Thank you for your sacrifice.
Thank you, to all the brave men and women who gave their life protecting our country, as well as those protecting others and those who died in stupid interventionist wars. And God bless their families, who have had to endure a pain I can’t even fathom.
Man City didn’t win the UCL, which is good enough for me. I watched 2 periods of a hockey game yesterday because I was too beat to turn the channel. Man, the Avalanche put a beatdown on Vegas. Sadly I missed the third period’s festivities. There were 135,000 fans at Indy to see the 500, which is pretty cool. And the Astros beat the Padres. And that’s sports.
Hot stuff
Poet Walt Whitman was born on this day. He shares it with Pope Pius XI, comedian Fred Allen, actor Don Ameche, actor Denholm Elliott, actor/filmmaker/mayor Clint Eastwood, country singer Johnny Paycheck, overrated quarterback Joe Namath, drummer John Bonham, actor Tom Berenger, hockey goaltender Jim Craig, the lovely, lovely Lea Thompson, outfielder Joe Orsulak, rapper Darryl “DMC” Matthews, model Brooke Shields, outfielder Kenny Lofton, outfielder/manager Dave Roberts, and Irish actor Colin Farrell.
That was an arts-heavy list. But it happens sometimes. Anyway, on to…the links!
Undermining the will of the people
I guess they must hate democracy. Oh wait, they’re Democrats so this will be cheered. But remember, folks: any US Senator who refuses to vote for some idiotic partisan “commission” to find out how a few people trespassed to protest is undermining our entire foundation of government.
Yeah, but they’ll still be allowed to lie to, and entrap, adults. Yes, it’s a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t go far enough. Also, kids should be taught to exercise their right to remain silent in civics classes.
This fat fuck is trolling, right? Sadly, I fear he isn’t. Isn’t trolling, that is. He’s definitely a fat fuck.
Punk rock remains edgy as hell. You know, since towing the government line and licking that boot has always been a punk move. ::SMDH::
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
Wait, you have to have an ID to own a gun? Gee, that seems unconstitutional. Oh yeah, it’s Illinois. The constitution, at least the 2A part of it, doesn’t seem to apply.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Sorry you had to deal with a prank. Now go do your fucking job.
More of that “unforeseen demand as the pandemic ends”, I see. At least that’s what the admin would lead you to believe is the cause for rising gas prices.Well, they don’t want you to believe it. They just want the media to report it that way. Which they will.
Here’s a quality song. Now hit the road and “enjoy the long weekend”.
Have a great day, friends!
“Thank you, to all the brave men and women who gave their life protecting our country, as well as those protecting others and those who died in stupid interventionist wars. And God bless their families, who have had to endure a pain I can’t even fathom.”
+1
They Marched Where Duty Called. Bless them all who gave everything, even those who fought and died for fools (Burnside) and egomaniacs (Custer) and lying syncophants (McNamara).
Good morning glibs, and a hallowed memorial day to you.
Don’t any of you people sleep in?
Whatever happened to Rufus? Did Trudeau’s goon squad finally get him? We should memorialize Rufus. Good ol’ Ruf, with his daycare and Canadianism.
I’ll kick in a couple loonies for a plaque at a selected Tim Horton’s.
This is sleeping in for me. I’m up way earlier on a work day.
I did – for me. See comment above about usual early rising. ::fist bumps Sean::
Nope. Puppy. Maybe by August I’ll be able to.
Pets get me up no matter what
+2 GSPs
Same here.
PHRASING
Probably blew a gasket with all the stupid shit we have to endure up here. Wouldn’t blame him for staying away from any sort of news. I know I’m starting to loose my mind too. Well… starting, pretty much half-way there.
Think about it, if he wants to stay open, he now have to enforce masks AND face shields or safety googles on his employees. AND he will probably soon have to establish a plan to make sure all his staff his double-dosed by September.
Fun times I tell ya.
Clint Eastwood:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb0x9aw
Gorillaz and Audioslave were the only good things coming out of the aughts.
Maybe we should look at causes, instead of symptoms
Acevedo said the incidents are an “indication of the problem we have with the scourge of gun violence in this country” and called for more action at the federal level.
“It’s just an indication of the problem we have with the scourge of gun violence in this country that we need to do much more at a federal level to stop,” Acevedo said.
He said politicians “need to come out of their own corners, the left and the right, and come to the middle, which is where most Americans are,” specifically calling for universal background checks and making burglaries at licensed gun stores federal crimes with mandatory sentencing.
What if we criminalize fearmongering and arbitrary suspension of freedoms by government actors?
He was a scumbag in Houston and he’s a scumbag in Miami. I’m glad he’s gone. Fuck that guy.
Austin doesn’t miss him either. The only thing the guy seems to leave in his wake are questionable police shootings.
Good morning Glibs, from sunny England, where we also have a national holiday today, but for no reason in particular other than historical hubris about the strength of our economy to endure multiple random extra days off, even in times of economic woe. Weeeeeeeee.
You blokes still on lockdown?
Crikey mate we’re still on lockydownies until nearly St. Swithun’sd’y, and all the experts at the Ministry of Good Behaviour are talking of extending it right bloody past into Kingdom come. I should think we’ll be face-blanketed til gawn Michaelmas at this rate. Most peculiar, these new variants!
That sucks.
*Hands limey a Jaffa cake*
Ta.
My buddy from TX was excited to find out what the fuss was about with Jaffa Cakes. When he was over here he bought a box to take home but ate them all the same day.
Jaffa cakes is why I love the Yogscast.
There should be a National “Man City UCL Losers” Day.
I believe I will adopt this nomenclature, at least for this year.
If God is a loving God, it will remain that way forever. And I believe He is.
It’s not as if Chelsea are any better. Ask Anders Frisk about them.
Of course, all the teams that joined the European Super League should have been thrown out of UEFA competitions with immediate effect.
I’m no Chelski fan, but if that’s what it took to keep Man City from holding the cup, so be it.
Dittoes. On any other day I loathe Chelsea.
I don’t watch much football anymore (got sick of the diving and rolling around like they’ve been poleaxed when a slight breeze blows across their face), but I’ve followed Chelsea for nearly 30 years now. They were my local club when I was in England for a semester abroad, and I’ve flown to the UK just to catch a match in the past.
Now, I don’t support anyone receiving death threats, but if there was ever a greater show of a predetermined outcome in a match than Frisk’s calling of that match between Barcelona and Chelsea, I’ve never seen it. Two absolutely blatant handballs, one coming on a free kick that cleared the wall, but was blocked by by the arm of a Barcelona player that was raised above his head. Numerous other calls that went only in one direction. Didier Drogba got it spot on – it was a @#$%ing disgrace.
You mean the rest of the world doesn’t celebrate the sane holiday schedule as set forth by Congress?
: Becomes Neoconservative:
Say hi to Tom Nichols.
Kick him in the nads for, you know, everything.
Shoshana Weissman ain’t so bad, actually. Kick his nads for everything else.
It’s clear that we need to export freedom to the UK.
If it means leveling London I’m all in. Fuckers have been all kinds of cocky since we rescued them from the krauts. That Boris is a real jerk. He gets a little sick with covid and goes all in on the authoritarianism.
Be my guest!
““Adrian’s kickback” speaks to the power of the TikTok social media algorithm, which sent a post about the teen’s birthday far and wide. But it’s also in many ways a sign of the pent-up energy of young people desperate for fun after more than a year of pandemic lockdown.”
I think that’s it. It also explains why the protests last Summer were so big.
+1 “they just need to blow off some steam”
+1 “mostly peaceful”
+1 “living in Trump’s America”
+1 “outrage at the murder of George Floyd”
+1 “social justice”
+1 “Deadly covid is woke so it won’t affect peaceful protestors”
That sort of thing.
On the bright side, when the economy collapses they’ll be plenty busy trying to find something to eat.
And why there is constant drag-racing all over the city. And soaring gang violence.
But sure, let’s keep throwing “aid” at them to make sure they don’t have to go out and find a fucking job.
Apparently dirt bikes on city streets is the most important issue around here. Several cities (Albany, Schenectady, Rochester) have jacked up the fines and the “service charges” (which are triple the fines) so now the penalties for getting you bike back from impound are >$3k.
When I was in Philly two years ago, I just wanted to set up clotheslines to deal with the twats who liked to run their dirt bikes up and down the street with a wide open throttle at 2am.
The same group that was driving the protest/occupation in Albany is demanding that the city build a place for disadvantaged yoots to operate their dirt bikes/ATVs. The city officials that they sent out to comment for the radio didn’t bother to hide their contempt.
LOL… NYC does not return impounded bikes and ATVs.
https://youtu.be/-mmWss91xeY
Good. I’m sick of this shit. Fuck principles.
I’m pretty much with ya. I’ve been swarmed by them on the roads and they are annoying as; they must inspire you to murder if they are doing up and down your street all night.
“Well, they don’t want you to believe it. They just want the media to report it that way. Which they will.”
It definitely feels like we’re at a cargo culting stage with the media and the administration.
When Obama was president, the government could say this crap and it would be generally accepted. Now everyone knows it’s crap and the administration knows that we know it’s crap, but they still go through the motions of pushing the propoganda because they are unoriginal and have not comr to grips with the fact that huge swaths of the public no longer trust their media lapdogs.
Baghdad Bob had nothing on these cretins.
Speaking of fearmongering
The Federal Court of Australia made the ruling in a class action suit brought by eight teenagers, aged between 14 and 17, and an 86-year-old nun acting as their litigation guardian. In the suit, the teens argued that the expansion of Whitehaven Coal’s (WHC.AX) Vickery mine in New South Wales state would contribute to climate change and endanger their future.
Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coking coal used to make steel and second-biggest in thermal coal for power generation, and the industry – domestically and abroad – has become a political battleground.
The court ruling was only a partial victory, though, as the judge didn’t grant an injunction to prevent Environment Minister Sussan Ley from approving the mine.
The ruling does mean the minister will have to consider her duty of care to future generations, with Justice Mordecai Bromberg saying the minister can foresee the possibility of the climate damage from the coal mine.
The judge said there is evidence of the “severe harm” climate change can cause future generations.
“It will largely be inflicted by the inaction of this generation of adults, in what might fairly be described as the greatest intergenerational injustice ever inflicted by one generation of humans upon the next,” Bromberg said, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Tell your children scary bedtime stories so they will be your political pawns.
Sad.
Good thing they’re quarantining themselves from the rest of world.
How the hell do you have “evidence” that an action “can cause” something?
I’d love to see a ruling where these little pricks get their demands but are imposed full financial liability for the economic costs of abandoning fossil fuels.
I’d like to lock them in a room full of wall outlets and hand them each a bobby-pin. They’d have to find which one opens the door but the secret is, none of them do.
“You’re terrible, Muriel.” ?
He was a scumbag in Houston
I knew I recognized the name, but I couldn’t remember where he was before.
His underlings must love him, seeing how he covers for them whenever they murder some peon.
Assuming average total comp of $125k per year and 20 full-time faculty members, Princeton could save $2.5 million a year in compensation alone by doing away with its Classics department. Now, humane and lettered wdalasio might be aghast at the degradation of knowledge. But, the decisions of the department itself assures me that the study of dead languages isn’t important.
Cool links, bro.
Ugh! Screwed those up!
20 Full-time faculty: https://classics.princeton.edu/people/faculty/core
Dead Languages aren’t important: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/05/princeton-drops-greek-and-latin-requirement-for-classics-majors.php
I can hear Clarence Thomas cursing from here.
Ποιος έβαλε τα ηβικά μαλλιά στην κόκα κόλα μου
Wouldn’t “Coca Cola” be spelled with omegas?
You could probably have guessed that I don’t speak Greek and used Google Translate.
και μετά τα ναρκωτικά έπεσαν από τα γαϊδούρια τους
It’s all Greek to me
I’m assuming he meant this.
Drugs dude, doing that gravitational thing from a part of your anatomy.
For its part, Whitehaven Coal welcomed the decision not to grant the injunction against its planned mine expansion, and will work to get a final approval from the federal government.
The company also made the curious statement that it foresees a continuing role for what it termed “high-quality coal” in contributing to “global CO2 emissions reduction efforts”.
The only way burning coal from Whitehaven’s mine could be deemed to be helping reduce emissions is if it were replacing even dirtier, lower-quality coal, or perhaps if the end user was capturing all the emissions and storing them.
There is no evidence to support either assertion and Whitehaven’s stance is at odds with a recent paper from the International Energy Agency that called for an end to the funding and development of fossil fuel projects.
Argument by assertion.
I’m right, and you’re wrong.
At odds with a paper by radical greens that demands we end electricity and internal combustion and industrial civilization and go back to the Stone Age?
How dare they be at odds with common sense economic control?
We can’t end electricity – then we won’t be able to charge all of our cool portable consumer electronics. Just make electricity by chopping up birds or despoiling millions of acres of someone else’s land.
Didn’t watch, but good. Fuck Vegas.
I suppose I’ll hate-watch Boston again tonight but only because I will choose to root for Lawn Guyland.
I have zero interest in pro sports in Vegas. It’s a terrible idea. I doubt it’ll see any long-term success.
Having said that, I loathe the Avalanche. Good thing Detroit owned their asses when it mattered most.
I have no opinion on most western teams.
For some reason Vegas just irritates me – probably the way the league pumped them up so heavily in the beginning.
That is what gets to most hockey fans. They bought a team for half a billion dollars, was given no cap for I think two years and got to cherry pick players from around the league. No building, no scouting, just boom insta-team.
And yes, I was right – “Vegas is completely exempt from the expansion draft. Seattle will not be picking any players from the Vegas Golden Knights.”
That is some grade-A bullshit.
That’s outrageous.
I absolutely abhor the Knights but they have a strong base for their team and I doubt it will be going anywhere. They are here to stay in Vegas. I will only credit them on one thing, bring the unwashed masses the gift of hockey. New hockey rinks, leagues, a minor team.
Hopefully they get to feel the pain of deciding what best player they will gift Seattle for free…but I am going to assume part of their expansion deal was to gift them a free pass for 5 years or a Stanley Cup, which ever comes first.
They got us a cup. Hell, I’m a Viking fan and wish we could trade them for a Quebec team.
“He’s definitely a fat fuck.”
Probably worth reposting because still funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4
I’d never seen that before. Thank you. It’s brilliant.
Seen it. Worth the re-watch!
Seagal is hilariously sincere.
I had no idea he was a Putin stooge. That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Cry for help?!
This is a cry for help.
Lol. That’s good stuff.
I heard a podcast interview with David Spade about his SNL years in which he names Seagal as the worst SNL guest host ever.
Just took himself seriously the whole time and was paranoid about being made fun of.
A quick search turned it up: https://www.google.com/amp/s/decider.com/2020/08/11/david-spade-steven-seagal-snl-worst-ever/amp/
Meanwhile Jean-Claude Van Damme is busy bring completely hilarious poking fun of himself and the genre that brought him fame in “Jean Claude Van Johnson” which I recommend highly.
And the Astros beat the Padres. And that’s sports.
Also, the Tigers swept the Yankees for the first time in like 20 years.
WOO-HOO!
I await all the think pieces about how the Texas legislature walking out it’s different because representation.
But if the Evil Washington GOP do the same they are domestic terrorists.
The Dems’ sociopathic lies about “voter suppression” are more tedious and shameless than their usual lies about everything else. Must be nice to have nearly the entire elite establishment on your side so you don’t have to bother with facts or reason.
The Texas legislature is obviously racist for rolling things all the way back to…3 years ago, when literally nobody complained that the system in place was racist.
Of course. The past was racist, so any rollback is a rollback to a more racist time. Isn’t historical didactics awesome?
There is a new divide, BT and AT. That’s all you need to know, Citizen.
I’m no fan of British Telecom or the Automatic Transmission. Please don’t make me choose one over the other.
Bluetooth sucks and what are you going to do with half an AT-AT?
Give it a unicycle and laugh?
That depends… which half?
Isn’t an AT-ST basically half of an AT-AT? It seems a lot more versatile than an AT-AT would be on anything but open terrain.
Yeah, but the armor on an AT-ST sucks, you can take it down with small arms fire like a Cobra tank.
I don’t think that’s accurate. If it was, why did Han and Leia shit their pants when Chewie showed up with the AT-ST at the back entrance to the shield generator on the Endor moon, rather than shoot it down?
Logs on rope? Sure. Small-arms fire? I don’t think so.
Well, if it had opened fire on them, especially since they were enclosed in that entranceway, they’d have been dead as mutherfuckin’ fried chicken. Apparently it has the kind of laser cannon that explodes for an area effect.
You guys realize you’re engaging in the equivalent of analyzing the physics depicted in an a Roadrunner cartoon, right?
Before Times, I’m guessing.
Suppose I should have gone with Drumphitler, before and after. You people are dunces. 😉
Not yet entirely awake over here.
Hakeem Jeffries was bemoaning the TX legislation that would make absentee ballots available on request (vice the state simply sending them out, requested or not) – you know, just like the law on absentee voting in NY state.
Oh yeah, the man is a liar, and an idiot.
That CNN article about the Texas law is a tour de Force in propaganda.
It starts off pretending to be a straight news article, describing Democrats walking off to deny a quorum in supportive but reasonably neutral language.
Then it takes a hard turn. … Following Trump’s lies about voter fraud? Disenfranchising voters? Making it harder for people to vote? Suppressing the vote of black and Hispanic voters?
Where the heck is the “claimed without evidence” tag for the writer?
We need a way to identify people who think that this new writing style was simply a response to Trump. You could sell that list to any number of multi-level marketing companies and make a fortune. These folks will buy anything.
All you need to do is look at the excuses made for why the lab leak hypothesis was suppressed.
“Trump was for it! We had to oppose it!”
Journalists are apparently the walking dead, incapable of independent thought and only able to react to outside stimuli in an instinct driven manner.
Work sucks
Mies, who was a ground-crew worker in Hollywood before the pandemic, said most jobs like his had moved out of the area, but that’s not the problem. “I just think that UI has just at least fixed everyone’s brain enough to see how f—ed up the wages are,” he said.
He was one of several unemployed Americans Insider spoke with who said the “labor shortage” was an opportunity for America to rethink what work looks like. They said they weren’t looking to go back to the way things were, and millions more may agree with them — about 10 million Americans are unemployed, compared with right before the pandemic.
Some jobless Americans say it’s as simple as wanting higher pay after years of declining buying power. For others, expensive childcare and health issues are placing work lower on their list of priorities. Americans are also looking for better labor conditions after working from home sparked a societywide reassessment.
The president wants this rethink to happen. “Instead of workers competing with each other for jobs that are scarce, we want employers to compete with each other to attract workers,” President Joe Biden said in a speech Thursday. “That kind of competition in the market doesn’t just give workers more ability to earn a higher wage, it gives them the power and demand to be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace.”
Imagineer-in-Chief wants everybody to be a proud union member; underworked and overpaid. C’mon, America.
“Some jobless Americans say it’s as simple as wanting higher pay after years of declining buying power”
Interesting. I guess Uncle Joe is giving them the leverage, because being unemployed is typically not a strong position to negotiate from.
Buying power is going to be awesome as soon as everyone in the supply chain, from the farm to the food packager to the shipping truck to the grocer is making $25/hour and gasoline costs $10/gal. (And that doesn’t count the supply chain for what the farm and the packagers use etc etc)
Excellent observation.
I was around for “stagflation”. It was pretty horrible.
Sure, you could get a 3 month CD at 17%, but there was no guarantee it would be worth the money you deposited… And a mortgage would run you in the teens… So it ain’t like you were buying a house.
I’ll shoot my mouth off on this. Punk only seemed “edgy” and “cool” at the time because it was universally opposed to Thatcher. That was its reason for existing. Dig into it some more and most of them supported some form of authoritarianism. The western world has mostly caught up to their way of thinking so they’re about as edgy as getting some tatts and a lip-piercing now.
The truth hurts.
Johnny Rotten exempted from this characterization.
Yeah, that recent rant of his was refreshing.
Brit punk, maybe. But there was a lot of punk here that was about other shit, like kicking out the jams, motherfucker!
Again: why has the left gone universally authoritarian? And how does it justify its imaginary oppression when leftists control all power? Remember when the army was going to side with red states in the coming civil war? It’s unapologetically marxist!
And how does it justify its imaginary oppression when leftists control all power?
If they don’t have scapegoats, their relentless desire to cleanse will cause them to eat their own, as revolutions almost always do. They wish to postpone that for as long as possible, hence the need to oppress us kulaks and wreckers.
Remember when the army was going to side with red states in the coming civil war?
A stupid fiction of the right. Any civil war is going to fracture the military right along with the rest of society.
Not if the Biden administration can help it. The purges are underway, after all.
I’ll do the same. The overwhelming majority of humans are tyrannical, boot-on-neck authoritarians. I’d say less than 10% are logical and compassionate enough to be libertarian. In other word, humanity sucks. It’s just a matter of degree, and shit floats to the top.
I’d say it is less than 10% that are weirdos like us libertarians.
Also, I have been completely intimidated by the malleability of the human mind of late. Watching everyone fall in line behind the ideology of anti-racism and begin spouting the nonsense catch phrases Like a Catholic priest mouthing the catechism has been enlightening and terrifying.
I have often read various histories of 1930s Germany with a surrealist eye. The “blood libel” story never made any sense to me. On the one hand, the story is so ridiculous and unbelievable that I would discount tellings of history that placed importance on it. Nobody could really believe that, right? On the other hand I had a view of the German populace that said that they couldn’t have actually believed what was happening.
Then I watch the left today. I watch how quickly sane and intelligent people begin repeating their anti-racism mea culpas.
I see the passion behind repeatings of the stories of January 6th.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1398324459640139783?s=10
Still repeating the big lie, long after it has been debunked. But look to the replies. They believe it. Passionately. They believe there is a vast right wing conspiracy to overthrow the government. They believe the guy in the buffalo hat was there to kidnap and kill all their favorite congressmen.
They are not cynically playing at politics. They are the useful idiots. And they aren’t repeating the lies with a wink and a nod. They truly believe it.
And that scares me.
Not over a single event like that…. It scares me that humans are that malleable.
Weirdo libertarians see the world differently. We are not wired for groupthink at the same level as others.. it makes us odd. We stand out. People notice, and usually we can’t figure out why.
This has revealed it to me in a deep and visceral way. People will believe anything. That is not just a saying about how you can fool people. No… Not “people can be fooled.”
People will believe anything. Really, truly and deeply believe it. They will truly love Big Brother. They will really see 5 lights.
And if you try to show them that there are really only 4 lights there, they will become enraged and attack like Donald Sutherland from invasion of the body snatchers.
This isn’t a stupid people thing, as one might suspect. Everyone who is not wired like us is susceptible.
I am like Will Smith in Men In Black as Tommy Lee Jones explains “Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”
A couple of years ago, I knew people were sometimes irrational…. But I believed that the Holocaust could never happen here. People here would never be … Swayed like that. Pravda could never work here. People here are too ruggedly individualistic. They would never fall for obvious propaganda….
Now I know different. People are malleable. They will literally believe anything they are told. The mass of humanity is like those flat earth people. They will believe literally anything they are told to believe by their trusted in-group. And they will act on those beliefs. They will fly the kamakazi plane into the ship. They will pour the gas over their head and light it in the middle of the street. They will drink the cool-aid … And love the Reverend Jim as they do it.
Not just the nutty fringe. The 90% majority.
It is only the miswired who won’t join them. The libertarians. The people on the autism spectrum. The misfits who refuse to be joiners.
Everyone else is conformist in a way that I never imagined possible. They truly believe, and cannot be swayed from that belief.
They really believe they are racist and black people should be listened to as they shut up… Because NPR told them to. They truly believe that an army of Trump supporters who believe in a white supremacist ideology are poised to violently overthrow the government any minute.
It is crazy.
But for them, it is reality. A reality that changes minute by minute. They will believe anything.
And people who will believe anything will do anything.
Which is …. Terrifying.
What’s even more terrifying is that I am certain that not a single Democrat pushing this stuff believes in any of it.
Just like most of the commies and I’ll bet if history was allowed to honestly dig into Nazism, most of them too.
not a single Democrat politician, that is
That is the real irony… The ones who push it… Hillary, Obama, etc…. They are just collecting power and money. They don’t give a ..flip.
And the rank and file who stand to gain nothing? They believe with passion. And they are sure they will get their reward.
Same, except replace 1930’s Germany with 1960’s China. I didn’t get how adults would allow children to take over and do what they did, other than oh it’s Red China. And now I’ve seen the same thing happening here, struggle sessions, self criticism, and righteous idiot children running rampant without getting smacked upside their head.
55% of people want to put their boot on someone else’s neck.
44% of people want to be led around and told what to do.
The rest of us are Libertarians and are fucked.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9636131/Demi-Rose-showcases-famous-curves-skintight-corset-cream-skirt.html
Nope. Birmingham-born beauty on a shaggy rug.
My buddy Cheech’s country / rock band does a really groovy, funky version of Johnny Paycheck’s song Friend, Lover, Wife. It even has a keytar solo. I recorded this a couple years ago at the end of a 3 Hanks tribute show. Gotta promote the local guys! Now off to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgVglmb4CdU
Goddamn that Chipman guy is getting raked over the coals. Good, that baby-burner should be strung-up and lit on fire.
Is he being called out for being a dumbo faced baby murderer?
I thought he was just an apologist for, and fan of, baby murdering, not that he’d done any of his own.
He was connected to Waco, if not there, and has written apologia for it.
Someone should bring up his connections to Waco and ask if what he will do as ATF head to make sure his agency never again burns children alive.
No, just about his ignorance regarding the Constitution. Someone needs to bring the fire.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire.
https://www.rt.com/news/525220-india-three-fungus-man-dies/
No one needs three types of fungus.
Fungal infections ain’t no joke.
You end up walking around until your head explodes, blowing spores all over everyone else.
I saw that flick! Filmed in my own home town!
https://youtu.be/FaAtvjev_So
“Married American socialite is ‘set to be charged’ in connection with death of Belize police chief who she ‘shot dead with his gun while giving him massage after they’d been drinking’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9635579/American-daughter-law-British-billionaire-charged-tomorrow-death-Belize-cop.html
Somehow he reminds me of Steven Seagal.
So, I caught a BBC police procedural called “New Tricks.” Two things about it:
1. They basically admit cops are dirty rights-violating psychopaths (though of course, the good guys are doing it for the right reasons so it’s ok when they do it.)
2. Shooting a dog is treated as something to be mocked for. That blew my mind.
Work needs a rethink, but the country isn’t ready for it.
Pay was too low well before COVID-19 struck
For decades, the typical American’s wage growth was weak by historical standards. The situation was dire even before the global financial crisis and the slow subsequent recovery, which lagged expectations and left millions unemployed for years. Economic growth stagnated, and below-target inflation hinted the country was saddled with consistently weak demand.
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The only thing Mies misses about his old Hollywood job is the paycheck.
He’s still working as a technical director for a nonprofit theater organization that serves people with disabilities, which he said he’s always enjoyed more than his other work. During the pandemic, he was able to get a small paycheck from them – he hadn’t been paid before then — but was able to remain on unemployment. At its peak, he said he made about as much on unemployment-insurance benefits as he had before.
That made him realize he was working himself “to the bone,” he said, adding that he wanted to return to work, but not hard labor for long hours.
Unfortunately, there’s that whole “willing buyer, willing seller” problem. If you can find somebody who will willingly pay you what you think you’re worth, more power to you. Otherwiose, you need to adjust your expectations.
“Willingly”. That’s cute. They intend to toss a few of Scrooge McDuck’s gold coins at everyone and then utopia.
Idiots never seem to realize that once command is introduced into production, command for labor will follow.
For Memorial Day.
“Illinois OKs bill banning police deception to young suspects”
Of course it’s far-fetched. Sure, Im on my 4th TallCan, but in the vein of confidential informants, whats to prevent cops from hiring a child actor to say shit to an underage suspect that could benefit them ?
“It wasnt us- the kids were just talking.”
Oh, I’m sure the cops are already thinking up the work-around to this. My guess is they won’t ask the suspect for ID so they can lie/entrap them and feign ignorance of their status as a minor. That’s what I’d do if I was a scumbag.
As Peterson says, if you can’t imagine yourself doing horrible things then you’re not empathetic.
What if you have done horrible things? Does that make you super-duper empathetic?
Only if you’re woke.
PArAlLeL CoNsTrUCtiOn
Michael Hayden says hi.
That’s the difficult part. Admitting how you would proceed in a certain circumstance. Everybody here is exceedingly clever and most of us don’t use that power for evil. There is a niggling little spot in the back of our mind that says “Go for it!”
I’d imagine most moral people spend a fair bit of energy figuring out immoral actions that could be implemented. It’s really the only way to fight them.
Same goes for sales. If you don’t spend some energy figuring out how your competition is going to go after your customers, you’re not going to keep them all for very long.
You’re right about that. Churning thoughts and then a decision. What would Festus do?
Ex-bandmate of mine – the one who later fired me in favor of a Stevie Nicks wannabe and a drum machine – had been a cop in Miami in the ’70s. He said they brought in a suspect for a string of burglaries and started questioning him. The suspect protested his innocence and offered to take a “polyester test.” Ex-bandmate’s partner said, “OK, let me go prep the ‘polyester’ machine.” He went in the copier room (Remember: this was the ’70s before copiers were ubiquitous) for a few minutes, then returned to announce the machine was ready.
Partner had the suspect put his hand on the “polyester machine’s” glass, then asked him about one specific burglary. Suspect denied any knowledge. Partner hit a button, and a sheet of paper emerged from the machine with an image of the suspect’s hand and the words “The n*****’s lying.” Suspect confessed to THAT burglary, but claimed he’d been involved in no others. Questioning proceeded with the same result from the machine each time, until he’d confessed to most or all of the crimes.
My ex-bandmate claimed the case made it to the FL Supreme Court, but I don’t recall the ruling. I think they may have upheld the questioning, while not exactly endorsing it. Of course, my ex-bandmate may have been full of shit.
Still, it’s a great story.
Nagger ?
This is the greatest thing ever posted on glibs.
It seems like you just want to hamstring the ability of cops to get the Bad Guys off the street.
The sucky thing we see is that the left’s inept “refund police and outlaw self defense strategy” has just given conservatives the idea that they are vindicated in backing the blue in every situation.
The only saving Grace is that the cops themselves have dinner enough damage by acting as the enforcers for partisans that maybe the conservatives will come out against cops on net.
That punk rock story if true brings a fucking tear to my eye. We’ve lost the youngsters. That’s not Punk Rock. That’s not anything like Punk. I see it it in my normal life, older folks don’t give a shit yet the young are still masking. What the fuck did they do to us?
Punk rock is dead and buried. That shit nowadays is just people reeeeeeeeeeeeing with guitars.
Yeah, the last time I was even close to the scene was 1996. I’m old.
Like every other genre of music it’s out there and with the intertubes it’s easier than ever to find.
“X” music is dead, is the laziest ‘kids these days/old man yelling at clouds’ thing there is.
They might call it punk, but it ain’t punk.
Besides, I never claimed to not be an old man yelling at clouds.
Full capacity is back in PA.
Yay.
Restaurant we ate at Friday night was busy. Must’ve been anticipation.
Remember the phrase “positivity rate”?
When was the last time you heard that?
They are just following the science…. No politics involved at all…..
They had to scrap positivity rate when it became clear that too many “ vaccinated” people still gave a positive test result for having COVID-19 itself.
Wind-up monkey beats tin drum
A maskless Memorial Day weekend is a huge deal. People are traveling, Covid-19 cases are down across most of the country and vaccines have made their way into millions of arms.
And while glimpses of normalcy are exciting to see, one health expert is warning that the millions of people who have not been vaccinated may pose high risks to each other.
Dr. Leana Wen, a CNN medical analyst, said people who are fully vaccinated and are generally healthy “should feel very well protected.”
But she offered a more critical insight on those who are not.
“Those who remain at risk are those who are unvaccinated,” Wen told CNN on Saturday. “And that includes children who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated as well as adults who just have not been vaccinated yet.”
She added that even though 40% of the country is fully vaccinated, the risk remains high because a large portion of the population still hasn’t been inoculated. While the number of new Covid-19 cases have dropped significantly, that also means “the virus has fewer places to go.”
“And so those people who are unvaccinated are now still at high risk because we do have more transmissible variants, and unfortunately those individuals who don’t have immunity are not protected from these variants that can wreak a lot of havoc,” Wen explained.
It’s out there. Waiting. Watching. Plotting.
Wear your doomsday cult magic talismans. Have a shot of Flavor Aid.
OBEY.
Freedom! None here until July, maybe September.
Fwee-dom!
*cackles*
Dr. Leana Wen,
a CNN medical analystprofessional propagandist with a medical specializationThe paper of broken record:
https://twitter.com/HusseinAboubak/status/1398474191364558850
“Okay, I have been digging. It’s literally a random photo from “cute Muslim toddlers” online photo stocks that have been circulating for many years. We need an actual investigation of all the data of the “killed” children. Hamas and @nytimes are literally trolling the world”
Another here:
“Three days ago the NYT printed his picture on the front page as a child victim of the war. Now it reveals this 17yo was actually a fighter for the jihadist “Mujahideen Brigades”. #oops”
https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1399106567732146177
The quicker people realize that the news is just propaganda, we can stop digging and start climbing out of this hole.
But this spade feels so comfortable in my hands…
https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/1398806256379256834
CWAA
Watched one of those history shorts on the prohibition last night. It was interesting, but I was acutely bothered by the mocking of the passing of the law by “conservatives” who also wouldn’t fund enough to properly enforce it because of small government principles.
IIRC prohibition was a decidedly progressive undertaking.
I’ll grant that it was a bipartisan effort since it did become an amendment, but yes it was driven in large part by progressives.
What got me was the acknowledgement that the law was bad but also the bemoaning that the government didn’t enforce it hard enough and that officials were corrupt and looked the other way.
“the government didn’t enforce it hard enough and that officials were corrupt and looked the other way.” We talking about today or 100 years ago?
“Bipartisan” didn’t mean as much those days as there were progressives in both parties, and the progressive coalition had dominant control over national and most state governments.
Progressives – not working? HIT IT HARDER
Conservatives – not working? we can’t repeal that
This is our political system. We are so fucked because people are in general quite worthless about politics.
Sure, but it’s another thing of complete deference to the state. In other words, even if the state is wrong, there are people who will insist that it should still be supreme. It’s hobbesian Leviathan writ large.
Another example was a year or so ago, listening to a lawyer (left leaning, in this case) who was astounded that by Georgia law, you had a right to self defense against cops if they were illegally trying to
kidnaparrest you. His mind was that sure they may be illegally arresting you, but they are still the cops and you have no right to fight against them.Good morning, Sloopy!
Thank you, to all the brave men and women who gave their life protecting our country, as well as those protecting others and those who died in stupid interventionist wars.
Well said. I’m listening to Carlin’s Blueprint for Armageddon right now. The waste of lives is nearly unbelievable.
I hope you all have a great day!
Morning, Tundra.
Psychic hotline
If you cherish US democracy, you should be outraged by what’s just happened in Washington, DC, and Texas. In the US Senate, Republicans managed to block a bill to launch an independent inquiry into the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol. And in Texas, the GOP is on the verge of enacting new restrictive voting measures — expected to become law Monday — that not only would make it harder for people of color to vote, but would alarmingly make it easier for Texas judges to overturn election results — something Donald Trump was unable to do after he lost the 2020 election.
Saturday, President Joe Biden raised alarm bells about the proposed Texas law, bluntly calling it “un-American,” and saying it’s “part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year — and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans.” President Biden is 100% correct.
Let’s not play games — the new Texas law isn’t about “voter integrity.” The 2020 election in Texas, which Trump won by more than 630,000 votes, “was smooth and secure,” as one of Texas’s top election officials testified this earlier year. Even Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott admitted at a news conference in March he was unaware of any voter fraud in the 2020 election.
No, the law is about Texas GOP leaders freaking out after seeing that battleground states such as Georgia and Arizona went for Biden in 2020. Their fear of losing power has incited them to champion sweeping measures limiting in-person voting hours and making it harder to vote by mail. As a practical matter, that’s more likely to suppress the votes of Black and brown people, who overwhelmingly voted Democratic last year.
Another mindreader probes the depths of Republican depravity.
They’re certain that ballot harvesting and mass-mailing of ballots is their ticket to perpetual control of all levels of government and they’re going to do everything in their power to keep them legal.
I believe they’re correct in their assertion. And if they maintain that as the status quo, there will never be another legitimate election in the United States.
I don’t believe they are correct. iIRc in California some GOP have shown that two can play the ballot harvesting game.
I mentioned Rep. Jeffries above, and there are others on the Dem side, that are just as committed to the “they will steal elections” as any of the most anti-Dems around here. So congratulations to all involved in the “stealing the election” narrative, on either side. You are doing God’s work to destroy whatever confidence people might have had in our electoral mechanisms. I’m sure that’s going to work out wonderfully.
But people shouldn’t have confidence in our current electoral mechanisms. Not after seeing how election tallies jumped so dramatically and lopsidedly in the most recent election, when any semblance of voter verification was abandoned.
It isn’t just that. Some of that can be explained away successfully.
It is that they called their shot. You will recall that last August we discussed a Democrat strategist who warned that on election night it might look like Trump had won by a landslide, but that by the time the recounts and litigation were done it would be clear that Biden actually won by a landslide.
This was months before the election, when Trump was down by 16 points.
There was absolutely no reason to be asserting that Trump would look like he had won on election night. Not if those 16 point deficits were real.
This was inside baseball. This guy knew what the game plan was. He knew that the 16 point deficit was a lie. And he knew how they were going to ensure that it didn’t matter that it was only a lie.
I don’t doubt that there was hinkiness in the last election. There is in every election. The system is far from perfect.
However, there was no blue wave, which any halfway intelligent and well directed electoral tinkering should’ve been able to deliver. Aside from the Presidency, the Dems didn’t capture much down ballot.
The point is, supporting that fucking narrative is not going to fix the problem, but it will lead to deterioration of trust in the institution. That is not easily restored either. If your goal is to burn it all down, then by all means, carry on. Just don’t expect to end up with anything but a mouthful of ashes.
“deterioration of trust in the institution” is caused by institutions becoming un-worthy of trust. Pointing that out doesn’t lead to deterioration of trust, it’s pointing out that the emperor has no clothes. Applies to media, official corruption, teachers unions, higher ed, police misconduct, on down the line. I have no desire to ‘burn it all down’; neither do I have a desire to ignore the signs of degenerating social structures in the hopes that we destroy ourselves slow enough that I can squeak by. Neither is a good choice, but if the choice is between a turd sandwich and a giant douche, at least I can, albeit unpleasantly, eat the turd sandwich.
Note – I don’t have enough evidence to say unequivocally that election shenanigans in excess of the norms went on at the presidential level, enough to swing the result (even though there’s lots of little niggling things that make one suspicious). But the institutions that are supposed to police that and help ensure that we can maintain trust in the institution have demonstrated that, without question, they are perfectly willing to lie, cheat, and steal to further their goals, so asking me to trust the result – to the point of being accused of insurrection and told you’re not allowed to speak of it – to preserve trust in the institution… that doesn’t motivate me too strongly.
I got to agree with this. Honestly, if you were paying attention at all over the last 18 months you should know this is true. They spent the entirety of 2020 telling us that they intended to rig the election. I opined as much several times as each nugget from the left came out.
And now they are attempting to push through a national law that might as well read “our electioneering machine gets to count the votes from our strongholds last and you don’t get to watch or audit any of it”.
By chasing people out of NY and California, they have inadvertantly shifted the voter demographic of several states. This allowed things to get close enough for shenanigans.
Should you roll your eyes at such suggestions, simply take note that there were only 5 municipalities that had trouble counting their votes. All 5 basically didn’t report any votes until their state’s Republican areas had all reported final numbers. All 5 were in swing states. All 5 had massive mail in votes. All 5 had issues with poll watchers. All 5 swung their state’s in the same direction.
None of those things happened anywhere else. In two large swing states where this sort of thing had happened in the past, election system reforms were put in place by Republicans and last minute changes attempted by democrats were not allowed. So, unlike elections for the past 20 years, results in Broward county Florida came out at the same time as the rest of the state, as did Cincinnati Ohio. Neither of those states were in jeopardy of flipping to team D.
If that surface level information is all you have, you should have enough to know that something fishy is up. Add in the Time article detailing efforts to “fortify” the election… And you should pretty much be there.
And then you have Q…. I am sure we have some adherents here, but it is clearly a false flag disinformation campaign being run to distract and discredit. People like Robert Barnes were calling that one months before the election.
You didn’t take them seriously when AOC was calling for 12 trillion dollar budgets to implement her Green New Deal. Well…. How much are we spending this year?
And you didn’t take them seriously when they said “tear it all down” so they could implement their socialist society…..
Well?
Shit.
All I can think to do is take the dogs for a walk.
I’m going for a horseback ride.
Yeah, welcome to Canada.
I agree that the democrats have been quite blatent with their “We intenend to rule forever and ever and make sure the elctions say so” Bill #1 and since even before then.
I don’t think they are as powerful as they think they are.
Four years of nonstop propaganda, slander, fear mongering, and outright hatred. Intentional actions that destroyed the economy. Erasing any progress that have been made on race relations since the 70’s and dragging it back to the point where some modern laws and the Jim Crow laws aren’t that far apart.
All that, and Trump probably would have won in a “normal” election. They don’t have anywhere near the power, or even the support they tell themselves they do.
They certainly don’t have the support they think they have….
But will it be too late?
$ 20 trillion in 2 years. That is “burn it down” levels.
And they are still considering adding 2 guaranteed D states.
And a national law that would roll back the reforms that saved Florida and Ohio elections, while implementing the “reforms” that gave us Philadelphia and Atlanta on a national level.
And a commission on how to pack the court.
And a directive that all federal programs be race-based. “Equity” they call it. Think that won’t reignight the KKK types? They’ve been dead and hurried for 40 years.
And who is going to call them out? Who will rally the opposition? There is no 4th estate to give an honest accounting. And they have nearly completed their strangle hold on “alternative media” on the net.
If they get what they want over the next couple of years, our belief in a silent majority might be as irrelevant as the price of eggs in China.
I think the Harris-Biden administration is well on their way to fucking up so many things that whichever one of them is still around in 2024 will lose in a landslide so big the Dems can’t fortify it enough in the other direction.
Unless they have something else up their sleeves that I am not cunning enough to dream up.
I also think the Harris-Biden administration is well on their way to fucking up so many things, but the media will find a way to blame Trump.
Expect hyperinflation to be the final straw. Too many Americans are making excuses for democrats starting civil war 2.0 and their not be bloodletting yet. Americans still have too much to lose.
Once Americans have to pay $10 for a loaf of bread, expect straight up bloodletting against democrat leaders and their useful commie idiots.
Trump very much deserved to have his ass fired in the last election. He totally fucked the Vid response by his “most perfect action” of stopping international flights. Fuck that dictator bullshit, it helped feed the panic. Then he kept Fauci as the one true and exalted high priest of Science! That demented little fuck should have been shitcanned by April along with Birx. He choose unwisely. Very unwisely, even when there were far superior options for top health advisor positions like Gupta, Atlas, Kuldorff, and Bhattachayra available that were not advising shredding the Constitution to attempt and control the Commie Cooties.
Secondly, he had plenty of time and should’ve damn well known what the Dems were up to with the election. What did he do about it? Fuck all, from what I can see. I really really hope we have seen the last of his orange mug running for President. He did enough decent things that I voted for him the second time around, but there are no illusions he was only decent in comparison to the shitstains of the Democratic Party.
You had me until you said you voted for him. Why didn’t you vote for Kanye? Are you a racist?
Because he’s a colossal horse’s ass?
Anticipating the usual retort: No, I’m not a racist. I’m a misanthrope. I just don’t like people in general. Present company excepted, of course.
So is Trump. I figured, if I’m forced to choose between crazy people, why not choose the craziest?
+1 Bill/Opus ticket
I’d nearly forgotten about this storyline: https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1989/01/31/
Greatest time for comics, ever.
Breathed and Watterson at the height of their powers.
I hope he just wants to be king-maker and not run again.
Heheh, Kanye didn’t make the ballot in California or I very well may have as a, middle finger. I choose the orange middle finger as I live here. I’ve done the write in thing for Hunter Thompson when it was GDub versus Kerry and the Lib candidate sucked balls, didn’t want to do it again. Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate deal and his action on fed regulations got me to pull the lever for him.
And yes Rhy, I very much hope he sticks to doing that and lobbing flaming sacks of dogshit from the sidelines.
Kanye wasn’t on the ballot here, but I wrote him in.
Tom Segura on Steven Segal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7DBa6IQ5K8
LOL
?It’s just another Mammary Monday?
https://archive.li/kMa49
“The left-right reversal of the diploma divide since 1970 across all western democracies is really something. ”
https://twitter.com/leedrutman/status/1398618724685463554
Was at Lowes picking up something or another and used my military discount. Clerk said “Thank you for your service, especially on this Memorial Day”.
“You should head to the local VA cemetery and thank them” She had no idea what I was getting at.
As I gleefully posted over the weekend a couple of times, it was a mask-free weekend. Car show (I have some pictures of the crowd but haven’t moved them to a computer yet) was sans-masks except for a maybe a dozen people and guess what, no one got pissy with each other. Boulder, NV shops all had hand-written signs that said “This store is a mask optional establishment”.
Hit up the Boulder Dam Brewery Co. Sampled a few things. Orange Cream Ale was okay, not overly citrus notes, but I was glad I had only a sample. Their BC Cream Stout was good and refreshing on a hot day. Wife had some of their blends, the Shandy – half pilsner half lemonade.
We then ventured and said you know what, we have been good to ourselves and I took a couple hundred bucks and we sat at a casino for a few hours playing blackjack. Walked away even, met people, talked to people.
Then we were supposed to have a decent BBQ at the house, but in-laws were hurting so they stayed home, son and girlfriend and a couple of friends dropped by and had some smoked chicken and some andouille infused burgers.
Overall, a happy happy weekend. I expect to be dead by 4th of July now.
Counting out, boys! Still have one kitteh to take care of and he needs his morning unguents. Plus I need some chow and sleep. Yesterday was a cunte. See ya later!
I agree that the democrats have been quite blatent with their “We intenend to rule forever and ever and make sure the elctions say so” Bill #1 and since even before then.
I don’t think they are as powerful as they think they are.
Damned dirty disobedient apes don’t understand what’s good for them, and keep voting for the wrong candidates. More procedural fine tuning will be required.
Speaking of that scumbag Acevedo
Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo, who used to lead the Houston Police Department, called a new measure approved by the Texas state Legislature that would allow people to carry handguns without a license “ridiculous” and urged Governor Greg Abbott to veto the bill.
“There’s something that God gave us and that is common sense, and common sense tells us that that is ridiculous,” Acevedo said in an interview with “Face the Nation” when asked about the legislation.
Abbott, a Republican, is expected to sign the measure approved by the GOP-led Legislature last week that further loosens gun restrictions in the state. The bill allows people to carry handguns in public without a license, background check or training.
While the measure is backed by the National Rifle Association, law enforcement groups and police chiefs in the state oppose the measure, known as “constitutional carry.”
Acevedo said that while Republicans claim to support law enforcement, enacting this law would not help Texas police.
“They only support the blue in word. It’s now time to support the blue in deed, by vetoing that bill,” he said. “You’re either with law enforcement or you stand with the fringe that believe that everybody should have a firearm regardless of their character, their capabilities or their mental capacity.”
Blah blah blah only cops should be allowed to carry guns. STFU, pussy.
I fully support the Cops showing what asshat authoritarians they are if it will mean that conservatives will treat them with every ounce of derision they deserve.
I’ll have what you’re having.
I never realized “shall not be infringed” was so ambiguous.
Maybe we need Inigo Montoya to explain what that word means. You don’t see “infringe” that often these days. Maybe people are confused and it does not mean what they think it means.
Like inflammable?
or regulated
At least that is somewhat ambiguous.
But it is followed by “shall not be infringed”, which is not.
By my reading, it is overly expansive in it’s protections. 30mm automatic cannons are not even close to the line in a “shall not be infringed” world.
Also, licensing is an infringement. Background checks are infringing. Dealer licenses are infringing….
Infringe is a pretty loose word… So “not infringing” is pretty expansive.
Also, face the Nation should be mocked for bringing on a Florida Official to opine on Texas Law. Why not bring in Bloomberg as Mayor of New York and have him plead for Abbot to veto it.
Just like representatives in Congress that go to other states and run their mouths. They believe themselves to be important and a willing propaganda machine will run their words as if they matter to the local people if it ratchets the narrative.
I expect to be dead by 4th of July now.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
LOL
I am very much enjoying the gadget reviews on the SORTEDfood channel on YouTube.
I got a link for SORDIDfood. You want it?
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Tulip how is the pups?
?
Sorry, inside joke.;)
A little better, but not back to her old self. Specialist appt one week from today. Fingers crossed they can help.
Well hoping for the best once you see the specialist.
In other news, this lunatic still exists:
“I’ve written about the rhetoric of Trump’s rebellion: “1776”; “We the People”; “patriots.”
Donald Trump is the most dangerous United States citizen since Jefferson Davis.
I don’t know how many more free and fair elections this country is going to have. I’m legitimately scared.”
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1398787392102883330
That is some unhinged stuff he has going on. So he throws out dates, claims he has a big story, but its “too big” to get done?
You will note that his views go uncensored on all major platforms…..
He has The Piss Tapes! He’ll release them, at some point, and then Drumpf will no longer be president! Muhahahahaha
…ring ring…
Oh, he’s not president?…
I mean… If we are going to ascribe “Most Dangerous” American, wouldn’t we say something like Robert E Lee, or Stonewall Jacskon, or William T. Sherman?
Trump claiming the election was stolen 7 months after the election: A nutter, a danger to democracy!
Hillary claiming the election was stolen 3 years after the election: Sage words.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk7X3fPkdp8
Nika uses a bionic arm.
Awesome.
I can’t cut fruit with my left hand.
*sexist bit*
She’s pretty Hawt, but I hope she don’t use that bionic hand for, ah, soitain tings…if you know what I mean…I mean I’m aredy hawd, I don’t need to be joiked off by medal…if you know what I mean…I mean you see, dat robot hand might hort when she gives me da old handy…if you catch my drift!
That is why she is shown opening a yogurt cup…so you can gauge how…subtle the grip can be.
That was pretty amazing inspirational, even.
But Nika needs “how to cut fruit” lessons, regardless of which hand she uses.
I also think the Harris-Biden administration is well on their way to fucking up so many things, but the media will find a way to blame Trump.
If you think high (and still rising) prices are bad, you’re wrong.
That just shows how much the economy has improved under Biden. He has pulled us out of the Trump depression, just in the nick of time.
Higher prices means more money is spent, it’s all about the flow.
Sorry, I got to vent somewhere.
We’re off to a pretty nice week here in the Broswater House.
A few weeks ago one of the kids couldn’t find his gaming screen. Now this is a situation that happens now and then in a 5 kids household. The rule is basically ”unless told otherwise, electronics are pretty much in a common pool”. Could have been any of his siblings borrowing it for some game or some project. So we searched the whole house, asked everyone, nada.
Somebody is lying. And it could have been the kid himself that is trying to get a new one, his brother that needs it for a pet-project (our first bet), or the oldest one that sold it to a friend on the black market for side cash.
We let it go… mystery to be resolved later on.
Last night I woke up in the middle of the night for a pee (40 in a few years). Ah… weird… front door unlocked and outside light opened. Must have miss that. Didn’t tough much of it, we live in a ”no need to lock doors” neighborhood anyway, no big deal.
This morning the 8 year old’s tablet went missing. She can’t hold a lie for 5 minutes.
Last time I saw it, the 18 yo, pot-smoking addict, bit autistic, no job kid was using it last night while cooking himself something.
He told the GF he was using his cellphone, so yeah, he’s lying. And the 2 other suspects in the other crime were at their dad’s.
So I’ve got a thief and a liar, a bad one at that, under my roof, feeding off my hand. Stealing from his brother and sister. But no way to prove it, of course.
Fun times are coming.
I feel you, Bro. Boy howdy, do I feel you.
I have no advice to give. This is a no-win situation no matter what you do.
^^^ Nothing else like Mo said. Good luck!
Ugh…..
I have a 13 year old boy, so I am a bit behind you. But I can see it from here.
Kid will look me in the eye and disclaim all knowledge … Tears of indignant rage in his eyes… 15 seconds after I watched him do it.
The teenage mind is a weird thing.
And I have a good kid…
I just hope the pandemic hasn’t ruined him. A year of lockup would turn any middle schooler into a sociopath….
I will pray for wisdom, that you might find the right levers to pull.
All electronics now locked in a safe and replaced with Tiger Games.
Probably for the best that he is a poor liar.
Hang in there, and remember the father of the prodigal son in the Bible. When the kid comes back eventually, figuratively or literally, just welcome him back. No explanations, no trials.
No doubt on being a poor liar. I have one that is an exceptional liar for both bad and good reasons.
I have spent half my life pondering that parable, always looking at it from the sons’ point of view because I had no way to look at it from the father’s point of view. Now I can, and do, quite often.
This is brilliant.
I also had a hard time getting the point. It sure seemed like the moral was that being a good some and working hard was bad, and blowing everything but coming home was good.
Similarly, the story of Martha and Mary never made sense. Chick just wanted some help hosting, and she is the bad guy?
My dad had a hard time with it also, sympathizing with the older brother who stayed, so I kind of adopted (uneasily) that viewpoint.
However, a friend of mine pointed out that the younger son went through some awful shit, all of his own making. He came back not wanting to be recognized but just wanted a job slopping the hogs because he was so ashamed.
The older son did not have to endure any of what the younger son did. Not only that, but the father’s wealth would have multiplied (probably exponentially) while younger son was gone, so the older son’s inheritance was more than what the father had given the younger son and likely would have been double what the younger son got the second time around.
So maybe the older son did not have to endure any of what the younger son did, but he can’t know what he can’t know, so he has no empathy.
The father didn’t care. He was just happy the younger son was home. HOWEVER, I’m sure it was made better that the younger son was contrite and ashamed. It’s harder to forgive and give more when the child is as prideful and belligerent as ever–and yet still helpless.
The father didn’t have to do what he did, but we don’t know what happened AFTER the fatted calf was slaughtered and the merry was made.
It makes a lot more sense in the middle of a string of “god wants all his children to come back to him” parables. Lost sheep. Lost coins. We are all precious.
Mega churches lean heavily on this… A very baptist, born again message. It doesn’t matter what you did… God loves you, come back to the church. All is forgiven.
I went to Andy Stanley’s church back when he was just starting out. There were a lot of strippers and former strippers in the congregation. Sewed their wild oats and looking for redemption. Prodigal son was a big hit for a topic.
I also try to remember, that even if i think i’m the good son, we all are the wayward son.
My point is simply that sometimes when kids act like dicks and leave home with the “I’m never going to see you again, Dad/Mom” attitude or actual words, later on if they perform a self cranio-rectal extraction, they will feel ashamed of their earlier behavior.
At that point they will possibly think there’s no way to face their parents and that they deserve to catch some grief for what they did. That’s why it’s important for them to know you’ll take them back into your life (though not necessarily your home, depending) no questions asked.
With regard to Mary and Martha, I agree with you. There must have been some purpose to chastising Martha, but damned if I can figure out what it was.
My pet peeve of a parable is the 10 virgins. I get the greater point. However, when you ask somebody to show up at a certain time, you expect that the guest of honor is going to be there or not long after the appointed time. You don’t expect to have to wait all fucking night for the guy. IMO, the 5 “unprepared” virgins weren’t unprepared. They expected a certain level of courtesy by the bridegroom.
I’m not familiar with either of those. (Yes, I am poorly read.) And knowing the internet, I’m sure I’d get some… interesting results for those search terms. Rather than… get distracted, might I ask for a quick summary?
Not knowing which one you want…
Mary v Martha. This isn’t a parable. It’s an account of something Jesus did. He’s at a home teaching. Mary is settled in and listening while Martha is busy puttering around cleaning and cooking for all the people. She goes whining to Jesus that Mary (who should be working) isn’t working. Jesus chastises Martha for thinking what she is doing is more important than listening to him, and that Mary is feasting on his words, which is what she should really be doing.
10 virgins. So 10 virgins were invited to a wedding. They were to arrive at the appointed time and wait outside for the bridegroom to arrive. They each brought oil lamps to light their way. Well, the afternoon grew long and then dark descended. Everybody lit their lanterns and waited. Halfway through the night, 5 virgins’ lamps ran out of oil and they couldn’t get any more at that moment. The other 5 virgins had brought extra oil and by the time the bridegroom arrived at sunrise, they were prepared to go in. The 5 virgins whose lamps ran out were not allowed into the party. It’s a metaphor for when the second coming happens, you must be prepared because you don’t know when Jesus is going to show up.
My beef is that they’d been told to be there at a certain time and the bridegroom was way late and they got punished for his rudeness.
The Lord is with Mary and Martha. He is teaching them and Martha is busy making a meal for Jesus, while Mary sits and listens. Jesus chastizes Martha for being to concerned with making a meal and not listening to him.
I think it can be a lesson in letting Good things that do need to be done, get in the way of other things that are important. About prioritizing things.
So It appears as if both of these share the common theme of promoting poor hospitality.
/sarc
But the message does not seem to fit the intended message.
Well, it’s like the story of Job.
I understand the point. Job was faithful.
I also understand that it was a bet between God and Satan, with poor Job caught in the middle and I think that was a shitty thing to do to a faithful disciple.
Generally, churchgoing folk either don’t think of it in those terms or they ignore it for the bigger point. I can look at it either way, and do, depending on my mood that day.
I really feel sorry for Job’s first family.
D-E-D dead thread, but I’ll take a chance by asking: Very familiar w/M&M – I sometimes describe myself as being in either “Mary mode” or (far less frequently) “Martha mode,” but despite my fairly decent early religious education (enough to get confirmed in the Presbyterian church,) I can’t place the “10 virgins” story. Whence the reference? Is it Biblical or LDS/BofM?
Off to whack the yard, but will check back later.
Matthew 25:1-3 KJV.
Oops. Got a detail wrong. Bridegroom showed up at midnight. He “tarried”.
Me too. Rereading the Bible with the benefit of life experiences has given new meaning and nuance to passages I thought I “knew”.
That.
To add to That, I will say that some of the things my dad did/the ways he reacted make more sense to me now and whereas I’d always thought he was borderline abusive, yet rescued me time and time again, I have to look at my actions critically and think, “What buttons did I push?” I could not do that before I had teenagers. And by the way, that’s the first time I’ve admitted that out loud.
I asked my mom what he would have done with my kids and she said, “He wouldn’t have known what to do.”
And pretty much, that’s the beginning and end of what I know about what to do with mine.
What I take comfort in is Dave Ramsay’s “You aren’t trying to raise good kids. You’re trying to raise good adults.” I think XX is well on her way to being a successful adult. She surprised me. Maybe XY will too.
I’m at the age or older than my dad was when I gave a lot of grief to him. I think now about trying to deal with that or the many things he did and it blows me away. I still feel like a faker of a kid pretending to be an adult.
In my head I’m still 15 and stupid.
Same.
Also, keep in mind that whatever punishment happens, you will be twice the victim because you have to participate in the offenders’ rehabilitation and restoration efforts because they’re minors and can’t do anything on their own.
Except 18yo. I can SAY what I would do, but when it comes down to nut-cutting, you never actually know what you’ll do until you’re confronted with it.
Can’t really blame him for being a stay-at-home shut-in. He already had social problems. We were just about to get him some professional counselling to find him a training/job tailored to his needs. All of that got shut down of course. His few friends live across the bridge in the next province : been lockdown/closed for what, 4 months now?
But he’s got a roof, the fridge is full, mommy’s supplying. If he was drinking I’d be happy to have a drinking buddy lol. The only thing he can bitch about is when the GF ask him to shower at least once a month!
Why the lies? Why steal from the 8 yo? He’s on Twitch, is he simping?
Not going to help if we throw him out, not going to help if we let it go.
Sucks, man. Not an easy situation for any parent.
Establish boundaries and limits and follow though on them. Some people don’t learn the easy way (from watching others.
I also like the idea of putting subliminal ideas in the family movie night, like frequent showings of The Great Santini.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3G_cFPE0Vk
So I’ve got a thief and a liar, a bad one at that, under my roof, feeding off my hand. Stealing from his brother and sister. But no way to prove it, of course.
Fun times are coming.
Eek.
So, this happened. I just took a walk around the property checking for damage. Everything’s OK.
Good to hear all is well in the last frontier.
Yikes! I gather you felt it? If so, I hope no more than rattling dishes or the like.
Rattle was enough to wake me up, but nothing seems to have been affected.
You had chili for dinner last night, huh?
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
—Barack Obama, Oct. 30, 2008
By 2016, the left arrogantly believed there would never be another GOP president or majority in Congress. That’s one reason they figured that even the loathesome Hilary would be elected.
They were furious that half the country gave them the finger in Nov 2016, so now they are dispensing punishment along the way as they further undermine voting, education, reporting, and even the principles and priorities of our armed forces.
They are traitors to this country.
Okay, bit of a rant myself. Other than the day having one tiny crisis after another (I mean, tiny) that all roll up into a ball of frustration by 10:30 a.m….
I published a book (I didn’t write it) through my other imprint for Mormon fiction. I have 10 titles under that imprint, at least 5 of which is used as curriculum at BYU and other places that teach Mormon lit.
Now, I can understand if someone buys one of MY ebooks and doesn’t like it and returns it tout suite. But, and keep in mind this is a KINDLE ebook, if someone buys one of the books from my other imprint and returns it a month later, it’s a good bet it was required reading and they think they’re entitled to return it like any other paper textbook. NO. It’s five-fucking-dollars. Don’t be a douche, geez.
You would love my kid then. He does not believe in returning anything. “I bought it, it was bad, I have to live with it”.
Would he like to become a Patron?! That sounds like the kind of customer I want!
5 bucks is like 10 days of Ramen brah!
The Steam comment boards are infested with morans bitching about having to lift a finger to return a $1.99 game they didn’t like.
Some people just like to bitch.
I know i’m late to the game, but the ones who get me are the ones who bitch and moan about paradox because they ended up spending $200 on a game an DLC over the course of 10 years, on a game that they have racked up 4000+ hours of gameplay in.
Oh, come on, Prison Architect doesn’t have that much DLC.
*hides Stellaris, CKII and CKIII behind back*
I look at it like movie tickets. If I get a good two hours of fun for every ten to fifteen bucks I spend, that’s a win.
Lot of cheapskates out there.
^^ This. If i’ll go to the Zoo/Movies/Bowling etc for $15 for an hour or two of entertainment, then i’m going to be happy on all my games that return $1 per hour or less.
What I don’t get is that for 99c or $2.99 or $4.99 for an ebook, you get HOURS of entertainment (with my books, a good week if life doesn’t demand you pay attention to it in the middle of the story). HOURS. I do not begrudge someone $5 if they can keep me entertained for several hours.
And if I am not entertained?
I’ve never refunded a book, and rarely refunded a video game. Those I did refund were unfun from the word go. Though It’s typically pretty obvious early on that it wasn’t for me. Holding on for a month should be past the refund period.
I sample first, then buy or not.
The shortage of playable demos these days makes that difficult in the video game realm. The easiest way to sell me a game is to have a playable demo that is representative.
Fortunately, most book sale options have the ability to peruse the start of the book.
Yeah, there needs to be more demos. If there’s no demo, I’ll watch a Let’s Play. There’s little reason to buy a game where you don’t know at all what you’re getting into.
Of course… I just dropped a couple dollars on a turd but… couple dollars. I’m not going to cry about it or even “demand a refund”.
I’ve only done that once or twice and that was for technical reasons. I’m on Windows again but on the Mac side where I was for many years, there is maybe one demo for every 10 Windows demos and it’s obvious nobody tests their games on a Mac because the stated capabilities (like “controller”) very often don’t work.
Thank you for your links service, sloopy. Always a pleasure to read your mornings.