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Now discuss the philosophical underpinnings of Goethe or some shit.
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This is some bullshit right here!!
Yes, Hyperbole’s comments are bullshit. ;-P
Bullshit, just like You Ted,
Are we doing schoolyard insults?
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”—said no one younger than Generation Xers.
This.
“Now discuss the philosophical underpinnings of Goethe or some shit.”
It’s mostly just dressing in black and industrial music.
In Sacramento, they pronounce it Gay-tee!
Goethe? Hat: “lets goethe McDonalds.”
Larf
Sloper, from the last thread;
I get you on the back issues. Mine is about the same it sounds like, numbness and tingling. I was a tech for the phone company, and the wife was always afeared that I would fall off a utility pole. Nope, I fell in a hole in a parking garage. Landed on the rim of a steel plate at about my L5-L6 discs. Had a six-hour-long surgery where they pulled bone fragments out of my spinal collum. The fun part is they couldn’t figure out why I was healing so slow, but if they had the MRI six inches further up my spine they would have found the MS.
Three door, I am about an hour south of Portland.
Glad that didn’t happen to you. Burning a pole is bad enough.
Come to think of it, I knew a tech that was also diagnosed with MS. Just before he retired, he had an incident where he was up a ladder and locked up. Luckily didn’t fall off and was able to get down after a bit.
So not in total crazytown. I’m in the Lewiston ID area. Do the occasional job on th I5 corridor.
Speaking of February, anyone notice there was nothing about Black History Month this year?
TCM had a spotlight on notable performances by black actors and actresses, while looking through the box guide, I did see any number of other programming things over the course of the month.
Every add on YouTube has been black for the last year.
You’re joking aren’t you?
Maybe he means “nothing here”. Do better, us.
I’m sure TPTB will get right on that.
Are you kidding me, Soultown on SiriusXM played nothing but Motown all month!
Uh, Etsy has been bombarding my e-mail with stuff about Black vendors and creators.
Amazon dropped a film about Clarence Thomas I hear.
One of the channels I regularly watch was all, “we’re going to think about black history every minute, every day.” OK, then.
I fully expected it to be particularly heavy-handed this go around…I’m not really not upset about it though. The length of days are roughly proportioned to the population in relation to the days of a year(A little less, to be fair) and it’s the shortest, shittiest month of the year. If we have to play this game, black people drew the short straw in regards to symbolic bullshit as far as group of people’s “months” go.
Go ahead and get the sanctimonious sermoning into full swing immediately after a lukewarm presidential victory. I’m sure that won’t go over like a ton of bricks by the next election cycle.
“Trump says the Supreme Court should be ‘ashamed’ for not having guts to overturn ‘rigged’ election, hammers Biden, Big Tech, internal GOP enemies and cancel culture – and trails a ‘triumphant return’ to White House”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9309997/Trump-tells-CPAC-NOT-start-new-party-divide-GOP-asking-miss-yet.html
It was a pretty good speech.
I can’t stand his delivery, so if there’s a transcript…
Trump being Trump, you’ve probably been there before..
Just limit your per word syllable count to two and repeat everything ad infinity. You get the idea.
Bah, autocorrect
“A Virginia school system has dropped Dr. Seuss from an annual event to encourage reading as district leaders accused the beloved author’s books having ‘strong racial undertones.’
The Loudon County schools will shift the ’emphasis’ of the annual Read Across America day on March 2 away from Seuss and toward books more ‘inclusive and diverse and reflective of our student community,’ a spokesman said.
Seuss, whose real name is Theodor Geisel, had been the face of the annual Read Across America day for more than 20 years. A report has accused his children’s stories of featuring ‘orientalism, anti-blackness and white supremacy’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9309455/Now-Dr-Seuss-faces-cancel-Virginia-school-says-books-strong-racial-undertones.html
The Cat in the MAGA Hat
Horton Hears A Jew!
Thidwick the Bleating-Heart Moose
And to Think That I Saw Blacks on Mulberry Street
How the Chinese Stole Christmas!
The World War II stuff has anti-Japanese sentiment, but the rest of it?
Is people taking offense because they want to find something offensive.
The WW2 stuff was troop morale flicks not for public consumption. Private Snafu looks great on blu-ray.
LOL
I’ve been hearing this crap about Seuss for years but they never give any specifics.
The Sneeches were absolutely about race, and the whole point was how very silly and wrong it is to divide up between star-bellied and non star-bellied sneeches.
Is the half-black half whits STTOS episode next?
The Sneetches was my favorite Suess book when I was a kid. 3-year-old me understood it as more about fashion and people trying to pose as things they’re not and the unhappiness they experience because of it. I think it really had an effect on me. I have always been really resistant to advertising and the whole “aspirational lifestyle” type stuff.
The salesman was the real hero in that story.
Pretty sure that’s what started my life-long aversion to people trying to sell me stuff.
He’s like a guy that owned both a tattoo parlor and laser removal clinic.
Charlie the Magic Chainsaw Versus the wimpy-ass Lorax
Traveling at a constant 60mph, it would take 176 years, 312 days, 18 hours, and 40 minutes to travel one astronomical unit. Overall time dilation from a velocity of 60mph over such a distance has not been corrected for, nor has there been any correction for my inability to grasp general relativity.
Hey CPRM I had a bad experience with Redbubble recently. They took down some of my work without explanation. I tried to get in contact with them but they still didn’t offer any explanation, but did eventually send me a link to a form in which I had to put my full name, address, phone number, etc, just to lodge some sort of appeal. I just gave up and closed my account at that point. There was no copyright infringement at all, and there was nothing political (although “everything is political now”). Garbage opaque, vague content policy and curation. Dislike very much.
Redbubble made me change the ‘Make America Great Again’ on the Hat (the versions on there say ‘Make Amerca Gerate Agin’ with tiny writing on the side that reads ‘Hecho en Venezuela por los chinos’). But they forwarded me the e-mail from a Trump Attorney, so I thought they handled that pretty well. That was a couple years ago, so might be new department heads and such now.
You are making this up.
Right?
Here is the design on RedBubble.
I can go back through my emails and copy past it here, the thing I found amusing was the Trump attorney had a ‘russian’ name. heh.
Actually now that I think about it, I got the letter in the mail from the Trump Attorney, not e-mail…don’t remember where I put the letter.
I did quote it in a comment at the time, which going back at looking at the e-mail from Redbubble was Dec 2019, but I don’t know how to search the comments on the archive sites.
Weird. Oh well.
In my case I imagine someone reported it because for some odd reason they were offended by it, and this triggers the review process by default, or RB staff themselves took issue. I’ll never know, but it was my biggest seller and now it’s gone.
“Boston Public Schools Suspends Test For Advanced Learning Classes; Concerns About Program’s Racial Inequities Linger
A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black.
School Committee member Lorna Rivera said at a January meeting that she was disturbed by the findings, noting that nearly 60 percent of fourth graders in the program at the Ohrenberger school in West Roxbury are white even though most third graders enrolled at the school are Black and Hispanic.
“This is just not acceptable,” Rivera said at a recent school committee meeting. “I’ve never heard these statistics before, and I’m very very disturbed by them.””
https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/02/26/citing-racial-inequities-boston-public-schools-suspend-advanced-learning-classes
*ahem*
Bullshit.
I’ve heard them before, but only because drugs are falling out of Count Potato’s ass. :-p
Hey Ted, I found your website.
https://www.apostrophe.org.uk/index.html
Well, maybe she means this specific set of statistics. But this situation has been well-known and not talked about by anybody for decades.
I read another version of this that left me with the impression that there had been a number of non-white & Asian students who qualified but did not enroll
They’ve obscured the stats: they look at students enrolled in the advanced program vs students in the district at large.
No indication of actual numbers of qualifying kids, enrolled kids. Etc.
Also we see that pesky “Asian” category again.
Why come they keep excelling in a western country dominated by WASPs?
Cant they just get back on the plantation with the other PoCs?
In seriousness, there seems to be increasing use of “North Asian” to describe Chinese and Mongolian peoples. Not sure what the angle is there, but it’s coming.
I’d think Han Chinese are East Asian anyway.
If memory serves, in the UK “Asian” generally means from former British India, not the rest of Asia.
Yes, and the British use Oriental for far eastern peoples.
So did the US until it became racist around 1990, when everyone was supposed to pivot to “Asian”.
I’ve heard that anything with “Eastern” is now racist, too. Because “Eastern” = “bad” and “Western” = “good” or some happy horseshit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No
Just so you know, Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch.
Asians are just White People now.
Much like Jews and the Irish, they assimilated too well to be considered a political tool for perpetual grievance mongers.
I look forward to the new content.
Stay tuned.
What a nice surprise, CPRM. I will be waiting, but don’t take too long.
“Time’s a-wastin’!”
/Snuffy Smith. The Mountain Smith boy
Snuffy Smith’s cousin was Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googly eyes.
“#Antifa force @PortlandPolice to retreat during the riot overnight in NW Portland. Police resources were strained & delayed during the street violence because of multiple shootings across city they had to respond to. #PortlandRiots”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1365961194339782656
What a shithole.
They’re still doing this shit?
Portland has been Antifa Central for decades.
+ Little Beirut
Yeah, I have a friend who lives in Milwaukie, which isn’t nearly as bad being its basically a suburb. But it’s in Crackermass county, and they don’t seem to put up with the same level of Bullshit.
LCDR_Fish:
You can definitely reload some steel cased ammo. It works really well for the Wolf .45 ACP and I have even reloaded their .223 and .308, but you can only do it once or twice before you have to worry about the steel cases cracking They don’t spring back as well as brass upon firing, so you put more work into them when resizing, and eventually the metal work hardens more quickly. Because they have that polymer or lacquer coating, you can’t anneal them.
You also have to make sure they’re Boxer primed, obviously.
Not sure what boxer primed means.
The ammo i just ordered is “made in russia” so I guess we’ll see if the quality is the same as wolf or other us brands.
I enjoyed the articles before but I haven’t yet given much thought to reloading given my space – maybe in a few years when I can move out to the middle of nowhere.
Two kinds of primers. Berdan and boxer. Berdan are difficult to remove. It sometimes says on the box or the description when buying.
Example from a recent purchase. Berdan primed, no bueno for reloading.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/tula-9x19mm-115gr-fmj-steel-cased-ammunition-50rds-ta919150.html
Also, depending on how much you want to reload, you can use a pretty small space. A bench to mount the press and do the work is all, really. You could even make it a temporary out using a block of wood and a clamp if you can’t have a dedicated bench spot. I made a small square bench (2’x2’)just for this 20 some years ago when I started.
Ugh …temporary *mount*…
“The furniture industry has been allowed to self-regulate for too long—& with tragic consequences, as a child is injured by tipped furniture every 17 minutes.
Passing the STURDY Act would enact strong furniture stability standards to prevent deadly tip-overs & protect children.”
https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1365336011593707520
CWAA
You can’t be serious.
…
“Let him pull it down on his head a few times–He’ll learn!”
“He’ll never do that again”
My prayers, answered
Sounds far more dangerous to children than, say, allowing them to attend school.
Hayeksplosives: I noted you mentioned the Fall of Civilizations Podcast the other day and have really enjoyed watching them. I’ve had them on while working in the shop, and find myself rewinding frequently so I don’t miss stuff.
He likes to tie everything to climate change, but it is fairly undeniable that past civilizational upsets have been caused by climate change. What that means to me is that climate change happens relatively frequently (like, several times within our recorded history, which isn’t even a blink of the eye geologically). He also mentions something about wealth inequality in the Khmer Empire one, which made me roll my eyes to a dangerous degree, but it was easy to gloss over because it was at the end of the episode and more of an assertion than anything he was trying to prove with evidence, which makes it easy to ignore, IMO.
Yeah I just watched all of them as well. Very well done IMO. I didn’t mind the climate change examples at all since to yiur point it shows that there have been numerous changes over the last 10,000 years with significant impact on civilizations. So adapt, move, or die. Or do like the ancient greenies and sacrifice members of the other tribes to the sun god. The carbon tax will have a similar result.
These John Wick movies are a little graphic.
The first one is great.
That’s the whole point.
They’re pretty entertaining, but the world makes no sense. Is their entire underground economy based on assassination?
It’s written and directed by stunt guys, the fact that it has any sort of logic at all is a blessing.
THAT’S why?! I never knew that. Explains a lot. Thanks.
EVERYBODY WAS GUN FU FIGHTING.
*gun kata
Gymkata
No. There are doctors, babysitters, bars, and hotels in the model too.
I got to the part where [SPOILER] the entire Assassins’ Guild* put out a hit on him for conducting an assassination at Guild headquarters. There’s supposed to be no fighting in the War Room.
*Or whatever it was called – I’m using D&D terminology
It reminds me of a Neil Gaiman novel, tbh
It’s pronounced “Gerrrrrrrrthuh”
+1 Strom und drang!
February is almost over. I’ve avoided donning a face mask for an entire month. I didn’t fly anywhere and didn’t go to Costco or Total Wine. The rest was doable. The largest maskless gathering was at the barbershop: when I showed up both barbers and the only client didn’t wear masks. Pro tip: even in the proggiest places some establishments don’t have any “no mask” signs at the entrance.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvUCGYDVIAk_7xd.jpg
OFFS!!
That cannot be real?
I don’t get it.
Woke left openly supporting weapon maker cuz Joe is president. Seems fishy.
I doubt that’s it. Rainbow employees of Raytheon demonstrating the company’s commitment to diversity.
2019 Pride Parade
https://billbrettboston.com/tens-of-thousands-celebrate-at-bostons-49th-pride-parade/
Not the only arms merchant
https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/download-en-us/multimediaimage/webImage/20160630183419/1434583255917.jpg
Your tax dollars not at work.
Raytheon is based in Massachusetts.
What a bunch of massholes.
Raytheon was amonst the first to go woke. That picture could be five or more years old.
Well Trump was at CPAC – without the flip-flops – so that has to be new source material.
Though it’s a decent idea, I’m betting this does very little to curb the problem.
What is clear an convincing in this context? In civil court it means more sure than not (50.1% sure will do). I don’t believe for a second that’s gonna deter the cops. And more “levels of approval” just means “more cover”, with “levels” being just more cops and prosecutors.
I don’t want “I’m pretty sure they have guns and are violent.” I want “After a thorough investigation via on-site surveillance, we’ve positively identified weapons, and those who have been seen at the premises have violent criminal histories” along with the data to support it before a forced entry raid is okayed.
And even that only after an investigation that shows definitively that the suspect cannot be apprehended in any other way.
Seems like it would be a lot easier and safer to arrest the guy at the gas station or wherever than to just down his down with guns blazing.
The bill also states that only specially trained units and officers can perform such a raid, which is good, except that just means that they’ll train EVERY officer with the bare minimum and carry in as usual.
The best part of the bill states all members of an entry team must record the entire engagement. I don’t know what happens if they fail to, but I’d bet it’s back to “officer reports”, which we all know are bullshit. I want “If the event is not recorded in its entirety, any gaps will be filled in by the suspect, whose account will be accepted as true.” That seems like the only incentive that might move the chains on this.
Link
https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/kentucky-lawmakers-tackle-no-knock-warrants-in-new-bills-in-wake-of-breonna-taylors-death
Am I missing the reason why they don’t just nab the guy when he walks down the street to buy groceries?
Because of the “But we have Authority Boners to caress” clause in the constitution.
What’s the fun in that? I mean, you’ll never get to shoot someone that way.
It is well known that drug lords are hermits – they never leave their residence to grocery shop or fly to Vegas or go out to pick up women at the nightclubs. They don’t spend their drug millions: the money accumulates in their money bins and they roll around in it much like monocle/orphan lords.
Make the judge liable for anything that goes wrong.
Problem solved.
Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Woodchipper.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11862469/after-leading-school-closures-berkeley-teachers-union-president-spotted-dropping-daughter-off-at-in-person-preschool
Fuck off peasant.
He’ll come up with some shitty excuse and the constituents will buy it.
When you lost NPR….
Someone was talking to me today about Goethe’s play Egmont, and was actually reading some of the quasi-philosophical bits to me (in translation). I had only known about the play because of the overture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxXFLRmqvw
Can I get a moment of silence for those poor agents that gave their lives in order to incinerate children at Waco?
*yanks wanker*
*yawn*
Is the moment over?
It’ll also allow China, Russia, or any number of other hostile entities to monitor them too.
If you think making any part of voting an online process will enhance security, you’re a full blown idiot.
https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/house-bill-574-passes-would-alter-the-way-kentuckians-vote-in-elections
It seems like the whole country is hell bent on undermining the sorry state of electoral legitimacy even further for some insane reason and in this case it’s the Republicans that are doing it. They’re idiots.
It’s already online.
“‘I am truly sorry’: Gov Cuomo admits making two women who claim he sexually harassed them feel uncomfortable but shrugs it off as ‘levity and banter’: Capitulates to NY AG Letitia James and allows her to handle investigation into him
“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he ‘never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm’
“‘I think I am being playful and make jokes that I think are funny,’ Cuomo said
“Cuomo said that he ‘never inappropriately touched anybody’ and ‘never propositioned anybody’
“New York politicians on both sides of the aisle are speaking out against Andrew Cuomo after he was accused of sexual harassment by a second former aide
“Charlotte Bennett, 25, on Saturday said Cuomo told her he was open to dating women in their 20s and asked her questions about her personal life in June
“It comes after Lindsey Boylan, 36, claimed he asked her to play strip poker and kissed her on the lips without her permission when she worked for him in 2017
“Cuomo, 63, said he ‘never intended to act in any way that was inappropriate’ with Bennett and his press secretary said Boylan’s claims were ‘false’
“The governor promised a review by former federal judge Barbara Jones
“But many noted Jones had worked with Cuomo’s close ally Steven M. Cohen
“Amid that mounting criticism his office said Sunday that James and DiFiore have been asked ‘to jointly select an independent investigator’
“But James has demanded he refer the entire investigation to her with ‘subpoena power’, saying Sunday: ‘I do not accept the governor’s proposal'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9310427/Cuomo-says-women-feel-uncomfortable-asks-independent-sexual-harassment-review.html
That Boylan woman is very harassable. Give Andy some credit, he’s got better taste than Bill Clinton.
I have no idea how this can be interpreted as sexual harassment.
Now that I get.
I’d be open to dating women but my wife would want to choose them for me, it’s the way she is.
There’s always the man option. Loopholes.
Is the AG actually going to shank Cuomo or is it kabuki theater to get subpoena power to torpedo the allegators?
If torpedoing alligators was an Olympic sport… something something Florida man.
“‘I think I am being playful and make jokes that I think are funny,’ Cuomo said
Good luck with that defense.
How is it Sunday night already?
I didn’t prep enough meat for this week. *sigh*
Do wireless fast cell phone chargers just suddenly go bad?
Mine stopped working. ?
They’re bad to begin with.
BidenhertimeHarris was on tv today claiming “deaths from Covid” have now surpassed all U.S. deaths from WWI, WWII and Vietnam combined. Not quite: deaths in those wars were 582,000. Not there yet, but perhaps I quibble. Of course, perhaps the metric should be “with Covid” and not “from Covid.”
Bingo. I’ve noticed the TV news here has slipped a few times and said “from” when they mean “with”, and most people don’t seem to understand or care about the difference. Many false positives, people die, positive test within a certain timeframe prior to death, massively inflated covid death numbers.
” in 2020 there have been 2,533,214 deaths, a population of 330,619,870, and a death rate of 0.8%….”
If only we could eliminate natural causes we could do away with about 80% of annual deaths and only have to deal with the CV
We’re getting a Natural Causes bonus, right? Should be 4X the 1400 for this round of CV bonus
Each year in this century at least 2,400,000 people died in the US.
OMG ANOTHER (meaningless) GRIM MILESTONE!
Good thing we have journalists to tell us how to feel using modifiers like “grim”, “startling”, and “alarming.”
Otherwise I wouldn’t have known to be scared witless.
Im off to work, kids. Ill play myself off-stage with this little number-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQhX8PbNUWI
Amnesty International revokes “prisoner of conscience” status for imprisoned Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russias-navalny-moved-to-prison-as-amnesty-changes-his-status/ar-BB1e313d
*snort*
Didn’t Putin try to have him offed twice already?
He’ll end up dying of exposure to some incredibly rare chemical that only a government could obtain/create.
And it will get labeled a Covid-19 death.
He’s the Rushun Drumpf! Wait, doesn’t that make him Putin’s Puppet?
But seriously, every time we here about politicians from other countries it’s with some qualifier like ‘far right’, ‘far left’, ‘opposition’, etc without ever going into detail on what the actual policy proposals are. It’s always, ‘because they oppose [leader we don’t like] they should be our fren!’
NaTIoNalISt!
Therefore Nazi. Or something.
Remember: Racial Tribalism is all the rage and Nationalism is icky. Segregation wasn’t immoral, it was just implemented under the wrong terms. That’s not regressive in the least.
I’m going to tuck that last line away.
Because Mandela and the ANC were never tied to any actual terrorist acts right?
Tiger Woods if Fucked,
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/sports/golf/tiger-woods-injuries.html
Grossness ahead, Fuck,
Dayum.
I hope he can figure out a way to find happiness without golf.
Even during his phenomenal early career he didn’t seem to find fulfillment. That’s pretty much why he chased all those chicks, including homely ones at the local breakfast diner.
He needs something fixed above the neck, or the awful injuries to his leg will consume what’s left of him.
He’s a pretty good athlete. I won’t bet against him.
In five years, he’ll be eligible for the Seniors tour. Can ride around in a cart. Probably good enough to be competitive but will he want to be less than capable of being in the mix every Sunday? Golf is one sport that you can play professionally for fifty years but sooner or later you got to decide you don’t have it any more and just do the ceremonial tee off at the Masters.
More time for him to…
How’d it happen? The classic “he lost control of the vehicle”, or what?
Having driven that same road nearly every day for two years – I think it’s quite possible, tbh. It’s a fairly steep grade but it doesn’t really look like it since the street’s 6 lanes wide and he was just visiting and in a borrowed car (the Genesis open lent it to him while he was in town apparently). I assume at that hour it was also light traffic, so he might not have even realized how fast he was going. Then it’s easy to overcorrect in an unfamiliar car, and he went through the median and it rolled over.
Fuck, yeah!
Looking forward to March!
This last year has been the longest two weeks of my life.
Yeah? How’s the curve?
Fauci told me to get bent.
A little personal, don’t you think?
Had a coworker pull me aside today and tell me not to ask other coworkers what their first name is. “That’s personal information.” I just looked her name tag and let it go. People are cray cray.
Ugly American.
Handsome gaijin.
Like I’ve said, just before ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ I was moved from 2nd to 3rd shift ‘for a few weeks until we hire someone else’.
Well said Straff.
CPRM gives us something to look forward to in this crazy world that has succumbed to a mass delusion.
Yay for Hat & Hair!
Get your vaccine at Salem’s Lot.
Mostly Hat.
If The US sure seems to like bombing structures.
I’m not that drunk… what?
Watched a good movie with the wife last night on Netflix. In a Valley of Violence, a 2016 Western with Ethan Hawke and John Travolta. I’d give it solid 7.5 which is very high for any modern flick, as most movies made these days just do not do it for me. It was mostly done in the style of old westerns though as far as pacing and plot. Worth a watch if ya got the Netflix and like classic westerns.
I watched ‘My Dinner with Herve’ on HBO MAX this week. Peter Dinklage is awesome.
Ha! Looks fun, I’ll check it out. Thanks.
We clearly need more lockdowns.
And then a half dozen billionaires move to Texas and California goes bankrupt.
It could happen.
Snd then Texas starts voting blue and the Donks never lose another presidential election.
The Donks split between Left and Really Left, the Elephants tilt at windmills, and the Liberty leaning people do…something?
Move to Alaska?
I dunno. I hadn’t imagined there would be 75 million people who would vote “for Trump/against woke-progtopia”. But now that we are aware of our numbers, regardless of how the media and the (D) party tries to gaslight us away, I am getting the feeling that something might be busting loose before too long.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/DDG173_JDS_Kongo.jpg
TCM has The Front on. Fun in parts, but the lying narrative both in the movie and by Ben Mankiewicz afterwards continues to be infuriating. Fuck the commies.
As does the conflation of HUAC and McCarthy.
McCarthy, like Trump, was a bafoon and also an Evil Genius, duh. Tail Gunner Joe made Hollywood Blacklists that had to be adhered to, or he would…drink more?
McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood blacklists, he was a Senator; all of the Hollywood stuff came from HUAC a House committee. Also, now that a great deal of Sov stuff has been made public, it’s pretty clear that McCarthy was right after all.
If I recall he was correct in that the commies were trying to infiltrate the government, but he was still widely wrong when it came to the actual people he accused. Something like of the 500 he accused 17 ended up having some soviet connections.
I assume he ignored the latter-day blacklist that is cancel culture?
I can easily recall the phone number of the bf I had 25 years ago. It’s a challenge to recall the number of my partner for the last 16 years. I blame the cell phone favorite numbers.
I have the same problem with my kids’ numbers. I force myself to dial their numbers occasionally just so I have a shot at remembering.
(Deep Hat Sigh)
Late night threads just aren’t the same without Sir Digby.
Nope.
Where’d he go? I recall he was having issues with his elderly mother, but I didn’t know he’d be gone for all time.
I hope he is ok; he’s one of the good ones!
He got burned out by politics and rededicated to religion and his wife. Left the site to focus on his actual life. I’m still in contact via e-mail. He made it through the coldsnap in the Dallas area.
Thank you for the update.
I’m glad he’s ok and paying attention to the lasting things, things that matter.
Amen to that. I miss his offbeat personality but I’m glad he’s got his priorities in order. Godspeed, Sir Digby.
Thanks for the update. As I am a resident of US night-time Glibs I was used to seeing him around a lot.
Problem: Australian schoolboys raping their girlfriends.
Solution: More prosecutions.
No, just kidding about that. The solution is changing sex education to teach boys not to rape, and abolishing single-sex schools.
“‘There are problems with sexual assault and consent at all schools in Australia, but what we can see from the large amount of anecdotal evidence over the years that there appears to be a problem, particularly at all-boys schools where students are rewarded for being a ‘stud’,’ Prof Rasmussen said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9298675/Former-student-Chanel-Contos-reveals-theory-Australias-sexual-assault-crisis-schools.html
Hello Early Glibs, what’s shakin’?
Mornin
Howdy Sean,
Mornin’, Yu & Sean. My brief vacation was nice, but it’s time to get back to work today. Month-end reports and payroll await.
Fun.
Well this sucks, the Night shift is no more…..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1N6rzfoWHzg
Night shift.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oKsxPW6i3pM
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https://www.wtae.com/article/proposed-pennsylvania-house-bill-would-allow-employees-to-refuse-vaccination-invasive-medical-test/35646946#
Do it. Now.
Soon you will need to show proof of vaccine to get on a plane, buy concert tickets, buy sporting event tickets, ride public transit, order a sandwich for delivery………..
Morning People.
I’m annoyed at myself for burning the roof of my mouth.
coffee?
I can’t drink coffee. It makes me feel like my heart is going to explode.
It’s not supposed to do that?
As far as I am aware.
Morning, UCS. How did you burn your mouth? ::looks askance at own mug of hot coffee::
I made the mistake of microwaving my brown bread after putting cream cheese on it.
Fun fact, cream cheese becomes molten fire when microwaved for even a short time.
So true, U, howdy kids, almost time, lets grow stuff!
What new stuff you gonna plant?
About mid-March I’ll start the peppers inside. Looks like today is the last cooler day and tomorrow the local Earth starts Climate Change.
Have about 15 apple trees started in the east window now.
I’m going to guess something fungal.
And you would be correct, Shrooms!
And then it sticks….to…. Yeah. ::winces in sympathy::
By the way, did you get to read the emailed section after your last bout of laundry?
Yes, and I’m just rereading it now. I’ll e-mail you a response shortly.
Thank you. I do appreciate the feedback.
You’re quite welcome. Just sent my reply.
!*&^#@^%!!!
Son has to finish an online history course in order to meet credit requirements to graduate high school. Last semester he procrastinated and was freaking out at the end of the term to get it finished on time.
This semester he has to have it done much earlier in order to submit to the high school in May for graduation. I’ve been on his ass about being ahead of schedule and received multiple assurances that he had it under control.
Just got a notice that he’s three weeks behind on assignments if he wants finish the course by !*&^%!^%!! July.
!(*&^@*&^!)(*$%!!!!
Yikes! Does he have post-graduation plans that will be disrupted if he doesn’t finish on time?
I don’t know if he can get the damn diploma if he doesn’t finish on time and I’m paying thru the nose for him to attend.
The kid’s got an IQ in the 150+ range, but he’s a complete retard sometimes.
It’s too bad that puberty and teenage is so long. If there was a way to go from middle school straight to the workforce life would be so much calmer/easier/less stressful for parents.
One day, however, those same kids will say to you, “Thanks, Dad, for leaning on me, I’d have never made it with you and Mom.
The birthday cards I get these days are full of “The Best Dad in the World” stuff and a reminder to keep my will updated.
It wouldn’t be so aggravating if multiple people hadn’t bent over backwards to provide him with opportunities to develop his talents. And then he goes and fucks it up by not completing a simple history course on time.
He’s the archetype of the absentminded professor.
My son streaked bare assed about 3-4 days before high school graduation. I got called in immediately, of course. I knew both the principal and superintendent quite well, I’d been in their offices several times before.
They closed the door, explained the circumstances, expelled him but reassured me that he would receive his diploma but would not participate in any school functions/ceremonies, etc.
He graduated from UTexas, now has his own business.
Just send him to Bauer Benedict College Prep and he can follow Jessica Kailo to whichever school she chooses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEsqTW5PEKk
Snarky answer aside, I feel your pain. We had to pull the kids out of the YMCA learning annex program because they were having trouble staying on task (son went a whole day without signing into a single class; he just drew pictures all day).