Hell in a handbasket. Since yesterday, things have gotten worse. I’ve been doing some recipe development and the kitchen shows it. Wonder Dog is fat with floor-fall food scraps. Our stovetop looks like the “after” pictures of Hiroshima. The walls resemble a Jackson Pollack painting. My underwear and socks are still on the floor. Guess it’s time to crack a beer.
Despite the ravages of entropy, there’s still birthdays today including a guy who inspired Jayne Mansfield; a rather twisted fellow; a guy whom we can blame for NPR; a guy who preached exclusivity; the most perfect female vocalist of all time; a guy who made one or two good movies; a guy who is alternately nuts and interesting; the guy who killed Apu; and a guy honored with multiple busts on Easter Island.
Now, how bad are things out in the world?
Someone is about to be canceled for accidentally telling the truth.
Shockingly, this didn’t bring anyone back. I’d hate to think it’s a meaningless gesture…
Prolly not your best idea, guys.
Because this is who you’re up against.
The Twatters tubes are a model of bravery and integrity.
See, he’s the wrong kind of tranny.
Old Guy Music today features another guy who has a birthday today, accompanied by another pretty fair guitar player.
the most perfect female vocalist of all time;
Jimmy Somerville?
LOL and hell no, possibly one of the worst vocalists in general, of all time.
Heh I still like Smalltown Boy, though.
It’s a good song. It just needs a deeper vocal to carry it to new heights, like ‘Love T.K.O.’ , or ‘You Can Leave Your Hat On’.
Worse than Bob Dylan?
Cardi B?
One of those links took me here via an ad:
https://rageontee.com/products/i-rub-my-meat-aloha-hawaiian-shirt-unisex-full-size-adult-colorful-hw2906?variant=39297352761407¤cy=USD
Now that’s classy.
I like it. Showed it to my wife as a possible gift. Standard response, “Lovely.” With accompanying eye-roll, of course.
So gliberinas, too crass and crude?
I think it’s great, but I’m wondering why they bothered to make it “unisex.”
Hideous. Guys, get a clue and try to dress (casual) like Daniel Craig or Sean Connery in the Bond movies. It’s not that hard.
Those don’t look comfortable. I’ll keep my button-down work shirts.
Let’s be honest. Those casual looks look good because of who’s wearing ’em. Daniel Craig’s worked his ass off to remain buff all while putting on muscle for the Bond movies he’s been in.
Put those on me and only the Spousal Unit would say anything nice about how I looked, bless her gentle, lyin’ little heart.
I clicked on that and a few seconds later a pop-over ad came up about their Mother’s Day sale.
The Twatters tubes are a model of bravery and integrity.
Why is the Indian-American Muslim Council at the top of Buzzfeed’s rolodex?
I still say Brockmire would never have apologized.
Can’t let Miss Ella’s birthday go by without letting her get her two cents in.
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Yay Sunday. Time to relax, smoke some dope, and listen to some music.
On the antique booth front, I did some math and 65% of the items we have sold have been LPs/records/vinyl.
Mostly dinosaur rock with a little Sinatra and some choice blues titles and very little jazz.
I didn’t want to become a record dealer but prices are shooting up to a bubble like frenzy. The problem has been sourcing the albums – I’ve gone to the local record stores, bottom feeding, and the big 4x a year record show. I’ve purged out what I could from my collection. And it still isn’t enough. I really have no idea why people are buying vinyl: given it’s always been a troublesome media. It’s a bubble that will burst some day; once all the hoarder boomers die off 😉
We do sell some art – I’ve gotten in a new batch of Calder, Matisse, Rebeyrolle, etc prints/lithos in but they are slow movers.
Glassware? It _just_ doesn’t move at all’; seems to take up more space than its worth.
So Tom T’s sitting on a gold mine? (Of course, he’s one of the hoarder boomers.)
Your baby, he’s a gold mine?
“I really have no idea why people are buying vinyl: given it’s always been a troublesome media. It’s a bubble that will burst some day”
Because it sounds better in a lot of way than digital? Digital lacks ‘warmth’ in the midtones that can really only be found live or on vinyl.
Snap Crackle Pop sounds are just awes-awes-awes-awesome.
Now do the merits of how Tape Hiss takes you back in time.
Tape has shit dynamic range.
But believe it or not, cassettes are growing in popularity again.
I don’t fucking get it because they sucked donkey balls the first time around, but hipsters are fucking weird.
Digital lacks ‘warmth’ in the midtones that can really only be found live or on vinyl.
I’m highly skeptical that this isn’t an intentional decision made by the producers. It’s not hard to isolate and modify midtones digitally using a mixing board.
I’m also highly skeptical that anything related to vinyl would possibly be a better reproduction of live than you can achieve with digital.
Then again, I’m not an audiophile, so I don’t claim any insight here.
The best guess these days is that it’s the noise floor of vinyl, and the harmonic distortion caused by analog components in the recording/mixing process.
And you’re right. Most of it can be reproduced digitally, but often it isn’t.
There is no better. Just preferences.
I’m curious if there is a sheet music market. My in-laws sent me a case full of old sheet music. Mostly patriotic songs printed during WWI. I’m not sure what to do with it. I don’t play piano.
No idea. That sounds interesting though.
Yes there is.
There are plenty of online dealers you can check out.
I’m about to do a significant eBay push. Tubes, phono cartridges, power amp, tonearm… maybe I should test the collector value of some of my LPs.
We also have four sets of Libbey “Apollo 14” high ball glasses; still in the original boxes! I’ll have to swap them in and see if they move at all. Probably not.
like this: https://www.2000toys.jp/data/ibaraki-2000toys/product/20210124_1629f8.JPG
I never owned more than a handful of records. Dumped that shitty format at the first opportunity.
Most people did.
Then lots of people like me decided we liked them.
I’ve about 750 in my collection, and what makes my collection different from most is that it’s almost wholly made up of records released after 2000. New(er) stuff. It’s not filled with stuff the the 60s and 70s. Stuff I want to listen to rather than a pile of records I bought because it was cheap and trendy.
Lots of various YouTubers like to wax ecstatic about the warm, smooth sound of vinyl (is that really a thing or is that music snob speak for lacking detail?). I don’t get it but you may as well cash in while you can.
That which was done by you was seen.
I didn’t notice the wordplay until you pointed it out. Unintentional wit for the win.
It really depends on the turntable and amp. Purists love end-to-end analog. The kids with their USB turntables who think they are so hip are laughable; the digitization done by those things is generally crappy.
Make more money by selling the gold-plated connectors.
I believe this is the go-to source for overpriced, snooty components and accessories for the self-respecting audiophile. I’m pretty sure it’s the catalogue that Tom T gets in the mail, which he reads, then laughs and laughs. 😉 (I’ll have to check the cluttered coffee table to be sure that’s the one.)
Negative.
Crutchfield is a mostly consumer level outfit. They sell some nice stuff, but nothing really audiophile.
A true audiophile system will cost the same as a small home.
I’ve seen people with $50k worth of cables alone.
I realized long ago that my ears can’t tell the difference. I always have to battle incredulity at the thought that theirs can either.
The vinyl bubble is going to burst about the same time as the hardback book bubble will burst. Records, as I am sure you know, allow the experience of listening, along with the visuals of the cover art and the tactile sensations of flipping the record, putting it in its sleeve and into the cover, and so on. It allows you to actively “listen” to the music.
I work tangential to the antique industry and having what is called in the business a “good eye” is very important. Glassware will sell if it is a recognizable name. Not fast, but you need to add some urgency to it. This is true for all slow sellers. Move things in and out of your booth. Create the feeling of scarcity. That if someone does not buy it now, it will be gone and not still sitting there when they come through again in six months. The best way to do this is to open multiple booths in different malls.
My two favorite Blues albums:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdbcKTkQk7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO56B2ROUsc&list=PLIG6HbTgV8tk3u0namug22PywtGNYqxLt
and I gotta say that Mick Jagger should be playing Don Covay (or the estate of) royalties for that vocal style.
“members of __________ community respond”
This construction again ?
The community in question is always some generic, broad group – “gays”, “blacks”, etc.
And the members are typically leftist activists but TMITE obscures this fact to give the impression that all member of the _______ community think alike.
So the Portland article provides two quotes from named individuals who I assume are members of the ______ community but zero indication about who they are or why I should give a shit what they say.
Journalism!
See also the Jenner article. Same annoying tactic.
But look at all those twitter screen grabs! If George Takei doesn’t like Caitlyn Jenner, then neither should anyone else.
Fall in line, gay person #6.
I suspect there are a bunch of gay people out there thinking “this woke stuff is fucktarded but if I don’t virtue signal it occasionally I might lose a bunch of my friends” and just go along to keep from being ostracized by the herd.
There are definitely a bunch of Ivy League grads in that category.
Nailed it! My gay conservative friends, all three of them, all feel that too. I keep wondering when I’ll be cancelled by the PC gheys. The only reason this hasn’t happened already is the lockdown; they’re totes panicked so I haven’t seen most of them in over a year.
My guess is that window thingie has been moved so far to the left that it is now mainstream to attack thoroughly bourgeois opinions that were uncontroversial five minutes ago and whose adherents are not cognizant of the need to have to defend them now. “Silent majority” and such.
I have a feeling they’ll shun me in a last, desperate act of piety before the woke mob turns on them. White cisnormative homos first under the bus.
Fact check – mostly false. The same genetic combination that makes you attracted to the same sex also makes you attracted to high rates of taxation and regulation. #IFLS.
Sounds like the stimulus-response hasn’t taken hold in your brain yet. You need more conditioning.
And the same people every time.
For UCS and Not Adahn, Alice Green has been the local media’s go-to figure on race going back at least to when I was in high school, over 30 years ago.
Yep, another example of the phenomenon. At least they provide the helpful information that she is a “social justice activist” ?
But where is the reaction from “community leaders” who maybe DON’T want a camp of bums in their midst? Maybe find someone on the street who isn’t a “social justice activist” and ask their opinion, hmm?
As I mentioned above regarding another story, it’s interesting which people are consistently at the top of the news outlets’ collective rolodex.
Back when I lived in the Lower Rainland™, there were over 50 SJW-type “councils,” “committees,” “groups” and “organizations” which, interestingly enough, all seemed to have approximately a slice of the same 100 people or so on their various boards, executive and so on. The Venn diagram of intersecting members/officials/executives for all of theses groups would look like 50-plus circles almost completely overlapping one another.
And of course, whenever some government committee was doing a public inquiry or presentation, all 50-plus of these groups would make submissions. It was a massive con.
In what field is she Piled higher & Deeper?
Deep and high.
Happy birthday Mr. Azaria, you spineless wuss.
It rained a bit last night, which is an improvement over snow. I’ll take it.
Got your usual Sunday morning masochism on, Brooksie? Here ya go!
I did this first as chief scientist for the oil company BP, where I focused on advancing renewable energy, and then as undersecretary for science in the Obama administration’s Department of Energy, where I helped guide the government’s investments in energy technologies and climate science. I found great satisfaction in these roles, helping to define and catalyze actions that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the agreed-upon imperative that would “save the planet.”
SCIENCE!-tistic consensus.
BP was very much into the carbon credit trading schemes. They were hoping to greet in on the ground floor and make bank.
You probably don’t need anyone to tell you this but you are absolutely right about that one, Scruffy 😉
Backup power for wind and solar is gas, which is BP’s livelihood.
In the seven years since that workshop, I watched with dismay as the public discussions of climate and energy became increasingly distant from the science. Phrases like “climate emergency,” “climate crisis” and “climate disaster” are now routinely bandied about to support sweeping policy proposals to “fight climate change” with government interventions and subsidies. Not surprisingly, the Biden administration has made climate and energy a major priority infused throughout the government, with the appointment of John Kerry as climate envoy and proposed spending of almost $2 trillion dollars to fight this “existential threat to humanity.”
Now do “Public health”.
He sounds like a true believer who is disgruntled at being cut out of the graft.
Kinda speaking of Jenner, you can very quickly spot the hypocrisy of all of these so-called activists, racial, gender whatever. They don’t care if a black man is called nigger if he is conservative. They don’t care if a woman is raped if she is a libertarian. And they don’t care if a transgender is misgendered if they are republican.
Why the opposition isn’t hammering that at every opportunity can only be due to the stupidity and weakness of the party.
I disagree.
Because it doesn’t matter. No amount of light shown on their hypocrisy will make 1 iota of difference to these types of people.
“The Burden of Black Girlhood”
WTF?
*NYT headline
Dude, you torture yourself on Sunday mornings.
Yikes, looks like some Turkish crypto guy grabbed two billion digital bucks and skipped town to Albania:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/turkish-crypto-exchange-goes-bankrupt-losses-2-billion-usd
How long until that guy’s found face down in the Adriatic I wonder?
Newsflash, Godzilla versus Kong is mind meltingly dumb.
Pitch Meeting for the same:
https://youtu.be/LGGWC5-q1Ts
Just turn your brain off for ninety minutes or so.
Sums it up nicely. I rate the movie as 2/5. As in there’s 2 hours of life wasted.
I kind of liked the first two though.
C’mon, did you expect anything better than the original, tofu-y, Kaiju films except the SFX?
It definitely needed more tiny fairies that communicate with the Titans.
I used to drive a Nissan Mothra. Loved that car.
This is what happens when you prey upon the weakminded by manipulating their unreasoning fears
Since the start of the pandemic, Kit Breshears has been terrified of catching the coronavirus. Getting vaccinated did not magically change that.
For the past 13 months, Breshears, 44, of Buffalo, Minnesota, has not stepped foot inside a store or restaurant, not even to pick up a takeout meal. Any visits with family and friends have been over Zoom.
When he received his second Covid-19 shot earlier this month, he felt relief, he said — but with the pandemic still ongoing, he has found it impossible to turn off his anxiety.
“My fear is that enough people are not going to get vaccinated, or they’re not going to get vaccinated in a timely fashion, and we end up getting a horrible variant that puts us right back to where we are,” Breshears, a communications director at a local university, said. “I don’t want to be sitting in a movie theater with ‘patient zero’ of a variant that bucks the vaccine.”
Bless his heart.
Jesus Christ
That guy should be in an institution… oh wait, he is.
Now follow up with an article about some rando who isn’t terrified. I’ll wait, NBC.
“This daring man goes outside during pandemic”
Oh, I’m sorry. It would be written as
“Selfish jerk imperils all of society”
Obviously we should remain locked down to cater to his fear.
There you have it.
He’s part of the Ministry of Truth. Of course he’s a true believer in the big bad virus.
From last night’s thread, there was a link about the CA NG being asked to deploy fighter aircraft for a domestic mission. The article contained this gem – “According to the sources, an F-15C fighter was put on alert, which raised concerns among Guard members that the jet could be used to “buzz” crowds — a tactic often used in combat zones to disperse the enemy.”
I’m familiar with that technique being employed by helicopters but not with jet fighters; is that a thing? Are there military maneuvers that involve exposing one’s rather expensive airplane to the small-arms fire of every single ground-pounder within sight?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-national-guard-jet-march-2020-domestic-mission
I suppose you could pop the sound barrier right over the crowd.
You could do it with something more designed for the task, like an A-10. That thing would laugh at small arms fire.
I remember reading an article years and years ago about employing B1s in Astan for that purpose. Sounds crazy but what do I know?
At this point, the F-15 is like a resto-mod ’70s muscle car. The bodywork is the same retro styling, but there’s a turbo LS under the hood, built everything, trick new ECU and traction control, totally rewired, the works.
And they ran out of $ by the time they got to the brakes, so it’s got 4 wheel drum brakes.
So a quite passable transmale (biological female living as a man, taking hormones, mastectomized) showed up on my bear hookup feed. Cute chubby boyish face, early twenties. I didn’t know the person was trans until I read their profile.
The kicker: “Other trans guys preferred as I have never been with a cis man but am willing to for the right guy.”
WTF?
So confused…
I imagine finding people in the same boat hasn’t been easy.
Is it insensitive to ask if the surname is “Garrison”? ?
early twenties
I wonder if xe is one of those cases in which xe is confused as a teenager, transitions, then it turns out she was just a butch lesbian.
Because we all need a laugh on Sunday morning
https://youtu.be/5aLR-8c11ms
Do you know who else was from Austria?
The von Trapps?
Barbara Schett?
Johann Hölzel?
I would just like to point out that as a British person, I am technically more oppressed than a trans gay black Mexican queergender atheist in pretty much the entire USA. There are metrics to prove that, probably. I dunno. Prove me wrong without just using anecdotes and carefully curated propaganda.
That seems like it would rustle some jimmies or whatever the term is now. If anything provoked (another; h/t sloopy) agitated blog post about those awful Glibs, it might be a completely unsympathetic and totally serious reading of this post by a non-glibertarian lurker.
agitated blog post about those awful Glibs
Sounds like I missed something entertaining.
If you internet web search Glibertarians it comes up with some blog post by a guy who is particularly unimpressed, and calls out sloopy by name as someone who’s posts he found exceptionally upsetting.
“rustle some jimmies”
Crab poaching is bad, mmmmkay.
Is this some occupational licensing thing where only licensed crab-grabbers are allowed to grab yon crabs?
I know that the Chesapeake Bay commercial crabbing industry is highly regulated by both Maryland and Virginia; those folks use numbered crab pots, each company uses distinctive floats, colors, etc. Poaching of these crab pots is a crime.
There is nothing to keep a private individual from dangling a turkey neck on a string into the waters of the bay and its tributaries. When the string starts to twitch you pull it up and toss the crabs eating on the turkey neck into a bucket, or back into the bay depending on sex and size. Repeat as necessary until you have enough crabs for dinner.
Humpty Dumpty’s got nothing on this guy
But Democrats have slashed taxes too, mostly in the form of stimulus checks and tax credits.
“It was a big honking tax cut for low- and moderate-income people,” said Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
“It plays against type — Democrats are not supposed to cut taxes, Democrats are supposed to raise taxes.”
Their tax cuts are temporary, though Democrats are now pushing to make many of them permanent. Combined with their proposed tax increases, that would make the U.S. tax system — already one of the most progressive in the world — even more so.
At a cost of $492 billion, Democrats’ tax cuts are among the largest one-year reductions ever approved by Congress (by comparison, the GOP’s 2017 package reduced taxes by $136 billion in the first year; their $1.5 trillion price tag was the cost over 10 years).
The cuts are a big reason why individual income taxes are now projected to plummet this year by one-third to $1.22 trillion, from $1.8 trillion.
Much of the tax cuts came in the form of stimulus checks, though Democrats also dramatically expanded the Child Tax Credit, beefed up a break for dependent care expenses and expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit. Unlike the 2017 cuts, all of those provisions were aimed at average Americans, with sharp income cutoffs.
I don’t even know how to respond, other than to throw myself off the roof.
Throw Gleckman off a roof. Preferably double-digit floors high.
“Someone is about to be canceled for accidentally telling the truth.”
I was certain that link was going to go to CNN.
They’ll get it right this time
In Bozeman’s fight against the affordable housing crisis, every little bit makes a difference.
Even, according to the city, a review of Bozeman’s notoriously onerous unified development code, which guides subdivisions building and site plan design, among other matters.
“Regulations can hugely impact the cost of housing in several ways. Review time can add expense, you know people say the adage ’time is money, and we’ve learned that that is problematic in Bozeman,” Bozeman City Commissioner Jennifer Madgic said. “The Bozeman code is incredibly complex and it’s very easy to have unintended consequences of codes that lead to problems like we’ve found ourselves in right now with a lack of affordable housing.”
Bozeman hired a consulting firm earlier this year to begin an audit of the city’s codes, with the intention to review and suggest amendments to the code to help develop and preserve affordable housing.
The audit was identified as an action item in the Bozeman Community Housing Action Plan passed last year.
Tanya Andreasen, the city’s community housing program manager, said the goal is to cull from the code measures that are “prohibiting or impeding affordable home development.”
Housing would be affordable if those evil profiteering developers would just do what we want.
I’m surprised they didn’t put scare quotes around onerous. Every paragraph, every line, every word is there for a reason, and to take any part of it away is to invite toxically individualistic chaos. Houses on the same block might look completely different.
Control must be maintained.
Unless I’m missing something I don’t see what’s wrong with that. I’d say streamlining and cutting building codes is a good thing, Sure there will still be top men calling the shots but the more hands off the better.
$10 say the result won’t be a real cut, but implementing urbanist’s densification schemes and destroying SFH neighborhoods.
“affordable housing crisis” “community action plan” and “hiring a consultant to audit & tell them what to do” give it all away.
*snort*
I’m normally hesitant to apply our usual disclaimer… but housing is perhaps the clearest example where regulations are explicitly designed to generate those “unintended consequences”. One need only witness the flood of articles that celebrate the bubble from a seller’s perspective.
Housing would be affordable if people from Cali would stop moving there and buying up everything.
Left Charlotte about an hour ago. Destination Paducah.
Safe travels!
Going to the quilt museum?
Hancock’s.
Gonna try.
You really should take the time to venture off the interstate or federal highway to check out Monkeys (no apostrophe, Ted!) Eyebrow, KY. Just on general principle.
I’m in Michigan this weekend for my kid’s volleyball. They have way more covid precautions. I feel like Indiana is the “don’t give a fuck” state in comparison.
This is why I’m pondering a get-away-from-it-all trip to IN if OH hasn’t opened up by our 25th anniversary in June.
(Open to recommendations if the county or municipality involved hasn’t instituted their own mask mandate.)
I was at Cabela’s in Michigan last night. I went in unmasked and there were 2 employees near the entrance wearing cloth masks and clear face shields that pounced on me. “You need a mask? You have to wear a mask!!”. I pulled one out and put it on, kept walking and took it right back off. I was literally the only person in the store not wearing a mask. It hurts my soul.
Prove me wrong without just using anecdotes and carefully curated propaganda.
That’s not how SCIENCE! works.
“See, he’s the wrong kind of tranny.”
Look at that picture. Talk about man hands, Gah!
“Would it be better if she had hooks for hands, Jerry?”
First tranny pirate?
No matter how weird Caitlyn Jenner’s life story (and family) gets, the person with those hands cleaned up at the 1976 Olympics. That is no small potatoes.
Today, on Drama Queen Teevee…
A parade of people stoking the fears and racial resentments of the nation.
Whee.
I can’t remember where I was on the intertoobz at the time… might have even been a link I clicked here. But anyway, there was an article yesterday somewhere claiming that the Marxist have just changed their tactics from class warfare to racial warfare. Reason being that there is too much middle class in American to get a revolution based on class warfare. So instead they plan to get their revolution using systemic racism.
Makes sense at least in theory.
Yes, that is exactly what they are doing.
That’s how you get “math is racist”, “capitalism is racist”, etc.
The problem with that, is that there’s just not much racism in America either. Which is why they have to constantly define the term down; e.g. “microaggressions”, “It’s not enough to be non-racist, you must be anti-racist,” “Not seeing skin color is racist,” and so on.
And it seems to be working despite the absurdity of it all. Public school has done it’s job very well.
But anyway, there was an article yesterday somewhere claiming that the Marxist have just changed their tactics from class warfare to racial warfare.
You know who else accumulated power by shifting their tactics from class warfare to racial warfare?
(this one is a bit too easy because the woke Marxists are explicitly operating from the Weimar German playbook)
Housing would be affordable if people from Cali would stop moving there and buying up everything.
Not yet. Not ’til I cash out.
Albert King was born 60 miles further down the Delta than I. He was a god for me pretty much like everyone else in town, a gentle giant (I’m 6-2, Steve Cropper size if you will, and don’t look up to many men, but he seemed twice my size). One thing about Memphis is it’s full of normal folks who will talk to you; Albert, like a Shelby Foote or a Jerry Lawler, would shake your hand and chat if you approached.
I never much collected records, but I read a lot about guitar and would, eventually, read of a certain storm brewing in Texas. I managed to see SRV in 1985 or 86: I thought his original stuff entirely worthy and his homages to Albert and Jimi brilliant. He was pretty much the ideal guitarist to me, and that concert remains my favorite.
My favorite Albert King tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHx5jy50w4 Don’t miss the Memphis Horns on this one.
“scuse me”
For example, both research literature and government reports state clearly that heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years. When I tell people this, most are incredulous. Some gasp. And some get downright hostile.“
If you want to see some horrific heat waves, go back and look at the temperature records from the 1930s.
That was before temperatures were adjusted for inflation.
Ah
in my days it was 1980
I spent a lot of that summer in a tent and didn’t know in those days that you could wear something other than Levi’s every day and every place: oppressive
Try telling them that Manhattan was buried under 1,000 ft. of ice as recently as 15,000 years ago. [Some wish it still was.]
And they still had a rat problem!
Is it time to stop criminalizing every goddam form of behavior?
We’re just getting warmed up! /the left
I think Amy Klobuchar is really really smart. We should just put her in charge of deciding what is and is not legitimate truth.
Look at all those disgusting ignorant Republican vaccine deniers. How can we depoliticize this issue so they can be more easily shamed into getting the shot?
For starters, they could start behaving like rational adults. I don’t get shamed easily by screeching hypochondriacs throwing tantrums…
I discovered as part of the defiance against Wolf’s orders in PA, some swing dances are starting up again. I might make a trip to PA soon. There’s none in my area. All dances except one were near Boston and they won’t start up again any time soon. The one which isn’t near Boston and is in New Hampshire is in a place with a mask ordinance. I also know the folks that run the dance. I suspect they are Covid Cultists.
Time to comment on the links:
For example, both research literature and government reports state clearly that heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years. When I tell people this, most are incredulous. Some gasp. And some get downright hostile.
That’s what happens when you tell inconvenient truths.
The mayor’s office shared a follow-up statement Saturday saying: “The only people who should be concerned are those who engage in criminal actions. The community is tired of self-described anarchists damaging churches, non-profits, and small businesses.”
A part of me thinks, “About time”. Another part of me wonders if this is just a bit of meaningless noise to placate certain members of the community.
This is the best Old Guy Music ever.
Just when I think the idiots can’t get stupider
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2021/04/21/oregon-bar-and-liquor-store-bills-may-soon-go-up-heres-why/7291779002/
Oh no! Excessive drinking! Must do something.
These puritans need to switch to a high lead diet.
LOL
Low-priced housing targets the most vulnerable in society, too.
Set your prices too low, and it’s dumping.
Set your prices too high, and it’s gouging.
Set your prices in the middle, and it’s collusion.
The right price is whatever the TOP. MEN. have decided. Until they change their minds again.
These puritans need to switch to a high lead diet.
*uptwinkles*
“A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in.
A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world´s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.
That real estate has since more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses – about 4 percent the size of the entire current internet. It’s also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9507897/The-big-Pentagon-internet-mystery-partially-solved.html
www . honeypot . com
Do I want to go there?
“The Pentagon created the internet”
DARPA and a bunch of universities created the Internet. While this was going on, most of the Pentagon was no doubt figuring out new and novel ways to waste money, which has been its core and sometimes sole competency since the end of WW2.
“REVEALED: Twitter, Facebook and Netflix moguls have donated $7.5M to ‘Marxist’ BLM co-founder who is pushing their ‘net neutrality’ policy as their tech firms block users sharing critical stories about her
Tech moguls who made their fortunes from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix have donated at least $7.5 million to groups tied to BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who has in turn publicly backed their policy goals, according to a new report.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and Patricia Ann Quillin, the wife of Netflix’s billionaire CEO, all gave generously to Cullors’ PAC and associated charities, according to the New York Post.
Cullors for her part has strongly advocated for ‘net neutrality’, a policy that financially benefits online content providers such as Netflix and social media sites.
And the cozy relationship has even seen Facebook and Twitter censor perceived criticism of Cullors, with Facebook going so far as to block users from sharing a DailyMail.com article detailing a controversy over her expensive real estate holdings.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9508427/Big-Tech-moguls-donated-millions-groups-tied-BLM-founder-Patrisse-Cullors.html
#BlackLivesManors
I haven’t gotten this much schadenfreude since Trump won. Even when they’re ostensibly winning, the left is still a bunch of chumps.
If there was such a thing as white privilege
When I was the same age, rather than hiking the Appalachian trail, I was working my butt off to pay off my student loans and make ends meet. But I did not have a former Governor and former White House Chief of Staff as my father. Nor did I have an older brother who was a sitting Congressman. As a result, I was not pretty much guaranteed a spot at MIT and a waiting job after graduation.
Perhaps Chris believes that everyone with white skin has been as privileged as he has … that we all were made CEOs of ski resorts at the age of 36. That could explain why he believes that “implicit bias” is everywhere in New Hampshire.
Is Chris on the “white privilege” bandwagon?
Close enough for me. He thinks it’s OK to use state money to teach Critical Race Theory.
Wow, great version of that tune there. Presently have the whole concert streaming, as I cook up some Irish bangers, black pudding, rashers and fried tomato, potatoes, and eggs.
Erin go bragh! ?? ☘️ ?
Brown bread sounds good, now that you’ve made me think of it.
I have some cans of brown bread, but I just had lunch.
That it does, wish I had some to go along. Cheers on a slow Sunday morn!
I made this last night:
http://echoesoflaughter.ca/2011/08/delicious-treat-maritime-brown-bread.html
Quite good.
Not cooked in a can, fake brown bread.
Fake???
*gives UCS the Stossel*
Fine.
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/boston-brown-bread-recipe
Good Lord. Do you work for the UK Tourist Bureau?
“Political Peroxide
Blonde privilege….
Fox News and Donald Trump have given blonde hair a new chapter: Now, blonde is the color of the right, for whom whiteness has become a hallmark. Over the past decade or so, as inclusiveness became the hallmark of Obama-era liberals, the left found feminist icons in Rachel Maddow, Samantha Power, and Michelle Obama, who make no apologies for their failure to fit traditional ideals. But #MAGA, Fox News America is a place where all the classic signifiers of privilege and wealth work on overdrive: country-club-issue blue blazers with brass buttons and khaki pants, and above all else, for women, that yellow-blonde, carefully tended hair — a dog whistle of whiteness, an unspoken declaration of values, a wink-wink to the power of racial privilege and to the 1980s vibe that pervades a movement led by a man who still believes in the guilt of the Central Park Five. During that Republican Preppy Handbook era, when Dynasty and Dallas were on TV, the type of conspicuous ostentation that would lead a real-estate developer to sheath his entire apartment in gold leaf was actually in vogue. Look at the movies: Jake’s girlfriend in Sixteen Candles with the lush swoop of thick, blonde locks that ended up stuck in a door (losing the boyfriend to a redhead of all things meant, literally, losing that luscious hair). Johnny, the villain of the Karate Kid films, had a decisive swoosh of blond hair that obscured his headband. We knew, the moment we saw that hair, that small, ethnic Daniel was up against more than another teenager, he was up against privilege itself…..”
https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/politics-of-blonde-hair-from-persephone-to-ivanka-trump.html
How does being this dumb not cause physical pain to the author?
below a certain level of cognition, pain simply doesn’t register.
Why is it whenever one of these pieces is written all I can hear is “fap fap fap”?
“ethnic Daniel”
And here I thought Ralph Macchio and the character he played were white.
Sounds more Italian.
the left found feminist icons in Rachel Maddow, Samantha Power, and Michelle Obama
Betty Friedan is rolling over in her grave. None of those three are icons and they certainly aren’t feminist. A hack talking head, a warmonger, and a coattails parasite.
Dear Dr Jill:
I’m terribly sorry, but no matter how much you try to be woke, your hair color disqualifies you. You are not, and can never be, permitted to join our feminist first ladies club.
Sincerely, Michelle.
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As a reply to Count Potato.