorities from the police.
Bloddier fight tonight: Armenia Azerbaijan or Trump Biden?
There’s not a lot of blood in a man of Joe’s constitution, so Armenia Azerbaijan.
Andrew Cuomo
@NYGovCuomo
Wearing a mask in public is not optional.
Being a raging, wannabe dictator cunte is.
Once the Blues got bounced from the playoffs I hopped on the Dallas band wagon… the Stars had a good run but Tampa is just too good. Might as well mention that Cuomo is a gaping asshole.
Hey Silvio….I still haven’t received my invitation to the latest Bunga Bunga party!
DoOes this mean you used to attend those???
Well…no. I just don’t seem to get the invites. His social secretary must have misplaced my address.
&*&($)_(&)_)%_(++_(%
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM!!!
My friend in dutchland is again panicking about the covid. Apparently the hospitals are full. And there may be a second lockdown.
I am still unsure what to think. And I may be very wrong but I still think bad symptoms and be often prevented if at first detection a bunch of vit C / vit D and zinc are given. My friends position is that all those doctors in the hospitals probably know better. I doubt it myself. Not that I know, but doctors generally are prone top cover their backs by just doling the official approved things and are sort of against the notion that vitamins may help. I still say more clear/extensive studies could have been done until now. All actual studies on vit D showed positive results. I am still unsure on HCQ but I still am of the opinion that proper studies were not conducted. Anyhoo he is pro lockdown and I am anti and we talk about it but not violently or anything.
I am surprised how after our credentialed elite expert class has gotten so much wrong about this panicdemic, especially considering how often they have reversed themselves, people still have faith in them and the shit they tell us…
My friend just started a sort of MBA and became a huge believer in the power of econometrics and modeling in general. He is sure that modeling and AI and machine earnings will rule the world (which is possible) and be accurate (which is not).
So he is, or is trying to be, one of the members of the elite expert class I mentioned? Cause that is one group of people that really never feels shame at how often they are not just wrong, but wrong with deadly consequences.
So he is, or is trying to be, one of the members of the elite expert class I mentioned – yes. good money in that.
The new aristocracy…
And these people are hell bent on making it hereditary through globalism, cause they really fear a system that rewards those that produce value and those that suck the soul out of the people they are supposed to be helping…
I have told several of these elite fucks demanding everyone wear masks and stay home if this isn’t being done so they don’t have to disrupt their own lives and livelihoods too much, and their reactions when I show examples of so many of them flaunting the very rules they demand others follow, tell me I am hitting on something there..
When I did my MBA I had to take statistics – which is how I know this whole thing is bullshit.
He’s just flat out wrong. Ron Paul featured the updated CDC numbers on his show yesterday. This bug is eminently survivable for those who are infected. There are zeros preceding any numbers for all age group, four of them in fact for kids 19 and under. The fearmongers game the shit out of the numbers and people like your Kraut pal lap it up.
I think they get off on being afraid.
His main fear is that there will be no sort of immunity or resistance and you will get the virus over and over again every 3 months until it will kill a majority of the population. I don;t remember respiratory viruses ever doing this but this is different. There have never been something like this ever.
Yes, if that were true, we would be in a pickle. But then what’s the point of any of this? If the fucking bug is that dastardly, why not just go out having fun?
Face it, your friend is a joyless idiot who should have a cork on his fork.
Neah he was always a bit of a hypochondriac and terrified of flying for example back in the day,. now he had a 4 year old and a 4 month old and easily panics.
May I take your trident, sir?
(Fun fact: Steve Martin’s actual trident was auctioned off this summer at Julien’s. Don’t know what it fetched.)
Dang, that would be awesome for my office.
I love that movie!
I thought Germans liked killing large portions of the population.
dutchland is not deutschland. We are talking swamp germans, not germans-germans
The Deutch live in Deutchland, the Niederlanders live in Niederland.
(Psst… nobody tell Pie about the Pennsylvania Dutch….)
Damn straight, we keepin that apple pie for us.
Dyke building, tulip sniffing, french fries with mayo eating, cheese making, people…
(Holland or if you prefer, The Netherlands)
I call the country Dutchland. I call the inhabitants the nether-people
See the link above. Holland (two of them, actually) are provinces of the Netherlands.
Oh! So there ARE two of them.
I thought I’d had a few too many beers.
this bug has been with us for almost a year already if that were the case we’d have some sort of evidence.
if there is no clear evidence one must assume the apocalypse
See also: Climate Change.
They get off on panicking the regular people.
I’m pretty sure that was not a serious article:
Also: HEB Central Markets are the best grocery stores on the continent.
Mariano’s laughs at your claim.
Jungle Jims says hello.
And the girlfriend is still bitching about the fact we don’t have Wegmans here ever since I took her to one outside of Philly.
While I have not been there, I have been to the Reading Terminal market, the Marche du Vieux Port, Dean & DeLuca, The O.G. Whole Foods, and the Borough Street Bridge market (not in North America but listed for comparison).
If Mariano’s is better than one of the Big HEB CMs, it might be worth putting up with Chicago politics.
I thought that was Publix, or Wegman’s.
Gelson’s is the schmancy just-so chain around here. I don’t go there often.
or Stew Leonards. No experience with any.
We have Tom Leonard’s, which is Stew’s son. Very nice place, but you can’t really do all your shopping there. Great for meat and produce, though they pissed me off when they stopped carrying Boar’s Head cold cuts.
I hear both Boar’s and Dietz & Watson are rackets in the Coke/Pepsi vein, strong-arming retailers into exclusive contracts.
And, naturally, D&W is what Tom Leonard’s now carries.
Gotta go with Not Adahn on this one.
They are the most reasonably priced Whole Foods-ish stores in Texas. The ambiance is much nicer, but double the prices of an HEB? Meh.
I drive with my high beams, following all the rules about dimming when approaching/following other vehicles. I’m not going to smash into a deer because I didn’t have my high beams on.
My car has an auto dim feature that seems to randomly leave the high beams on for some oncoming traffic.
I turned that shit off within a week. It was so bad, especially on the winding roads in NoVa
Only thing I can think of, perhaps it doesn’t dim at all unless it gets really dark. It doesn’t randomly dim in the absence of cars.
I totalled my car after moving to the Hill Country when a wild pig ran in front of my Avalon at o-dark oclock.
I proceed much less recklessly now when the sun sets.
And now they’re threatening wine country. Which ain’t good at all.
CA wine is a big ‘meh’.
True story: Was visiting a vineyard outside of Richmond once and there was this lady there doing a tasting. Me and the gf got into a convo with her and it turns out that she was getting married and moving to CA with her soon to be husband. Why was she at the vineyard that day? She was securing wine shipments from said vineyard because CA wine “tastes like dirt”. Interesting thing to hear someone say.
CA wine is a big ‘meh’. – Oregon wine fan? Finger Lakes? Drăgășani ?
Texas wine is pretty terrible.
They’ve got a few TX wines that are good, but touring the Wine Country here gets you CA tasting prices for generally shite wine.
My algorithm for buying wine is to go to Costco and buy the wines with the highest wine critics’ rating on the bottle for $20 or less. Haven’t had a bad wine yet doing that.
Course, I mostly do cocktails like a Moscow Mule or an Orange Boulevardier, or bourbon straight up.
It’s a big state. Depends what varietal and region you like.
Depends what varietal – do you mean variety or varietal ?
I think he means varietal.
which grape, and of course red / white / rosé.
(she)
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
I was expecting somebody to squeeze that joke in here
An absolute must.
Went to the gym, and about unloaded on the guy checking me in. He was the same one who turned me away for no mask. His Co worker standing next to him when I checked in didn’t have her damn mask on, and nobody working out had it on.
It’s all a game of charades, brah..
I wish George Carlin were here to deflate it all.
I have to enter and exit with one. In between, nobody cares.
The owner of my gym went to the Trump rally in Harrisburg last weekend, said it was pretty wild. One of those things worth seeing just for the story years from now.
You should have. If they can’t live by their own standards, fuck them.
Just a poor, helpless, innocent little tweety bird
Over the last two weeks, South Dakota has reported the nation’s second-highest number of new coronavirus cases per capita. The rolling average number of daily new cases has increased by nearly 50% in that time.
But the surge in cases has not put a stop to Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s tourism pitch. In a video recently posted on Twitter, she declares: “This is how we do social distancing in our state.” Noem then shoots what appears to be a pheasant and says, “Less COVID, more hunting. That’s the plan for the future.”
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The number of active cases increased by 48, to a record 3,790. Hospitalizations rose by three to 216 and the death toll remained unchanged at 218, health officials said.
Time to PANIC!
How DARE some metros have their outbreak at a different time than other metros!
Wow, they actually mentioned the number of hospitalizations.
And the zero additional deaths, despite the alleged bodies piling up in the streets from the Sturgis meet.
3 people went to the hospital…. WE MUST DESTROY THE STATE, TO SAVE THE STATE!
The number of active cases increased by 48, to a record 3,790.
I’ll pay $100,000 if this journo can show me a way for active cases to increase without it setting a new record for total cases.
Good morning, Sloopy!
My strategy lately is to cue up the music first, so dampen the pain of the lynx. It works. That song makes me smile every time I hear it. And now Night Boat to Cairo is playing.
The malfeasance in the Omar orbit is breathtaking. I do actually think the cops will be working on this – they won’t stop looters and rioters but they hate that chick. Scott Johnson over at Powerline notes a small problem with any investigation:
No shit.
I haven’t decided if I’m gonna watch the debates or just wait for the highlights (lowlights?) It will be a grotesque shit show.
I’m actually looking forward to the ACB hearings. If Feinstein is as addled as reported, it should be fun. Add Harris to the mix and the trainwreck potential goes up significantly. I think she gets confirmed easily, though.
I hope you all have a great day, today. Don’t let 2020 win!
The smartest thing the Dems could do is abstain from the ACB hearings. Which means they won’t. The dogma, you might say, is too strong within them.
It’s not the dogma that’s the problem: it’s the fact that if they lose that seat the main mechanism they have used to circumvent the law making process as it was intended will be gone. The damage this does to the people playing to take over all levers of power, permanently, is incalculable. And these people don’t want to spend another 50 years trying to make their beliefs, insane as they are, the majority beliefs. They need power back yesterday to stop the investigations into the abuses they commit when in power (see Obama admin & this Russia bullshit).
Odds that there will be an assassination attempt on ACB?
Great birthday list today, with Fermi and Mises, no need for baseball birthdays. And then Rob Deer shows up!
He is actually 10th on the birthday WAR list, but it is a mediocre list and Deer is the John the Baptist of the Three True Outcomes. He was merely paving the way for one greater than him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiZfc0b2t3Q
If you are only interested in the TTO bits, skip ahead to 6 minutes in.
You know what’s hilarious? I started writing a joking TTO comment that name-dropped Calvin Pickering and then when I clicked I found out that he was born today too!
Pickering was under 50% for TTO. Piker.
He would eat you if he heard that.
Cleveland prepares for the Trump and Biden showdown: Cops swarm debate site amid fears of riots when presidential contenders face off on TV tonight
I can’t fathom why you’d riot because of a political debate. But I’m also not a moron.
Cuomo is demanding that anyone who visits an out-of-control-deathplague state (defined as having 1% or greater of tests coming back positive) must quarantine.
NY ITSELF is now >1%.
I’m assuming this means all New Yorkers who have been in New York must now quarantine.
Andy can go fuck himself.
Lockdown 2: authoritarian boogaloo here we come. They can’t fucking wait.
I was really hoping to not have to quarantine after the USPSA match in FL by saying “it’s outside, everyone is masked and social distancing!” But now that Florida isn’t playing along with the mummery, that’s a lost cause.
Right? It’s fucking coming. The uncertainties are how/when and the public response.
It also means mandatory quarantines if you go to a place that, were you bad enough at math to buy into the CaseDemic fearmongering, was SAFER than staying put in NYC.
The state has also seen some of the nation’s highest positivity rates for the virus, which is a sign that many more people have infections than tests are catching. The seven-day positivity average was over 22%, according to the COVID Tracking Project, and last Thursday’s rate was even higher – over 30%.
Malsam-Rysdon said the Department of Health has received reports of people avoiding getting tested or not isolating after being exposed to people with the coronavirus. But she said there are no plans to issue orders to mitigate the spread of infections and the state will stick to a strategy that relies on people making personal decisions to take precautions.
Isn’t there some kind of natural phenomenon, where people get “infected” and develop a resistance? Sometimes a whole herd of them do.
Those who do not panic, must be cast as failing and getting their just desserts, or else all the other states will feel foolish for letting their elected leaders destroy their lives.
I was on my wife’s weekly family Zoom chat, and someone brought up whether people should self-quarantine after “exposure”. I said that every single person who hasn’t been hunkered down in a bomb shelter since February, including everyone on the call, has been in close proximity to many people with C19, seeing as how at least 20% of the populace has or had it.
Dead silence for a few moments, then an abrupt subject change.
I’m on my last day of 14 days of “self monitoring” Got sent home because I talked to a guy for 15 minutes who’s wife’s sister tested positive. Two weeks of handling the school work for me kid so my could have a break. It’s all so ridiculous.
A police investigation has been launched into the alleged ballot harvesting plot helping progressive “squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Call me when something actually becomes of this.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/joe-bidens-texas-political-director-dallas-jones-accused-illegal-ballot-harvesting
More alleged voting fraud in Texas. These should be the biggest news stories across the states, not Trumps fucking taxes,
But that would get him to continue to claim fraud, without evidence.
woof, those comments ?
President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the “head” of the family and faith. Former members of the group, called People of Praise, say it teaches that wives must submit to the will of their husbands.
So submissive she is about to sit on the highest court in the land.
Imagine what she could have accomplished in her career if she wasn’t subjugated to her husband?
This is one of the reason they fear this woman…
She is proof that the lies about women being held back by patriarchies is simply smoke to hide ineptitude and/or lack of effort amongst those that want shit handed to them…
I Guess this precludes not
mittens from being a SCOTUS nominee.
Drop the not. Damn phone adding in words
Well… that IS what the Bible states. Even I know that and I’ve barely read the fucking thing.
Donald should nominate, say, that Muslim chick in Minnesoda and watch Democrats’ heads explode.
It also has multitude of instances of with a ‘submissive’ wife comes responsibilities of love, cherish, etc. Like all things in the Bible and everything else, we can pick out what we want to fit our world views.
I pulled Ephesians 5 last night to show the context. it’s a two way street. Submission on one side. Sacrificial love on the other.
Only prideful assholes and the woefully ignorant can miss the complementary nature of that.
IOW, “when mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy.”
I think that needs to be placed into a contemporary Bible.
I guess you could give Proverbs 21:19 that reading…
Proverbs is full of “Your wife is da bomb. Appreciate her more.”
Oh I know..it was a teenagers best book. Palm trees and fruit and all that.
? Did you mean Song of Solomon?
Both the Mormons and Baptists avoid that book at all costs.
Welp…I sure did…its been some time since I have read my Bible.
It’s in the new Queen Mojeaux version.
I read it cover to cover, along with the rest of the stuff in the Mormon’s Quadruple Combo. The Bible says a shite ton of horrifying things, especially in Leviticus 20:
“12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them. 13 If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 14 If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved.”
If porn strictly followed Leviticus, it would mostly feature snuff films.
Of course, Christianity’s response to that is to say that the New Testament overrides the Old Testament because Christ’s sacrifice created a new covenant that did away with the old.
The feminists (commies with tits) really hate families, therefore they hate people with normal happy families. The state should be your family.
Now more League Cup games for the next few days. Enjoy those, because they’re often a lot of fun.
Not really, the Carabao Cup needs to die a fiery death.
I see that, starting next year, the Carabao Cup winners will be playing in the new 3rd tier UEFA competition.
Strange bedfellows. Actually not really. Racists all around.
“Anti-Racist Left…”
False premise.
If it’s Madness you want
2020 strikes again.
Yikes!
Account doesn’t exist.
Welp, Twitter has no function anymore, shut it all down.
I don;t think Sector 1 of Bucharest will have a mayor this week. Never saw so many accusations of fraud. Some with evidence.
How many mayors does Bucharest have?
7. 6 sector mayors and one general mayor. Also 7 councils and a prefect.
That strikes me as too many. But… *shrugs*
The city has over 2 million people. You don’t have cities this big in the US so you would not need so many.
Adorbs.
Which state is that in?
Odds are good that there’s one in Texas.
New York City says hi.
Deblasio would love to have six extra mayors. He could sleep in later.
From overnight: Rambo and C.H.I.P.S aren’t real?
WTF. https://media.tenor.co/images/1a987065e280b76165b72f21fd986ce9/raw
My friend just started a sort of MBA and became a huge believer in the power of econometrics and modeling in general.
My condolences.
*Krugabe intensifies*
Check this out….
Facts first.
Stelter: And if you watch the opinion shows, first of all, you need to watch prime time on Fox. It is poisonous. It is extremist rhetoric. And that’s why we should pay attention to it. It’s important to know what four, five, six million people are hearing every night, because it’s so extreme and so radical anti-Democrat, anti-Biden. That is not the same as what CNN or MSNBC is doing. It’s just not. Here’s my favorite example, Hugh. MSNBC, Rachel Maddow at 9pm, she’s always saying buy a local newspaper, support local news, support a healthy media ecosystem. Sean Hannity says journalism is dead. He tells you not to trust anything else. I think there’s just a gigantic difference between what Fox is doing in prime time and the other networks.
Fox is corporate media like CNN. You are all lying assholes. You are just jealous that Hannity actually draws an audience for his entertainment segments.
You’re kidding.
Now tune at nine for our fresh expose on Trump/Russia collusion complete with a rant on why our political opponents should be banned from the public forum in the name of democracy.
When I was visiting my mother in law’s house, she turned on CNN or somesuch, and this horrifying stream of talking heads spouting shrill anti-Trump anti-Republican stuff rolled out nonstop. At one point I went out and pruned the hedges partially blocking access to her front door just to get clear of that propaganda stream.
She and my wife thought I was doing that to be a great son-in-law. Didn’t feel like disabusing them of the notion.
Good man. I hear discretion is the better part of familial harmony.
I swear if I was a Halloween partier that this year I would don the whole “Hand-Maid” get-up. I’d say it was “The Handy-man’s Tale”.
Might need to carry around a giant pipe wrench for comedic effect and self defense.
Scarlet overalls and a wimple.
That would work!
Journalism is dead, Hannity’s right on this one, and you’re a creepy looking fuck and a professional liar. How anyone can take that bag of Crisco seriously is beyond me.
His wife is this cute-as-a-button traffic chick on the local cable news channel that I watched for a couple decades before they lost their minds. I never heard of him until she mentioned she was having his kid. I almost feel bad for her.
*quick search*
She is cute and there he is standing at her shoulder in every photo with that snaggletoothed dead eyed smile. The poor girl must have myopia.
He has information that would harm her loved ones, blackmails her with it, so she puts up with this shit…
Yeah, he’s got too many teeth or something.
Awww, does ouw favowite whittle pigge not wike that the otter kiddies have diffwent opinions?
One of these days that bag of dicks is going to literally choke on a bag of dicks and I hope that I live long enough to see it happen in real time.
It’s an angry rant by a low intelligence lying propagandist for the dnc that is upset his side no longer holds the monopoly on news they used to. Fox is a terrible network, but the problem isn’t that it exists, but that the other side has vehicles like fox (or the yet uncensored internet) to actually show how people like Stelter and others in that circle are dnc propagandists and not unbiased news people like they claim.
Both marxism and fascism counted on controlling information to the masses in a major way. That’s to make sure people never find out how bad their masters are fucking them over. You know we never had a free flow of information, but the American left is currently seriously threatened by what we have and desperate to shut it down.
MSNBC, Rachel Maddow at 9pm, she’s always saying buy a local newspaper, support local news, support a healthy media ecosystem.
She’s promoting her fellow leftists? You don’t say!!!
How on earth did a person as ridiculous as Brian Stelter ever get a national show? I mean, as much of a lefty hack as, say, Anderson Cooper is, he looks like a newsman. Stelter looks like the night manager at Denny’s.
*snort*
Also- I have been seeing reports about some “infection rate” study based on dialysis patients. Somehow or other this “proves” something about low infection rates and a looming giant second wave. And there’s no such thing as herd immunity. Whatever.
Wouldn’t you expect dialysis patients, who are undoubtedly a high risk population, to be extremely cautious and therefor be much less likely than the general population to have been exposed?
Isn’t herd immunity one of the underlying principles of a vaccination program? They must be advantageously parsing which they are fond of doing.
Cower in fear never worked for anyone in the long run.
A Ford prefect?
A usual occasionally quora sends me email with topics of interest…
Why are Germans, Swedes, and Japanese so innovative despite having a culture of conformity and collectivism?
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Germans-Swedes-and-Japanese-so-innovative-despite-having-a-culture-of-conformity-and-collectivism
In my experience with Germany I am not sure they are that innovative tbh
Maybe, get this, dressing and acting like a freak to be different, isn’t as free thinking as believed by artists.
It’s more like rebelling in the exact same manner as the other rebellers to show you’re an individualist. When I was living in SLC, went to a goth dance club and saw people dressed and acting like they reaaally didn’t like living there, but apparently were too young or stupid to buy a bus ticket outta Dodge.
sTockings Tuesday:
https://archive.is/L1WzI
24 and 25. That is all.
I appreciate you stepping on Q’s toes here. #15.
What the hell? I decide to look at a little t&a and archive.is is blocking Brave?
What fucking year is it that I am seeing a “supported browser” page?
Try this:
https://thechive.com/2020/09/28/ben-is-wrong-lingerie-is-sexier-than-pajamas-31-photos/
I guess when I sporadically step in for Q, I gotta link to both the original and archive versions.
I don’t know who Ben is, but I agree that PJ > lingerie.
HEY!
Oh, you meant pajamas. I thought for a minute you were making some assertion about a link between me and lingerie.
If I was referencing you it would have been:
PJ>T
Asshole.
Don’t bother because of me. I rarely look at the archive links that Q liked to put up. I just had a few minutes before a morning meeting today and thought I’d use them productively.
Now? I’ve moved on.
I’m more interested in why a site might still care about browsers. Someone at reddit claims that the owner is blocking Brave because their tipping system doesn’t pay out to certain countries
I refuse to believe anyone really breaks pasta in half before boiling. This is just social contagion.
https://twitter.com/RotemEren/status/1310787891837235207
If you have a small pot, you may need to shorten long pasta.
Yeah, snapping it in half takes waaay too long, so instead I just put my macaroni in a ziploc bag and whack it with a rolling pin.
But then you have inconsistant cooking time because your pieces aren’t the same size.
Textural variation is a feature, not a bug.
Silly Rat. You just need to take the air out of the tyres of your Fixie, crush up the pasta, pour it into the tiny holes, ride around like a Prince and then it will be perfect! Just ensure that you do something else that is obnoxious and annoying to regular passers-by. Perhaps a Top-hat and Monocle?
Will shorten your life, but go ahead. (Superstition is charming in Italians.)
Always.
That shit should be banned in the Geneva convention!
I break spaghetti in half, but not any smaller pastas.
My pot isn’t big enough for spaghetti.
I usually have some sticking out and when the submerged part gets soft enough I put it all in by twisting it with some tongs
Pie with the correct method of getting all your pasta into the pot. It doesn’t take long to soften and with gentle pressure you can twist it all in within a minute.
Or you put the pasta into a skillet that’s large enough and cook it that way.
At that point, just grill it.
I drive my wife crazy because I don’t get the whole fork twirling thing. I cut mine up with a butter knife before eating it instead.
(faints)
Eating dinner at the Army chow hall at NCO school at an obscure base in Hawaii. We were eating the Army’s version of spaghetti and I did the normal fork twirl in the spoon to eat mine. The guy (local Hawaiian) sitting next to me acted like I had just invented cold fusion. He honestly had neve seen that before.
Some places on this globe have not been graced with the virtue of a good bowl of pasta and how to eat it from the guinnie community.
A travesty..
Like eating spaghetti with Ketchup.
We went over this already. Well some of us. Just boil it flat in a large pan.
I use a biggish pot, but part of the pasta originally doesn’t fit in the water. I wait a few seconds for one end to soften, then dunk and push the rest into the water.
This is how it needs to be done…
I just eat steak instead.
^^ This guy gets it.
Um, you forgot the CHIEFS!!!!
I don’t usually have time to posts so here is my late postings:
Evan: good on yah man! Just wow. I had seen your posts about your auditory hallucinations but had never seen the why behind it. Keep rocking it.
Ozy/Animal: Always enjoy your writings,even if it’s a few days before I get to them
Anyway, fall has come to SWMO!! I get to wear a hoodie today. Gonna have to get to the woods this weekend
In my experience with Germany I am not sure they are that innovative tbh
It only takes one.
Shit hits the fan when suburban school district email leaks telling teachers that they shouldn’t display BLM posters.
From the email:
The next school board meeting was full of parents complaining that the school hated blacks. People are dumb.
Pro-BLM, but no pro-Trump or pro-2A.
“It’s OK to be White.”
“Islam is right about women.”
Saw that graffitied on one of the window-covering-plywood panels down town a week ago. The next day all the graffiti was covered up, after being proudly displayed since the first riots.
Say what you will about the left, they have certainly nailed the brain dead “thinking” of the Gen Pop. If you think “Black Lives Matter” is bad, you hate black people. If you are against Antifa, you are a fascist.
If they’re free to leave, they’re choosing to be “subjugated”.
Pretty much said the same thing upthread. Though the left wouldn’t really see that as a zinger.
Yeah, I noticed that. Posted a comment about the links, then started reading everyone else’s comments.
What an odd thing to hack. I mean…why? Sure, there’s some personal info. But all you did was make it public. Silly, really.
It is odd, but this does affect myself and my two teens. I was more upset that the school district was quiet about it after the initial ‘hack’ and said no worries, its all good, your kids information is safe. It wasn’t till national media reported on it that they scrambled and called and sent emails to us.
Of course, TMITE and could be reporting wrong and/or jumping the gun.
The reason for denying a woman the highest position in her profession is because she belongs to a group that subjugates women. You can’t make this stuff up.
If she gets it, that very act would invalidate decades of propaganda about how women were not being able to get the highest jobs because of patriarchy, and the only way to fight that was to fight patriarchy. This one “embraced the perceived patriarchy” and still got there…
Nobody’s going to embrace that.
The right will roll its eyes.
The left will keep pounding the narrative that she’s a brainwashed misogynist because reasons and makes decisions favoring the patriarchy.
What is the XX equivalent of “skin folk, not kinfolk”?
“gender traitor”
Nah, we lubs her. Our resident Dorothy Parker.
After Paul Wellstone died, the legislature passed a law that said if a candidate dies close to the election the race would be postponed until the following February. This was so another candidate could be found and put on the ballot. No one complained.
Fast forward to now. A candidate (from the Legal Marijuana Now Party) in a congressional race died and triggered the new law. The race is close and now the DFL candidate (and incumbent) is suing to stop the delay. I’m sure she thinks that the LMNP voters are more likely to pull the lever for her than the GOP candiate and doesn’t want new candidates against her.
I realized that I hadn’t changed my voter registration info since moving to my new house in 2018. NYS has many parties you can register with (including the LP) but it also has write in blank.
The Veto Party now exists in NY.
The None of the Above Party, running a candidate named None of the Above, would probably get double digits.
I’d register to vote if None of the Above was an option to voting for the shiteheels on the ballot.
BLC1 2020: “I don’t support anything!”
Taking a cue from Joe Biden, I forget I’m running for President most days.
I’m not sure you have enough experience doing nothing at such a high level. I might write you in for VP to see if you can resist the temptation to Do Something before giving you in for the Prexy nod.
Plus Semi-Bright Border Collie’s platform of “woof” is pretty darn compelling.
I can’t argue with that logic.
The Dark Side of the ‘Angel’s Share’
Kentucky’s bourbon industry is covering its neighbors in black fungus.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/kentucky-s-bourbon-industry-is-covering-its-neighbors-in-whiskey-fungus?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Meh this fungus is also in Scotland and France and wherever there are distilleries. Aint nothing special bout Kent-uckey
Pie, I think when you come to the States you must concentrate on whiskey country.
Aint nothing special bout Kent-uckey
They’re icky wrong-thinking people, not like those western Europeans.
Sugar Free?
Also me (although I have moved).
There are lots of things “special” about Kentucky.
Somebody remind me what TMITE means, plzkthxbai.
The Meat In The Elephant
Teenage Mutant Indigo Tiger Eels
Trayvon Martin is the enemy.
Tundra Might Instigate Trouble Early
I like this one best.
You go now, to the penalty box…and feel shame.
The media is the enemy
The Media is the Enemy – or what the others said too
Take Mate in the Evening
Tonio’s mother identifies tasty eggplants
Tulpa Mask Is The Etiquette
Are we playing another round of ‘What does KMFDM stand for?’
I think I first saw that game on ToS…
Kill Muther Fucking Depeche Mode is the only correct answer.
This guy UAIOE’s for U and Me.
Shit I remember playing that game on IRC over dial up while waiting for jpegs to download.
Tornadoes Might Initiate The End
Trump Makes Idiotic Twitter Explode
Taleteller Mojeaux…
…is Tremendously Entertaining.
Awwwww, thanks!!! ?
Party of civility and statesmanlike compromise
“We will not let the infection that President Trump has injected into the presidency and into Congress, that has paralyzed our politics and pitted Americans against each other, spread to the United States Supreme Court,” said Harris. “This election is about more than the presidency or the Senate or the Supreme Court. This election is about our democracy.”
Harris named Barrett in her remarks, framing her not only as the antithesis of Ginsburg’s legacy, but also said Barrett “will undo (Ginsburg’s) life’s work.” Harris pointed to the Affordable Care Act and Roe v. Wade — the ruling that gave women the right to abortion — as aspects of American life that would be in jeopardy if Barrett is on the court.
“President Trump and his party and Judge Barrett will overturn the Affordable Care Act, and they won’t stop there. They have made clear that they want to overturn Roe v. Wade, and restrict reproductive rights and freedoms,” said Harris. “Judge Barrett has a long record of opposing abortion and reproductive rights. There is no other issue that so disrespects and dishonors the work of Justice Ginsburg’s life, than undoing the seminal decision in the court’s history that made it clear — a woman has a right to make decisions about her own body.”
Who doesn’t want this fine, reasonable, rational intellect in the Oval Office?
Racists, that’s who. Racists and woman-haters.
She won’t be able to help herself during the hearings. Americans who weren’t paying attention during the primaries will get their first view of what a vapid nasty bitch she really is.
She’s overbearing, shrill, and grating. Her personality really is Hillary with a tan.
Thing is, I can see that. She has a lot of hubris, and i think she would ignore a lot of her advisors saying that the personal attacks would be a bad idea. Because she knows what is best.
Fuck Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I am already tired of this secular saint bullshit.
a woman has a right to make decisions about her own body.
Well, some decisions, anyway. Just to pick a random example. in many places women don’t have the right to make decisions about whether to wear a face mask. And I’m not just talking about the more backward precincts of the Middle East, either.
Barrett “will undo (Ginsburg’s) life’s work
I certainly hope so, since Ginsburg’s life’s work was destruction of the constitution.
“It’s OK to be White.”
*calls SPLC*
After several injuries Brazilian pianist João Carlos Martins lost the ability to move his fingers.
Then – after more than two decades of not being able to play – a pair of bionic gloves gave him back his abilities to play the piano.
https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1310547355968704512
That is awesome.
Call me when they have underslung miniguns and the ability to crush a billiard ball.
So, you want a dreadnought? What about fine motor function?
I was thinking Aggressors in particular, but yeah.
I briefly went there but noticed that they don’t have miniguns, only bolters or flamers.
Oh really? I don’t play SM (actually I don’t play anything since I started collecting recently, don’t have a full army, etc).
Yeah, I got some of the easy to build flamer version to test a paint scheme ($10/mini made them the best choice) and recently got two boxes of full-option agressors because of a vendor error (ordered one, but two arrived)
I must admit I’ve warmed to the agressors a bit, but I haven’t played a game tabletop in years.
Maybe I should just drive out west and bring some crated armies.
At this rate, I’ll have my Indominus Necrons painted up by like the new year. Then, I want to scratch build a giant f’ing monolith because the idea of a giant f’ing monolith dropping out of the sky and disgorging a legion of undead terminators sounds awesome, but I hate the way the official ones look.
I hate the weakned, wrecked look of the indomitus necrons. It makes them look weak and on the verge of just collapsing.
This is my Necron aesthetic.
I think there might be enough relatively intact heads on the indomitus warrior sprue to avoid it, but I have to re-count.
I think there are 2 heads for each body, one with damage and one without.
I get where you are coming from, but I went a different way. I am making the rank and file to really weathered and the lords to look clean and well maintained. My warriors bodies are all rusty and unmaintained, but their guns are in perfect shape. The Space Robot Necromancers care more about the munitions than the Space Robot Skeletons carrying them.
This is my warrior exemplar
At some point imgur changed their site code, and I can’t get it to work on my machine.
And if the warrior falls apart, it can’t shoot the gauss flayer.
I opened an edge window to look at the Necron.
I see that the gunlights match the eyes.
Sent you an email.
Anyway, what you say is 100% correct – warriors are limited and they aren’t making new ones.
But, my Space Robot Necromancers are more narcissistically monomaniacal than they are rational optimizers.
Truly humbled by this sacrifice rite now.
Yeah, same power source
Individuals who considered themselves as “open-minded” did not show any more open and unbiased responses to opposing political views.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1310798907291639808
You mean “open-minded” is yet another virtue signal used to indicate a point of view???
*rummages through drawer looking for shocked face*
Gee trashy. I didn’t know you were so closed minded to open minded people.
“An open mind is like a fortress with its gates open and doors unguarded”
Brains might spill out.
https://mynorthwest.com/2194005/rantz-former-dem-state-reps-son-arrested-officer-bat-head/
Officer Bat Head?
He has not been arrested or formally charged for the bat assault.
They are, however, composing a strongly worded letter of admonition to be placed in his permanent record.
de rigueur: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=URuf-a1oi8E
Tasty Meatloaf Is Today’s Entree.
Too Much Icecream To Eat
Test My Insulin Tolerance Everyday
I miss renfair: https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1310747485535600643
“What an odd thing to hack. I mean…why? Sure, there’s some personal info. But all you did was make it public. Silly, really.”
At my old job I wrote student management software. Those systems have a ton of personal information – names, addresses, birth dates, social security numbers, that identity thieves would love to have.
Yep. I said above, my complaint is the school district is brushing off the media reports (which I get, they are devious and not always reporting factual information but click generation) but back in August when it happened, the district said – relax, it was just some teacher information and your student information is protected.
Then this dropped and now the district is in CYA mode. If it is ransomware/ransomhack, the district kept quiet about it until the news reports.
Going to bed now but my sniffles are actually making me feel a little Karenoid. God speed, Glibertaria!
Karenoid, you funny. Night night!
Mannesplaining
Does a tendency to reflexively empathize with the feelings and failures of men explain the structure of society?
https://arcdigital.media/mannesplaining-87d1cbf3f7ab
Down Girl itself made a splash for two reasons. The first is that, through a complex and sometimes dubious philosophical procedure called “ameliorative analysis,” it redefined the term misogyny to apply to the arrangements, norms, and practices of a culture rather than the thoughts, words, and actions of individuals. The new definition was systemic or structural rather than psychological: misogyny was now a general social force that kept women “in their place” rather than a negative feeling about women. The second notable thing about Down Girl was its introduction of the term “himpathy” — Manne’s neologism for the sympathy powerful men sometimes receive when they victimize equally powerful or less powerful women.
Manne’s new book Entitled covers similar ground, but in a more concrete way. Where Down Girl introduced a general way of thinking about misogyny, Entitled is supposed to show the specific ways in which our society actually is misogynist, in particular by showing areas where men have too much entitlement and women have too little. In some ways, Entitled is a thoughtful and incisive addition to feminist writing on what’s more commonly called male privilege. But the book has as many flaws as it has insights.
For a society where men are so entitled, women seem awfully free to keep talking about how oppressed they are.
You saying we need to step up and fix that?
I can literally hear David Bowie singing 1984 in my head as I read this.
Rolling out of vaccines to the population carried out by British Armed Forces.Covid vaccination certificate required for travel.
“Where can I get this placebo?”
The “kooks” were right again.
My wife is starting a temporary position tomorrow, so I will be dropping off and picking up my daughter from school. Since the school is around the corner from my office, I figured I would work there between 8:30 and 2:30. We have a sign-up sheet for the office, max 14 people can be there on any day. I am first signee for the rest of this week.
Maybe you’ll be lucky and have the place to yourself.
That is my hope. We are two floors, main floor is max 12, my floor is max 2. So good chance I will have my suite to myself. Which is good. It used to happen around holidays in the before times.
In today’s global economy, the vast majority of grapes used in “California wines” don’t come from Sonoma or Napa Valley. Fewer than 10% of the grapes are local. In fact, they simply buy whatever grapes they like from all over the world.
“California wine” is reputational. There’s no reason you can’t make the same caliber of wine in Pittsburgh, Des Moines, or Tampa Bay. Just buy excellent wine grapes. Of course, if you want to *sell* it I’d suggest buying some California real estate.
If you insist.
Terroir denier
Remember when they banned Laura Loomer for alleging Ilhan Omar’s campaign was doing dodgy stuff?
I’m sure the Twitter folks already forgot.
I read that as Doggy Stuff…
Laura Loomer is banned from almost everything.
https://twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/1310903436238622720
Did i miss something in my two week hiatus that for sure made Kyle a bad dude?
No, he’s still someone who defended himself against rioting sex offenders.
I think it was skaeboard dude who has been confirmed as having five convictions for raping minors. Kyle did the world several favors.
No, the first guy who got shot did that. Skateboard guy was a convicted wifebeater along with various other stuff.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to slander the wifebeater.
Nope, the left has already condemned Kyle as guilty and a murder. Which he may well be, but they can’t be arsed to wait for the trial. Hence the equivocation.
No it’s just the same “white supremacist nazi wanted to black-hunt”
PayPal is still trying to screw him on his legal defense fund.
I really hate it when Paypal does shit like this. I’ve been with Paypal for ~20 years and have always had a good experience. SMH.
I dropped Paypal ten years ago. Don’t remember exactly what they did, but I do remember thinking that “the assholes who do this are not ethical.”
Haven’t regretted it once.
I can’t (well, I COULD) drop them. It’s the most efficient way to get paid and it’s how almost all my business is done. Square takes more in processing fees and it’s owned by Jack Dorsey and because reasons, I decided to stop taking direct credit card payments.
I don’t know why one would go through third parties when lawyers are so easily searchable. Write K- R- in memo field and be done with it.
Probably easier for some people just to go to Paypal.
And, there’s also the public statement: “see how much money people have give to X.”
E-reading apps do what they want to do with epub files. Android has a dearth of e-reading apps that are any good. So what does my client do? Focus on the WORST (but most downloaded) e-reading app that is the ONLY ONE that does not display the ebook the way I coded it. Every single other one does, including Kindle and iBooks, which should be his only focus. I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to make it do something I’ve never seen done before (yes, I did it).
He hired me because he couldn’t figure out how to build an epub but, his being a programmer since mainframes, he’s now messing with it.
I can’t help that that one Android reading app is shit. I told him that particular app was never going to do what I told it to do and I wasn’t going to try.
I want to fire him but he still owes me the back half of my fee.
Good luck. I already have the impression that he’ll try to withhold payment until you get that bad app to cooperate.
I will walk away from that money before I’ll put up with this much longer.
Biden debate bingo card.
It’s just about time to hit the road. i’ll probably pop back up in a couple of days.
Whereya headed?
Are we going to see tomorrow’s medical technology tonight?
I want to know what cocktail joe uses to keep it together long enough to get to commercial.
I want to see a dart fly into his neck from off-stage when he freezes up.
I like Plisade’s idea of having a Glibs Zoom watch party and possible drinking game. Anybody up for it?
I am a maybe. Depends on what the evening has in store for me.
I could do the 2 am (EST) repeat. Probably no overlap with anyone.
More generally, an Asian or European time-zone Zoom might be handy sometime, to me anyway. Perhaps insufficient demand in Europe and Asia.
I have a story posting at 7 pm CDT tonight. Stop by and have a laugh before the binge drinking starts with the debate.
I’m the designated driver.
Me.
Ok chrome keeps giving me an offline version of this page. Every time I comment or refresh.
I fucking hate it. I can’t refresh. I have to close this tab,open anew one. Go to glibs. Click on this article (but don’t dare click the comments link!)
Am having similar trouble off and on; also can’t enable Remember Me.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/contact-denver7/cyclists-searching-for-stolen-bikes-in-denvers-homeless-camps
“Meanwhile, Haun said he had to pay $160 to get his bike back from the man pushing it. “I wish there was some way I didn’t have to pay to get my own bike back,” he said. “People said I shouldn’t have done that, but I wanted to keep things calm.””
That’s called “enabling.”
*draws rapier*
RANSOM!
You get more of what you reward, etc.
I hear people burn down the homeless camps in California…that’s what I hear anyways…
I would be only too tempted to tell the thief – “Maybe I should make it more like $450. $160 would barely cover your ambulance ride to the ER.”
“Which drugs should Biden take?
Cockburn considers his options ahead of tonight’s debate
Because make no mistake, Biden should absolutely be taking drugs prior to Tuesday’s debate. Pro athletes all take performance enhancing drugs, after all, and winning a presidential election is at least as important as hitting 40 home runs or making the Pro Bowl, or something.”
https://spectator.us/which-drugs-should-biden-take/
More to the point, what drugs should viewing voters take? Tranquilizers or antidepressants?
Psychedelics.
*dials blackjack*
deadhead has a sad.
I haven’t seen him, or many other people, here in a long time.
Cannabis? ethanol?
(GT, did you see you were name-checked above?)
“Anabolic steroids, Novocaine, Nyquil, Darvon, and some sort of fish paralyzer. Also, I believe he’s had several cocktails within the last hour or so.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
“Canada, of course, is leading the competition.”
So fucking funny back then. I had hair like Dennis, too.
*wistful*
“Sometimes I think about the fact that working class white men love Donald Trump, a phony broke billionaire con artist from New York and not Joe Biden, a working class white man from Scranton basically because Trump is racist and Biden is not.”
https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1310618829437857792
They are still this clueless.
Also, the comments are retarded.
Joe Biden, a working class white man from Scranton
I regard this statement as proof positive that there are multiple universes, and it is possible to cross from one to another.
I would be interested in knowing what trade Joe worked. Trump actually did construction work for his father.
His Wikipedia article doesn’t list any jobs before getting his JD.
Graduated Highschool: 1961
Graduated Undergrad: 1965, so straight from HS to college
Enrolled in Law School: 1966, so straight from HS to law school.
I think someone fucked up the talking points. He supposed to be from a “working class white family from Scranton” not actually working class him self.
Counterpoint: I still consider myself working class, and I’ve never done a lick of manual labor outside of part time jobs while in school.
I consider myself a white collar guy even though I worked the production line in a GM factory every summer while in college.
Joe doesn’t even come from working class. His father was in the oil bidness, and not as a roustabout.
Being a Senator is the blue collarest of blue collar jobs.
“This is incredible for many reasons. 1. Bret Stephens seems to have ditched Never Trump. 2. A lesbian tells @nytimes
she’s a “shy Trump” voter. There are more. 3. The ONLY criticism that sticks with her is the “fine people hoax.” 4. It wasn’t enough to make her vote against Trump”
https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1310829821761523713
This whole racism everywhere narrative is nonsense on stilts.
Joe Biden, a *phony* working class white man from Scranton whose grandfather was a highly paid oil company executive and who has spent the last nearly 50 years living off the taxpayer via his government salary.
It’s really just an alternate version of Trump is (currently) R and Biden is D. It has no meaning beyond that, nor does it need one.
More evidence that the FBI is completely corrupt and should be eliminated.
Minnesota Rep. Seeing Ilhan Omar Voter Fraud Went to FBI But Due to Languid Response Contacted Project Veritas
They cannot fulfill their basic mission – too busy framing Cabinet Members and investigating garage ropes.
Whoa! Don’t leave off sexting their colleague lovers using government paid cell phones.
The whole country, from local up to the feds, has strayed from the basic purpose of law enforcement.
The FBI has a vested interest in getting rid of orange man and putting someone that will continue the Obama legacy of bureaucracy weaponization back into play for them…
I can only hope that win or lose, Trump decapitates the FBI on the Wednesday after the election.
Why the fuck if Wray still there?
Why the fuck is Wray still there?
Story that Sean posted in the dead thread and should get more visibility
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/lawsuit-against-gun-maker-seller-allowed-to-proceed-in-mt-pleasant-shooting-case/
How the ever living fuck can a state judge rule that a federal law is unconstitutional in its entirety without any appeal to the federal courts? Besides the obvious bullshit of the ruling. I don’t see her overturning the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act either.
Why have some states not used this style of ruling to ban federal mandated shit?
I can’t see how this will go very far.
Isn’t ‘the process is the punishment’ an Iron Law?
Yeah, the goal here is to make gun manufacturers pay to take this as high as the plaintiffs can force it. Why a local judge should be able to get away with complicity in such a scheme is beyond me. But she will, most likely, not be censured for it. Her term doesn’t expire until 2028.
I mean, create a class of people who can wield an extraordinary ammount of power over people, and make them completely immune from anything they do? how could that not result in a bad system?
Uh, the natural human tendencies toward benevolence and humility?
The Democrats really, really, really want to repeal the PLCA. That law is the gun industries’ only shield against the unrestricted lawfare that the left wants to wage against them.
In their lawsuit, the Gustafsons argued that the gun that killed their son had a design defect because it lacked a safety feature that would disable it from firing without a clip inserted.
Wtf? That’s not a thing. And the gun isn’t what did the killing.
Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Harry F. Smail threw the case out, agreeing with the defendants that the act prohibited the lawsuit.
The Gustafsons appealed, arguing that the act is unconstitutional.
In a 63-page opinion filed Monday in Superior Court, a three-judge panel of the court agreed that it is.
“[T]he Act is unconstitutional in its entirety,” Judge Deborah A. Kunselman wrote. “The only portions of the [act] that do not offend the Constitution are its findings and purposes … and a few definitions.”
No the act is constitutional and should not even be necessary. Stick your frivolous lawsuit up your ass.
When I as a kid, the first rifle I got when I was 10 did not have a safety, or a magazine, it was single shot. I somehow never managed to shoot myself or anyone else with it, and I still own it.
So did the gun in that story just fire itself? I guess what I’m asking is, was the gun from Indiana?
Look, you scofflaw, the government must guarantee that everyone is safe from every single instance of any type injury or death, in all cases, at all times, period. Especially the chillins. Otherwise they aren’t doing their job, someone has to do something!
“Yes, I’m just starting with a tweet. The hubris of this asshole is just spectacular. 1: he’s wrong. 2: he’s a hypocrite. 3: his power doesn’t extend beyond his broke-ass state. So fuck him.”
It just goes to reinforce the fact that if socialist countries are so fucking great, why does everyone want to escape them, like they are escaping CA and NY by the droves?
You even have CA trying to enforce their tax laws on people leaving the state for 10 years after they are gone. How long until they build a wall to keep people from escaping at all? I’ll actually donate to that project. Build that wall!