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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Jamelle Bouie: If it’s not Jim Crow, what is it?
It’s the prequal to Indiana Jones and the Eternal Dirt Nap.
sixteen years with you Glib motherfuckers and I finally get a first. I look forward to 2037.
Is that when we get out of the camps?
Indiana Jones and the Clogged Diaper Genie?
Depends! Why did it have to be Depends?
Couldn’t find any Pull-ups in his size.
“I’m
a bigan old boy now.”“But why?”
Money? If you got rid of the sequels, reboots, remakes, etc. over the last ten years there would be half as many movies.
They already raped Indy’s corpse with a Crystal Skull.
This will be equivalent to pissing on the ashes.
I don’t know, I’m choosing to be superstitious and say that the established pattern (odd numbered films good, even numbered films bad) gives hope for Indy #5.
It’s Indy goes after Bibles stuff good, other stuff bad.
“Young Indiana Jones” was good.
I bet sicko
Somewhere, Roy Chapman Andrews is doing a Richter-scale facepalm.
It could be fine, so long as it only uses Harrison Ford as part of a frame narrative recounting takes of his younger days, like that time he found the Ark. No not that one, the other one. With the animals.
Raiders of the other lost ark.
But they won’t do that.
I thought they should have James Bonded the franchise; every now and then, just seamlessly introduce a new Indiana Jones. Chris Pratt comes to mind as a good one. But no, they’ve got to take the octogenarian Harrison Ford out for another go. What a cluster-fuck.
Worst part is Ford has made it abundantly clear that he is completely out of fucks to give as far as acting is concerned. Yet they keep giving him a paycheck to show up and phone it in.
Psst – they do that because it still puts asses in seats in the theaters.
“Drake Doremus and Nathan Parker’s Equals?”
I thought it was boring.
In other news, it’s Kristen Stewart’s birthday.
The wife should make even more sandwiches for sale. Apparently they are good.
“A woman has been left fuming after discovering that her husband is selling the packed lunches she makes him for work to buy fast food instead.”
This made the news?
Dr. Biden was not amused.
Neither is Michelle, since her man was selling the lunches for smokes.
My bad.
I’ll find newsier news for you next time. Just for you. Specifically.
[golf clap] because Glibs linksters don’t get the respect they deserve
All hail Tonio, he who gets it.
I took it as a shot at The
Daily ProphetMirror, not you.You read that wrong. Unless you are an editor at the Mirror.
TIWTANFL
???
Ten Insolvent White Terrapin Assholes New to FLorida
*huffs and slams door*
Yes, thicc sandwiches.
Coulda been worse. She coulda doxed him and tried to get him fired for even suggesting she make sammiches. Of course, she’d still have to find a real man to change her tire if it went flat. Maybe a tire oriented sugar daddy?
*looks down*
I have a spare tire, if that counts.
The news is that the packed lunches were good enough to sell. How many brown-bag meals are worth consideration when there’s fast food that can be bought? She must’ve made some good sandwiches (even though he apparently didn’t appreciate them).
I think I’m paranoid.
Good tune.
In honor of the feminism link.
I’m in trouble now.
A stroke of luck, but I suspected that link was just garbage before hovering…
busted link
Dammit. Apparently, I’m special today.
So what are you so afraid of?
Maybe he’s done ugly things, made mistakes?
There really, really does not need to be another Indiana Jones movie… ever.
It will be woke.
A strong woman will save Indy from all sorts of danger.
She’s his nurse at the retirement home.
Indiana Jones and Bubba Ho-Tep?
To be fair — Temple of Doom really didn’t need making either. Raiders and Crusade are more than enough.
Those are the only 2 Indy films I acknowledge.
Kate Capshaw’s whining, the gross-out jokes, snd the “adorable scrappy kid” were too much to stomach even without the heart ripping shit.
” The fact is feminism is a libertarian movement.”
Not anymore.
That’s because it’s no longer about equality before the law.
It’s about grievances and victimhood.
Hillary really does believe she would have won in 2016 if we awful Americans weren’t so sexist.
My impression is that the modern feminist movement (1960 on) was a social movement, not one that was much concerned with removing legal or governmental barriers to equality*. Anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action, set-asides, etc. are distinctly unlibertarian.
*Leaving aside the rather large issue of abortion.
first wave – de jure equality
second wave – de facto equality
third wave – supernatural gibberish
+1 sage-burning ecofeminist
Feminism has always been an authoritarian movement. There were suffragist terrorists for chrissake. It has always been upper-class women that had nothing better to do than whine and issue proclamations to the plebes as to how they should run their lives. Feminists are always about expanding womens’ “rights” and reducing their responsibility. Of late, it has mutated into a (more) toxic movement that tells women to be terrified of every man and even be suspicious of their male children.
I would submit that the fear is almost solely driven by L&O SVU.
I have always viewed entertainment as a reflection of the culture, not necessarily the source. Generally, whatever media/art would not resonate if there wasn’t a cultural current already in motion, IMO.
I think it goes both ways. Entertainment both reflects and shapes culture. When people are faced with a new idea, they choose to embrace, reject, or ignore it, and entertainment can place new ideas in front of people. Of course, only when people embrace/ignore an idea will the entertainment conveying it be popular.
And the Lifetime Channel
Equal almost never actually means equal.
“Feminism has always been an authoritarian movement. There were suffragist terrorists for chrissake.”
I wouldn’t describe being in favor of women voting or having equal rights under the law as authoritarian.
Neither would I, per se. IMO, any actual equality achieved was and is just a happy by-product of the progressive march through the institutions.
It wasn’t. It started long before progressives existed. Seneca Falls was in 1848. The progressive movement started around 1910 or so.
That stopped being the focus as soon as those rights were won. This is why there needs to be a sunset clause on these movements. Anybody can scour the earth for proof they are oppressed. If there’s no laws singling you out, then you ain’t oppressed any longer and we’re done here.
The public count of uncontested ballots has concluded at 1,798 no votes to 738 votes in favor.
The union didn’t fortify the election enough.
Not to worry. Biden’s NLRB will come to the union’s rescue. As many times as it takes. Count on it.
Exhuming something you said on the earlier thread, I’d really like to see you do an article on when we lost it. The definitive moment at which we, the people, failed to insist that the constitution be followed faithfully. “Inert document” was particularly good.
I’m not enough of a historian.
IANAL never stopped me from doing legal writing, which you yourself have complimented (srsly, that made my day). You are one of the more insightful people on here. I’d like to see you develop that idea more fully from whatever POV.
The war between the states would be a good place to start.
I’d say that decline started with the Alien and Sedition Acts, it was then only a matter of how fast it accelerated.
Yep. It takes a populace that cares about their relationship to their rights, liberties, and their government to maintain a properly responsive constitutional Republic. You don’t just write a document and dust your hands off and put it behind glass, assuming it will be respected for more than a few years after the ink’s dry.
1865?
“President Joe Biden has established a commission to look into ‘court packing’ in a move at getting more liberal justices onto the Supreme Court bench.
The president’s moved has been called a ‘power grab’ and a ‘move by the radical left when they can’t get what they want’ by furious Republicans.
The White House announced the 36 member commission on Friday. The move follows months of debate over whether Democrats should seek to expand the court, from its current nine justices.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9454617/Biden-form-commission-reform-Supreme-Court-W-House.html
CWAA
“Biden releases ‘skinny’ $1.5trillion federal spending plan with $14billion increase for climate change, $861million for Central America and big boosts for education and health”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9454363/Biden-budget-seeks-schools-health-care-housing.html
$14 BILLION *INCREASE* for programs that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Half going toward defense, nothing left to cut.
The White House announced the 36 member commission on Friday.
Any chance we can we pack the Commission?
Pack it with C4?
Into some sort of arbo-industrial, plant fiber chopping-up device?*
(Note to feds – this is a joke. And a stale one at this point.)
Pack it into the wine cellar, bar the doors, find the ventilation shafts … where is Jim Brown?
Riven, do you actually read all these Vox Media properties for real or just to provide fodder for these links?
If the latter, thank you for your sacrifice.
I really do check out the three big gaming sites every day or so and Fee a couple times a week. The weird news from the UK is just foolishness that I like to skim once a week when I do these links; it mostly serves as a reminder that the world is full of straight up jabronis.
Tri-tip, salt and pepper, reverse sear… mmmm…
It is underdefended so I have to finish it before someone steals it.
I loves me some tri-tip.
That’s why I needed to finish it.
Them three-horned steers is where the best beef comes from.
No. It’s because some butcher’s once asked where’s all the good meat. One of them suggested, ” Try the tip!”
?
I have one of those in the freezer, perhaps I need to thaw that for tomorrow?
It would be tasty.
lol
I finally figured out NFT and now you hit me with TIWTARFL? I can’t even with these new fangled shorthand.
Oy
Ha
Don’t make me sic my billy-bumbler on you.
Tempt me with a good time, why don’t you?
Easily my favorite member of the ka-tet besides the book’s namesake.
I’ll admit it. I don’t know what the R in “TIWTARFL” means.
“TIWTANFL” I know.
And now I look crazy.
Real
I don’t even know TIWTANFL. Now, TIWTANLW, I know.
This is Why There Are No Female Libertarians.
This I Want To Ask National Football Leaguers?
I’m sure I don’t know what you mean, sir.
That Star-Lord of the Flies review was.. odd. Mostly reasonable – but then kept throwing in stuff about just the “Black and brown” characters. Reeked of “I’m a good one! Kill me last!”
Thats Polygon’s shtick, everything is viewed through a sjw lens there.
I remain unclear what exactly X is trying to give me and why.
He had good taste in cars, though. He could give me one of those.
Is that…
Pickle-as Cage?
Pickle Nick
https://twitter.com/BenDavisCP/status/1349472425444929536
They seem nice.
The Pickleus Cage is disturbing. So thanks for that.
I absolutely hate windows 10. If I can’t resuscitate the laptop, I’m going to have to figure out how to get linux on this computer.
You get used to it. Of course, I had no choice but to get used to it.
Isn’t there a Win8 shell for it? I know there was a 7 for 8.
http://classicshell.net/ ?
Still works on 10.
Have you tried booting into safe mode?
Do you have an external display you can connect to test if it’s the actual display vs the graphics hardware that’s gone wonky?
/deletes a bad joke about it being a CPU threading issue
The weather may be warming up, but there are new traditions: Zoom/Happy Hour/Sign display will be kicking off at 20:00 Eastern.
I’m sitting in the “nurse clinic” of my local health care system because I literally could not get a ln-person appointment with a doctor for my follow up to check my bite wound for infection.
I had a video visit and the doc said to go to the nurse clinic who could then send me to urgent care if it looks infected.
Then they asked if I’d had a tetanus shot, snd I said I have a tetanus vaccine allergy, so she sent me for lab work to find out if I can get the shot anyway or at least if they can see what components I’m allergic to. But the results won’t be back for a week by which time any actual tetanus disease would be killing me.
It’s ludicrous. But at least I get to go through minutes of Covid protocol screening at every step of the way, including phone calls.
I had a video visit and the doc said to go to the nurse clinic who could then send me to urgent care if it looks infected.
Oh, FFS. They should have just told you to go urgent care already. But then they couldn’t charge you for visiting their clinic.
That sucks, Hayek. Did you move to England or something?
(ISTR it’s Kaiser? So if so, yes.)
Sorry. Put some alcohol-free benzalkonium chloride solution on it.
You should listen to me; I’m pre-med.
Sorry 🙁
Ugh. That blows.
Sorry.
I’m sorry about that. It sounds pretty awful.
Okay, if it starts developing streaks radiating outward from the wounds in the direction of your heart, go to the emergency room ASAP. Call ambulance if necessary. Not sure what type of bite wound but they can all be nasty, particularly cats. I’ve known people who had to go on infusion therapy regimes and almost lost limbs. This is not something where you let the medical bureaucracy eff with you.
Human bite.
Husband is delirious and hought she was a demon sent to torment him and attacked her.
I took a cat claw to the inside of my nostril once. It swelled up like Jimmy Durante. I still call it “Jimmy Durante’s disease.” Went to the ER and they said they see cat claw infections quite often. They poked a hole in my nose and drained it and gave me antibiotics. I still have a small scar on my face from the ordeal.
I had claw wounds all over my hands and lower arms. Went to school and my bestie flipped the fuck out. “WTF ARE YOU DOING TO YOURSELF?!”
“Um, cat.”
I can relate. My hands always looked like I was trying work my way through concertina wire.
“I didn’t say you were done scritching me!”
When kitten was new, she would sleep under my wife’s chin. I would regularly wake up to, “doGdammit!” “What happened?” “She hooked me with her pointy teeth inside my nose.” Again? I guess you should wake up before her.”
Peroxide. Always peroxide with bite and claw wounds. Yes, I know it “destroys flesh.” But it also nukes TF out of anything bacterial. And goes deep. And shows if its working.
The above is not to be taken as actual expert emergency medical advice, because they flip-flopped on peroxide several times during my trained/licensed period. But the instructors always said “if it was me, or a family member, I’d pour on the peroxide.”
I would be very hesitant to pour peroxide into my nostril. Any other ( well not ANY other) place and maybe I’ll do that.
In high school, my sisters and I did fencing, and our arms were always covered with bruises. My parents were terrified people would think we were being abused.
The Spousal Unit has Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and bruises stupidly easy. I’ve had a number of uncomfortable “interactions” with medical personnel over the years who’ve been convinced I was beating her. She would sometimes come home from work with a massive bruise somewhere on her body and after I flipped out and said “What HAPPENED?” she’d just shrug and say “I might have brushed up against a lateral file a bit too hard” or somesuch.
I am so sorry that your life has morphed into the Trials of Job. You deserve a break.
‘Splosives, I’m so sorry you are going through all this. I hope you and Mr. ‘Splosives get the care you need soon, and I’ll keep you both in my prayers.
Truly ludicrous, or should I say somewhat horrifying. I can’t really think of a good lighthearted punchline, my usual response, but maybe I can pray a bit more.
That’s an inherent flaw in any government. The Founders were well aware that ultimately it was up to the citizenry to keep the government in bounds (“A republic, if you can keep it”). The machinery to do so is elections. But elections require a citizenry that wants a limited government. Ours, as is painfully apparent, does not.
What should they have done, that wouldn’t be equally subject to capture?
From RC on the dead thread… I wanted to continue this over here because it’s a really interesting question. I’ve thought of a few roadblocks that might have helped:
-No one taking govt money or benefits can vote for 5 years following receipt of that money. That includes government salaries, govt contractors, military, social security recipients, food stamp recipients, etc. One can always refuse the money and retain your vote.
-Direct relatives of an office holder are banned for life from holding political office. Don’t care if it’s “fair” or not… the dynasties need to be broken
-6 years total in government office across any level (local, state, fed).
-Fed departments must rotate to a new state every so often. No relocation funding for employees.
-Someone else has already mentioned requiring 1/3 vote to strike down any law while requiring 2/3 vote for new law. All laws must be read in full before being voted on.
-If education is compulsory, politicians must send their children to the worst performing school in the district. Don’t like it? Remove making it compulsory for everyone else.
-And one of my favorites: offer free training, firearms, and armor equal to that commonly used at the time by the military to all citizens. Citizens keep the arms and armor provided they undertake the free training.
I’m pretty sure that would all be considered racist. Especially the first one.
The problems with term limits is they have not fixed a single thing in California. Instead you have a constant parade of incompetent newcomers.
It’s a nice idea, but it’s only even remotely desirable because you want to get rid of everyone’s political representatives but your own.
You would really disenfranchise the military? I believe the word that used to be used for that was mercenary.
The entire health care sector would also be disenfranchised, since very few don’t take Medicare and/or Medicaid. I might entertain “No one taking govt money or benefits except for goods and services rendered . . . .”
Of course, when the Constitution was written, there was no such thing as taxpayer funded welfare, really, and the Founders were clear the Constitution didn’t authorize it.
Or that would have acted as a break on the creation of Medicare/Medicaid. Or limited the scope as health care systems chose to opt out of participation. My family doctor does not accept Medicare/Medicaid. We try to choose providers who do not although there is no choice with hospital systems.
While some providers hate it (like my doc), Medicaid and Medicare offers a slush fund for many providers. It’s a key pricing strategy for Big pharma and medical device companies. About 5 years ago, my old company came out with a medical device product that could treat a specific condition for $2k per patient and we had published a randomized controlled trial showing it was better than the leading product. We couldn’t get doctors to use it because CMS was reimbursing $26k per patient for a different product. The docs were shoveling sweet taxpayer cash into their pockets as fast they could grab it.
I’d rather have a stream of incompetent newcomers. It throws some gravel in the graft. I’d rather pick names at random out of a phone book every 4 years than what we have now.
Mercenary denotes the funding source… I don’t think that has anything to do with voting. I would remove voting from anyone receiving government money. There’s an inherent conflict of interest as we’ve seen with the industrial war complex.
As far as mercenary though, my ideal military system would use a pseudo-mercenary model where we would fund the military through for hire contracts. This includes providing defense like we’re doing now in the sea lanes, Europe, and Korea. The military would still be paid by the American taxpayers and not directly by clients but would expected to be revenue neutral.
I’ll disagree with JI on this one. From what I can tell in California — it isn’t incompetent newcomers, it is a revolving set of grifters playing musical chairs. They have limits in office A — so then they shift to B, then C, etc… the same bunch of annoying losers, just shifted around until one of them is anointed Governor or Senator or just runs out of chairs to jump into (at which point they become lobbyists or consultants). I don’t think it has done a lick of good, because all the choices are the Same Old Crap (or is that Carp in Phoenix?), just moved around.
There aren’t enough chairs for them all in the Legislature and State Senate, so you weed out a lot more than under the old system (I grew up with that, so I have some basis to judge the difference). What the ultimate failure is – you still get politicians and everyone’s fantasy is that we get rid of that kind of person and instead get real citizen legislators.
Well you’re only going to get political types interested in political offices. We have a scumbag system that attracts scumbags to it. I don’t see what reform is going to change that.
But it’s not limited to just the state house. Their spouse runs, or their brother or kid. And with the various water districts ports school boards large cities and so on, they just play musical chairs.
The term limits do only apply to state offices. And it has clearly not improved the caliber of person in either the Assembly or the Senate.
I prefer incompetence in my politicians. Unless they are committed to reducing government interference in my liberty and the economy, I want them to fail as spectacularly as possible. I think that might be the saving grace of this Harris/Biden thing. It comes so close to the obvious wins of Trump that all of this losing might turn people off a bit. It’s only a couple of months and I’m already sick of losing.
Unfortunately, the incompetent Legislator’s vote counts just the same as the smart/corrupt one. You still lose.
Only because we let them have a hand in things that matter. If we stuck to the original limits on government , it wouldn’t matter a whit. Either way, the more fucking up they do the better off we’d all be.
The problems with term limits is they have not fixed a single thing in California.
Because they don’t address the problem. The problem is not long-serving office holders. The problem is powerful politicians. These two things are not equal. A system of term limits without power constraints will just create a shadow cabinet that actually runs the place while a parade of petty grifters runs in and out of office wetting their beaks while obeying their true masters. Whether this shadow cabinet is the bureaucracy or part bosses (or both) doesn’t matter, the politicians calling the shots are not the ones who are being limited by term limit legislation.
I’m fairly convinced that you just described the current operation of most state governments as well as federal government, both with and without term limits.
Then you really aren’t setting up a system of freedom, which as RC mentioned, required a citizenry to actually want it and keep it. Eventually all systems are overcome and that is why I think Jefferson mentioned we should have a revolution ever so often. That was the release valve that the Founders didn’t realize would disappear as the citizenry became fat and happy.
Hmmm… random thought then — the Founders and the Constitution time frame was around/prior to the Whiskey Rebellion, and most of the coastal centers of power were ignoring the trans-Appalachia frontier as much as possible and definitely not looking to expand it and butt heads with Spain / France / Britain.
Is part of the reason we *didn’t* overhaul our system of government with periodic revolutions because we had the release valve of “Screw it! I’m out of here!” via westward expansion once the Louisiana Purchase came into play? Trying to find enough like minded people to overthrow the government (state or federal) versus getting enough goods together to hit the trail and move beyond the reach of said governments seems a clear choice to me.
The Federalists were not happy with the expansion and the first real secession movement was not to preserve slavery but to divorce the Federalist north-east from the ascendant Democrat-Republican states (south and west).
Agree that the frontier was the release valve for malcontents. Of course it didn’t take long for territories to clamor for their own govt.
“Never forget when DMX collabed with Reading Rainbow”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OchyYnlHTdo
That vaccine is mowing down black celebs.
I wish it would mow down some late night talk show sycophants.
I am saddened to see Prince Phillip finally kicked it.
I hope Harry and Meghan have to miss his funeral. They didn’t pay respects while he was alive
I would like to think the queen made it clear that the trollop isn’t welcome, but if she had you can be sure they’d be running to every tabloid to blab about it.
The narrative is already out there for why Megan will miss the funeral: she’s six months preggers and doctors will advise her not to fly.
This does not bode well for HM. When they’re over eighty or so they often go downhill fast when their spouse passes (everyone, not just the ennobled).
Let’s pray that she somehow manages to bypass Charles and hand the crown to William. But Camilla wants to be queen at any cost.
Camilla can never be Queen. At best, she will be Queen Consort. Roughly, the difference between President and First Lady.
Yeah, I knew that. But it’s the echo of Wallis Simpson who insisted upon being addressed as if she were QC in her own(*) household, at least when real royalty weren’t visiting. And Charles and Camilla also would see that as justice for both Camilla and Wallis, because reasons.
(*)Which was apparently provided to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by the French Republic, ie they were grifters.
Duke of Windsor may have been unsavory (friendly, to some extent, with Herr Hitler) but one has to admire his refusal to give up the woman he loved just to continue to wear the crown of a declining empire.
If only Chuck had had the balls of his forebears to say “Fuck you, I’m marrying Camilla.”
Given Charles in particular, but even William — I think Britain should seriously consider Twain‘s advice on the subject. Would be cheaper and just as effective.
I look at our imperial presidency and find it hard to cast stones
Nobody is required to genuflect before the Bush family or the Biden’s, or Trumps.
Surprising
“Most people don’t realize, the only industry in America, billion-dollar industry, that can’t be sued, exempt from being sued, are gun manufacturers,” Biden continued.
Biden, who has spent years writing and fighting gun laws in Washington, is referring to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a 2005 law that largely shields firearm manufacturers and dealers from lawsuits when people use their products illegally, such as by shooting someone.
“He wants to drive us out of business,” Mark Oliva, the director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry trade group, said of Biden. “So it’s a very scary proposition, and we take it very seriously.”
The law is not as well known as some other hotly debated proposals like universal background checks or banning assault weapons. But the National Rifle Association called the PLCAA “the most significant piece of pro-gun legislation in 20 years” when the law passed and gun control advocates have been trying to repeal it since then.
While many gun control advocates would still put universal background checks at the top of their agenda, repealing the PLCAA would be up there, too — though it admittedly faces a tougher climb in Congress, which is probably why Biden wanted supernatural help.
“The protections are unique in that they are defending the industry from the intended use of their product,” said David Pucino, senior staff attorney at the Giffords Law Center, which promotes gun control. “The industry knows that if the victims got their fair day in court, the industry would lose.”
The world would be nothing but peace and harmony if not for guns.
They make us do things.
I’m so frustrated that they won’t just outlaw murder and end all the needless dying!
Most people don’t realize, the only industry in America, billion-dollar industry, that can’t be sued, exempt from being sued, are gun manufacturers
A patent lie. Like every other industry, they can’t be sued for crimes committed with their products. It had to be said explicitly for them because of the organized attempt to do so. They can be sued for everything any other company can be sued for.
they are defending the industry from the intended use of their product
Another lie. The “intended (by the manufacturer) use” of guns is not to commit crimes.
Just imagine the fun if criminals use Google Maps or other GPS systems while driving to or from a crime if other industries were held to that standard… Heh.
Well, if they can’t be sued for things they didn’t even do, then who DO we sue when things we don’t like happen? And if we can’t use the opinions of the families of crime victims to decide what new laws we are going to create, then how will we decide exactly what to outlaw and how much wrongdoers should be punished?
Oh, and I’m struggling to find a car manufacturer who’s been sued because someone intentionally ran someone else over.
““Most people don’t realize, the only industry in America, billion-dollar industry, that can’t be sued, exempt from being sued, are gun manufacturers,” Biden continued.”
Horseshit.
Try suing over a Covid vaccine…
This. DMX’s family is shit out of luck.
?
He died of a heart attack after a drug overdose.
… coincidentally a couple days after getting the vaccine.
“I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe!”
Oh wait, wrong dude.
I’m not sure a life-long cocaine addict having a heart-attack at 50 qualifies as some sort of suspicious coincidence.
That of course overlooks the actual history of why the PLCAA was passed in the first place, as vexatious litigation was already a strategy in active use by the anti-gun lobby. But you can’t expect honesty from people that are fundamentally liars.
I’m sure that WaPo will add this to their database of Biden’s lies.
The Daily Mirror story is about Elizabeth Nolan Brown and that metrosexual she married, right?
And isn’t she pregnant? I can only imagine the dishwasher repair guy helped out there.
“I see ya got a problem there. I can fix that clog.”
This did make me laugh.
So, finally a woman agrees to make sandwiches, and this is how she gets treated for it?
And obviously in the opinion of that website’s “news” staff.
From the trailer, I gathered Voyagers was just Equilibrium without the revolution, gun Kata, and homoerotic, shirtless Christian Bale scenes.
No one taking govt money or benefits can vote for 5 years following receipt of that money. That includes government salaries, govt contractors, military, social security recipients, food stamp recipients, etc. One can always refuse the money and retain your vote.
I have mentioned my idea before. Voters in a Congressional district elect a representative who is then randomly assigned to a different district The theory being that if you could break the link between dishing out government largesse and getting re-elected the voters might not be so quick to elect (or re-elect) the pork barrel vote buyers.
Lots of holes in it, but interesting to think about.
First way I’d see to game the system, the candidates would still pick a district where they’d cultivate voters, and it wouldn’t matter where they’re “officially” assigned, they just keep bribing their cluster of votes. It’s not like they represent their district as it stands.
“No one taking govt money or benefits can vote for 5 years following receipt of that money”
Another reason I don’t vote, conflict of interest.
“It’s a familiar story, but in space, and turned dull-witted and dumb”
You’re going to have to narrow that down a little.
NH House is debating a bill ending qualified immunity.
That will be interesting if they act on that…
And… “laid on the table.” As I understand it, the House will sit on the bill. It might come up again during this session. If not, it dies.
Didn’t NYC just do it? Nice idea but I think it will end very badly there.
Two days ago Mrs N and I got the vaxx shot. After you’re jabbed, they make you wait 15 minutes before you can leave. During that time they handed out flyers about signing up for v-safe, an after vaccination health checker. I ignored it, but my wife signed up for it. They had the seats all 6 feet apart, and I was sitting the row in front of her. As we’re leaving:
Mrs N: So, you signed up for that v-safe also, right?
Me: Hell no.
Mrs N: But I saw you on your phone after they handed us the paper. I thought you were signing up.
Me: No, I was on Glibs commenting about the idiocy around us.
Anyway, the damn v-safe sends out repeated text messages reminding you to provide your daily health update. A little while ago:
Mrs N: I’m replying STOP to this v-safe. It’s so annoying.
Me: The what?
Mrs N: That vaccination thing. You were right.
I try to enjoy the times she says that.
BTW, we got the J&J shot (one-and-done) and I haven’t had any reaction from it; not even soreness in the shot location. Mrs N had some soreness the first day, but that was it.
Mrs N had some soreness the first day, but that was it.
*snickers*
Giggity
I joked with her about being careful saying you got the Johnson and Johnson shot. Almost sounds like a porn reference.
She took both johnson’s at once?
She’s familiar with the term DP. I’m a bad influence on this former innocent catholic school girl.
Well we have to ask…how familiar and what is her OnlyFans page.
Reminds me when I was in OKC and my wife called me while she was getting a tattoo and she said “Kristoff does me sooooo good”
There was quite the silence before I said “Is the tattoo at least free?”
I just got invited to get the shot – my hospital system has the J&J and the Moderna; fingers crossed for the J&J.
Just rebooked for the 27th for a place in walking distance, so I got that going for me.
I try to enjoy the times she says that.
I’ve noticed that I get the most enjoyment when I keep it to myself.
I really don’t want the shot. I don’t want an ebola vax either, and that one is 100 percent fatal. Why should I have to take a drug to prevent getting a disease that only one percent of the people get and only half of a percent of them dies from? Don’t make no sense. I might have to just to fly and in June I have to fly to Florida. My wife is starting to mention getting the J and J version. I’m kinda pissed that I’m even considering it. I’ve already turned down three opportunities to get mainlined with this stuff.
Well, that writer’s obsession with race isn’t tedious at all. ?
Welcome to every Vox Media article.
I don’t know how Riven deals with that; they have to inject wokeness into every. single. article. regardless of the subject. Even video games.
You would really disenfranchise the military? I believe the word that used to be used for that was mercenary.
Do it like the French Foreign Legion. They get the vote when they get out.
It’s not like they represent their district as it stands.
True.
The fact is feminism is a libertarian movement.
Sorry, but I have trouble with the notion that an ideology premised on dividing humanity into two collectives is particularly libertarian. If you’re looking for an ideology that says women should be judged as individuals and not based on their status as women, I’d think the term you’re looking for is “individualism”. And I’d suspect that feminists and individualists likely had common cause for a long while. Until the feminists started realizing that they were being judged favorably based on their status as women.
For decades now, feminism has been not about equal rights but EXTRA rights, and they reverse engineer lines of argument to portray this as simply equality; just bringing the poor poor ladies up to par with men.
Whole fryers are on sell for $.87/lb here. I look like a madman with 6 whole chickens coming out of the store but that is cheap. Done butchering them and vacuum sealed and in the freezer. I am actually looking to go back and pick up another 6.
Lookit the hoarder over here^
*checks deep freeze*
Nope still good, maybe next month.
I can’t seem to find “fryers” under 5 lbs.
These were all 3.5-5lbs. I was in heaven. I know have 12 breasts, 12 tenderloins, 24 chicken winglettes and drumlettes, 6 quarters, 6 thighs, 6 drumsticks….and a couple gallons of homemade broth and one stock going right now. All for a grand total of $30 some odd dollars.
Actually I cooked down a broth last night to be added to a new stock today to develop deeper flavors.
Roast those bones and cartilage / connective tissue / skin. Then make the broth. You know I’m right.
The original batch was a roast chicken 🙂 So I do know you are right
(By the way, thank you for associating the concept of eating a pickle with Nicholas Cage 🙁 )
OK, there have been plenty of libertarian women who qualify as feminists. And who don’t exactly represent the mainstream of feminism in the USA.
From an article on The Other Site, I learned that the pro-suffrage Women’s Christian Temperance Union had ten times the membership of NAWSA, that favorite organization of feminist historians.
The WCTU wasn’t libertarian. Nor were they exactly feminists in the modern sense, giving their focus on women venturing outside the home…to defend the home. A paradox for modern feminists, but not to Frances Willard and other WCTU activists. And for libertarians, their drug-war (anti-liquor) proclivities make them unsuitable for cocktail-party invitations (not that a WCTU woman would go to a cocktail party, mind you).
Here we go:
‘By the late 1800s, major feminist groups—like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), which had 10 times as many members as the National Woman Suffrage Association—had moved beyond fighting for equal rights to broader “social purity” campaigns [etc.]’
https://reason.com/2021/03/27/will-feminists-please-stop-calling-the-cops/
Correction, the reference to the National Woman Suffrage Association suggests this was *before* their merger with the American Woman Suffrage Association to make the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
(“We’re not the National Woman Suffrage Assoication, we’re the American Woman Suffrage Association – splitters!”)
It’s Picklous Cage.
Yeah, I did an image search.
Picolas Cage?
Ugh, IOU one Coke.
Hello Glibbies! Rain delay on the Golf Course, so you’re stuck with me, Yippee!
Hello!
Bummer about the Golf, I play every day after work, 20 holes or so, but I’m in a Damn fine mood!
and it’s my Anniversary with my Avatar,
Glad to hear. Lovely smile.
I still can’t believe she chose me,
/Damned Rain!
Cute as a button. I’ll bet you were totally smitten when she came into your life.
And built like a Brick Shithouse, we were meant for each other,
and Thanks, She Purty!
? ???
Sounds good. Grab a tall can and go to the noon post for the lyrics to the sing-along.
I caught that, I knew it was coming, and it’s Tonio, so I can’t miss it, the Man’s a Blessing to our little World,
In the darkness of the passing of Dark Man X, I would like to submit that Exit Wounds is a good movie.
c’mon, you’re putting us on. I can accept that DMX is a decent actor, but Steven Seagal?
Who posted that link to some podcast/vidcast of them breaking down a more recent Seagal flick? It was hilarious.
(*searches*)
Ah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4
Classy podcast name.
Woo!
“Accept [REDACTED] Restricted Stock Units of [REDACTED]. (Award ID: 92254)”
It’s nice to feel appreciated.
Nice!
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/04/09/Wautoma-High-School-tree-lightning/2161617991380/
Neat.
I pulled up my old photo gallery for something. Thought about posting it in reference to something yesterday (maybe the WWI cemetery discussion), but now I can’t remember what.
The In Memoriam folder was something I intended to expand upon when I got back to the DC area the first time I was assigned to Dahlgren, but never had time to do anything with it. Not sure why I don’t have a close-up of the Courts of the Missing with the plaque either.
https://www.deviantart.com/tuan-jim/gallery/48672971/in-memoriam-14
My uncle is buried near Ernie Pyle’s grave. He was shot down over Burma in 1942, before I was born. Awesome, somber place to visit.
Dahlgren. Crikey. The stories I could tell you…
I was a student there in ’12, active duty staff from 14-16 and then moved back last year as a contractor.
I think Hayex was also working there until she moved to San D. (not ATRC though)
RIP Prince Phil.
?
What the hell is that?
The corpse formerly known as Prince?
“Vaccine passports are a ticket to freedom”
https://spectator.com.au/2021/04/the-libertarian-case-for-vaccine-passports/
No.
You know who else touted their papers as part of a plan to make people free?
FUCK YOU, NO!
*racks AK*
^This
“The libertarian case for being forced to get vaccines you don’t really need and having to prove it to make any moves whatsoever!” You wont believe weird trick number three!
Is there anyone opposed to vaccine passports who doesn’t want to open everything back up?
Cannoli! Welcome back, you’ve been missed!
I hope all is well with you and yours.
Well… I’d be happy if the statehouses and the like stayed closed.
Nah. I don’t want a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats being able to comfortably not-work from home.
*Sniffles*
Well, see I’ve got an idea for that too. Have you seen Mac’s bike from It’s Always Sunny? Just hook that up to their VPN connection, stop pedaling, VPN drops.
It could be they’re making shit up.
Reisepass macht frei.
With UBI, Arbeit es Nein!
War is the ticket to peace.
Ignorance is the ticket to strength.
When do we realize that the label libertarian has been skinsuited.
Jeezus fucking christ. Put a fork in it, we’re done here.
After a second look I have this question rattling in my head: If absent governmental edict to impose a ‘passport’ of sorts, but the free market or businesses band together to demand it from their customers, is it not libertarian?
We’re expecting to have to show a shot record if we ever want to travel internationally again. Work aside, I’d dearly love to see Tokyo and Dublin again, and I really want to see Austria in the summer. And New Zealand. And a pretty good bucket list of other places.
Same Animal. We want to visit my family namesake’s town in Norway, visit the shores we landed on in England, and visit my wife’s family town in Ireland. I might have to bite the bullet.
Accept the Mark? for a trip?
The libertarian way no? Make the choice for myself….
To think the world was open to nearly anyone just a year or so ago. Now we might have to beg our masters to visit the supermarket.
If absent governmental edict to impose a ‘passport’ of sorts, but the free market or businesses band together to demand it from their customers, is it not libertarian?
Not if it’s a government “passport” where the infrastructure is supported with taxpayer dollars and backed by threat of federal prosecution for forgery.
If a business wants to demand proof of vaccination, it’s on that business to develop and pay for a private sector solution. That’s the libertarian solution and I suspect none would actually follow through when faced with shouldering the costs themselves.
Right and it would have to be absolutely devoid of any threat from our government to be even remote libertarian in nature. The rating systems for video games and movies is born from threat of government regulating their industry. It would be the same here I fear: “private” system of vax passports created so the government doesn’t assrape them.
We are Glibs, we follow a different path, fear not!
Dumb fuck.
Another ‘libertarian case for slavery’?
“I am a gun owner and even I think….”
This horseshit gets old very quickly. Only idiots make these arguments thinking people with actual brain cells will buy it.
Australian source – I don’t think they have clue fucking one about liberty in the first place. After all the first settlers weren’t there by choice.
*cough*
fakes
Looks over at the forum…yep!
“CDC Raises Eyebrows For Using Character Image Almost Identical to NPC Meme
2018 wojack meme meant to portray unthinking drone.”
https://summit.news/2021/04/09/cdc-raises-eyebrows-for-using-character-image-almost-identical-to-npc-meme/
No way that wasn’t intentional.
I can buy it as unintentional, as both designs are simple, and simplicity is in right now in graphic design. There are only so many ways you can draw a simplistically stylized human.
“Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has chosen to live in one of the whitest areas of California after purchasing a $1.4 million dollar home in an area that has a black population of just 1.6 per cent.
A report by real estate website Dirt reveals that Khan-Cullors, who started the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal, has purchased a “secluded mini-compound tucked into L.A.’s rustic and semi-remote Topanga Canyon.””
https://summit.news/2021/04/09/black-lives-matter-co-founder-buys-1-4-million-home-in-area-with-just-1-6-black-population/
Get woke, go
brokebougieI bet the commie to libertarian ratio is perfect for her.
Imma say, Topanga is a great place. It’s bit rural and out of the way, but it has a certain coolness. 1.4 mil seems cheap to get a decent sized lot up there with a house/guest house on it. My dumpy assed old house is rated at around a mil by itself. It’s was built in ’48 and was last updated in the late ’70’s. The only big downside to Topanga is fires and landslides blocking the roads. I usually take Topanga Canyon road to the beach.
I’ve got a song for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGUDpZLLO08
Nice.
Rural? you have no idea….
A bit. And it’s all relative.
True, very in the country for SoCal, I loved Cali so much,
I once had a 1976 Pontiac Sunbird with a 350/4 spd and I used to test it by driving from Ventura Blvd to PCh on Topanga. It’s a wining mountain road, about 15 miles long. The best I ever did was 13 minutes. It only worked at midnight, because of traffic. I traded a beat to shit ’67 Chevelle for that car. It used to kill fuel pumps about twice a month. I got really good at replacing them. I would carry all the tools and just pull over and change it out when they failed. Showed up smelling like gasoline all the time. Good times.
That must have been one front heavy car.
It was a version of a Chevy Monza. And yes, most of the weight is out front. It’s about the same weight as a Toyota Celica, but with double the power. The Pontiac version had way bigger sway bars and stiffer springs with wider, aluminum wheels. It handled pretty good for a cheap ’70’s shitbox.
She’s done so much good though. She deserves a nice place.
“Forty-two episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” including interviews with comedian Chris D’Elia and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, have been removed from Spotify.”
https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1380337835060957188
A hundred million can make a guy a cuck. For reference: $100,000,000.
“Hey, whatever, I’m good.”
Just ask Howard Stern.
Stern has pretty much become one of the corporate guys they used to mock, like pigvomit.
Babbabooey! My friend from high school, who’s family was a Mafioso expat so to speak, purchased Fartman for us teens one night. What fun was that.
Yeah – I don’t have the same fire in my belly versus young me but that “fuck you, world” attitude is still part of my DNA.
Young you? Ha! But never let go of the Fuck You part of you, us Oldsters get it… we don’t care…..
Stupid FedEx. My package was supposed to arrive today, but instead it’s still in Indianapolis. ?
I ordered some parts of gunbroker, two weeks ago. Still waiting for seller to ship 8/
Hey, slumbrew, I found your merch:
https://linktr.ee/haillobster
Niiice. I should start slapping up some stickers over some of the more obnoxious SJW stickers around here.
Probably get me arrested for a hate crime, but still…
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kHe0goJ5eVk&feature=share
Playing on the list right now while I fly around in MSFS2020….why am I all of a sudden flying through buildings at high rates of speed?
Legislators win latest round in suit over remote access
A federal appeals court has ruled New Hampshire House Democratic lawmakers with serious health issues may be able to attend sessions remotely in the future.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling that found House Speaker Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, had legislative immunity when he decided that providing the remote option for some, but not all, members was impractical and not possible.
The 14-page ruling from Judge William Kayatt Jr. issued late Thursday sends the case back down to the U.S. District Court in Concord to specifically consider to what extent these lawmakers should be able to attend sessions online due to their individual disabilities.
The decision also leaves open the potential that, eventually, the impact of this decision could become moot as lawmakers, who are fully vaccinated, could safely attend future meetings of the House.
Well…considering they have had a taste for this ‘pandemic’ and we can almost be sure to see lockdowns in the future for other things the government believes are a health risk…it really isn’t moot now is it?
Sununu threatens schools that don’t go back to fully in-person classes
School districts that do not comply with the April 19 deadline for resumption of five-day-a-week in-person learning will have to extend the school year to reach the 180 days of instruction required by state law, Gov. Chris Sununu has announced.
Sununu said that after April 19, the state will not credit any days that schools are operating in a remote format.
Those school districts will have to meet later in June or into July to complete their work, depending on how long it takes for them to comply, Sununu said.
Punish the kids…
Is this good or bad?
Good if parents now put immense pressure on legislature and schools to open up. Bad cause it means the kids summer will be shorter and they are paying the price for teachers being little bitches.
When the country was mostly agrarian and everyone who wasn’t in the city lived on a farm, summer vacation added able hands to the harvest. It made sense.
Why the fuck do schools still have summer vacation? It’s not so they can help out on the farm. It certainly isn’t training them for life. I don’t get a summer vacation. Do you?
The only reason I do is for the family business – gives more hands to help the dog grooming business. However, I agree that schools should go to the year-round model in many cases. Dog days of summer leads to kids getting bored and doing stupid shit.
My daughter is special needs, so she’s never known a summer vacation other than maybe a couple weeks off. Kinda sad.
Summer vacation is now for the kids to go spend time with the noncustodial parent who’s out of state.
I did that in the 80s. It sucked.
Make friends in school, summer starts.
They bond, whilst you try to make new friends somewhere else.
You return. Not a stranger but not a friend.
Repeat.
That’s one of the reasons I still live where I do.
My stepson did that in the ’90s. His mother dragged him from OH out to CA, then to FL, then back to CA, then back to FL. I’m pretty sure she was looking all over both states for some address on Easy Street. His father stayed put in the same place just to give him some sort of consistency and familiarity.
At least someone did the right thing.
At least someone did the right thing.
Those someones being the squirrels.
Isn’t harvest in the fall – after the schools have reopened?
I think I may have fallen sucker to a myth. Interesting.
Most crops would be harvested by September – when school would start back up. It also gave hands on the farm throughout summer.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56901/why-do-students-get-summers
Which interestingly…WaPo says otherwise…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/04/myth-behind-summer-break/
I think we’re agreeing with each other, right?
I don’t know anymore…hey look..more beer!
The kids pay that price regardless. It’s not like there’s an on/off switch for ‘being a little bitch’ when you’re a public school teacher.
Good point – I am guessing these teachers will have an axe to grind and the kids are going to get extra doses of political posturing in class once they return.
I like seeing public school teachers getting the whip hand from the governor.
Schadenfreude?
Yep.
From the [non] reaction to San Francisco giving Abe Lincoln a reprieve and letting the 44 problematic schools keep their names at least until the pestilence has run its course – I’m guessing that these symbolic disputes are not fun any more.
So it won’t bother you that the deadline has expired for proposing new names for some racist buildings at the University of North Carolina.
“Last summer, the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to remove the names of three buildings on campus: the Aycock Residence Hall, the Daniels Building and the Carr Building.
“All three of those men supported slavery or promoted white supremacy.”
(Quick quiz: Which political party did they all belong to?)
“The community is invited to submit additional names until 5 p.m. on Friday, April 9.”
Just missed it!
https://abc11.com/education/unc-opens-process-for-renaming-three-on-campus-buildings-/10498997/
Incidentally, here’s *another* reason Josephus Daniels shouldn’t have a building named after him:
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/g/general-orders/general-order-no-99-prohibition-in-the-navy.html
Yeah, Bill Deblasio made a big stink about forming a “commission” to rename everything under the sun in NYC a couple years ago. Then… nothing. He probably woke up from his midday nap and forgot about it.
It speaks volumes about why these clowns really push this stuff.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_F9fu6k8cdw&feature=share
How my evening is going. Maybe Ill join the festivities of Zoom before the hockey game.
Hockey you say?
I was hoping for this But I will accept yours