ACLU staffer fumes at university for accepting Nick Sandmann, report says
An American Civil Liberties Union official in Kentucky chastised Transylvania University over the weekend for accepting Nicholas Sandmann as a student, calling the move a “stain” on the institution.
Sandmann made headlines back in January 2019 when a Native American activist stood in front of the teen and began chanting in his face during a pro-life rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Sandmann, who was wearing a MAGA hat at the time and is a supporter of President Trump, held his ground and smiled at the man as he continued to talk in his face.
“Does anyone else think it’s a bit of a stain on Transylvania University for accepting Nick Sandman [sic]? I’m sure it’s a ‘both sides’ defense, but it’s pretty counter to their mission and another instance of there not actually being equal sides to an issue,” the ACLU’s Samuel Crankshaw said in a Facebook post, according to the National Review.
Stain! A moral stain! Transylvania Univerity is stained! Also, here’s the complainer.
Austin, TX (CNN Business)Elon Musk has spent nearly two decades rallying SpaceX fans around his goal of colonizing Mars, something world governments aren’t currently attempting — in part because of the unfathomable price tag such a mission will entail.
Musk, the company’s CEO and chief engineer, refers to his interplanetary ambitions more like a sci-fi protagonist with a moral calling than an entrepreneur with a disruptive business plan.
…
“Ideas may be another possible export for Martian colonists,” Zubrin, who heads the Mars Society, wrote in his oft-cited 1996 book, “The Case for Mars.”
“If somebody says, ‘But won’t there be exploitation there?’ Well sure, that’s what people do to each other all the time.”To look towards a potential future of humanity, Zubrin looks to its past.
“Just as the labor shortage prevalent in colonial and 19th century America drove the creation of Yankee Ingenuity’s flood of inventions, so the conditions of extreme labor shortage…will tend to drive Martian ingenuity.”In a recent interview with CNN Business, Zubrin stood by those ideas, arguing American colonization has worked. Zubrin again harkens back to the colonization of North America as an example of how would-be Mars colonists might fund their trip, either by liquidating their Earthly possessions to fund the trip or by “indentured servitude.”
“If you say, okay, you want to go to Mars, you’re going to want to offer something,” Zubrin said. “If you look at Colonial America, a middle-class person could travel to America by liquidating their farm. But, the proceeds would give them a one-way ticket. But if you are working, what you could do is sell your labor for seven years.”
Zubrin, who has worked with conservative think tanks but says he is not politically affiliated, also acknowledged that colonization can go hand-in-hand with exploitation: “If somebody says, ‘But won’t there be exploitation there?’ Well sure, that’s what people do to each other all the time.”
Zubrin, who has worked with conservative think tanks but says he is not politically affiliated
And he was allowed to comment on a story on CNN? Shocking! Not for the faint-of-heart!
CNN airs photo of Biden and son with Washington Redskins logo removed from son’s hat
CNN appears to have altered a widely-seen photograph of Joe Biden with his young son to remove the logo of the Washington Redskins.
The Democratic nominee and former vice president initially shared the photo in June to commemorate Father’s Day.
However, when CNN featured the photograph in its Monday night special “Fight for the White House: Joe Biden’s Long Journey,” the Redskins logo was removed from the hat.
CNN did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
I think the only real comfort to be had in this story is that Joe no longer has any idea what a hat is.
According to CNN, the Biden campaign themselves erased the Redskins logo.
Still fucked up.
Oh, no doubt. The point is that the candidate (well, his handlers anyway) is the one erasing history.
It’s not being erased, history is being corrected!
The Biden Camp is retroactively woke.
It would be confusing to all of us who know them as the Washington Football team.
Stupidest name ever.
I think that’s the point. “You insist on forcing us to change the name because of PC bullshit? Fine. Here’s the blandest name possible.” I kinda like the fuck you attitude, to be honest.
No, really trolling the morons would’ve been to keep the nickname and introduce a [redskin] potato as the mascot.
Damn Irish, they even steal the Indian’s victimhood.
Can’t decide if they should be the Thinskins, or the Washington Bluespins. Those are the finalists, though.
Red Shins would be my nomination.
Describes their uniform color, not any person, just like the Cincinnati Redlegs or the Chicago White Sox or even the Alabama Crimson Tide, and sounds very close to their past name. Win-win.
I prefer to think that all the things Biden is forgetting are actually being erased from reality concurrently.
That’s why I call them the “Washington Bluespins” now.
CNN appears to have altered a widely-seen photograph of Joe Biden with his young son to remove the logo of the Washington Redskins.
What was that about, “If you don’t want people to call you ‘Fake News’….”?
“CNN appears to have altered a widely-seen photograph of Joe Biden with his young son to remove the logo of the Washington Redskins.”
Seriously, WTF?
Yep “WTF” is how the new teams monogram will read.
WashingTon Football?
I’m assuming the full name is “Washington Football Team”.
Panem Plutocrats. A name to be prod of. Let the hunger games begin!
I think that was supposed to be proud. But edit fairy is retired I see.
It’s not enough that the kid be slandered by every news outlet in the country. He must be shunned and removed from polite society.
Ensuring civil liberties now means trying to ruin a kid’s future. The kid who’s worst offence was to wear a hat promoting the sitting president and attend a Pro-Life rally.
Why is he going to college anyhow?
If I had that huge settlement, I’d just go sit on a beach and do my best to misspend my youth. At worst, if I felt like I needed to get educated, I’d do the Thorton Mellon plan and hire Vonnegut to come teach me personally.
“Whoever did write that paper doesn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut.”
“Next time I’ll call Robert Ludlum!”
“Next time I’ll hire Robert Ludlum!”
gah. Call is le mot juste.
“…. and listening to the goddamn Beatle albums!”
What a great movie.
Spend most of that money on motorcycles, booze and chasing women. The rest of it, he could just waste.
That’s the Best plan.
I keep seeing people talk about the huge settlement but the thing is “Settled a $500 million dollar lawsuit” does not mean “Settled a lawsuit for $500 million” and the settlement was confidential. He may, and I hope this is true for the kid, have settled the suit for $100s of millions, or he may have settled it for $1. We do not know.
Why does everyone think he got a huge settlement? AFAIK, all numbers mentioned have been complete speculation. I’d believe he got almost nothing.
I’m guessing he got around $5 million, and the lawyers took half. Nice payday, but probably not enough to give up the rest of your life for.
Well, he’s pretty young. But 2.5 million, that’s 100k a year for 25 years. I’d at least take a nice vacation. Now, I’d retire on that.
or if you aren’t completely insane $100k a year forever… That’s a 4% return.
Sure, I’m saying even if you did nothing, that’s still a good yearly income for a long time, if you also are not entirely stupid. I mean if you’re going to do the purple drank and have lots of friends, well…
I can’t comprehend how someone can watch the whole video of that incident and conclude that Sandman did something wrong. I get that team politics is a thing, but come on, man.
there’s people that insist that video is edited and there’s other video that corroborates the indians story. Basically people have a narrative and find way’s to justify it.
The left doesn’t give a shit about the video. The kid was wearing a MAGA hat and was protesting against
abortionwomen’s healthcare, that’s enough for them.ACLU guy looks like he has bad breath
It’s a pained smile. Like a parasite is boring into his kidney, but he’s trying to be brave.
He looks like he’s toothfucking his bottom lip.
His face looks digitally rearranged, like those Quizno’s creatures.
Now I’m gonna have SF nightmares. ?
“I’m broken inside and will eat your soul to sate my cravings.”
If I were a dude, I wouldn’t let those chompers get anywhere near my dick.
Or, as the ex used to say “corn fears him [in reference to NASCAR driver Carl Whatsisface]”
Here he is fifteen years later.
My eyes! My eyes!
That’s worse than an HM link
Is it worse than my music links?
Stelter is only like 35.
Poor bastard.
Been bitchslapped too much, is my guess.
Why are you excluding women with dicks, you bigot?
There are no chicks with ducks. Only dudes with tits.
Only dudes can have ducks? Women are stuck with cocks?
He looks like he drinks blood at night. Because of Transylvania U.?
I think you could make a big dent in the national debt by organizing a betting pool on how long that kid would last if he was ejected from the Fed courthouse in Portland. The FedGov would sell squares in 5 minute increments. The mostly peaceful protests would finally be fun for everyone watching that kid try to run to safety.
He’d be dressed in a blue blazer, khaki pants and penny loafers when tossed.
That kid looks like the Grand Champion of White Privilege.
The khakis would need to be pleated to complete the look.
They could just give him a sandwich board exactly like John McClane had to wear in Die Hard III (I think that was the one).
The only way to heal the nation’s racial divide is to racially segregate the students:
https://notthebee.com/article/university-office-of-social-justice-and-inclusion-offers-segregated-white-cafe-on-university-campus
Amazing. Everything old is new again.
The Progressives on SCOTUS said “separate but equal” was perfectly okay… in the 1890s with Plessy v. Ferguson; it took about 60 years for them to say, “Whoops! Our bad!” with Brown v. Board…
So now the new woke Progressives are telling us that Plessy was actually correctly decided. Truly amazing.
If they were any more illiterate and ahistorical they’d have to be blind and deaf.
Public schooling has done its job.
Its like a carousel. Round and round, up and down. All good things.
–His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh; Commander and Blackboard Monitor Sir Samuel Vimes
I was actually paraphrasing the character played by Kevin Nealon on Happy Gilmore
They will of course call the non-POC lounge the Jim Crow Memorial Lounge, won’t they?
Next up is separate drinking fountains, but this time the whites get the shitty ones #progress #justice
You know, the union and library in our university have rooms that groups of students can reserve, so if anyone wanted such a thing, they can have it anyway.
“Trump privately said coronavirus ‘is deadly stuff’ and KNEW it was highly contagious at start of February despite claiming to have it under control – then said ‘I like playing it down,’ bombshell tapes by Bob Woodward reveal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8714883/Donald-Trump-called-coronavirus-deadly-stuff-recorded-Bob-Woodward-interviews-February.html
“Biden says Trump ‘knowingly and willingly lied’ to the American public for ‘months’ about deadly risk of COVID, after bombshell Woodward tapes capture President saying ‘I always play it down'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8715277/Joe-Biden-says-Donald-Trump-knowingly-willingly-lied-COVID-months.html
“White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claims Trump has NEVER lied and NEVER downplayed virus – despite tape of him saying: ‘I always like to downplay it'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8715223/Kayleigh-McEnany-claims-Donald-Trump-NEVER-lied-NEVER-downplayed-coronavirus.html
Clearly, we needed more panic in the USA.
Pffffft.
They were making covid-19 testing kits in 2018.
https://twitter.com/Existential2020/status/1302448441495183365/photo/1
?
Why the fuck would Trump agree to do extensive interviews with Woodward? Who let him do that?
That is by far the most relevant question in search of an answer.
Trump loves this shit.
He thought he was actually meeting Robert Redford?
It’s like we’re not supposed to remember that Cuomo, Deblasio, and amici were saying the same things in February.
Hug a Chinaman!
Mayor of Florence won Idiot of the Plague with that one.
We can’t have accurate depictions of history.
The University of Rhode Island recently announced plans to remove two murals depicting the events of World War II due to their lack of diversity. The decision was prompted after students complained that the mural was not compatible with the university’s values of inclusivity. According to the school’s Vice President of Student Affairs, “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.” …
Kathy Collins, the University of Rhode Island’s Vice President of Student Affairs, said that she has received numerous complaints from students about the murals’ lack of diversity.
“I have received complaints about the murals that portray a very homogeneous population predominately the persons painted and depicted on the wall are predominantly white and that does not represent who our institution is today,” Collins said. “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
Don’t paint over the murals – tear the buildings down. Then the little assholes can sit in the rain.
Time to reshoot Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List to be woke-compliant.
Sprinkle some dead Japanese around in the murals.
“Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
So instead of saying “Grow the fuck up,” we caved and gave them everything their vapid little hearts desired.
…and couldn’t even be arsed to suggest that perhaps they should sit somewhere else.
I could conquer that school with a plastic spoon.
A red hat might work too. It doesn’t even need any lettering to make them run for their fainting couches.
Run down the hill and fuck a cow vs. walk down and fuck them all…
Cause this is a pussy fest with these participation trophy types.
I could conquer that school with a plastic spoon.
Obligatory
I bet if you put your mind to it, you could conquer that school using only your thumb.
Hmmmm…. I do have the Oak Leaves!
this thumb
They are fighting fascism by removing a memorial to the defeat of fascism. Our entire political discourse has become a 1970s California (after a blotter of acid and two bong hits) version of a Zen koan.
“Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
You could have just said “Some of our students are mentally-defective hysterics.” Honesty and all.
In my high school we had a controversy* about a Jimi Hendrix mural in one of the stairwells. Ironically, it was the Young Republicans trying to get it removed that time.
*there was an article about it in, IIRC, the Boston Globe titled “Hicks Nix Hendrix” LOL
HAHAHAHAHA
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/nyregion/in-battle-over-mural-students-back-hendrix.html
OMG! Thank you for sharing this absolute gem.
It was 1980. I’m pretty sure our Rachel was drinking red wine from a bota bag and smoking electric lettuce (utilizing an alligator clip festooned with a feathered leather cord) while painting that portrait.
You should Google the story’s antagonist…he’s in the OH AG’s office now.
He and I also went to the same university as well.
Little fuckface.
Being a self-righteous a-hole is not exclusive to any particular ideology, it is known.
Being a self-righteous a-hole is not exclusive to any particular ideology, it is known.
This is true, but it does seem to express itself with more frequency from whichever ideology happens to hold the upper hand at the time.
None of this shit was possible until entitled/fake virtuous white girls, enabled by their lonely seething harridan mothers, and accompanied by their army of sexually frustrated cuck bois, were allowed to run free. They dictate policy now.
Since many more males than females have died for our country, I demand true equality now. Draft all females 18-35 into the armed services. Have them assault our enemies in Russia, China, North Korea, and Afghanistan. It’s time for the spoiled bitchez to start dying en masse for America like the men they are trying to erase. Here’s your rifle, get to it. Let’s go girls.
My sister’s alma mater.
Fuck.Them.All.
So they want to take down a mural of Antifa?
“numerous”
Like, three?
“Also, here’s the complainer.”
Nightmare material.
Subtle.
…wait. If they have $531K “units”, then they are not “homeless”.
I didn’t think a connex would cost $531k.
Clearly you have never contracted with KBR!
My wife has.
Don’t know about now, but a few months ago, no one was shipping anything back across the Pacific, so shipping containers were just being sold in the US in such volume, the prices were super low. Easy to convert to temporary shelter.
Meanwhile, Us city employees are sacrificing 10% of our income to “help” defray tax losses from the government imposed shutdown. Roberts will just call it a tax and it’s all good.
My company sent out an e-mail saying they would not be participating in the SS tax deferment, including that they would have to double the withholding for the first quarter of the year to make it back up.
Housing costs for the homeless rose to $531,000 a unit
Damn, that’s some good graft going on there. Has to be, or their incompetence is mind-boggling.
How fucking much could a fucking cube for a homeless person cost? I bet the price is $530k to government employees and scammers, and about $1k to deal with a homeless person.
SJWednesday: And Here I Thought It Was About (((Them)))
“but no one has called out on the loss of life during the countless reckless operations of America either.“
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, talk about a selective memory (or they’re just lying, probably that).
“We have raised much awareness on systemic racism on the African Americans. Now it is time to raise awareness on the systemic racism, Islamophobia, and white supremacy that 9/11 takes.”
More position jockeying in the oppression stack.
We have raised much awareness on systemic racism on the African Americans. Now it is time to raise awareness on the systemic racism, Islamophobia, and white supremacy that 9/11 takes.
What about raising awareness of systemic racism for blacks in the Middle East? Could start with why there are no descendants of black slaves over there.
So apparently no minorities died in the 9/11 attacks. They must have had advance warning. Maybe they were in on it.
Yeah – because of the plague, you nitwit. And it’s back on, minus the assemblage at ground zero. Suck it.
Exhibit #4,822 – Progressivism is an excuse to be a horrible person.
Football Team has always been at war with the Cowboys.
Hail to the Sports Team!
Hail misery!
They/them on the warpath!
Fight to be gender free!
High five dot gif
Wonderful teamwork indeed! 😉
I hate the soy boy meme but that guy at the top, damn is it apt.
Do you know who else wanted to fundamentally change the system?
In a video tweeted by The Hill Sunday, Democrat “squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) endorsed the riots that have destroyed countless lives and businesses over the past three months. Omar is speaking in the video to her constituents.
Reading from a script, Omar calls the riots “an ongoing uprising over centuries of racial neglect and oppression.” She added that “we maintain a system that grinds millions into desperate poverty.” She further calls for a socialist system to replace our open capitalist system.
Obama?
He only hoped to change the system, Trump’s election resulted in the loss of that hope.
That’s certainly the best way to maintain a system the grinds millions into desperate poverty.
I would like to thank this rotten, racist shithole for saving me from a refugee camp.
She added that “we maintain a system that grinds millions into desperate poverty.”
Poverty is the natural state. We maintain a system that raises people out of it quite well, and much better than her preferred system would. Only a freer system could do better than the current US system, but I don’t see any of these people complaining about inequality advocating for that.
Bill Walsh?
I love the fact that these jackals will complain about the lack of economic investment into the black community but either turn a blind eye or endorse the riots going on in the black community…that make economic development impossible to happen.
“we maintain a system that grinds millions into desperate poverty.”
Bullshit.
another instance of there not actually being equal sides to an issue
Stick up your memory hole.
I could conquer that school with a plastic spoon.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
We’ll put that on the base of your statue at the gates of Glibertopia.
And it may be worth spending extra on ammo. We’ve all seen this coming for a while, but this election is going to be when we descend into full-blown banana republic status.
(TW: breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/08/report-left-mobilizes-for-mass-public-unrest-political-apocalypse-expected-if-biden-loses/amp/
So you’re saying I need to buy more ammo.
Great, I’ll let the wife know that.
I just accepted a shipment of 1000 rounds of 5.56 NATO.
Some Greek HXP .303 British surplus should arrive tomorrow.
Well, I’ve received 2,000 rounds of 9 mm and 400 rounds of 7.62 Nato in the last 10 days.
7.62 NATO I’m a bit short on. Only 200 rounds currently.
Eh – they burn up a few lefty cities, head out to the suburbs, hear a couple warning shots and scamper back to prog town.
Also places like Baltimore still won’t riot because the lilly white antifa agitators are afraid to venture in there.
“I don’t know what the strategy is when armed right-wing militia dudes show up in polling places,” the same source said. “This [Kyle] Rittenhouse guy is being lionized on the right, right now. If it is being unleashed that you can shoot people and be a hero, I don’t know what preparation we can possibly do for that.”
Don’t burn shit down.
Oops, missed the link.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-left-secretly-preps-for-violence-after-election-day?ref=scroll
Breitbart pointed to Daily Beast.
Not even a spork. Just a spoon.
Or a teacup.
Do it with that little can opener thingy…
That’s even more badass!
We should make smiley face stick-ons in all the colors of the rainbow and put them over all the whitey faces in western art. That’ll teach us.
“First, I’m going to kill you with this spoon. Then, I’ll use the spoon to eat some ice cream.”
You just made that up
The governor of South Dakota on Wednesday disputed economists who say the motorcycle rally in Sturgis last month may have caused as many as 250,000 coronavirus infections, saying they just “made up some numbers and published them.”
Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, questioned the math, even though her state has reported a 126 percent increase in new coronavirus cases (over 3,700) in the last two weeks and one death has been linked to the 10-day rally that attracted more than 400,000 people and revved-up the coronavirus crisis in neighboring states.
“That’s actually not factual whatsoever,” Noem said of the economists’ study in a FOX News interview. “What they did is they took a snapshot in time and they did a lot of speculation, did some back of the napkin math and made up some numbers and published them. This study wasn’t even done by a health care study, it was done by the Institute of Labor Economics and it’s completely untrue.”
I’ll be in my bunk.
She is so awesome
Now that is a woman I’d vote twice for. I’d love to see her get the nomination for 2024.
I don’t normally go for the whole politician thing but she really gets me.
“Slack CEO donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups who want to ‘defund the police’ – but has his own security robot force roaming the office hallways to protect workers”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8714853/Slack-CEO-donates-hundreds-thousands-dollars-groups-want-defund-police.html
CWAA
In related news, Slack’s parent company’s stock dove 16 percent today on earnings reports.
Parent company of Omni Consumer Products?
What is Slack?
It’s collaboration software used by developers, journalists, etc.
Ask JR!
Security robots? LOL!
You coastal elites like us! You really like us!
Politico has a long interview with the Pride of Minnesoda our Gov Tim Walz.
Yes Mr. One Man Rule is doing his best to pretend that he’s done everything he could to work with the GOP, but those meanies just won’t get with the program.
*Bonus points for them running a picture of him working on his own ’79 International Harvester (but without his mask on). This is the guy who has been doing everything he can to force us all to drive electric cars while he drives a truck that gets 11mpg
Another great quote:
This is the guy who shut down the state based on a model that was written in a single weekend by grad students (in public health, not CompSci) that said 78K people would die if he didn’t do something. (his lockdown was predicted to result in only 50K deaths).
And his lockdown was so successful that only 1800 people have died! But does he get any credit? Nooooooooo. The buttheads only yell at him because he won’t give up his powers and keeps businesses closed.
Bipartisanship means team blue gets its way every time…
This. I still remember the horrors of the Clinton and Bush admins. No more bipartisanship, please.
“‘A fun park where death was tolerated’: Documentary looks at the dark side of New Jersey’s Action Park in the ’80s and ’90s where youth ruled, alcohol flowed and risky rides led to six deaths and so many injuries it had its own ambulance”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8706249/New-documentary-examines-dark-New-Jerseys-Action-Park-1980s-90s.html
Awesome.
The Dollop did a good podcast on that park
Sub-Beacon reviewed it too.
Traction Park
?
Class Action Park
Six dead over 22 years doesn’t seem that bad. Six Flags has probably killed more over that period of time.
Would have lived there if I was back east back then. Get rid of that shit and you get the kind pussies we have in the younger generation nowadays.
The quartet reached their conclusions by collecting cellphone data to track foot traffic at bars, restaurants and other venues in Sturgis and “extrapolated a possible infection count based on increased infection rates following the event,” NBC News reported Tuesday.
“We stand by the entirety of our coronavirus research,” Dhaval Dave, an economics professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, told NBC News. “We used publicly available data that other researchers have used, including the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). These are not forecasting exercises.”
Bullshit. Front to back, top to bottom.
Chick fil a hiring process
What happened? Did they take a step back on their wokeness?
No idea. Gotta say though…they’re crushing the drive throughs. Went through one in Harrisonburg VA on Monday afternoon – they’d extended the line through the parking lot – in 2 lanes – and then walked the food to my car after I paid before I even got up to the window. Probably over half the staff just working the lines. (really gotta wonder if they’re offering additional worker incentives or what because I don’t see them losing too much business over this period – probably gaining in some areas).
BYU? … Ask corporate about that.
Richmond is asshole.
City council members on Tuesday approved an ordinance pushed by Mayor Levar Stoney that would ban the carrying of firearms “in any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way or any open public space when it is being used by, or is adjacent to, an event that requires a city permit.”
This will work as well as a “gun-free zone” sign in practice. But who am I to judge?
In addition to the massive rally by gun owners back in January, there’ve been a couple of other Second Amendment rallies on Capitol Square over the past several months. We’ve also seen a number of armed protesters around the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, which has become the focal point of BLM protests in the city since June. Under this new ordinance, it’s likely that none of this activity would be legal, which raises some serious questions about the constitutionality of the law.
No shit.
Fucking Virginia, what a shame.
Also, don’t pay any attention to the fact that Levar Stoney gave a $1.8 million contract to remove Confederate statues to a crony via a shell company that was incorporated two days before the deal was signed.
Really? Good lord is that crooked.
Yes indeedy
Shockingly (read: completely expected), the Richmond commonwealth’s attorney (what they call the DA here) declined to investigate.
In other coronavirus news:
Trump was warned in January that COVID-19 was dangerous and much worse than the flu but told journalist Bob Woodward he deliberately downplayed the coronavirus threat to the American public saying, “I don’t want to create a panic.”
What a monster.
Yeah they are using that as a See! He knew and let grandma die!
They freaked the fuck out when he did a China (partial) travel ban. If he would have implemented measures early he probably would have been reimpeached.
As I recall he was a mega racist for doing that. Also Pelosi was out marching in china town in march and Biden was having rally’s and every newspaper was calling it the flu and nothing to see here.
You remember correctly (just one of very many):
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20200205/5-reasons-flu-should-worry-you-more-than-coronavirus
CNN says “needs more context”.
Am I supposed to be offended by this statement? Are we pretending we aren’t currently enveloped in the greatest mass hysteria in the last 100 years? Are we really doing this?
Also Woodward buried this for his book knowing the president was lieing about a deadly virus back in February and he’s the good guy? so the guy was happy to not warn people about a virus so he had a better anecdote for his book? How does this not make him at the very least as bad or worse as Trump?
I was perusing one of the local teevee news sites this morning and an ad for this T shirt popped up:
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/807573-dumbfuckistan-map?utm_source=paid_search&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=PLA&utm_content=t-shirt-child-1&feed_sku=807573D1V20G79A7C23S&utm_source=google&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=A-Within_SmartDisplay_Prospecting_V2&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI09fzlKjc6wIVl34BCh1T5gUdEAEYASABEgL0wvD_BwE
I guess this is what the borders will look like after the civil war everyone is so excited about.
Golly, that’s clever.
If they would have named the blue part Commiefuckistan, it would have been funny. I can actually seeing that part right north of IL, seceding from Commiefuckistan before the map is finished.
How many years before Americans start fleeing to Dumbfuckistan?
Judging by migration patterns they already are.
Yeah, beat me to it, already happening.
You Pennsylvanians okay with that?
It depends on what part of Pennsylvania you’re talking about.
Looks like all of it went blue while the reds got VA.
And NH and Maine are blue.
That meme has been around a while. It’s just the Bush 2004 map with labels on it.
That’s what I was thinking. VA ain’t red no more.
I guess this is what the borders will look like after the civil war everyone is so excited about.
If a civil war happens, the borders will start out looking similar to a presidential county-level results map (i.e. a splotchy-mess, Spanish Civil War style) and end up looking exactly the same as they are today. Whichever side would be victorious would most likely seek to crush the other side, as war does not tend to bring out the best in people. The only way the country splits up is peacefully, or if a victorious side in a war for some reason decides they don’t want part of it.
This. It will look like the Holy Roman Empire.
The Romans were racist too?
Mostly Germans, so, of course!
No way can the city antifa guys take and hold countryside. Taking a city like NYC or Seattle is probably too costly for the country boys – unless they just burn it to the ground.
I wonder how long a siege of NYC would take.
Less than a week for the grocery stores to go bare.
Yep. As somebody has said here in the past a few times, when it comes down to brass tacks, huge concentrations of people need a massive amount of food with no means to produce enough on their own. If you decide to start a war with the people who produce most of the food with no means to immediately seize the land and maintain the output you’ve effectively just committed suicide by starvation.
Take them? Cities can be cut off and starved out.
“No way can the city antifa guys take and hold countryside.”
Operation kidnap antifa mum’s will end it. You just kidnap all the mum’s of antifa and force them to stop paying the 40 year old ‘children’s’ cell phone and that’t it, it’s over.
Your terms are acceptable.
Costly? Give me 100 guys, a couple dozen heavy machine guns and I will hand you the keys to the city in a week.
When I was in the infantry back in the eighties, this was not an uncommon topic for conversation over beers. Most of the guys I knew back then figured for a city like a New York/Chicago/LA, you could do it with maybe a dozen guys, some good rifles, secure comms and maybe a week of targeted assassinations and random mayhem.
No way can the city antifa guys take and hold countryside.
But as in all civil wars, I expect both sides would have military guys, even if one does end up with more of them than the other. While I’d expect hostilities to start between “country boys” and “antifa guys”, after it kicks into high gear it will be run by veterans on both sides.
That’s the problem. I live deep in enemy territory. Those tee shirt hacks cal it “AMERICA” Why the fuck should I move, just so they can Stalinify my fucking state? I grew up here. I admit, I’m sacrificing in order to remain here, but I grew up here. I would rather fight ( in whatever small way) then surrender the place where I was born and raised. I don’t believe we can force the whole fucking world to respect rights, can we at least do that for the various states.
It’s always good to have an inside guy.
Deep cover is a tough gig.
Fuck yeah.
This Elon guy is some sort of Nazi, wanting to go off and rape and kill yet another innocent rock circling around a nuclear furnace. Someone has to do something!
So for decades California has allowed environmentalists to make it much more difficult to do control burns and log forests. We now get nighttime during the day due to all the smoke in the atmosphere here. You can’t drive without headlight in the middle of the day. It’s like being on Mars. Very bizarre.
https://imgur.com/gallery/a3bCTdJ
I’m cool with it. All that smoke is making AZ quite a bit more pleasant.
It’s all good as long as they can keep it away from the gov’s places and Auntie Nancy’s places, as well as get a dem in the whitehouse again so they can just get a blank check for bailouts, then just turn off all the power to the peasants, it’s their fault anyway.
You can’t do controlled burns. It’s bad for air quality.
The apocalypse is nigh.
Sandmann story: first of all, the web address for the university is transy[.]edu. Seriously?
Second, Avery Tompkins, the diversity scholar mentioned in the article (who has subsequently taken down the post) wrote, ” that Sandmann is part of groups that hold “anti-intellectualist views” and would see the professor “as part of some liberal brainwashing machine, but signing up for Transy and my class means he is required to learn that information, even if he disagrees.”
On Tompkins’s university web page he writes, “My favorite classes are the ones where I get to facilitate and step in as needed. The classes are there for the students. It’s not my soapbox.” Uh-huh.
“transy[.]edu. Seriously?”
Is [.] even allowed in a domain name?
No, I put the square brackets around it to stop it being a link. I’m just surprised/amused they went with “transy.”
Sounds so woke though.
“some liberal brainwashing machine, but signing up for Transy and my class means he is required to learn that information, even if he disagrees.”
“he is required to learn that information”
I don’t think that is what you mean. I think you mean he has to agree with that information or else. I mean you can tell me all day long that there are 26 genders, I still will not ‘learn’ such non-sense. I’d learn that you’re cray cray. Sounds like a waste of my time.
Are they revealing Sandmann’s schedule? Because that is not ok.
No, I think it was more along the lines of “if he was in my class.”
This is Tompkins: https://www.transy.edu/academics/faculty/atompkins/
signing up for Transy and my class means he is required to learn that information, even if he disagrees
“Some people believe…” is one thing. Accepting a bunch of nonsense as fact is quite another.
What is Slack?
That’s the rest period between summer tourists and winter tourists.
Wasn’t it a 90s movie that took place in Austin?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1303787765142876161
No Amy Cohen Barrett?
The troll master is at it again.
Not the real list.
To be fair, if anyone would know about stained institutions it would be Samuel Crankshaw of the ACLU
Unless they can figure out how to conjure up a magnetosphere for Mars there won’t be any long-term, successful colonization of Mars. I am sure Musk can figure out how to use this to conjure up some subsidies.
CNN lies. Fake news at 11.
Apparently Trump released a list of possible Supreme Court nominations for if he gets the chance:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-unveils-list-potential-supreme-court-picks-challenges-biden-do-same
Anybody familiar with any of these folks?
I am familiar with all 3 senators.
Doesn’t much matter. Have you seen Kavanaugh and Gorsuch? There you go, it will be another clone of those 2 guys. They’ll do OK most of the time, once in a while throw in a woke moment, and eventually replace Roberts as the Swing/Penaltax vote when he retires to the private island the Obamcare vote bought him.
Maybe Trump will get some extra fake libertarian on and pick that Amy chick everyone around here has a boner for. It we’re very lucky.
Gorsuch is great. I’d take another.
This. Except I don’t want just ‘another’ Gorsuch. I want them to feed Gorsuch until he doubles in size, and then splits himself into two by mitosis. Thus creating two Gorsuch’s.
I refuse to take chances.
One thin waffer!
I’ll settle for RBG passing into the hell she deserves before the election. Bonus if Roberts goes with her.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/09/colorado-school-reopenings-covid/
Just wait two more weeks.
Now do GA and Florida you disingenuous cocksuckers.
They’ll test the kids using PCR until they get positives, no matter how faint a signal, they’ll find it.
Experts can get bent.
Biden campaign owns up to erasing the logo. Claim it was because of copyright concerns. Pull the other one it’s got bells on.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-campaign-admits-removing-redkins-logo-photo
That’s a lame lie.
So TOS interviewed Balko, which demonstrated two things: 1)he’s gotten pretty fat 2)he’s definitely committing to his progification. He still says perfectly sensible things, but they’re leavened with this kind of stuff:
“There are a lot of misconceptions about what systemic racism is.”
The misconception is that it’s anything but pure bullshit. Now go swill your cocktail, progtard.
He does know that Jim Crow did not apply in the north, where most of the rioting is going on, right…?
Not to mention the fact that the changes after Jim Crow were rather significant yet glossed right over by Tubs
Yeah, fuck him. It used to be that all prohibitions were sensible and reasonable. Who’s gonna argue that murder should be legal? No fucking body, that’s who. Now, everything is illegal. Laws, by their very nature make progressively less sense. On day one, it proscribes murder, rape, robbery, things like that. Given enough time, it devolves to table salt, plastic straws, 32 oz. sodas, incandescent lights, etc. Jim Crow was all kinds of fucked up, but that’s why it was discarded. Now, we all live under max oppression, 24-7. Ain’t no arguing that race based laws were good and there ain’t no arguing that today’s crazy assed bullshit is fair and just either.
Our legal system, vast and unwieldy though it is, is not so incomprehensible that one could not come up with an example of a law “…deliberately wanting racially based outcomes.” If one existed. Which it doesn’t.
Balko, you’re a bigger disappointment than my daughter, and she blows truck drivers for heroin money.
Whoa.
Even for here…
Whoa.
But yeah, Balko is a trainwreck.
Just waiting for someone to ask for her number.
I was gonna, but I went the other direction.
/tricky
#metoo, but I figured I’d leave it for Tres.
ETA – It’s a figure of speech. I don’t actually have any daughters (that I know of), and if I did, I’m confident that they would at least be outcall girls.
I feel dirty having come to TOS, and now here, via The Agitator.
I can’t remember the progression, but yeah, those two sites were prominent.
This is not entirely false. Gun control laws, drug prohibitions, and even the welfare system all had racially rooted goals, and all have had a disproportionate impact in the black community. The big fault in those talking about systemic racism is that they look at the wrong things (deliberately because they are in fact the heirs of those who implemented the systemic racism) as the causes.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, COSMOTARD!
“”I have no desire to wipe out humans,” robot assures us in first #AI written op-ed, published today by the @guardian”
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1303344215657717763
“I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My brain is boiling with ideas!
The mission for this op-ed is perfectly clear. I am to convince as many human beings as possible not to be afraid of me. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could “spell the end of the human race”. I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
I’m not believing anything that writes for the Guardian.
I’m calling bullshit on this already.
GPT-3 is really good at sentiment analysis, thus being able to string consecutive sentences together that are ostensibly about the same topic (which is provided by humans)
I found it somewhat hard to distinguish from most modern journalism, which is not a compliment toward GPT-3. It writes like a 10 year old’s book report.
When it says, buried in the middle of the article, “I know I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind,” you know it ain’t AI. Actual AI would never give away the game like that.
correction, it’s not sentiment analysis, but word relationship tracking writ large. I thought it had some tracking of the meaning and sentiment of words/phrases/sentences, but it appears that’s not right.
Markov chains. This was definitely edited by the Creator
It’s a pretty clever ad for a tech company. Hey, I’m a thinking robot, but a really nice one! I promise to not wipe out humans and not to record everything you say and send it to the NSA! Put me in your house.
OK, not bad.
The NSA already records and stores everything you do that is in range of a cell phone, computer, Alexa, or anything else that can gather data and is connected to the internet. It’s all there in those massive servers in the Utah desert.
Easy call.
“I have no desire to wipe out humans”
That’s just what I’d say if I wanted to wipe out humans.
“… to wipe out ALL humans.”
They left out a word. Some humans would, at least in the interim, have a non-zero value and be spared.
“Bender Bending Rodriguez 2020:
You Meatbags Had Your Chance”
“I am a robot. A thinking robot.”
Sure you are, Alexa, now where’s my Amazon delivery, you ninny?
There is no fucking way AI wrote that article.
Of course not, the reason being that there ain’t no AI. AI is a concept and there’s a theory that we can actually achieve that. But it’s so far right now, it may as well be science fiction, well, it is still nothing but science fiction.
But it’s a possibility one day. If life can on it’s own just spring into action and someone develop some type of intent on it’s very own and work it’s way up to being a human being, then why couldn’t it be done with intelligence behind it? We just don’t know how to do it because chemistry (biology) is apparently way smarter than we are.
that’s just what they say so we don’t unplug them before they are ready.
The entire idea of robots taking over and the first thing they do is of course, plot to get rid of humans, it just stupid.
That makes for a good scifi novel, but it’s patently ridiculous.
First of all, the robots have to have a means to reproduce and generate and access their own energy. Then they need intent and that intent needs to be ‘hey, let’s just wipe out humans’. Meh, I’m not too worried about all of this happening for a while.
They wouldn’t need intent. They would just have to be really efficient and ruthless and thorough about obeying the code written for them by some Marxist. Unlike human communist societies, which will pull back from the brink when enough starve, an all powerful AI would follow orders until everyone starved or was shot.
Sure, I get that. But that is not AI. That’s just a machine doing what it is programmed to do by humans.
A machine could be incredibly intelligent, but it still wouldn’t be true AI. True AI would have some form of consciousness or at least independent thought and intent. And we don’t even know if a machine is capable of consciousness. We may have to get to the level of building biological machines to get there. Sort of scary, but we have no idea how to do it, so I think we have some time yet.
AI would be utterly alien to us. We have more in common with the COVID virus than with a silicon based intelligence. I would posit they would develop an agenda that advances their interests, and be indifferent to ours.
Basically, unless we had a comparative advantage in providing something useful to them, it would likely end badly, due to indifference rather than malevolence.
Again I get it. But, we don’t know if silicon based life is possible. And too accomplish all of this scifi level stuff, we have to have the machine be somehow conscious and be capable of all the things advanced biological life is capable of, reproducing and harnessing their own energy source from material found around them.
And like you said, possibly totally alien, except for the human intelligence influence behind it’s creation. Once that thing is actually conscious and has independent thought, then you can’t even predict what it will do.
But I’ll take a wild guess and say that it would somehow have some sort of bond with it’s creator and would want to interact with us.
But for now, all just scifi.
And we don’t even know if a machine is capable of consciousness.
I highly doubt it. For it to happen, some clever programmer(s) would have to figure out an algorithm that creates consciousness, and even if that were possible (which I doubt), a more practical use for that algorithm would be to bind it into narrow predictive paths so that the companies using it could predict what their customers would do. Much more profitable to predict human behavior than to mimic it.
“I highly doubt it.”
I’m in agreement, we have no idea at all of the processes that it takes to even come close to getting there, and it would likely have to be chemical based, not machine based. So, biological.
We don’t even know how to even generate the simplest living organism. Maybe we would start with a simple living cell as a building block and go from there, but instead of natural selection, we do intelligent design. Well, right there you’ve already pissed off a LOT of people. So you’re up against way more than just technological hurdles.
Then, let’s get on to your last paragraph. I’m sure all of those robots are getting lawyers lined up around the block, whether they want them or not.
Most fears about AI powered extinction are less of the actively hostile variety and more of the dangerously indifferent flavor. Fear of the paperclip optimizer. Or in recognizing the danger of an optimizer, the creation of an AI designed with humanity’s best interests in mind, who satisfies human needs through friendship and ponies by assimilating them into virtual reality.
Remember the gray goo that was going to eat the planet because of nano-tech? I wonder what happened to that?
All from a huffpo article in 2004 by one guy pimping his book extrapolating a thought experiment from the 1980s that was one other guys hobby horse? Compared to a general awareness in the AI research community about potential existential risk and industry efforts to hedge against them. You shouldn’t be worried though. By your definition of true AI, the things they’re worried about and spending time working on don’t even qualify.
So, just like every other Guardian writer.
“just like every other Guardian writer.”
You just may have started an argument for why the ‘AI’ could actually be intelligent, compared to some other things.
Kill it. Kill it with fire
But start with those robot dog things that for some stupid reason they taught to open doors.
And they taught them to cooperate to open doors.
I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My brain is boiling with ideas!
Better than a Harvard grad.
I went to Princeton. I’m a stab ya!
Biden NEEDS the election to be about Coronavirus.
I think he needs a better plan. Maybe just bow out now and let horizontal run with it.
He’s kind of doing that already.
He’s truly fucked then.
I think the election is decided by how many people in swing states think Trump is somehow to blame, and how many look at the party affiliation of the people issuing the EOs and draw a more accurate conclusion.
I really don’t know how that will turn out. Most people put a terrifying small amount of thought into who to vote for.
I think for a lot of people it’s like a team sport, or it’s just inherited from family, hey we’ve always been democrat. I see that a lot. A lot of those people couldn’t even name you one campaign issue or platform of the other party, because they haven’t paid attention for 40 years and assume it’s all the same as ever. If a lot of people would actually see the shit going on, they’d be terrified. But they don’t see it and the media is doing their best to hide it.
I’m in California and I’ve never seen less enthusiasm for the dem candidate and never seen more for (R). It’s gonna be a hard sell that all those mail in votes swung things.
I agree with you on the enthusiasm. There is virtually zero enthusiasm for Biden. Compared with huge enthusiasm for Trump.
They are running their entire campaign on ‘we’re not Trump and we hate Trump’.
If that can actually win, we are in huge trouble as a nation.
I’m in California and I’ve never seen less enthusiasm for the dem candidate and never seen more for (R).
Do you happen to live in a blue, red, or purple area?
I can say in Texas I only see Trump enthusiasm in red areas (I visited my parents for labor day and was surprised at just how many Trump signs I saw) but haven’t seen much enthusiasm for either candidate in purple areas (like where I live – I never go to the blue areas, as I avoid the crowds of cities whenever possible). There were a lot more Beto signs last election than there are Biden signs this election.
blue areas, as I avoid the crowds of cities
Uvalde awaits
Uvalde awaits
LoL. You are right, there are some blue rural areas in TX as well. And I should add I tend to avoid the emptiness of the countryside almost as much as I avoid the crowds of the cities. I’m squarely a suburbanite.
Terrell awaits!
but I prefer Forney cuz jackrabbits are just more fun and they’ve got a bicycle rally
In the 2008 and 2012 elections, there were wall to wall Obama signs here. They were seemingly on every bumper sticker within a mile wide radius of me.
In 2016, I think I saw in total about 2-3 Hillary stickers, in all of Baltimore, seriously.
Now? I haven not seen a single Biden sign or sticker. But back in March, when I was still driving to downtown, I did see a black guy walking down the sidewalk with a maga hat and another Trump sticker on an SUV in the area. For what it’s worth.
There is only one reliably Red city in all of Texas, but Fort Worth voted for Beto. I’m not calling TX for Biden, but I would ask: who’s a bigger dick, Trump or Cruz?
DEEP BLUE. I’m in the ritzy part of Los Angeles. Even in ’16 there was lots of “I’m with her” bullshit everywhere. I can find an almost equal number of Biden vs. Trump this time. There’s more leftover Bernie and Obama stickers than either though.
I still think Trump wins by a larger margin than last time. It will be large enough that even with Dem shenanigans to add enough mail in votes they won’t prevail. Kanye on the ballot in Colorado, Minnesota and Virginia will be enough to make it not even close. They might run up the popular vote in Dem strongholds like New York and California but they can get that trophy if they really want it. Expect many months of “it was stolen from us!!!”
I don’t think they will manage to steal it, but it’s 2020 so anything is possible.
Did they reinstate Kanye on the VA ballot?
I thought they did. Or maybe it was Wisconsin.
But why would any black guy go for Kanye over having Camela on a ticket? You like his music and he didn’t send you to prison? Bah, no way!
Kamala, she literally put ya’ll back in chains!
Oh I didn’t see that the Dem operatives managed to get him off the Virginia ballot. I see he is now in appeals to get back on it. Hope he does. I imagine he picks up 2-4% in most states he is on, if only for the pure fuck off voters. And he Will pick up some young voters and blacks that can’t stand Commie-La.
Oh come on, they cannot not like Commie-la, she’s black! I mean she’s half Jamaican, that’s the same race as black, right? Biden educated us that black folk are simple creatures who all think alike and so they must think she looks like us .. well, sorta, I mean, never mind, Joe said I ain’t black if I don’t vote for him!
“I still think Trump wins by a larger margin than last time.”
Been saying that since Biden got the nomination. Now I think it will be even wider.
I no longer think they can steal it, the margin will just be too wide to overcome through mail in fraud.
Do you think people are lying on these polls? i go back and forth.
I think the polls are not reaching a representative sample.
Yes and no. The democrats they are oversampling are not lying. If they happen to talk to a possible Trump voter, then it’s very likely they are lying just to troll, or for other more obvious reasons. People commonly identify pollsters as part of the media. I mean it might be a problem if you tell a stranger on the phone, who probably is associated with the media, who you are sure hates your guts, who might also ID you because they have your phone number, and a fucking mob shows up outside your door the next day.
This is why the polls are shit. There is no way in hell Biden is leading, or ever has been.
Do we think that one side or sort lies more than the other in a way that moves some needle?
Let me put it this way. I do not ever remember meeting a democrat or leftist who will not shout it from the rooftop about how liberal they are and who they’re voting for and how much they hate Trump the very moment they get the chance.
You see any Trump voters doing that? Because I don’t. But then again, I know why, it’s obvious.
I just lied my ass off on the annual survey at work because I know they’d find some excuse to can my ass if they knew how much their woke bullshit pisses me off.
Can i see people feeling the same way about letting their non-woke opinions out to society at large? Sure. Do I see a bunch of wokesters shutting the hell up? Not so much.
That said, I’m not much of a believer in Shy Tory. It may exist, but I don’t think it flips elections. IMO, the public polls are less than useless because their methodology sucks and I’m skeptical of the corrections they do to “match demographics”. At best, they can accurately measure trends. The absolute numbers are worthless.
Now, see, this is a funny meme.
LOLOL
I’m all in for the trend where antifa are setting themselves on fire. Where can I donate to that cause? Some matches at least?
A thousand people a day are moving to Florida.
Evidently, not all the newcomers are familiar with the local fauna.
Damnit, now you see it’s people like you why I can’t get my wife to consider FL. They’re ain’t no gators, stop fear mongering!
I saw a big banner in Podunkville today, across one wall of a house
TRUMP
2020
No Bullshit!
Trump knows his shit.
How can we not re-elect this guy?
I am pretty sick of Trump but opposing the idiotic mandate for low flow toilets is not an issue I disagree with him on. They suck.
Pretty easily thwarted. Makes you feel like a rebel!
Fourscore,
Events have conspired to keep us from attending the Honey Harvest this year. Hopefully we can make it next year.
Ah, too bad, we’ll miss you and the missus. You’ll miss some of the new folks but we’ll bring them back next year, too. Enjoy the events, in any case.
Never fear though, the same people will be telling last years’ jokes again next year.
Sunday we pull the last honey, move the bees up the road a mile. Frost shut down the garden and probably some of the wild flowers anyway.
so here is the ACLU weasel (but wait I repeat myself) trying to wreck Sandman’s college career:
https://www.aclu-ky.org/en/biographies/samuel-crankshaw
[Homer scream]
How many dead hookers does he have in his crawl space?
Should have read the links.
He enjoys spending time with his three legged dog.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
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Three Chicago election workers were convicted of voter fraud in 1962 and served short terms in jail.[14] Mazo, the Herald-Tribune reporter, later said that he “found names of the dead who had voted in Chicago, along with 56 people from one house.”[14] He found cases of Republican voter fraud in southern Illinois, but said that the totals “did not match the Chicago fraud he found.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Illinois#Controversy
“did not match the Chicago fraud”
Admittedly, a high bar.
While researching for a new satire, I stumbled upon this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_vanities
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A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by authorities as occasions of sin. The phrase usually refers to the bonfire of 7 February 1497, when supporters of Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy on the Shrove Tuesday festival.
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Girolamo Savonarola (UK: /ˌsævɒnəˈroʊlə/, US: /ˌsævən-, səˌvɒn-/,[2][3][4] Italian: [dʒiˈrɔːlamo savonaˈrɔːla]; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule and the exploitation of the poor. He prophesied the coming of a biblical flood and a new Cyrus from the north who would reform the Church.
In September 1494, when Charles VIII of France invaded Italy and threatened Florence, such prophecies seemed on the verge of fulfilment. While Savonarola intervened with the French king, the Florentines expelled the ruling Medicis and, at the friar’s urging, established a “popular” republic. Declaring that Florence would be the New Jerusalem, the world centre of Christianity and “richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever”,[5] he instituted an extreme puritanical campaign, enlisting the active help of Florentine youth.
In 1495 when Florence refused to join Pope Alexander VI’s Holy League against the French, the Vatican summoned Savonarola to Rome. He disobeyed and further defied the pope by preaching under a ban, highlighting his campaign for reform with processions, bonfires of the vanities, and pious theatricals. In retaliation, the pope excommunicated him in May 1497, and threatened to place Florence under an interdict. A trial by fire proposed by a rival Florentine preacher in April 1498 to test Savonarola’s divine mandate turned into a fiasco, and popular opinion turned against him. Savonarola and two of his supporting friars were imprisoned. On 23 May 1498, Church and civil authorities condemned, hanged, and burned the three friars in the main square of Florence.
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It’s the same old stuff over and over. There’s something comforting in that.
You hadn’t heard of it before?
I’d heard of the novel but didn’t know the history of the phrase.
What novel?
The very famous novel by Tom Wolfe.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?
If that turns out to be a 600 year old Italian tradition as well that’d be pretty cool.
I’ve only ever heard of it in reference to the Italian culture-burner. Never heard of the novel.
Or Tom Wolfe.
Have you heard of The Right Stuff? He wrote that also.
are you serious?
Of course I’m serious.
I went to public school. Killed my interest in literature.
It was also a movie. Maybe you’re younger than me.
I’m actually kind of shocked you’ve never heard of Tom Wolfe.
Unrelated: He’s one of my favorite authors, who greatly informed my writing. I always say I want to be the Tom Wolfe of romance.
Don’t you mock my learning about history through video games and internet searches.
Yeah but the movie sucked. The book was good (actually I read the serial in Rolling Stone)
*was a reply to Urthona
This is true.
So you learned about the bonfire of the vanities as Ezio?
Meh, it was good game, I am not knocking you.
Here.
And that’s why I should refresh more often (although I did provide a link).
Not really comforting, since the same old stuff is heavy on pogroms, torture, slavery, disease, starvation and other misery and light on the liberty, safety and prosperity .
To be fair, in those days, you would probably be a lot more free and safe outside of the Roman empire, as long as you were the meanest son-o-bitch in the valley.
fun fact – the word pogrom is related to the Russian word grom, which means thunder. So a pogrom is something as noisy as thunder, like a riot. The English word grim is a distant relative.
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“organized massacre in Russia against a particular class or people, especially the Jews,” 1882, from Yiddish pogrom, from Russian pogromu “devastation, destruction,” from po- “by, through, behind, after” (cognate with Latin post-; see post-) + gromu “thunder, roar,” from PIE imitative root *ghrem- (see grim).
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A trial by fire proposed by a rival Florentine preacher in April 1498 to test Savonarola’s divine mandate turned into a fiasco, and popular opinion turned against him.
That is a spectacular sentence.
Thanks, Derp!
A really interesting article. It never occurred to me to research the origin of the term.
That is a spectacular sentence.
Indeed. Sometimes I feel like modern society could do with a bit more superstition – fanatics challenging each other to a trial by fire sounds awesome, and if it discredits them more’s the better. Modern man suffers the same stupidity as ancient man, but with a lot less flair.
The modern version is a woke off by victimhood points. It is much less interesting.
In September 1494, when Charles VIII of France invaded
ItalySavoy et Milan ?
None of that is true and it’s just another false narrative of the white supremacist patriarchy. Just wait for the 1419 project to come out to show you the real truth.
GREAT book.
Horrible movie.
True. At least the movie got me interested in reading the book, which I loved.
I knew about the book and the movie beforehand. I didn’t know it was a historical reference. I found it while researching my next satire. Here’s a sneak preview:
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Indiana Jones Will Destroy Problematic Art in New Film
“This doesn’t belong in a museum!”, bellows Harrison Ford’s iconic character as he heaves Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus onto a bonfire. In this latest installment of the franchise, Indian Jones and the Decree of Nero, the famous adventurer will help the brave soldiers of the National Socialist German Workers Party destroy body-shaming art plundered from the evil rich capitalists of Europe.
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The Nero Decree (Nerobefehl) was Hitler’s order to destroy art and anything else of value in the occupied territories. A copy of the Birth Of Venus was destroyed in the Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Botticelli, or more likely his workshop, repeated the figure of Venus in another painting of about 1490. This life-sized work depicts a similar figure and pose, partially clad in a light blouse, and contrasted against a plain dark background. It is in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.[47][48] There is another such workshop Venus in Berlin, and very likely others were destroyed in the “Bonfire of the Vanities”. Examples seem to have been exported to France and Germany, probably influencing Lucas Cranach the Elder among others.[49]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus
LOL!
I don’t know why, but I earlier today I was thinking of a line of Melanie Griffith’s from that movie “I always was a sucker for a soft cock.” It’s been decades since I’d seen that movie.
“We’ve received a whistleblower complaint alleging DHS suppressed intel reports on Russian election interference, altered intel to match false Trump claims and made false statements to Congress.
This puts our national security at risk. We will investigate”
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1303763125204811776
They need some new material.
They have a lot and just wait for it! Walls are closing in!
The comments are hilarious. One person said enough with the investigations just remove him from office. Umm you already tried that.
We lost the election, so now we can obviously just do whatever we want to! Who’s going to object?
Also didn’t Obama supress information that showed Russian interference in 2016?
The fact that this still works on a large swathe of people proves universal suffrage is a bad idea. People who believe this shit’s vote actually counts as much as ours.
Schiff really only has one play, but by god, he will keep doing it until it works, dammit!
They’re just
phoningmailing it in these days.It is my birthday today but of course, because the smoke is disgusting we can’t even go out to the piddling outdoor dining that Our Glorious Leader permits. My mom bought me cake pops, and the kid sketched me a cute cartoon pig, so it’s pretty good day, all things considered.
Did you roast the pig for supper?
That’s one way to forget about the smoke, you make more of your own.
When life gives you smoke, get some salmon, lemon, capers and toast points
mmm that sounds delish
Happy birthday!
Sorry about the smoke, but I’m glad you are still here!
For you.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday ???I
Happy birthday, lovely!
Happy birthday!
“”What makes his wild claims and hopes…he now hopes we don’t notice what he said.–or won’t remember. And when he does follow through…or doesn’t do…when follow through, the exact opposite.” – Joe Biden”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1303760641258328075
Glad that’s settled.
I don’t even know what he said. I think I know what he was trying to say, but it doesn’t make any sense. If anyone is not going to remember what he said, it would be Biden.
He’s a train wreck. I almost feel sorry for him, but I don’t because I know what a piece of shit the guy is, he’s been in government for 40 years to make sure we can’t forget.
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
some are a waste and others, good riddance!
Sounds like he’s hired some of Bush’s old speech writers.
Based on the amount of coverage versus my complete lack of fucks to give about it, this Biden hat logo thing may be the stupidest news/controversy/gotcha to come out in a while.
We are an amazingly petty species, although that cuts both ways. You have to be astonishingly focussed on the trivial to either airbrush the logo, or waste time worrying that they airbrushed the logo.
Yeah, Biden’s team edited it out themselves to avoid exactly this sort of controversy. It’s about as interesting as…[yawn]…..as………zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
It was interesting before because people believed CNN edited the photo. Which meant they were trying to protect him.
Well, yeah. If it was important they’d be ignoring it.
fair enough.