I’m not sad about this development.
Tom Brady lost to the Rams. And Tom Brady losing is always funny. UCL is back today and tomorrow. Let’s see who else from Liverpool gets hurt this week. And the first CFP rankings come out today. In this wacky season, they could be interesting. And that’s sports.
O!
White, racist colonizer Junipero Serra was born on this day. He shares it with short-lived president Zachary Taylor, ragtime musician Scott Joplin, author Dale Carnegie, gangster Lucky Luciano, baseball player Ducky Medwick, political commentator William F Buckley Jr, pitcher Bob Friend, “The Big O” Oscar Robertson, drummer Pete Best, serial killer Ted Bundy, acting great Dwight Schultz, cricket legend Ian Botham, and actress Katherine Heigl.
That list wasn’t great. But it’s time to move on to…the links!
It’s time to get back to normal. Which means inept and malevolent bureaucracy, elevated tensions in the Middle East (except with Iran), a bunch of “international cooperation” (where we foot the lion’s share of the bill for everything), and a continuation of class-warfare. In other words: just what Dem voters wanted.
Then give them your own money and stop stealing mine for them.
I wonder if this will stand up on appeal. I hope so. People can pay for their own shit and there’s nothing keeping them from running on donations.
If you’re asking, you’re doing it wrong. Still, she’s at least got her head in the right place. And she ain’t too bad looking either.
A politician I can get behind.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Get a load of this dumbshit. Dude, you’re supposed to donate big money to the PBA, not give up a few iPads. Or, buy a home in a redneck county like Tulare or Inyo and just ask there. What a maroon.
She needs to go one step further and just leave the Senate altogether. Because she’s an idiot and she’s been there too long.
What a great guy! Giving 105,000 kids a copy of his book about himself. You don’t get any more giving that that. Maybe it’ll land him a Nobel Prize for Literature next. Or get one for his ghost writer, anyway. ::SMDH:: What an egomaniac.
I have a sinking feeling this story is a very common one. And I also get the feeling coronabro politicians couldn’t give a flying fuck.
Lighten up, pussies.
Cry more, you bunch of pussies. For every bit of “backlash” he’s facing, you’ve got someone applauding it. Hopefully ten people. Because he’s right.
Here you go. Hopefully it starts your day off as well as it did mine.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
I think I’ll go buy some little girls’ cotton panties, and transform them into masks.
New- not used, you preverts.
*lights OMWC signal*
Ha! Brilliant. I had thought of repurposing a jockstrap as a mask for much the same reasons.
Wait. Are you saying the panties are new or the girls are new?
About the only combo I wouldn’t buy are used panties from used girls. Well new and new doesn’t sound that great either.
Has OMWC taught you nothing?
He taught me the importance of investing in a quality bike lock.
Did you not teach Tundra the same thing?
Don’t need to. Tundra just refuses to show up anytime SP and OMWC are in town.
Morning sloopy.
There are, but the Twitterati don’t see it because all those wrongthinkers were banned ages ago.
Because she’s an idiot and she’s been there too long.
Are you kidding? The United States Senate is the ideal habitat for geriatric retards.
I can’t understand it. There is a time for planting and a time for harvesting. Feinstein’s best use by date was 40 years ago. What possesses people to do this? Seriously, anyone believing in their own superiority of managing other peoples lives need a trip to Grandma’s farm. Grassley, I’m looking at you, too, Pelosi, you make the list. Go home, you’re scaring the kids!
I am embarrassed and ashamed of my age group.
Biden’s right there with them, go sit in the sun somewhere with the rest of peer group.
Pfft. 4×20, this has been the case since at least King David was so old that he couldn’t keep warm (in the Middle East) and they had to find a maiden to be his snuggle bunny.
Good work if you can get it.
So you are volunteering to be Feinstein’s snuggle bunny for $15/hr?
Colorado Rep shows up with Big Iron on her hip. Take that, AZ!
If a member of Congress defies DC gun laws on the basis that all laws infringing on our 2A right are unconstitutional, would she get arrested for that political act?
Not sure. She could always say she was on her way to vote or something.
Unless that only works for drunk Kennedys.
Not sure if this is still common knowledge but back in the day, when scanning luggage at airports was just becoming a thing, one of Ted Kennedy’s private security entourage was found to be carrying an un-registered machinegun in his check-in bags. Of course it made the evening news… …and nothing else happened.
David Gregory didn’t get arrested for doing it on “Meet the Press”.
Of course not. Things that are illegal for peasants (like reading wikileaks) are totes fine for journalismists.
Members of congress cannot be arrested while congress is in session. She didn’t need to ask. The answer is yes.
Technically, since she has not yet been sworn in as a member of Congress, she is a private citizen. Same as Biden is not currently the President-Elect, but rather a private citizen.
Whether the DC police would want to arrest her and start that shitstorm is another issue.
So, what you’re saying is I should bring my hookers and blow to my speeches then?
Those might be construed as “Felony”.
The speeches certainly would be
AZ just elected, GunGrabber McKluntock so I’ve downgraded them several places in my “gun friendly list”. They keep this up and they might hit Texas levels of depravity.
Christ, they need to stop giving me d̶a̶y̶s̶ nights off. Im drunk.
Mornin’ Sloop- O-H…..!
I-O!!!
Wonder where we end up in the rankings tonight. Lots of people saying we should fall to 4 or 5 after beating a top ten team. Those same people wave away Bama barely beating Ole Piss and giving up a gazillion yards of offense.
But it’s bama man. SEC means sumthin. At least that’s what I’m always told.
I liked Saturday’s game. Kinda gave OSU a reality check when they had to actually play football, instead of just running over everyone.
If those two turnovers get called correctly in the first quarter, I have a feeling it would have been a blowout.
Weird things always seem to happen when we play Indiana.
I do like see Harbaugh getting beaten.
Remember that National Championship y’all won? I do too. Because our rag tag bunch of Hokies came in a laid down a beating that year! That was easily the best Hokie football game I ever watched… Well… that and Miami when the booth played Sandman on three separate occasions. My guess is Lars sued because it’s never happened again.
BTW, Hokie nation loves OSU. Y’all were some of the most friendly and hospitable opponents we’ve ever played.
I was a teenaged alien litterbug
Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety’s Aero Bureau were flying by helicopter last Wednesday, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
“One of the biologists … spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. “He was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!’ And I was like, ‘What.’ And he’s like, ‘There’s this thing back there — we’ve got to go look at it!'”
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Still, it is illegal to install structures or art without authorization on public lands “no matter what planet you’re from,” said Utah DPS in a statement released Monday.
The location of the monolith is not being disclosed, and it is not yet clear who — or what — put the monolith there, DPS said.
As of Monday, the Bureau of Land Management will be deciding whether further investigation is needed.
Looks like a great place to sacrifice a virgin.
I have an alibi, and I ain’t talking.
And too big for UCS but he could miniaturize it, paint it and use it in his projects
Are you being detained?
“And I’m like….”
“And he’s like….”
“And I’m like….”
“And he’s like….”
Clearly the state of Utah only hires genius’. Only the smartest make the cut.
Pssht. That’s not even vaguely 1x4x9.
The point of restricting your holidays is to demoralize you.
The point of restricting you with lockdowns is to bankrupt you.
The point of restricting your freedoms is to enslave you.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1331059425789038594
Yet the herd animals are running around bleating about people who dont tow the lion.
Asked a couple co-workers what they were doing for Thanksgiving….
“You can’t do anything in ‘Rona times.”
Well… I got married with about 75 people present in a state that said I could have no more than 25. Traveled on a big bad plane to Arizona for my honeymoon. I Eat out in a dirty dive bar at least once a week that’s slammed full of college kids who don’t give a fuck. My wife works at a children’s hospital. Oh and I’ve been seeing my boomer parents every other weekend since April and my mom’s a nurse! All that to say that I will be happily defying the wishes/demands of our betters and having a nice big thanksgiving at my parents house with both friends and family. Might even do some black friday shopping in person this year. I need some new jeans.
Keep the faith there fellow Glib!
My mom is 83 and working full time right now doing in-person teaching in the southeast, and isn’t worried, even with my dad and his one barely working kidney at home. Meanwhile, here in California, all public schools are online, because the union teachers insist that doing in-person is a death sentence for their 35 year old healthy selves. And that they are true heroes for doing an hour of online instruction daily at full pay.
I don’t get the impetus to control people. That’s the last thing I’d want to do. It takes up all of your time and energy and it’s complicated and agonizing. It’s like trying to have a household with 300m+ kids.
That’s why you’re a glib and not a prog.
That’s why our government is staffed by sociopaths. We’d be better off drafting normies into a term of government service than letting tyrants make it a career.
More like offering normies a term of government service. Any that say “yes” are ineligible to serve.
That’s why you have to draft the ones who so “no”.
I find it too agonizing and complicated to deal with anyone but myself, and even then I’m doubtful much of the time.
OFFS!
At least he saved the Chicago taxpayers from having to pay for it because you know it will be required reading in every grade.
What an asshole. And he probably values them at the full MSRP for writing the donation off on his taxes.
So:
Become a famous politician.
Write a book no one wants to read.
Get your political donors to buy shitloads of copies of your book, then donate them to your personal foundation.
Have your personal foundation sell some, and “throw away” a whole bunch, which you pick up and put in storage.
Donate these copies to 501(c)3 orgs for a tax write off for yourself.
Next stop, NYT “best seller” list!
Yes, its #1 after 105,003 books were downloaded thus week!
This is one of the classic political money laundering tricks.
Hahaha, you said Chicago kids know how to read. Good one, Rhy
Winston Churchill won a Nobel Prize in literature.
He could actually write, just as he could also give a speech without a teleprompter (and without inserting a bunch of uhs).
+1 you know
Ya know, uh…. Folks out there are saying that I’m, uuuuh, the best orator of, uh, all time, ya know??
Digital copies – it costs him nothing except maybe a couple hundred sales, and he gets to play messiah by giving away copies of his sacred text.
Didnt that idiot shitbird gift Queen Elizabeth a recording of all of his speeches in a format that doesn’t work in Ol’ Blighty? What a narcissistic fuckhead.
Ten bucks says as soon as he left the room she nonchalantly tossed it in the trash.
I remember that episode, what a douche.
He gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod with his recorded speeches. She grew up listening to Winston Churchill. Imagine the thrill she got from the jabbering of an overachieving Chicago ward heeler.
On the same visit he gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown a DVD movie collection. The discs were in the US format, unwatchable on UK players and anyway, Brown didn’t like to watch movies because he could only see out of one eye.
Obama is a nasty piece of work.
What a clod. Like LBJ, but less charming.
You have better memory than I do. I have the excuse that there are too many examples of his douchebaggery to keep track of without mixing them up.
“Apple’s head of global security has been charged with bribery after allegedly promising 200 iPads worth $70,000 to police in exchange for four concealed-weapon permits for the company’s security officers.”
I’m of the opinion that there should be no law against and no penalty for anyone trying to bribe an official. It’s not the fault of the guy from apple that the state wields the power to either arm or disarm his security guards.
This
The laws against bribery serve only to protect the officials, who are the ones with the actual power.
They did charge two officials as well. Although their union contract probably means they’ll get special treatment and won’t miss much beyond a paid vacation.
But I do agree with you.
Is it a bribe if the official didn’t accept the gift? Or is it like a Hawaiian vice officer, who has to confirm there crime first?
DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE
The White House is going ahead with plans to hold holiday parties and receptions at the presidential mansion despite a surge in coronavirus cases and warnings from public health officials to avoid large in-person gatherings.
Invitations for the indoor holiday events, which are scheduled to start next week, already have been sent out. An invitation to a Dec. 1 reception – a copy of which was obtained by USA TODAY – makes no mention of mandatory face masks or social distancing requirements.
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The decision to proceed with the indoor parties comes as public health officials have warned Americans to cancel travel plans and avoid large in-person gatherings over Thanksgiving because of COVID-19, which has infected more than 12 million Americans and killed more than 250,000.
What sort of fiend would have a Christmas party in these troubled times?
The media are probably sad that he’s putting them in danger, since they’ll show up to cover the events.
They can always just…not fucking go.
Speaking of media bullshit, CBSNews last night was after Noem not being a proper fearmonger, and how South Dakota had, for the last week the highest per capita COVID death rate in the world (or may have just been country).
Which is true, and at that spectacular rate of death, it will only take them another 60+ weeks to catch up to the aggregate death count (per capita) of NJ. Of course, how many other people bothered to check this out as I did. Nope, the sheep ate what was fed to them.
Basically CBS News is telling you they don’t understand cold-and-flu season and geography.
You can be sure they are having their own gatherings with friends and family.
He should invite Fauci.
Biden is trying to stay in the center … of the Democratic party
So ever so slightly to the right of Chairman Mao.
Diversity is a priority
And it is only skin deep.
The picks are a fundamental rejection of Trumpism
So more foreign intervention and never ending bureaucracy.
He’s moving fast
Shift that old man shuffle into high gear.
Thicc Tuesday (#27 FTW IMO):
https://thechive.com/2017/07/16/thick-thighs-thatll-leave-you-thunderstruck-30-photos/
or
https://archive.is/4z2ZX
Tres won’t be leaving his bunk.
who owns a gun-themed restaurant in Rifle, Colorado
That is adorable.
I have an uncle who lives outside of Rifle, CO. Cabin style home on 200 acres in a valley. Its been a long time since i have visited, but it is a beautiful area.
I taught a friend’s family to shoot at the Rifle, CO municipal range.
Mrs. A and I really need to get up there before bailing from Colorado.
For every bit of “backlash” he’s facing, you’ve got someone applauding it.
Me, for instance. Evil bearded Ted Cruz is more fun.
Like the difference between me and RobC.
For one thing, only the evil me would capitalize parts of my name.
I just realized that I hope that someone internally pronounces my name as a single syllable “robk”. the bk sound is unusual in English. Sort of like, I think of the author of this post as sloop-inca. Like the civilization.
I routinely used to get asked about my Native central/south American heritage before twitter banned my old account because I called some retard a retard.
I dont think I got it on the old site until the first time you changed it. Then I was like “Ohhhhhhh…….”, but I still think of you as an Inca.
I pronounce it “robk”.
I actually pronounce it R-O-B-C.
I was literally thinking the other day that if I had a son born on June 25, I would name him leon. Any chance that is your birthday? My daughter was going to get the middle name of Noel if she had been born on 12/25, but she held off until January.
No I’m not a June Baby. But i am a Gemeni. So there is precdence for me there being a copy of me out there.
Do you sing it too?
Every God damn time. It’s got a nice jingle to it.
Not sloo-pinka?
I pronounce it filthy Georgist splitter!
“Republican Lauren Boebert, 33, was elected this month from a conservative western Colorado district after gaining notice as a brash pro-gun activist who straps a Glock pistol to her hip.”
Would.
The laws against bribery serve only to protect the officials, who are the ones with the actual power.
If public officials relied exclusively on bribes for their sustenance, government would be more efficient.
Discuss.
They’re already beholden to the people who fund their campaigns.
And our system is horribly inefficient. So I’m not sure you’re right on this one.
That’s why I support 1 term only limits. If pols can’t steal enough in 1 term they are too damned dumb to be in office.
Ah, the Afghan Provincial Governor Method!
It works that way in many 3rd world hellholes, and nope, turns out it isnt.
I’m not sure it would run any different than it currently does, but on the plus side it would lay bare the money making scheme that is the regulatory state.
Is that the face Tom Brady makes when his win loss percentage is worse than Rivers?
Baseball birthdays: You missed George Burns, who was famous well before George Burns, even though he was only 7 years older.
From wikipedia: He claimed in a few interviews that the idea of the name originated from the fact that two star major league players (George H. Burns and George J. Burns, unrelated) were playing major league baseball at the time.
Fun fact, I didnt realize there were two, and their career WAR is very similar.
Janet Fucking Yellen.
Apparently Jan is big on both fiscal discipline and stimulus to get the economy moving. Perfect fit,
Fiscal discipline to Yellen means the citizens have to be disciplined financially in the B&D sense of the word. It does not mean Government being disciplined in the fiscal responsibility sense of the word.
James Mattis is asshole.
In his new article, however, Mattis says the opposite, calling for the “end of America First”:
The United States today is undermining the foundations of an international order manifestly advantageous to U.S. interests, reflecting a basic ignorance of the extent to which both robust alliances and international institutions provide vital strategic depth. In practice, “America first” has meant “America alone.” That has damaged the country’s ability to address problems before they reach U.S. territory and has thus compounded the danger emergent threats pose.
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In January, when President Joe Biden and his national security team begin to reevaluate U.S. foreign policy, we hope they will quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate “America first” from its contents, restoring in its place the commitment to cooperative security that has served the United States so well for decades. The best strategy for ensuring safety and prosperity is to buttress American military strength with enhanced civilian tools and a restored network of solid alliances—both necessary to achieving defense in depth. The pandemic should serve as a reminder of what grief ensues when we wait for problems to come to us.
One would think that America’s SecDef would put America first.
Yep – I was always suspicious of his “warrior-monk” bullshit.
It’s pretty simple: if we place everybody else’s interests on par with ours, we’re likely to end up in more military entanglements around the world. And Mattis is a big fan of swinging our military dick at every single global situation.
He hates America first because it runs the risk of actually pulling out soldiers out of harms way. And he can’t abide that.
Generals have a much harder time becoming generals if there is no zone of combat, therefore, to ensure a steady stream of promotions to GO, we must always have fights going on so a quickie tour checks off a box.
One of the things you learned in Marine boot camp was that fighting in Nicaragua and Haiti between the two World Wars helped the Corps develop officers and noncoms that knew something about combat. When WWII started, the Corps actually had a lot of people who had heard shots fired in anger and were ready to go.
There may be some validity to the idea that having professionals who were promoted on the basis of actual competence during combat is a good thing.
The problem with that theory today is that our armed forces are huge and the fighters are not the ones who seem to be getting promoted. The ones who get promoted are the ones who suck up to the politicians the best.
The ones who get promoted are the ones who suck up to the politicians the best.
***ding-ding-ding*** And check off all of the career boxes, whether that is relevant to the conduct of war or not.
Chesty Puller would never have been promoted beyond captain in today’s Corps. He’d be lucky not to be cashiered for his response when he was told that he had to integrate women into infantry combat units.
Yep. Chesty already had a hard enough time getting his star back then due to his outspoken nature – he was a colonel for a long time IIRC.
Ha! Chesty would have “integrated” women into the infantry right away. However, the purpose they would have served in his Marine Corps might not have been something their parents would have approved of.
As always it is important to carefully parse the words of a politician (yes, he is a politician).
Define ‘America’, asshole. I suspect his definition is different than mine.
I don’t want to carry around a gun pointed directly at my penis.
Seems like a bad idea, just saying.
I like John Lovell’s videos and he really likes appendix carry.
Something about the way that dude talks makes me want to punch him in the face. And I’m not a particularly violent person. He also argues that suppressors are more dangerous for self defense because it doesn’s scare off other would be assailants… He’s a douche canoe.
He seems to be able to take criticism. I laughed when he did a video with Rippetoe and got yelled at for his squats.
I like Rippetoe.
I need to go to the gym.
Using that holster and viewing Q’s pictures could cause an accidental discharge…
I was thinking more of a plugged barrel…
Look at Mr. Micro over here.
That is Mr. Two Gun to you!
I don’t think you cuntes realize the hornets nest you are playing with.
Carville said, “Well, that’s the question is, first of all, you can’t stop the Manhattan D. A.. You can’t stop the New York Attorney General. You can’t stop the Southern District of New York. Bill Barr couldn’t stop the Southern District of New York from indicting Steve Bannon. So just the momentum that is out there with these investigations now that I don’t think they can stop.”
He added, “President-elect Biden has indicated some reluctance about this, but he said he’d get the Justice Department — the attorney general prior to this administration a pretty free hand. I don’t know politically the outcome of this, but I think this train is leaving the station. I think these investigations are vigorous and serious. And I think that Trump knows that. I don’t think it can be stopped, Brian, I really don’t.”
everyone thought i was crazy for saying it was going to happen immediately, and the dem operatives are on full court press on pushing this. please set this precedent.
This totally wont come back to bite them in the ass.
What fucking morons. Our political class really needs to go.
How very Roman of them.
“Republican” Governor of Maryland: “There Is No Constitutional Right To Walk Around Without A Mask”
I’ll take what are enumerated rights and the 9th Amendment of the Constitution for $500.
The Constitution is like a hundred years old and hard to read, though.
Giving Cuomo a run for his money at biggest asshole.
“It’s sort of like saying, I have a Constitutional right to drive drunk. I have a Constitutional right to not wear a seatbelt. Or to yell ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theatre. Or to not follow the speed limits. We’re talking about a quarter of a million people dying already. You know, more than the Korean War, the Gulf War and the Vietnam War added together.
“Which part don’t you understand? You wear the mask. There’s no Constitutional right to walk around without a mask,” Hogan added.
The driving things are not the same thing. “Fire” has to do with a call to action. And the war comparison is immaterial and not comparable in the greater scheme of things. Is this cunte that stupid or just dishonest?
It’s not the flu, but it is kinda like war.
Fucking hell, I missed that Hogan trotted out the ol’ “fire in a crowded theater” horseshit. Pols really don’t like Brandenburg v. Ohio, do they?
The 9th and 10th amendment say go fuck yourself. There’s no Constitutional Authority to mandate wearing a mask.
While I agree with the sentiment this is a fallacious argument. The Federal Government is restricted to enumerated powers under the Constitution; the States are not. The States started out with full sovereignty and still possess the general police power, and the States only delegated enumerated powers to the Federal Government. Now that does not mean the States are free to do whatever they wish, but it does mean that when arguing against State laws you have to rely on the affirmative argument that the proposed law (or order which raises other issues) infringes a right either fundamental or granted, and cannot rely on the negative argument that the power to pass the law or issue the order was not enumerated.
Yeah, but full sovereignty and the general police power has never meant that there was a legitimate totalitarian power, with only the barest limits of both federal and state bills of rights.
This unfortunately is the modern concept of the state, since the late 19th century – that the state has the legitimate power to make you better as the state sees fit.
Yeah, i didn’t realize this was a State Gov until after i wrote the comment.
But i mean who reads all of the comments these days anyways. I can barely manage to read the blockquoted stuff.
“No, officer, I am following the Constitution. I have an invisible penumbra covering my face.”
Never forget that yelling fire in a theater was shitbird OWH justification for upholding the conviction of free citizens publicly opposing the enslavement of themselves and their fellow citizens by the federal government.
Bingo!
I didn’t know drunk driving being illegal was done through executive order.
Huh, learn something every day.
Honestly, it’s probably best that the legislature in Maryland continues to sit this one out. The last thing we need is for them to make all this shit into permanent statutory law. Hogan’s a shithead and a sucker but the Democrats have supermajorities in both the House of Delegates and the (state) Senate.
Of course, I’d like to see limits put on executive authority, and I think the legislature should be taking a more active role in, you know, legislating. But this is the home of the swamp, the toppest of top men, they’re not about to do anything that might appear to be deviating from the path of putting The Right People In Charge ™.
Its not even just deep in the swamp. Nearly all state legislatures have packed it in and gleefully abdicated their governmental responsibilities under the guise of an emergency order with no end in many cases.
The constitution is a meaningless document that isn’t worth the paper it’s written on if the people don’t care about it and the judges won’t hold elected officials to it.
It’s that realization that keeps pushing me towards Ancap status.
You can write down whatever limits on government that you want, but it counts for absolutely nothing if politicians won’t follow it, the media won’t criticize it, and the people won’t put a stop to it (by some means or another).
How is Ancap any better though? It’s the same problem with humans – they are the defective part in the equation.
Yea, that’s what keeps me awkwardly sitting on the fence about it.
I have a hard time believing that some security company wouldn’t start invading neighboring territories and immediately end up as a de facto government.
They told me when we elected obama we’d get sharia law. Turns out they were right.
I think this train is leaving the station. I think these investigations are vigorous and serious. And I think that Trump knows that. I don’t think it can be stopped, Brian, I really don’t.
Next stop: The Republic of Bananastan.
Congratulations, Idiocrats. This will never, ever come back around to bite you in the ass.
If I’m being honest, this is one result of the Biden victory that will make me happy.
Incoming administrations conducting criminal probes over everything an outgoing politician, or current ones from the other party, did may result in a whole lot of crooked fucks going to jail or at least being run out of office every two to four years. And that makes me smile.
Uniparty fucks won’t be investigated and prosecuted, only outsiders will.
^This, mostly toe the line and no investigations; don’t and you’re fucked.
Yep, this gives the permanent bureaucracy the whip hand and guarantees we will never see a trace of push back against them again. I am not a Trump fan, but he is not going to be pursued for the actions I disliked. He is going to be punished precisely for the handful of things I did like.
They can’t prosecute him for policy decisions (we’ve not yet crossed that Rubicon, at least) so it will mostly be petty shit about taxes and disclosures and the like, which every politician will be equally guilty of. The real reason and the nominal reason won’t be the same.
Semi-Spartan Dad from last night:
Well weird was the order of the day. All not-actually-mailed-in mail-in ballots in York County, PA had to be delivered to a single drop box in the city of York. So you would get no precinct breakdown on those.
Why not, they still have a name on them, sort them by precinct before counting?
I would assume because they aren’t run through the system that is actually at the precinct.
What’s that in the sky? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s Titty Tuesday!
https://archive.li/4WA4I
About the only combo I wouldn’t buy are used panties from used girls.
So what you’re saying is you don’t want Winston’s Mom’s catalog.
“Apple’s security chief is charged with bribery after ‘offering 200 iPads to sheriff’s office in exchange for concealed weapons permits for security staff'”
If only there were something in the Constitution about having a natural right to bear arms…
Eh, it’s just bartering.
Michigan Board of State Canvassers votes 3-0 to certify election results
If this was high stakes poker, Trump has to decide if he wants to:
1. fold
2. call with the cards he has (lawsuits)
3. throw a couple $million on the table for another card
If he wants that card, he has to commit to funding a Michigan recount himself by tomorrow night. Then the fight will be over the wild mismatches between ballot counts and vote totals – by Michigan law, precincts with mismatches are tossed out. To make the gamble extra interesting, Michigan refunds the recount money of the result is overturned.
No point in throwing good money after bad
I think doing #3 depends on what you think is going to happen elsewhere? Michigan doesnt change anything, he would need 2 more states. GA and ??? PA, I guess.
Or WI where he already anted up for a partial recount.
Right, but it still leads to the question? If he thinks he can win 2 of GA and WI and PA, then it makes sense to pay for MI. Otherwise, just pack up and go home. I don’t think #2 is a valid option.
We’ll know by tomorrow night.
Trump needs to flip 3 swing states among PA, MI, GA, WI or AZ, because he needs 37+ EC votes to win. The biggest three are PA at 20, and MI and GA are 16.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/states-by-electoral-votes.html
Unless SCOTUS goes scorched earth partisan and starts throwing out any mail in ballots counted after Election Day on the basis they were tainted by massive fraud, it’s gonna be Biden (or Harris) inaugurated on Jan 20th.
In a perfect(ly hilarious) timeline, Biden will not be the next person sworn in as president.
Uffda. This is why the Minnesoda GOP can’t have nice things. Too many of their members are way too willing to go along with the opposition.
It sounds like only a couple GOP critters joined this asinine campaign, but it was enough for the headline writers to call it “Bipartisan”.
Also:
Maybe you should ask the gov why he shut down gyms if staying physically fit is so important? CWAA
Did you think that Winston’s daily exercises were intended to benefit Winston?
N/A for libertarians
1. Too few to make a group
2. They wouldn’t be invited anyway
“encourages individuals to wear masks, limit social gatherings”
We’ve been doing this for nearly 9 fucking months already. It’s a fucking virus that is tiny and relentless but not horribly pernicious.
If I was a betting man, I’d bet that upwards of 80% of the politicians taking this pledge will break the rules and have Turkey Day dinner with their extended families.
I’d double down on that bet and also say that upwards of 80% of the families of these politicians will be deeply disappointed to learn that their politician family member plans on breaking the rules and attending the family dinner.
Now do journalists, especially the ones telling everyone else to hide under their beds.
I suspect that the journalists are mostly hiding under their beds themselves.
Fisting Fetishists Tell Us How to Properly Stuff a Turkey
Stuffing a turkey is a delicate process. Fortunately, these experts are elbow-deep in advice
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/fisting-fetishists-tell-us-how-to-properly-stuff-a-turkey
It’s sort of like saying, I have a Constitutional right to drive drunk. I have a Constitutional right to not wear a seatbelt. Or to yell ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theatre. Or to not follow the speed limits.
It’s like saying, “I should be able to do as i wish, so long as I am not causing immediate demonstrable harm to anyone else.”
Hey buddy, stop doing that.
-1 Cynocephale
Reliable source.
This “election was stolen” conspiracy crap is just like Trump’s “enemy of the people” smear – it is a slow-acting poison that is crippling the American body politic
Only lying propagandists like you are referred to as the “enemy of the people”.
Maybe a news agency should do a thorough investigation and prove or disprove it?
Parlor, haven for bigots.
“They’re fine with hate speech and racism,” @oneunderscore__ says about Parler, a social media platform used for spreading conspiracy theories.
“Swearing is not really allowed … nudity is not really allowed, so it’s free speech platform in racism only.”
I haven’t checked it out but I am inclined to make an account.
I did not hear anything good of parler and the like but, given there are two types of speech, nudity and racism, might as well allow both
People are talking without supervision! Make it stop!
As opposed to MSNBC which is just a corporate Media platform for spreading conspiracy theories.
The piss hookers were real you shill.
The problem with Twitter isn’t the censorship/groupthink, it is that it is a human sewer. I would not expect Parlor to by any different.
I’ve joked about making an open source version of Twitter that you could set up for yourself (kinda like a WordPress for Twitter), and call it “Litter: The Messaging platform for Humanities Trash”. Specifically marketed towards people kicked off of twitter.
But i really don’t have the time to do that.
The censorship/groupthink is the issue, but the real problem is that it’s not remotely unique to Twitter.
It’s become part of the metropolitan idiot’s worldview that you can make an ex ante division between people who are right and FLS and are guided by the experts, and the stupid mob. Increasingly, part of this worldview is that you’d better silence and control the stupid mob.
It’s all visceral, and it’s worse than bias in a way because they don’t understand why they’re doing anything wrong. Jack and his idiot friends could easily cover their tracks a bit by throwing an unimportant hard left account under the bus. But they’re not biased – they’re true believers.
Increasingly, part of this worldview is that you’d better silence and control the stupid mob.
That’s a pretty old and far from unusual point of view.
True, though it seems worse than for many decades at this point. Perhaps it’s a bit of a fashion that will have to burn itself out.
Marxists used to pretend that they were scientists and go on about historical inevitability and all that. The soft left has taken on these characteristics without technically becoming Marxists.
Yeah teleology is SOOOooooo scientific. Guys, that is like, a huge fucking tell; if we were playing poker and you routinely bluffed on being on the right side of history, I’d clean you out.
‘A Promised Land’? That’s it? That’s the title? He had four fucken years and $65 million and that’s all they came up with? A lame, syrupy, cliched, title?
And that cover. Gee, tickle me surprised by the pose.
Obama is like the idea of asymptomatic spread as being a main driver or outbreaks or that there was no (massive) election fraud: A lie.
Well he didn’t write the book.
Statistics show that First Nations women experience higher rates of #familyviolence than other women but this is a complex issue stemmed from issues of colonialisation, trauma from displacement and legacy of intergenerational trauma.
https://twitter.com/DivCouncilAus/status/1331099422134919172
These kinds of statements always make me think there’s a sort of proggy Mab Libs they used to produce them.
I wonder what the domestic violence levels were pre whitey
Squaw’s were essentially property in most NA tribes and treated as such. Usually glossed over but before whitey they had no horses, no dogs, no wheel and no metals. It was a barbaric Stone Age culture across the new world.
What they have now is a vast improvement over what they had pre-whitey, if you can believe that.
-1 noble savage
I forgot this one: they had no written language. With no form of writing one’s language consists only of the words in their head which severely limits intelligence. A larger vocabulary means the ability to distinguish more finely between similar but different concepts. In other words, people without a written language re what we call ‘stupid’.
The Mesoamerican Civilizations had Written Languages. I’m not even sure the none of the NA tribes didn’t have written languages.
This is a HM question. I think the Iroquois and the Cherokee had nominal written languages and the Aztec/Mayans/Inca had systems of pictograms like the Egyptians but in general, continental wide it was a land of illiterates.
I thought the Cherokee had no written language until Sequoyah created one in the early 1800s.
Cherokee written language came during the 19th century – one solitary Cherokee saw how the whites were able to permanently record speech and understood the implications so he came up with his own system.
this is about ‘stralia
Hey, they are on a roll.
I didn’t know Straya used the term First Nations either.
“Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” was in our summer camp songbook. We had to omit the “let me Abos go loose, Lew” verse after a Kiwi counselor must have had A Word with staff.
No member of the faculty is to maltreat the “Abos” in any way whatsoever—if there’s anyone watching.
With smoking monkeys, right?
Please let there be monkeys!
First Nations
Is that the Iroquois tribes?
in Australia? Unlikely
Of course it’s whitey’s fault, it’s always whitey’s fault. There is no personal responsibility in this world.
+1 white man’s burden
G’day, Bruce!
It’s not the flu, but it is kinda like war.
WE’RE AT WAR WITH AN INVISIBLE, IMPLACABLE ENEMY!!!!11!!
You could report illegal parking in NYC — and get paid to do it, under new bill
https://abc7ny.com/traffic/anyone-could-report-illegal-parking-in-nyc-under-new-bill/8149898/
the gig economy getting wild
Report all the illegally parked city vehicles.
The Meter-maid Full-Employment Act
Because Deblasio hasn’t grown the city workforce enough.
Join Special Transportation ASsistance Intelligence!
And that cover. Gee, tickle me surprised by the pose.
It should have Lady Liberty kneeling in front of him giving him the ol’ deep throat.
Was this covered?
The Washington Post just published an article called: “Washington’s aristocracy hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again.”
They quickly changed it to “Washington’s establishment.” Someone must’ve worried how the plebes might react:
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1330882484783857666
Good on Mate, one of the few remaining principled leftists.
I don’t think they are worried about how the plebs would react, but how the Aristocracy would react for being called out as such.
Or, in other words. The part they changed isn’t the part that would outrage the plebians, as its the shcmoozing that makes them upset. The part they changed was specifically to not hurt the sensibilities of the Patrician class who doesn’t want to be called out as the elitist shit bags they are.
DC twitter went from “we are a profoundly broken country” to “yessssss the establishment is back, guys” really quickly
https://twitter.com/emilyrauhala/status/1330961119331094529
Like someone said here the other day in a response to a tweet about locking up and re-educating trump supporters:
“They went from Resistance to the Empire at breakneck speeds”
And the group of Gopers supporting it make it clear what is important to them. It is the same argument about cocktail parties with TOS.
GOP/DEM are two sides of the same establishment coin. The one and only good thing about Trump was his anti-establishment attitude. It is also why Perot had to be destroyed, not just defeated. It is why after 1992 no 3rd party candidate has been able to get into a presidential debate. If the same rules as 1992 had been followed, we might have had a President Trump earlier as the Reform Party candidate.
Can you imagine what a President Trump would have done after 9/11? As good as he has been on military intervention (not good enough, but way better than anyone recently before him), he might have gone scorched Earth after NYC was attacked. Which would have been a much better approach than was actually done.
And this is why the precedent of investigating a previous admin could be interesting (though i think politically damaging to the Dems), it would never ever be turned against the establishment. Because the way they are playing it off is “Hey these are just prosecutors doing what prosecutors do, not Joe Biden directing this. Anyone who came in to investigate Joe Biden would have to do so at the direction of the President because no one in the DOJ is going to investigate an establishment politician.
TEAM RED State AGs indict Hunter Biden might be a counter threat.
:Looks at Watch:
Well what are they waiting for?
Threat, not preemptive strike.
Has Hunter Biden spent enough time in any red states?
Wasn’t his stripper child support case in one? Beats me, I was just trying to find an example.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh, you had me for a second, there.
Trump really, really, really upset the DC establishment. The last four years of elitist bureaucrats’ & consultants’ sandy vaginas has truly been a thing to behold. I don’t think y’all Outside-the-Beltwayers even know 1/2 of the consternation Trump caused. And, TBH, he didn’t even do all that much to change things, but it was the mere thought of a non-politician outsider who promised to Drain the Swamp that set them into a frenzy. And I talking about both Republicrats and Demicans.
I loved to see it. That’s why I softened on him over time.
Richard Grenell is based.
Greenwald is taking no prisoners either:
And all the blue pilled normies will eat up the “Scandal Free” admin that is Biden/Harris. How fun. Any plan for liberty that requires them to get on board is probably a non-starter.
Pretty easy to be “scandal free” when the press actively suppresses any suggestion of a scandal.
Don’t exaggerate. The press fairly covered the scandal where Hunter Biden failed to properly recycle his laptop. Sure the deplorables tried to make that a much bigger issue than it was, but they covered the verifiable facts.
The only good thing about Biden’s election is that my lefty/proggie friends have gotten civil again.
“There there. Mommy’s not mad anymore. Let’s all get back to being a big, happy family.”
That is so tiresome, the way the loudest, most obnoxious #RESIST types immediately shift gears into “Durr we have to all unify behind Biden now” bullshit.
They have to get 4 years of praise into 2 years before swooning over president Harris
If a tree falls in the forest but the press did not report it, did it really happen?
Grenell is one of my dark horse picks for the 2024 GOP primaries.
His name makes me think of the Abortion “Doctor”.
Giving 105,000 kids a copy of his book about himself.
He didn’t give them an actual book. He gave them a copy of an ebook about himself. The cost of which is the electricity running the servers.
And I’m confused. The media has told me that all these poor kids have no access to electronics and are being left behind. So how are they going to read this e-book?
I know a guy who might be able to score some IPads.. in Exchange for something…
worse than getting socks for christmas
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/mediaviewer/rm58538752/
(Hey Pie, you ever see this movie? It’s become an American Xmas tradition, especially now that It’s a Wonderful Life has fallen out of public domain.)
probably was on tv here in the 2000s so I think I saw it but don;t remember much
I don’t think they are worried about how the plebs would react, but how the Aristocracy would react for being called out as such.
See, also: Biden, Joe, working class regular guy
One of those items made me laugh
https://twitter.com/jsvnm/status/1330975840922972162
The Knoxville Kingpin Who Wasn’t
A black NRA member sitting in a prison for terrorists may be the missing link in Fast and Furious
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-knoxville-kingpin-who-wasnt/
That’s enraging.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1331135134951682048
Man that feels like forever ago.
Also, Pelosi et al got power and within a year impeached the president. That… is actually astoundingly fast.
A year ago it was fake impeachment and debates over whether or not “Baby it’s Cold Outside” was sexist or something. The economy was rocking and Trump was cruising to reelection.
*cusses under breath*
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1331074489887690753
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
*holds up megaphone to mouth*
YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELVES!
seriously, all you had to do was keep up the pretense of being in the ballpark of balanced, and the conservatives would’ve stayed on their leashes.
It’s like the Simpsons meme “no, it’s half the country that is wrong”. Idiots, institutional trust is at an all-time low because you abused the public to the point where they stopped believing you. You’re the industry that makes a living out of crying wolf in new and exciting ways every day, and now you’re complaining that people aren’t paying attention to you any more.
The desire to run one’s enemies into the ground, to annihilate them utterly, to grind them into dust, is a fundamental part of the human psyche.
It is also so dangerous that every single treatise on warfare, dating back to prehistory, warns against yielding to this desire. It’s almost a fundamental rule of conflict – give your enemy a way out.
We’re getting to see what happens when you ignore this lesson.
We haven’t even begun to reap the consequences of this crap. In real historical terms 2020 was a fantastic year to be alive. These scum are hell bent on giving us real perspective. As a student of history I tell you all you do NOT want real perspective. The fake kind you get by reading first hand accounts of life under Hitler, or Stalin, or Mao, or life during areal breakdown of order, or a major war fought on your own soil, is bad enough.
They genuinely don’t seem to understand what they’re doing wrong. It’s fascinating. They do their stupid adverbing of sentences (“Trump **falsely** asserted…”). They’re actively and demonstrably hypocritical on a wide range of subjects. They’ve purposefully moved from being conduits of events to being their interpreters. But they don’t understand why this is all irritating and alienating.
Intellectual ability correlates closely with being open minded and willing to question your own beliefs. Pretending you’re aristocrats because you went to Columbia Journalism School isn’t what any intelligent person would do.
It’s not wrong when we do it. /the cry of hypocrites throughout all of human history
I find the harrumphing over there being an alternative to the confines of leftist media to be hilarious, personally.
It is rib breakingly funny. The moaning about people daring to seek other forms of information. “HOW DARE YOU SIR, I AM THE TRUTH!!!!”.
Seriously, talk about entitlement – only WE are allowed to set the terms of debate!!! WE decide what is and isn’t permissible conversation! Who do you serfs think you are?
I recall that Cuomo Cunte at CNN saying something to that affect when talking about the Clinton email stuff, even going so far as to say it is illegal for people not “the Media” to posses said emails.
Recall that their greatest attack against Trump was over the “good people on both sides” comment. Not even “some, I assume, are good people” god as much traction. They decided that the one statesmanlike thing he ever did was unacceptable and they absolutely crucified him over it. They believe that they own the overculture as their birthright. Anything, no matter how facially neutral it may be, that calls their assumed dominance into question has to be stamped out.
Entitlement seems like an understatement.
L’etat c’est moi!
Sit your ass back down in that pew while I rain down thunder and damnation on your miserable soul! You have no right to find yourself another church!
That attitude is why I keep bringing up the 30 years war in this context. If we have a second civil war I think it will combine the horrors of a civil war with the horrors of a war against heresy because the two sides are not merely patriots supporting different concepts of the State, they are true believers worshipping different Gods. The 30 years war is the best example of what such a hybrid war looks like in western history. And the 30 years war was BAD.
A few years ago I was reading a book about Europe as it was emerging from the feudal system. One of the themes was about the tension between the aristocracy and the new merchant class. A lot of times the merchants had a lot more money (and actual power) than the aristocracy. The old aristocrats were obviously not thrilled with the situation, but they didn’t know how to put the cork in the bottle. (sorry can’t remember the name of the book)
I remember think about what a strange and crazy time that must have been.
It sure seems like we might be going through something like that now. The experts have been exposed and the commoners are no longer listening.
Narrator: That’s not why they came to Sweden.
https://twitter.com/whitesundesert/status/1330433747624333313
The only people claiming that are the swedes. The muslims are open about why they are there. It’s an invasion. They might succeed if the swedes are unable to pull their heads out of their asses.
Muslims protesting outside the French embassy in Stockholm, demanding anti-blasphemy laws in Sweden, & it enrages me. They came here fleeing oppression in their home countries, came here to seek shelter among liberal values, & now they demand those values replaced with extremism
Seems to me that this suggests their reasons for moving to Sweden are different than you think.
I didn’t know there were Swedish Jews, assuming that’s her home country.
I’m guessing the main reason they came there was a make a buck – same as any other immigant. The “enforce your values on the host culture” thing is just a bonus.
Why are they protesting Swedish laws outside the French embassy in Sweden?
Dale Carnegie’s name is actually Dale Carnagey. He changed the spelling to associate himself with Andrew & ilk, because the Missour-ah Carnageys from whence he came were not high society enough.
I did not know that. His book is full of good advice EXCEPT the “people love to hear their own name” bit.
(KK, should one ask how the pet sitch is?)
My great-grandmother’s name was Nellie Carnagey 😉
Doge is doing ok. He’s not having neurological problems – his “episodes” appear to be cardiac in nature. So he’s only allowed short walks on flat ground. No episodes for the last couple weeks. His time is still short, but he eats, drinks, pees and poos like he always did.
So if any of your elderly dogs appear to have seizures after exercise, it may be heart related. FYI.
People that think other people love to hear their own names are projecting and that tells me a lot about them.
I find it unbearably grating for someone to constantly refer to me by name. I find it creepy. It makes me think the person doing it is trying to get something over on me.
Make introductions and from then on I will refer to you as ‘you’ and ‘hey’.
Old family joke: call me anything, just don’t call me late for dinner.
Totally. Naturally that is the part of the book that salesmen remember best.
Or, if you’re a guy who has diagnosed nounal amnesia (neurological problem, exacerbated by drugs to try to deal with the problem), you may be repeating someone’s name to try and get the damned thing to move from your short-term memory to your long-term memory.
If I’ve met you and I’m not repeating your name, it means I don’t think you’re worth the trouble to remember.
Same.
Topic-adjacent.
I had an editor who called me out for writing characters who constantly say each other’s names. I didn’t even know I was doing it. She said, “People don’t talk that way,” and she was right–they don’t. So I stopped doing that, but now it annoys the hell out of me when I’m reading.
As someone who deals with salesmen on a regular basis, that particular tactic is really old and grating.
The best salesmen show an actual interest in their customer. This, of course, does not comport with a hard sell.
Interesting. I’ve been reading a lot of sales books lately (as research for possibly moving into that line of work) and they all say that – you have to build rapport with them and discover what problems they are looking to solve, and show them how your product fits the bill to a T… Not just jabber about features that they don’t care about.
LOL
https://fee.org/articles/socialist-themed-vegan-meat-company-learns-marxism-works-better-in-theory-than-practice
The whole thing is a microcosm for Animal Farm.
That being said, IANAL and especially not a Labor Lawyer, but i’m pretty sure that there is a big no-no. Coupled with two of the union pushers being fired afterward (for reasons, sure but reasons to fire somoene are a easy, convincing the NLRB of your good will and faith as an employer…. Not so much)
This just in study show female students dress sexier going to clubs than to class
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1331190398774022144
Countries with higher levels of alcohol and drug consumption experienced greater happiness.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1330387567523532802
From the excerpt “lesser homicide rates lead to high happiness”
I’m all for examining assumptions but …
Women reported refraining from sex despite experiencing desire and having an attractive, willing partner more often than men.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1330018584056262662
Because free drinks are more valuable than free grades. Good on the ladies.
Remember Berlin’s new rent control law? Turns out it led to exactly the outcomes everyone predicted – the supply of flats is down by 70%, demand for them is up by over 140%, and shadow rents have soared!
https://twitter.com/AntBreach/status/1330850081646518273
I blame covid
Never give up. Never surrender.
What does GSA being allowed to preliminarily work with the Dems have to do with continuing to pursue our various cases on what will go down as the most corrupt election in American political history? We are moving full speed ahead. Will never concede to fake ballots & “Dominion”.
They keep bringing up the Dominion thing but I don’t get it. They’re not even counting the Dominion counties in Wisconsin.
It could be a “I know my kid stole the cookie, but I just cannot prove they stole the cookie” situation. Who know. One thing is evident though is they want it all laid out in SCOTUS and not the lower courts.
I don’t think anything will change but it might at least thrust some more mistrust in our voting systems that is much needed.
They never get to SCOTUS if they don’t have evidence in the lower courts. I get that Trump has no clue about that, but don’t fall for his line. Appeals courts, including SC, will deal with matters of law and constitutionality – all of the evidentiary level shit happens at district level.
“…deal with matters of law and constitutionality…”
That would be a new and novel way of looking at it. Sotamayor breaks into a belly laugh.
The process, not the people.
Didn’t fall for it, just saying it is where they want to end up.
They’re not making any of these conspiracy arguments at SCOTUS.
Also, these conservative judges aren’t all massive partisans like the Democrats. They’re not gonna throw out millions of votes unless it’s really convincingly shown to have unfairly swung the election.
The number of jobs advertised in English Lit (on the Academic Jobs Wiki) is at an all time low: less than half of what it was this time last November. Like last year, the only subfield not plummeting is Ethnic Studies.
https://twitter.com/quadrismegistus/status/1330980002754678787
Maybe there’s some hope for the future. Or maybe the social justice asshats, having conquered and ruined the humanities, have moved on to other, greener fields.
I think they have STEM in their sights
The new dark ages.
I think that is the problem. Jobs are plummeting. Are English Lit grads plummeting as well?
One of the problems is that all these people were told that if they got a college degree money would be showered on them. So they got one in English Lit only to find out that no one is hiring English Lit grads.
That wouldn’t be a problem except that those people took out lots of loans to get those worthless degrees. I can see why they are pissed. They aren’t blameless, they should have done some due diligence before they took those loans out.
So from 2 to 1?
Officially work from home optional was made less optional and more mandatory. I have not been in the office since september anyway
Haven’t been since March, and I’m not allowed to go in. I have to get a permission slip. Won’t be going back until Spring 2021, at the earliest.
We are allowed in the ATCT but encouraged to not roam. It is really weird to have only 20 people in this massive building, with majority being ATC and only a smattering of technicians.
?
I refuse to go in if I have to wear a mask all day. Right now it’s volunteers only and I fully expect the office to close soon again anyway.
School being virtual is a downright disaster. I don’t even care if my kid flunks. If he can repeat 9th grade in actual school, I’ll be happy.
OTOH, they may just throw up their hands and put an asterisk by the 2020-2021 school year.
NYC has 900,000 kids sitting around the house, and if the constant noise and shaking from the apartment below me is any indication, not learning a goddamn thing.
^^ Right with you Mo ^^
yep, it’s been awful for my kids. They have constant access to YouTube because the school says they can’t block it, so they frequently goof around on YouTube instead of paying attention to class. My wife and I are working, we can’t watch them 100% of the time.
We got kicked out last spring (March?) and aren’t even thinking of going back until mid-January at best. My guess is that most of the IT workers will never go back. The potential savings on office space is too much to be ignored. Also a lot of people won’t want to go back. I live a mile from my office, so this work from home crap is a cruel joke to me.
*also it is pretty much a sure bet that our most recent 4 weeks to flatten the curve lockdown (just kidding, they aren’t even talking about flattening the curve this time) will be extended until February or some other future date. After all if they let this one expire, people would gather together for Christmas!
What is the Official Glibertarian position on using detergent/soap on cast iron pans?
Never unless you are stripping it down to re-season.
I do not own cast iron for the simple fact that I am lazy and do not want to have to baby my pans.
^^This (I do own a cast iron but I never use it because it’s a little fucking snowflake that can’t go into the dishwasher)
Also, I am not even epicurious, much less a foodie, even much less a purist. It’s a miracle if I even use a pan at all. Hello, microwave and grill/panini press.
I’m a fan of any kitchen tools that can be tossed in the ‘shwasher. The only thing I treat like a precious baby in my kitchen is my KitchenAid.
I got this new nonstick pan that can be cranked to really high temps (unlike teflon pans) and absolutely nothing sticks to it. I can just run it under water to clean it, but it can also go in the washer. I love it so much. Only issue is it has a handle that appears to be some kind of non-silicone rubbery stuff, so I don’t think it’s oven safe.
What brand? I’m in the market for a new one of those. I had a Bialetti Granito skillet, but I pre-heated it and the surface turned kind of brown and lost it’s non-stick properties 🙁
It wasn’t expensive, so I might replace it or get a new nonstick. I just want something that is oven-safe for when I want to oven-braise things in tomato sauce or other acidic stuff.
I’ll see if I can find it – I think I got it on Amazon
Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HJSZ1M2
All-Clad is your friend. Easy to clean and heavy enough that you get all the advantages of cast iron without the hassle.
I have an All-Clad roasting pan…I love it! It’s gigantic, so I only use it once a year for turkey.
All Clad also costs a fortune, though.
All-Clad’s definitely amazing, but expensive. I restricted myself to buying their 2 and 3 quart sauciers. Wouldn’t make sauces without ’em now.
The more you use them, the better they get at developing that protective barrier. Use only butter/oil/fat, lay off the acidic foods in them until they are well seasoned, and they become a rinse chore and nothing more.
I should change my answer above though, light detergent with a non-scour pad or lack of vigorous scrubbing is okay if the pan is seasoned well. Just oil it up right after.
Really hot water and a scrubber is babying?
Dunno about official, but anecdotally: buy enameled cast iron. Wash in dishwasher.
I feel bad that I have a nice old smooth and seasoned CI pan that I’m afraid to use. Dog in a manger.
Look at you Daddy Warbucks! But yes, I have some of those too. It is cookware I intend to pass down as it was passed down to me.
Don’t.
Use this.
If something is really stuck on there, it’s better to soak it in plain hot water rather than using soap.
But soap gets on mine all the time (mostly a residual amount from the sponge when I’m washing other dishes). And a little bit here and there is not going to kill it as long as it’s not soaking for long periods and you re-season it regularly (which you should do anyway).
Dont do it.
Use a wooden scraper then rinse and wipe down.
The blueing is permeable. Metals are also more permeable than most realize. The soap will permeate the finish and remain no matter how much you’re rinse. Heat might do the trick to degrade the soap into water and CO2.
*See Uncivil’s knife question from yesterday. The metal in his blade is permeated with most likely water changing the oxidation state of the iron causing what he referred to as a ‘stain’.
Whatdoyawant? It’s been 30 years since I sat in inorganic.
Heating the pan to kill the bacteria is the only acceptable method for cleaning.
Unless you’ve improperly seasoned it (really polymerized), there’s no issue. Avoid using steel wool or similar abrasive material.
Dry, heat pan, apply a dime size of oil, use paper towel to spread over surface and another to wipe off excess. Allow to cool and put away.
They genuinely don’t seem to understand what they’re doing wrong. It’s fascinating. They do their stupid adverbing of sentences (“Trump **falsely** asserted…”). They’re actively and demonstrably hypocritical on a wide range of subjects. They’ve purposefully moved from being conduits of events to being their interpreters. But they don’t understand why this is all irritating and alienating.
Exactly so. See every single front page “news” story pulled straight off the AP feed. Opinionated advocacy masquerading as reportage.
those kids can learn to read using Obama’s book, like they used to do with the Bible.
Boss just said “I’m sure you’ve all heard, but GSA has ascertained the election”
Say. What. Please point to the part of the Constitution where an Executive Branch department gets to decide the election.
They freed up transition funds (at Trump’s request BTW), that’s all. Seems the prudent thing to do when even slam dunk cases aren’t necessarily slam dunks.
Good, because the way she worded it it sounded like GSA “decided” the election.
Man, I am terrified of what kind of management we’ll be getting in January. Obama’s people were the. worst. Micomanagement, yelling, slavishly following “trends”, abrasive, uncommunicative, yes-people.
Yeah that reminds me our union is going to be insufferable the next 4 years. It was nice to have them in the back-seat for the past few years. They see the inch handed to them and they will take a light-year with Joe.
Boss just trying to sound impotent?
Reminds me of the actual, signed, memo out of OSD about duplicitous acquisition, when duplicative was clearly intended.
After all the fine detail work yesterday, it feels odd to be doing large component assembly, but I got the second round of masking tape on and reached primary assembly (Preliminary assembly was done before the painting of interior details)
Now I have to prime the bastard. At least it’s a clear day out.
Al this talk about cast iron gives me a question: scrub off the food residue,and then heat-dry to keep from rusting?
* This is what I had to do with my wok.
Heat dry and lightly oil and ready to use for next time. At least what I have been taught. Is it right? I dunno, I don’t have time to go to the library to look it up.
That’s what I do. If the seasoning is getting thin, apply a thin coat of oil and put it in a 350 degree oven for an hour
I’ll usually do that… Scrub with a soft sponge and hot water (only using the abrasive side of the sponge if something is really burned on there, which is rare) and then place on a burner for a few minutes. Theoretically, I’ll wait until it’s cool and oil it, but I use my cast iron so frequently that it usually just sits on the stove until the next use.
If I have anything going in the oven at high heat, I might oil them and toss them in the bottom rack just to boost the seasoning without having to make a separate activity of it.
The number of jobs advertised in English Lit (on the Academic Jobs Wiki) is at an all time low: less than half of what it was this time last November.
They say home Depot is hiring.
Glad I got my degree in English – Creative Writing and Journalism. ? At least I could probably write technical manuals for a living. Maybe.
Tech writers make some scratch. I did tech writing as a side gig for a while back in the early ‘aughts, and I still get recruiters wanting to hire me for tech writing to this day.
If I could get into the writing-papers-for-people business, I’d do it in a heartbeat. I write really good papers.
And it’s not as if I haven’t ever done this before.
keeping up with the commies is difficult
https://twitter.com/TheComradeFist/status/1331074235591102464
Of course it’s hard to keep up, the entirety of their lives is spent inventing new words and redefining old ones.
I am firmly convinced that just like with the SJWs, part of the rationale is so their opposition is kept on the defensive when said opposition attempts to argue in good faith.
Keep the terms of debate in constant flux and bamboozle them, all the while convincing your adherents that you’re really smart because you’ve got fancy words for everything.
This. They’ve taken the totalitarian concept of having a vast unenforceable regulatory structure in which noone can breathe air and not be a felon so they can literally come down on you at any time for any reason and applied it to language.
Hoxhaism is another word for Stalinism.
Of course there always the Romanian solution for commies that fixes most of that.
“Pete Davidson to lead all-star version of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ ”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1331228121039777792
No.
He looks like a drug dealer. I’d believe Jimmy Fallon in that role a lot more.
Every time a bell rings an angel gets his baggie of meth.
Imagine Jimmy Stewart with a Bronx accent and lots of tattoos…
As I clicked on the top of this, the thought flashed about what is it about Tom Brady that so chafes sloop‘s hide?
“NY Gov Cuomo today
11:30am: Cuomo tells story about how daughter in Chicago is NOT coming to his Thanksgiving. HE CRIES ON LIVE TV
3:45pm: Cuomo revealed his 89-year-old mother + two other daughters are traveling to join his Thanksgiving
5:30pm: Cuomo cancels on family”
https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1331030638082842625
CWAA
Fuck him, but that was planned.
“Unlike Donald Trump, Joe Biden will seek China’s help with global problems such as climate change or covid-19 treatments”
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1330655818782543876
OFFS!!!
I have here a LIST
The veteran Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has publicly named 21 Republican senators he says have “repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for [Donald] Trump and his fitness” for office.
As Trump continued to try to subvert the results of a presidential election he clearly lost to Joe Biden, Bernstein said on Twitter he was “not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially [sic]”.
His information, he said, came from “colleagues, staff members, lobbyists [and] White House aides”.
Then he named names.
I wonder how many journalismers whisper derogatory things among themselves about that doddering old has-been.
hahaha…Medicare scammer Rick Scott, eh?
Yeah that reminds me our union is going to be insufferable the next 4 years. It was nice to have them in the back-seat for the past few years. They see the inch handed to them and they will take a light-year with Joe.
“Secretary of Labor, Bernie Sanders, today announced…”
After some of the mashups that were posted yesterday, I present this one.
Bill McClintock’s mashups are so great