No sports. Sorry, don’t blame me. Blame leagues for not playing year round and every day.
W.E.B. DuBois
Typical government finance guy Nicolas Fouquet was born on this day. He shares it with: Englishman Samuel Pepys, composer George Handel, hotelier Cesar Ritz, NAACP founder (who would probably lament what its turned into) W.E.B. DuBois, director Victor Fleming, “Enola Gay” pilot Paul Tibbets, actor Peter Fonda, football great Fred Biletnikoff, Japanese Emperor Naruhito, computer maker Michael Dell, and golfer Steve Stricker.
That list was a bunch of blah. Now on to…the links!
Drug kingpinette
This seems like a solid use of legal resources. Conspiracy charges: is there nothing the government won’t fit under that umbrella?
Dude, get over it. “It does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a car.” Uh, actually that’s exactly what it does.
These cages are no longer cages. Because principals over principles.
At least they’re not putting them in cages anymore. Oh wait, they’re the exact same places, the news just changed what they refer to them as once Orangemanbad was out of office. Also, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
How about…no. Stop using your position in government to try and deplatform people you disagree with, you cretins.
Well, is it a boy or a girl? This is sad, and I for one call for a (voluntary) end to these stupid, elaborate events.
Who didn’t see this coming? I wonder if it’s even legal?
LOL, this woman is a teacher. Oh wait, that’s not funny. It’s sad as shit.
That’s a really big lawsuit. I wonder how much they’ll settle for to avoid looking greedy. Also, this is incredibly sad. Especially since there were warming centers within a couple miles of their home that were plastered all over the news all day.
It’s always a good day for this song. Hope you enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Dude, get over it. “It does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a car.” Uh, actually that’s exactly what it does.
He should demand they rename the Jeep the Redskins… The name is fucking available.
[edit fairy swishes by, sprinkles glitter]
The Jeep Indians Redskins?
How about the Jeep SUV Automobile?
*^((*%^^*($#()$_$(+$+
Babylon Bee headline, right there.
To reduce the risk of offending, all vehicles will now use a simple vehicle designation. May I show you the 2021 Bv 206?
27B/6
I can’t believe nobody has used “6000 SUX”. Most of the marketing is already done for you.
https://youtu.be/1e2VgegyB-A
Really Big, and really fast, and gets really shitty gas mileage!
For those unfamiliar. We’d drive them across snow fields that were 6 feet deep, pulled HMMWV out of mud, knocked down small trees, and generally tore up the training areas.
Oh man, that thing looks like a whole bunch of fun. I got to my unit just as the transition to the HMMWV was starting; prior to 1989, the Vulcan 20mm cannon was pulled with this – https://youtu.be/_0UfDoaV4Oc
Ah the love or hate Gama Goat.
Here’s another. It shows the amphibious capabilities and driving through a forest knocking down small trees.
OK I need one
#metoo
I want one, but can’t justify for my area.
They use rubber tracks and have a low pressure footprint so they don’t tear up roads like most tracked vehicles. We weren’t restricted like the other tracks and could drive on the main garrison roads.
Jeep Chair Okie
Aryan SS is available again.
Whoops. Here’s the link.
The Chief Wahoo is also available now, I believe.
as is Robert E Lee
The Cleveland Indians are continuing to sell some gear bearing Chief Wahoo on it at the team shop at the Jake (it’s still the Jake!). Per the team, it’s so that they can keep legal rights to the character without letting it fall into the public domain, where the city that is so incensed by Chief Wahoo will all be forced to buy and wear bootleg clothing.
How.
The Unreliable Jeep SUV Vehicle has a certain ring to it and it’s honest to boot.
Indian giver…
Jeep is providing a public service by getting fools and their money to self-separate.
The Jeep Retard?
He wouldn’t be complaining if they were still XJs.
Morning… sloopy?
Now I want a Jeep Cherokee. Kinda. I don’t have anywhere to park it.
Park it in the place the car you’re trading in used to sit.
We’re closing on our new home tomorrow. And parking is about to become a bit of an adventure because we’re going from a double-wide driveway to a single-wide one. It’s a lot longer, but it’s going to be a pain in the ass for a couple months until we get it widened (in conjunction with the driveway being poured for the house the guy who sold it to us is building next door).
Congratulations!
We’re incredibly excited. We only have to move three blocks away and the girls are on the same school bus route.
New construction?
No. The guy owned this house and both adjacent lots. He’s selling this and developing the other two.
Some NY dude…Tonald Drump.
OMG, short moves are the best.
Depends on where you’re moving to.
Next door neighbors should be a minimum of 100 yards away, preferably out of view.
Our nearest neighbors at the new place are “across the road” (about a five-minute walk) and “catty-corner across” (about a three-minute walk through the woods, ten minutes if you walk around the road.) Both over 100 yards, both only marginally visible now with the leaves off the trees.
At our old house, the nearest neighbor was about 150 yards away, and a steep hill blocked all sight lines from our house to theirs. The GF was interviewed for a security clearance by an FBI contractor who visited, and said he needed to talk to at least three neighbors within sight of our house. We said “good luck.”
Nice!
Trade in? Nonsense. I want it in addition to what I have.
Park it in front of the neighbors house.
When he is out to work and then go “help” his wife with her chores?….
That’s how people get shot, yo..
My kid just recently bought a Commanche that had come off a 2 year lease by an old lady that had only put 7K miles on it. The dealer selling it had entered the sale price on the website wrong (instead of 32,XXX, they entered 23,XXX) and was obligated by law to sell for that price. My kid saw it the moment it went up and asked me to go to the dealer and begin the paperwork for him, so that as soon as he left work he could come get it, because something obviously was wrong with the price. I was the first person there (had 5 others show up and get turned away cause I had already put $5K down after they showed me the report that the vehicle had never been in any accidents) but when my kid joined me wearing his car mechanic uniform, the owner of the place (a Ford dealership) came out, took us for a tour, then offered my kid a job on the spot. To sweeten the deal he took another $2500 of the already insane low price. I knew my kid felt fixing Fords was the devils work and had no desire to work there and was worried he would fuck it up, but he played along. He took the thing home for less then $20k (plus a heft tax because we live in the fucking People’s Republic of CT), got calls for 2 weeks from the dealership asking him if he wouldn’t start the next day but ignored them, and has been loving his car.
The short story is that I now want a Jeep too. The thing is nice.
Why does he have such a strong dislike of Ford?
Ford makes their engines a real pain in the ass to work on
^^^THIS^^^
And Ford dealerships are notoriously horrible places for anyone with anything other than basic experience (cause you don’t know better) to work at. Also they require insanely expensive training they make the mechanics pay for cause the dealership usually promises to but then weasels out of. My kid quickly learned to avoid Ford dealerships and while he can fix them, they are the cars he hates to work on the most (and he recently worked on some yuppie fucks Lada).
Thanks for the tips, Alex. I’ve been considering Ford products for my next purchase. Probably won’t buy new, but still.
We fix our own Ford trucks in the shop. They’re a royal pain in the ass.
And I’ll never buy another C-Channel frame truck again.
They said Peak Hipster was unattainable
I was saying it before it was cool, though. *headtosses bangs*
Those bangs are too long. We’re going to have to cut them.
…
I’m afraid I can’t find my scissors or trimmers, so…
*fires up edge trimmer*
Hold still, or this will scalp you like a cheap jeep.
WHO PAYS MONEY TO HAVE A LADA BROUGHT TO THE U.S.??????
(you could ask “who pays for a Lada?”, but the answer would be Soviets & ex-Soviets who didn’t have much of a choice)
Bernie Sanders?
I have a friend who’s selling a Twin Comanche. He bought it a few years ago and upgraded the hell out of the avionics. I don’t have my multiengine rating yet but it might be worth getting it for this airplane. But I’m also looking at used Senecas. Another one of our group of friends has an Apache–what a money pit. There used to be an old Aztec around, but it got totaled in a hangar fire. I used to own a Cherokee. One of the mechanics on the field here has a Tomahawk, and there’s a Seminole around here somewhere. What I’d really like is to get a used Navajo, but the upkeep is pretty high.
A friend of mine just bought a Twinkie, nice new glass, extended tanks and anti-ice boots. Really nice, good for like 1200 miles and 7.5 hours endurance, though I can’t imagine sitting for even half of that. He said he’d let me do a multi in it if I come down to MO for a week. Maybe when the weather gets nicer.
Piper names have been problematic since the Tripacer! I can’t even!1!!
“At least they’re not putting them in cages anymore. Oh wait, they’re the exact same places, the news just changed what they refer to them as once Orangemanbad was out of office. Also, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.”
Pointed exactly this bullshit out when some leftard in a meeting told us she finally felt calm now that the bad orange guy was no longer president. She didn’t like me implying that she had been duped with propaganda about him – willingly BTW – only to pretend propaganda to cover for an addled racist douche is good news.
Does anyone else worry that so many people prefer that the media manipulate them as long as it is to make them feel they are part of the woke brigade?
Worry? No. Not a damn thing we can do to change it, and it is precisely why we are so, so very fucked.
I would calmly point out that talking politics at work creates a hostile environment so knock it off. Actually, I’d probably just go to HR and avoid the drama. Hell, that’s what they’re there for – might as well make them lift a finger.
Hahahaha – white man, not toeing proggie line get HR to do anything for him (other than work up his termination package)?
^^ this. HR was the first to go to the woke side.
Hey, a white man can dream.
My HR department knows if they talk to me I either get to record it or have a lawyer present. They are willing to try and fuck with me at this point. I have nothing to lose.
The only thing that matters is that my biases be confirmed. //jk
I’d buy a Jeep Dirt Worshipper.
“Drive the all new Jeep [Redacted]!!!”
Good morning, Sloop!
Those are some head-shakin’ lynx, man.
So much derp. I wonder what the Chief thinks of this song.
That teacher story, while infuriating, is really good news. These fucks are torpedoing their own messed up system. Even here in the PRM, homeschooling is way up.
Belinda was so incredibly hot. Excellent choice!
Good luck out there, peeps!
“LOL, this woman is a teacher. Oh wait, that’s not funny. It’s sad as shit.”
This woman is an idiot, and a good reason why kids going to public school are ending up as fucking idiots. She should know that while the rich white people are all for the public schools systems for those that will compete with their children – so they end up seriously handicapped and dumber than when they went in – their kids go to expensive private schools.
If there is one good thing out of the lockdown disaster, it’s that a bunch of parents are now very familiar with what is being taught in school.
I don’t know if they will stick to it, but lots of families are saying they’re never putting their kids back in.
Teachers unions are also on the shitlist, at least in California where parents see teachers using any and every pretext for why they can’t resume in-classroom schooling.
Hopefully that results in major changes to the education system. Parents should definitely be asking what the fuck they’re paying for if 7 hours a day Monday through Friday can be replaced with 2 hours a day of online lessons and quizzes.
I was just pondering the other day what would constitute educational malpractice. I distinctly remember being taught in 5th grade that nobody wanted to finance Columbus’s voyage because they believed that he was going to fall off the edge of the flat Earth. And since becoming a history buff in my adult years, I’ve only had to un-learn more stuff from school.
Why do prospective parents have gender reveal parties when everyone knows the child is supposed to pick its own gender?/sarc
Can those parents be accused of being sexist and insensitive and forced to atone and confess to Big Person (gender neutral tyrants for all!)?
honestly the whole concept is so weird to me
I’d never heard of one around here.
My good friend’s wife insisted on doing a little video for each of her kids. He went along with it because he’s a trooper. To me it’s not weird, just narcissistic. There’s a 50/50 chance of it being one or the other, genetically. We’ll all find out sooner or later.
With both our kids my wife opted to not be told the gender until post partum. I thought it was a great idea. It’s the way things had been from the beginning.
Your kid is an elephant.. I see the trunk!……….
There’s a 50/50 chance of it being one or the other, genetically.
Fun fact: the odds are actually 51/49 M/F. For some reason (my guess is because they are more likely to die young) boys are naturally more common than girls.
I’ll take stupid gender reveal parties over stupid counterfactual gender propaganda.
I had a low key gender reveal party. Just me my wife and the sonogram tech.
Threesome!
Thruple
Before long you’ll have parents deciding if their kids are homosexual, transsexual, metrosexual, …
I think the closest to a gender reveal party was one Christmas where my sister gave my parents a copy of the ultrasound image as part of a gift.
I have a Cherokee and a Durango., Is the Durango culturally appropriating cowboys?
Where does the Wrangler fit in on the grievance scale?
Wranglers are worn by rednecks, therefore they are White Supremacy.
I wear Wrangler but do not identify as a redneck. That said, I do tend to burn easily.
Is it sort of a brokeback mountain appropriation? Cause that would be OK, I guess…
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Cool Avatar, though.
I’d like to appropriate me some cowboys…
BAD TONIO!
Just kidding sir… Don’t let an idiot like me give ya grief… 🙂
That was for RJ. Darn your nimble fingers.
Ram Ranch!
I hover over the links to see where they point. The “Well, is it a boy or a girl?” is https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/catskills-dad-to-be-killed-by-exploding-gender-reveal-device/ which I initially read as “dad to be killed” instead of “dad-to-be killed”.
Yeah, I was thinking “this trans mafia has really gotten out of hand.”
That’s where my mind went too.
Even dad-to-be-killed is an odd turn of phrase for a headline.
Father?
Yes, Son?
I thought the same thing. My initial reaction was “Now THAT’S a party!”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb
Joe Rogan @joerogan
is a despicable man. Low and despicable.
It’s like saying “why should a mother care about a sick child? Is she a doctor? Can she make him/her better?”
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1363733862065598467
a politician and his constituents are like a mother and child. Discuss.
Also Taleb is becoming parody
* you can certainly criticize a politician for not behaving as they should without such imbecilic analogies
“is becoming”
Uh, that bridge has been crossed for a long time.
^^^THIS^^^
And he is not leading that caravan of stupid doing this either…
2/ Comedians should know when to keep their mouth shot in the presence of tragic events (as well as matters of a high moral dimension).
About 60 people died in Texas.
To repeat, conservatism is about responsibility to the collective, #SkinintheGame, & respect for the tragic.
Taleb’s deadlift is only exceeded by his ego. Though he can be entertaining.
‘2/ Comedians should know when to keep their mouth shot in the presence of tragic events (as well as matters of a high moral dimension).’
Real comedians can make any subject funny, and should attempt to do so. Fuck your delicate sensibilities.
“Tragedy is me getting a hangnail, comedy is you falling through an open manhole cover and dying.”
– Mel Brooks
“Comedians should know when to keep their mouth shot in the presence of tragic events (as well as matters of a high moral dimension).”
This is precisely when comedians need to keep their mouth open.
Taleb was usually an interesting guest on EconTalk back in the day, but like Tyler Cowen he seems to have drifted away from core principles, corrupted by certain false virtues?
to much time surrounded by sycophants plus getting older
Too much adulation.
Taleb developed a dedicated set of groupies that give him regular verbal tongue-baths. It went to his head.
Not that Popehat was ever that great, but he fell down the same trap and hard.
Reading your own press can be hazardous to your intellect.
Since HM is so rarely around:
https://pleated-jeans.com/2021/02/15/songs-about-butts/
Glad to see my pimp-friend Sir Mixalot is getting his props…
And fuck that site for telling me I have to disable my add blocker.
The chief of the Cherokee Nation wants Jeep to stop using the tribe’s name on its vehicles.
“I’m sure this comes from a place that is well-intended, but it does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a car,” Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, said in a statement.
Fine. Change the name to the Jeep Savage.
I can’t wait to test drive the new Jeep Wawawawawa!
Lol, I remember when Chuck’s predecessor, Wilma Mankiller was Chief. “Chief Chuck?” RYFKM?
I suppose that the shitty reliability of the Cherokee SUVs is also an insult.
I had a 1995 Cherokee Sport. It was great — that straight-six ran like a top. I don’t know what happened.
I had a ’92 Sport – 2WD, 5 speed, two door, and the badass 4.0.
Too bad regulations forced them to change the design (mostly rollover regs, iirc). I miss that beast. I called him Stan.
Jane Wiedlin officiates weddings nowadays. Well, not nowadays nowadays, what with the US-taxpayer-funded Chinese Communist-engineered virus floating about (woooooo scary). In the before times she would conduct the ceremony and sing at the reception. That’s a pretty good twofer, no?
I wonder how many of her clientele were my sort. They gays love them some Go-Go’s.
[Note to TedS, I typed their name exactly as it appears on their CD.]
I’m sure she’s not had much work at all this past year. No appointments to send her driving in the rush hour.
No cool places to go in the last year.
Branko Milanovic
@BrankoMilan
One of the slides I never get to in my talks (because it is at the very end): Rawls and inter-generational transmission of wealth
https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/959827976010551296
was Rawls right about anything?
Branko Milanovic
@BrankoMilan
High-speed rail is faster than driving, more convenient than flying, and (socially) cheaper than both.
https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1361529710430351363
socially cheaper… right…
Wut?
I eagerly await the first train shoe bomber and then all those choo-choo aficionados will be cut down to size as they have to get a cavity search every time they board.
Apparently TSA does sometimes randomly show up at Amtrak stations and pulls screening. The already inefficient Amtrak system gets fucked for the rest of the day on that route.
2 different times pre-9/11, I flew into Buffalo to meet my wife, who was on a business trip. The plan was to take the Amtrack from Buffalo to NYC. The only problem was my flight arrived after the last train of the evening to NYC was scheduled to depart on each occasion. Then I read how consistently that line ran late and decided to go for it anyway. We ended up waiting for the train, it was no mad rush to catch it either time.
Illustrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3i7KBPAx4A
I forgot how much shaky-cam there was in that show. Such a stupid trend.
But high-speed rail doesn’t take me where I want to go, when I want to go there. My car does.
And I can stop at Carl’s Jr. if I feel like it, or maybe Pea Soup Andersen’s, or Firestone Walker, or…. Which is exactly what the train proponents are opposed to: me having a say.
I am actually wondering if people do not think that human beings behavior will change in a negative way if they cannot leave much to their children.
They will just be conditioned to understand that responsibility will fall to the state which will demand a small fee for the service (like half or 3/4 of your wealth) for themselves…
Who didn’t see this coming? I wonder if it’s even legal?
Probably. It is a part of the same law requiring kids to be vaccinated before going to publik skoolz. The wrangling will come because this is an “emergency” approved shot, not a “regular” approved shot. Race to find a friendly judge will be epic, between CPS and CTU.
Can CPS file for financial bankruptcy? (To go along with their moral bankruptcy?)
Swiss, I was disappointed to see not a single narrowed gaze in yesterday’s afternoon link thread. We welcomed you back with a big dog-Pilatus of puns!
Did you not see I edited the post to give you all a mass narrowed gaze? I saw what y’all did…
I can’t see it. Maybe if I squint…
I figured you’d gotten an eye exam to help with the excessive squinting.
“All the rich [W]hite parents… can take a seat.”
Shut up, she explained.”
Yeah, imagine the outrage if someone had told Her Smugness to take a seat. Seriously, she just told a group of people she identifies by skin color (etc) to STFU. In what universe is this person not fired for gross insubordination.
Also if we are supposed to capitalize “Black” when used to describe POCs, then “White” should also be capitalized when used to refer to sunburny people.
Pipe down! Sit the fuck down and STFU! Shut up! Be quiet! Stay in your lane! Check your privilege!
Having occasionally accidentally stumbled on twitter insanity courtesy of Count Potato’s links, these all seem to be standard responses from screaming leftoids.
^This
I seem to recall that the non-capitalization of white was a way to counter our privilege at more easily acquiring vitamin D.
U.S. shelters for migrant children near maximum capacity as border crossings increase
I wonder why that is.
So what is the Official Glibertarian Position on Woody Allen? Did he do it?
There is no such thing as an Official Glibertarian Position.
well then how do we know what to think smart guy?
He is a creep.
If he did break a law, file a complaint.
If he committed a tort, sure him.
If you like his work, watch it.
If not, don’t.
YOU ARE NOT BEING DETAINED, AND I AM NOT YOUR SUPERVISOR!!!!
If you like his work, watch it. – I do mostly like his work.
He is a creep. – there’s a song in there somewhere
What the hell are you doing here?
also, https://youtu.be/L1K8t3BtNaw
I thought he only had hands for Diane?
The only thing I remember about Woody Allen is an interview he did some years back where the interviewer asked him if he wanted to “…achieve immortality through his work.” Allen replied, “No. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.”
Good answer, even if he is a creep.
Bananas and Sleeper were both excellent and good predictors of life 50 years later.
Democratic representatives write to cable companies including AT&T and Comcast and streamers Amazon and Hulu demanding they drop Fox News, OAN and Newsmax over ‘misinformation’
“Misinformation”. IOW “information I don’t like”.
They obviously smell blood in the water and are going in for the kill.
In a just world, they would be hanging form the lampposts for even suggesting such a thing.
When government officials do this, how exactly is it not a first amendment violation?
Other than “FYTW” of course.
Science?
MASKS TODAY, MASKS TOMORROW, MASKS FOREVER!
“Carry on until it’s gone”
I have a counter proposal: Go fuck yourselves.
Yep, carry on until it’s gone equates to basically forever. This is now an endemic disease.
It got up to 39F yesterday and everyone was walking around with big goofy smiles.
On my walk, every person would comment about how nice it was to be above freezing and what a wonderful day.
It was amazing. Even my dogs were happier.
Best day of the year in Minnesoda. That first 40F day on the downhill slope of Winter. Everyone is happy and ready to bust loose.
I think that the downfall of Walz will be if he tries to dial up more restrictions this Spring. I hope people will realize that we were bamboozled last Spring and tell him to go pound sand.
Hope springs eternal in April and May.
That’s pretty much every early spring thaw in Montana.
That’s a really big lawsuit.
The lawyer in the story blames it all on global warming. I thought the kid froze?
Every bad thing is due to
global warmingclimate change, which makes it unfalsifiable, and therefore science. Science in the Lysenko sense, anyway.Sorry they lost power but the most basic responsibilities of parents are to keep the kids fed and warm – even if that means huddling together in the same sleeping bag.
A dad-to-be in upstate New York was killed when a device he was building for a gender reveal party exploded, state police said Monday.
These do not have to be so elaborate.
https://youtu.be/TwEg61mxP5E
Anyone check for an affiliation to any of the numerous death cults? Cause that is one heck of an explosive overkill use there…
Pardon the pun..
Was he Palestinian?
Improvised Gender Reveal Device, or IGRDs.
Cardio Intenso ? | Piernas, pantorrillas y muslos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otx9VmuU-5M
in today’s youtube recommends. thicc?
Nice lipreaders
That was all I saw.
What an attractive and wholesome young woman!
Getting there. Very fit and nice looking.
Quiero cojerme tu cullito mami!
Baseball birthdays: Ron Hunt, Bobby Bonilla ($$$), Rondell White, Elston Howard. Pretty good list considering no one in the HoF discussion.
The $ is because Bobby Bo was the big winner in the Bernie Madoff scam. The NY Mets owner was a Madoff investor, and considering the returns he was getting, it made sense to him to give Bonilla a long term annuity at a really good interest rate instead of buying his contract out. Bonilla is still collecting $1.2MM per year and will until 2035.
Bonilla’s accountant suggested a 10% rate, and the Mets pushed for 6%. Accordingly, they settled on a rate of 8%.
He was owed $5.9MM in 1999. Instead the agreed to $1.2MM per year from 2011 thru 2035.
A bad financial decision long-term for the Mets, but it worked out baseball-wise. They used the money they didnt have to pay Bonilla right away to sign Mike Hampton. He was NLCS MVP in 2000. So that worked. Mike Hampton ended up becoming a draft pick that they used on David Wright. So that worked out pretty well.
I thought Bonilla’s contract already called for an annuity and the buyout was just an extension of the existing annuity.
I think he was owed the $5.9MM over a few years, like 2000-2002 or something, they deferred it out to 2011 and made it a 25 year annuity.
No, he was making $5.9MM per year, so looks like he was originally owed that in 2000.
Bonilla has a 2nd annuity still ongoing from his 1995 deal with the Mets and Orioles, paying him $500k per year from 2004 for 25 years.
That is an unrelated annuity negotiation. His agent liked doing annuities. Which is smart for many players.
In honor of Ron Hunt I just went outside and threw a snowball at a tree.
Assigning Blame for the Blackouts in Texas
https://judithcurry.com/2021/02/18/assigning-blame-for-the-blackouts-in-texas/
it is so much easier to blame capitalism and not try to do complicated analysis. Maybe the commies have a point. Simplify everything.
Always
Stay
On
Message
He stuck it in one of the craziests of crazies, and is still paying for that shit…
I don’t trust either one of them: She’s nuts and he’s creepy.
he’s creepy – aint no law against that
That’s true, it just strikes me that one shouldn’t use one’s adopted brood as a dating and marriage pool. Call me old fashioned but it appears unseemly.
I mean he did not adopt her and apparently was not really in much contact with her when she was a child nor a father figure for her.
He did adopt two of her other kids though, just not the one he ended up marrying.
Yes. Look, it was tawdry, and not exactly a surprise – he had his character in Manhattan date an honest-to-God high school student for crissakes. So he clearly was attracted to teenaged girls.
That said, that’s not the same as being a pedophile, which is what Farrow accused him of. There has never been any other allegation of pedophilia against him other than that one, made by his soon to be ex-wife in a bitterly contested divorce. And, FWIW, he and Soon-Yi have remained together ever since, for almost 30 years now.
Introduce standard libertarian disclaimer that ephebophilia is not pedophilia
In the case of Soon-Yi, even that is a bit of a stretch. I believe she was 19 or 20 at that time.
Is it creepy when a middle-aged man takes up with a legal age teenager? Yeah. It’s not criminal though.
Yup
He broke rule number one.
This is the side of moses farrow another child
https://twitter.com/MosesFarrow/status/999344860850204675
Interesting read. Mia is definitely batshit, probably abused as a child and witness to it as well. She then took it out on her family.
People suck.
Wow
Any recommendations for non-political podcasts? Music, cars, health – something like that.
1 hour seems to be my attention span limit (sorry Rogan).
I don’t podcast. Never got into the format. I want to either read or watch on youtube.
I was about to mention Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, but most of those are way over one hour. They’re great though.
Yes. Also econtalk, which is mostly non-political.
Occasionally Radio Lab does some great podcasts with little wokism. I used to love Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me until they got the TDS
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
The MeatEater podcast is entertaining
Stuff You Should Know is a good one. It occasionally briefly talks about politics but only as necessary to give context to a topic.
KScope Records is good if you like the music coming out of KScope.
Econtalk is the best.
History According to Bob – 10 minute history segments.
The Way I Heard it – Mike Rowe channels Paul Harvey.
Kscope!
Thanks all! I appreciate the suggestions
It’s mandatory training time again.
Ooo… Fire Safety and Emergency Evacuation.
They have not changed it for working from home, and it still opens up with the heartwarming scene of the Tax and Finance Office Building on fire.
Note – I am not picking on the subject matter, just the presentation.
I have a general safety training. what I hate the most is the stupid cartoon/animations.
A little VA humor relating to fire.
Fuck the VA.. Will never use them again.
I guess some animals are better than other animals.
If cops were deliberately trying to hurt this person they should be held liable. What irks me is “deprive journalists of constitutional rights”. Journalists have no more constitutional rights than any other citizen. Having documentation that you are a member of the media does not give you any special legal rights.
If I were the city, I’d take this case to a jury. Out of 12 people, I bet there will be at least one juror who would vote to acquit because they are sick of rioters and/or they hate the media.
What irks me is “deprive journalists of constitutional rights”. Journalists have no more constitutional rights than any other citizen. Having documentation that you are a member of the media does not give you any special legal rights.
That ship has sailed, hit a reef, and burst into flame before sinking.
wo Democratic members of Congress are pressuring the CEOs of the country’s major TV providers to essentially purge the news networks these Members don’t like, on the basis of the alleged danger posed by “misinformation and conspiracy theories”
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1363961518421868548
I mean anything goes to Save Democracy
The proper term is “Fortify”.. Double plus goodspeak.
Naomi Wolf says something intelligent.
She’s gonna get cancelled.
Kudos to her for being willing to cross lines on principle.
“It does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a car.” Uh, actually that’s exactly what it does.
I’m on his side. If I am going to be named after a car please let it not be a rusted out SUV.
I remember there were protests in France when Renault named a car Zoe.
Then again when I was young I did not know Mercedes was an actual chick name
Then again when I was young I did not know Mercedes was an actual chick name
Just for strippers.
The old South Park spoof of Hooters, where all the girls call themselves car names like Porsche, Mercedes, or Lexus, still cracks me up.
I met Cadillac!
That was a great episode.
Slate Podcast Host Mike Pesca Suspended Following Internal Discussion About Use Of Racial Slur
https://defector.com/mike-pesca-slate-suspended/
The inciting incident occurred last Monday, Feb. 15. In a Slack channel dedicated to discussions of media industry news, a Slate employee shared a New York Times story about Donald G. McNeil’s departure from the paper. According to the Times’s own reporting, McNeil said the n-word “in the context of a conversation about racist language” while chaperoning high school students on a 2019 trip to Peru. The Times knew about the incident in 2019, at which point McNeil was formally disciplined. After The Daily Beast reported on the trip last week, McNeil left the paper.
Hoisted by their own retard.
This new religion is really tedious.
Don’t say the special word
Great, great, great. What we really need more of is politicians passing general laws based on a singular event.
Minnesoda Glibs meetups are going to be way less fun if this goes into effect.
Also, I wonder if the ACLU would be so interested in this ordinance if it was being passed because Trumpistas were planning protests at the Capitol in St. Paul?
“body fluids”
I’m full of piss and vinegar. I guess I can’t march in your parade.
Winston’s Mom is also banned.
from shields to softball bats to glass bottles
Baseball and cricket bats are totes OK, though.
“Under St. Paul’s existing ordinances, which apply to any gathering in excess of 24 people, it is already unlawful to carry metal, lumber, wood or similar material that is more than two inches wide or a quarter-inch thick, about the dimensions of a picket sign handle.” So much for construction crews?
Regarding the concept of “honoring” a person or a group by using their name on a product or structure or similar:
Think about it this way. Is it “honoring” a group to associate their name with an impressive structure that is artistically impressive? What about an organization that does good works? A desirable product? I’d say that’s honoring (with an individual, the issue of consent arises).
Or is it “appropriation?”
What if, say, Planned Parenthood were to dedicate a new headquarters building as “The Donald Trump Center for Reproductive Choice?” Is that honoring? Trolling? Misappropriation of an individual’s identity?
Does it matter if the honored group or person consents?
I don’t get the hate about this. The Cherokee nation is asking that they stop using their name. He even says you may have had good intentions but we don’t like it. Exactly how it should be done. Just because a corporation has used it for a while doesn’t mean they should never ask. They may even have objected in the past and been ignored. So saying just get over it is just being a dick.
I agree that the Cherokee Nation, as a recognized organization that claims to represent its members, has the right to ask Jeep to stop using their name. What if an alternate group representing a different group of Cherokee decides to disagree and ask Jeep to keep using the name. Who owns the name of a group of people? What if there’s a large group of Cherokee out there who don’t care?
The general public are free to decide whether Jeep is a brand they wish to continue supporting with their purchases, based on any number of things, including the public perceptions of their treatment of others. If a Cherokee group says to Jeep “Please stop using our name” and Jeep says “nope,” people can decide if that means something to them. Some will choose not to buy a Jeep because of it, some won’t. Some will choose to look down on those who choose to buy Jeeps.
I really don’t care one way or another about it. If Jeep comes across as being assholes, I’ll be less likely to buy a Jeep.
Who owns the identity? Can you call a wine produced from California-grown grapes a Bordeaux?
My point is people here are hating on this guy for asking. And saying the Cherokee nation should just get over it. They don’t have to get over it. The statement quoted is pretty mild and I find the reaction to it completely dickish.
I interpret his complaint as the opening gambit of a shakedown. I’d be shocked if he isn’t angling for a payoff.
Because the alternative explanation, that he honestly believes that he is helping his tribe by lowering its profile via stripping its name from a popular product, strikes me as too stupid for even a politician.
If they don’t like being associated with an SUV, then thinking it’s good for them is weird
I wonder how many tribal members own SUVs, and how many have some kind of principled objection to them.
I still think the most likely explanation is “shakedown”. But I admit assuming the worst of politicians is my bias.
Guilty consciences can be quite profitable. Just ask any TV evangelist or the Catholic Church.
My negative reaction stems from the context. It’s not like the Jeep Cherokee is new. The car has decades of history. Yet only now it’s not okay to be named that anymore? Puh-lease. It’s just more of this apartheid mentality that has infected our culture. You can’t use that name because you are white/capitalist/whatever.
That’s ignoring history. It’s not as if native Americans hadn’t objected to lots of things (children forced into boarding schools, for example) over the years and gotten ignored. So this could be a sore point where they now have traction and are likely to succeed.
I do know that many Lakota people long hated the use of Sioux for UND, but were unable to get anywhere, until they did. And people went off whining about why are they complaining now. They’ve been complaining for years, you just didn’t pay attention. I suspect the same about what you’re calling context now. Because you aren’t aware of past objections, you assume they were never made.
Because you aren’t aware of past objections, you assume they were never made.
I’m aware of past objections from progs white knighting for the various tribes, but until recently, I’ve heard little to no pushback from actual members of the tribes.
I stand to be corrected if you can show me this massive swell of complaints from the rank and file tribe members back in the 80s and 90s, but my understanding has been that they mostly didn’t care, and the few that did care were given a disproportionately loud megaphone by white-hating racist progs.
Because rank and file get in the papers? What’s your basis for saying they didn’t care? Do you know any tribe members? I say Lakota tribe members cared because of college friends repeatedly bringing it up (pretty bitterly). Was it in the papers? No, because they were ignored.
Polls like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/05/23/poll-shows-native-americans-dont-care-that-much-about-the-name-redskins/
I’m not gonna track down historical polls from the 90s, but even as recently as 2016, “Redskins” was earning a collective yawn.
Tulip, I don’t think tribal members who go to college are the rank and file. More drop out of high school than get college degrees, including 2 year associate degrees.
How did I know one of you would insist that my friends don’t count?
We’re not talking about the Red skins Trashy. What basis do you have for saying the Cherokee don’t care about the name? Before you complain that this isn’t fair, it is no less fair than demanding I find proof of rank and file (and no doubt you’ll insist that the people I find aren’t really rank and file) objecting.
I’m sure you’ll say Standing Rock council objecting doesn’t count here too. https://native-americans.com/history-of-the-fighting-sioux-mascot-controversy/
The Detroit News version of this story (pay walled) says the Cherokee nation has repeatedly expressed frustration with Jeeps use of the name.
Fuck off Tulip. I’m not playing this game with you. Either discuss in good faith or leave me out of it. I’m not doing this mind reading bullshit.
Tulip, the point isn’t if they have the option to complain, rather if they right to force others to stop using a word. As a free speech advocate, I cannot see a case where the latter is possible.
You fuck off, I found proof the Cherokee nation has objected in the past. I’m not the one insisting on “rank and file” only so shove your good faith bullshit
shove your good faith bullshit
Oh, I’m so sorry, was I BEING A DICK??
???
Don’t bother telling me how wrong I am, I’ll show myself out.
*mute button*
Tulip, you do know the tribal governments are even less representative than our fedgov? Tribal votes are only given to those still living on a reservation, thus those still beholden to the thought that they cannot coexist with ‘the white man’, so tribal govs are often petty family squabbles about the best ways to keep themselves victimized so they can keep getting the lucre. It’s a sad state of affairs.
CPRM, they aren’t forcing, they’re asking. And people here are saying they should just get over it because it has been that way for decades and generally being dicks about it. Just suggesting that maybe they could, you know, stop being such dicks, and consider the issue, did not go over well.
CPRM, it is sad situation, but not necessarily sadder than many small towns. I grew up in one.
How did I know one of you would insist that my friends don’t count?
I didn’t say that. I said they weren’t “rank and file”, as you asserted? implied?
Trashy and RC Dean sum up why I think this guy can go fuck himself.
And my response sums up why I think you’re being a dick
Who owns the identity of an ethnic/cultural group?
No identifiable person or legal entity. Its public domain. It has to be, or any reference to it would have to be bought and paid for.
Just call it the Jeep Chokecherry and be done with it.
I’d be interested in going up to the Cherokee nation and counting out how many Cherokees I see in driveways. I bet it’s a lot, considering how popular they are here in Dallas.
I don’t know any Cherokee, but I know lots of Injuns that drive them.
Senior quote they didn’t print in my yearbook:
I love to eat Chinese, but I won’t touch the food.
They thought is was sexist or some shit, I think they just hated the Chinee.
A recent nationally representative survey commissioned by Skeptic Mag asked respondents to estimate the number of unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019. Overall, 44% of liberals guessed 1,000 or more as compared to 20% of conservatives (this calculation is based on the..
https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1364024711592738817
Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
Imagine if the Left was as outraged with their political leaders visiting Epstein Island as they are about @TedCruz going to Cancun with his family.
I’ll be in my bunk.
For Boebert or for Epstein Island?
Ron Paul is a legend.
Truth.
Never gives an inch on his principles. Great man.
Haha! I frigging loved The Morton Downey Jr Show when I was a kid. I think that episode and the Dukes of Hazzard set me up to be a libertarian.
I went to a filming of that show once. Downey came out before the show to talk to the audience. He was calm and polite. As soon as the camera went on, the act started. The topic of the show was strippers. Good time.
“I’m tired of people like you, using the Constitution to get away with anything you want! If we legalize drugs, we’ve giving up on the whole country.”
– Lisa Sliwa (wife of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa)
The crowd chanting “Just Say No!”, while ignoring everything Dr. Paul was saying, and the mockery from Downey are also embarrassing.
Interesting, because the actual Curtis & Nancy Sliwa were commenting & donating on Smoke n Scan‘s livestream last night.
I like to think he had a Road To Damascus moment but the cynical curmudgeon in me remembers that he just orchestrated a hostile takeover of the Reform Party and is running for mayor this year. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as I still have a soft spot for the pure 1970s silliness that is the Guardian Angels.
I’m tired of people like you, using the Constitution
Well, she should be happy that the few remaining tatters are being relegated to the dustbin of history.
I like Woody Allen, pre- Hannah and Her Simpering Pretentious Blathering Overdressed Sisters.
He still made some great movies after that one, particularly Crimes and Misdemeanors, but yeah, a lot of dreck too.
Antifa is just an idea, man.
During his testimony, Garland said that domestic terrorism in America today is “more dangerous” than at the time of the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing, and pledged to continue the investigation in the January 6 Capitol riot wherever it takes him, including “aiders and abettors who were not present on January 6.” To elaborate on his position on domestic terrorism, Senator Hawley asked Garland whether he considered antifa assaults on federal property, like courthouses and other federal buildings in (for example) Seattle and Portland, where antifa and BLM rioted in the summer of 2020.
“An attack on a courthouse while in operation — trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases—that plainly is domestic uh uh um um uh uh extremism uh uh um um uh uh um domestic terrorism,” Garland explained before adding the following caveat: “An attack simply on government property at night, or under any other kind of circumstances, is a clear crime and a serious one, and should be punished.”
“I don’t mean—I don’t know enough of the facts of the example you were talking about,” Garland told Hawley. Apparently, Garland slept through the summer of 2020.
“But, that’s where I draw the line,” Garland continued. “One is, uh, both are criminal, um uh uh, but one is, uh, a core attack on our democratic institutions.”
All this talk about right-wing extremism being the most dangerous is based on what *might* happen. Sure, antifa assaulted people and destroyed property, but there are people on the right who have guns, and could possibly do some really bad things!
He sounds like Otter in Animal House.
The differences between right-wing domestic terrorism and left-wing domestic terrorism are night and day.
“An attack on a courthouse while in operation — trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases—that plainly is domestic uh uh um um uh uh extremism uh uh um um uh uh um domestic terrorism,” Garland explained before adding the following caveat: “An attack simply on government property at night, or under any other kind of circumstances, is a clear crime and a serious one, and should be punished.”
He obviously got his marching orders from his political masters.
An attack simply on government property at night, or under any other kind of circumstances, is a clear crime and a serious one, and should be punished.
Yet I didn’t read about him vowing to go after antifa.
I guess the Oklahoma CIty bombing wouldn’t have been terrorism if the bomb had gone off at 7:59, before the building was open for business? Sure, Merrick, you hack.
We dodged a bullet when his SCOTUS nomination was torpedoed.
Oh, and yes, his distinction between attacks doesn’t hold up at all. If McVeigh had dropped that building at night, the intent to disrupt government activity would still have been front and center. Antifa isn’t attacking federal buildings with any other purpose than disrupting government activity.
Agreed.
But like I said in last night’s thread: If any motherfucker has a grudge, it’s this mothetfucker.
And it looks like he has a score to settle.
How ’bout the Jeep Insurrectionist?
With no end in sight for the offended groups crying about use of “Cherokee” in car names, or too few women here, or cultural appropriation there, it’s clear that the slippery slope is very real. Give an inch, and they’ll take a mile.
We should have followed the example of Queen Elizabeth II: never complain, never explain.
Something to add to your Amazon wishlist.
Amazon is evil support your local stores
Man must be nice to be able to profit on the back of the stupid. I wish I could get a good scam going. But it is not in my personality
“If I Did It” by Hillary Clinton.
[golf claps]
The proposed amendment would also ban baseball and softball bats, regardless of size, unless they’re composed of cloth, cardboard or paper for display purposes; aerosol spray, tear gas, mace, pepper spray or bear repellant; projectile launchers, catapults or wrist rockets; “dangerous items” such as knives, swords, sabers, axes, hatchets, ice picks, razor blades, martial arts weapons, Tasers, stun guns or chains greater than 20 inches in length; balloons, bottles, water cannons, water guns filled with flammables, body fluids, biohazard or other noxious matter; glass bottles; open flame torches, lanterns or other combustibles using gasoline, kerosene, propane or other fuel sources.
A defenseless population is easier to subjugate.
chains greater than 20 inches in length
You could fuck somebody up pretty seriously with a 20 inch chain. Probably at least as bad as a softball bat.
Without a chain Biden wouldn’t have been able to protect himself from Corn Pop.
If you want something to go away, you just pass a law and POOF that thing goes away.
I hope they keep the Cherokee name. My first vehicle after I got a job was a 96 Grand Cherokee. It was beautiful. I had planned on keeping it for 20 years but about 8 years in, a woman ran a stop sign and T-boned me, and the damage to the frame was too bad to repair. * sighs *
I follow Menno for fitness stuff but this post is about the lockdowns which he generally opposes (like lots of people, I noticed, in the finesse industry)
https://www.facebook.com/MennoHenselmans/posts/3818184184906055
First reply
“Those that refuse to conform in order to battle the threat, in the face of scientific evidence and current understanding, reason, logic and facts, are the parasites on society.”
“We have almost zero cases daily in Australia, and life is pretty much normal. Gyms and busy clubs are open. So yeah, lockdowns work 100%” – now do belgium
NZ dollar hits 34-month high, as New Zealand becomes the first developed country with investment-grade debt to receive a credit rating upgrade since COVID-19 hit
https://www.interest.co.nz/news/109175/nz-dollar-hits-34-month-high-new-zealand-becomes-first-developed-country-investment
lockdowns are good.
Ah, the island nation of Australia (a damn big island but still).
Normal? They lockdown hard every time somebody sneezes.
Menno is really good. Knows his stuff but is willing to stake out heterodox opinions if he thinks the data warrants it.
10 days ago we set a state record for cold overnight temperature at -50F. Last night it was 84 degrees warmer.
Break out the shorts!
we did not have an actual winter either this year or the last.
Minus 50? I didn’t know we had any Siberian Glibs.
Child abuse.
Go to hell, you tyrannical, garden gnome cunte.
“There are things, even if you’re vaccinated, that you’re not going to be able to do in society: for example, indoor dining, theaters, places where people congregate,” he said. “That’s because of the safety of society.”
Fauci said he wanted Americans to continue restricting their public activities due to high levels of coronavirus in the country.
He said even vaccinated people could “conceivably be infected” by the virus and have it in their nasopharynx, which is why he recommended that vaccinated Americans continue to wear masks.
“[W]e hope that when the data comes in, it’s going to show that the virus level is quite low and you’re not transmitting it, we don’t know that now,” he said.
We went out for dinner Sunday.
It was delicious.
I went out Saturday night. I had some good prime rib. The bar area was packed.
The distancing rules are still in effect in NH. “100% capacity” which isn’t really 100% capacity because parties either have to be six feet apart or have a six foot high barrier between them. There were no such barriers at the bar and folks were seated as they were back in normal times. I was curious, and asked the manager about distancing, and she said, “No, we’re not doing that anymore.”
Fauci can go fuck himself.
I’m invoking the ancient American custom of Go Fuck Yourself here. I’ve gone out to eat and gone to the theater a bunch of times, and there’s nothing that power-mad munchkin bureaucrat can do to stop me.
A gentle nudge from your friendly public health experts in Minnesoda
Carry on till it’s gone
There are a whole lotta good reasons to dislike Billy Corgan, bur goddamn do I love his guitar tone from Siamese Dream. I didn’t want to admit I really liked that album for the longest time, but I can’t help it.
Agreed. I break that one out pretty frequently. Great for the gym.
That’s one of of the few albums I can still listen to beginning to end. I saw them at Aragon in Chicago in 1993. They opened with “Soma”, and when he hit that chord they lit up the whole place, and you could just feel it in your chest. Best concert moment ever. The whole show was amazing.
“..LET ME OUUUUT!” Love that tune.
“Those that refuse to conform in order to battle the threat, in the face of scientific evidence and current understanding, reason, logic and facts, are the parasites on society.”
Politics as religious fanaticism.
OBEY. It has nothing to do with medicine anymore.
And you know what needs to be done with parasites don’t you?
People need to learn the difference between what the scientific research shows and what the government says the scientific research shows.
Of course, sometimes there’s a very large body of scientific research with a variety of conclusions, and any reasonable person should realize that more information is needed before we go making massive changes based on this info… But “follow the science” sounds better and makes people feel good about themselves.
W.E.B. DuBois. That fucking communist. On a related note, my DVD of the Uncle Tom Documentary arrived yesterday. I also ordered the Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington prints from their merchandise store. Both are hanging up in my house.
“I think we’re in a day and age in this country where it’s time for both corporations and team sports to retire the use of Native American names, images and mascots from their products, team jerseys and sports in general,” Hoskin said in his statement.
Go fuck yourself.
Representatives Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerny, both of whom represent California and sit on the Energy and Commerce Committee, claim it’s the responsibility of these companies to address media outlets ‘disseminating misinformation to millions’ through their airwaves.
Go fuck yourselves.
The blast killed Pekny and injured his brother, 27-year-old Michael Pekny, who was treated for his injuries at the Garnet Medical Center in Middletown, according to police.
Not a Darwin.
Bethany Meyer tweeted on Feb. 17, “All the rich white parents suddenly concerned about mental health can take a seat. Most of them are causing their kids’ anxiety by pressuring them to complete asynchronous work and feeding into their sense of entitlement. Sorry/not sorry.”
Go fuck yourself.
In too local news, three bills of interest to Reopen NH are coming up for a vote in the full House. HB 63, HB 187, and HB 365.
Reopen NH supports HB 63. It would refund any fines collected for emergency order violations, restore any licenses yanked for emergency order violations, and expunge any criminal records for violated emergency orders.
Reopen NH also supports HB 187. This bill restricts the emergency powers of the head of NH Department of Health and Human Services (NH-DHHS).
Reopen NH opposes HB 365. This bill would give state and local law enforcement the power to enforce Federal laws and Federal edicts, including those from Federal health officials.
The votes are on the 24th and 25th, so if you’re in New Hampshire, contact your state reps soon.
The House Judiciary committee will hold a hearing on the 26th on HB 440. This another bill Reopen NH supports. The bill prevents the state government from restricting religious liberty during an emergency. It’s sad that we need a law for that. You’d think the Constitution would be enough.
Next week there will be 11 committee hearings on bills and resolutions of interest to Reopen NH. The big one is HCR 1, which will end the state of emergency. The committee hearing for that resolution is scheduled for March 1st.
A follow-up on the too-local news: Any interest in my writing up articles following what is going on? I plan to attend at least some of the committee hearings next week. Through Zoom because the State House is still closed.
Yes, we need to see the sausage being made.
I really hope all of this turns out in favor of reopen.
For my own sake if nothing else.
I really need someplace within reach where I can go and do normal things. I might not be extroverted, but the strain of fretting over being harassed if I dare go outside is grating on me.
So yes, I am interested in more info.
Are we the same person.
I don’t mind telling some random asshole to fuck off, but not multiple times, every single time I leave the house.
“An attack on a courthouse while in operation — trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases—that plainly is domestic uh uh um um uh uh extremism uh uh um um uh uh um domestic terrorism,” Garland explained before adding the following caveat: “An attack simply on government property at night, or under any other kind of circumstances, is a clear crime and a serious one, and should be punished.”
That’s quite the high wire act, Humpty Dumpty.
Now what about when Schumer stood outside the Supreme Court and threatened the justices? Was that um um domestic terrorism?
Protected Democratic Free Speech clause in the FYTW founding documents.
What the fuck is “asynchronous work”?
A phrase used by the dimwitted in an attempt to appear intelligent?
I’m guessing it is “homework”. Work that you do on your own time and not as part of a class activity?
It’s work done on your own schedule rather than being required to be present a set time. Also known as flextime for paid work. For school work, you won’t have set classtimes but might have assignments due say every Tuesday by midnight. You work on the assignments on your time and submit before the deadline.
I think asynchronous is far superior to synchronous. Both my job and school coursework are asynchronous, and I’ll never do synchronous versions of either again.
It take a lot of work and effort for a teacher or professor to design and prepare an effective asynchronous course. It’s much more difficult than lecturing bullshit at students. So distance learning at public schools is crap and setting up kids to fail. There are some private school middle and high schools that did remote asynchronous learning before coronavirus… primarily for homeschoolers… and those type of courses are very well developed.
“Asynchronous” strikes me as a pretentious word for “unscheduled”.
I’ve never heard it called anything except asynchronous so never really thought about it. There are probably differences in the meanings on a granular level, but that’s all I got.
I’ve never heard that term applied to these contexts, only in terms of electronic communications and network protocols.
I don’t recall hearing the term “asynchronous” until just now. It means “not synchronized”, as in, not happening at the same time. It strikes me as more appropriate to an industrial process, rather than public school . . . oh, never mind.
Its applicable to any form of communication. Classically the examples were email is asynchronous, while a hpone call is synchronous. If these lessons are prerecorded as opposed to live then you could apply the term there, but it is probably just done to sound fancy. Pre-recorded or recorded is so 20th century.
I just call it “on demand.”
(I’m a big fan of “asynchronous nookie” with the Spousal Unit.)
Good old Prussian model.
Yeah, as UCS describes, it’s very common in communication protocols. To expand on the examples, in e-mail, it doesn’t matter if a packet shows up delayer or out of order, as it won’t matter until the whole message is there. Audio (phone call) if there’s any latency or dropped packets, you’ll notice audio call qualities pretty quickly (any latency over 100 ms is considered unusable for standard audio communications).
If you do a gender reveal party aren’t you taking away the ability of the doctor to assign the gender at birth?
You’re presuming the child’s gender. That’s child abuse.
UNFAIR
Facebook’s efforts to police online ads for vaccine misinformation are unintentionally blocking messages from cities, health care providers and community and faith-based groups promoting Covid shots.
Paid-for messages from at least 110 groups aimed at raising awareness of how the vaccines work or where to get inoculated were flagged and sent to Facebook’s register of political messages, a POLITICO review of barred ads dating from last September shows.
Sponsors of the ads have the option of appealing but say the process may prove too burdensome while they deal with the halting distribution of vaccines and respond to new more contagious strains of the virus. That’s led some public health experts to question if Facebook can be a viable forum for information on the pandemic as it faces pressure to combat anti-vaccination forces that have been prevalent on its platform.
The restrictions “made it very difficult for the township in our efforts to inform our residents about important information regarding Covid-19 registration and updates,” said Mary Hastings, executive administrator of Orland Township, Illinois, which had two ads blocked this month. “This is very unfair.”
“You’re only supposed to block the stuff we don’t like.”
Tell me again, who “politicized” the plague?
Facebook’s restrictions block effective public health communications, said Kenzie Cameron, a Northwestern University researcher studying health communications, who reviewed several of the banned ads. Personalizing ads, or providing useful information to vaccine-hesitant people or individuals unable to navigate the system, are important strategies for effective public health communications.
Facebook has to do exactly as you wish, because you’re too lazy and stupid to find another way to get your message out.
Our best. Our brightest.
Well if this Cherokee stuff gains legs, Air Cav will be fucked.
Jeep should rename the Cherokee the Old Hickory. Or maybe the Trailblazer of Tears?
Announcing the new 2022 Jeep Smallpox Outbreak!
Or the Jeep Fire Water
Just reprint the nameplate to read Chairohkey.
If I’m updating nameplates, I’m going with Custer
Custard?
“Trailblazer of Tears?”
*narrows gaze*
It’s certainly nothing to Crow about.
Narrowing gaze on yourself?
Harsh.
Jeep Free Blankets
MInnesoda Dept of Health commissioner is doing her best to keep the panic stoked: 39 OUTBREAKS AT BARS AND RESTAURANTS!!!!
So no more than 390 cases in the last two months in a state of 5 million. Cases have been dropping like a stone for the last few months. We had 5K cases in the last 7 days (55 deaths). But yeah we really have to worry about bars and restaurants because there have been 39 “outbreaks” none of which had more than 10 cases.
23 gym outbreaks. Probably all caused by Tundra posing in the mirror and grunting super loud as he flexes.
Can’t ban these guns.
*flexes*
Until people demand that their governments produce the evidence it will continue. American’s have gone the route of believing ‘experts’ as if they are gods. It has been pretty much shown that bars and restaurants (like schools) are not a significant vector for the virus but they are the most viable to the average American so it is used to perpetuate the fear.
I dont believe a word of that.
Because people without symptoms can spread the virus
The magic variable.
“You’ll never disprove our claims now, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
I too ground my teeth reading about our #1 SCIENCE person in the state peddling the fear of asymptomatic spread.
They’re carriers, pretty standard for a lot of diseases but it isn’t likely to be one of the primary causes of spread. Unless it can be proven to be a substantial source of disease then I don’t want to hear it.
If asymptomatics are capable of spreading the disease, then the virus is traveling on breath vapors and the masks in current usage are of no use whatsoever except as theater.
This entire COVID brouhaha has been an exercise in how much cognitive dissonance the population can tolerate. It turns out that it’s quite a lot.
“Get the vaccine!”
“The vaccine doesn’t protect anybody! Wear a mask!”
Eek!
*fetches 6′ pool noodle*
Your measurements are wrong.
*trims 66 inches off pool noodle*
If you trim 6″ off the pool noodle, and call the remaining 66″ scrap, then you can use it and claim a recycling credit. Plus, if you write off the scrap first, your raw material cost goes to 0.
It is probably very difficult to spread it without symptoms but drinking after someone who’s asymptotic or kissing on them or even being in the room with them and they also suffer from something like allergies would be likely to lead to catching Covid. It’s not that it happens often but making the argument that it can’t or won’t happen is self-defeating. It’s almost certainly overblown though and the fact that they make vague proclamations without showing the work tells me all I need to know.
Wouldn’t pre-symptomatic be a more precise term? I could buy into the idea that there is a period of time where the viral load is high enough to spread but not yet cause symptoms. To a layman, such as myself, I would seem like that would be a pretty narrow window though.
Like any other virus except maybe Ebola.
This is all an attempt to drag this shit as long as they can. We’re rapidly approaching herd immunity and all the people who like it the way it is right now want to keep it that way.
I’m pretty sure that’s why the news keeps talking about the new more virulent variants that are spreading.
Its not impossible (which is the new standard – absolute proof of complete impossibility). No risk (that matters) that asymptomatic transmission can happen through casual contact or in public has ever been shown, though, as far as I know.
And some people are never symptomatic/sick. They have the virus (temporarily), but their immune system gets on top of it so fast it never makes them sick. This means they don’t have a viral load that matters to their health (and likely not to transmissibility).
“Get the vaccine!”
“The vaccine doesn’t protect anybody! Wear a mask!”
This.
The next time somebody asks me about getting “vaccinated” I’m going to respond, “Why bother? They openly admit it doesn’t work.”
I want one of them new Jeep “Sits-by-the-Road” SUVs.
That’s called a Ford
It took almost 20 minutes, but Tulip provided the obvious joke 😉
Chief F-150 agrees.
Well, at least Chevy got rid of that truck named after the S-10 tribe.
Chief Pontiac haz sad.
Jeep Grand Elizabeth Warren, Last of the Fauxhicans.
I work for the Tribe formerly known as the Winnebago, which was a name given to them by their enemy, the Fox, who were allied with the French. In the Fox language it meant ‘The Smelly People’. They changed the tribal name back to some kind of thing similar to what they called themselves previously when the fed gov let them. They never sued the camper company.
So now the Winnebago refers to who? The Turks?
To these guys I guess.
These people.
They probably thought it was funny that the company was called The Smelly People.
Usurpers.
The Republican Party’s undermining of democracy began much earlier. Since about 2000, the party has tried to suppress Democratic votes through stringent voter-identification laws and purges of voter rolls. In addition, Republican legislatures have grotesquely gerrymandered legislative districts, enabling Republicans to maintain control of state legislatures and, at times, the House of Representatives, while failing to win majorities of the vote. Republicans have also erected obstacles to college students’ voting, delayed elections that they anticipated they would lose, and eviscerated the powers of Democratic governors. Republican state legislators have also rejected the results of voter initiatives and imposed obstacles to putting such initiatives on the ballot in the first place.
In 2020, Democrats overcame such hurdles and won control of Congress and the presidency. One of their first legislative initiatives will be a wide-ranging measure to protect the right to vote, end legislative gerrymandering, reduce the influence of money in politics, and secure other democratic reforms. However, because of a combination of structural advantages Republicans have enjoyed in the Senate and the Electoral College, and because of Senator Mitch McConnell’s Machiavellian stratagems to pack the Supreme Court, this and other Democratic reform efforts remain potentially vulnerable to a constitutional veto from today’s Republican-sympathizing Supreme Court. Unless Democrats expand the size of the Court, small-d democratic reform will be doomed before it even begins. They must do this now, as they are unlikely to have another chance. …
These democratic deficits in the Senate and the Electoral College have enabled Republicans to dominate the Supreme Court, despite winning the support of a diminishing minority of voters. Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, neither of whom initially entered the White House with even a plurality of the popular vote, together appointed five justices who are on the Court today—a majority. Four of those justices were confirmed by narrow majorities of Republican senators who did not represent a majority of the American people. If the Senate and the Electoral College were more reflective of majority will, today’s Supreme Court would look dramatically different. It could not possibly have become the most conservative Court in the past hundred years, as several academic studies have demonstrated it to be.
With their majority on the Court, the Republican justices have undermined labor unions, unleashed money in politics, protected corporations from class-action litigation and punitive-damage awards, curbed antitrust law, eroded the constitutional right to abortion, invalidated gun-control measures, struck down voluntary efforts by school boards to achieve integration through race-conscious means, and threatened to abolish race-based affirmative action. (Referring to justices as “conservative” or “Republican-appointed”—or “liberal” or “Democratic-appointed”—is conventional but this obscures the reality that in today’s ultra-polarized environment, the justices’ voting patterns display fairly consistent partisan preferences, not simply political ideologies. Given this pattern, I will refer to them as either “Republican justices” or “Democratic justices,” as that is what they are.)
They are quite brazen about their goal of gutting election integrity, aren’t they?
All hanging chads r belong to us!
Usurpers indeed. Biden is doing his best King John impression, frightened of his own people, making sure the palace guard is loyal to the crown, etc. and big tech is playing The Sheriff of Nottingham. I don’t know that Trump fits the bill as Robin Hood but 4chan is definitely his merry men.
You sound like a terrorist! I’ma report you!
You could invert the parties and this would describe the state of Maryland pretty well (apart from the voter ID bits). Moreover, California’s top-two “jungle primary” laughs at the feebler attempts to create one-party states. As it turns out, winning control of the state legislature is rather important in the structure of our system, and once achieved, both parties act like assholes to their opponents.
The great fallacy of representation is that party control of the state vs. party preferences of the voters has any deep significance. Parties are, at best, a proxy for voter interests, and representation should be focused on those interests and not their proxies. Put another way, ensuring the Democrats or Republicans get more “fairness” is beside the point. “Democrat” and “Republican” are just different names for establishment hacks, and balancing between those two flavors of shit still leaves you with shit. Third parties, independents, and heterodox major party members are more significant to representation than ticking up the D or R column another couple of points.
They’re carriers, pretty standard for a lot of diseases but it isn’t likely to be one of the primary causes of spread. Unless it can be proven to be a substantial source of disease then I don’t want to hear it.
They can’t even make a compelling case to support the claims they make about how incredibly contagious it is.
Where are the hundreds of thousands of dead airline passengers from last spring and summer, before the public health witch doctors issued their voodoo charm requirement?
Where are the mountains of dead in Sturgis?
The survivors took over the capitol in a violent overthrow Jan 6. Where have you been?
The crew of the aircraft carrier and the passengers on the cruise ship – neither of which even went above 50% infection rate. Ohhh – super contagious!!!!
Wouldn’t pre-symptomatic be a more precise term? I could buy into the idea that there is a period of time where the viral load is high enough to spread but not yet cause symptoms. To a layman, such as myself, I would seem like that would be a pretty narrow window though.
Where are the studies involving air sample analysis of the virus expelled in real time by symptomatic patients?
Wouldn’t you think that might be a productive avenue of research? Instead we get high school science fair projects involving plant misters.
1st Amendment violation? The Energy and Commerce committee is a private company and can do what they want.
“No sports. Sorry, don’t blame me. Blame leagues for not playing year round and every day.”
au Contraire
https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/hogs-complete-texas-trifecta-sweep/
I don’t recall hearing the term “asynchronous” until just now. It means “not synchronized”, as in, not happening at the same time. It strikes me as more appropriate to an industrial process, rather than public school . . . oh, never mind.
I guess it’s what happens when one of the sticks falls out of the bundle.
Abundle of sticks, you say?
If only there was a better way to transport oil.
A train collided with an 18-wheeler outside Cameron, Texas, on Tuesday morning, police confirmed to Fox News.
The train, which was carrying oil tankers, exploded as a result of the crash, and authorities have labeled the crash a hazmat situation, according to the Cameron Police Department.
Police first received communication about the crash around 6:45 a.m. CT and sent out mutual aid to first responders at the scene.
Clearly the best thing to do with petroleum is leave it in the ground!
Why wasn’t Ted Cruz out there personally flagging the grade crossing?
Went to wake up my 15/16 year olds cause they want to be treated as adults but can’t be dragged out of bed to get in their classes. “Why did you wake us up, we don’t have school today. Juniors are testing ACTs”
I called the school asking why I have to hear that from my kids, who I already trust as much as little because they are teenagers. “Oh, well you should have gotten an email”. One of these days Alice…
Tulip saw your reply about the hot sauce. Hopefully you have some left over, I would gladly buy some cause it sounds delicious.
Assholes and Karens (or Kaitlins?) everywhere.
A heroic couple who rescued a missing dog that had been lost in snow-covered mountains for two weeks has been reported to the police for supposedly breaking lockdown rules.
Those are hills and they are good people and Ireland can get fucked.
Moors, not the black kind, and they deserve getting hit as hard they can. Ireland dropped the ball on Republicanism. Fuck them.
The card says Moops.
Even though it’s a criminal offense to do so in Canada, I would openly and publicly tell a cop to go fuck him/herself if they came after me for rescuing my dog.
And I’d insist on a jury trial.
The cop would shoot your dog if you told him to go fuck himself.
Since she’d already be cradled in my arms, I hope the cop’s up for a first-degree murder charge, some serious time in PMITA Federal, and the special attentions and ministrations of his/her fellow inmates when they figure out who’s graced them with his/her presence.
Someone needs an asskicking in the worst way.
They can get in line with all the rest.
The new Jeep Chokecherry.
Because we’re not allowed to name any of our stuff after any identifiable group of Native Americans™, but we still need to use up all those letters.
I would drive the shit out of a Jeep Homesteader, or a Jeep Conquistador. They need to start naming their Jeeps after tribes of people who arrived later.
Jeep Cracker
Maybe you could work on just keeping them clean.
Harvard University will soon launch an app designed to help transgender students find inclusive restrooms on campus.
Harvard’s Gender Inclusive Restroom Mapping project aims to eliminate “restroom avoidance” and “experiences of anxiety around restroom use.” A team of collaborators that includes the school’s Title IX and BGLTQ Student Life offices has begun taking stock of the inclusive restrooms presently available at the university.
The group is working “in partnership with” the Office of the President and Provost, Harvard Medical School, and university faculty. Its online map will be launched this spring, the Harvard Crimson reported Friday.
Time was, finding a glory hole was a hit or miss affair; now there’s an application for that? What a country!
BGLTQ Student Life
Rare to see the B up front. I bet there’s some stupid petty drama behind it. Why not put the T first? They’re the ones driving the show today and everybody knows it. Similarly: LGBTXYZ has become the norm, but the G used to come first, e.g. as still seen in GLAAD. I’m sure it won’t take a genius to figure out why it got changed.
I used to (legally – ahem) pick up dates at GLYB (gay and lesbian youth of Buffalo). I wonder what it’s called now.
Grindr?
Pretty much. The bar scene was still big before COVID, and of course some of us just find each other in our day-to-day lives.
The gay orgs that still exist are all activists/fundraisers for Democrats.
Undue influence! Guilt by association!
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent in a Pennsylvania GOP election lawsuit has prompted critics to call for his wife Virginia “Ginni” Thomas to be investigated on Monday.
Ginni’s past comments were put under the social media spotlight shortly after her husband’s dissent, with many citing a pair of January 6 Facebook posts in support of the “Stop the Steal” rally seeking to overturn the election outcome in favor of former President Donald Trump. Although spouses of Supreme Court justices typically avoid politics, Ginni Thomas has frequently expressed her opinions in public.
The posts were captured by Slate reporter Mark Joseph Stern before being deleted from the internet. One featured Thomas commenting “LOVE MAGA people!!!” while sharing a link to a video stream of the demonstration before it turned violent, while the other saw her comment “GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP or PRAYING!” Social media calls to investigate Thomas over unsubstantiated allegations that she was connected to the riot quickly followed her husband’s dissent.
“I’m concerned that #SCOTUS Justice Thomas dissented—we will have to learn more about the role his wife Gini Thomas played in raising money for Trump’s deadly #Jan6 ‘Insurrection Day,'” Christine Pelosi, Democratic strategist and daughter of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), tweeted.
There’s always a reason to investigate that Uncle Tom sonofabitch. Having a black man on the Supreme Court who doesn’t tow the Democratic lion is an embarrassment. It makes us look bad in the eyes of the world.
Dems are in full banana republic mode.
Did ya see this?
Keep it up, Democrats. Struggle sessions for everybody!
*pops popcorn*
Mentioned in team meeting: “Ebola is back in east Africa”
Golly, I wonder what happens when you focus on one infectious disease to the exclusion of all others for an entire year?
East africa?
I’d known it had returned to west africa and keeps popping up in the Congo, but hadn’t heard of any in the east. Did someone misspeak, or was there more ebola than I was aware of?
OMG what if some of those people with Ebola are also infected with SARS-CoV2? It’s like a walking gain-of-function lab.
Or not.
Time to ban travel from those
shitholesgreat countries that we won’t let people in from!.Back, as in it never left?
Black water fever is more prevalent and insidious yet no one talks about it much. The same for half of a dozen other horrible exotics in equatorial Africa. And Asia. And South America. I dont hear people talking about Malaria much either.
i keep getting woke emails from corporate in my work inbox. If those people from the offices heard the way we interact with one another on the floor here they would be scandalized.
Independence Day, the last time miniatures were used in a Blockbuster film on such a large scale. Oh that has nothing to do with your rantings, carry one.
Good luck. If the top is woke, eventually it will be forced down everyone else’s throats. Though, the situation overall reminds me of the situation between women actually going into STEM vs. complaining about there not being enough women in STEM. I’m going to guess that the diversity on various axes of your coworkers is not quite meeting the corporate DEI goals, but at the same time, none of those DEI-focused executives and office workers are about to trade in their cushy air conditioned lives to work in the plant.
https://youtu.be/-uOBveFKdGs
The gentlemen who operate a steel mill using course language? I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!
The crew of the aircraft carrier and the passengers on the cruise ship – neither of which even went above 50% infection rate. Ohhh – super contagious!!!!
The Theodore Roosevelt is a good example to throw in their faces. I don’t remember the cruise ship.
If those people from the offices heard the way we interact with one another on the floor here they would be scandalized.
Those poor delicate little hothouse flowers.
Reflecting back on just how deeply wokeism has infiltrated modern businesses and industry, I’m wondering if it has limits at all.
In another thread on another day, a Glib in the know said that even medicine is not taught as a means to diagnose and then cure or help individuals; rather, community health and equality are emphasized, even to the point of excluding inconvenient but pertinent facts.
I thought that surely in hard sciences like physics and architecture, the harsh light of math would assert itself.
But what I’m seeing is that , yes, many engineers and hard scientists stick to the facts and scientific method. But their influence is diluted by people who entered those fields without qualifications but who ticked diversity boxes or brought a “socially responsible approach.”
The deadwood drags down the dwindling numbers of doers so that some companies (and state funded entities like NASA) can no longer do their core function. Everything takes longer or failed utterly before completion.
Our infrastructure will eventually crumble, and citizen-subjects will clamor for the state to “do something”. Is this how America will die?
One industry I’m curious about is actuarial work. The insurance actuarial tables are ruthless in their accuracy. Insurers have to know exactly where to draw the line on risk and likelihood of paying out.
If they are overtaken by woke culture that says it’s not fair to charge a higher premium for people who have certain risk factors, many of which the individual cannot control, the insurance industry will fold.
What will replace it? Some kind of government mandated atrocity that costs more and delivers less.
I fear we have reached the tipping point as a society.
And then people wonder why other, less-enlightened countries are beginning to eat our lunch.
It’s a mystery.
As far as I can tell, actual government power today lags behind the average person’s expectations. Dependence is the norm, it is taught and learned, and it is justified and encouraged in the highest halls. We’re not so much falling into totalitarianism as catching up on the infantility of the people.
Though, to be fair, the elite today want the people dependent (more opportunity for money and power), so it may just appear this way. It’s hard to tease out what “the average person” actually wants of government apart from personal anecdotes (unrepresentative) and political/media representations (intentionally manipulated) so who actually knows. What is obvious is that enough people are willing to visibly clamor for more dependence that it appears to be common.
‘splosives–I have a lot of thoughts about this and could probably write a full length post on the topic, but it would require some research that would probably be depressing to do.
The TL;DR version might be similar to how sales/marketing/commercial groups interact with engineering/manufacturing groups. The commercial side is always glossing over reality and technical hurdles. The engineering side sees the reality and makes its best effort to overcome the challenges, usually successfully to some degree, after years of effort and lots of capital spending on process improvements.
The commercial folks see everything as negotiable, even basic physical principles. The engineers see reality and end up letting themselves get negotiated into situations where more and more compromises and inefficient spending are needed to chip away at thinner and thinner marginal improvements. Eventually, a competitor comes along and beats the pants off them all because they saw a better way to do it, cheaper, and the prior experts spent more of their time chasing tiny improvements rather than considering big picture shifts.
We are at the phase in our society where we are focusing more and more on navel gazing and nit picking, and someone that doesn’t give a shit about social justice is going to ride in and eat our lunch entirely.