More like “Big Four plus Arsenal and Spuds”
The Yankees are off to a terrible start. Good. Some of Europe’s best soccer clubs are working on forming a breakaway super league. Good. Apparently there’s something called a play-in tournament for the NBA playoffs, which are already bloated. Not good. And Shane Bieber is a freaking strikeout machine. Outstanding! And that’s sports. Holy Shit!!! As I’m typing these links, Spuds have fired Jose Mourinho. LOL. That’s freaking hilarious.
It’s cool, Sophia. We’re looking too.
Founding father Roger Sherman was born on this day. He shares it with Brazilian strongman Getulio Vargas, Bewitched actor Dick Sargent, the boobtastic Jayne Mansfield, funnyman Dudley Moore, Filipino actor and president (yeah, other places do it too) Joseph Estrada, austere religious leader (source: NYT) Ali Khamenei, auto racing heavyweight Jack Roush, underrated actor Tim Curry, hurler Frank Viola, driver Al Unser Jr, actress who’s lost her mind Ashley Judd, catcher Brent Mayne, oddball James Franco, actor Kate Hudson, franchise-ruining actor actor Hayden Christiansen, and sexy racket-swinger Maria Sharapova.
What a mishmash of good and meh in that list. Anyway, on to…the links!
Yeah, I’d be on edge too. Not sure why you’re increasing security now though. They’re already burned or looted half the damn place.
Thanks a lot, Bi-, I mean Trump!
-NYT
My how the coverage of this story has shifted in 2021. I can remember when this kind of thing would have led to a media pile-on of the admin rather than lamenting what a poor job the contractor did. A contractor, mind you, that the current admin hired even though they had zero experience whatsoever with what the fuck they’re being commissioned to do.
This seems to be getting a lack of coverage. I had to scroll pretty deep to find it on any of the first three sites I used today. I’ll leave it to you to wonder why.
This woman is an egomaniac. And no, people calling on her to retire isn’t homophobic, racist, or misogynistic. It’s just smart. Because she’s about as useless as tits on a boar.
Look in a mirror and heed your own advice, dipshit.
Zodiac kinda has a point. I mean, when people are already tearing shit up and a politician calls on them to become more confrontational, I’d take that to mean they condone increased violence. But that pales in comparison to telling people to march peacefully to the Capitol, which has been likened to calls for an “insurrection”.
Talk about fucked up priorities. This guy is forced to resign while nobody involved with Human Square got shit? That city needs to be flushed into the lake.
“Vandals”? Huh, I thought witness intimidation was treated a little more seriously than vandalism. But this is 2021 and words no longer have any meaning.
Here’s one for you space nuts. That’s pretty cool, I guess. Now if only we could find a way to shoot all the politicians there to watch the next one. Except Massie. He can stay.
Here’s a good song. Well, it is to me anyway. Hope you feel the same.
Now get out there and get the week off to a great start, friends!
“Yeah, I’d be on edge too. Not sure why you’re increasing security now though. They’re already burned or looted half the damn place.”
Must be worried they will now go loot the rich liberal’s homes?
Until they march of Walz’s domicile, nothing will change.
You’re not my supervisor!
I’ll know what kind of a week I’m getting off to in just under 7 hours. You know of which I speak.
Fingers crossed!
I’ll need to put in a few extra hours today. Looks like I’m getting snowed out tomorrow.
Good morning, fellow Glibsters.
As Sloopy noted above, we flew our toy helicopter on Mars. This is actually kind of a thing.
NASA Blog on the thing:
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8923/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight/
Recording of mission control as the images came in. Action starts at about 38:00. With bouncy press officer Marina, and awesome marsnerdbabes Mimi and Tarran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1KolyCqICI
Did they find some house with a MILF in the shower to use it on? In your case Tonio, you might want to know if any bears were sighted showering, I guess, so figured I might check if that happened otherwise… (And I hope you are doing real well health wise sir!)
No, the hot MILFs are in Mission Control. Ms. Aung actually jumps with joy when the telemetry and pictures come in.
There could be “bears” on Mars, but not visible with the optics on that heli. And we probably brought them. MAHLI could see them, though.
I rode just over five miles on my bike yesterday. Smoked my thirtysomething student. In the sense of outpacing him, you preverts. I’m good.
Glad to hear you are large and in charge bud!
Thanks. Srsly.
Smoked my thirtysomething student.
Traeger or Komodo? Or with that big a slab, did you have one built?
“that big a slab”
Look, the lad is sensitive about his weight. He really tries, though.
“Slab” I’m dying here…
No road riding last week for me. Low 40’s and raining are not conducive to rides. And there’s potential for snow this week.
Sorry, bro.
A little joke.
Bike Store Chick [upon my picking up bike after service]: You won’t clunk or creak when you ride now.
Tonio: You mean the bike won’t….
Bike Store Chick: [eyeroll]
Heh… I concur that aging is the suck..
The bike store chick recommended bib shorts to me when I complained the regular ones were biting me in the gut.
I had to thank her for that later.
I always wear a base layer under my padded layer, for the support and all. I find that comfort can be increased by rolling the waistband of the baselayer down all the way around your waist. The outer layer will then help keep that in place.
Glad to see you riding. Let me know if you want to ride.
I managed to convince a couple of the people in the spin class to try out some real riding. Pointed them towards a trailhead that has a bike shop that does (or at least did) rentals as well. Some of them were looking to pick up a bike, I wished them good luck. The supply is still short here.
I hiked 20 miles yesterday..
Trying to get back into my routine since my waist started to expand because of all the slacking…
Go, you. I miss hiking.
And even though aging sucks, we’re still getting out there and doing it.
Aging is better than the alternative, but I miss not having to work this hard to do a fraction of the work I used to…
Mars ain’t the kinda place to raise your milfs. There’s no one there to bang them, if you did.
Recording of mission control as the images came in.
TAKE OFF YOUR MASKS, YOU BUNCH OF DORKS!
In space, nobody can hear you yelling at people to put on a mask.
Some were conspicuously double-masking. I bet Marina, or her people, gave each of them a white mask and a black mask to make it obvious they were doubling-up.
Well, yeah. They can’t do something without making a show of it. The whole thing is performance art anyway.
“Zodiac kinda has a point. I mean, when people are already tearing shit up and a politician calls on them to become more confrontational, I’d take that to mean they condone increased violence. ”
Trump telling people to be peaceful in protesting the powers “fortifying” an election, resulted in accusations of insurrection and the worst day in American history since Pearl Harbor, because a guy with a horn hat and some people toured a government building where the top men were in and they got skeered, but the same horribly evil fucks that encouraged and financed the real terrorists (part of the cabal that fortified the election, it must be) are STILL encouraging more of it, and that’s reported as peaceful protests….
We don’t have news: we have propaganda for the ruling oligarchy and their agenda.
The beauty of Maxine running her mouth in Brooklyn Center is that she can now be called as a defense witness for Trump in Water’s own lawsuit against him.
I guarantee that if that happens she won’t go quietly into the witness stand. It would be extremely funny to someone like me.
When a person has as large a mouth as she does, nature just demands that stupid falls out of it.
That would make my year.
Seriously, such awesome. Many humorous.
I’m all for Maxine Waters staying on the streets. Preferably for years while sleeping in an ally and shitting behind the dumpster she dives in.
Pretty sure she lives in a mansion financed by her myriad grifts.
“Oh, when I said “we” I meant you silly bastards. I’m leaving for more comfortable surroundings right after this little speech.”
She and her husband have made out quite well from her decades of grifting.
” sleeping in an ally”
Ewwww.
You know… like a wampa.
Tauntaun. Wampa was the abominable snow creature-thing.
D’oh!
I knew that… I was just… testing y’all… yeah, yeah… that’s the ticket….
Ponch was the man!
Estrada!
Repeat from the dead thread.
Government response to Covid in one video.
You sure that isn’t Yusef?
From NPR
Austin police said that while the suspect remains at large, the shooting appears to be a “domestic situation” and poses no risk to the general public. The public was temporarily told to shelter in place as police searched for the suspect.
He’s no danger to the public, but some panicky cop might put a few rounds in you.
I wonder why this is getting pretty much no coverage. Is it because he’s black? Or because he’s a former cop? Or maybe it’s because he had his guns taken away (at least according to local news) and still found a way to get one illegally and shoot these people?
D. All of the above.
I though domestic terrorism was a priority for government action.
How the hell did “Beetlejuice” get elected in the first place? It’s about the most unpleasant creature that you’d ever meet outside of a video game. Stunningly ignorant and so full of hubris that even her most ardent supporters secretly loathe her. She looks like an alien being playing human. Aside from Maxine Waters, easily the most reprehensible Dem.
Chicago
Yeah. Forget it Festus. It’s Chi-town…
The alternatives were raving socialists, promising to chase all the markets and exchanges out of town with local taxes or people so covered in the teacher’s union pocket lint, you couldn’t see them.
“so covered in the teacher’s union pocket lint”
U rite purty.
That garner’s my seal-claps. Well, done, Swissy!
Machine politics. The voters didn’t choose her, the Party did.
I rode just over five miles on my bike yesterday. Smoked my thirtysomething student. In the sense of outpacing him, you preverts. I’m good.
On a real bicycle, in the Great Outdoors, I hope. Bueno.
Yes, a real bicycle that moves, and is entirely powered by my muscles (with an occasional assist from gravity or tailwind). It was mostly pavement miles (womp, womp), but was a lovely spring day. Grazi.
It’s still dark out but the robins are singing. Spring has sprung!
The robins are the only birds brave enough to land in my yard now that the pup is here.
No owls?
Never seen one. I have seen a few hawks, both on the ground and in the trees. Saw a new bird yesterday as Lily was pooping in the woods (I guess she’s part bear) https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-throated_Blue_Warbler/overview.
No more squirrels or chipmunks. Turkeys in the front yard, but not the back. An occasionaly cat, but they’re crossing the yard without stopping.
Owls are pretty good about not being seen.
They also tend towards the nocturnal.
But owls are bad at being unheard. The owl that lives near us likes to tune up every night with his own karaoke routine that is sure to turn on any lady owls who might be nearby.
We have hawks in the neighborhood. They make their presence known, but at least it is during the day.
Robins are notably tame and stupid. I like them anyways.
We had a Great Egret drop by on Saturday. Beautiful bird. It perched on a dead tree in the swamp upstream from our property.
I told my youngest that most of the time when birds were singing/calling they are saying either, “This is mine!”, or “Hey ladies!”
She was amused.
The trees are alive with the sound of birds. Woodpeckers and rain gutters aren’t as enjoyable..
Three men died in a shooting Sunday at a college bar in Kenosha, Wis. called the Somers House Tavern. Three other men were transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds, police said Sunday evening. Police there described the attack as “targeted and isolated.”
A still-unnamed person of interest was located Sunday night and will be criminally charged with one count of first degree intentional homicide with additional criminal charges to follow pending further investigation, police said in an update.
The incidents follow several other recent mass shootings in the United States.
It means whatever we want it to mean, depending on the circumstances.
Other “mass shootings” in major metropolitan centers were quietly elided.
Chicago has a sadz
“We prefer higher frequency, single shootings over lower frequency, mass shootings.”
^ Well played!
3 doesn’t even make the threshold for a mass shooting.
Like that fucking matters.
TMITE
Dr. Sonali Rajan of the Columbia Scientific Union for the Reduction of Gun Violence told NPR in January that one of the things that could have played a role in the increase was a diversion of public health resources due to the pandemic. She said that led to “violence interrupters, social programs and support services not being as readily available.”
Another possible cause: the uptick in gun sales. 2020 marked the best year for gun sales ever.
A “diversion of public health resources”?
Fuck you, NPR, you lying hack propagandists. tell your glorious masters to stop their relentless campaign of psychological torture.
And fuck the Columbia Scientific Union for the Reduction of Gun Violence even harder.
“a diversion of public health resources due to the pandemic”
Give us moar money.
Yeah, that’s some good sciencing there, Lou.
Another possible cause: the uptick in gun sales. 2020 marked the best year for gun sales ever.
1990s – far fewer firearms in private hands than today, with a higher incidence of violent crime than today. Your “hypothesis” is falsified.
Nuh-uh – the hypothesis is that guns are icky and people that own them are double-icky! SCIENCE!!!
Cha-ching.
Well, there is only one team in that bunch I give a shit about so go for it.
Also LOL.
There is only one reason you hire that guy. It must be daunting to be expected to whip a bunch of clowns into “number one” every year.
I’m not sure whether to be proud or embarrassed that Spurs are the only club where Mourinho didn’t win anything.
That is not a bad tune at all. I want to get between the two girls circa 1980 and play naked Twister!
It would also involve that massive wig, which I suspect is a relative of The Hair.
She plays a role.
They cannot be forgiven for that abomination, “Love Shack”.
I will not listen to anything else they put out!
Good day to you, sir!
I said good day!
AFAIK, they were the first to sing about the tragedy of glitter — how it gets on the matress, the hallway, the front porch, the highway…
Someone saw shiny in the bowl one morning.
You’re not supposed to lick strippers.
Agreed – I loathe the B-52s
Hey it’s a fun little ditty – it just got old because MTV, VH1 and every radio station on the planet agreed to play it every 30 minutes from 1989-1991…
Yikes.
“At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.”
Short answer- buy a diesel
One all-electric car kept reigniting for eight days as batteries damaged by the fire ruptured.
Gasoline fires are easier to contain than lithium ion fires.
I thought Tesla recommended letting it burn out.
Last week a friend brought an old Samsung phone to the range. It had a small charge on the battery but had been laundered and wouldn’t work reliably.
He duct taped it to a backstop at 100yd, and I watched through a scope as his son did the honors on the phone with a .338 Lapua. Immediately as the bullet struck the phone (piercing the battery), white smoke began billowing out of the phone. We cleared the rifle and walked down range, and by the time we reached the backstop, the phone was changing colors and obviously very hot–we noticed the smell of burning wood, and knocked the phone off the plywood backstop, and found it was on fire, and the shape of the phone was scorched into the backstop; a black rectangle with the edges of the hole burning with open flames. The phone battery had swelled and continued to burn for a while afterward.
“At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery.”
Tesla Customer Support, “Have you tried turning it off and then turning it on again?”
Not Fair
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she plans to introduce a resolution to expel Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress for her “continual incitement of violence on innocent American people.”
In a tweet on Sunday, Greene said Waters was inciting violence when she spoke with demonstrators in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Saturday.
“Rep Waters is a danger to our society,” Greene wrote.
If a Republican member of Congress calls for the discipline of a beloved (black) Democrat, that’s just like the Nazis invading Poland.
Let’s just call this the Moonbat Waltz. They pretty much deserve each other.
Just for fun! An incredibly attractive family playing a classic tune. https://youtu.be/X_XVrm6zXmw Enjoy!
On Sunday morning, two National Guardsmen suffered minor injuries when someone in an SUV fired at them while they were providing neighborhood security in Minneapolis, ABC News reported.
One guardsman was taken to the hospital for glass-related injuries while the other’s injuries were described as superficial. It’s not yet known who fired the shots.
Round up
the usual suspectsany Oathkeepers and Proud Boys in the vicinity.Some of Europe’s best soccer clubs are working on forming a breakaway super league. Good.
I think the backlash is going to prevent it. Apparently the American owners (who appear to be pushing this) don’t like relegation possibilities. Personally, I think it would be hilarious if it went forward, failed, and the teams were forced to rejoin at the bottom of their league pyramids. And I don’t just mean League 2, send them back to level 9 or so of the pyramid with the average crowds of 50.
I think they could make it work with something like this:
Top 5 leagues, England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France each send their top 4 teams from Year 0. Future years, bottom 3 are relegated back home, 5 league winners have a play-in for the 3 spots (method to be determined*). Teams in Super League can still play in their home cup competition. Champions League goes back to old European Cup format, champions only tournament.
*My two suggested methods:
1. Team from league with fewest members in super league gets auto promoted. Other 4 are drawn into a home/home playin for last 2 spots.
2. All 5 teams play a 4 game round robin, 2 home, 2 road. Top 3 teams earn promotion.
I’m going to be interested to see the actual proposal. What I saw yesterday noted they would be playing midweek games and bringing in 5 “extra” teams each year.
I wonder if this is designed to keep these teams in their domestic leagues, and play in the Super League instead of the Champions League.
That is the intention. They are not planning to leave domestic leagues, just the UEFA European comps. Of course, the domestic leagues are already threatening to kick them out if they follow through on super league.
And ban any players in the league from playing on their international teams.
Interesting. Most of the reaction – especially in the UK – seems to be based on the idea they are leaving the domestic leagues.
What I am seeing right now is:
1. Premier League will kick them out if they do this. Also no FA Cup. So that will be their only league.
2. The other 14 premier league teams are meeting and threatening sanctions THIS YEAR. A point reduction for the 6 clubs would be hilarious, especially if it knocks some of them out of Champions League of Europa League next year.
A point reduction wouldn’t affect the Manchesters teams. Leicester City and West Ham would practically lock up Champions League for next year. Everton the same for Europa. Leeds and Aston Villa would be back in the fight for Europe.
What part of GUARANTEED PROFIT don’t you understand?
“Project manager MiMi Aung was jubilant as she ripped up the papers holding the plan in case the flight had failed. “We’ve been talking so long about our Wright Brothers moment, and here it is,” she said.”
Would.
She’s clearly smart AF and reminds me of Lilo’s older sister.
Sure that team might be more successful than the Mars Polar Lander team, but that team seemed a lot more fun
You know how many EPA compliance test reports Ive written around midnight, in a hotel room, after working all day and pounding a 6-pack?
I know how she feels.
But did you let a newpaper photographer take your picture?
Sometimes water is delivered in those glasses? I dunno, guess fun to poke at that team though for that major screw up.
First rule of drinking at work, DON’T USE SPECIAL GLASSES! Use a water glass, or pour your bourbon into the Coke can, water botter, or other nondescript object. Hell, take a syringe and inject an orange with vodka, but never, never use a wine glass.
Rookie move.
I would have thought her too slender for your tastes. Yes, she is super smart. I’ve heard her go on at length about stuff.
Exceptions can be made. Variety and all that business.
Once upon a Mammary Monday.
https://archive.li/dxQcM
We already saw two of the greatest bosoms in film history just above. No need to gild the lily.
Above Viola in baseball birthdays, we have Joe Mauer and Bucky Walters, both above 50 WAR. Viola is at 47 WAR.
Joe Mauer was a team killer.
Great skills, but no killer instinct. Game on the line? Joe would still slap a single somewhere. Never a leader in the clubhouse. The Twinkies spent so much money on him and didn’t get a franchise player they could build around.
Frankie “Sweet Music” Viola though won the Twinkies a World Series, so he gets his b-day wish.
A catcher who can hit at all? You can build around that. Viola had teammates. Puckett was slightly better in 1987. 7.8 vs 7.7 WAR. Allan Anderson was over 5 WAR (while making only 70k), Hrbek and Gaetti were both over 4 WAR.
Joe Mauer, at his peak in 2009, was equal to Puckett in 1987. He got them in the playoffs in 2009 with no teammate over 4 WAR.
Although that team did have 6 guys over 3 WAR, which is pretty good. Give him a pitcher as good as Viola and he is Kirby 2.0.
It is not that they couldn’t build around him, it is that they didnt.
The top 2 pitchers on that team were Scott Baker and Nick Blackburn. That is not who you want going into the playoffs.
Justin Morneau was making more than Mauer in 2009. As was Joe Nathan. Nathan though, did all you can expect from your closer.
Morneau was a gamer.
Mauer was a Scotty Pippin. Really good, but never going to be The Man. You could add him to good teams and make them great, but as we proved you can’t build around him.
It didn’t help that the local press treated him with kid gloves because he was a local. How many years did he resist moving to 1st because he wanted to be a catcher? Didn’t matter to him that they needed him playing every day at 1st instead of being a catcher and taking lots of games off because his knees hurt.
Watching him, you never felt like he gave a shit if they got to the playoffs much less won the Series. He was never going to pull a Kirby and tell the team to “climb on my back”.
Also, his best years were in the Metrodome. He never hit as well in the new Target Field as he did back in the Dome.
Dudley Moore and Jayne Mansfield shared a birthday?
https://youtu.be/SentQjMIioY
I’d like to than Cali for loaning us Maximum Stateswoman Maxine. Boy did we need her on our streets to help us get through this patch. I hope our own Ilhan Omar was watching and taking notes.
Experts- EXPERTS, I tell you
On Saturday, however, Greene, who once stated that, “The most mistreated group of people in the United States today are White males,” scrapped the planning of the launch of the caucus after a media firestorm and even criticism by a few fellow Republicans, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeting that the GOP was not the party of “nativist dog whistles” and GOP conference chair Liz Cheney writing that “Racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism are evil.”
That’s a positive development. But the right’s denunciation of Greene, Perry and Carlson should have been deafening. GOP members of Congress should have held a press conference denouncing in one voice White nationalism and all who peddle it. Instead, we saw only a handful of Republican leaders call it out while most of the remaining 262 GOP members of the House and Senate remained dangerously silent — similar to the muted response after GOP Rep. Paul Gosar spoke in February at a White nationalist convention.
This limited response by the GOP is normalizing the growing deadly threat posed to our nation by White nationalism — and I don’t say that as some “woke” liberal. Experts are warning us of this very threat.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is the Hillary Rodham Clinton of Republicans.
Cnn;dr
I failed to see any evidence of white nationalism in her statement. Since white males are the only group that may be legally discriminated against, and are subject to constant denigration, it seems her sin was saying the truth out loud.
…scrapped the planning of the launch of the caucus after a media firestorm and even criticism by a few fellow Republicans, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeting that the GOP was not the party of “nativist dog whistles” and GOP conference chair Liz Cheney writing that “Racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism are evil.”
And this is why the Republicans are worthless shits, eager to back down and show their bellies as soon as the proggie lying and screeching starts.
Yeah but I’d still fuck her if I didn’t have the scruples I was born with.
I mean, who doesn’t want to be bench-pressed mid-coitus?
Wheeeeeee!
Massie might choose to go on the Mars trip. Of all of the pols, he is probably smart enough to figure out a way back.
He can go only if he agrees not to bring back any of the others.
The victim said they’d been awoken by the sound of individuals splashing blood and throwing a decapitated pig’s head at the front of their home.
Impressed. How would you know what that sounds like?
Wait…is that?…no, nevermind, just cows blood, go back to sleep.
I read that initially as go back to sheep and spent 5 minutes trying to puzzle out the joke.
Sheep are no joke, yo….
Wars have been fought over sheep love some Scotsman once told me..
The fleece that lifted a thousand kilts?
I wish I had typed that, it is much funnier.
How would you know what that sounds like?
Maybe they watch a lot of yakuza movies.
Lulz
That seriously deserves a WTF. Inviting Chelsea Clinton to the Vatican for a discussion on health and the soul?
And I thought the mRNA vaccines used a fetal cell line that was originally harvested in 1973.
It confirms my belief that the Vatican is now owned/run by the devil’s servants.
At one time, I’d have argued that whatever you think of Catholic theology, the Catholic Church had a pretty impressive intellectual framework that was worth taking seriously. But, Chelsea Clinton and Deepak Chopra? At this point is there really any reason to take the Catholic Church seriously?
They have dangerous and evil ideas? You ignore assholes like that at your own risk…
Chelsea Clinton and Deepak Chopra? Ideas?
No.. The catholic church’s leadership that has gone full crazy and marxist.
I have Catholic friends who are pulling their hair out. One in particular converted to the faith primarily because of the moral, philosophical, and intellectual framework.
The Church will survive commie-pope, but he’s going to do quite a bit of damage on the way out.
The thing is, even after commie-pope, you still have the same cardinals who voted him in.
Is Benedict still the Pope?
A new study by the University of Chicago’s “Chicago Project on Security and Threats” (CPOST) about those arrested in the January 6 attack provides a clarion call that we need to stop the further spread of white nationalism. This study reviewed details surrounding the then 377 people arrested for their role in the riot and found one unexpected common trait: The people arrested “typically hail from places where non-White populations are growing fastest.”
CPOST then engaged in a broader study to determine “the roots” of why some on the right supported the January 6 attack. The answer: “One driver overwhelmingly stood out: fear of the ‘Great Replacement’.” Yes, the very same White nationalist replacement theory being championed by Carlson, Greene and others on the right.
University of Chicago Professor Robert Pape, the lead author of the report, shared a worrying wrinkle when I spoke to him on my SiriusXM show a few days ago. Support for political violence on right was no longer just held by people on the “fringes,” he warned. Rather, there was a “mainstreaming” of these views shown by support for it from people like CEOs and white-collar workers.
While we don’t know for certain how many White Americans truly fear being “replaced” by people of color, we need to address this issue. GOP leaders must not only publicly denounce supporters who espouse this view, they must also vow not to appear on media outlets that spew White nationalism. We can’t allow this view to tighten its grip on America.
It may be Pollyannaish, but we should try to reach Americans who harbor these views in an effort to alleviate the concerns — even if we only peel away a small percentage
Why do I assume they include anybody who wants any sort of rational, orderly process for immigration, and anybody who wants any sort of rational, orderly process for verification of identity and citizenship before voting under the heading of deranged nativism and white nationalism?
337 people out of a population of give or take 350 Million. Some insurrection, some rebellion… Fuck they are asinine.
“Replacement” is damned euphemistic and “white nationalism” is damned uncharitable.
A lot of these so called white nationalists simply recognize the following facts:
1) the chump effect
2) the overt racism, sexism, and general bigotry of the prog-fascists
3) the integration of prog-fascism into various aspects of mainstream culture
An employer paying hiring managers a bounty for hiring minorities isn’t “replacement, ” it’s racism. Incentivizing illegals to migrate to the US with promises of welfare goodies and eventual citizenship isn’t “replacement”, it’s slow motion insurrection. Training people’s children to hate themselves and their families at your public indoctrination centers isn’t “replacement”, it’s child abuse. Add in the 50 other moving cogs, and it’s hard to say that the prog-fascists aren’t trying to overthrow western civilization purely out of spite and racial hatred.
We must progress – of course they can’t say to what we are progressing toward. It’s “progress” for the sake of progress. It’s just coincidental that that means shitting all over history and destroying everything that came before, because of course that’s what we are progressing away from.
There is no monument to stupidity in this country equal to the Progressives.
I notice many more South Asian people in my life over the last couple of decades. I don’t care because many Sikh girls are incredibly hot but yeah, we are being replaced or shunted to the side. They took the cabs, the trucking industry, fast food, sawmills, janitorial services and convenience stores. More power to them, I suppose. As a nominal Libertarian, I can’t bitch overmuch but it would be nice if they weren’t so curt and hostile as soon as they realize that you of a lower caste.
But don’t the “progressives” espouse this same view all the time but as a positive thing? It’s yet another one of those things that you can say as long as you’re celebrating it – if you say that there are any downsides at all, then you’re propagating a horrible, dangerous conspiracy theory. Like saying there are innate psychological differences between men and women.
Shh. It’s not the Great Replacement. It’s the Coalition of the Ascendant. That’s how you frame the same thing in a postive light.
This weekend I started listening to the Reasonable Doubt podcast to hear Geragos (and Carolla) cover the Chauvin trial. It is good, but I am more worried than before.
What worries me is that Geragos keeps bringing up the point that the coverage of the MSM is so one sided that if the jury hangs (he thinks there is no way for an outright acquital) people will be absolutely stunned because there wasn’t a peep about the good points that the defense has been making.
Geragos has brought up at least three big points where the prosecution has been caught trying to lie to the jury. None of them have been discussed at all on CNN, MSNBC, etc.
If the jury decides that they can’t trust the prosecution and doesn’t convict Chauvin it is going to be extra bad because it will completely blindside the yahoos.
If I’m being positive, my prediction is that they convict Chauvin of murder 3, but then multiple jurors come out and say they would have preferred to acquit him but they were scared for their safety and worried about the riots.
Why wouldn’t they be scared, Congress has signaled they want a guilty verdict and that is scarier than any BLM/Antifa crowd.
Styx has been saying that they’ll riot either way. Celebratory or Mournful. Watched Corrolla on Tucker’s show yesterday. It was pretty tasty. Tucker let him talk and he was his usual self-deprecating fellow. Made some good points and also reminded everyone to NEVER APOLOGISE. It was quite refreshing.
Mourning doesn’t get the ol’ adrenaline pumping like self-righteous violence does.
I think I’ve been saying since the very beginning that they will riot either way too.
All these yahoos that have poured into the city in anticipation for the verdict aren’t going to leave without some parting gifts.
It is really hard to not be really down about the future of Minneapolis. I don’t see how this isn’t going to be the beginning of a death spiral for the area. Look out Detroit! Here we come.
Detriot, Portland, Newark…
The list is endless, sadly.
The jury was never sequestered. They are hearing about the decapitated pig’s head on the news right now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a hung jury as some will be too scared to acquit.
What worries me is that Geragos keeps bringing up the point that the coverage of the MSM is so one sided that if the jury hangs (he thinks there is no way for an outright acquital) people will be absolutely stunned because there wasn’t a peep about the good points that the defense has been making.
Narratives don’t create and sustain themselves. Any failure to convict to the highest charge is PROOF of everything they claim is wrong in America. It is fodder for a thousand more articles supporting the Narrative.
There was an article on The Federalist a few weeks back that something to the effect of:
“The verdict in this case will only have to do with the facts of this case”.
It will say nothing about racism or how far we’ve come as a country or any other shit.
They are wrong, politics will have plenty to do with the verdict. The jurors haven’t been sequestered, do you think they are unaware of the political pressure for a guilty verdict?
It’s bad enough that Maxine Waters is calling for more violence, but she’s actively calling for the “correct” verdict. Not, “let’s trust in our judicial system and accept whatever the verdict might be.” Instead, it’s “I know what the verdict should be, and if that’s not the case you should riot.” Quick reminder, these are the people who are in charge now.
This. Sticking her nose into judicial matters ought to be a huge no-no.
I’m a bit offended she is sticking her nose into a different Congressional district too. Omar isn’t bad enough, she needs to pile on?
Because they don’t see themselves as representative of a small district, they see themselves as royalty of the country.
^^ This.
I keep saying this, but every day there are opportunities for the Dems to calm things down. Any good leader would do that. Instead they keep pouring gas on the fire every chance they get.
It’s like they don’t recognize that the gasoline isn’t just landing on their own fire. It’s splashing into other fires as well.
Perhaps they believe themselves to be Targaryeans and immune to flame?
^ Good’un!
Serious question… why would the Dems want to calm things down?
I think their vision for this country is very different from ours. The Dems approach of pouring gas is intentional and seems to be working well for their goals. The capital of this country hasn’t been permanently fortified by the military like some third world shithole for fun.
A view from the outside would be that some in our government are just applying the ‘don’t let a crisis go to waste’ thinking. Fear is a great motivator and is the catalyst they are using to bring about their initiatives they have been wanting for decades that normally get bogged down in politics.
There is absolutely no reason at this point they would want things to calm down.
If I’m being positive, my prediction is that they convict Chauvin of murder 3, but then multiple jurors come out and say they would have preferred to acquit him but they were scared for their safety and worried about the riots.
The judge has done just about everything he could do to throw it into the appeals court’s lap.
In the narrowest view, I’d be okay if they convict Chauvin and feed him to the wolves.
Intentional murder? No. Intentional infliction of physical pain and emotional/psychological distress (i e, torture)? Yes. Fuck Chauvin.
It’s a lose lose situation. There’s no rationality on either of the leading narratives. It’s either the police are inherently racist and need to be disbanded, or lick the boots cops can do no wrong.
Are those really the leading narratives though? I’ve yet to meet anyone without a more nuanced actual opinion.
A nuanced opinion just hasn’t been bullied by the right narrative. CONFORM!
Seriously, real people that think will not be narrative-slurpers.
Chauvin is a complete piece of shit and his complete lack of giving a shit did play some part in Floyd’s death. He deserves the manslaughter charge and should do some time.
The same with the policewoman in Brooklyn Center. Her fuckup caused someone to die that shouldn’t have. Time should be served.
The depressing part is how so many people are 100% polarized on this issue.
Healer-in-Chief
President Joe Biden is keeping a watchful eye on this week’s closing arguments in the Minneapolis trial of Derek Chauvin, fearful that a controversial verdict could inflame new racial tensions and further escalate a deepening crisis in confidence with the nation’s police forces.
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The White House is bracing for a week ahead that could be particularly volatile, with a Thursday funeral set for Daunte Wright — another Minnesota man killed by a police officer — along with new revelations from a police-involved shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Chicago, as well as the verdict in the Chauvin trial.
The whipsaw of events, along with near-daily episodes of major shootings across the country, have only heightened pressure on both the President and Congress to hold police accountable for misconduct, a challenge now playing out against the backdrop of new calls for gun legislation.
In the short term, the White House is closely tracking the events in Minneapolis and beyond this week and is preparing for a variety of scenarios in one of the most high-profile cases of police brutality in three decades. Biden is not scheduled to leave Washington this week, but aides say he will monitor developments and is likely to address the outcome of the trial.
“The bully pulpit is more than just a bully pulpit,” said Rep. James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is the highest-ranking African American member of Congress. “I think the President can help set a tone in the country, there is no question in my mind.”
He already has, Jim. He already has.
Buckle up.
I think they’ll convict him of at least manslaughter.
The defense was actually not very good.
“Fearful”? More like overjoyed.
Finally got around to reading about the Fed-Ex shooter. All I can conclude is that the FBI is definitely evil and maybe incompetent.
This seriously disturbed kid was dimed out by his family a year-ago when he tried to buy a shotgun. The locals realized the kid was nuts and called in the FBI. Fast-forward a few months and the guy has two legally purchased AR’s. Good jobs feds. $9,748,829,000 federal tax money well spent. Keep hunting those Jan. 6th insurrectionists while cities burn.
Even by wikistandards, that article is trash.
The NYT is the ultimate source of truth. This is actual wikipedia policy.
I like Wikipedia for a lot of things, but it’s garbage for anything that has a political element to it. I can’t figure out if it’s the management or the fact that Lefties tend to have more time and motivation to plaster their narratives all over the Internet and silence all others.
There’s an entire article about “Russian Interference in the 2016 Election”. Don’t read it if you’re concerned about your blood pressure.
This is not political at all, but
I once edited a Wikipedia site to update the fishing license rules on Lake Texoma — that they take either a Texas or Oklahoma fishing license — and the new costs.
My family has a house on the lake there and earlier that day I had been informed of these by a local park ranger.
My edit was rejected and rolled back, though, because I couldn’t point to an online source that had this information. It turns out they hadn’t updated the government website yet.
I found this funny.
There was no online source that had any contrary information.
Literally, wikipedia accepts a journalist’s word for everything, and if another source contradicts a journalist, the journalist is always right*.
*journalists fron reliable sources of course. Racist rethuglicans aren’t really journalismists.
If I were teaching a class on how to use deceptive language to create a narrative while technically telling the truth, I’d use Wikipedia articles as an example. The fact that there’s an entire article about “lies told by Donald Trump” says a lot.
Wikipedia has been skinsuited.
Its founder was quite libertarian. He’s not involved anymore.
This is actually standard for all encyclopedias. And is prima facie evidence as to why they are never used as an actual source in any academic setting.
There are Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary sources, referring to 1) actual interviews, 2) a written report, and 3) a published source ie a newspaper from the period or somesuch. Encyclopedias are sourced from the third, and so don’t even rise to that level.
Turns out he was a brony as well.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/18/fedex-mass-shooter-was-obsessed-with-my-little-pony-report/
And this particular turn of phrase had me cussing….
What those elements are is not actually specified, just asserted.
It’s a subculture that isn’t 100% on the woke wagon, therefore it must be pilloried and destroyed.
What is more woke than identifying as a fantasy pony?
What you identify as has nothing to do with wokeness. Your politics determine your wokeness.
Specifically, the elements of far-right and white nationalism are that it has white dudes.
Wear and tear has turned my Little Pony into Stretch Armstrong.
I guess the lesson here is, no matter how pathetic your subculture, there’s always gonna be someone out there who wants to put the boot in.
One of the members of my club is going to the Palmyra shoot next weekend. Very thin guy. Indeterminate age. Gray buzzcut. Sig fanboy, will probably be wearing a Legion themed jacket. Most distinguishing feature: will be wearing a mask.
Absent the red-flag law (and you gotta admit – this kid was a prime example of why there should be one), he was not adjudicated to be a danger to himself or others by a court (which should’ve then been a NICS catch but in all likelihood would not have been).
In CA if he were admitted he would have been banned from buying guns for five years. Don’t know what other states do.
They have had a Red Flag law in effect in Indiana sine 2004. Lot of good that did this time.
Eff their calls for more gun laws until they start using the ones they already have.
I’m not sure what they can actually do though. I may have to learn more about this.
And I’m not sure I *want* them to be actually able to do much.
My last purchase I had to wait a week for to clear the FBI check. They took away the shotgun, but let two AR transfers sail through?
Is that what happened? I don’t know the logistics of it. So there was no delay?
A few months after the locals stopped him from acquiring a shotty and informed the FBI, he has two legally purchased ARs according to the media reports. Of course they never question how that sequence of events went down.
That would be interesting to learn.
The ARs could have been private purchases. Which would suck.
But, if they were private purchases, the media-industrial complex would be emoting all over the place by now, so who knows?
From what I recall that I read over the weekend . . . the locals intervened and took possession of the shotgun but DID NOT use the red flag law to get him listed as “cannot possess a firearm”. And even thought they should have returned the shotgun (because they didn’t use the red flag law), they never gave it back.
Thus it was completely legal for him to buy firearms, and the locals broke the rules by not returning the shotgun.
What should the feds have done? I’m adamantly opposed to Red Flag Laws. If he’s that dangerous then he needs to be behind bars after convicted of a crime by judge and jury.
This is one of those prices of freedom. I’m sure many progessive family members and most of government would consider posting here to be dangerous and worthy of a red flag. Red Flag laws aren’t a slippery slope… it’s the blueprint for confiscation.
This is more or less what I was thinking above when I said I’m not sure I *want* the Feds to be able to do much. It’s a dangerous area.
You mean to say that you don’t want the state to be able to do anything it wants to?
Don’t you understand that teH SociAL CoNTracT!!! says that we have to trust the government to not be a bunch of corrupt Buffon’s?
A huge part of the problem is self-governance laws. This keeps people that are at mental health risk to themselves and others able to stay out of mental health lockdowns and released the mentally ill back on the streets, which is why the homeless problem has become so intractable.
And yes, from a philosophical point it is an issue for libertarians, but that doesn’t stop it from being a root cause of many of these problems.
Listen, their hands are completely tied. Without common sense gun control and red flag laws, there is simply no way they can manipulate the Byzantine legal structure to do anything about this problem.
I mean you’re being sarcastic, but what really is it that you think they could have done?
I’m not really sure they could have done anything within the law. Certainly not if “the law” includes the Constitution.
Need to close the red flag loophole.
What loophole – the one that requires LE to actually do their job? Indiana had the fucking law and no one bothered to use it.
Which should be a great illustration that “red flag” laws pose a massive risk to Constitutional rights but do nothing to actually stop mass shootings.
The loophole which allows any purchase or possession of a firearm.
When’s the last time your snark meter was calibrated?
It is really hard to not be really down about the future of Minneapolis. I don’t see how this isn’t going to be the beginning of a death spiral for the area. Look out Detroit! Here we come.
I remember being in Milwaukee in the early ’90s. It seemed like a pretty nice place.
I feel the same way about moving to Wisconsin as black guys I knew in Memphis felt about the southern suburbs in Mississippi….
“Fuck that, I can’t be a resident of that backwards fucked up state”
All I could think when I saw this story about another car jacker being shot and killed by police is “whew, it was just a white guy.”
Speaking of the “White Power Caucus”…
Anybody who tries to adapt so-called Trumpism into a coherent organized set of governing principles will immediately be accused of trying to establish a Fourth Reich dictatorship, because equal opportunity and capitalism are nothing less than slavery and Nazism.
Because they don’t see themselves as representative of a small district, they see themselves as royalty of the country.
Maxine has the inbred imbecility part mastered.
We must progress – of course they can’t say to what we are progressing toward. It’s “progress” for the sake of progress. It’s just coincidental that that means shitting all over history and destroying everything that came before, because of course that’s what we are progressing away from.
There is no monument to stupidity in this country equal to the Progressives.
This country has been an extraordinary cultural and economic success specifically because of the phenomenon of the “American Melting Pot”. I absolutely believe that.
Our new breed of “progressives” wants to destroy that, and Balkanize us. That will destroy us. It’s already happening.
‘I am not happy that we have talked about police reform for so long,’ Waters said, demanding a guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial and adding: ‘If we don’t [get it], we cannot go away. We’ve got to stay on the street.’
She added that protesters needed ‘get more active, more confrontational’ and they should ignore the curfew in place.
Now do the festivities on Jan. 6th, 2021.
So she supported Tim Scott’s police reform bill?
Re pic 2, from Robert Wagner’s memoir:
“I was on my way [to Romanoff’s] when I passed Jayne in her car. Her window was down and she was applying rouge to her nipples. I knew her, so I stopped the car. ‘Looking good!’ I said, but what I really wanted to know was what the hell was she doing? It turned out to be a setup to draw attention away from Sophia, who was the hot new girl in town. It worked for that one night, but Sophia had the career that Jayne could only dream about.”
Jayne was hotter.
The Dems approach of pouring gas is intentional and seems to be working well for their goals.
I get your point. I think it’s pretty damned short-sighted, though. All the rule changes they are putting into effect are rule changes their enemies can utilize when they get in power. I think generations of political hacks at least had the sense to keep a bunch of limitations in place for just that reason. Sure, they could get rid of the limitations. But, getting rid of the limitations invites the other guys to abuse their power just as much as you. It’s really a simplified sort of game theory. Governance isn’t a one-off game, but an iterative game. You sometimes forego massive victories so that you don’t find yourself screwed in the next round.
They are Roperites who never think the devil they’re so desperate to get at will ever turn on them.
They don’t think they’re ever not going to be in power. The thing about being a zealot is you think your ideas are so self evidently correct that there’s no way you possibly could lose. I believe that to be the biggest reason you saw the meltdowns in 2016 when Trump won, because the unshakeable obvious rightness of their views had been rocked. That was why it had to be the result of a vast conspiracy.
The thing is Trump wasn’t really all that much of a break from anything. For all the idiotic screeching about him, his biggest change was that he was a little less publicly couth. When you clear all the BS away, he was really mostly an 80s or 90s Democrat.
And he didn’t hate this country or citizens in his public persona.
How can you expect the masses to respect you if you don’t belittle them? They might not recognize on their own that you are their superior – so you have to rub it in, good and hard.
In a world of fortified elections and talk of a 13 member Supreme Court, I can see where they think their power may last a generation.
We are on the precipice of progressive era 2: woke boogaloo. The first time, they had 80 years on the national stage with the only major blip in their power being the roaring 20s. We’ve been reaping the “rewards” of that one party rule ever since.
It has taken them 30 years to figure out a plan to reclaim their former glory, and they’re not above cheating to get there.
Incidentally, I think the answer to why the GOP is Team Coward on the national stage is contained in the same stretch of time. You can’t undo nearly a century of being the lovable loser in a decade or two.
l like to call it the Harry Reid Rule. What did the Turtle do first, second and third chance he got? That’s right, he fucked Harry’s legacy right in the pooper… They’ll never learn.
The Yankees are off to a terrible start. Good.
They look lifeless. Im sure they will start to hit soon, but tha Yankees going into the season with Corey Kluber as their #2 starter? What are we the Pirates? Maybe gamble on him as a #5. Feels like one of those years where everything goes wrong. Havent had one of those in a long time, i guess we’re due.
“ Just a personal thought — just in case y’all feel like burning shit down, the poor community is not your oppressors. FYI — lake of the isles has more then [sic] needed and won’t be missed,” Rita Ortega wrote on her personal Facebook page, which is under her full name of Margarita, according to screenshots shared widely on social media Friday.
She is a city council member for Minneapolis.
I mean she’s not wrong that burning down the poor area is the dumbest response.
On the other hand, the nice area actually has cops who like their cushy jobs and will actually do something.
Is that not yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater?
I imagine that this statement will get zero media coverage in any legacy outfit.
More from CNN:
Conversations between the White House, Minnesota authorities and leaders of civil rights organizations were underway by the time the proceedings began in late March. Officials believe that putting contingencies in place might help avoid appearing flat-footed should violence break out in cities across the country.
“I’m very worried,” said Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” where she talked about the potential for unrest across the country. “I don’t think anyone in Minneapolis, frankly, anyone in the United States or over a good part of the world would understand any other verdict other than guilty.”
Sentence first. Trial afterward.
Why not just issue a press release?
“Today a Homeland Security special hearing was held. Following a careful examination of the facts in the case, a judge ruled that Derick Chauvin was guilty of murder, and sentenced him to life imprisonment in a federal maximum security facility. God bless America.”
over a good part of the world gives a shit about a local murder trial
Journalists – the new Stasi.
Utah News Station Targets Paramedic Because He Donated $10 to Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund
There’s a word for this.. Face, Facc, Fash…. It’ll come to me.
Beatdowns are needed.
All the rule changes they are putting into effect are rule changes their enemies can utilize when they get in power. I think generations of political hacks at least had the sense to keep a bunch of limitations in place for just that reason. Sure, they could get rid of the limitations. But, getting rid of the limitations invites the other guys to abuse their power just as much as you. It’s really a simplified sort of game theory. Governance isn’t a one-off game, but an iterative game. You sometimes forego massive victories so that you don’t find yourself screwed in the next round.
That only works with adults who have some minimal level of self-awareness.
We’re dealing with feral children who have no knowledge or understanding of history.
Florida woman strikes again
Looks like a dog with leash still attached…
The ARs could have been private purchases. Which would suck.
But, if they were private purchases, the media-industrial complex would be emoting all over the place by now, so who knows?
There was something about them being “traced”, which makes me think they were purchased new-in-the-box from a dealer who bought them from the manufacturer.
It wouldn’t surprise me. People who do rampage killings frequently lack the social skills to set up a private purchase (to say nothing of actually buying something illegal.)
I’m curious about something. Maybe someone with a better knowledge of history can help me out, Did the Nazis have to make massive changes to the laws and government when they took power? Or were the basics already in place for them to use?
I mean the Chancellor was just a figurehead until they held a “vote” (surrounded by armed brownshirts standing on their congress’s floor) to give him virtually unchecked power.
Once he had that, laws could be changed at will almost immediately.
Sure. But, were there a ton of laws that had to be changed? Or was it simply re-interpreting or alternatively applying the laws that were already on the books?
A bit from column A and a bit more from column B.
Things like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Flight_Tax were in place, but the Enabling Act was really the dam bursting.
Another, the Central Office for Combatting Gypsies, was created in 1929. Naziism wasn’t all that radical unfortunately, until it was.
I believe it was gradually then suddenly in Germany. Pretty sudden in Austria according to an eye witness.
You know who else….
The gun control law dated from the Weimar (pre-Nazi) years, it was then expanded in ’38.
I had someone tell me once, “It’s not true that the Nazis took guns away from everyone… It was only from the Jews and other people who were deemed undesirable.”
Yea, exactly.
So I took the suggestion from here to watch Fall of Civilizations.
Great stuff.
The Vikings of Greenland episode was the first time I’ve ever heard of the Medieval Warm Period, a period even warmer than now, and how a warmer weather was good, and that the little ice age that followed was bad, in something that wasn’t essentially saying “what about the WMP?”
It was refreshing to see, even if I didn’t interpret it the way it was designed to be received.
Is this a take on Jared Diamond’s “Rise and Fall of Civilization”. I read that book before.
In addition to greenland, the collapse of the Mayans, Eastern Islanders, and Anasazi also all had to do with the little ice age.
There are other factors too, of course. These were fringe civilizations barely hanging on for number of reasons.
Read Jane Smiley’s “The Greenlanders”. It’s a bleak yarn but really well-written. The only novel of hers that I’ve liked. It’s really good.
It used to be called the Medieval Climatic Optimum – it made it a lot easier for the Europeans to climb out of the “Dark Ages”. That prosperity led to the High Middle Ages and then the Renaissance.
Oh shush You!
That’s been one of the things I’ve never really seen adequately addressed. Warm weather, historically, has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. Most of the climate alarmism I see sort of hand waves this away. I’m not saying fire up your SUVs for the express purpose of warming. But, some sort of balanced discussion of the implications before imposing a host of costs might be in order.
Also note: the Earth’s climate drastically changing for over a generation was only enough to kill off a few fringe civilizations.
The idea that climate change presents any kind of existential threat is silly.
Psssst…this is just twixt you and me but it ain’t about temperatures.
Hey now, I’m a pretty environmentally conscious guy… I just like to run the A/C. But sometimes the house gets too cold, so I turn on the oven to warm it back up. But then it’s too hot so I open the freezer door to cool it down.
Little Ice Age: good for Stradivarius apparently, due to the density of the wood.
If you haven’t already read it I would suggest Alex Epstein’s “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. His stuff and Björn Lomborg’s are some of the few who bring that fact up.
In other news of WTAF,
I really should have seen this coming. The kind of people that become professional Frat boys, like professional Boy Scouts, are the kind of people who would otherwise be gunning for that Office Manager’s job. It shouldn’t surprise me that the national organization is going woke, but the amount of anti-toxic masculinity is surprising even me.
I just got something from Sigma Nu nationals inviting me to an online cooking class to learn how to make “southwestern themed small bites.”
I think I’ll rage about how insufficient their D&I efforts are and refuse to donate again until they let women in.
“Huh. I believe that would get you punched in the nose!”
I have many amateur psychological theories about people whose primary interest is minding other people’s business – and none of them are very flattering.
One of the pharmacists at work is on some kind of council for the college sorority she belonged to, and she’s constantly bitching about some kind of dramatic shit. Maybe it’s my antisocial streak, but I just can’t fathom why people participate in things that seem to make them so miserable. There’s enough shit in life that will make you unhappy (job, money, government, death, etc) that I don’t have room for any extra. If there’s some family function where everyone is bitching and arguing, I’m the guy who will just “peace out” and go home and read.
she’s constantly bitching about some kind of dramatic shit. Maybe it’s my antisocial streak, but I just can’t fathom why people participate in things that seem to make them so miserable.
I think your assumption is flawed. Many aren’t made miserable by drama. They live for it. The complaining is part of the game.
My wife, for whatever reason, likes to watch Real Housewives on occasion. Pure manufactured drama. I have to leave the room because my anxiety level starts to rise just from the tones of voice being used. It entertains her somehow. At least she’s getting her fix without manufacturing drama. *shrug*
Which city?
She’s watching Dallas right now. I think she has watched some other ones, but I haven’t particularly paid attention.
Yea, I think that’s the ticket (probably should have worded my post differently). It seems like some people crave the emotional rollercoaster, the constant up and down and back and forth. Maybe life seems dull and meaningless without it? No idea. I’m at a point where I want peace more than anything, even if it’s boring.
I just got invited to a fraternity chapter reunion.
I didn’t even bother to decline. There will too many people in attendance that I’d rather not ever see again given their proclivity for voicing their progressive politics loudly and frequently on social media.
And there was that one time you made eye contact while spit-roasting that girl…that’s the real reason, isn’t it? You’re afraid to admit your as gay as the other frat boys, because you’re homophobic.
I love you just a little bit more, my corpulent friend.
Well, you seem to have me pegged…
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
But I don’t know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs
They’re callin’ again.
Mornin’ peeps!
Everyone good?
This is fine. *Sits on lawn chair in Minneapolis*
Wendy’s parking lot?
Okay, kinda drunk, as usual… Hope things are going well for you, Tundra.
Thanks, Festus! I hope you are well.
I admit to having a bit of trepidation about the fun this week.
I was gifted another day on this great planet, so yes, doing good. Mondays are one of my favorite days on Glibs and it is the one day I regularly go into work.
“Coming Like a Rhino”, are we not doing phrasing anymore?! Darryl McDaniels (RUN DMC), Chuck D ( Public Enemy) and Slaves on Dope
Are Texas Glibs going to be carrying Wild West Pimp Style?
Wait, is that not how it already is?
*removes pimp hat until law passes*
These people dictate ours and our neighbor’s lives. How do you even combat that?
Houston Fat Stock Show and Rodeo Week = Wild West Pimp Style.
Srsly.
Best comment: “She means black people.”
Man, if that isn’t the archetypal Karen on display.
Can you complain to the manager when you are the manager?
Relevant
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We are on the precipice of progressive era 2: woke boogaloo. The first time, they had 80 years on the national stage with the only major blip in their power being the roaring 20s. We’ve been reaping the “rewards” of that one party rule ever since.
I’m not so sure their hold on power is as secure as they’d like to think. Woke Boogaloo is a rich person’s luxury. And the U.S., the world’s hyperpower where the poor people are fat, can afford it. But, what happens if that changes? What happens if the U.S. loses a war or suffers a massive economic downturn or gets shown up technologically? Does that appetite stay in place? Or does the public base of support for these pretenses dry up in a flash? The first Progressivism took place when America was an emergent power. I’m not so sure that public support for a costly and self-destructive ideology can weather a period where actually succeeding becomes an imperative.
No empire lasts forever.
That’s where the cheating comes in, IMO. They (those in power) know that the public is fickle. Sure, they’re doing everything they can to poison minds, but they’re also doing everything they can to entrench their power while keeping the facade of representative governance.
I think we’ll see the first fruits of that in next year’s midterm elections. The democrats are going to overperform because the “fortifications” that got Biden in office are being applied writ large. It may be only in the states and districts where they have power. It may only be 10 or 20% improvement over the expected midterm losses, but they have the blueprint to “fortify” an election, and they know that the worst that happens is a few yahoos breaking into the Capitol and a milquetoast law or two reining in the most egregious excesses.
but they’re also doing everything they can to entrench their power while keeping the facade of representative governance
I trust you mean the duopoly and not just one side of the partisan cake.
To a lesser extent, I guess? The prog-fascists are the ones corralling all the horses. The establishment GOP geldings who are controlled opposition are playing their part. The Trump caucus broncs who are semi-controlled opposition may buck and kick, but they’re fighting against the inevitable.
But the prog-fascists are running the rodeo. I’m not a “both sides are just as bad” believer.
I always thought her nose was crooked. Then the AD from Almost famous talked about how hard it was to light her, because her nose was so crooked.
Huh. I always thought she was stunningly beautiful. To each their own.
She has Kurt Russel’s rugged good looks and Goldie Hawn’s tits, don’t mean her nose ain’t crooked.
Behold the beauty of Kate Hudson.
Actually, she’s a good-looking gal. This is just a poorly-timed photo. That jug ear tho!
“At a virtual council workshop, Council Member Kris Lawrence-Anderson said she voted to remove the city manager because she feared for her property and retaliation by protestors if she had voted to keep him.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/04/19/welcome-to-medellin-minn-where-elected-officials-and-cops-are-afraid-of-blm-and-antifa-race-cartels-n1440258
This is not how you run a city and how you have effectively given Antifa/BLM a huge win that was unearned.
I found a newly found cemetery – and one of the more depressing places I’ve been. It turns out – 19th century here – that Poor Farms were a thing; places where the poor, disabled, and the nutters were put to earn their keep. It sounds like a Libertarian hell-hole 😉
Anyhoo, the graveyard from the original poor farm created in 1855 is there, surrounded by suburbia and a retirement community. There are many, many graves – you can tell by the uniform depressions in the ground – that are unmarked, along with just numbered headstones, and, later, just the name with a year showing the DOB and Death. The older gravestones are cracked, moved, or being taken over by the trees.
So it was also a sort of local “Potter’s Field” where the unclaimed were buried. The farm itself was in operation until the 1950s when it became a hospital and later a “retirement” (aka waiting to die) home.
A cheery place to visit on a rainy cold April day.
Once EF does the narration I can start in on the video editing; so in a few days.
*found a newly found?
derp!
I found a “new” – would be preferred
Sounds like you found an old cemetery.
Great find. Interesting and storied.
Something comes to mind…
That will be on TCM Wednesday night.
That’s fascinating! Can’t wait to see the video.
I love places that are old, abandoned, weird, and especially all three.
Cool? I rode my bike out to the graveyard when I lived in Queen Charlotte City. The number of 1918 tombstones was staggering. The Spanish Flu swept through there with a vengeance. It was a really peaceful place, otherwise. No bad vibes at all.
Driving by cemetery —
Dad: Do you know how many dead people are buried there?
Son: No day, how many?
Dad: All of them.
+1 dad joke
Cemeteries are popular. People are dying to get in.
I always want to go in cemeteries at night for that reason… Such a quiet, peaceful, contemplative mood.
What stops me is 1) the police 2) what kind of other weirdos might be in there late at night.
No Tall Men?
I took the family down to see the Yorktown (Revolutionary War) and tortured them by doing the dad thing reading all the plaques and looking at the entrenchments and whatnot. As we were leaving we happened to drive by the graveyard for the Civil War Battle of Yorktown and saw a bunch of folks in Union uniforms, so of course, we stopped. It turned out that they were commissioning a headstone for a soldier whose remains they had identified. It was much less depressing than the graveyard you found.
I took the family down to Williamsburg for spring break. Went to Jamestown and Williamsburg. Didn’t get to Yorktown.
Tortured the family as much as possible including interacting with all the reenactors. I made the family listen to how pies were made in the colonial days (it was Pi Day).
I’m involved in one of those abandoned graveyard projects right now in my township. There’s a 1/2 acre parcel of land where 100+ African-Americans were buried from c.1815 to c.1920, including ten U.S. Colored Troops from the Civil War. While I got permission to clear 60 years worth of brush (and did so, with our team finding human remains and relics by sifting a large groundhog mound,) the owner still won’t allow visitors or any kind of ceremony on his private property. And he may want up to $100K to deed it over to a public or private organization, though the parcel cannot be built on (PA law) unless the bodies are removed, and that would cost him at least $250K. Negotiations continue.
Sad, but true
Okay, I’m out for today. Make the best of it Friends.
Kate Hudson- I saw her in some movie; tuned in in the middle, so I had no idea what was going on, but I had to keep watching because she looked so familiar.
I had never heard of her before, but when I found out she was Goldie Hawn’s daughter it made perfect sense. I think it’s the smile.
Smiles are sexxxy as all get-out.
I imagine it’s difficult for anyone to see eye to eye with Lori Lightfoot when her eyes are going in two different directions
Yeah, she has her mother’s smile.
I remember watching Goldie Hawn on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Looking back, I think they did her a disservice by making her play the part of the empty-headed twit. But she sure was cute.
I think they did her a disservice by making her play the part of the empty-headed twit. But she sure was cute.
Something tells me she’s a long long way from a being a ditzy dumb blonde in real life. She’d eat you alive if you treated her like one.
You say that as if it would be a bad thing.
She got her hooks into Snake Plissken and didn’t marry him. Smart cookie.
Didn’t read this article, but the headline is what gets to me.
https://redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2021/04/19/cvfc-pac-the-founding-fathers-and-the-freedoms-they-gave-us-can-we-keep-them-n363412
The founders gave me nothing, they sought to protect those rights.
You say that as if it would be a bad thing.
Absolutely not. Not in the least.
Smart is sexxxy, too. Super sexxxy.
Have we discussed this?
https://babylonbee.com/news/minneapolis-target-holds-semi-annual-everything-is-free-sale
The Bee has been increasingly fierce in recent times. I applaud it very much.
I saw some unmasked shoppers in Lowes yesterday. There were no freakouts or calls for the police. I saw signs, but didn’t pay attention to the wording, so not sure if masks are required or requested. Did Blackface lifted his dictates?
Maybe focus is shifting to calls to mandate vaccination. I read that the US is approaching a point were the supply of vaccine will exceed the demand. Something must be done to force the holdouts.