GOOD MORNING, Glib friends…and others.
This week you get a stripped down Monday morning links post, because UGH morning.
I’ll make this short and sweet. Then you can all get on with your regularly scheduled snarkfest.
Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian Glibs! And a happy day off to you indigenous Glibs or slaver Glibs!
BIRTHDAYS
Thomas Dudley, one of Webdom’s ancestors (1576); Velvalee Dickinson (1893); Harmonica Frank (1908); Another great old blues guy, Guitar Gabriel (1925); Dick Gregory (1932); Susan Anton (1950); Hugh Jackman (1968); Nancy Kerrigan (1969).
LINKS
I had to look this guy up, but he’ll never work again. H/T Playa Manhattan
I hope Suthen and all other area Glibs are OK.
The difference between Chicago and Phoenix is the fatality rate. They must get more range time out here.
Aussie Glibs, don’t forget to donate to the site server fund when you check your ticket.
This is looking more and more attractive.
MUSIC
A birthday boy to help ease me into the day.
H/T WebDom
Good news! I have the down for my mobile home! Almost, but I got this, finally
Off to work, Cheers!
Grats Yusef and happy propaning to you.
Great to hear, Yusef.
Go you!
That’s great news sir.
I don’t know if it’s a secret, or you didn’t see it, but in case it’s the latter, you mentioned having a forum?
Sorry, I replied in an earlier thread but it went dead right after. It is not my forum, but a nice place that started after the r/megalinks section of Reddit got nuked. Registration is, unfortunately, closed at the moment but I find it a fantastic resource for film and television. Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.
https://forum.snahp.it/index.php
OK, thanks.
Boy, CP really beat the pavement getting that link. When they shut it down I guess we have proof finally that he’s a fed? His fatty-links have just been another cop tactic all along. “dude, enough with the fat chick, go download some attractive girls here” etc.
Good work Yusef! Have a great day!
So… Back to work again?
Way to go, ya big homo…ner!
What you did there…I’m stealing that for a realtor friend.
Good on ya, Yufus!
W00t!
Cheers, brother! You’ve put a smile on my face this morning!
Good luck!
Mazel tov!
Congratulations!
Congrats, Yusef! Good news.
You are up super early SP. Or have you just been up all night?
Perhaps.
Growing pains? Morning SP.
“I hope Suthen and all other area Glibs are OK.”
#metoo
Reduce your carbon footprint, otherwise it is meaningless / #GLOBALWARNINGHURRICANE
I think Greta is hacked Pie’s account!
#methree
So columbus day the state offices are closed but the post office is delivering packages?
And are you saying Epstein’s coffee was poison?
It came with two servers that used his bed sheets to hang him…
That Houston Chronicle link not working.
Huh. It was there when I tested. That’s annoying.
It’s now nowhere to be found on that site. I guess I’ll remove it!
Re: James Van Der Beek, If y’all haven’t seen his brilliantly self-deprecating role (playing himself, as a self-absorbed Hollywood asshole) in Don’t Trust The B**** In Apt. 23, check it out. He is awesome.
Does the title actually have *s?
Is there something wrong with the word itch?
My son is supposed to write a paper on the usage of slurs in Toni Morrison’s Sula.
However, he can’t write out the slurs and has to use asterisks in the paper
*head desk*
Write a paper about 1984 but don’t mention anything about the failures of government.
Write a paper about Lord of the Flies but don’t mention anything about being on an island.
Write a paper about The Diary of Anne Frank but don’t mention anything about Nazis.
Write a paper about Brave New world but don’t mention anything about eugenics.
Write a paper about A Separate Peace but don’t mention anything about homosexual subtexts.
Write a paper about “A Separate Peace” but don’t mention anything about bad literature.
If you read it as a sublimated homosexual murdering the straight boy he can never make love to, it becomes much more entertaining.
Needz moar Subaru.
Everything is much more entertaining when given the SugarFree treatment.
I just checked the title card, it was spelled out as “B—-“, with dashes rather than asterisks. Still a great show though. It was created by Nanatchka Khan, a former show runner and producer for Family Guy.
Tall Slut, No Panties needs a live-action adaptation.
Only if Ritter stars in it; I’ve been crushing on her since her appearance in Veronica Mars.
Seen it actually back in the day. Was pretty decent
Also, his little cameo as himself in “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.”
Oh. You mean the pie fucker?
That’s the other guy… Biggs.
About 20 years ago this guy did an awesome prank in Sacramento where he photoshopped a card and sneaked it onto multiple McDonald’s drive-thru ordering boards throughout the city, a very realistic looking promo where Jason Biggs was endorsing McDonald’s fruit pies. Still makes me laugh when I think about it.
Baseball birthdays: 2 HoFers at #1 and #4 with Joe Cronin and Rick Ferrell. In between is Sid Fernandez and Jose Valentin.
Rick being in the HoF instead of his brother Wes is like if they had elected Mike Maddux instead of Greg.
Speaking of baseball, I missed the news that Whitey Ford died.
Here’s a nice write-up.
Back in the late 90s I worked for a tech company that Whitey had invested in. He came to one of our giant trade shows and signed baseballs. I was responsible for making sure he had everything he needed and he told the bosses that I was coming to dinner with them all that night. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life. He was a nice guy and a great storyteller. RIP, Whitey.
Great story!
“this semi-polar archipelago houses 245 people, 200,000 penguins, 300,000 fur seals, and more than five million shearwaters”
I’m not an ornithologist, but that’s a lot of fucking birds.
“Sixty-five million breeding birds call the island home”
Now, they are just trolling.
I am back to work this week. While I don’t necessarily enjoy having to get up early in order to drive to work I felt a sense of normalcy returning. I could easily think of of a dozen more reasons why the Dawson Creek dude would want to move out of Cali but those park rules are BS.
Congrats on working!
Only for a couple more years…..I hope.
+1
inhospitable, and a beacon of biodiversity
The latter means the former is false.
In sports news, Lakers baby! Eh who am I kidding who gives a shit.
Apparently the “mostly peaceful” rioters, er, celebrants in LA.
That’s a strange spelling of Browns.
Sports news: Nick Saban sucks at cryptography.
What is a Nick Saban?
The guy who made the Power Rangers.
If you are going to come to America, you need to learn about something other than the NBA.
Also Kiffin and Leach coaching at the Mississippi schools makes this the greatest of all possible timelines. And pretty much proof we are in the matrix, and that would never happen in real life.
Also, Leach’s offense put up 2 points against Kentucky…wait, I guess his offense did diddly.
If you are going to come to America – well that ain’t happening is it?
I figure you will at least visit.
Well between covid and riots, visit what? Ain’t nothing gonna be left in a couple of years but rubble/.
U.S. announces massive infrastructure project to link Baltic Sea to Black Sea. ‘It will be a tremendous boon to Romania, Poland,’- US Ambassador
https://universul.net/u-s-announces-massive-infrastructure-project-to-link-baltic-sea-to-black-sea-it-will-be-a-tremendous-boon-to-romania-poland-us-ambassador/
I call bullshit. No idea why they announce shit like this but it aint never gonna happen. infrastructure… in Romania… puhlease
Also Romanians are still annoyed about the Bechtel boondoggle
“No idea why they announce shit like this but it aint never gonna happen.”
Of course not, but several somebodies, will get their palms greased during the “planning” stages.” See also, California high speed rail.
Won’t that make it easier for the Vikings?
That’s one hell of a canal.
Good morning, SP!
Thanks for braving the wastelands of the interwebz for us.
I hope Suthen and all other area Glibs are OK.
I’ll second this. Some scary shit there.
Interesting birthdays. Especially Susan Anton. Young Tundra was a big fan.
Awesome musical selection for a rainy Monday morning. The sound quality is incredible!
I hope you all have a groovy day. Don’t be timid, now!
Good morning, Tundra, and you’re welcome.
I figured many Glibs might be Susan Anton fans….
I had to look up Susan Anton – the only thing I recognized that she was in was Sharknado 4.
Dude.
Goldengirl!
I remember her as Dudley Moore’s girlfriend in real life, who was about a foot taller than he was. And she was also the “hey big spender” Muriel Cigar commercial gal.
You figured right, in my case at least.
The only deadline is when we “win”.
“I will start with this,” she said. “Jocelyn Benson, our secretary of state, is a national expert when it comes to election law. She has said, we are going to get every vote counted, and we’re going to keep people safe as they go to vote. We’re working closely with our attorney general, Dana Nessel, who has been a fierce advocate of protecting people’s right to vote. And we’re all working in a coordinated fashion. Michigan will be able to announce results, but we are not going to have artificial deadlines set by people with political agendas.”
“We’re going to get this right,” Whitmer continued. “It will be soon after polls close. I’m not going to put a number on it, but we’re going to get it right. And I want to remind Michiganders, you can vote today. You can go into your clerk’s office and cast your vote today. So, every day between now and November 3 in Michigan is Election Day. And the more people that vote earlier, the more likely you’ll be safe and get counted.”
That doesn’t sound at all suspicious.
Socialists work hard to get that one election that allows them to take full power, then never again allow anyone but themselves to hold it, unless the people rise up to throw off the yoke of slavery. Don’t take my word for it. Study the U.S.S,R,, any of the satellite states it helped create, Nazi Germany, and so on. Like with their claim to support diversity, the left supports elections where the only people that can win is one of them. Ask bad orange man who was not part of that club how things worked out for him when he won an election the Obama corruptocrats thought they had rigged for the Clinton succession to be given the veneer of legitimacy.
Today’s WSJ editorial on the USS Cole.
The View From the Bridge of the USS Cole—20 Years On Eleven months before 9/11, al Qaeda brazenly attacked the U.S. Navy—and paid no price for it.
The first sentence does not in any way make me sympathize with the commander.
(Sputtering anger commences) That dumb sumbitch is responsible for 300 something lives and a multi-million dollar piece of equipment and his first thought is grab a handgun and play cowboy?
In an emergency, shouldn’t the commander be in somplace like the CIC where they can, you know, coordinate? If there’s someone who needs shooting that’s what the marines are on the ship for. I mean that’s the actual primary function of marines – shoot people who aren’t supposed to be on our ships. The commander is supposed to command, it’s right there in the job title.
We are happy to report that #DecolonizeYourColon movement is doing great in the year of our cog 2020
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/1315613197441867776
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8830211/Demi-Rose-poses-high-cut-zebra-print-swimsuit-Maldives-break.html
Nope. Honed physique.
I finished season 2 of The Boys last night. That show had me laughing at lots of inappropriate stuff. Did they purposely cast the most Jewish looking Jewess ever as the super-Nazi? It made me laugh.
DeBlasio was their talent agent…
For a veteran Nazi, she didn’t have much to say about Jews. But then the Woke are pretty relaxed about anti-semitism.
Season 1 >>>>>>>>> Season 2.
Louisiana vows to rebuild
“Build back better. I’m Joe Biden and I forgot this message.”
Just made a bunch of bacon, about to start on blueberry pancakes. The kids will awaken to a yummy breakfast surprise.
Does the State know you are feeding children an unhealthy diet?
That sounds delicious, even if #notvegan.
Good morning Glibs and other oppressive shitlords. Long time lurker here and on TOS. Finally decided to chime in and say hello.
I am a Virginian, by birth, currently in the Shenandoah Valley. Hoping fronts can be made at Loudoun and Fredericksburg as the invasion continues, alas I think the commonwealth may have become irretrievably lost.
Redneck roots, got some education along the way.
I fear for our country, but am thankful for islands of levity and logical thinking. Which this site often provides. Thanks SP
And yes, I am Tulpa.
Fuck off Tulsa.
In the best Glib way possible.
Tulsa? Is it really that bad?
I’m not a fan of Tulsa, either but it’s not this Tulpa’s fault.
At least it’s not Oklahoma Shitty.
Sounds like you could use Stonewall Jackson, Jr. right about now.
Fuck off!
And welcome!
Isn’t that what they made West Virginia for?
Cut everything west of the Blue Ridge parkway off from Virginia and cede it to WV. Problem solved.
West Virginia cabin is looking better and better
Charles Town WV here. Welcome.
“Orthodox Jews rally outside journalist’s home in NYC after anti-lockdown leader Heshy Tischler is arrested over ‘assault’ on the reporter – as city fines five synagogues $15,000 for COVID violations”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8829849/Heshy-Tischler-arrested-NYC-connection-assault-Orthodox-Jewish-journalist.html
Obviously, a bunch of white supremacists.
(((They))) must be smarter than the rest of us. They realize that the press is the enemy and did something about it.
Heshy Tischler is an Orthodox doppelganger of Al Sharpton. He is a blowhard and bloviator of the first order, but neither of them belong in jail.
Sharpton should have done time for the Tawana Brawley fraud.
And for inciting people to firebomb Freddy’s Fashion Mart.
Don’t pay it.
Or pay it in pennies.
Or shekels.
I have the day off mainly because the Fed is closed, so my credit union can’t process transactions normally anyway. Has anyone’s state actually renamed the day “Indigenous Peoples Day” or some such other woke moniker?
You didn’t get the memo from Indigenous People’s city?
Thank you for the reminder to stay off FB for the day.
A couple municipalities in NH have called today “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”.
“‘That’s so irresponsible, we’re in a pandemic!’ Cardi B comes under fire from fans for hosting HUGE party in Las Vegas for 28th birthday”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8830847/Cardi-B-comes-fire-fans-hosting-HUGE-party-Las-Vegas-28th-birthday.html
“Her commentary was virtually unintelligible as she was seen holding the plastic-wrapped stack of money, which she turned to the camera to show consisted exclusively of $100 bills.
The stack looked to contain at least $250K.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8829931/Megan-Thee-Stallion-scintillates-sheer-black-WAP-pal-Cardi-Bs-wild-mask-free-birthday-bash.html
Laws are for the little people.
She’s only 28?
Stripper years are like dog years.
it’s not the age it’s the mileage?
She doesn’t look old to me. Trashy yes, but she looks 28.
Now you go and try and hold church services in Vegas and see what happens.
“Pinkerton contractor who shot dead Navy vet, 49, in front of his son during Denver ‘Patriot Rally’ was NOT licensed to work security – as victim’s mom says her son was ‘murdered because he backed cops'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8828259/Patriot-Muster-protester-slaps-TV-crews-security-guard-fires-mace-shot-dead.html
Really fucked up. But first degree seems like a stretch.
That’s what they charged Rittenhouse with, no?
Yeah, hard to tell what really went on there from the article, like how the confrontation started between the shooter and the victim.
Serious journalism for serious people.
“As members of the press, we have to keep doing our job, which is keep telling people, keep reminding people through use of facts and quotes of how unusually unique this is to have, number one, a president who says in advance of the election that if it doesn’t appear to go his way, he is going to try to tie it up in the courts and he will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power at the top, even if the indication is that he has lost. Number two, there has never been anything approaching this in the way of voter suppression by any president of the United States. And the presidents has to continue to frame things in that way. ”
He continued, “As to his mental condition, I know there is a theory — he is mentally unstable. I am not qualified to say that. I will say this. He is constantly engaging in anger, manic behavior, abusive behavior, mocking behavior, and so often indicating that he would score in the high 90’s on an IQ test. We have a combination of selfishness and stupidity operating our White House. People, I think, will see that eventually. Will they see it in time to avoid what is ahead for us? Frequently, in the past, and what I will call normal times, that there is a fine line between a tragedy and farce. Unfortunately, that was a long time ago. The story of the Trump administration is both tragedy and farce.”
Progjection thy name is Dan.
“As members of the press, ”
That’s as far as I got. Not interested in reading some journalist self fellatio
“how unusually unique this is”
I’m an illiterate retard.
It’s not just unique, it’s a unique unique
+1 double plus unique
“keep telling people, keep reminding people through use of facts and quotes”
Prolly should get started on that soon.
Facts like fabricated National Guard records.
“engaging in anger, manic behavior, abusive behavior, mocking behavior”
Also known as humor.
The “Yes on Prop 16” ads (law limiting number of Asians in top California schools) claims –
“The opponents of Prop 16 are radical right wing organizations (Neo Nazis).”
So Asian Americans are Nazis now according to Progressives. This is a real screenshot from their ad
https://twitter.com/JohnSungKim/status/1315378464204099585
Looking at the support for it they say stuff like
This November, Californians will have a chance to fight gender discrimination and systemic racism at the ballot box.
Join our movement for equal opportunity!
How is equal opportunity defined is my question?
The whole equality shtick should be blown up by this farce. We’re going to get equality by allowing government to discriminate.
Equal opportunity is being redefined as equal outcome.
“We have too much extremism on both sides – we need moderates on both sides to come together”
I’m biased but it seems to me that only one sides extremists actually have any power in this country.
I’m going back to bed. So there.
Good night.
Awww. Feel better, KK.
Not feeling poorly…just lazy on a rainy & windy non-work day ?
Some of you may remember I was looking into moving to Ohio a few months ago before my last hiatus. I wanted to say thanks to the glibs who contacted me and provided some great information and insights about the areas in which I was interested, as well as patiently answering all of my questions. Unfortunately, circumstances have dictated that Ohio is no longer an option.
Mid August we found out completely abruptly and unexpectedly that my mom has non-small cell lung cancer. It’s stage 4; at this point the metastasis is not as bad as it could be, but it’s incurable. Treatable, but incurable. She began chemotherapy, but upon extensive genetic biomarker testing she’s been moved to a targeted therapy drug based on a mutation. She’s responding well to the new drug, and it should increase her survival substantially compared to just chemo.
Now, this is related to our planned move in a somewhat unique way. Because she is on Medicaid and the house we bought together is deeded in her name, if she expires in the state of Nevada the property will be liened and forced to a sale or auction to recover the costs Medicaid has spent on her care. In order to preserve the equity value of the property, we would need to purchase a property in a state with less aggressive Medicaid estate recovery rules, using the proceeds from this place to cover the purchase price. There are only a handful of states with Medicaid recovery rules that allow property to pass from a deceased beneficiary without being subject to recovery action. For practical purposes, our options are Texas, Florida, and (far less likely) Vermont. Texas is the leading candidate, and I’ve restricted my search areas to about a half dozen cities and metro areas. While this new treatment regimen should allow her more time on this mortal coil, there is nothing guaranteed, so I’m aiming to get closed and moved no later than 6 months from now. All that to say, if we have any Texas glibs who would be willing to give me some input I would certainly appreciate it. I’m looking mostly in the east-central and west-central areas. DFW is more or less out as there’s not much selection in my price range even in the outlying areas. Areas of most interest are Waco, Killeen-Temple, Bryan-College Station, Tyler-Longview, Abilene, and Lubbock.
I feel like kind of a shithead only coming around here when I need something, but given the circumstances I’m willing to look like an asshole if anyone is willing to help me out.
Any limitations on where she can live and still get the experimental treatment?
The drug she’s taking is Tagrisso, which is FDA approved and should qualify under Medicaid guidelines in all states.
I was thinking more, is there somebody/an oncologist who can manage it/administer it.
Ahh, right. I’m still doing some research, but I believe all the areas I’m looking at have access to at least 1 full service hospital and oncology specialty practice. I’ve got my search radii set up along county lines such that I’m looking at properties within no more than an hour’s drive of a city of 100k or more people, and just keep narrowing it down based on whatever information I can collect.
Sorry to hear that Pat.
Thanks. It’s been a pretty rough couple months.
I suppose it would be somewhat helpful to provide some means of contacting me as well. rTtsVtYpKxR5PwT3zf [at] protonmail
Sorry, about you mom 🙁
Do you mean Medicare, not Medicaid?
Nah, Medicaid is correct. She qualifies on income because she receives SSI (not SSDI or Survivors benefit). She never worked, and my dad worked off the books for most of his life and didn’t have enough years of SS contributions for her to collect survivors benefits when he died. She’s too young to qualify for Medicare.
Oh, OK.
Still sorry 🙁
I think there is a compound available in Waco.
Well, I guess after 25+ years, something has been done with it.
Fuck cancer.
Sorry for all your family is going through. Cherish what time you have together.
Fuck cancer.
This. It has got too many members of my family.
Thanks
Sorry, Pat. I hope the treatment works well and that you get more time together.
Thanks Her oncologist says he’s had some patients on this drug for years, and the literature from Astra Zeneca indicates the median overall survival for patients on it is around 30 months, so we’re hopeful. She’s only just started it about a week ago, but she’s responding very well.
Almost 20% of stage 4 NSCLC patients are still surviving at 5 years, no reason she can’t be one of them.
My condolences. Good luck with everything.
Thanks
I’ve been to Waco, Lubbock, and Tyler.
Tyler is the smallest of the three. Feels like small town Texas, but has its amenities. It’s nicer than its size would seem to dictate. It’s within daily driving distance of DFW if treatments in the big city are needed, but I wouldn’t want to do that commute 5x per week.
Lubbock is the biggest of the three, and it’s probably the most like Nevada. I would never live there, personally. I like the outdoors, but not that kind of outdoors. Lubbock is isolated, so if you need something that’s not in Lubbock, you’re going to have to plan a trip to get it.
Waco is nice, close enough to DFW to drive there daily, if necessary. However, I’m under the impression that Baylor has a top notch med school/hospital, so probably wouldn’t need to commute to a Dallas hospital. Waco seems the nicest of the three, to me.
I got so caught up in answering the question that i forgot to be a human being.
Im really sorry that your mom is going through this, Pat. Let me know if I can help in any way.
5v8tz4onh9so@opayq.com
Thanks trashy, this is very helpful and I appreciate the contact info and support too.
Interesting tidbit about Tyler that I picked up in my research: no packaged liquor sales in the city, and getting caught in city limits with more than a case of beer or a quart of liquor is statutorily considered prima facie evidence of bootlegging.
Temple and Killeen are only about 40 miles south of Waco, so those are pretty easily driveable as well. Even before reading your posts I was leaning more toward that area. Temple in particular has an attractive cost of living.
I wouldn’t rule out Abilene. West Texas by culture, not a bad drive to Fort Worth, some pretty country around there.
I actually just spent a couple of days last week trying to get an offer put in on a 4 acre plot with a couple year old doublewide that was well within my price range and only about 15 miles from downtown Abilene, but they already had an accepted offer. I was pretty disappointed. Nice little slice of the country there.
Waco = Chip and Joanna Gaines
Yes, they have supplanted David Koresh as go-to branding.
Don’t forget Aqua Buddha.
Dittoing Trash on the human being thing.
Sorry Pat, condolences.
Also thanks to everyone who has been human towards me wrt my Dad.
When the whole Rand Aqua Buddha story broke I made Aqua Buddha a character in a play wrote for class, no one got the reference, so much for college people being educated. (Disclaimer: I’m not THAT young, it just took me a while to graduate college.)
I had to google “Aqua Buddha”. It is not worthy of notation at all, much less as part of a college education.
I’m not saying it should have been something taught, but something people who consider themselves ‘to be in the know’ should have known, when they are trying to call everyone else Stoopid Roobs.
Thanks rob. I’ve been away and don’t know what happened with your dad, but whatever it is you have my best wishes as well.
Waco is nice, close enough to DFW to drive there daily, if necessary. However, I’m under the impression that Baylor has a top notch med school/hospital, so probably wouldn’t need to commute to a Dallas hospital.
This is correct. There’s also a great hospital in Temple (Baylor Scott & White), so no need to go all the way to DFW if you settle in the Waco area.
I’m sorry Pat. Good luck with the treatment and your move.
Thanks
Sorry.
I’m sorry about your mom and wish her the best.
Can’t you put her house in a trust?
I’m guessing it’s too late. Without looking it up, I seem to recall something about “lookback” rules. (Went through that with the house my mom and sister had shared when Mom went from the private to the Medicaid nursing home.)
Best of luck with your mom’s treatment, Pat.
That would be my guess.
And, honestly, from a principled perspective, its probably right. Why should the state pay for someone’s health care in order to preserve their estate for their heirs?
In principle I get the logic of it, although the way the program is administered is confusing, byzantine, and arguably somewhat dishonest. A primary residence is an exempt asset for Medicaid qualification purposes, but not exempt from recovery. This is technically explained in the 50 page manual you get when you join the program, but the precise methods of recovery and terms of the program require a deeper dive to fully understand. In addition, because each state is allowed to expand the definition of “estate” for Medicaid recovery purposes, Medicaid estate recovery programs enjoy a privileged status as a creditor that is not available to any other public or private creditor in probate.
All that aside, I’m nowhere near principled enough to give up the entire equity value of this property to repay the state for its kindness under any circumstances, and I can further rationalize the decision because my dad died 5 years ago in large part because of the shitty care he received from the Medicaid mills out here, and I also contributed a large financial sum towards the purchase of this property, but for other esoteric legal reasons I won’t get into here, it had to be deeded exclusively to my parents. So in all fairness, the state should only be entitled to about half anyway.
Apparently I had this page open a lot longer than I realized without refreshing. This is correct.
Thanks
Unfortunately, a trust isn’t an option for a couple of reasons. For one, transferring the deed to the trust would constitute an asset transfer and trigger a 60 months “look back period” for Medicaid eligibility – so she’d lose her eligibility until such time as she spent down the entire market value of the property. Additionally, even after that, Medicaid can recover from the non-probate assets of an estate because Nevada is one of about half the states that uses an expanded estate definition. The enabling federal statute allows, but does not require, such an expansion. Nevada is among the more aggressive states in this regard and uses the broadest possible definition allowable.
What do words mean?
Any Democrat who uses the term “court packing” to describe expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court should be smacked upside the head. This is not only idiotic politics. More importantly it is wrong, incorrect, not what anyone is proposing.
He then goes on to project so hard that “Casio” should be tattooed on his forehead.
I like the line of argument that it’s the GOP in fact that has been packing the court because Trump has forced three SC justices.
Do you hear me
Do you care
They can fuck around with the language and bend the meaning all they want but people know exactly what they’re up to.
“Rebalancing the court” – okay, so I assume they would have no objection to conservatives “rebalancing” the court to cancel out the leftist justices?
The court “rebalances” naturally.
The 18-year plan would rebalance a little smoother, but either way works. No need to artificially rebalance by expanding court size.
So, who’s going to be the first Republican to talk about rebalancing the ninth circuit appellate court?
The 9th needs to be split into CA and not-CA. But doing that has been blocked for that very reason.
how about repudiating decisions made when the court was nearly 100% progressive in the 1940s and 50s? Obviously if unbalanced is an illegitimate state, then those decisions were illegitimate, too.
“This week you get a stripped down”
Heh heh.
Joe Biden picks up Q’s vote: “You’re trying your breast, but it never feels like enough.”
Damnit. Colts losing to the Brown’s is just downright embarrassing.
Colts are adolescent.
It. Was. GLORIOUS!
/was not up until 02:00 drinking with friends.
This is pure communist claptrap:
https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1313566658540208129
I’m firmly in the belief that you can’t abolish prisons without embracing corporeal punishment and executions.
Or exile as punishment
Judging from the contant recapture of deported persons, exile is non-viable in anything bigger than a village. Everyone needs to be able to recognize and shun the exile.
Brands, duh. If you see the brand on the forehead, you can kill on sight.
Two words: Face. Tattoos.
Two words: too slow.
/hangs head
/feels shame
I actually like exile as a theoretical judicial punishment for a functionally minarchist state. Assuming due process, etc., the macro result is “We’re not going to beat you or kill you, and we’re not going to spend any money on you. You just can’t be here anymore.”
And yeah, on a day-to-day basis it requires local-level knowledge, but the point isn’t exactly shunning anyway. It’s a punishment to get rid of a problem. If the larger-than-a-village minarchist state finds out you’re there a few counties away, then they can crank it up some.
A good caning would keep a lot of people straight, it’d be cheaper too.
And is more humane than locking them away for five years and then Releasing them with a Scarlett letter to ensure that they can’t reintegrate.
Absolutely, I disagree on the death penalty stuff though. Maybe jail those people in a particularly harsh prison compared to what we use now.
Yeah, I tend to agree, though i like the Idea of Exile more than jail, as i don’t find it particularly just to force someones victims to permanently house them and feed them.
Chief: DEATH OR BUNGA BUNGA!
Accused: Erm, I choose death, cause I don’t want to be bunga-bungad by you dudes.
Chief: DEATH BY BUNGA-BUNGA!
I guess caning would be necessary as the whipping post probably has too many racial connotations to fly.
I think that BDSM is at least as prevalent in the gay community as the straight.
You start with corporeal punishment, and next thing you know, someone’s advocating incorporeal punishment. Who you gonna call?
In socialism there is no police. It is just The People’s Security handling issues. if it is The People it can;t be bad…
ding ding.
Commies like Kapaernick don’t want a society with no police at all. They want a society with different police, police that are political and answer to them.
I wonder on a scale of one to ten how much Kaepernick hates his white family.
http://www.contentmenthealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/kaepernick-1.jpg
There has to be some underlying psychological process shaping this at some level.
The Movement For a Future Without Policing & Prisons
Interesting considering commies are quite fond of prisons, and police of the secret variety, and brutality. . .
See also Angela Davis on the gulags.
I wish all the corporations pushing her as a heroine would take your advice.
as I said before, The People’s police is not the same as regular police
It has been clear since before Trump was a name on any politico’s tongue that they want to take over the institutions, not abolish them. Abolition serves no benefit, as it leads to decentralized solutions. They don’t want to end, reduce, or even really reform the defense-industrial complex, the bloated intelligence and security apparatus, policing and prisons, failing schools, nor any other institution of state. They want those institution as large and powerful as possible and under their control.
“After 1492, powerful forces were unleashed over which human agency had little or no control. The demographic disaster experienced by the New World’s indigenous peoples stemmed largely from the unintended consequences of pathogenic agents that had accompanied Europeans and Africans to the Americas. Columbus critics often use him as a stand-in for all of European or Western civilization. But we shouldn’t forget that he sailed from a world of war, colonization, servitude, and immiseration to another world of war, servitude, colonization, and immiseration. Neither the Aztecs nor any other polity of indigenous peoples qualifies for sainthood. Hernando Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors could not have taken central Mexico so quickly without the assistance of tens of thousands of indigenous allies eager to free themselves from brutal overlords who, according to one scholar, ran a “theocratic anti-state whose rigidity might have made Albert Speer faint.”
Several decades before Columbus’s arrival, for example, the Huaxtecs of the northern Gulf Coast revolted against their Aztec oppressors and were crushed. The victors marched tens of thousands of captured men, women, and children to the Aztec’s capital city. The adult males were connected by cords that passed through perforations in their nostrils. For days, thousands of Huaxtecs, perhaps more than 20,000, were sacrificed at ceremonial centers before capacity crowds. Their hearts were cut out, Apocalypto style, with dull stone knives. The Maya and the Inca also showed a predilection for bloodletting.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/12/lets_not_say_goodbye_to_columbus_144416.html
You can’t cut out a heart with a dull stone knife. Stone knives are sharp.
The Amerindians were as rough a bunch of customers as any other large group of human beings can be. Some of the North American tribes would skin captives alive and throw them out into the snow which is NOT OKAY!
#BeBest
Undoubtedly, that is all white man propaganda. Everyone knows that indigenous peoples of North and South America lived in complete harmony with each other in an original Garden of Eden. As did the Africans.
Let alone that human rights are an entirely Western notion, along with democracy (Greeks) and citizenship (Romans). And Marx, FFS.
“Let alone that human rights are an entirely Western notion”
And they plan on abolishing that along with the rest of Western civilization.
But they’ll invent whatever sort of twisted logic it takes for them to justify it. Sort of like how progs in the 1920s justified the Soviet Union taking over the USSR satellite states in Eastern Europe by claiming that the Soviets actually liberated them from the ‘fascists’ they were being oppressed by. Note they used the term fascist just like they do today to demonize anyone who didn’t go along with communism.
Until the white devils showed up.
It’s at that temperature where I need neither fans nor furnace, so the main sources of ambient noise in my house are my fridge and my computer. These are not particularly loud, so I hear all of the little noises, including the little noises from outside. Living things live outside, and their sounds have got me on edge from mistaking them for living things living inside. Then there’s the little sounds from nonliving things responding to gravity or temperature changes.
It’s too quiet around here.
Or maybe you’re just weird.
Also I never hear the fridge. It is all the way in the pantry.
There’s an open doorway between my living room and kitchen. From my computer, I can turn and look directly at the fridge.
You have a tiny house it seems.
Miniscule – it’s only about 1300 sq ft.
how big are your feet?
Maybe you have bad hearing.
WHAT?
I do not.
You could buy a noisemaker. They sound like fans, but don’t blow air.
Sissy.
Same here. Just last night the wife and I were in bed reading and one of us or the other were almost constantly saying ‘what was that?’. Because you don’t hear any of that weird stuff with the TV on or all the other daytime noises going on.
Artificial thunderstorm.
or…
Michael Knudsen. Train station by night, Denmark.
https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine/status/1315323114843115520
“on any given night, hundreds of thousands of people in the u.s. sleep on the streets. in cuba? zero.”
https://twitter.com/socialistmic/status/1314789434512961536
Bullshit. Being forced to have a legal address is different than having a home.
I believe propoganda put out by an authoritarian state. I’m smart!
Jail cells in “work camps”…. That’s where the homeless go under communism. And anyone that pisses off the people in charge is gonna be homeless.
Plenty of older Cubans sleep on the streets.
Plantation slaves didn’t sleep on the street either. There’s not much difference between the Antebellum South and Cuba, except perhaps that at least if you were white you were free in the former.
Did you know that Cuba also has the best healthcare system in the world and they cured cancer?
It’s a fact. They also duct tape bumpers on rusted out 1950s automobiles better than anyone. Take that, capitalism!
Maher slams California’s ‘super-high taxes,’ cites Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro as part of state’s ‘exodus’
The HBO star circled back to the idea of the “exodus,” telling Schiff, “People talk about this a lot now and people are leaving. Like in my industry, Joe Rogan left, Ben Shapiro … Elon Musk talks about leaving.”
“What do you say about that as a California representative?” Maher asked.
“Well, I think we have to make every effort to make this a more business-friendly state,” Schiff responded. “And I don’t think that there’s anything incompatible with being progressive and also wanting to make sure that this is a place that businesses can survive and thrive.”
Check the incompatibility chart again.
Him and Tim Pool, Brett Weinstein etc. They want government interference in the economy but it has to be effective government interference. You kind of wanna smack them a little, but at least they are somewhat waking up.
Maher has one foot in reality it seems while Schiff is a lunatic, an idiot, and an asshole.
The irony is that liberal idiots like Maher never connect these problems back to their own ideology. Worse yet, most of them go elsewhere after their ideology has completely shitshowed where they live, to repeat the cycle…
He does from time to time admit liberals are the problem. Mostly because he’s a cocaine addicted womanizer so like he sees how he couldn’t actually exist in the world the wokesters largely want to create.
It’s kind of hilarious that Bill Maher is one of the saner voices in late night tv hosts. I’ve always found him entertaining but his show unwatchable largely because of the audience and guests. For all his faults he’s so much better than the Trevor Noah, Colberts, Samantha Bee’s and John Oliver’s of the world.
*Stares Blankly*
If they join the church of The State, they will be at peace. Unless they are Russian Assets.
*Continues to stare Blankly*
If they only did communism right, there would be no taxes. Everyone’s stuff would just belong to everyone. Utopia!
Difi is already starting with dishonest premises.
Did you expect these fucking asshats to have any cogent arguments to make? This is about grandstanding and hoping something happens that allows them to block a nomination they see as anathema to their current powergrab efforts.
Is she coherent this morning? Last time I saw her, she looked like a cadaver.
She’s coherent, just a cunte. Grassley is having some difficulty speaking.
That guy is still alive? They should both be in a nursing home arguing over pudding and arguing over Andy Griffith or Matlock on the TV.
Heh. Same for Leahy, who is now being a dishonest/projecting cunte. Dems definitely got their talking points down. Saying certain Dem prerogatives hang in the balance but it is Republicans that are politicizing the court…
Grassley was pretty sharp during the Kavenaugh thing.
You leave Chuckles alone!
Just for reference for others. a two hour ER visit that included a CAT scan, two shots of morphine, some Tylenol, and an IV bag of fluid costs about $3500.
Should be free if you ask me… Hope you have a good inn-sewer-ants-poly-sea
Thanks to Obama, my insurance plan sucks donkey dick.
I don’t mind the high deductible, but I do mind paying thru the nose for it.
It is free if you are, say, an illegal immigrant. The hospital might fuss about it and send a bill to your address, but it’s free in the end, Rich bastards like Scruffy are paying for them.
If you’re uninsured they’ll usually negotiate that down quite a bit. The out of pocket at a standalone imaging facility for a CT with contrast is like 1200 bucks where I am.
Oh, it was $6000 before the insurance adjusted it.
God forbid I had an actual procedure done. Hospital imaging services are a fucking racket as it is.
Christ…
Can confirm.
my deductible is 5000 dollars I love watching the reaction of doctor’s faces when I ask them up front about the costs of their recommendations.
They don’t like having their schemes to defraud third-party payers questioned, do they?
That’s because you have no insurance? Because if you do, the insurance company will tell them to go suck dick and only pay agreed upon rates. If you don’t have insurance, they jack up the price like this because they are assuming you will claim hardship and leave your state’s tax payers footing the bill. Practically all states with this policy will only pay about 20% of that charge and tell the ER to go pound sand. The problem is that this fucking racket has been rigged by people that want to bring the system down and make the same agents that have ruined it have total control over it. Having the power to use healthcare as a weapon to control the sheep is a powerful thing.
Those are the agreed upon rates.
I know for a fact I can go to an independent imaging clinic and get a CAT scan for about $250 cash. The insurance/hospital rates are obscene.
I pay my bills because I’m a sucker.
Dan Scruff… Sorry to hear that man. That is balls.
Are you including the ER physician’s bill in that? Because that bill usually arrives separately from the hospital’s.
That part was reasonable by comparison.
Hope you are better soon.
Thanks. I’ll be fine. But the 529 plan just lost its contribution for the year.
No worries, college is going to be free anyway!
“Oh god oh god oh god. I have to sit here and listen the moral preening of the stupidest people to ever graduate law school.” – ACB right now.
How anyone can sit in a Congressional chamber to give testimony and keep a straight face, much less hold any real resepct for the assholes up in front, is beyond me. I guess it’s fear. Fear != respect.
JI in front of Congressional Panel…
CP chair: I’ll find you in contempt sir!
JI: well it’s about time you caught up to how I feel about you.
very much a LOL
“Citizen, I gladly accept your resignation from congress on behalf of the people.”
“That’s not what I said.”
“You should clear out your desk by this afternoon.”
my partner was a communist
loved marxist dialectic
thought my job and savings
both oppressive and pathetic
i told them once that lube
was the opiate of the asses
and in bed we reenacted
the war between the classes
https://twitter.com/BellaRudd1/status/1301919844380471296
Idk how much more of this I can listen to. Difi is making my blood boil.
I had a thought at work last night. I have hard boiled eggs in the fridge I’m going to make into egg salad. Also, I have some bacon to use up. Seems like a good combo.
I had a thought at work last night. – I expected something more profound than lunch…
I’m not sure they are paying him to think.
Yep. Last job paid me for my ear and my voice, this job pays me for my eyes. No body ever wants to pay me to think.
How it started How it’s going
https://twitter.com/Madz_Grant/status/1315269548397006849
these How it started / How it’s going memes seem very popular last couple of weeks… probably in a few more weeks they will be replaced by newer memes
I am getting ticked off that bad orange man keeps promising bombshell revelations only to have the deep staters slow walk the shit and then issue redacted documents to hide the massive weaponized corruption of the Obama bureaucracy. People need to pay. Until they start punishing the people desperately trying to hide how criminal and corrupt Obama made the US bureaucracy, after years of other assholes allowing them to think they are above the will of the people and should be defending their own interests, we are not going to get the true story of how bad things have become.
I really think the day after the election is decided he fires a lot of people – hopefully to set himself up for a better 2nd term and not just out of spite.
The dilemma he faces is that he was told inexperienced people would cause the machine to grind to a halt (which I surmise would be true since the credentialed careerists would see this as an existential threat to their fiefdom), but finding experienced people means dipping into the same cesspool that these people thrive in. He got lucky with a few picks, but in general, I suspect he has not figured out how to overcome the problem that the only people with knowledge of how to navigate this sewer are those that are immersed in this swamp and thus very likely to be more beholden to keeping their swamp intact than actually cleaning the shit out and making that monstrosity both apolitical and a meritocracy again. Having to actually produce results scares this crowd to death, which is why bad orange man is such a polarizing figure. For all his faults, the guy does what he says he will do, and expects others to deliver as well. Can you imaging how fucking scary that sort of attitude is for people used to never having to deliver and be held accountable either way?
In a second term, maybe he just just keeps firing people until he finds decent ones. Or appoints total outsiders to fuck up the agencies. I’d suggest Colin Noir to lead the ATF.
Who is Trump going to fire? He can only fire the people he appoints.
Get it through your heads – the bureaucracy endures long after any single politician is in office.
It’s questionable, constitutionally, that there can be any limits on who in the executive branch the President can fire. The Pendleton Act, and various follow on civil service legislation up the Reform Act of 1978, says the President cannot fire merit employees for political reasons, but the original meaning of that was related to the spoils system: you can’t be fired for failing to contribute to political campaigns (whether monetarily or otherwise) nor for simply being a member of another party. No doubt the courts would expand the meaning of that exception to undermine Trump as much as possible, but under another President, especially a Democrat, it would get its more narrow interpretation.
Going against the bureaucracy has a far bigger risk, though, than simply the courts smacking down any firings (that’s the enablement more than the problem), which is work stoppage and sandbagging. Take on the civil service for real, and Social Security checks will get delayed, Medicare reimbursement won’t happen, military initiatives will be sidelined, intelligence won’t get collected or prioritized, research grants won’t get scrutinized; the government from end to end will run as inefficiently and punitively as possible (which is quite a feat, given the level of incompetence and malice present in standard operations). These consequences have political ramifications, and the only way a President can weather those ramifications is to have a rock-solid base of majority support to begin with.
If he had a bombshell, he would have released it already.
This is the week. The sweet spot is now. If we haven’t heard anything by 5pm Friday, ain’t nothing coming.
As it is, this is the hail Mary on the last play of the game if he releases it now.
Yes. to be fair Last week and the week before they had some big bombshells about Clinton starting the whole russia gate thing and the Media pretty much ignored it.
What boggles my mind is that not one person has nibbled at the bait. You’re given the opportunity to go down in history as this generation’s Cronkite and you’re just sitting on your hands? It makes me have even less esteem for the profession than I had before.
That said, unless Trump has some smoking gun email or audio recording, or has lined up indictments of a bunch of Obama admin officials, the needle is staying put.
Yup. It is abundently clear, since the Durham report wasn’t finished anytime near quick enough, that Durham is playing for the deep staters. “Look Mr Trump! I got em the big bad lawyer, now lets let all these innocent leadership go off scott free. They didn’t realize what the front line guys were doing.
I suspect it’s due to the fear of short-term ostracization. Basically, if you say that the “emperor is naked”, all the people who have a vested interest in keeping the finest-clothes scam going are going to take a special effort to destroy your life to make an example of you to the others.
I noticed it with Ron Bailey back at TOS. I know he had all the threads for a damning exposure on the whole Climate Litigation scam, and despite repeatedly having his nose rubbed in its existence, he refused to acknowledge it even existed. He had to know it existed since he was very careful in his articles touching on the subject to omit any facts that might act as loose threads leading readers to discover it. And from our interactions in the comments, I know he was reading the comments and I am certain he was well aware of the conspiracy.
The bad news is that cowards like Ron allow the forces of evil more time to work their evil schemes. The good news is that when the truth finally takes hold, the cowards become the flood that sweeps the evil-doers away.
Of course, the climate scam has peristed and is almost poised to destroy our civilization in an act of hysterical collective suicide. So I am pretty pessimistic about that flood coming anytime soon.
Here ya go…
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/10/06/investigative_issues_fingerprints_on_russiagate_smoking_gun_are_ignored_125520.html
Yeah, the fucking marxist asshats claiming to want to fight racism toppling statues of people that fought racism should make it clear that this isn’t so much about racism, but about marxism. They are destroying history because people with no knowledge of their history (but especially with a negative take on their history) will be eager to accept the evils of marxism as a solution to all problems…
BLM took this one down.
“Allow me to toy with your emotions by making dubious non-arguments that overlook the relationship between the constitution and laws passed under it.”
SCOTUS is not a super-legislature, you cunte.
ACB is indeed the destroyer of worlds. See my avatar.
Vote Biden is trending on Twitter. Not sure how Trump is going to recover from this setback.
I’m just gonna kick back and laugh and laugh as people get what they want good and hard for a few months, till I die in a mass grave. Y’all have been great.
Sincerely,
PFW
Durbin’s first name is appropriate.
“Mendacious Moron” would be more appropriate.
“The “deaths of despair” trifecta — alcoholism, overdose & suicide — hit unskilled middle-aged white men in the US uniquely hard, and this seems to be the one demographic we’re totally fine shitting on in lieu of bothering to look for any kind of systemic problem”
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1315427735964008450
I’m sure the lockdowns are making it worse.
In the words of many concerned and compassionate Karens: “If they died because of the lock downs, they were too far gone and hopeless anyway”
I really hope no one ever says something like that to my face.
Respond with “If they died because of the COVID, they were too far gone and hopeless anyway.” and watch that concerned and compassionate Karen fill with rage on how you want grandma dead.
I haven’t been on a whole lot in the past few days. In which comment thread was the “Biden Rally draws 0 attendees” discussed?
This?
yeah, that one, I was not interested in developing a case of rectal narcotics, so I was wondering where it had shown up, as the event was last thursday. Not that anyone seems to have noticed.
I’m curious about the context. The idea of a national democrat campaign not being able to scare up some paid attendees from the local teachers union is laughable.
Agreed, but why hold an event with no atendees? Money laundering?
If they publicize it, the Trump people show up.
Et tu, Swiss?
I’d be real careful about using “penetrates the Vatican” in a headline…
“Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?
White-centered food narratives appear most often at major chains. It’s time to hold them accountable.
As a chef, I was a little embarrassed by my lack of knowledge. But as someone deeply convinced that food is an extension of identity, who has experienced first-hand the harmful impacts of stereotypes seeping into cultural norms and is now actively working toward changing them, I was horrified at how easily I accepted something completely stripped of cultural context sold to me by a chain.
But such is the world of giant quick-service and fast-casual business: Find interesting, “trendy,” flavorful ideas from any culture, dilute them into their most mass-marketable forms, and reap monetary gain without acknowledging the sources. Although these chains, due to sheer size and reach, are often representing certain dishes or cuisines to large swaths of people — sometimes for the first or only time — they do very little to contextualize the foods they serve. So far, these companies have experienced little pushback and are under no compulsion to change. But as we reckon with the complicated intersection of social and political structures behind food, we have an opportunity to demand a very different future for fast casual.”
https://www.eater.com/21064640/fast-casual-restaurants-chains-menu-food-appropriation
Who ordered the word salad?
“As barbacoa becomes another “familiar” option on the steam table, we must examine who has the power to force the process of adaptation and assimilation for profit, and who does not. In the case of food, all that PR fluff about bringing people together completely misses — or perhaps purposefully conceals — the truth that with power, the food of another culture can become a mere commodity, a cog in the wheel of capitalism separate and distinct from the people closest to it….
Maybe it is too much to expect a giant company like Chipotle, run by a primarily white C-suite and most famed for an efficient assembly line, to provide an anthropological perspective for each dish. But what is the inflection point of scale and profit where accountability also sets in, whether it feels “fair” or not?”
I mean… You could do what everyone else who values their life does, and not eat at Chipotle.
Or, maybe, hear me out, culinary exchanges are common, normal, and not to be maligned or avoided.
where accountability also sets in
Fuck off, commie. Chipotle doesn’t have a duty to cater to your Marxist neuroses.
“Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?”
I can field this one.
*ahem*
Because ‘cultural appropriation’ is a stupid concept, that only stupid people concern themselves with. Same reason that everyone else gets a ‘pass’ – no one gives a fuck.
Or maybe, people will taste one of these ‘trendy’ flavorful ideas and then I don’t know, use the damn computer in their pocket to find an authentic restaurant to try the real thing.
We have so little to worry about that we make up all this nonsense to give us a sense of matter.
First world problems…
I not for that festering bacterial infection that is chipotle no one would know what chipotle was, and they would be lamenting lost cultural heritage when it faded away to other more recent food.
She claims to be a professional chef – and eats at Chipotle? Where are you cooking – at a Waffle House?
Don’t denigrate the waffle house cooks.
No pretensions about being chefs?
Oh, shizz!
Yeah I mentioned that a couple days ago. No respectable punk rocker would go all in with an endorsement of any political party; but sometimes the lulz are just that.
I never heard of him before it was cool to have never heard of him.
God save the queen.
Didn’t click, but is that about Johnny Rotten?
aye
I didn’t even know he was an American citizen.
How does that stop him from influencing the election?
Well, the article says he says he’s voting for Trump.
I’d bet good money he became a US citizen for the more favorable taxes.
To avoid the European stupid, yes. And now he is seeing it coming here and going “Fuck that shizz”…
Dems don’t seem to understand how scotus is supposed to work. Mike Lee is setting that straight right now.
He really rocked it, imo.
“Will there ever come a day when the human brain is capable of processing the extremely rudimentary distinction between “defending the right of X to speak” and “defending X and the views of X”?”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1315424973218082817
Yes, but they seem to becoming a minority.
When will we get rid of Nazi Apologists like GG? His words are being used to normalize and make violent hate speech ok. I don’t want to live in a society where we allow violent hate speech.
Yes, as soon as the indignation generated by conflating the two disappears. IOW, when there are ice cubes in hell.
Holy cow! We’re distant cousins!
“Wildly, madly, the West is destroying itself
Suicidal Covid ‘public health’ policies and the Marxist Trojan horse of BLM zealotry are products of our perilous complacency. We may be tempting an implosion.
The widespread COVID-19 lockdowns and the increasingly venomous Black Lives Matter movement are both destabilising phenomena instigated by people suffering from a perilous complacency. A surfeit of Western security, with no major wars and nearly uninterrupted prosperity for 75 years, has created an ahistorical under-appreciation for the fragility of order. Perhaps the hyper-racialising of the West in the second half of this year will prove a temporary mania, at the end of which we’ll have fairer, more sensitive societies. But somehow I doubt it.
We don’t commonly characterise folks who want to altogether overturn the way a country works “systemically” as complacent. But I would argue that most of this year’s abundantly white, middle-class protesters embody the epitome of complacency. These are not people who expect to make any personal sacrifice to make the world a better place. To the contrary, by positioning themselves as “allies” on “the right side of history”, they expect to reap rewards, and to jettison older, purportedly prejudiced generations even more rapidly than younger generations do as a matter of course. BLM bandwagoners assume they can change everything while everything they fancy stays the same.
Weekend revolutionaries imagine they can bring an end to capitalism and still keep all the fruits of capitalism that they take for granted. They think they can install a neo-Marxist equality of outcome, boot out all the wicked old white guys like Tim Cook, and keep their iPhones, replete with regular OS updates. They imagine they can pack faculties and student bodies with minorities regardless of qualification and “decolonise” the curriculum to rid it of “white knowledge” and still have prospective employers regard their degrees from Harvard as meaningful commendations. They want to undermine the means by which their parents earn a living yet still expect to crash back home when they’re low on cash, where they can always raid the refrigerator when feeling peckish. Woke white activists want to demonise “whiteness” as the sole source of all evil, while mysteriously believing this does not entail demonising themselves. Apparently the joyful embrace of one’s own “fragility” grants the right to hector others while triggering a racial opt-out clause…”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/lifes-a-riot-for-children-ofthe-woke-revolution/news-story/b71ddd6e843e02ecd1a320dc1d939d00
Wow… there is a sane person out there who has a published venue via which he/she can shine a little light on our current situation. I fear it will mostly fall on deaf ears.
The capitalist messed up the great Soviet experiment. We almost had utopia, but they ruined it. The only thing left is to bring the Soviet motherland here. /Progs
ML: We aren’t here to discuss policy because that is not what the court is for.
SW: Let’s talk about some more policy.
Has that festering stain of jello brains named Hirono had her turn yet?
No. I had to stop listening. Dems are all saying the same stupid shit. I am morbidly curious what that cunte will say though.
Martin Lawrence and Scott Weiland are senators?! I thought Scott Weiland was dead!
Is Kamala there? Does her demanding campaign schedule of one low-attendance rally every few days allow her to attend this hearing?
9:20 a.m. and 254 comments. Can. Not. Do. It.
Mornin’ SP!
Should’ve refreshed. 305.
It’s not like there’s going to be less comments the longer you wait…
/looks at the tabs from the past two articles
It’s not that bad.
When I wake up to a crap-ton of things to do on Monday morning, 305 comments seems insurmountable and I should just wait for the 11a.m. post.
In cases like this I generally bounce to the bottom, scroll up 5 or 6 major discussions, then start reading. It’s not like many people will read anything I post above there.
Same.
I’m about to hit the road from VA to Mobile, but I saw an ad for Mark Warner for senate.
His opponent, Daniel Gade, believes masks are “Tyranny”, but, and this is a direct quote:
“Mark Warner believes in science.”
What. The. Fuck.
I don’t vote, but this makes me want to vote for Gade.
How are we in such a backassward time? There is 100 years of actual science showing masks don’t work against a virus.
I picked up my car from Enterprise this morning and there was one person without a mask.
“This Guy!” * points two thumbs at himself*
I couldn’t hear the lady from across the room and she said”I hate this thing” and took it off for the rest of the transaction.
No one said anything to me nor did I get any funny looks, so I don’t know if they are all wearing it to get along or what is going on.
I wear mine anywhere there’s a sign requesting that I do so. I don’t wear mine anywhere else.
The reasoning is simple. Property owner requested it of me. Whether or not they did so under duress is irrelevant. Not my battle to fight.
That’s the way I work.
And here in the people’s republic of NJ if I want to go into any retail establishment that’s my option.
Went to HyVee yesterday. Told XY to wear a mask and he said, “They don’t enforce it.” Well, the last time I tried not wearing a mask, they were enforcing it so I let the experiment run. Halfway through the shopping trip, I took mine off. Not a word, not a glance askance.
Went to Home Depot. Same.
XY said (and I have not researched this so grab a handful of salt) that the liability that someone could turn violent if asked to put on their mask is too great.
I would think the possibility of medical conditions is a factor, as well, but I wouldn’t know. I was wearing them because the store sign said to.
Same here, although sign of first customer and/or employee that is not the teenage part time hire not wearing it, it usually becomes a chin diaper.
Yeah, wearing it and wearing it “effectively” are two very different things. I wear it in the least uncomfortable manner.
It depends on the sign for me. If the sign has something along the lines of “as required by government regulation”, I know the store doesn’t care about mask use and the sign is just there to appease corporate. I don’t wear a mask. I went to a large store yesterday and it was heartening to see at least 2/3’s of the probably 100 customers were not wearing masks. I also talked with two employees while trying to find some items (they were out of 9 mm/5.556 unfortunately), and they didn’t care at all that I was sans mask.
The interesting thing about this store is that they were very serious about enforcement back in March when a lot was still unknown about how deadly covid would be (every person had to have a cart to increase space, etc). Now, they seemed to have made the same conclusion that most sane people have and just go through the motions as required by govt.
If the store has some custom sign about masks being required without mentioning the government, I know they are serious and wear the mask. There are some stores around here where the owners/management are true covid and mask believers, and their business has plummeted because of it (not that masks are required but their over the top signs and hysterical reactions to those not wearing masks).
I don’t wear a mask anywhere. If asked to leave (by the property owner or their agent) I will do so. The signs are of the government’s doing not the property owner so I don’t pay any mind to that.
That’s my position. And if the business insists then I don’t shop there.
I wear mine anywhere there’s a sign requesting that I do so.
Too passive, obedient and conformist from my point of view. Normal Americans do what they are told because the government and the experts told them. But libertarian Americans have an extra excuse to comply: a property owner posted a sign. Still the sheep.
Meh. I don’t violate my friends’ house rules because I think they’re stupid. Their house, their rules. If it’s a big enough sticking point, I stop visiting them.
Likewise with businesses. It doesn’t matter whether government forced them to put up the sign. It’s their sign, and it’s their battle to fight. It’s not my place to force their hand. They can be cowards, and I can patronize their competitors.
Wearing face masks is not normal. There’s no good reason for healthy people to wear them anywhere. I call you a coward, not businesses, given that most of them are not enforcing the face mask wearing policies they purportedly have. You’re a part of the sheep majority that will lead us to wearing face masks in many settings forever. Like aboard the plane. The US government didn’t impose the face mandate on airlines. Private airlines did it themselves because they believed (probably correctly) that most of their customers wanted the mask mandate. I despise the American people more than the governors.
I call you a coward, not businesses, given that most of them are not enforcing the face mask wearing policies they purportedly have.
My MIL has a “please take your shoes off at the door” sign at her house. I’ve occasionally forgotten to take them off and she didnt say anything. I think that it’s stupid to take off shoes on hardwood floors. Should I just go ahead and flout her rule because it’s stupid?
I don’t care whether a company sets a mask rule or a shoe rule or a gun rule or an underwear on head rule. It’s their business and it’s their rules. Unfettered property ownership is a core fundamental principle to liberty and to capitalism. I am a guest on their premises and subject to their limitations, no matter how stupid. My choice is to associate with them on their terms or to not associate with them. Anything else is a violation of their property rights. This doesn’t change just because we’re in the middle of mass social hysteria.
I guess I’m as disgusted with libertarians as with all other Americans. The public health totalitarianism is firmly establishing itself in the country but we’re doing nothing about it and simultaneously feel self-righteous while fully complying with every insane restriction.
My favorite thing that happened with masks this weekend is when Joe Biden took his mask off to cough into his hand.
SCIENCE!!
I’m wondering if a preference cascade isn’t in the offing. I noticed a number of commercials over the weekend with people not wearing masks and otherwise acting normally. The “In These Uncertain Times” commercials seem to be on the wane.
Just in time for the election then?
I liked the one in which the guy wanders out onto his patio (I believe,) where his lady and his friends are waiting, in his tighty-whities. “I thought we were doing the Zoom thing.”
I see the talking point of the day is ‘pre-existing conditions’.
I’ve hear pregnancy discussed the last few months as ‘pre-existing condition’, I have never heard of anyone being dropped from insurance because of pregnancy, but I guess that doesn’t scare up votes for the ‘right to choose’ side.
I mean. I guess if you switch insurances mid-pregnancy (Have done, this, and experienced no issues) then yes it would be “pre-existing” but it’s so routine, i don’t know why an insurance wouldn’t just cover it out of good will customer service.
I remember that being specifically not covered for N months when I got policies back a decade ago. Any work related insurance wouldn’t do it, but when buying for self-employed, pregnancy wouldn’t have been covered if pre-existing.
The most important thing to remember about insurance through one’s employer is that the employee is not the customer. You pay some portion of the premiums (which for a chintzy employer will be a majority) but the employer holds the contract (so to speak, if not literally) and even for the portion you pay, it goes through your employer to the insurer. You can’t even change anything until the next “open enrollment” period. So, customer service is only about keeping the employer happy, not the employee. Most people today don’t have a dozen kids, pregnancy only lasts nine months, and most pregnancies don’t have complications, so it usually isn’t an issue. But I’d wager in a decade or two sentiment will change enough that it’s worth it to the insurer to haggle over (especially if HR departments become even more overrun with antinatalist harridans).
I believe the issue is with people who don’t buy health insurance until after they become pregnant and are facing tens of thousands of dollars in bills. Somewhat similar to buying car insurance after your car was stolen and expecting a new car out of the deal. What’s the point of insurance if you can buy it only when you need it? I don’t think the actuarial tables show a good return on such policies.
Fascinating historical bit:
HIPAA actually required that insurers cover “pre-existing conditions” when someone who had insurance transferred to another policy/insurer. That problem has been solved for decades. In insurance-ese, since health insurance is “claims-made”, it basically required that every health insurer issue a “nose” policy.
Now, requiring insurance to cover pre-existing conditions that have never been covered, no other kind of insurance works that way.
Republicans have no interest in going after the “pre-existing conditions” thing anyway. Republicans are not libertarians.
The parts of ACA they killed are:
1) The rule making you buy it.
2) The rule making companies support contraception and other not pro-life shit.
3) The yearly government payouts to insurance companies.
4) The so-called “death panels” (standing government body that makes health care decisions).
Republicans are now fine with Obamacare. They’re done.
^^This^^
The fact that Rand Paul’s proposals have got no traction show they aren’t interested in winding back further.
https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-unveils-obamacare-replacement-act
Not exactly libertarian, but a hell of a lot better than the ACA or what we had before.
I believe there was a part in the debates (Harris vs. Pence) where Pence calmly pointed out that Republicans are not going after ACA any more. It’s not even on the radar. They are happy now and have gotten the unpopular bits twisted around.
They don’t actually care that without the mandate it’s maybe even more a massive money pit. Why? Because voters don’t. Voters don’t really think about other people’s money is such a long-term fashion. That’s why democracies aren’t set up to last forever.
What I thought was some butternut squash soup I had frozen a couple of weeks ago, is actually my peach sauce for pork chops I mad also a couple of weeks ago. Still…I ate half of it.
As soup? LOL!
I was already committed.
Impressive.
It helped that I tossed in some chopped apples and smoked sausage, I didn’t want those to go to waste. I am sure I will pay for it later, but it was a mild sauce with a vegetable stock base.
Pork Chops and Apple Sauce, am I right?
“butternut squash soup”
Girl soup eater spotted.
Pumpkin soup is great.
Man the Chicomm phishers are desperate to get on my computer for some reason. I am now getting at least 3 dozen false “Your account has been (some shit)” emails, often for accounts I don’t or never had, hoping that you try to log in and give them creds. And they are getting quite good at trying to hide the deception. Unlucky for them, I never direct link from emails and am quick enough to know that they are actively doing this phishing shit. I do love to isolate the machine to a sandbox in case the link downloads malware, then use “Fucky0u” and “Andy0rM0mmaT00” as my creds.
Are you guys seeing a lot of this too? Are they targeting people based on age or is it because they know I do work they want to steal?
My favorite thing is when that crap gets sent to one of my masked emails. I know exactly who was hacked and/or sold my data. I simply toggle the email address to inactive and delete my account at business X.
No doubt because of your refusal to buckle to the diversity non-mandate of your employer.
I wouldn’t be surprised my employer has good relationships with the ChiComms. After all, my employer agrees with the ChiComms on whom they would prefer as president….
Special K is on fire. And by on fire I mean dishonest and insane.
They are going to have their day to grandstand, and then ACB will get confirmed.
Unless DiFi all the sudden leaks a thing about how ACB actually keeps her 7 kids locked up in a torture room in her basement.
A new twist on pizza-gate? The left is no less unhinged than QAnon.
Worse, she home schooled her kids and taught them there are only 2 genders. Enemy of the state!
“This nominee criticized a court decision.”
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Give that woman an Oscar!
What does Trump have to do with this confirmation hearing. Mrs Barrett is right there yet you chose to use your time to act like you are still campaigning for president? – should be the words uttered in return.
Sasse apparently had my back on this one. “Sasse says he doesn’t know what any of Klobuchar’s comments have to do with today’s hearings”
Just a programming alert to tune in Wednesday. Of course new SugarFree at noon central. SugarFree is now doing Wednesday aftertnoon links, and this is the once a month Double feature! With a Hat and Hair cartoon for the night slot!
I have a story scheduled for tonight.
I will be sure to provide acerbic criticism
I look forward to it.
A rare celestial conjunction of raw entertainment!
It wouldn’t be so raw if you’d just spring for a little lube.
Will the Glib Mind be able to handle it all? Wednesday of H&H and SF Links is almost too much for my meager mind.
There is no precedent…
Yes there is, you lying cunte.
Is that in reference to any particular Senator, or just most of them?
It’s been a general Dem theme.
…long settled cases . . . fundamental rights… – Coons
Now do 2A.
Orange man is despised and public enemy number one to the marxists. because he has encouraged things like this, which threatens their racket….
Another Uncle Tom. We have one them Aunt Jemima here in our district in MD. I’m voting for her. Her chances of wining are the same as his, none.
The guy has no chance, but great ad. I’d vote for him.
Freaking white-supremacists tryna keep a black woman down.
Haha! He means Joe Uncle Tom right!? Get back on that plantation you house N****!
That is powerful. I wish there was a chance that the word would get out.
It could, with enough $$$$
It doesn’t matter. Democrats have been in complete control of these districts for at least half a century. They are so corrupt and the rules so rigged, you’d wind up with a democrat winner even if there wasn’t even one democrat running.
Kim KlaickM
Like uncle Tom there, she’s wasting her time in this district. She should try running for US Congress instead, she’d have a better chance.
Defund history
Photos taken after the protest showed the Lincoln statue resting on its head with spray paint on the base, while the Roosevelt statue rested on its side with orange spray paint on the base. In addition to the toppling of the statues, the glass front and doors of the Oregon Historical Society were smashed.
Needz moar Gatling guns.
Wasn’t Roosevelt one of theirs? I don’t mean antifa, those are useful idiots. I thought Roosevelt was a comrade?
Everyone who was an adult than 10 years ago had wrong opinions.
Teddy Roosevelt was the original progressive, at least in terms of national politics. But he was also a “go and spread our greatness to the world” colonialist, so he gets the bullet too.
Ok guys, if you think Human Rights will be abolished/will disappear under communism, put this
Broom
in your name or your bio.
Human Rights will be swept away in the revolution !
I mean, Human Rights are a bourgeois and liberal social construct that can’t exist without a state to enforce them
https://twitter.com/AnarkoStalin/status/1315617728980496385
At some level you need to respect tankies as opposed to utopian socialists
Communism, communism never changes.
The thing is, some people are very unhappy with their lot in life. The only way to change that is for something to change. Not themselves, but something else because it’s not their fault. They’re being oppressed. So there has to be something at fault – capitalism. And a change – communism.
It still has to be that, because we’ve failed to come up with anything else. It’s going to work this time. /progtards
Blumenthol is about to cry…
achieve judicially what they can’t achieve legislatively
Such progjection.
You are about to do to us what we have been doing to you all along, and that is UNACCEPTABLE!
that activism uses originalism as a smokescreen
This guy is such a cunte.
Why? Flashbacks to Vietnam?
Dems are very concerned that their unconstitutional policies will be thwarted by an originalist court.
I was making an oblique reference towards Dickie’s tendency of embellishing his “illustrious” military career.
https://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com/dear-richard-blumenthal-youre-a-liar/
extremist, ideological judge
Douche. Bag.
And now he is being a sanctimonious prick.
cases involving the Trump admin…you must recuse yourself
Fuck. Off.
They are going through the stages of grief. They are pleading, and demanding justice (in their eyes).
It’s like when a toddler throws a fit. Sometimes you let them scream it out and then you move on with what you were going to do anyway.
Like Kagan did?
In Kagan’s case, she actually worked for the Obama administration. ACB has not, as far as I know, ever held an executive branch job.
Indeed. Under the rules of judicial ethics, she clearly should have recused. Fuck Roberts, the spineless little shit, for not recusing her.
A 4 – 4 tie would have meant the lower court ruling stood. The 11th Circuit overturned the individual mandate but (wrongly, IMO) ruled that it could be severed from the rest of the statute, even though there was no severability clause and the legislative record indicated it was essential to the law as a whole.
Bitter? Me? Why do you ask?
The left’s bullshit has gotten so bad that we now have Jake Tapper correcting them on SCOTUS appointment rules and precedents, and the Constitution.
That’s when you know they’re really jumped the shark.
In Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” the worst thing about turning into a giant bug is that Gregor Samsa loses his job and his means of supporting family. In other words, the problem is not turning into a bug, it’s capitalism. In a social democracy, Gregor Samsa could live happily.
https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1315431408106696705
Remember kids, social democracy and democratic socialist are not the same thing, except when it’s useful to conflate them.
Then again, it’s NJR, and he makes boxes of rocks look smart.
What if we all turn into bugs?
Bugs have no opposable thumbs and can’t work machinery. They can probably write moronic Tweets though, threatening Nathan’s livelihood.
but no capital letters
“social democracy”
Oxymoron.
Socialism cannot be democracy, because by it’s very nature, socialism denies individualism in favor of the collective. What to do when that doesn’t sound appealing to people? Lie.
Social democracy is, when not being used for sleight of hand by communists, capitalism combined with a large welfare state. It is what the Nordic and other Northern European countries actually have. Markets, sometimes and in some ways freer markets than in the U.S., high taxes, and high government spending. It is generally distinct from socialism, in that the government does not own the means of production, though in some cases there are government-run enterprises or there used to be government-run enterprises. Nowhere in Europe today is there democratic socialism, and in only one place is there authoritarian socialism: Belarus.
Well, when I say that’s not real socialism, this time it’s not sarcasm. Those are capitalist countries. They just have more social programs than we have, but they are in no way socialist countries.
Under socialism, workers own their own labor, but property rights are non-existent since everyone owns everything.
I always kind of think of it the other way around that socialism and democracy are basically the same thing.
Socialism: Tyranny of the majority by the few.
Democracy: Tyranny of the minority by the majority.
Wasn’t Roosevelt one of theirs?
Old white guy. And he killed those cute cuddly African animals. He’s a monster.
I assumed we were talking FDR, not Teddy.
“At the park in Beverly Hills near the house we just moved away from… you were not allowed to fly a KITE,” the actor, 43, wrote in an Instagram caption.
Fuck.
A British Overseas territory, administratively Tristan da Cunha is grouped with the almost-as-remote Ascension Island and St Helena – the South Atlantic atoll to which Napoleon was exiled after the Battle of Waterloo. Tristan’s only town is named Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, and houses the administrator’s office and an extremely hard-working post office.
I think Heinlein tried to stop on Tristan da Cunha. I have “Tramp Royale” somewhere in my unread book pile. I have a vague memory of reading that he wrote about the experience in that book.
St. Helena now has an airport which was intended to spur tourism on the island. Its opening was delayed due to safety concerns, but you can fly into now.
Has Kristen seen that?
Not sure. If I see her post today, I’ll point her to this thread.
Tramp Royale was terrific.
Went to a pub for a low-key stag do. I was late, and the groom forgot that when I arrived, it would make 7 people. Staff refused to allow the group to split up. They refused to let me sit inside by myself. So I had my pints outside. Alone. In the rain.
I should add that I drove 250 miles to get there.
https://twitter.com/alexmaccaroon/status/1315583473021747201
there is a whole story thread but it is silly do drive that much for a fucking pub bachelor party.
250 miles won’t even get me out of my own state in some directions. And Wisconsin is one of the smaller states going westward. This is one of the areas where Europeans lose perspective, most states are bigger than your countries.
I don’t like driving more than 20 miles without good reason.
I find that a lot of Service Employees (not all, but a lot) enjoy regulations, because it gives them a veneer of officialdom to sneer at customers that they are generally required to be deferential to.
meh I’m not sure I met plenty who want to make things ok for customers. I think more along the lines of not having any decision making or risk doing the wrong thing themselves
My sympathy for this guy took a big hit when he admitted to drinking shandy in public.
But even then, jeez. You can come into the pub, but you have to order by app? You can have a group of six, but not a group of three and a group of four?
Something something SCIENCE!!!!!
a low-key stag do
shibbidy do wop she bang she bang
Things I’d like to hear:
“Since you have not asked any substantive questions regarding the laws of the land, or the proper function of the Supreme Court and the Justices on it, I think we should all assume you have no objection to Ms Barrett’s confirmation, Senator. Next?”
No. let them babble on. Sooner or later, they will bring out the dude who claims Barrett grabbed his wienie at a college tailgate kegger.
I assuem a gang of howling women dresses as aborted fetuses clawing at the doors of the chamber.
‘Now my right to get my 27th abortion will be denied! And I was raped all 42 times!’.
And I was retroactively raped all 42 times, because the shitlord never called me after!
Deception is coercion.
Nice addendum.
What time is it?
Always makes me think of this.
*boogies*
cases involving the Trump admin…you must recuse yourself
Oh, that’s completely legitimate and justified, because Kagan has recused herself from all matters relating to actions taken by the Obama administration (in which she played an active role), right?
RIGHT?
Until straws are made a right, they’ll keep grasping for them.