QB1
The NFL draft is right around the corner. And that’s pretty much all that’s going on in the world of sports. I’m wondering who will have the sense to take Justin Fields. Anyway, nothing else going on. That’s a giant bummer.
The Iceman
Inventor Samuel Morse was born on this day. He shares it with general and president Ulysses S Grant, baseball great Rogers Hornsby, another baseball player Enos Slaughter, actor Jack Klugman, civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, aviation pioneer Sheila Scott, radio DJ and Shaggy Rogers voice actor Casey Kasem, con artist Frank Abagnale Jr, “The Iceman” George Gervin, singer Sheena Easton, and pitcher Chris Carpenter.
Right, now on to…the links!
Well this is a bit absurd. It reads like a press release by Hamas. You know Hamas, right? The organization that lets terrorists launch rockets from schools and all but refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Israeli people to exist. What’s next, Iran running a UN committee on the rights of women? Oh wait…
Coming soon
Pretty soon they’ll start asking to pope to canonize him. According to Pelosi, he’s already performed the miracle of martyrdom. In all seriousness, I’d be happy if they threw out the conviction. So long as they threw out the convictions of every single other person who was arrested by that crooked cop for drugs. And everybody else’s drug conviction too. But this…this is just pandering.
Wait, they’ve had outdoor guidelines? I had no idea this was even a thing. Seriously.
Wait a second here. Why is he having to argue which word he used in court? He enjoys First amendment rights, the same as anybody else. Charge him with trespassing and release him from jail…where he’s literally being held without bail because prosecutors say he’s too dangerous to be out in society.
I can’t wait for this cripple fight.
This is gonna be insane. So many people on both sides of the aisle facing some real dilemmas on who to pull the lever for. It’s almost as hilarious as it is pathetic.
The iPhone vs android debate is over. But feel free to continue risking your life with those silly google phones, people. But you’ve been warned.
Supply and Demand is still a thing after all. This shouldn’t surprise anybody.
I wonder what the appeal will be based on. “Well, I was really tired and a little fucked up. My bad”? Because that’s the only claim I could see this idiot making.
Rock out, friends! Hope you enjoy it as much as me.
Now go have a great day, friends.
flip phones for ever.
Flip? Too modern.
/hefts up an old rotary phone
*straps an old crank model, front and back*
Do you call it the Brigitte Nielsen?
I see your rotary phone and raise you PRC-77
With or without a KY-57 attached?
No crypto. I like to live dangerously.
They kept trying to make us turn in our KYK-13s. We slow-rolled them for years.
I was signed for one of these for a while.
Red comms were for the prey. I spent much time with a KYK on a lanyard around my neck and packing extra batteries for the Vinson.
Between the batteries, the collection gear (PRD-13, etc.) our rucks were heavier than a typical grunts loadout, save for the Assistant Gunners and poor bastards on the 81mm mortar teams.
Check out the PRD-11 I had to carry.
You are all wrong, the proper answer is a TA-312 and a 40 mile spool of Commo wire.
Holy shit that looks god-awful, please tell me you cross-loaded that throughout the team. We had a PRD-12 that was MTOE so we couldn’t get rid of it. It was only used for CoC inventories, after which it resumed gathering dust in the team room.
We used field phone when in larger groups like the TOC or if we colocated with a combat arms unit. The AKNG scouts took it as a challenge to sneak in and cut your lines.
Whenever I think about field telephones I think of that poor bastard in ‘Enemy at the Gates.”
We had a 4-man team. 1 box per soldier (receiver, direction finder, signal analyzer) with the 4th carrying the antenna. The box at the bottom in the linked picture was the lid of the receiver that contained a speaker. We used headphones with one ear hooked up to the PRD and the other to the PRC.
Fortunately we didn’t manpack often. Site jumps while manpacking took an asset offline for too long. We normally operated out of either a CUCV or a SUSV.
AAAGH!!! Flashbacks! Would you prefer to carry the complete Stinger and your basic load out, or would you rather the spare missile and the PRC-77? Also, since you’re not organic to the infantry unit, they will almost always forget you are attached and consequently fail to requisition hot chow for your team. “Anyone want to trade a peanut butter pouch for a few nibbles of those hot powdered eggs?”
When I was on a Low-Level Voice Intercept team, we packed 120 pounds of equipment into the larger CFP-90 packs for just three days of dismounted operations. We had to bring a PRC-77, KY-57, stripped-down PRD-11 and antenna with enough batteries for all the three. There was a reason we joked that the “light” division was too light to fight, too heavy to run.
125th MI?
106th
Requisition chow? Hell, they’ll just leave you out in the desert for the OPFOR to come rescue you.
+1 dead shed with cots, hot food and all
+1 Hey so we’ve been in this hide site this whole field problem, all of our poop bags are full. When did that infantry 1SG say they were going to come to get us?
In winter, we had an actual shit detail were somebody went to the different sites to collect bags of shit to take back to be incinerated. You couldn’t cat hole with frozen soil and leaving piles all over for the spring thaw was problematic.
All the convenience of a cell phone, all the panache of a rotary phone
A buddy and I actually did this years and years ago. (Flip phone era). It was pretty cool, but had all sorts of problems working more than 1 or two times in a row. My buddy moved away and took the phone with him. I’m sure it is either in a landfill or sitting in some box in his garage.
Now I use this phone when I want to impress the ladies. Alas it is only 2G and will someday just stop working.
I think I still have a bluetooth handset sitting around somewhere.
Also, stay out of Chicago.
I want to switch to a flip phone, but I really need my Android Auto. There must be an alternative to guide me through my daily hellscape. And fuck Apple, and Microsoft, and Facebook, and Twitter, and….
Get a Garmin.
I think I will. I thought there would be a monthly fee, but not anymore.
Yeah, I’ve had a Garmin for years, only paid once so far.
I had a Garmin once. Thing pissed me off so bad I chucked it out the window. It’s probably still laying on the side of CA-33 between Ojai and Maricopa. I would tell your exactly where, but I had no fucking idea where I was when I reached my breaking point.
My old Garmin would not say the word drive, it always said doctor. “Turn left on Lake Doctor.”
Google got us lost on a vacation trip. It kept spewing directions that didn’t help. I yelled something to the effect of, “Google, shut the fuck up!” “Voice guidance off.” We found that amusing.
Apparently Porsche only updates their map info for a couple years, because the installed GPS maps on my Macan don’t include a toll road that I use regularly and it spends 30 minutes telling me to enter a roadway every time I come to a cross street. When I asked the dealership, he said they couldn’t do a map update on anything older than a 19.
It’s annoying to the point that I use my iPhone for directions.
Apparently Porsche only updates their map info for a couple years,
That kind of shit drives me nuts. My Fusion has 5 year old maps and a reminder that pops every few months for a diagnostic service that doesn’t work anymore. Add in the complete lack of tactile response from those capacitive buttons, and the center panel is nearly completely useless when driving.
I do have voice controls and steering wheel buttons that mitigate some of that uselessness, but I’m not happy about the ubiquitous touchscreens and capacitive buttons in modern cars. We’re looking for a minivan, and it’s impossible to find anything with regular dials and buttons.
My wife’s car has the built-in navigation. We got it because it was in the package required for the backup camera. The dealer only offered updates for a couple years, then you had to pay. It is now way out of date. When I bought my car, the backup camera was standard. Navigation was an upgrade. I just use my phone when I need directions.
The “operate by dial” transmission that is right next to the “operate by dial” volume controls is a personal favorite of mine in bad user interface design.
Mine was hilarious in Quebec, since it tried to pronounce the French abbreviations in English
“Turn on Rue Street Antoine Oh.”
I purchased Sygic GPS app for Euro travel and use it here in the US some since I can download states ahead of time. Here in Texas we have “Farm to Market Roads” which are abbreviated FM Road. My Sygic would voice prompt me to “Turn left on Federated States of Micronesia road 51 in 100 feet.” I shot their tech support guys an email and in the next update they actually fixed it.
An analysis concluded that boosting the minimum wage won’t result in increased costs to taxpayers because the higher wage would raise productivity and lower other costs such as supervisory and training expenses, the official said.
Let me guess, they reversed causation in seeing that more productive people are paid more.
Or are they tacitly admitting that the less productive people will be let go.
You think there was anything but producing “facts” to back up the conclusion they wanted to pretend was the accurate one?
Shizz… You give them way too much credit and intellect…
PUNISH THE WEALTHY (and then only the ones that refuse to bend the knee to the mandarinate)!!!!
Where did they do that study, Narnia?
Hogwarts…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
What? You don’t think boosting pay will magically result in the employees not needing as much training?
I do agree it will probably result in lower supervisory expenses, since companies will have to let middle management staff go if they want to keep prices the same. But I don’t think that will have the same net result these people think it will have.
I’m sure the conclusion was scientifically arrived at and magic has nothing to do with it,
I eagerly await the follow up in a few years that will read something like:
Our projections didn’t anticipate greedy corporations being greedy, so the results ended up different than our expectations. Blame them, not us.
*checks out local drive-thru* Yep, the kid that used to run the soda fountain is not there anymore.
something, something sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic something
I find this hard to believe. McDonalds is starting people around here at $13.
EO only applies to govt contracts.
That’s why I don’t believe the #s. Seems like a gross over estimate to me, but I’m just some dumb rube.
“…because the higher wage would raise productivity…”
because – pixey dust.
I fully doubt this MoFo could explain what productivity is.
They usually go with some excuse like “the low end earners are distracted by issues at home that stem from not having money. By having more money, they won’t be distracted by those issues.”
Which, of course, shows that they’ve never worked these low income jobs. IME, most people were distracted by fucking in the parking lot, texting their friends, and massive hangovers.
I resembled that comment in college.
“Assume a ladder.”
So this is an EO for govt contractors – there is no such thing as productivity in any of those. And if they also want to mandate a reduction in the overhead rate on the contract (for supervision and training), that’s within the govt’s authority.
I don’t know how many there are, but will the government eliminate the lower GS levels?
They could lose a ton of GS-13s that have make-work jobs….
HAHAHAHAHA!
I still remember getting the breakdown of employees in the region I worked for the forest service. I was an 11 as a timber manager. The 3-9 grades get the work done in the field. The purpose of the breakdown was to show lack of diversity in the region. What I saw was that the number of GS-11 and above outnumbered the worker bees to significant degree. Nobody cared…
The higher minimum wage will incentivise automation, thereby boosting productivity and lowering supervision costs. But taxpayers will still have to pay for all the people that that stops from being employed at all.
What I don’t get is why the journalist is padding the article with references to Flloyd. It has nothing to do with this murder.
Appeals are an important part of the process of ensuring people get fair trials. They still often don’t, but at least we try. Pretty sure the success rate of appeals hovers are 2-3 percent and many happen after the entire sentence has been served.
I’m not saying she doesn’t deserve her filings.
I’m criticizing the article writer for the irrelevent content when there was room for more background on this case.
From 2011-2015 appeals in the federal circuits were successful at reversing a lower court decision 8-9% of the time. But even then, civil appeals were successful less often than other sorts.
States would vary, but I’d imagine the median is probably in line with this.
Linky: https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2016/12/20/just-facts-us-courts-appeals
E-MO-SHUNZ!
E-MO-SHUNZ!
It’s psyops, not news.
In the juvenile “facility” I vacationed at for a whole fucking year, the desk secretary was Joan’s mom. She was totally cool.
Damn. I’d love to set and have a few beers and some eight-ball played with you, Blackjack.
“Why is he having to argue which word he used in court?”
Die Bart, Die
Well, since he called her a biatd, he should never get out. He should have burned down the nike store and stole all of their shoes.
The case against that man is pretty simple. He was trespassing. If they levied the fine and had him pay it and go on with his life, I’d be fine with it. Instead, they’re keeping him in a cage without due process. Which is the kind of shit they do in third-world shitholes to people who oppose the government.
Oh, so like our respective countries now?
Which is the kind of shit they do in third-world shitholes to people who oppose the government.
Yes, and?
???
Doesn’t he have a lawyer?
Yes. His lawyer keeps trying to get him bail, but the prosecutor and judge say he’s too dangerous to be free (before he’s even been to trial). Because that’s how we roll in America now.
While at the same time demanding that any bail for BLM protesters and other miscreants is totes racist and horrible.
The only reason the word should be important is that it proves the prosecutors are a) lying or b) totes incompetent. If they can’t be trusted to accurately transcribe a very simple note, they can’t be trusted on anything.
I hope that is where the defense is going. The prosecutors lied to the court. Let my client go.
“He shares it with general and president Ulysses S Grant”
I always thought it interesting that his middle name doesn’t exist. Some unknown admin officer at West Point, when he saw that Grant had no middle name, took it upon himself to christen him “U.S. Grant”. Grant never bothered to correct it but kept it as only an initial.
Ulysses was his middle name. His first name was Hiram.
Are you saying his initials were HUG?
HUG Esquire
or Huggy Bear, as his law enforcement friends referred to him.
Or the perpetually shitfaced General not named Sherman.
Grant didn’t actually drink all that much.
I thought he was a lush too. I have been wrong before, though.
Thank you for the correction. I had been going by the version which they taught a buddy of mine at West Point.
Now I know the real story.
General Lee speaking I am not sure it matters.
It’s not A.P. Hill to die on.
Good morning, Sloop!
I enjoyed the song before the lynx and that was a really good call.
No outdoor guidelines. It’s quite literally impossible to transmit aerosolized virus with the combo of UV and instant dilution. These people are evil.
You know who else is evil?
Back the blue.
I’m allowed to watch that band because we are the same age. Mornin’ Tundra!
Mornin’ Festus!
I hope you are well.
Likewise! Tested one of my lats on Saturday or Sunday. The ankle is much better. Every weekend I seem to damage something…
However, after decades of warnings, the report says that “threshold” into a crime against humanity has already been crossed. “The Israeli government has demonstrated an intent to maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the occupied Palestinians territory,” reads the report. “That intent has been coupled with systematic oppression of Palestinians and inhumane acts committed against them. When these three elements occur together, they amount to the crime of apartheid,” it concludes.
Sure…now fuck off.
The May 2020 killing of Floyd, who was Black, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is white
Curious capitalizations and lack there of…
A posthumous pardon request was submitted on Monday to Texas officials on behalf of George Floyd for a 2004 drug arrest that was done by a now indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.
I assume they will also want a pardon for committing armed robbery against a woman. Saint Fentanyl Floyd, praised be his name.
If my employer wants proof I got it, things will get interesting.
That’s what the style book says to do these days. Mainly because they’re a bunch of no shit racists.
I have no clue where that quoted snippet came from…
stream of consciousness?
Sometimes the browser fails to copy when I hit the copy button. Then, sometimes I fail to proofread the snippet I paste into my comment.
It’s failure all the way down.
Stupid turtles!
“I can again safely say that really, really soon we’re going to be seeing some guidelines that are going to be coming out from the CDC about the wearing of masks and vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, told a virtual event hosted by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Monday.
I never participated in virus theater and I am not about to start now.
Shun the unclean!
Unvaccinated “Leper Colonies” up next. It will be billed as a jobs program building them.
A yellow thumbprint on the forehead administered by your local Health Officer. Diaphanous robes required during the ceremony. Then a quick dip into a pool of water.
Uffda, if we do end up separating into vaccinated vs unvaccinated, can I get a waiver to join the unvaccinated colony?
I have a suspicion that life there will much more tolerable than life with the vaccinated Karens.
Fauci could just issue the guidelines without fanfare, but he seems to really crave the daily interviews and cock-gobbling he gets.
he wearing of masks and vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals
Either the vaccine is effective, or it isn’t.
If it’s effective, the vaccinated have no need for masks, or social distancing, or any other restrictions.
If it’s not effective and nothing changes once you get it, why bother getting it?
Outdoor masks? Is the CDC staffed by people who can’t do math?
The mask fibers are 1,000 times thicker than the virus cross section. Assuming a really tight weave of gaps between fibers being one-tenth the thickness of the fibers, that means the virus cross section is (100 x 100) 10,000 times smaller than the holes in the mask. The virus will sail thru the masks, indoor or out. The masks don’t work ANYWHERE.
Why do you want people to die?
-retarded mask-proponent
Are we sure the virus doesn’t always travel encased in globules of mucous? I haven’t seen any mention of this one way or the other in ten months or so.
I don’t care too much anymore. It’s the principle at this point.
They’ve known this whole time. It was theater meant to disrupt the body politic and By God, it worked. Now we have a Kamal-Toe admin and everything is just fine! *cackles*
While your conclusion, that masks don’t work is correct, your reasoning is bogus.
HEPA/ULPA and their equivalents for water all have pore sizes much larger than the particles that they remove. The mechanism is adhesion, not stearic hindrance.
Static charge attraction IIRC
That can make it more efficient, but when they get really small even Van Der Waals work.
One night coming off a colossal acid-high, we sat back and watched a repeat of “Quincy” wherein we noticed that Jack Klugman was always getting skirt. One of my buddies pipes up from the floor – “Heh! Quincy, Super-stud Coroner!” Oh how we laughed…
That show was decent. The Odd Couple was meh. Klugman was solid in “Twelve Angry Men”. In fact, the entire cast was solid.
That was when we started making the necrophilia jokes…
The autopsy room was busy last night. It was open Mike night.
Quincy Punk Episode.
HA! While reading and ogling illicit Playboys in the late 70s I came across an article about that episode. Actually read it, and that is what turned me on to punk. Well, that and X.
“Instead of writing the accusatory ‘You bitch’ as the government falsely states, it only says ‘biatd’ and without the word ‘you,’” McBride explained in a footnote. “On information and belief, the ‘d’ was meant to be two letters, ‘c’ and ‘h’ with the ‘c’ connected to an ‘h’ to spell the word ‘biatch’ which is slang and a less offensive word for ‘bitch.’”
I fail to see the relevance.
Exactly, he could have called her a feckless cunte and it matters not at all, because free speech.
Except now we are a banana republic so all bets are off.
I’m a free speech absolutist. When they cut my guts out and throw them in the fire I’ll call “Fweedom!”
One is more threatening in tone, while the other is smart-assy, to put it in legal terms.
Smart.
Every home should have a 1919 Browning.
This is gonna be insane.
I know. It’s great. *grabs popcorn*
It’s going to be a laugh riot when we get to call all the lefties who bitch about Jenner transphobes.
“You’re just Transphobic, don’t lie!”
Sloopy nailed top 3 in baseball birthdays. #4 is active player Corey Seager, who has a chance at catching Carpenter for the #3 spot, but won’t sniff the HoFers in the top 2.
Yesterday, I stopped by the local library. The girl at the counter, who was probably in her twenties, freaked out because I wasn’t wearing mask.
This is your future, America.
“I weep for the future.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EbwyMd3smGk
I wish I’d known that lovely now closed restaurant was in LA; I would have gone, if only once.
I loathed that flick aside from Mia Sara.
Truer words never spoken.
I thought I knew you! *sobs soggily*
Cameron is the actual protagonist IMO.
I’ve known a girl for two-three months and she didn’t un-mask until I asked her to. This was outdoors and social distancing was adhered to. What have they done to us?
Kentucky and Tennessee were amazingly mask-free, probably 75%. The only stores that said “masks are mandatory” were nationwide stores (e.g., Love’s). Most of the clerks weren’t wearing masks. North Carolina was a little more stringent once you got close to Charlotte. Illinois, by contrast, was a boot on the neck, and Missouri is ostensibly masked, but even here I saw 50% maskless.
Fun probably-not-fact: Most of the people not wearing masks were old. I’m starting to wonder if not wearing a mask == “I got the vaccine.”
Both my brothers (younger than I) were very unwilling to take their masks off and were in the “just because I got my vaccine doesn’t mean I shouldn’t wear a mask.” One brother complained that half his flight was bitching about having to wear masks, which earned his scorn.
So, yeah. The younguns are driving the mask train. I don’t even think they care about the ostensible reason. It’s just what you do now and if you don’t, you’re a Trump cultist who keeps screaming about your rights as if you deserve to have any.
Yep, branch covidianism is the afterbirth of TDS.
Likely because the young ones are unable to think for themselves because they have been indoctrinated to just accept what they are told by an authority and to blindly obey.
Welcome back!
Thanks! Glad to be home.
I think some people actually like wearing the mask. I’m not talking about virtue signaling or virus prevention. They like the anonymity.
I can see that and I will admit I don’t mind that myself, when I can be arsed to wear a mask.
The novelty of a legally concealed handgun plus legally concealed identity has long worn out.
“Check this out”
*Unzips*
You should take that up with your doctor. Gangrene can be dangerous.
Locally-owned businesses in NH outside of municipalities with mask ordinances are slowly dropping masks, even though the governor’s business restrictions which require staff to wear masks are in effect until May 7th.
Many chains have not cared if customers didn’t wear masks, even when the governor’s mask order was in effect.
I shopped at a chain grocery store and the staff do not care that I don’t wear a mask. In fact, some of them went out of their way to be friendly to me. Officially, the chain requires masks unless you have a medical reason to not wear a mask.
Even inside some municipalities with mask ordinances, there are businesses that don’t care or are lax. My gym is one. They insist on a mask when you walk in and out of the gym and that you wear a mask in the gym lobby. Otherwise, they don’t give a shit. I can count on one hand with fingers left over the number of people complying with the city mask ordinance once you get past the lobby. The people complying are of all ages. Oh, and the staff are starting to not wear masks despite the still-existing governor’s business restrictions requiring them to wear masks and the city mask ordinance requiring the same.
The mask is a class thing now. It has zero to do with virus control, and everything to do with signaling that you are on the side of the “good”.
The slug tore through cash, credit cards, pictures of his children and his ID before stopping just short of his health insurance card.
So THIS is how health insurance saves lives!
But feel free to continue risking your life with those silly google phones
I’m pretty sure my Kyocera would stop a bullet.
I have never had the proprietor of my Samsung or LG phone see fit to lecture me regarding my incorrect politics. The Korean oligarchs are decidedly un-woke.
My old Sony equipment keeps pushing me to bomb Pearl Harbor.
I chuckled.
And don’t get me started on my Mitsubishi… it keeps trying to get me to return to the Kido Butai
I see Zero reason not to.
Val and Kate already did so.
Well, at least they’ll meet you midway.
They better not Leyte me down.
They won’t — but you need to bring your own Truk.
They should go strait to Surigao.
And they will, well after they wake. I hear they set an alarm for ten-go figure.
It better work or I am going to send the strait out the Corregidor.
Tard Tuesday: True Believer
Jesus dude be careful mainlining stupid like that.
I snort it.
Which is probably why I have a nasal infection right now.
Ugh. Hello green.
never going to speak out against the Big Lie.
Except it is Dems that are engaged in several Big Lies.
supporting an insurrection against our country.
I am sure the irony is lost on this person.
When they show you who they are, believe them.
Oh, I definitely believe leftists are honest with their intentions when they promote unlimited government and the end to civil rights.
Yeah, it’s all projection on the left, with an astounding lack of self-awareness.
“When they show you who they are, believe them.”
Listen, the mating cry of the Neurotic Reddit Lefty!
“BigLie!BigLie!BigLie!”
it was one in a string of shootings of Black men by white police officers.
*rolls eyes*
Are we sure the virus doesn’t always travel encased in globules of mucous? I haven’t seen any mention of this one way or the other in ten months or so.
That was out there for a while, as a shoutdown to anyone who questioned masks’ effectiveness by saying the mask vs the virus is about as effective as a chain link fence against bird shot.
You know- “Shut up, they explained.” I haven’t seen it lately. They switched to double masking, because the virus can’t generate enough cornering Gs to weave through the second mask.
I heard the super scary Timbuktu variant has an upgraded suspension.
And the Timbuk-3 variant has UV resistance.
^seen
The iPhone vs android debate is over.
Does anyone have experience with Pine Phones? The idea of dumping Android and IOS it tempting, but only if the phone actually works with the major carriers, etc.
I have a sinking suspicion I forgot what I once knew.
I have a Pine Phone. It’s nowhere near ready for consumer use.
So, you’re saying they need to spruce it up a little?
Norway are you gonna pun this one.
Exactly, he could have called her a feckless cunte and it matters not at all, because free speech.
Except now we are a banana republic so all bets are off.
But Sacred Temple of Democracy! High Holy Priestess!
That whole Sacred Temple of Democracy business really cracks me up. This is the People’s House, and if you lowly mouthbreathers dare to defile it we will come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Here’s an idea I know they won’t contemplate: Why do they hate you so much?
Dinner and a show!
Poor little boy witnessing that.
That’s just teaching the young how to behave when they grow up…
I really don’t like my state’s Attorney General.
Legal cover for tyrannical colleges
Somehow, in an administration with Coonman as governor and an accused rapist as lt gov, Mark Herring remains the most odious of them all. It’s quite an impressive feat, really.
I think he has a genetic advantage in that category.
But AG Blackface fits in nicely with Governor Blackface and LG MeToo.
because the higher wage would raise productivity and lower other costs such as supervisory and training expenses, the official said.
Do they really believe this crap? Or are they just lying to cover for their preferred policies. I mean, even if I don’t say anything, I at least acknowledge to myself when someone on “my side” is saying something I think is utter nonsense. But, this? This is just stupid. I’m inclined to think they just pull some entry-level idiot and tell her, “So, calculate what the budget effect would be if you assumed raising the wage would create a 20% productivity increase.” And voila, you’ve got an “analysis” that shows it pays for itself.
People don’t magically become smarter or more productive if you raise their wage above market levels.
The people who don’t become unemployed as a result of that, because they are smarter or more productive, will be smarter or more productive.
Effect, not cause.
Of course, you’re absolutely right. And pretty much anyone with an ounce of sense understands exactly what you’re saying. That’s what I don’t really get. This stuff is so ridiculous that it sounds like stuff we heard from Baghdad Bob back in the day.
“Do they really believe this crap?”
Does that matter? They are going with “repeat a lie enough times and the morons will start believing it”.. See RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! bullshit of the last 5 years…
I got competition! There is a lot of truth in this guy’s preaching, unfortunately it is wrapped up in a lot of crazy too. His saving grace is that the journalo’s reporting has the same mixture of truth/crazy. Only difference is in the deity being worshipped.
Part of the problem with not being in the herd is that it groups you with a bunch of nutjobs too.
Unity, healing, etc.
A reporter pointed out that Biden hasn’t met with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and asked what that says about “unity,” especially in the context of Biden’s support for H.R. 1, court-packing, and other items on the Democrats’ agenda that conflict with unity.
“There’s a lot of folks—you talk about tens of millions of people—they’re concerned that this doesn’t seem like unity at all,” the reporter said.
“Do you think tens of millions of people are concerned about him not meeting with Kevin McCarthy?” Psaki asked, being deliberately obtuse.
“No, I think tens of millions of people are concerned about H.R. 1, and budget reconciliation, and [eliminating the filibuster]—”
“I’m not sure that polling bears that out,” Psaki claimed. “But I will say that the president’s view is that bringing the country together is bringing the American people together. So, when I say he’s, uhh, focused on bringing people together, bringing Democrats and Republicans together, he’s not talking about solving bipartisanship in this zip code.”
I really despise this souless cunte. But she is so hawt.
Or any zip code. If only people would stop resisting and surrender. Then we can be unified. One nation, one government, one leader.
The original was “one nation, one people, one Fuhrer (leader)”, yeah?
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer, so people, empire, leader
Oh? I find her very plain, with stringy overdyed hair. “Lost in space without conditioner.”
“But she is so hawt.”
Look man, if I’m going to lust after the mouthpiece of a tyrannical regime, it’s going to be Natalia Poklonskaya.
I could stand to be oppressed by her.
CROSS EXAMINE ME HARDCORE, BABE!
Oh she would. She’d throw your ass in a gulag for defaming the Orthodox Church.
But she is so hawt.
Please tell me you’re joking. She’s middling, at best,. Remember, her predecessor is Kayleigh.
Dark-eyed red-heads kinda push many of my buttons. Ask teenaged Festus about this. Just as problematic, though.
Hot? Psaki is a DC 3. At best.
So a deployment 7, then?
I hate to admit *anything* good about DC, but Capitol Hill women tend towards the attractive. There’s a severely limited pool of available straight men in DC, so the ladies tend to spend a lot of time at the gym, the med spa, and the cosmetic surgery.
And that’s a West Coast 1!
Keep in mind, also, that what you see has been primped and polished for the cameras. I’m thinking in normal settings, maybe not even a second glance. Certainly not a third.
Even the New York Times is now opposing the Democrats push to raise the SALT cap. They actually support eliminating the deduction.
I don’t know how to feel about this, given my opinion of the times and the tax deduction.
There is no legitimate reason why a NYer should pay less in Fed tax than a Floridian.
It really is this simple.
Paying taxes on money that you never got because it was taxed for seems like bullshit to me, and an absolutely legitimate reason for having the deduction.
Not sure how you go about paying your property taxes, but the money is in my hands before it has to go out to avoid them stealing my home.
I guess I’m coming from a different frame, sense the largest part of my money gets taken in state Income tax (5% flat rate, no deductions), so I’m thinking of it in the sense of being taxed on my Gross income twice, despite it being filtered down to me through their thieving hands.
I assume leon was talking about state (maybe city as well) income tax.
I rather think he has a point, but I live in one of the high SALT states, so I’m probably biased. And it isn’t like I can vote clear of the insanity — Sacramento is pretty clear they don’t have to care what people think these days.
The answer is simple, take away the power of any entity to tax
income.Are you asking for a Federal deduction on your state income tax return?
States are Sovereign and the constituent members of the Federal Government, it is appropriate that the Fed Gov yields in this situation to the states.
And therefore the federal government should be funded from the state treasuries, not the other way around.
The Progressive Era flipped the system upside down and is the root of our current situation where states have become almost irrelevant.
I’ve thought of that as a solution to this. Fed Gov can only be funded by a levy from the states, who then have the choice to raise taxes or limit their own programs. Citizens are only taxed by their state.
It would abandon some notion of sovereignty on the parts of the states, but i think it could lead to more independence elsewhere, so it might be a wash on that front.
In a spherical cow world, Leon would be correct. But, we don’t live in that world, and it is really an excuse for Blue states to ram all sorts of shit down our throats and not pay for it.
Paying taxes on money that you never got because it was taxed
Its still gross income. Deductions are just an open door for political gamesmanship. I don’t think any taxes should be deductible on any return, myself. The SALT cap “costs” me a fair amount of money, and I’m not pushing for it to be raised or eliminated. I don’t see any reason why the residents of states that have chosen to impose high taxes should pay lower federal taxes. If they want their taxes lowered, they should try pushing for, wait for it, lower taxes.
That’s been my position. Get rid of state and local tax deductions on federal income tax altogether.
That deduction was put in place in order to incentivize the passage of the federal income tax in the first place.
Add in mortgage and charitable deductions.
They’ll do whatever they want. Not gonna play the game of “It should be this way!”. No reason to signal my impotence.
It’s Too Late.
Just don’t hire the ‘tards that fucked up the last season of GoT.
The House of the Dragon is finally under construction.
HBO has revealed that the straight-to-series Game of Thrones prequel from George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, is now in production and will launch in 2022. …
Based on Martin’s Fire & Blood, the series, which is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, tells the story of House Targaryen. Considine plays King Viserys Targaryen, Cooke stars as Alicent Hightower, D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen and Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon, known as the Sea Snake, who becomes Hand to Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons.
If they stick to the source material from Martin it should be okay. GoT started going off the rails once the showrunners ran out of source material.
So, the series will only be wrapped up in thirty years after a dozen delays and hiatuses?
You’d think they do something like an Egg and Dunk series, which would lend itself to an episodic format.
Heh…
Sharyl Attkisson
@SharylAttkisson
Maybe NYT is dropping “op-ed” because so many of its news stories have become full of their reporters’ unattributed opinions.
Would.
Heal the planet, Joe
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Monday it is preparing to restore California’s right to set its own vehicle emissions standards, in a widely anticipated reversal of Trump-era policies.
The decision, which will take several months to be finalized, reaffirms the Golden State’s powerful position as an environmental regulator after the Trump administration had in 2019 sought to remove California’s powers to set its own emissions standards.
It also sets the stage for negotiations over how strict federal vehicle standards will be under President Biden.
“I am a firm believer in California’s long-standing statutory authority to lead,” EPA administration Michael Regan said in a statement.
“The 2019 decision to revoke the state’s waiver to enforce its greenhouse gas pollution standards for cars and trucks was legally dubious and an attack on the public’s health and wellbeing,” he added.
Take that, Cartoon Villain!
The vitriol and vengeance seeking since November have been a sight to behold. It’s like the Dems took their marching orders from Conan The Movie.
Maybe the GOP will take the opprotunity to learn that its ok to reverse everything the Dems do when they have power?
:snicker:
They can try — but as long as there is one judge in Hawaii… or the bureaucracy disagrees….
TFG and a few others tried.
Yeah when the bureaucracy has deemed bills/EOs from one party are written in stone and the others are made in invisible ink, it really doesn’t matter.
Take your meds.
Pam Keith, Esq.
@PamKeithFL
TFG was an illegitimate POTUS. He asked for and received help from an enemy of the United States, to obtain the office & abused it while he held it.
Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett are illegitimate.
Our census count is illegitimate.
Governors Kemp and DeSantis are
It’s Twitter… I could find more sane takes in the local loony bin.
Avatar checks out! I’ve actually spent time in the loony bin. Most of the people in there are just worried sick. Some are really badly off and shouldn’t be wandering down the thoroughfare without supervision but 90% were just anxious, depressed or a combination of the two. Most of us didn’t need to be there in the first place. The “Talking Cure” is a bunch of horseshit.
TFG?
This lady is a lawyer? Poor Florida.
She was a Dem congressional candidate, who blessedly lost.
This is the woman who recorded her videos in front of a bookcase-graphics shower curtain, so it looked as if she were in a home library.
^Nice catch!
Here’s the story in case anyone missed it
We’re in hell.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/opinion/trumps-dreaded-nickname.html
I’ve got to say I loved it when Joe Biden described Donald Trump as “the former guy.”
Surely only because he has advanced CRS.
Hahahah – when the batshit insane recognize you for what you are!
They totally prove they aren’t in a cult by attacking her for saying they are in a cult.
Morning glibs. Don’t mind me, i’m just going to drop this off for you.
The EPA has now started the process of reversing Trump’s decision. The Department of Transportation last week also proposed to “wipe clean the regulatory slate,” indicating that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would no longer seek to block state emissions standards, as it had under Trump.
It’s still not clear what federal regulations on vehicle emissions and fuel economy will be under the Biden administration. Some environmental groups and progressive lawmakers are pushing for the reinstatement of the Obama-era standards, with more ambitious targets to follow.
They will not be satisfied until the internal combustion engine has ceased to exist.
Zero Emissions or bust!
I was just telling my kid about how I’d listen to Casey Kasem doing America’s Top 40 every Saturday when I was a kid. Besides vinyl and tapes, we couldn’t just listen to our music on demand. There is still a station around here that plays AT40 flashbacks on weekends, those are fun.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rV7WF5VVwuo
I never heard that. I love him even more now.
Plus he was and the only Shaggy.
How does Spotify work for you guys? I’ve got unlimited data but Youtube doesn’t work at one of my sites.
I like Pandora. It’s easy to train and I’m still on the free version. I can deal with a few commercials, I grew up on AT40.
Thanks! I heard the free version comes with ads but I can live with that.
If you’ve ever listened to the radio, you are used to ads. It’s not that bad.
Turns out that I just got Kevined. We’re already signed up for Amazon. Judi set me up and now I go feel the shame.
And now, on with the countdown.
The outtake of Casey Kasem going on a profane tirade when he was angry at his producer remains one of the funniest things I’ve ever stumbled across online.
TFG was an illegitimate POTUS.
Who the devil is “TFG”?
The False God? Seems to be religious fervor, so it would fit…
“Terrible Fucking Guy”?
The fat grifter?
Trump Fer Grump? Nah they don’t even like to say his name. That Fucking Guy?
False dichotomy is false.
Going back to the Second Amendment case the Supreme Court granted today, Democrats now have a clear choice between two concrete options: Allow SCOTUS to knock down state and local restrictions on concealed public carry in the midst of endless mass shootings, or expand the court.
We could just respect the constitutional limitations on the government.
Lol, they really want a no shit insurrection, dont they?
What do these idiots think will happen 5 minutes after they pack the court in order to squash the 2nd amendment? I’ll give you a hint, in rhymes with schmoogahoo.
That’s the thing I keep wondering about. I really don’t see the end game with these lunatics. I’d think at least some of them would have the sense to realize they don’t have a mandate for the sort of nonsense they’re pushing. And, increasingly, their entire playbook seems to be “throw out all the rules to get that last bit of extra policy we want”. Even in the “Era of HopenChange”, where they actually did have broad popular support, they weren’t running headlong into the abyss this way. Either they know something the rest of us don’t (e.g. that the republic is done) or they really are trying to invite some sort of confrontation.
I’m guessing there are 4 or 5 groups involved. The useful idiots (people who can’t think 2 steps ahead), the echo chamber (people who think they represent 90% of the country), the “won’t happen here” types, the zealots, and the people who actually want conflict.
They ones who think the republic is done are correct. Under Obama they had to at least consider that they would be punished by the voters, but now they know they can use bullshit “emergencies” to game the elections, and use political prosecutions to crush any who might think of resisting.
There will be no schmoogahoo. Covid proved that, the unconstitutional restrictions were a test to see what could be gotten away with, and the American public mostly just rolled over and took it. Same thing will happen if they gut what’s left of the 2nd amendment.
I waver between your opinion and a last bit of hope that theyre going to be stupid enough to go all one-fell-swoop tyrant on the 2A and that the 2A folks are not going to take it laying down.
I think it’ll be both. People out here in rural bumfuck VA didn’t take the Covid restrictions lying down. The general store by me doesn’t have any mask signage, despite being mandated, and no employees wear a mask. A health inspector would be lucky to make it home if anything was said. There would be a bloodbath if the Feds tried to start confiscating guns door to door here.
The cities will further their devolution into dystopian hellholes. Best case will be a clean break between sides. IRA style division and warfare between urban and rural seem most likely. If some states refuse to knuckle under to the Feds, then another civil war seems to be on the horizon. That’s a big if though.
Well the Feds threatening to shutter out states that comply with their view on the 2nd Amendment might be the push. I know other initiatives have been done with these threats, but this one seems to have some very solid redlines that people adhere to, including state governments.
Dystopian Hellhole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKKEX1uR-k
Hey at least we are sending billions around the world. That is just fucking sad to watch.
Good gravy. They can sure play Statues. Meerkat at the beginning is the most animated of them.
Brutal. Thanks a lot.
Violent revolutions don’t happen among the physically and economically comfortable. We’re not there yet, but we’re well on the way.
Surprisingly, policies are being enacted to target those two things specifically.
“It is usually those whose poverty is relatively recent, the “new poor,” who throb with the ferment of frustration. The memory of better things is as fire in their veins. They are the disinherited and dispossessed who respond to every rising mass movement.” = Hoffer
Yup. And that is what makes me nervous. We’re gonna have a bunch of new poor on our hands soon, and they’re going to have radically competing ideas of who made them that way…
There is a process to amend the Constitution as well.
If you were serious, you’d be putting in the work to convince people that the 2A needs to be eliminated and revised.
I doubt (I am also pretty sure they do as well) that they could actually convince enough people to give up their rights to make that work. Which is why they are using un-democratic means to take away freedoms.
It isn’t undemocratic, the Democrats are doing it, its implies democracy right in the name! /DU, MoveOn, Politico, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, NPR, FedGov; they all can’t be wrong!
There is a process to amend the Constitution as well.
Well, there’s two. One involves states ratifying a new addition to the text of the Constitution.
The other involves the Supreme Court.
You are more despicable than SugarFree.
Hey, I just calls ’em like I sees ’em.
Fun probably-not-fact: Most of the people not wearing masks were old.
That has been my observation, from the beginning, as well.
It’s almost as if old people have gained a sense of perspective on life and risk.
Ding ding. Far and away, you see more broken Branch Covidians under age, say, 30 or so.
Following these guidelines is child abuse.
CDC summer camp guidance calls for masks outdoors for kids over 2 years old & also vaccinated adults. Only exceptions are eating, drinking, and swimming. Gonna be especially brutal with the humidity. Why are we torturing children for no good reason?
Fun and profit?
Those aren’t good reasons?
Cold abuse. The fun part of parenting.
*Child
Stupid fat fingers
Why are we torturing children for no good reason?
Because the New Soviet Man doesn’t create himself.
Teach them who the boss is early.
No carve out for sex, eh? At least the boys won’t have to use paper bags anymore.
So they say you can unmask outside except summer camps?
FTFY. I can’t the wear the thing for more than ten minutes without it getting disgustingly damp and uncomfortable.
Remember a month or so ago when I posted something about a coworkers daughter who found a live bat in the bag of carrots she bought at CostCo? (she did).
I have a follow up. The daughter is studying marketing and has backed her way into helping a local back doctor work on their social media accounts and advertising. Recently they asked to use her picture on some billboards and she said sure. The billboards recently went up and they are interesting.
If you look in the upper left corner of the pic you see the silhouette of a bat. Why? Because her coworkers have been calling her “batgirl” since her encounter with the carrot bat. They added it to each of the three billboards that she is appearing on. She thinks it is hilarious. So maybe there is hope for the youngsters, some of them can still laugh at themselves.
I’m sharing so if you are driving through Minnesoda and want to show off to your passengers, you can point out the bat and tell them the story of how that got there.
Hmm…
I EAT CARROTS!
I STUDY MARKETING!
I… AM… BATGIRL!
just doesn’t have quite the same ring. 😉 More seriously, good story, sir.
Original story
Hawt! I hope that you avert your eyes every time you pass that billboard.
She’s a step daughter so I can unleash the Male Gaze with impunity!
She needs to show more spine.
I hope the “Got Milk?” people don’t come after them for copyright infringement.
“The iPhone vs android debate is over. But feel free to continue risking your life with those silly google phones, people. But you’ve been warned.”
Pshhh the Nokia 3310 would have stopped the bullet and fired it back.
Even the New York Times is now opposing the Democrats push to raise the SALT cap. They actually support eliminating the deduction.
I haven’t (and won’t) read that.
But I think it’s time we all just admit the tax code has nothing whatsoever to do with funding the government. It is exclusively a means of social engineering.
Exactly. MMT has become the economic theory of Government, and taxing is just used as a means to destroy political enemies. Look at the way the IRS is sicced on anyone who becomes known to oppose the establishment.
Guess what? Mandatory vaccination works!
https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/2021-04-27/travailleurs-de-la-sante/la-vaccination-obligatoire-fonctionne.php (It’s in French but Chrome Translation is pretty readable).
”On April 9, the government signed a ministerial order requiring healthcare workers in contact with patients to be vaccinated. Employees unable to provide proof of vaccination are now required to undergo “recurring preventive screening” three times a week.”
Those who refuse are assigned to tasks where they are not in contact with patients. And if their establishment is unable to find them this kind of employment, they are suspended without pay.”
– Quebec : ”Get stabbed, thru the arm or thru the nose, or get lost.”
Quebec is the province with the most COVID related deaths per 100k in Canada. Double the country’s average (127 vs 63 , Manitoba, 2nd, is at 70) . Because of a shortage of personnel, different establishments were (probably still are) sharing the same staff, thus spreading the virus like butter all across the long-term care facilities.
– Quebec again : ”Why you no want to work in my healthcare system?”
Hahahah – when the batshit insane recognize you for what you are!
She might be crazy, but she’s not wrong.
So, I tried listening to the podcast over at TOS last night. Honestly, listening made me remember how I came to the conclusion that the staff was only marginally libertarian. They actually referenced the idea of stupid laws you should accept (I’m paraphrasing, but catching the drift of it) with regard to mask mandates. The thing that really stands out, though, is that they’re not nearly as bright as they seemed. I see much more intelligent conversation here than I was listening to.
The only difference between the current staff (with an exception or two) and Dave Weigel is one of degree
We’re exactly as bright as we seem. (Not sure how to take that).
None of us are as dumb as all of us
Stolen.
so many options
COVID-appropriate
and a forever-classic
This one seems appropriate.
FINALLY! We no longer have to suffer a world in which there are no bearded woman emojis.
I know I’ll be sleeping easier tonight.
Apple doesn’t see how that is going to be used in ironic ways?
Looks more like they found Jesus to me….
But still no gingers.
Problematic anagram dude.
What, snigger?
No, there’s a black “dude”.
Gingers aren’t people.
Straf’s retirement plan in legal jeopardy
A Japanese man has been arrested after reportedly dating more than 35 women at the same time.
Takashi Miyagawa, a part-time worker, is being investigated for allegedly defrauding dozens of women by pretending he was serious about each of their relationships and receiving hundreds of pounds worth of gifts from them.
Among the claims is that he gave each woman a different date for his birthday, ensuring a constant stream of gifts throughout the year.
Tell me about. Emptied my savings to make him happy on his B day.
I see the big push to rid the world of beef is on. Not dairy though, those are different cows.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/04/26/epicurious-is-getting-roasted-big-time-for-their-announcement-about-beef-n369552
Not gonna happen.
What kills me about the argument that it takes X times more land to raise beef on than crops is that they don’t raise cattle on prime cropland. Cattle are raised on marginal land where you let them graze.
A great example is western NoDak. I go hunting in the badlands and it is open range country so you always have to be on the lookout for cattle. They wander around grazing the sides of buttes and down in the steep draws. No farmer could raise any crops on the land they are grazing.
5 miles away where the badlands turn into flat farmland, the people are all busy growing wheat, beans and corn.
My guess is that if you were able to outlaw beef production in the country, there would be very little additional land put into growing crops.
It will be used to cover the earth in solar panels once they rid the world of those evil cows.
National Parks
I never see any mention of the 60 million bison that used to roam the United States. Mass for mass, seems roughly equivalent to the current population of cattle.
Regardless though, I imagine the same people who want to rid the world of beef are also the most vocal about the tragedy of nearly driving the American bison to extinction.
Excellent point
Ministry of Truth.
Foreign Malign Influence Center – do the kids in the intel community even know how to define malign?
Sure they do – it’s when other countries do to us what we do to them. That just isn’t allowed, right?
Not that our intelligence agencies have been involved in any domestic disinformation in any way, shape, or form.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-learning-they-spread
Yep its the “NYT confirms blah blah based on Politico’s expose that blah blah blah” They have created it and the general population still believes it.
Cripes. That story is depressing. Just not for the reasons Politico might want you to think. Look at just the first paragraph:
Am I the only one finding this stuff reminiscent of Cold War stuff you used to see from the Iron Curtain that we were shown to illustrate how blatantly propagandistic their media was? How long until they start referencing “running dogs”?
I see the big push to rid the world of beef is on. Not dairy though, those are different cows.
Fake news. Lies and calumnies by the vast right wing smear machine.
Good news – the beef ration has been increased!
Our ancestors would weep if they could see how far we’ve strayed from our country’s agrarian roots.
I spit out my coffee when I saw that photo. Thanks your holiness.
Did you follow the link to the story about 3D printing T-rex arms for chickens?
I weep in laughter for our society
Don’t worry, we’re about to be reset to sub-subsistenece agriculture soon enough.
Ummmmmmm…. Wut?
Our wealth is our undoing.
Answers the age old joke once and for all.
That humans really are just a hair’s width away from being apes still?
Why would you insult apes like that?
I will never apologize!
From the sidebar: I found this funny as hell.
Heh. People don’t want to recognize that hunters (of all cultures) are probably more in-tune with Earth than anyone and strive to live sustainably off the land in all aspects.
These people should be made to watch Pink Flamingos on endless repeat.
Twitter thread explaining why the 12 teams wanted to form the ESL, especially the Spanish and Italian clubs:
https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1386562133702414337
Decent breakdown of financials, and how they are desperate for “consistent” money because they can’t spend within their means.
Like drunken sailors discovering cocaine.
Too busy to dive into that now but I have a feeling that eye-opening player salaries might figure into their problems.
Spend within your means, guys – it ain’t that hard.
Beckham transferred to Real Madrid for 35M Euros – back when that was an astonishing sum.
It’s like baseball salaries – stupid money for marginal players.
Another thought. Like all crazes that are really just marketing schemes like ‘gluten-free’, ‘sugar-free’, ‘fat-free’, I see the new one is ‘plant-based’ everything. Soap? Plant-based. Meat? Plant-based. Vitamins? Plant-based.
And the masses gobble this shit up. I always wondered what life was like in the height of the great civilizations just before their fall and now I can stop wondering.
And the masses gobble this shit up.
CNN: Our bullshit red meat “stories” for progressives is now plant-based!
*golf claps* and quite literal LOL
Judi has found her way into it. Do you realize how expensive that non-food is? How much of what I like to eat gets thrown out?
No but I have a feeling I will find out soon enough when they price meat out of the reach of everyone.
Her daughter managed to drop some poundage on the diet. Now she has to follow the regimen? Our fridge looks like something from a prepper’s nightmare. I can’t eat all of this food. Nobody can eat all of this food.
Freezer full?
stuffed.
Like a
turkeyplant-based gelatinous blob of ‘meat’?Two freezers.
Sorry dude.
She sounds too young to hoard food (wife, not stepdaughter).
Totally vegan? If so, watch out for malnourishment, especially in Daughter. Low carb works better anyway IME.
I guess one could do both; many avocados.
I think there’s a place for “sugar-free” and I bet one or more of the other clowns here would agree. ?
The problem arises when what is medically necessary for one group becomes a fad for another.
Better put than what I said.
Well. My understanding is that at least lowering one’s sugar input would be good for everyone.
So it’s a little of both (fad & good practice).
Once when I meant to buy sugar-free cough drops, I accidentally got the regular sugary ones because they were marked “gluten-free.”
Gluten free waves hello!
I love seeing non-food products advertised as ‘gluten free’.
In the late 90’s, in the run up to the Y2K panic, I was working retail selling computers and electronics. We got a new batch of printers in from Epson, all of which proudly had Y2K compliant printed all over the box. The next time the rep came in, we all gave him shit for that. He shrugged, and said he had no input on it.
Yeah or the brief period of “Windows 8 Compatible” on hardware for that very short lived MS experience.
There’s a commercial in heavy rotation lately touting “organic cotton sheets”. ?
The Karens are getting ever more aggressive.
https://twitter.com/guccilibertaria/status/1387044928744681477
She’s a real catch for some dude out there.
Some pojama boy will gladly don the collar…
Allowing every Tom, Dick and Karen a platform to push their insane inner thoughts will continue on until they are left begging for their lives against a wall wondering why they aren’t spared once their usefulness is outlived. Sadly, I think we are getting a generation or two of this.
The people whose opinions and morals and thoughtfulness I’ve most respected have ditched social media. All of them. The people who, no matter their raw intelligence, were good for a hot take are all looking around wondering why their thoughtful friends are leaving the socials. Actually, more than a couple of the hot takers work for the socials, so they’re really unable to quit it.
Agreed. Nothing to add to that, just agreed.
As usual, I came late to the party and am trying to start fights. Twitter forever!
Straff is tequila.
She needs to become suddenly bruised.
She enjoys her insulated and protected bubble that will all gang up on anyone that does a deep dive on her life and I would wager, she is not the squeaky clean butthole she is trying to come off as.
I’d be afeared but I don’t give fuck.
Yep its the “NYT confirms blah blah based on Politico’s expose that blah blah blah” They have created it and the general population still believes it.
It’s the
humanjournalist centipede.Speaking of the Social Engineering Code
A large swath of American households may pay nothing in income taxes for 2021, a new congressional report suggests.
Taxpayers with income of less than $75,000 are projected to have, on average, no tax liability after deductions and credits when they file their 2021 returns next spring. They will also will get money back from the IRS, according to recent estimates from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
For taxpayers earning between $75,000 and $100,000, the average income tax rate paid this year is expected to be just 1.8%.
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday with some other schlub’s money for a hamburger today.
Congrats on hubby’s return, HS!
Oops, ambiguously worded at best.
Jeez louise — no wonder the Free Stuff Brigade seems to be growing. Whirrrrrrrr……
PSA: Oberto bacon jerky is great. A little spendy, but so is most decent jerky.
Meh, just make your own or find some local folks that make it.
I’m listening.
Either be really good at slicing really thin on your meat cuts or get a tool that assists in it, gather a recipe (salt is the key component here to preserve) or make one up on your own, and dehydrate it. You can use your oven set at 175 or get a dedicated dehydrator.
You can also smoke the meat and go cave-man. Smoke it at 180-200 and then reduce down to 160-175 to dry the meat out. More natural that way but takes longer.
I have seen notes that you should pop in a 275 oven for 10 minutes to kill off any pathogens that reside on the outside of the meat, but I don’t know.
Maybe we can bribe them to stay home
Vice President Kamala Harris announced Monday evening that the US will send an additional $310 million to Central America “for humanitarian relief and to address food insecurity.”
$255 million will go to humanitarian relief and $55 million will go toward addressing food insecurity in the region.
“In light of the dire situation and acute suffering faced by millions of people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, Vice President Harris announced an additional $310 million in U.S. government support,” a fact sheet released by the White House said.
Harris was tapped by President Joe Biden last month to lead Central American efforts against the backdrop of a growing number of migrants, many of whom are from the region, at the US southern border that have stretched the government’s resources.
“Food insecurity” you say? Maybe they just quiero Taco Bell.
Whatever happened to good ol’ “hunger?”
They’re not hungry, just insecure about their dietary choices.
Great, maybe if we export some of our neuroses we won’t have as much of it lying around here.
I went to the store, looked at the price of beef tenderloin and decided to get ribeye that was on sale instead. I’m food insecure according to the definitions.
Mostly eliminated by Capitalism.
Yeah, that $310M will address food insecurity. And by address, mean create. Well, the amount left over after the skimming and grifting.
Virtue. Signaled.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Monday signed a bill banning Native American mascots at most public schools in the state.
The law prohibits schools from using Native American names, symbols, and imagery as mascots, logos, or team names unless a tribal government has approved the proposal.
“This bill will end the disrespectful use of Native American imagery in our public schools,” Inslee, a Democrat, said at a signing ceremony for the bill in Olympia, Washington.
The bill also requests that the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction establish a grant program to assist schools with the potential costs associated with altering names and imagery. The ban takes effect on January 1 of next year, and schools using Native American imagery or names must come up with a new mascot by Dec. 31. As of 2022, affected schools will not be able to purchase uniforms with the old mascot or name.
I fail to see how native names and mascots are disrespectful.
These images are disrespectful and the names are problematic, lets rid them from public view reads more like a slight against those tribes more than anything. Like we don’t want them to be seen or remembered.
In 80 years, this will be seen as evidence of the systemic institutional racism of the current era.
I would have never guessed that “racial equity” meant eliminating images of minorities from the marketplace and public square.
[Note to self: Scrounge around in basement for old Miami Redskins swag to sell on eBay or Craigslist.]
This is gonna suck for the “Seattle” Seahawks.
Amazed that my alma mater HS (CA) hasn’t changed already.
I see the LP is jumping right into the middle of the trans movement and hoping to garner some leftie support.
I would point out that we have laws against child abuse. And “gender affirming” care, despite its innocuous moniker, involves the medical sterilization of youth.
And this is the same party that opposes conversion therapy.
“Why do politicians and political parties jump into every issue” was screamed as they dove in head first.
And this is the same party that opposes conversion therapy.
Those are icky Jesus folks meddling with the sexuality of kids. This is progressive woke folks meddling with the sexuality with kids. Totally different!
Can you imagine the howling if conversion therapy involved cutting off the balls of children?
The problem is and remains that whenever the mainstream libertarians get involved, it is almost always aligned with the left.
The Texas bill did not come out of nowhere. It is heavy-handed and may go too far the other way, but it isn’t the first shot. The father of a 7-year-old biological boy was forced to conform to the “trans identity” of the child despite strong evidence that the mother was the driving factor. If the LP weighed in at all, no doubt it was in favor of the mother.
I will note that, on appeal, the father did not get shafted. However, this doesn’t establish precedent because family courts don’t work that way (to my understanding, at least).
Help! I am being oppressed by people making decisions regarding their own lives that I don’t like!
More reasons why i don’t call myself libertarian anymore.
There are some hard issues, from a libertarian perspective, posed by the trans “movement”, especially around conversion therapy for minors. It presents another conflict between state authority and parental authority.
Count on cocktail party libertarians to completely miss the boat. Again.
I’d be happier if they missed the boat. Instead, they punctually hop on the boat going the other way.
We don’t allow parents to remove the limbs of their children so they look more like tyrannosaurus rex. I don’t see why we should allow them sterilize them with hormone treatments or surgically remove their genitals.
When I was 17 and asked my doc to tie up the ol’ baby batter maker he said no that it would be unethical because I was so young. My have times changed.
The hormone treatment horse left the barn decades ago. Children being heavily medicated with known (if often ignored) side effects ain’t exactly new.
But, assuming the question is just one of the consent of the child (it’s not but that’s how it’s being portrayed), if a prepubescent child can give informed and knowing consent to puberty blockers, what is the point of the minor/adult distinction anymore?
Minors can now give consent to abortion, birth control pills, and everything to do with pregnancy and delivery. Puberty blockers isn’t that much of a stretch.
Allowing the government to control what medical treatments parents are permitted to get for their kids is something that needs a strong and definite bright line. Not saying one can’t be drawn, but historically there was pretty much a government-free zone there. The battle was first joined over, of course, abortion (leading to the bizarre situation where a 13 year old can consent to everything during pregnancy and delivery, and then lacks the ability to consent to treatment of her child). There were also skirmishes fought over Christian Scientists refusing to allow blood transfusions for their children (resolved by threatening the parents with child abuse charges and loss of their children).
Be careful, is all. It needs serious thought.
At this point i can’t chalk it up to “Missing the Boat”. The cocktail party libertarians are completely in the wrong moral boat. They are quibbling amoral quislings at best and intentionally anti-liberty at worst.
“I’m not a member of any organized political party: I’m a Libertarian.” (apologies to Will Rogers)
Those cocktail party invitations are not going to write themselves.
Maybe this time they will finally like us.
From #Metoo to #Metoo?
https://nypost.com/2021/04/26/cuomo-fends-off-sex-accuser-questions-at-in-person-presser/
Floyd was charged by Gerald Goines? Wow, it’s a small world, and, yes, his conviction is dubious if it’s tainted by Goines.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/victoria-taft/2021/04/27/chauvin-medical-defense-witness-is-now-being-investigated-for-wrong-think-n1442689
Sure why not. That should make our justice system more on the up and up.
Just saw that. It takes a lot to shock me these days, but that did the job.
There is not a single institution in this country that isn’t afflicted to some degree by the gangrene of totalitarian leftism.
I’m trying to figure out when this all got so well organized so as to be able to corrode the culture from all directions simultaneously. This didn’t happen overnight. I’m even skeptical that it started during the Obama regime.
When Hollywood realized it can control the culture? I don’t know either.
Hollywood is pretty irrelevant to modern American culture, I believe. Look at the Oscars – they used to be pretty close to must-see TV, and now they are universally ignored, along with the movies that they “recognize”.
Back in the 80s and 90s, nearly every weekend included a movie. At an actual movie theater. Summer blockbusters were a very widely shared thing in society. I can’t remember the last time I went to a theater to watch one.
^The “election fortification” zoom on election night was the big reveal party for anyone who doesn’t have their hands covering their eyes.
I think China is bankrolling. All of this (global warming, the trans movement, Covid lockdowns) are aimed at destabilizing the United States. Very successfully done and at a fraction of the cost of a hot war.
Hah! It was 100 years before Obama. Woods has some great stuff on the progressive era. These fucks have been at it for a long time.
Speed the collapse!
I date it back to the 70s, when the Gramscian March Through the Institutions got underway. We have more than a generation exposed to increasingly intense indoctrination, and they metastasize on graduation throughout society’s institutions. Critical mass was reached sometime in the last, I dunno, 10 – 15 years? The first run at political correctness back in the 80s was laughed off the stage. The current one appears to be gaining momentum, still.
Control of the schools started much earlier than that. The fucking model is for designing compliant workers.
Yet leftism got no real traction until the 60s – 70s. The unions, chock full of those “compliant workers”, were hardcore anti-commie.
I’m amenable to the 100 years ago argument for the general direction of society, but I’m more thinking about the orchestrated assault on polite society from all corners that ramped up in the early 2010s and hit its stride toward the end of BOM’s term. The kind of stuff where a coordinated attack was generated in the press, on social media, in the financial and tech providers for the target, and in the target’s employer or customer base.
The ability to issue talking points and have half of the fortune 500 release statements using those talking points 6 hours later.
Maybe the answer is that we’re reaping what was sown in the 70s or in the 30s, but I think there was a more proximate cause in the early 2000s. I just can’t put my finger on it.
Social media? Never before have we been able to freak out simultaneously around the world.
Social media also got us Trump. It might be an accelerant but isn’t the root cause.
F*$!ing hippies. At least the Commie wing of the Patchouli wearing dirtbags. The ones that had no useful skills so became humanities professors and bred more idiotic ideologues. The current batch of leftist academics have dropped all pretense of actually teaching and are just launching virulent activists at their betters.
I’m not so sure, at least as regards the recent shift. Marxist professors have been around for a long time. Even as late as 2010 people were still getting out of college, getting into “the real world”, and never again caring about Zinn or Chomsky. Indeed, nowadays old school orthodox Marxism (“class, not race”) is passé.
They have replaced “Class” with “Race” the playbook is still the same.
I’m even skeptical that it started during the Obama regime.
Started? No. Got its legs? Definitely. The groundwork had been laid for decades, from the government propping up academia via GI bill, grants, and student loans to the government having indirect control of nearly every industry, whether in the name of fighting unequal opportunity, money laundering, terrorism, or whatever else.
The Obama administration marks the point at which everybody looks around and realizes their faction is already effectively in charge of everything and there’s no point in carrying on “postwar consensus” cultural baggage anymore.
The wording of my first paragraph implies that the government is the prime mover there but that would be incorrect. The government has no coherent objective; it is simply a vehicle. In those cases, that vehicle was used to effect a compliant mentality. Go to school, get a degree, believe the things other people with degrees believe, get a job, work your way into a position of some indirect authority, do the things other people say you ought to do at that job.
Hey look, it’s that fat turd Larry Hogan, so beloved of the DC smart set. How surprising that he’s party to this!
I will say this, while Hogan is a RINO through and through, he’s been better than any Democrat on COVID. That really doesn’t say much but at least we’re not going through lockdown theater again.
In this case, I wonder what he got out of Frosh for this.
Totally not a banana republic.
Should traffic enforcement be transferred from the police to the department of transporation?
I look forward to no longer needing to register my vehicle.