It’s my own fault. I stayed up on the zooms way too late last night and I’ve been trying to catch up all day.
But it was fun!
So, let’s take a super quick look at what’s going on in the world.
Justices uphold FCC’s easing of local media ownership limits
Covid Surge in Michigan Alarms Health Experts
Yellowstone treasure hunter sentenced to prison for digging up graveyard
OK, I’m off! Have a great rest of your day, kids!
Pregame show is on. First pitch on the way. I’m glad that baseball is back on time this year.
First place Tigers are 1-0. Will they be the first team in MLB history to finish a season undefeated? Stay tuned to find out.
Comet, asteroid, giant meteor, it could happen.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
The dog that’s not barking here tells me that MI must still be under lockdown and/or mandating masks.
Governess Gretchen Would never loosen her grip. Of course they’re still imprisoned.
But MI is not under a super-serious lockdown like France. That would have definitely helped.
I’m super cereal!
—Al Gore, Hunter of Man-Bear-Pig
Man-Bear-Pig is real, I saw it in Imaginationland
Excelsior!
By the way…how is Mr Splosives? I thought I saw an update last night but I was beat.
I think I read something about Borg nanoprobes successfully repairing an aneurysm. Good times.
I saw the update after the thread died. I hope he is doing well.
It’s obvious that the right-wing cretins here in MI just aren’t masking enough! And are out cavorting with each other like the social animals they are.
Obviously some rounding up and camps for these wrong think people are in order.
Bring it on, I’m cleaning the Boating accidents right now, She never lived in the Mi. Sticks, these people are packing big time,
I like it,
I’m of the opinion that the sort of consolidation for which the legacy media companies are barbering will actually hasten their demise; I full support them in that endeavour.
RE: FCC. Just in time for a Democrat chair to reverse the previous FCC chair’s decisions.
Health “Experts” are so easily alarmed, I’d rather just hear when they finally get their shit together and calm down.
Don’t you understand how serious the end of the world is? Super serious!
The end of the world
The sad thing is that, like the boy who cried wolf, they have damaged their credibility to the point that if there ever is a *REAL* pandemic that they won’t be believed.
So… never?
“But if any place offers a glimpse at the threat of a new surge, it is Michigan.”
It’s almost like witchcraft doesn’t work.
Michigan is getting hammered. Highest per capita rate in the country right now. The only that’s close is NJ, followed by NY.
Well, I guess that’s what happens when you are all laissez-faire about the Death Virus of Death. Maybe now they will try lockdowns and mask mandates.
Will they wear armbands with a simple, easily recognizable logo?
Seeking to overcome vaccine hesitancy, the Biden administration on Thursday stepped up its outreach efforts to skeptical Americans, launching a coalition of community, religious and celebrity partners to promote COVID-19 shots in hard-hit communities.
The administration’s “We Can Do This” campaign features television and social media ads, but it also relies on a community corps of public health, athletic, faith and other groups to spread the word about the safety and efficacy of the three approved vaccines. The campaign comes amid worries that reluctance to get vaccinated will delay the nation’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic — and is kicking off as the U.S. is anticipating a boost in vaccine supply that will make all adult Americans eligible for vaccines by the beginning of May.
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A White House official said Harris plans to take on a larger role in promoting the uptake of vaccines, in addition to her efforts selling the president’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill and working to address the root causes of migration driving an increase in unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. along the southern border.
The focus on trusted validators stems from both internal and public surveys showing those skeptical of the vaccines are most likely to be swayed by local, community and medical encouragement to get vaccinated, rather than messages from politicians.
It’s like herding simpletons.
Is there anything that Harris can’t do? Or is she going to back out of this also in a couple of days like she did regarding being the point-woman for the border?
I calculated that it works out to $15 per simpleton.
Can I get $20? I’ll just nod along to whatever they say.
>>to address the root causes of migration
free welfare goodies?
Their shitty, third world, hellhole countries? Yeah, good luck fixing that. But don’t worry, in a few more years we’ll also be a third world hellhole and they will stop coming.
Many of them do come here to work.
During the Democratic primaries, the moderator asked which candidate believes illegals should receive free health care, including gender reassignment surgery if they need it – all of them raised their hands. So maybe it’s a wave of pre-op trannies who want free shit.
In most cases, it’s probably them thinking they can get better jobs in the U. S. than in their homelands. Which is probably the case. Though I doubt the free public services hurt.
But with immigration, citizenship and voting joined at the hip, admitting immigrants isn’t just an economic decision, it’s a decision to change the electorate.
A certain political party has (except for a 40-year interval last century) been all about getting immigrants off the boat/plane/cage and into the voting booth, to vote for the party of course.
And since this certain political party wants to do bad things with the support of its new voters…well, what are we going to do about it?
(I won’t pretend to have THE ANSWER, because there actually are equities on both sides, and I don’t even know if the competing claims can be reconciled at all)
Decouple normalization of illegals from citizenship. Give them a special permanent residency that has no path to citizenship.
Huh. Unlike the last two snowfalls this week, this one is pretty legit.
Yeah. We’ve got a couple inches on the ground here. It’s kind of sticking to pavement, it’s been melting and getting covered again throughout the day.
This may put a damper on my plans for a long training ride Saturday.
Whoever said that OH drivers are the worst is full of shit.
On the way back, made it through Cincinnati in really heavy traffic in good time.
Arkansas drivers (and the part of East TX near AR) are the worst.
Oh, I say that OH drivers are terrible all the time. At least in the areas I’ve driven in, they’ve been the worst (and I live here).
Hope you were able to stop at a couple of places that you enjoyed and the new puppers is settling in.
She is amazing. However, the housetraining and appropriate-chewing training is not yet showing results.
I’ve always been impressed by drivers in the DC to Boston corridor as the ultimate in combined shit-assery.
Can confirm that drivers from Boston to NY are fucking terrible. Except for me, of course.
Must agree.
Interesting to see comments about BLM & AF getting less punishment than the treasure hunter.
Was pulling out a whole fryer chicken from the freezer in the garage and it slipped and landed square on top of my foot, up near the ankle. Other than swelling immediately, no feeling of broken bones….yet.
I for one cannot wait for Gattaca to become a future history lesson for my great grandchildren.
Is Gattaca any good? I’m a huge fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which apparently makes me an ardent communist, according to at least two glibs, so bear that in mind. If it has any of those free markets, or any of that voluntary cooperation, and emergent order. That would trigger the hell out me.
By the way, I’ve just realized that the Google keyboard insists on capitalising “communist”. Is that the new Black?
>> I’m a huge fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation
/blocked
Gattaca is divisive. I liked it, but the people that hate it have valid complaints.
I’ll give it a try.
I have a few quibbles with Jude Law’s self-cleaning shower.
Gattaca is very good. Do not hesitate to watch.
Gattaca is one of the better, more thoughtful SiFi films of that era. It isn’t a shoot-em-up, and that throws a lot of people who want a Battlestar Craptacula type thing.
I’m a big fan of Gattaca. If my recommendation adds any weight, I’d give it a big thumbs up as well.
Mine autocorrects to “fucking shitstain commies” now that I have corrected it.
Gattaca was awesome.
^^^ This is true. ^^^
You should watch Gattaca.
Ditto.
“Gas Station Customer Brings A Gun To A Knife Robbery, Gets Free Breakfast”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/01/gas-station-customer-witnesses-robbery-comes-back-with-pistol-stops-armed-criminal/
That’s a good story. Brings a smile to my face.
Indictment of the Fenn estate for criminal facilitation in 3… 2… 1…
It’s my own fault. I stayed up on the zooms way too late last night and I’ve been trying to catch up all day.
This here is why I don’t zoom on school nights.
Is this a recent development in the community outreach office of Glibertopia? Midweek Zooms?
SP has taken up the mantle for midweek Zoom.
There’s a limit as to how long I really want to be sitting in front of my PC every day. 🙂
As a heads up for those interested, this weekend will be when we mark one year of weekend Zoom calls.
With extras!
Well now I must give it a go next week.
Oops, that was ambiguous. I don’t do the midweek Zoom.
Let’s just say that Nick is hoarding dollar dollar bills, yo.
A dolla makes ya holla, Honey Boo-Boo
Back off Nick
Now, boys… There’s enough of me to go around.
*makes it rain*
Too local?
NM legalizes recreational pot
Walter White has a sad
Looks like I will be inspecting the Sandia Peak Tramway in June. (Unrelated to the pot story)
You gonna hotbox the gondola?
a.k.a., the ganjala
NY too.
Freedom!
And coincidentally, tax revenue!
Mostly that second one.
Don’t forget “disarming the populace by having them fail their 4473!”
Didn’t NYC ban CBD just a couple years ago?
No idea. I see signs for it in every bodega window. ?♂️
If it’s like Mass, they will throw so many barriers in the way of recreational shops actually opening that people will continue to just buy it on the black market.
“‘This is communism’: Lara Trump says big tech wants to ‘forget her father Donald existed’ after Facebook took down their interview”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9428057/Lara-Trump-says-big-tech-wants-erase-Donald-Trump.html
It is completely ridiculous and arbitrary.
Nothing like a good old Soviet unpersoning.
“George Floyd’s girlfriend breaks down in court as she reveals they were both addicted to opioids – and the drugs were sold by his friend who refuses to testify at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9427459/Derek-Chauvin-trial-George-Floyds-girlfriend-Courteney-Ross-testifies.html
Not how I would have pictured her.
fatter?
More trailer park, less librarian.
I’m really curious what that would have to do with the case?
Unless it was like a Perry Mason style crackdown.
Drugs are bad, leon!
They’re trying to establish that Floyd died from an OD and it was a pattern of drug usage.
Of course, that has little bearing on Chauvin’s responsibility to take care of Floyd once he was restrained.
It has a bearing on negligence versus intent to kill.
He’s going to get manslaughter.
Probably not wrong, given that he didn’t held Floyd down for as long as he did even after another cop suggested they shift him.
It also goes to causation. Did Floyd die from restraint, or from a drug overdose? From what I have read, the autopsy is somewhat ambiguous, but lands on restraint (and supposedly the ME did the autopsy without having seen any video). The defense lawyer’s job is to argue that there is reasonable doubt that Floyd would have lived absent Chauvin’s restraint of him, and parlay that into an acquittal – “How can you convict a man for killing someone who had a fatal overdose on board, etc.”
I think a jury would be justified in saying there is reasonable doubt, but I think this trial has been politicized enough that Chauvin is a goner.
the autopsy is somewhat ambiguous
So are the reports that he had enough Fentanyl in him to kill a horse wrong, or is it a matter of opinion on how much that would take?
Something like “he had a crapload of fentanyl on board, but we’ve seen a few people survive that”. I think they landed on restraint as the immediate cause of death.
The defense can also argue that the restraint wouldn’t have killed him if he hadn’t just swallowed a ton of fentanyl, and Chauvin had no way to know that. So that, based on what Chauvin knew, the restraint wasn’t unreasonable.
But there’s no freakin’ way they acquit, absent some major new info. Minneapolis is very likely to get riots even with a manslaughter conviction.
Thanks, I figured with the rhetoric from both sides being so extreme and such opposites that the truth was probably somewhere in the middle area, I just haven’t bothered to do my own research.
Maybe, but the truth is like hen’s teeth these days. I doubt we will ever know and to honest I dont care.
I am tired of hearing his name and sick to death of the leftist narrative. If I hear “…in these trying times” one more time I am going to shoot a hole in my TV.
If I hear “…in these trying times” one more time I am going to shoot a hole in my TV.
Do it. You won’t regret it.
New lock downs incoming.
…because they worked so well over the past year.
Of course what all this fucken social distancing did was extend the time before herd immunization.
But remember, Biden gets positive poll numbers for his great Covid response!
Ya, I called my “all the BS will end when Biden is elected” prediction way wrong. The fuckers are doubling down.
As to social distancing I am a big fan because I am one of those people who have a natural personal space of 6′ unless you are a stripper and I paid for a lap dance.
I called it the other way and I was right 🙁
I called it wrong. Apparently making predictions is hard, especially about the future.
You sound like a yogi.
+1 Pic-a-nic basket
have a natural personal space of 6′
BO?
I wish. More a personality trait. You want to talk to me? No prob, stand out of my fucking face. Ya, 6′ is a bit excessive but I think 3′ is no where out of line except for close friends/family/significant others. I will always stick with 6′ for those not in one of those groups after this idiocy. How do I know they don’t have an unknown virus?
3′ is no where out of line except for close friends/family/significant others
Now that I have been paying attention to this, nobody can stay 6 feet away during a conversation – they just naturally drift in. 3 feet (arms reach, basically) feels about right for people around here.
The former head of the FDA admitted that six foot spacing was wrong. They assumed Covid would spread through droplets, like influenza. So six feet is appropriate. Unfortunately, it transmits through aerosols too, making the distancing meaningless.
So I should stay away from all people in public? I am good with that.
Ditto.
^^ These guys get it.
Lockdowns didn’t just do that.
They also massively increased evolutionary selection pressure, resulting in more and more new “variants of concern.”
We did this to ourselves.
Or, more accurately, the politicians and their feckless Medical Officers of Health or equivalent did this to us.
The Health Experts were unanimous, though, that worse than a surge would be the virtual elimination of Covid through a combination of vaccines and herd immunity.
“It would be terrible! A return to the bad old days where no one listened to us, or even knew our names” said Michael Osterholm.
Apparently, LA has rid itself of its gang issues now
https://www.foxla.com/news/gascon-planning-to-dissolve-or-severely-downsize-la-county-hardcore-gang-unit-sources-say
On a tangential note, when the LA Kings used to play at the Forum in Inglewood, which by the way, was an awesome arena, you had to drive through some…shady neighborhoods off the 405. Shady as in driving the street that Reginald Denny was pulled out and beaten area.
I thought the LA Kings was the name of a gang… I feel very dumb now.
That’s Latin Kings.
Excuse me, that’s the Latinx Kingx.
[aplausos de golf]
Latinx Gender-Neutral-Monarchs!
Non-Imperialist monarchs, you understand.
Butterflies!
Dude. Gang units disproportionately target PoCs and are therefore racist and must be disbanded immediately.
You really have to wonder how much damage all those Soros-funded DA’s around the country will manage to do on their way out the door. I guess double-digit increases in violent crime aren’t enough.
“their way out the door”
I’d love to see that, but are we getting ahead of ourselves? Maybe they’ll get re-elected on a “crazier than thou” platform.
I went to events at the Coliseum. The surrounding neighborhood has many homes with barred windows and caged doors.
“GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to slash Fauci’s $400,000 salary to ZERO until he’s replaced – then releases CrossFit video saying ‘this is my COVID protection'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9428025/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-introduces-bill-slash-Faucies-salary-0.html
LOL
Oh the irony of Ted Lieu, complaining about stupid bills. He should be reminded he introduced a bill requiring a psychiatrist in the White House…well only when its OMB or a Republican of course.
Next video: Taking zinc and drinking tonic water.
I thought you could get the same effect drinking Fish Tank cleaner
Drinking pennies in baking soda diluted with water is what I hear…
Anything ever happen to the woman everyone thinks poisoned her husband?
My guess, quietly charged and dismissed…once it no longer serves a purpose, the media, even local, don’t care to report on it.
Tonic water is part of my regular warm-weather health regime. You know, for the Malaria, and all. But the stuff tastes so terrible I find myself having to pour it over two fingers of gin to be able to drink it. #writerproblems
?
That went exactly where I thought it was going.
Don’t forget the lime. Or lemon. You must never forget them. They died for YOU!
Lime.
“A bill meant to lift the decades-long ban on yoga in Alabama public schools has stalled in the state senate as it continues to face opposition from Christian conservative groups who believe the practice will promote Hinduism.
The Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee failed to overturn the ban after a vote on the bill ended in a tie on Wednesday. The ban has been in place for 28 years…
If passed, the bill would allow yoga to be taught as an elective to students- but there would still be restrictions, particularly on the language and poses.
‘All poses shall be limited exclusively to sitting, standing, reclining, twisting, and balancing. All poses, exercises, and stretching techniques shall have exclusively English descriptive names,’ the bill said.
‘Chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, and namaste greetings shall be expressly prohibited,’ the bill specifies.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9427847/Alabama-lawmakers-deadlock-bill-lifting-ban-yoga-Alabama-schools.html
OFFS!!
If it is an elective why would you need restrictions? Never mind, I know the answer to that.
It’s Alabama, Count.
To be fair, I would be uninterested in a yoga class that included all that claptrap.
But yeah, OFFS!
Well, the mudras and Sanskrit names are helpful, imho.
Although, I’m guessing the gyan mudra has been cancelled.
Everybody knows that Downward Dog leads to sinful temptations.
Stepping into OMWC territory…careful.
leapfrog
*chuckles to himself while imagining high school phys ed Coach Moe (with the drill sergeant voice and the flat-top haircut) calmly calling out yoga pose names *
Now if some of the dance team coaches were leading yoga, I would enthusiastically
participatewatch!A timely reminder that idiocy isn’t limited to the left.
If yoga were associated with Christianity, it would be federal courts which would be drawing these distinctions and worrying about whether it was an establishment of religion.
Is it really much a stretch (ha!) to connect yoga exercises with Hinduism the way the Supreme Court connected anti-Darwinism to Christianity?
Even as the pandemic appears to be waning in some parts of the United States, Michigan is in the throes of a coronavirus outbreak that is one of the largest and most alarming in the country. Infection levels have exploded in recent weeks, in big cities and rural stretches alike.
Whitmer, after getting slapped down by the state Supreme Court, re-issued her restrictions through other means. So, I guess what is going on is, if the court hadn’t slapped her down, this outbreak never would have happened? SCIENCE!
It’s all those filthy vermin from TX and FL coming up and coughing on everything.
That is bullshit. Complete bullshit.
Worst Governor – Whitmer or Cuomo?
Whitmer in my book. Cuomo runs it like he is a pretend mafia Don, so you have a certain understanding of how he operates. Whitmer is just a vindictive bitch.
Wolf
Given the competition, Wolf didn’t even get into the top 3. (I still hate his guts.)
Whitmer
Cuomo
Murphy
Y’all can argue the order.
What’s Newsom, chopped liver?
Thinking about it further, a party with Newsom would at least involve some quality hookers and blow. With Whitmer she’d probably just be dressed as a dominatrix. On this count, Whitmer is the worse governor.
With Whitmer she’d probably just be dressed as a dominatrix. On this count, Whitmer is the worse governor.
I think she’s secretly a sub.
King Walz is going to be so mad he was passed over.
Back to his dials!
Baron Harkonnen, er… Governor Pritzker feels left out.
Don’t forget Coonman!
Bashear was the only one to put his name on the signs “welcoming” you to thestate.
Yeah, fuck that guy! If the AG and the Legislature had let him, he would have been tops on the list.
PA governors used to have their name on the “Welcome to the state” signs.
I don’t remember if Wolf has his name on those signs.
Actually, Wolf was the first in a very long time to remove the Governor’s name from the welcome signs. So at least he has that going for him.
Whoa.
I suspect that he thinks that if people have to read his name on a sign to know that he’s the Governor, he’s not governing hard enough. 🙁
Is DeWine out of the running already?
What’s his bodycount?
Apparently the competition is pretty stiff.
Half-Whitmer is doing her best to duke it out with Grisham (Dipshit-NM) for the title of “Worst Governor”
NM has had crazy restrictions, but its such a backwater nobody cares what goes on there.
The local watering hole I frequent here in Michigan:
I had a talk with the owner, asking him how business was with the 50% capacity and the closing at 11PM. Which sucks with March Madness, etc going on.
He told me about the previous weekend when the place was packed (well beyond the 50% capacity) and how a couple complained for 5 minutes straight since the place was “too busy”.
Him: well I will pay for half of your meal if you want to leave right now.
Them: Nah, we’ll stay for another beer.
Our local here in Vegas is still going above and beyond, even though most bars are open and you can sit at the bar and whatnot. We told our bartender friends, if you want our money, tell your boss that not allowing ‘non-gamers (gambling)’ to sit at the bar is hurting your business. They all agreed and next time we go, we have a nice little spot reserved for us.
When I went to a wing place last week for dinner, they were slammed to the point of 45-60 minutes for pick up orders with a 10-15 minute hold time on the phone before they could even take the order. It took a while to refill a beer one time, but they still got me my food and beers sitting at the bar area.
“It wasn’t a suggestion. Get out.”
Some people live to bitch and control others. I dont get that….but there it is.
Our local watering hole never really played the game. What’s interesting is that people tend to naturally socially distance. As it gets busier, space fills in. It’s almost like we know what we’re doing.
Oh yay, looks like my kidney stones are starting to move.
Now where’d I stash that Percocet?
The shipping canal opens up and Scruffy has movement…coincidence?
Yikes! Hope you are OK.
Bro, hope they pass quickly and as easily as possible.
One of the stones is too large to pass, so let’s hope it doesn’t hit this weekend or it’s going to be a loooooooooong weekend.
Are yours the sort they can break up via ultrasound, or do they need to operate?
They can blast them. Wish I had known that before they went after the last one.
Oh, good.
Hoping the sonar works.
Humble brag…acceptable for what you are experiencing.
Sticking it up your dick isn’t going to help.
Now you tell me.
Buttchuging on the other hand…
Ouch.
Best wishes.
Job that I wish I had
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/clark-county-firefighters-conduct-rescue-training-hundreds-of-feet-above-ground/article_c90060ee-9280-11eb-84e2-4b1a6413b19b.html?block_id=1002219
The Highroller is the tallest Ferris wheel in the world and hanging from it would be a blast.
I clenched up a little bit just watching the video.
No thanks, I like the ground, it ‘s closer when you fall,
Yeah, I’m Hazmat and getting EMT this year, but there’s a reason I haven’t signed up for Technical Rescue training.
And I know plenty of fools who volunteered for Airborne or Air Assault.
I was voluntold for airborne. Fortunately the flight surgeon did not circle-X me. It didn’t bother me flying in military aircraft, but I did not want to jump out of one.
Have you ever seen videos of someone replacing bulbs on a transmission tower?
I have and they make my sphincter clench.
Oddly, the heights thing is comparatively recent for me – they only started bothering me w/in the last 10 years.
The strange thing for me is that heights don’t get to me consistently, and never when I’m in an aircraft. It can be an closed cockpit, open, inverted, erect, paraglider, doesn’t matter. It’s only when there is a visible means of support around me that I’m standing on that I feel funny with heights. The worst was standing on a grating platform in the dark when the floor 110 feet below was well lit. I could just make out the shapes of things around me and feel the solid floor, but could see right through it except for the grating. Glass floors don’t do that to me, oddly.
never when I’m in an aircraft. It can be an closed cockpit, open, inverted, erect, paraglider, doesn’t matter. It’s only when there is a visible means of support around me that I’m standing on that I feel funny with heights.
Word. This is why I, at a time, wanted to try out paragliding. That and the coolest dude I knew was into paragliding.
I used to Free climb, but stopped when the kids arrived, and it’s the exposure that freaks me out, the height isn’t so bad, but hanging in the air? no,
My cousin (74) told me the same thing, that he had developed a fear of heights recently. I replied…holy moly, me too! What is that all about?
My suspicion is that we age our inner ears work less efficiently and even a small reduction in balance destroys our confidence, thus the fear. It is very disappointing to a guy that used to climb to the top of a 120 foot tall oak on a hill top to sit for an hour or two just watching the horizon for the fun and scenery.
I prefer to have my feet firmly planted on the ground these days.
Absolutely and 20 years ago I would have gladly went up.
I wish I had jumped on the chance to do SPIES/FRIES training when I had the chance.
Him: well I will pay for half of your meal if you want to leave right now.
Them: Nah, we’ll stay for another beer.
No. Seriously. You’re done. There’s the door.
https://twitter.com/_lizharvey/status/1377371323643531264
I know I shouldn’t have laughed at this.
I did anyway.
Legit laugh-out-loud. I would love to know the backstory there – did the owner paint that on themselves or was it some sort of revenge for some slight?
I’m thinking the latter.
Nice.
Hmmm…so (s)he discriminates in the provision of services based on national origin? Sounds like an equal-opportunity investigation is in order.
There are worse reasons to be digging in a graveyard
Because they didn’t want to get her pregnant?
And his natural reaction was to call up a buddy to help him dig up a corpse for his brother to fuck?
yikes.
Assuming a public defender was involved, high-five for the decision to take this to a jury trial.
Follow-up, July 2007 – the defendants (as it were) got off:
“We conclude that the more reasonable interpretation is that § 940.225(7) was intended by the legislature to allow a sexual assault charge to succeed where a defendant sexually assaulted and caused the death of his victim and the sequence of events is unclear, *rather than to criminalize necrophilia generally*.” [emphasis added]
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/wi-court-of-appeals/1363639.html
I have been watching Snowpiercer the TV show. I have enjoyed it so far and of course, Jennifer Connelly is great and an actor that doesn’t show up until the end of season one is always awesome.
I hated that movie, can’t imagine I’m going to like the show.
I started to watch The Punisher on Netflix (need something while I row) but may go back and watch Daredevil first – I’m told it’s not strictly necessary, but you’ll get all of the Punisher backstory.
The show is the beginning, so deals with class, gulags, and revolution…and how they don’t always go the way you want.
That sounds like it would indeed be more interesting than the movie.
(need something while I row)
I would think re-runs of Dirty Jobs would be perfect for that.
I thought she committed herself to retreat into penitent solitude, never darken our screens again, after that godawful Hulk movie with Eric Banana.
I’m more mad about the breast reduction.
I realize being a narcissistic sociopath is pretty much obligatory in our hereditary mandarinate, but this Hunter Biden “autobiography” is truly stupendous effrontery.
I’d rather read John Wayne Gacy’s Tips for Serial Child Rapists.
“How to get blood stains out of a clown costume.”
Pertinent to this discussion
“Okay, guy watching us from the bushes, you ‘make us into men.’ Should I get some lotion, or do you wanna use blood and clown paint for lube?”
Pertinent to this discussion
“Okay, guy watching us from the bushes, you ‘make us into men.’ Should I get some lotion, or do you wanna use blood and clown paint for lube?”
Rand Paul is back tormenting Fauci again
So basically all of Fauci’s wailing about “variants” when Rand called him out for double masking turns out to be complete BS.
And only us will read that and say..huh, look at that, scientific backing. The other media will spin that shit as a ‘so-called doctor’ undermining our national hero.
I bet most of the ‘experts’ giving us orders about the cootie bugs can’t even tell you what a virus is.
Depending on the degree of mutation some immunity to variants will be seen. The idea that variation returns us to a square one condition is nonsense.
BREAKING: Someone in the White House has been pooping in the hallways and biting people. That narrows it down to three suspects.
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1377688989298163712
There’s a limit to how many times you can blame it on the dog before the wife figures it out.
Real life imitates It’s Always Sunny?
Has Hunter been in the WH yet?
“Mathematx (pronounced “math-e-ma-tesh”) is the brain-child of the critical mathematics education activist Rochelle Gutiérrez, who holds no degrees in mathematics (see also, critical pedagogy). She describes it as “a living mathematx” and recommends it as a new, revolutionary approach to teaching and doing mathematics (see also, ethnomathematics). It is billed by the author as a means to “reconsider our definitions of mathematics in light of our current state of global crises.”
Even with a detailed reading of Gutiérrez’s paper, it is difficult to ascertain what “mathematx” is meant to represent. It is clearly an attempt to reimagine mathematics and mathematics education in accordance with the “insights” from ethnomathematics, among other things, but it also indicates that mathematics and mathematics education should be reformulated by incorporating unexpected “knowledges,” as the author has it. On the one hand, there is the argument to include “Indigenous knowledge,” meaning some of the various ideas about mathematics had and used by indigenous peoples (though it seems to escape Gutiérrez that this is anthropology of mathematics, not mathematics or mathematical pedagogy). On the other hand, she advocates directly that we learn mathematics from “other-than-human persons,” including plants. (“I underscore with examples from biology the potential limitations of current forms of mathematics for understanding/interacting with our world and the potential benefits of considering other-than-human persons as having different knowledges to contribute.”) She also advocates getting away from the problem-solving orientation of mathematics in favor of “play” and “joy.””
https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-mathematx/
We need to find who is funding this [nonsense], and re-imagine the knowledges subjugated by he “real” intent of mulching equipment.
As I mentioned earlier, a fan of hers is going to speak at my sons school.
Speaking and spouting gibberish are two different things.
“…getting away from the problem-solving orientation…” <–This is the goal of all of the marxist gibberish, not just this one. People who cant solve problems cant defend themselves, their families or their country.
Meh. Just another fancy new way of teaching math by some shyster. Like the “whole math” and other folks, it ain’t nothing new.
Learning math is a lot like dieting, no one ever went broke selling the idea that there is an easy painless way to do it. Unfortunately, they almost never work.
You need to do a lot of worksheets full of simple addition/subtraction problems. Then you move on to a lot of worksheets with simple multiplication/division problems. If you don’t get that down in your rote memory, it becomes impossible to do other forms of math.
The key to learning math is doing a lot of repetitive homework to drive home the basics. It sucks when you are doing it, but you need it to retain how to do it.
Discipline is an aspect of white supremacy.
Please come join me in yelling this at my kid’s teachers. Rote memorization of multiplication tables up through 12 x 12 is, to me, something that every person should possess.
Yep.
Absolutely. With fucking gusto.
To 25, my algebra teacher said.
Why? You can just double. Most useful math book I had as a kid was one of my Dad’s called Mental Math. It was written in the 1920s and explained how to do math in your head. My dad made us kids do the exercises.
I used to astound people by knowing how much the tax (or the tip) was without a calculator and often faster than the register. It’s why I can keep a running total in my head (exact, not an estimate) while grocery shopping. Don’t ask me to explain though.
*slowly backs away*
As opposed to a fetus, which is an other-than-person human.
I am reminded of the absence of 0 in Roman math and suddenly her Latin heritage makes so much sense.
Ontario, Canada is going under hard lockdown on Saturday.
I found this web site PANDA with some good data on Covid.https://www.pandata.org/. From the data there no benefit to lockdowns. Guys who runs it is Nick Hudson. YT just took down a talk he did earlier this month.
See Tom Woods podcast on Tuesday.
Extra more dangerouser.
How long can they get away with this shtick?
She should challenge Nancy to a push up contest.
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1377614474862006279
Pelosi? Her bones would shatter and turn to dust if she tried that.
Demons are much tougher than you think.
Would.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Excerpt from “Eugenics and Other Evils” (1922)
I first read that title and wondered what Elvis had to do with eugenics.
If you visit Graceland, make sure to see his basement genetics lab.
I thought he traded it all in for a porcelain monkey?
Song starts here
interesting,
Thanks. Good read
Anyone know if the rest of Chesterton’s stuff is as good as that? That was just great!
That’s pretty early, but most of his stuff is excellent. If you follow the link you can read nearly all of his major stuff at the Guttenberg project.
Aside from all his essays, articles, books (near-daily newspaper columns), look for his novels like “The Flying Inn”, “Manalive”, “The Man Who Was Thursday”. He’s also got some really solid poetry. One of my favorites is: http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/Ballad_of_St_Barbara.html
And of course his apologetics like “Orthodoxy” and “The Everlasting Man”.
Hail Eugene!
Great job, guys.
Giving away $1.5m in cash to a company with no products, another $360k for eminent domain, loads more in tax incentives, and the result is exactly what one would predict.
An empty lot with exactly dick to show for it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-city-that-pinned-its-renewal-on-a-self-chilling-beverage-can-wants-its-money-back
To be fair, I would prefer an empty lot to the Barclays Center, for which a neighborhood in Brooklyn was demolished.
Suckers.
They just can’t quit him….
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-legal-troubles?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm
“hell fuck no”
Well, I’m convinced.
Top notch journalisming there
Super cereal!
That was a favorite of my senior drill instructor. In the setting of boot camp, it was appropriate and instructive. In a Vanity Fair article? Nah.
The walls are closing in.
They’ve got him this time.
It’s a tipping point.
Living in their heads rent free.
Redhedz on Thot Thursday.
https://archive.li/3qOTf
90% real, 100% Hot, Wow! thanks Q, you know about me and the Ginger babes,
I had you in mind when I posted this.
/Humble Bow to Master of Titties….
I’m a jack of all titties, master of none.
Pretty sure #6 was a man.
LOL… I thought the very same thing. Doesn’t matter #s 34, 43, and 44 are there to make it all better.
Quite possibly.
I’d say without a doubt. Look at the hands and the legs….that ain’t a female.
Wasn’t much need to proceed past #2, who in addition to her overall beauty looks like a natural red. Not too many in that assembly are. #36 was delightful to view as well.
For the first time in recorded history the number of valid US passports went down in 2020.
Only 7 million passports in circulation in 1989?!
Wow.
The population was smaller. Travel was more expensive. Didn’t need a passport for Canada and parts of Mexico. Not as many foreign born citizens travelling back to their homeland to visit family.
Didn’t need a passport for Canada or Mexico until after 9/11
Well after 9/11. I used to cross the border to Algodones all the time when I lived in Yuma, 2004-06. No passport needed then.
I visited a half dozen countries with a DD form 2 card and no passport pre 9/11.
I think that chart can also put to bed the longtime trope that Americans don’t have passports except for a few right thinking elite.
The other thing indirectly shown is the increased accessibility of international travel over the past thirty years. Well until last year. Used to be something like that was a once in a lifetime. I’ve gone to Tokyo to meet up with my brother for the weekend and booked the trip the week before when I found out. Really didn’t happen like that until recently.
Heck, I remember travel before the internet, before ATMs were linked around the world, before you could send e-mail to a hotel on the other side of the world and make reservations, when you had to learn and remember some of the local language – or one that might be useful – to get by. In many ways 1989 was more like 1889 than it is like today.
Yep. Travel agents and reservation systems served a very useful purpose but they would charge for that usefulness that put above the reach of most people on a regular basis. The other option was basically the youth hostel bumming around, which is below most people above the age of 30 with a wife that doesn’t want to sleep in a dormitory.
I wonder how many people today know what traveler’s checks were – and why they were necessary? Or travel guides and how important they were back then.
Funny how few people I run into who have any idea how different it was when I backpacked through China in 1988.
I never could figure out what the supposed advantages of traveller’s checks were.
When there was no way to use a credit card and there were no ATM’s to withdraw cash from your bank you had to carry as much money as you were going to need for your entire trip. Generally that would be a few thousand dollars. If that got lost or stolen you would be shit out of luck and on the other side of the world. Traveler’s checks – as long as you kept the voucher/receipt – could be replaced. They were basically insurance against loss or theft when you had to bring all the money you were going to need for everything from the time you left until you were back on US soil.
Ah. I see.
Fake news.
Us Passports aren’t valid.
Guy finds a few Arabic-language coins, dating from the late 17th century, in New England – coins may have been previously stolen by infamous fugitive pirate who robbed a Mughal Empire ship
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9425875/Ancient-coins-solve-mystery-murderous-1600s-pirate.html
Cool as hell. I love culturally anomalous stuff like that.
It occurred to me just a little while ago that today is Maundy Thursday. The Presbyterian church of my upbringing always had a Maundy Thursday supper with a menu comparable to a seder. My strongest memory of one of those suppers when I was a kid was hearing a bunch of the high-school guys caterwauling their way through this little ditty appropriate to the occasion. (Sadly, no wine was served at these suppers – strictly Welch’s.)
Aghh, Wendy always went to Church today, she taught me what today was,
/Sad Yusef,
Listening to Rogan and Jim Breuer, good stuff, B is a Glig, he just doesn’t know it, but their convo has convinced me to get a Yellow armband, seriously,
or maybe a Glib, I’m a terrible writer,