I guess I overpromised and under-delivered last week.
Okay. This is my review of Prairie Artisan Ales Vape Tricks Sour Brewed over Cherries:
I am going to level with everyone here: When I first heard the joke that the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist is six months… I didn’t know a ton about Rothbard. I didn’t buy any of his books (until yesterday). I was happy enough with my descent into anarchy with previous three philosophers. Coupled between Rothbard’s short foray in working with Pat Buchannan and troubled slightly by Hoppe I decided at that point if I keep finding crazier and crazier people its only a matter of time before I start shooting at black helicopters.
I’m happy to be wrong about all of this and it is a mere coincidence I will be prepared mentally to shoot at black helicopters in no time.
“Both are right”
Born in 1926 Rothbard was a prodigal student in math and economics but interestingly received no specific training in Austrian economics. His outlook might have been similar enough to that of Ludwig Von Mises but Rothbard never studied under him. The Mises Institute however, does have a lot of information in their archives, including his copy of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes. He very much scribbled all over the book. They highlight one of his responses to Keynes in the margins.
While he did coin everyone’s favorite phrase, “Taxation is Theft”, Rothbard is best known for taking the Austrian school to its logical conclusion. If humans are capable of functioning peacefully with a minimalist state, why have the state at all? In reaching this conclusion, his argument was no longer burdened by the challenge presented to any minarchist in the disagreement. The challenge will always be at what point the state will need to intervene if the baseline agreement is a governing body is necessary at any level. You will never have to argue where one draws that line, if you argue the line should not be drawn in the first place. Who died and made some arbitrary line king?
It’s liberating in and of itself.
His best known work (the one I purchased), The Case Against the Fed is a relatively short read, that describes the impact of central banking on the economy and politics. Its reach being far wider than most will ever consider, which is why I bought it. I might want to pass this one around.
As always, for those that decided to skip to the end, here’s the TL/DR version:
This beer was obtained from the distinguished gentleman known around here as Deadhead, who was present at the Glibfest a few weeks ago. Not surprisingly, there was plenty of booze there and it was taken as an insult if I insisted I needed to drive. And so…I imbibed. It reminds me a lot of one of the New Belgium Lips of Faith series that came out several years ago called American Kreik. Its a sour, lambic style ale that finished with refreshing, tart cherries. I almost felt bad taking this one home.
Almost. Prairie Artisan Ales Vape Tricks Sour Brewed over Cherries: 4.2/5
While turned off by anything sour, the presence of cherries might be enough to tempt me to try this one.
I like the sweet Lambics. Some are way too sour for me. I like Lindemans the best from Belgium.
I tried one of those a couple of years ago, when pubs were still a thing you could go to. I mean, I haven’t tried it, but drinking a beer while wearing 3 masks is probably not doable. It wasn’t fruity, but it was sour. I sort of liked it.
While I am the opposite, I like sours but hate cherries.
*Licks sour cherry jelly off of finger*
Oh?
Cherry Lambic. Sounds great.
Mmmmmmm sour lambic….
I generally hate sours. This line of beers won me over. Had another one with WebDom last week which cemented my positive impression.
My personal argument for the existence of a state is the defense of it’s population from enemies, foreign and domestic. There’s also the enforcement and trial of don’t kill, steal or rape. Otherwise, the states or versions of them, from HOA to Uncle Sam, needs to be heavily restricted in their exercise of force and severely punished for stepping outside of those bounds.
In a more perfect union, I think an entire branch of government should exist just to investigate and prosecute the other 3 branches of government for exceeding or abusing their authorities and it should be 100% elected officials.
In a more perfect union, I think an entire branch of government should exist just to investigate and prosecute the other 3 branches of government for exceeding or abusing their authorities and it should be 100% elected officials
“Tyranny” as a defense to murder would also be effective.
(Hey preet, I’m not saying that it’s morally defensible to assassinate public officials, so call off the dogs)
Preet had all the dogs shot
I’m a minarchist, myself, and would maintain that the only legitimate role of government is to keep others from hurting me or taking my stuff. Instead, we have a government that tries at every turn to hurt me or take my stuff. The problem is that it is in the nature of government, of any kind, at any level, to grow ever larger and more intrusive.
So, not 100% sure how to thread that needle. The Founders tried, and it worked for a while, but look at things now.
Animal, thanks again for the beard trimming challenge, not WHH, more like Lemme K, truly a wonder of nature me ‘Stache is,
I’m here to help.
11 degrees, headed to the brewery, then a road trip,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q3qdSTTQXpATTWXD7
Rockin’ those muttonchops, man.
-11 degrees here in the Great Land, 4 inches of new snow, and I’ve got a day’s worth of chorin’ ahead, will probably head over to the Trading Post for an early supper.
26 here right now, which is the warmest until next Thursday.
http://imgur.com/a/MGSmmOq
This should make you feel a little better, Trashy.
Oh, I’m loving it. It’s the one week per year I get to wear a winter coat and my scarves.
28 American here.
But expecting copious amounts of ice and snow over the next couple days.
Don’t mind snow. Hate freezing rain.
American
I knows Celsius was Swedish. Fahrenheit Pomeranian?
das ist kalt
Fahrenheit was Saxon
entschuldigung
1 here, with windchill of -11 with light snow. I think the apartment below us is empty with open windows or something. The floor is ice cold.
legitimate role
One way I think about it the monopoly on violence: what things require the threat of injury to motivate parties.
I think about contract law. Maybe there are theories about large, compelling associations that don’t need the gift of the gun? Only people registered at the BBB with an A rating can contract with each other? And the other parties pay off when they lose at the voluntary court? And tort court: I get hurt by someone who’s not in the club: where do I sue?
Well, what do we do when the BBB is a scam like it pretty much is now? Pay them enough money they’ll give you an A rating.
Well, if the person you’re suing is from House Gates, he’ll have good lawyers and a lot of sway with the judges. Better pledge fealty to House Bezos to level the playing field.
The founders were much closer before they abandoned the Articles for the Constitution. I have no answer for how a stateless society would actually function, but I can’t fathom it being more of a clusterfuck than the one we’re currently destroying.
I can. See the tribal warfare that plagued mankind for thousands of years and still happens in lovely places like Africa and the Middle East today.
Probably. But isn’t there a chance that in our wealthy, technologically advanced world we may be able to work out something? This thing is gonna end, one way or another. A peaceful decentralization into a bunch of smaller entities seems way better than a fucking civil war.
But isn’t there a chance that in our wealthy, technologically advanced world we may be able to work out something?
IMO, not a chance. This strikes me as utopian in the same vein as the glorious anarchy after the commies purge all the wrongthink.
-Jimmy Madison
But, but, but he was short people.
The Soviet Union fell apart because it was too big and broken to continue. We’re on the same path. They split up into a bunch of smaller entities without massive bloodshed and violence. Why not here?
Why not here?
The formative years of those smaller entities didn’t happen as parts of the Soviet Union. Romanians were Romanians before 1917. Poles were Polish before 1917. 80 years of subjugation didn’t change that and their cultural memory still included a time when they were independent people.
You can’t say the same about Kansas or North Carolina or Arizona. Maybe, maybe Texas, but that’s a real stretch.
cultural memory
comes in different flavors. If TX has one, they brought it from TN, * takes off hat * SC, and VA. I will be buried next to a relative who lived side by side with Choctaw well before statehood, when no one in his hills gave a damn about what they thought in Natchez . . . or Washington.
Of all the ridiculous ideas that float around Glibs, peaceful dissolution is hardly the craziest or most remote.
!! Keep Danzig Pomeranian !!
Of all the ridiculous ideas that float around Glibs, peaceful dissolution is hardly the craziest or most remote.
Crazy or no, it ain’t gonna happen. No way, no how. Not happening. Too many rich and powerful people lose in peaceful dissolution. Add in the fact that our culture worships a president who made his hay bringing secessionist to heel, and I’d put money on the fact that violence will happen before or as a part of a dissolution of this country (specifically, spinning off states from the contiguous 48 into their own polities).
I actually think that’s precisely why it will. In a no-shit civil war, everyone loses (elite included). Who wins is a fucking toss-up. Dissolution, they have the chance of retaining some of their power. Pragmatism may drive the decisions.
The constitution is not protecting us from tyranny. It has failed.
Spooner warned us a long time ago:
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
powerless to prevent
Precisely this: most tyrants can show the very reason and way that their worst behaviors are actually accommodated in their constitution. Stalin argued that he and the Soviet constitution fervently protected free speech, for example.
/ looks to Grrizzly for citation; I got nothing
Don’t forget the BuSab!
We need one of those.
Absent the Federal Reserve Bank, our economy would be a chaotic disaster. People would save and invest their money in the expectation of a reasonable return.
THIS RIGHT FUCKING HERE
Indeed.
Right on, I love sour beer every once in a while, especially when it is hot out. It’s one of the few beer styles that I think works really well with fruit. If you really want to get your sour on I would heartily recommend any of the Anderson Valley gose style beers that they make. It’s definitely not a drink a sixer beer, but one or two hits the spot on a hot day. Lovely tart and salty beers.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/193/183878/
Gose is a style I’m very glad to see making a comeback. It had almost gone extinct in the recent past. Then American breweries (as they are wont to do) found out about it, started playing around with it, then started brewing the living hell out of it. Gose was also a style that violated the Reinheitsgebot in Germany due to the salt content (which was originally due to contaminated water, then was being added deliberately).
My husband is the lambic lover in this house. I’ll point this one out to him.
I had a nice sparkling Welch’s grap juice in a champagne glass yesterday to celebrate closing the refinanced mortgage.
Even us tee-totalers enjoy a little ceremony.
Goses are much more subdued in tartness then most lambics (especially any that are classed as Oude or Old style), and include some salt. They’re great in hot weather for just that reason.
Coolio. I will pass that along.
I like Gose. My favorite, which I can’t get very often.
Maybe it’s the drugs, but Powerline is on it today,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/the-week-in-pictures-impeachment-sequel-edition.php
I particularly like the “Someone should unplug America and plug it back in.”
Hard re-boots for the win.
One might call it a Great Reset.
Reading now
“Doesn’t everyone who has a supermodel trophy wife support Trump? I think I read that in Trophy Wife Aficionado magazine. (Or is that “MAGA-zine”?)”
Hahahahhhaaahhaaa! Needs moar white supremacist.
the beer sounds divine, Always good stuff Messy,
Cheers!
ANOTHER HIPSTER JUICE SWILLER!
Both are is definitely interesting and worth reading. Thanks for this.
That should say Rothbard
I got a knife…I’ll cut you three ways: wide, deep, & frequent!
You shouldn’t play with knives.
I was thinking about how I have important relationships with tech companies that I really have had to entrust with my privacy and my treasure.
Among them; cell phone brand, cell phone network, streaming provider (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc), web browser and search engine, bank. Etc.
Most of those companies have handed over everything the NSA and FBI have asked for, without warrants.
One company with whom I have a relationship is Tesla. Tesla knows where my car is at all times and could theoretically shut it down. But so far Elon (having grown up in South Africa where the first post apartheid govt was full commie) has protected privacy, not sold data, and generally takes a dim view of govt overreach (witness his statements on the cootie lockdown hysteria).
To the extent I have to trust any of these guys, I trust Elon.
Then my tired brain mused about a future where a few private “tech lords” offer tech services like self driving car, marketplace to buy goods online, credit cards, video and audio content, with the pledge to provide us those services and protect our data and privacy in exchange for our money and fealty to the techlord.
I would tell Bezos, visa, Verizon to stuff it , and align with the techlord who offers me better value.
No idea how that would work with. Hyperactive government, but such an arrangement might emerge from anarchy. We can’t all make our own cell phone companies.
The early Nordic warrior chiefs gave their subjects valued goods like swords, chainmaille, and jewelry in exchange for the subject’s fighting on the chiefs behalf.
A little later on, English kings granted land to loyalists for the same reason.
In my scenario do the techlords inevitably become warlords? I dunno. But it’s more appealing than submitting like sheep to be harmonized by a dystopian future repressive government that offers me no benefits.
Have you ever read Snowcrash or Oath of Fealty? I can see some burbclaves/arcologies starting to try to get started in some of the states that are going to be truly hurting for money in the next decade or so.
My HoA is a dog-thing away from being a Mr. Lees.
I read oath of fealty about 25 years ago. Cant say I remember much. I had a very different outlook back then.
Sounds like the RPG Shadowrun.
Oath of Fealty predates Shadowrun, Snow Crash (for some reason my brain always puts it as a one word title instead of a two word one), came out a couple of years after Shadowrun. Neither of them involve magic or fantasy creatures though.
Oath of Fealty predates Shadowrun
Yes.
“Oath of Fealty” was published in 1981. Shadowrun started in 1989. I still have a pair of first edition books, one of which is the “Neo-Anarchist’s Guide to North America” which includes a little bit of political philosophy if I remember correctly.
Todos Santos forever!!!
Think of it as evolution in action.
states that are going to be truly hurting for money
Seems likelier that a Dem administration will hyperinflate the dollar to spread around the hurt enough that relatively pragmatic states end up in the same basket as California or Illinois. Whether that accelerates a breakup or fundamentally ends any lingering federalist instinct, who knows,
I, for one, welcome our new non-gender binary conforming eunuchised tech overlords.
Perhaps if you genuflect and grovel sufficiently, you could find one to grant you a meaningless title, like “First”.
A Firster would never grovel. And it’s a title that is earned, not granted. I don’t think you know much about Firsting. Go back to school before I school you some more, hayeksplosives!
I’m quaking in my high heeled boots over here, Numbnuts.
[makes bowl of popcorn]
The tech companies are going to bed down with government if they haven’t already done so. Period. End of discussion.
The history of telecommunication regulation confirms this. We had a short period of twenty years or so where it wasn’t completely true, but that ended over a decade ago.
Right now, other countries are building their own tech silos because the US dominates and they figure (rightly) that we are using that advantage to spy on them. And the socialists’ penchant for more data is irresistible in their own country. Just one more byte and they’ll be able to solve a problem, any problem, and it’s all worth it.
The more I consider it, the more I come to realize that the only solution is to move away from the centers of power. Maybe to a country where there isn’t enough to squabble over and the stakes aren’t so damned high. Everything little thing in the US is a life or death political battle anymore.
Oh, you think you can just cancel the contract like that, huh?
English kings gave away gifts too, before land.
Schyld, “þat wæs god cyning.”
Wild Turkey and Perrier. I gotta lay off the beer. It goes right to my beer gut.
So does whiskey if you drink enough of it. I’ve already did the experiment.
There are a tiny handful of things I am willing to outsource to Europe — makins sours is one of them. Let the Belgians do it.
I also find it funny that the best lambics are made by Cantillon, who isnt in the lambic society because they let in Lindemans.
I love my belgians. And I also love Cascade Brewing too.
And it is pretty much the only beer style that I make now.
Homebrewing excepted of course. I just find most American sours to be okay at best. Maybe in another 20 years I will change my mind.
Have you had any of the sours from Russian River? They have some really phenomenal ones. MoreBeer does sell a kit with oak chunks from the barrels they used to make the original beer, so it should contain the same bacterial strains that the released beer had.
I have several bottles of Consecration tucked away. But I actually like the black currant sour from Firestone Walker better.
They make some good ones as well. Unfortunately, neither Russian River nor Firestone Walker distribute to Ohio.
Taxation is theft.
The beer sounds delicious.
Both are true.
Anyone want an empty ammo box? The auction ends soon, don’t miss out!
The last time the guy did this, he was able to sell it for $7.95 plus shipping.
I just won a 480 case of GP-11 for $1.48/round on GunBroker. Given GP-11 is going for about $2/round in these insane times, I feel like I scored a deal.
Calvincourt
Closing arguments at former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial were expected to get underway Saturday morning — but Day 5 started instead with House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asking to subpoena records and call a witness sparking fierce debate with Trump defense lawyer Michael van der Venn.
The motion led to an hours long delay and back and forth threats of hundreds of witnesses being called, before the Senate, House managers and lawyers for Trump reached a deal to avoid witness depositions altogether — averting a potentially weeks-long drama sparked by an 11th-hour request by Democrats to depose a Republican congresswoman.
The deal allowed for a statement by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) to be read into the record without the congresswoman or anyone else being deposed as a formal witness.
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Democratic prosecutors had already rested their case in the matter before Herrera Beutler’s statement was released.
In response to Raskin’s request, defense lawyer Michael van der Veen said that calling witnesses would open a can of worms, noting, “Nancy Pelosi’s deposition needs to be taken. Vice President Harris’ deposition absolutely needs to be taken. And not by Zoom. None of these depositions should be done by Zoom. We didn’t do this hearing by Zoom. These depositions should be done in person in my office in Philadelphia. That’s where they should be done.”
“I’m gonna slap subpoenas on a good number of people if witnesses are what is required here for them to try to get their case back in order.”
The kangaroos must not be happy with the way things are going.
If the prosecution couldn’t bother to make its case, it’s not up to half the judges/jury to make it for them.
Yeah, I know this happened to Mike Flynn.
The Nuremberg cosplay will continue until the desired outcome is attained,
There was no debate when they decided to edit Trump out of Home Alone II.
Why comes they can’t edit him out if history arbitrarily too?!?
I am still trying to figure out how you impeach and try someone who holds no office.
Maybe we should just toss 100 gallons of gasoline in the chamber and nail the doors shut.
Hi, Preet!
You can’t, but that didn’t happen.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/violent-blm-protest-two-nypd-injured
It was all just a misunderstanding. They meant to beat the shit out of cop!
It’s a mostly peaceful protest.
At least nobody was beaten with a firr extinguisher.
Obviously caused by Trump’s anti-journalist rhetoric.
Should we add this to the current impeachment or impeach him a third time?
Trifecta. Everybody loves a trifecta.
I’m increasingly convinced the impeachment’s have been born from Pelosi’s fantasy of looking at Trump, pointing her bony finger at him, and slurring “You’re fired!”
It would fit right in with her theatrical ripping of the State of the Union speech ( or rather, stunt pages to represent it) for the cameras.
Quinella, 5th times a charm!
Or a holiday.
Brava! I hadn’t heard that in years.
Yeah, but it wasn’t an insurrection and no congress critter were frightened, so it’s all good.
I bet Joss Whedon is really funny and a lot of fun to work with, even for such an arrogant prick. Through the current progressive crazy person lens I’m sure it seems like it was an absolute hell. I’d just call him a cunt and get on with it. Absolutely worth it to make Buffy and Firefly.
Paul Feig, too, but it must suck when your movie or show’s ad campaign centers on drumming up controversy by alienating as many franchise fans as possible. Forget the PC garbage your diversity advisors insist you stuff into the work, maybe let’s don’t vilify our audience.
I wasn’t really complaining, Señor!
OK, maybe a little.
It’s liberating in and of itself.
You nailed the exact reason I dig MR. Clarity and simplicity.
I also like the fact that Murray and his pals appropriated the term ‘anarchist’ from the lefties. A little payback for ‘liberal’
Beer sounds good and I think we get that here. Will try.
Will we see Mr. Spooner before this is all over?
Thanks!
Spooner…well…
An ice storm has knocked out power for a huge chunk of the mid-valley,so sitting around in sweater and robe in the half light.
Wonder how Gustave is doing?
Nice Death Cult profile picture.
God’s Zoo baby!
Rain and sunny here, ice storm missed.
Friday there had been freezing rain overnight but was normal rain when I got up in the morning and roads were fine.
We’re about to get hammered here in DFW. They’re talking 10″+ by monday evening. Which usualy doesn’t matter it just melts away, but it looks like we won’t go above freezing for another 4-5 days after that and we don’t have any snow plows.
Party on WAYNE!
I keep hearing very different stories about what we’re getting, from a half inch of freezing rain up to 10″ of snow.
*shrugs*
*gets snow shovel out of attic*
run over to Springtown or Aledo for steep sledding
I know it’s not a real hill, but it seems like one when you’re peddling over there in August.
We’ve got freezing rain. You know it’s bad when you head out for a walk and the dog is taking tiny steps and looking at you every few steps as if to ask “are you sure human?” no walk this evening, she’ll have to make do with the backyard.
The storm is supposed to hit here overnight. It’s not going to amount to much here.
It’ll melt soon, but I’m not going out in this.
I am expecting awfulness through Wednesday. I have 5 ricks of wood, 7-5gallon bottles of propane, a dozen each cans of tomato and vegetable soup. We will snuggle up and get through it. The wood stove has a nice warm glow in it as I type. Oh, and I stocked up on vodka….if the power goes out we won’t have anything else to do….
Holy SHIZZLE!
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/litecoin/
Go BABY GO!
Price of LTC against BTC is overall mostly unchanged since September. Roughly the same for ETH. Is there something that makes LTC special in your estimation?
It’s the old fakir-dances-across-bed-of-coals trick
Biden administration officials insist that the White House is grounding all of its policy decisions firmly in the best available evidence. They say the president receives a daily state of pandemic update from his Covid response team in his daily briefing book. And indeed, the Biden administration has taken care to give health experts like Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky leading roles in managing the response, and solicited constant input from its health agencies and outside public health groups.
This has especially been the case in areas like school reopenings and travel restrictions, where the administration has had to navigate a maze of interests, from unions insisting on zero risk strategies including vaccinations to financially battered airlines leery about a domestic Covid testing requirement.
“There are always tricky politics when you’re dealing with hard issues,” Kevin Munoz, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement. “But this moment transcends politics — Americans’ lives are at stake. We are focused on instilling trust from the American people in our pandemic response — and that means following the science and letting the experts be our guide. It’s not going to make everyone 100 percent happy all of that time, and that’s okay because the goal at the end of the day is doing what’s best for public health.”
The debate over the science has complicated the White House’s school reopening push in particular, which has centered on CDC assurances that teachers don’t need to be vaccinated to return to the classroom — even as the agency warns the broader public that a series of emerging Covid variants could mean the virus is more contagious than ever before.
“The fact that we’re advising double masking and minimizing having your neighbors over for Super Bowl parties — all things that are sensible — in some ways conflict with guidance to teachers, especially high-risk teachers,” said Vin Gupta, a professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation who served as an early adviser to the Biden team. “This is a matter of, how do you ensure public policy is consistent enough that it doesn’t erode public trust.”
Telling different stories to different groups of yokels is a hard way to make a buck, I guess.
Trump let Fauci on tv every fucking day. He declared a national emergency, shoveled trillions to the states, gave fed aid and bounties to vaccine development, and used defense laws to reorient manufacturing to ppp and ventilator production. How the fuck was this inadequate?
Compounding the on-the-ground anxiety is that the Biden administration has no clear power to compel states to open schools responsibly no matter what recommendations it issues. Already, many states are openly defying CDC guidelines by loosening a range of other public health restrictions governing everyday life.
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Biden transition officials spent weeks crafting plans for safely reopening schools based on public health best practices, including proposing a massive new Covid testing regime and hundreds of billions of dollars in funding to help retrofit classrooms and overhaul ventilation systems.
The vision, outlined in Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief proposal, included modifying classrooms to allow for more distance between students and purchasing personal protective equipment, and even went as far as to suggest boosting transportation capacity to reduce the number of people riding the bus together to and from school.
But despite its efforts, the team underestimated how hard it would be to sell the plan to the teachers unions that had largely backed Biden’s presidential campaign — especially without the promise of a vaccine, an adviser involved in the planning said.
“We didn’t think teachers unions would be so reluctant,” the adviser said, adding that Psaki’s statement this week that reopening meant returning kids to class one day a week was far from the team’s original vision.
When you succeed in massively stampeding the tax cattle, it takes a while to round them back up.
Not clear yet on why teachers need to be persuaded to go back to work. Show up, or get fired, already.
It’s a mystery.
Trump acquitted !
Makin’ friends!
Link (trigger warning, TMITE)
Congrats to Trump. What time’s the next show trial begin?
Trump Now Most Acquitted President In History
Yes. One more and he gets a free Subway sandwich!
I’d take being convicted over a Subway sandwich.
I like Subway.
Just like Burger King (for breakfast) or White Castle (when you’re hammered), it has its place.
They had that ready to go.
A waste of time that I can think of ten reasons not to have pursued, but:
at least it slowed and delayed Congress’s Next Big Idea from being sent to JRB46, so thank doG for small things
Never stop congress when they’re wasting time.
@FistofEtiquette Now Congress can return to devoting its time and attention to doing the real work of voting for bills they don’t read and capitalizing on the negative consequences in the aftermath.
Meh, that just gave him more time to sign executive orders.
Trump let Fauci on tv every fucking day. He declared a national emergency, shoveled trillions to the states, gave fed aid and bounties to vaccine development, and used defense laws to reorient manufacturing to ppp and ventilator production. How the fuck was this inadequate?
That would have been a heroic and noble effort if President Herself had done it. The nation would have been extravagantly grateful for her ability to thread the needle between a forceful medical response and her responsibility to millions of American businesses to keep their doors open and the economy humming.
Hate the player, not the game.
Not clear yet on why teachers need to be persuaded to go back to work. Show up, or get fired, already.
Really. “Want a paycheck? Get your ass back in the classroom.” That should be more than enough “persuasion”.
Sure, in an alternate reality where teachers unions didn’t throw millions of dollars at Democrats every year.
I believe the teachers will be the most hated government employees after all of this. I know I hate them a lot more now.
Cute story- ex Mrs Tres Cool is a high school teacher. During our time together, she worked in public school, and toed the union lion, always bitching about how overworked, under-paid, and under appreciated she/they were. Shortly after we split up, she got knocked-up, and once that child got to school age, the ex (who was always a rabid atheist) suddenly found G_d, and scored a job at a private Catholic school that her kid now attends. I’m pretty sure she knew their bullshit all along.
In central PA I met a public school teacher who told me that if there was a Catholic school in the area, her kids would be there because public schools suck.
Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert who served on Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, predicted that Biden would soon face an even more critical crossroads in his quest to reopen schools, warning that the emergence of fast-spreading variants could drive the nation’s worst pandemic surge yet.
“I think this discussion’s going to be all for naught soon,” he said, pointing to the variant that’s already forced European countries to close their schools. “When B117 takes over in six weeks or so, I think our whole country is going to be approaching its darkest days with this virus.”
Eat shit and die, you fat fuck.
“forced”
OK, then.
It’s a silly question, but-
When those “darkest days” turn out to be not very dark at all, will Osterholm apologize?
Will he acknowledge in any way his criminal incompetence?
I think I know the answer.
From the front page of a local news provider: “BREAKING NEWS | LIVE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: WARNING graphic content possible”
I can’t even……
Are they trying to boost viewership? Tune in and you might see some tits!
Q Goes To Washington
I’m pretty sure we all deserve a warning for having to potentially see Pelosi.
NEEDZ MOAR HIPSTER JUICE!
Hey, wokesters, I see your dangerous extremist site is still up. I see no more proof is needed that government is still too small to protect us.
Was it Heineken (just cut a lot of jobs) or Stella Artois (announced they were moving production to the US) that you preferred?
Both. And I’m drinking Carlsberg tonight. And that’s no excuse for your extremism, your far right wing Nazi.
Where da zoom chat link?
Worst chat room ever.
Shut up, Brennan, I mean Tulpa.
Same link as always when I’m hosting. Friday and Saturday, starting at 20:00 Eastern.
I was just happy no one reported me to the authorities for Zooming while driving!
I was good to see you freaks last night!
In news that should hardly surprise anyone, New York is throwing out “vaccines” rather than giving them to the wrong people.
Has NY made one right decision yet?
“Hey buddy, I’m a UPS driver and I had this box of vaccines leftover after my last delivery. Know any one that might be interested? Gotta a gross of them, let you have them cheap. 2 bucks @ a pop, with the tax, an even three big ones”
JP takes on the Great Reset.
I’m surprised he hasn’t been cancelled yet.
было бы большой честью поговорить с вами
“It Would Be A Great Honor To Speak To You”: Musk Seeks To Speak To Putin
“Horrendous crimes against Asian Americans have happened recently, and it is right that Asian Americans have spoken out against them. But we can be against anti-Asian violence and not resort to knee-jerk calls for more policing, which is inextricable from the policing of Black and Brown communities. Asian Americans need to locate anti-Asian violence as part of a pattern of white supremacy which also targets Black and Brown and Indigenous people. Even if perpetrators of violence are people of color, the solution is not to fallback on racist assumptions”
https://twitter.com/viet_t_nguyen/status/1360101212297699328
what?
If your kind is being attacked with regularity, we can’t ask the police for help, because we know that calling the police to help means killing black people.
Even if your attacker is a black guy, we need to see that through the lens of white supremacy.
OT: getting my monies back from the gubbermint
NewWife: oh yeah, what’s the PIN on that card you got for being MS unemployed in 2019 for two months
Don: huh? you’ve still got that
NW: forgot the PIN
Don: they probably cancelled that bastard; gimme * dials 800 number *
MS: your balance is $1200.
Don: well blow me down
Moral of the story: if you live in MEM, lose a job in ATL, and file in MS, you can still get some of your money back
Moral2: file in every state until you find the one with the easiest interface; they cross/back-bill each other, so make it easy on yourself.
“Oregon Promotes Program Focused On ‘Dismantling Racism In Mathematics,’ Says Finding The Right Answer A Sign Of White Supremacy”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-promotes-program-focused-on-dismantling-racism-in-mathematics-says-finding-the-right-answer-a-sign-of-white-supremacy
If I ever thought that was a link to the Bee…
I searched the Bee archives for the same concept, because I assumed it was already done.
“focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy”.
Apparently I was surrounded by white supremacists in grade school, including the teacher.
Middle class whites will pull their kids. So minority kids will be stuck with this bullshit, and the gaps will grow. It just makes me sad.
This. Deliberately destroying the most vulnerable.
Evil fucks.
Unbelievable.
And years later they will wonder we kids who went through this don’t succeed in life.
Structural Racism
One reason I love private school. From a note sent concerning coming back to school after their weeklong mid-winter break:
Monday:
I think it is important that children who are Lower School age have at least one day when they can marvel at the snow, race outside, drink hot chocolate and build snow forts. Therefore, instead of synchronous instruction on Monday, teachers will be posting instructional activities on Seesaw for their students if we are closed. These activities can be done at any time during the day, leaving plenty of time for fun! If a family feels strongly about enjoying the snow day, or you have difficulty with child care, you may make the decision to skip these activities that are posted.
Wanna frolick in the snow instead doing bullshit e-school? Go ahead!
Bad orange man has been acquitted and is not loose on the world again! Hide the chillins!
Now, not not. But, why does it matter? Hitler Satan is now loose to terrorize us again.
I mean, they didn’t have him in custody or anything. He was playing golf in Florida.