Fun things in the past week.
Cringe Moments: SP and I are regulars at a wonderful little Chinese hole-in-the-wall called Happy Bao. Great food, nice family operating it, not much concession to American “Chinese” food (note to dbleagle: that’s the place you and I went). We had lunch there, and at the table behind us sat a non-Asian couple. This is not typical. Their food was brought out, and the husband immediately said, “Can we get some soorachee?” The waiter looked blank, so the guy repeated, “Soorachee.” Blank. “Soorachee, you know, the hot sauce.” “Oh, yes sir, sriracha.” Waiter goes back to the kitchen and rummages around trying to find some.
SP and I of course got actual chile oil. Made in-house, the kind that is so hot that it gets your nose running. And we were grateful that the guy didn’t start insisting on ketchup. And to be fair, the chile oil might have actually damaged those people.
At the table across from us was a white couple with several kids who were clearly not theirs since they clearly looked Asian. Probably a paid foster parent deal. One kid was a dwarf, another had no legs below the knees and had Oscar Pistorius artificial shins and feet. SP to me, “STOP STARING!” Me to SP: “I’m going to suggest that they give those shins to the dwarf so he can be normal height. Then they’ll at least have one normal-ish kid out of the deal.” SP to me through clenched teeth: “I am going to kill you.”
Before my imminent death, let’s have a quick today’s birthday rundown: a guy who was basically a good egg; a guy who wasn’t as sloppy as Fleming, so didn’t get a Nobel; one of the most underappreciated cinema auteurs; and perhaps the most influential person in the creation of American films, despite his very short life; a terrific talent whose name has been as misused as Uncle Tom; a habitual plasma donor; the greatest voice actor there ever was and ever will be; a guy who was not Steve Allen; a guy who, sorry, can’t do that; and a guy who would never be a grup.
On to the inevitable.
I can’t imagine why Kamala was such a deeply unpopular candidate.
Short version: Team Blue will make the Senate their personal fuck-bitch.
I would have thought that the hair would have protected her but apparently not.
The last living crewman of McHale’s Navy? Well, not any more.
Old Guy Music is yet more proof that Clapton was the least interesting musician in Cream. And that Bill Frisell might be the greatest living guitarist.
Ginger Baker is insane, Beware of Mr. Baker!
https://youtu.be/7eaBMUyxeeo
That’s good advice.
The Love Boat ran 11 seasons? Wow.
“The critics hated it. They called it mindless TV”
To be fair, that doesn’t just describe The Love Boat.
There is a diner (old school, real deal) in Lancaster, PA that serves up a breakfast called The Love Boat – poached eggs over gravy over home fries. Wife and I share one.
The critics are snooty assholes who don’t understand human nature and the occasional need for “mindless TV”.
Or the chance to see old stars back in action, like the clip of Ginger Rogers singing “Love Will Keep Us Together” I posted yesterday.
I missed how it started, but Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew often go off on its ridiculousness.
I’ll take “What’s in a Name” for $100, OM
Stepin and the Kingfish from the Amos & Andy show were twins. Seems like stereo typing goes back a long ways.
Mornin’ to all.
☕?
Good morning, 4(20) and…::glances at plethora of screen names::…all the rest of you!
Good grief. That Senate article is ridiculous.
“Trump acolytes”? Fuck off.
Compare and contrast:
“A longtime swing state, Ohio has lurched to the right in recent years,”
vs.
“A longtime Republican stronghold, Georgia has become one of the nation’s fastest growing and most diverse battlegrounds.”
It’s a fair cop for those two.
It’s not that the material is factually incorrect; it’s the obvious use of words with certain connotations like “lurched”.
pounce!
OMWC is Joe Biden theory confirmed.
Well, I’ve never seen them together in the same room.
Nah, OMWC would be repulsed by a young girl who looked to be the geriatric age of nineteen.
“Grass doesn’t grow on a playground” – OMWC
the greatest voice actor there ever was and ever will be
Happy birthday June Foray!
John Fiedler haz a sad.
Vice President Kamala Harris came under fire Saturday for tweeting about Memorial Day, but without mentioning the significance of the weekend.
“Enjoy the long weekend,” Harris wrote, above a candid photo of herself smiling.
Social media users condemned Harris’ lack of tact reminding the vice president of the sacrifices the “long weekend” is meant to honor.
Whatever.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate her
You need to work on your outrage du jour.
Get with the program, Brooks.
Her stand up in no Eddie Murphy. Can she be so truly ignorant? Does she not have some handlers that tell her what to say and not to say? Joe looks like Rhodes Scholarship material, compared to her.
Just don’t blame Asterix.
The Gaul?
Who could forget the epic battle of forces led by Asterix the Gaul against the armies under the command of Grievious Studious at the Battle of Hürte Butte?
Isn’t them the one aspiring [commanded?] to be a white male? Who else could possibly be to blame?
Bwahahahaha – so I know how much credence to give this punk’s analysis. Sonny, when you’re 48 against 50 – you ain’t really a majority.
They are morally superior to the Republicans, giving their numbers additional moral weight. You might say they have a moral majori-…
Oh – wait…
In their up is down world I’m surprised they haven’t filched that phrase to repurpose it.
To expect Commie-La to honor the sacrifices of the fallen is laughable. She’s never done anything but serve herself. Not surprising from someone who will do anything to get ahead.
To be fair, she served Willie Brown. Well, serviced.
…and both (a) head…
You can see forever from up here on this rotting corpse
The mother and girlfriend of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick have condemned congressional Republicans for blocking the January 6 commission.
Earlier this month, the Democrat-led House of Representatives voted 252-175 to approve legislation to form an independent commission to probe the Capitol riot. But on Friday, the legislation was blocked in the Senate amid strong Republican opposition. Only six GOP senators crossed party lines to support the measure, which failed on a 54-35 vote.
In an interview on CNN, the officer’s mother Gladys Sicknick and girlfriend Sandra Garza criticized Republicans for blocking the bill, which was modeled on the panel created to investigate the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
“A lot of them would default to the ‘Well, it’s very partisan.’ Well, that’s baloney,” Garza said. “I think they just don’t want to do the right thing.”
Bless their hearts.
Sweetie, they laid your fella to rest as a hero when he merely died from natural-if-unusual causes. You might just shut up.
The only fucking mystery about Jan 6 is why did the House and Senate Sgts at Arms refuse the CP request for more resources – and that is NOT a question the Dems are going to allow.
I want to see a commission on Chinese spy connections to current Congress members.
It’s funny how the families of people who die under strange circumstances in DC always end up parroting the DNC line.
They just want to know who killed Ashli Babbitt. Yeah, let’s run with that.
And the GOP is stonewalling – what are they hiding??
/TMITE
Somebody posted a piece from one of the Real Clear sites a few weeks back about how the Democrats tried to steal the election in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District.
Wouldn’t you know, but the AP is out with a story about how one of the poor put-upon Team Blue county auditors is getting criticized for trying to steal the election.
Sicknick died of two strokes on January 7, after he was captured on video physically fighting with Capitol rioters. A medical examiner attributed Sicknick’s death to natural causes, but the officer’s family believe that he would still be alive if he wasn’t involved in defending the Capitol from insurrectionists.
Trump’s robot army frightened him to death.
That job was supposed to consist of nothing more arduous than standing around, scowling at tourists.
He wasn’t involved in defending the Capitol from insurrectionists, and he died anyway.
Rioters, insurrectionists. Potahto, potayto
“believe that he would still be alive if he wasn’t involved in defending the Capitol from insurrectionists.”
Maybe he should never have been a police officer.
Antisemitism, or cultural appropriation?
<emThe owner of a Nashville hat store is being accused of anti-Semitism after announcing the sale of yellow Star of David badges, similar to the ones Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust, which read "NOT VACCINATED."
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Western apparel maker Stetson announced Saturday evening it was cutting ties with the store.
"As a result of the offensive content and opinions shared by hatWRKS in Nashville, Stetson and our distribution partners will cease the sale of all Stetson products," the company said on Twitter.
Stetson announced its decision to stop selling its products to hatWRKS hours after tweeting it was investigating the complaints.
"Along with our distribution partners, Stetson condemns antisemitism and discrimination of any kind," the company said.
Turf was defended.
Acknowledging that a grave injustice was committed against a group of people and using a symbol of that injustice to represent another injustice isn’t bigoted and in fact it indicates the opposite. It may be silly and a bit simplistic but it isn’t antisemitism.
When all you have in your intellectual arsenal is dumb insults, and racist just won’t apply, you reach for the next nearest thing.
I live a couple blocks away. I think i walk over this week and buy a nice new hat for the wife.
Way to read to room, Stetson.
*eyeroll*
Yep, brain-dead.
It’s from the “Mark Twain is racist” school of “thought”.
Stetson need to bake the cake.
Trolling is not allowed.
Yeah, OK. ?
you expecting a libertarian wave?
We only get moments, not waves.
We don’t get waves, we get eye rolls.
So, holding back my gag reflex more than is required to get through a SF piece, I read about the plane crash. And there was a bit that explains so much about a whole lot of human behavior; the vehement assertions from surviving family and friends about how GOD IS IN CONTROL. Seems most humans just refuse to accept that someone isn’t running things – be it God, gods, demons, shadowy cabals of world govt, or of course (((them))).
It is hard for us to calmly contemplate a world that just is, and isn’t under some form of control.
If one believes in God they’re well served in believing God helps those who help themselves. As for the locus of control, that’s a given: it’s scary to some to think that sometimes things just happen and that there’s not a damn thing they or anyone can do to prevent them. That doesn’t mean conspiracies don’t happen but the people that seize onto events and invariably point to some group or another as the cause are tiresome to say the least (see comments over at ZeroHedge for some prime examples, their comments section is a fine example of batshittery).
—Marcus Cole, Babylon 5
Karma as a concept is a pretty heinous idea.
Justice without the satisfaction…
It reminds me of the joke about the evangelical who was on top of his house, as flood waters threatened to overtake his house. He prayed to God for deliverance, and a man in a boat came by to offer him a lift off the house, the evangelical turned it down, and explained he was waiting for God to save him. The man in the boat left, and the evangelical continued praying. A helicopter came overhead and offered the man a ride out, but he explained that he was waiting for God to save him. The helicopter flew away, and the flood waters rose up and killed the man.
At the pearly gates, he asked St. Peter why God didn’t save him, and St. Peter said, “Who do you think sent the boat and the helicopter?”
“ Dalee Sullivan looked straight ahead into her computer’s camera and started making her case to the judge. She referred to transcripts, emails and policies she had pulled from the student handbook at Alpine High School.”
She seems pretty smart but for me to hire her or admit her to an institution I was involved with you’d have to put a gun to my head. She’s sounds like an HR issue just waiting to happen.
My daughter was left off the honor roll this quarter despite having the requisite GPA. Now, I have a template to go after those bastards!
Just kidding, we told her we know how hard she worked and how well she did and we didn’t need a piece of paper to tell us that.
What criteria do they use other than GPA? Not enough “woke” credits?
It is hard for us to calmly contemplate a world that just is, and isn’t under some form of control.
We must have ORDER.
That isn’t just the desire of some mentally defective megalomaniac – it appeals to virtually everyone. Our most fundamental ‘thought’ process is seeking patterns that we can map to what we know. We’re pretty much hardwired for that thanks to evolution. We’re only a few hundred years into transcending our natural mode, and we have to learn to do it, and practice to keep it sharp.
Stephen Hicks goes into this in some detail. He posits that the current late-Enlightenment era of philosophy, originating with Rousseau, was a reaction to the removal of the church from authority. The lack of structure did not sit well with a number of philosophers who felt that man needed that higher power for comfort and control.
They laid the groundwork for what we have now because they hated the randomness of it all.
My kingdom for an edit button. Drop “current” from the first sentence.
A similar thought seemed to be buried in Neil Postman’s Technopoly. It was expressed in a very irritating way – as he would allude to some era preceding adoption of a technology (very broadly construed) as having been in some way superior. He was right that all technologies involve trade offs – we gain something and lose something, but in some cases it is hard to see the loss as a negative and particularly when it is occluded.
It’s a much more pleasant morning here at Tranquility Base today than it was yesterday – it’s still cool, but it’s sunny. I have to take a quick break from it in a few minutes – trying my hand at ordering a few groceries for curbside pickup at my customary store. Needed just a few things – including my second cup of iced latte and a couple of brunch items – and didn’t feel like getting dressed and trudging to the back of the store on a holiday weekend. I’m just gonna zip up my hoodie over my pajama top, trade my slippers for my old yard work athletic shoes (mainly because I’ll walk through the grass to get around to my car) and drive up there in my yoga pants!
Best timeline, indeed.
You don’t have a Whole Foods near you? Have Bezos’ minions deliver the groceries to you. Then you can skip the shoes… and pants. I tell my wife she to make her order in her undies if she is going to be that lazy. ?
That formal? 😉
Nope – the only Whole Foods is way the hell on the opposite side of town. (Tres & I don’t live in the “fashionable” side of the Dayton area.) This was Meijer, just a few miles up the road from Chez GT/TT.
Mostly good results, with a couple of disappointing changes to my order: Got the right stuff in the right varieties (A1 Thick & Hearty – check. Reduced Fat Mexican-style shredded cheese – check) EXCEPT they gave me regular Mocha instead of Mocha LIGHT iced coffee, and they were out of my beloved Atkins Brownie Bites (finished the last of the cheesecake bites last night.) So…there goes my GlibFittedness. 🙁
Before I realized the one unfortunate switcheroo, I was feeling magnanimous, so I tipped the gal who brought out my stuff. Icing on the cake: I remembered that SiriusXM is running a free weekend (I already have it, but not in my car – when I’m commuting, all I want is the local traffic report) so I didn’t even have to give up my weekly dose of Vox Choral.
So all in all, a good hunting trip. ???
I do the curbside pickup at my local grocery store, and it is weird the substitutions they make. No, I don’t want Sumatra coffee, I want French roast, I like my coffee black, just like my heart. Vanilla creamer is no substitute for my wife’s regular creamer. And so on.
It’s like they don’t even know me.
I specified no substitutions right before finalizing the order, so I attribute the sub to the “shopper” not paying attention & grabbing the wrong variety off the shelf. Mentioned it in the post-pickup online survey and will add a note if I order that online again. Overall, though, pretty good & hella convenient this weekend. Don’t know if I’d do it for a full-bore we’re-out-of-everything grocerizing on a normal day.
Last week was the first time in 7-8 pickups that I got some hinky produce. I left a strongly worded statement on the follow up survey. They should tell you who did the “picking” of your order and then let you request or reject certain shoppers on subsequent orders. Whoever thought that tomato was acceptable should not be selecting produce.
Only produce in my order was a package of raspberries, and a cursory glance seemed to indicate they were OK. Looked like the berries were on the large side, which is good when we mix ’em into the waffle batter – they pulverize better. The little ones just sneak through the beaters of the hand mixer and are more likely to scorch in the waffle iron. I’d rather select pick-’em-out-individually produce items like tomatoes or non-bagged apples myself.
Milk seemed a bit close to its “best by” date (June 5) for a gallon to be consumed just by the two of us. Will have to make a point of eating more cereal.
My personal conspiracy theory is they push the soon to be bad stuff out the door with curbside pickup orders. I have often gotten a bagged salad the day before its use by date which is fine unless you bought three. I can’t eat that much salad in a day. I think they also substitute non “popular” brands for what you ordered to move inventory.
Until this tomato incident my produce has been pristine. The first week I did get thicc asparagus, but that’s understandable, I imagine the uncultured simpletons that work in grocery stores think ‘bigger is better’ and probably thought he/she was doing me a solid by picking out the largest stalks. I now make a note and have since gotten nice tender skinny asparagus.
We got a free box of food this week, seems like the local village has been getting free food by the 18 wheeler, some of my neighbors are volunteers in the distribution, anyway, this is the last week and they got 2000 boxes for the village and environs. My neighbor called, said he had 4 boxes to give away.
We ended up with a box with frozen meatballs, fresh milk with a BYBD about 2 weeks out and lots of other stuff. We are not Food Shelf people, it would be hypocritical with our income.
I didn’t feel guilty, there should be no one hungry in the US if these programs are available nationwide.
The government food program that Cuomo or Deblasio (who knows which) put in place a year and change ago to great fanfare (there were twice-weekly lines around the block visible from my living room) ended with a whimper some time last summer, and I never heard another word about it. I can only imagine how much food got wasted on that scheme.
But yeah, if nobody complained it was gone, it was probably never needed in the first place.
Do you have a Hotel and Casino?
Keep fear alive
Last year, public health specialist Dr. Saju Mathew was worried about case spikes that followed holiday travel and congregating.
“This year I am not as worried. What a difference these vaccines have made,” Mathew, a primary care physician in Atlanta, told CNN on Saturday.
But with mask mandates evaporating — and maybe with unvaccinated people dropping their masks against CDC guidance — the unvaccinated “have become more of a threat to each other,” he said.
“All the more reason I hope the unvaccinated crowd will get that incentive to get vaccinated,” Mathew said.
Wear your doomsday cult talismans, people. Otherwise, you’ll be devoured by the evil spirits.
If they haven’t been vaccinated because they don’t want to get it as opposed to they can’t get it then who gives a damn?
then who gives a damn? – can’t tolerate deviants
Oh, somebody is giving a damn. The question remains, how far will they take it?
Right on my point.
And there is a plenty big audience for that.
The Demon-Haunted World, Redux.
Our most fundamental ‘thought’ process is seeking patterns that we can map to what we know.
Exactly. We’re so good at pattern recognition we see them even when they aren’t really there.
Well I’m convinced.
“Why don’t you go fuck yourself, Tommy?”
Yeah, the propaganda has become increasingly shrill.
Whenever I see stuff like this, I can’t help but think: “Why are they pushing this vaccine SO FUCKING HARD??”
Are we the only Americans who see stuff like this and immediately have an adverse reaction?
I mean, I won’t even read a book or watch a movie if my friends push it on me; the “soft sell” really does work better.
And then add to it the fact that it’s THE GOVERNMENT doing it and I simply cannot fathom people gladly going down to get stuck with that fucking blood-clotting poison.
I mean no offense to anyone here who did it – we all have a variety of reasons and situations and I respect folks’ decisions and circumstances.
But HO-LEE FUCK… I see these ads and my stomach drops.
It reminds me of that Geico commercial mocking the horror movie tropes of the 70s-80s, where the kids decide to hide by all the chainsaws instead of driving away in the car.
Like, “What could go wrong, Tommy? The government has such an amazing track record of success and quality assurance when it comes to… uhhhhh… NOTHING. EVER.”
The incongruence between governmental perception of reality and actual reality is almost funny. Almost.
Just imagine government as an eager twenty-five year old female who’s been nothing but a student for her entire life and thinks everybody else is a kindergartner by comparison with her.
That’s a pretty good analogy.
Funny ha ha or funny head-exploding rage?
But wait, there’s more!
https://imgur.com/a/FLVv99j
https://imgur.com/a/c5i3PN9
These are all taken from https://www.facebook.com/BaltimoreHealth/
Having scrolled through a month or so of these things, I’ve noticed that the most condescending ones feature white people, particularly white men. All the uplifting, encouraging ones tend to not have white men in them. Coincidence?
I’m surprised they let your last link slip through with the guy whitemansplaining to the stupid anti-vaxxer chick.
These are so stupid and cringey, I could almost believe that they’re anti-vax false flags.
I think I’m going to repost this.
https://twitter.com/right_populist/status/1398373262103621632
Free State project in Europe
https://montelibero.org/en/2021/03/17/free-state-project-europe/?utm_content=bufferbeed8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
being in Montenegro it is obvs racist
But I don’t speak jive.
I love the little market in my neighborhood that’s owned by Montenegrin immigrants.
They are the most patriotic Americans I’ve found in California.
They regard American would-be socialists with a mixture of disbelief and contempt.
“Oversight”
Warren is unapologetic about pushing banks to do more given their roles as critical institutions in society.
Bank executives, Warren says, “have a responsibility to execute on making their banks part of the solution to our economic and racial problems across this nation.”
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Bankers aren’t naïve to the politics at play. Democrats have a small majority in the House of Representatives and a razor-thin majority in the Senate. And the midterm elections are less than two years away.
But even with a change in power in Congress, analysts warn banks are likely to face continued presure from Democrats — and society — on key aspects of their operations, from whom they lend money to where they invest.
“Banks have no choice but to address these issues, because it impacts their communities, their customers, and their employees,” says Mike Mayo, a banking analyst at Wells Fargo Securities. “You have to live in the real world, and the real world has these issues as part of the banks’ businesses.”
When the mafia wants to partner up, you had best pay attention.
So is Lizzie basically endorsing the idea that banks should issue loans to all comers, regardless of ability to repay?
That has worked so well in the past. No housing bubbles or spike in personal bankruptcies at all.
And as long as the Feds indicate that they will bail out banks no matter what the do, there’s no incentive to encourage fiscal responsibility.
YOU get a loan, and YOU get a loan, and YOU get a loan!
I bought my first house near the peak in 2006 (great timing, I know). The bank authorized a mortgage amount at least twice what would be prudent for my income. I bought within my means, but damn, I was alarmed that a bank would try to lead me down such an obviously disastrous path.
See: student loans.
So is Lizzie basically endorsing the idea that banks should issue loans to all comers, regardless of ability to repay?
That has worked so well in the past. No housing bubbles or spike in personal bankruptcies at all.
And as long as the Feds indicate that they will bail out banks no matter what the do, there’s no incentive to encourage fiscal responsibility.
Bailouts are the whole point. It’s an effective strategy for neutering the banking industry by forcing them to need bailouts and then tying conditions to that money that make banks effectively government institutions (even more than now). As a bonus, Warren and other will line their own pockets as the bailouts passthrough.
“Demi Lovato says the patriarchy was holding them back from coming out as non-binary and officially changing their pronouns to they/them”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9633761/Demi-Lovato-says-patriarchy-holding-coming-non-binary.html
That’s a lot of stupid in one headline.
Hold whom back? Oh… this shit again. Nope, not playing. Pick a grammatically-correct pronoun, hon.
Dick/Balls.
?
She’s what you get when when you coddle a lifelong attention whore who has mental issues.
And add drugs.
The headline does start with “Demi Lovato Says”.
She’s even less interesting than that other Demi.
She has a somewhat smaller gravitational field.
Thank you, Surly. Come sit next to me! 😉
😉
One spews toxic waste from her face, the other stores it in her caboose.
…and you can join us here on the sofa, TARDy! 😀
Demi Moore haz a sad.
Demi Lovato is a known attention whore.
Conservatives can ride on the climate-grifters’ bandwagon, too
Outside the left, many who care about the environment are turned off by what they view as the hectoring rhetoric of climate activists, Backer said.
“You have all these groups on the left, and then no groups on the right. That’s the market gap that we fit,” he said. “We are really the first and only grassroots movement in this space.”
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“This shouldn’t be a partisan issue and it should be something that we can find sensible common ground on,” said Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., a 33-year-old who thinks Republicans can champion a free market approach to climate solutions, told NBC News. “But that requires the Democratic Party to not greenwash economic redistribution efforts and it requires the Republican Party to stop denialism.”
The American Conservation Coalition has faced predictable criticisms from the left and the right, but has overlapping membership with both youth conservative groups like Turning Point USA and relationships with less politicized environmental groups, like the Nature Conservancy.
Earn a fat nonprofit salary while you love Gaia. America, fuck yeah.
As someone here has stated, government truly is a criminal enterprise.
Maybe it will take a “grassroots movement” on the right to explain why the government’s data is manipulated to get the results the other guys want. ?
“Parents’ fury at NYC’s woke Dalton School after first-graders are taught about masturbation during Sex-Ed classes that also instruct kids they can’t be hugged ‘without consent'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9633021/NYC-private-school-parents-angry-masturbation-videos-shown-graders.html
Oh, that’s just tumblr stuff, they said.
Hey look, another young woman with a higher degree in education at the center of it all.
Surely must be a coincidence.
Good lord, what a shit salad that is. Get that deranged fool away from children!
“‘I’m paying $50,000 to these a**holes to tell my kid not to let her grandfather hug her when he sees her?'”
When kids today want an example of why they are dumb compared to my generation, I’m using this. I didn’t have to be taught how to masturbate, I figured it all out on my own.
Parents
Grandparents
Rutgers has now issued a 3rd statement regarding the recent spike in antisemitism.
Top Left, top right: original condemnation of antisemitism.
Lower left: apology for issuing the 1st.
Lower right: Pres declares Rutgers will never apologize for condemning antisemitism.
1/2
https://twitter.com/PsychRabble/status/1398764856082305024
Suddenly, all lives matter again.
^ Check out the racist up in here.
Well as long as all of the Team Blue (((People))) here keep supporting these people here in NJ keep supporting Rutgers and our government it’s not going to change.
I think they should just sit this one out.
Through my teaching, I promote agency, activate empathy, fight for equity, embrace one’s authentic self, and navigate care.
Masturbating in public.
NOT
OKAY.
Thanks Bin Laden.
One of the many, many great lines from that movie.
Zach Galifanioiasjkhd;jkh is good at what he does.
Your Sunday Nut Punch
http://www.stopthestate.com/
Massachusetts family gets a lesson in the petty vindictiveness of bureaucrats and attorneys general.
Ugh. ?
Seems about right for MA.
My bet, however, is they were all for these rules and the state having these powers until the “mistake” happened to them.
Sorry, you’re white.
https://twitter.com/TheSafestSpace/status/1398680078632947712
OFFS!
The stupidity is unending.
That is a true stream of stupidity in that thread. “Why can’t my gender non-conforming friends get laid?”
Today, on Meet the Press: It’s the DEATH OF DEMOCRACY!
*inconsolable sobbing*
That Chinese restaurant sounds like the type the wife goes nuts trying to find and is probably the only thing she misses from California up here. But, we have found a good Szechwan place that all of the Asian students go to, and it is quite funny to watch the Oregonians look at the menu, not have a clue what is going on until they get to the American Chinese section on the back page “Can I get the broccoli beef, with no spice?” Me, left to my own devices I will just go to whatever Chinese buffet is cheapest, ’cause I don’t GAF about food on my own.
Anyhoo, on Friday I received the second shot of the Trump miracle, I mean vaccine, with no ill effects. But yesterday, as I was driving home, I started having some issues with RLS, not too uncommon with MS. Got home, started having flu symptoms, my legs locked up and I couldn’t walk, doped myself up as best as I could with Ropinorol, slept for around 14 hours off and on, and now I feel much better. But losing muscle control of your legs when other parts of your brain are forcing them to move sucks so biggly, is so weirdly painful that I cannot describe it adequately.
Yikes! Thank goodness that at least you got home before your legs locked up! Don’t even want to think about what would’ve happened if you’d still been driving! Much sympathy! 🙁
Sorry about that man. MS sucks.
Holy fuck, what a bunch of hysterical shrieking.
Shit flinging howler monkeys, assemble!
Glib zoom is at 8 on the weekends.
Sorry 7pm
6 PM in gods timezone.
That’s a strange way to say 20:00.
The day Congress was overrun by heavily armed guerilla mercenaries!
Wholesale slaughter was barely averted!
Today in false equivalencies
Using their logic, we should use chemo on kids who identify as cancerous.
Gilmore’d
Cult.
“nonbinary children”
There is no medical justification for that.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075
“Use of GnRH analogues doesn’t cause permanent changes in an adolescent’s body[…]If an adolescent child stops taking GnRH analogues, puberty will resume.”
OK…
“Use of GnRH analogues might also have long-term effects on:
– Bone density
– Future fertility”
Long-term effects apparently doesn’t equal permanent changes in the mind of the Mayo Clinic.
“If children with male genitalia begin using GnRH analogues early in puberty, they might not develop enough penile and scrotal skin for certain gender confirmation genital surgical procedures”
Translation: males will be permanently left with a micropenis.
Golly gee willikers! I know I’m not a fancy MD or MPH, but those sure sound like permanent effects to my stupid, deplorable little brain!
Logic is transphobic
““That’s pretty *&^%$!ed up,” tweeted longtime Republican consultant Nathan Wurtzel, who joked in a subsequent tweet: “I guess this explains the Lincoln Project support.””
rekt
Who organized the mob?
How did President Cartoon Villain get his detailed instructions to them?
el oh el
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1398652603911790603
The actual article is even better:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjq99z/why-cant-my-famous-gender-nonconforming-friends-get-laid
OFFS!!
*prolonged laughter*
Slayworthiness?
Get the fuck out of here.
Just what I look for in a mate.
When your fucking behavior is a virtue signal.
Why can’t they just fuck each other? *looks at photo of these 2 “catches”* Nevermind.
Because the goal is keep accusing normal-looking people of being bigoted until they find one weird enough to put up with their shit.
https://twitter.com/OpieArchibald/status/1398796697606709251
LOLOOL
The ultimate Slutty Sunday battle!
https://archive.li/y5gy6
vs.
https://archive.li/O1UNR
Republikkkinz are afraid of the truth!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1398706072626597888
Da fuq?
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
I find it increasingly difficult to explain the Left’s obsession with sexualizing children beyond simple pedophilia. Maybe the Q-tards are on to something.
The backlash is going to be ugly. When the upper middle class whites finally wide up and figure out that it isn’t about toleration, but about old creeps that want to fuck their kids, they’re going to lash out mightily.
The simplest explanation.
Normalization of pedophilia.
While this was already a fine piece of investigative journalism, it was really the wet slapping that put it over the top for a Pulitzer.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9632345/Danish-journalist-records-having-sex-feature-swingers-club.html
Demon rum!
American Airlines has reportedly joined Southwest Airlines in halting alcohol sales onboard, after a Southwest flight attendant was attacked mid-flight last week.
The Dallas Morning News reported that American Airlines told crew members it will not reintroduce alcohol sales until September 14, when the airline’s mask mandate is set to expire.
Alcoholic beverage service, which was first paused in March 2020 to decrease contact between passengers and flight attendants amid the coronavirus pandemic, was set to restart on Tuesday.
The airline cited a recent spike in “disturbing situations on board aircraft” when announcing the decision to delay the sale of alcoholic beverages.
It’s the alcohol, not the airlines and the government working hand in hand to make flying a unrelenting merciless torment.
Not that I’ve had much desire to fly, anywhere, lately. But flying without a buzz on? Fuck no, not ever.
I know myself enough not to drink during a flight. I won’t drink when I’m in a foul mood, and nothing puts me there faster than airlines/air travel.
/looks at Southwest drink tickets that were mailed to him in March 2020
/sighs
Good morning, peeps!
Good morning, Tundy! 😀
I’ve read Barzun’s Dawn to Decadence, which is magisterial (and had me regularly putting the book down to go off and research one of his references), but apparently there is much more to learn from him.
Add one more to the list that I should read.
I can’t even.
*more prolonged laughter*
I love seeing this, the more they lean into the insanity the less relevant they make themselves.
In other news, math majors will no longer be required to know how to use the quadratic equation.
What’s the big deal, do we not have enough translations and scholarly interpretations of The Iliad already?
Next up, removing Spanish requirements from Hispanic Studies.
If all the major works in the field have been translated into every language and navel gazed over for hundreds of years already, I don’t see how knowing the original language is necessary to learn the lessons there-in. I never studied Latin or Greek and managed to read many classics and study ancient architecture just fine. And look at me now, contrary to one of the Classics, fat, drunk, and stupid IS a way to go through life.
The point of getting a degree in the classics is to become an authority on those topics. It’s rather difficult to become an authority on ancient literature without mastering the language of it.
By the same token, it’s possible to get a degree in philosophy without understanding German, but you’d be missing a lot of the important stuff from the19th and 20th centuries.
Yeah, not buying it. “I’ve read The Seven Treaties on Warfare” by Smothnard The Elder in the original SanSkrit!” is just pompous bombast. All of the Classics have been translated and re-translated and re-re-translated again and again, learning Latin so that you can do your own translation may be an interesting intellectual undertaking but it’s hardly necessary to “know” a work thoroughly.
There are plenty of reasons to learn a language that don’t include “translating texts”.
As long as the translations got it right.
Name seven.
Hype, Ima hafta invoke Poe’s Law here:
I can’t tell this is another one of your pointless “being contrarian for its own sake” moments or just brilliant parody.
You don’t think that anything gets “lost in translation?” Ever? Really?
I know you’re not stupid, so please tell me you’re just trying to be funny.
If that is the argument, then remove the major. To simply remove the basic building block of the scholarship is anti-intellectual and does a disservice to the students who do want to learn in this field.
If you are on a flight during a mid-air emergency which would be more the more useful language, Latin or Jive?
Greek and Latin classes will be replaced with Jive.
??
Primary Arms puts AK magazines on sale during Memorial Day weekend. Poor taste?
Enjoy the long magazines.
Nah. I wonder if they work?
I’m thinking about picking up a set of hard plates from SKD. 18% off, ain’t nothing…
Yes. This is memorial day weekend. Put the all American stuff on sale. Not the commie equipment.
The commies stuff isn’t all bad. I had been brainwashed for years about the superiority of American gear, specifically the AR-15/M16 over the AK-47. I got to Afghanistan and after playing around with some captured AKs, I was like…hmmm, pretty effing good.
The AK is a good piece of gear.
To me, putting patriotism into gun debates is like claimaing Nazi tanks were nowhere near as good as ours becuz OMG!! NAZI!!!
It’s not only dumb, it can be fatal.
A good companion channel to the ones I watch with the Nork escapees. Helps to keep things in perspective. (gotta turn subs on manually with these ones).
They’re talking about the Tulsa Race Massacre.
For some reason, I can’t help wondering what specifically incited that. Did a full moon cause all those white people to suddenly become bloodthirsty zombies?
“the madness of crowds”? It’s not the first time lynch mobs ran wild, but maybe the worst single event.
It was actual racism, as opposed to what they define as racism now.
It’s always 1921 with these types.
“Andy Ngo reportedly tackled, punched by Portland rioters during latest night of unrest
As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, Ngo himself had not posted on Twitter about the alleged incident
Conservative journalist Andy Ngo, who writes frequently about Antifa, was reportedly chased and attacked by black-clad rioters overnight during the latest unrest in Portland, Oregon, according to posts on social media.
One video posted online claimed to show Ngo being assisted by police inside the lobby of a downtown hotel after the writer apparently eluded a group.
Subsequent posts claimed Ngo was eventually able to leave the hotel, reportedly after receiving some medical attention.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/andy-ngo-reportedly-tackled-punched-by-portland-rioters-during-latest-night-of-unrest
I’m sure it will be condemned as anti-asian violence.
I thought he’d fled to England.
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1398718772416966656
Don’t read the comments.
I don’t understand why he didn’t start carrying after he got attacked the first time.
In Portland?
Probably because he doesn’t want to end up dead, or in the next cell over from Kyle Rittenhouse.
I see Stephanie Cutter is just as stupid as she ever was.
“New #FactChecker –> Greene’s ahistorical claim that the Nazis were socialists”
https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1398634377496731652
CWAA
Not socialist at all…
“We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).”
Real National Socialism has never been tried!
Fact-Check: Glenn Kessler is a moron.
And so is the propaganda rag he works for.
“Scientists at the Chinese lab eyed as a possible source of the coronavirus pandemic were previously filmed getting bitten and spattered with blood while handling bats without protection, according to reports.
The state-run TV footage showed researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) disregarding gloves, masks and other PPE while handling bats and collecting feces in the field, Taiwan News first noted.
In one section, virus expert Cui Jie related how a bat’s fangs once went right through his glove, describing it as feeling “like being jabbed with a needle,” the outlet noted.
The video — first broadcast in China on Dec. 29, 2017 — then cut to a person’s limb badly swollen from an apparent bat bite. Scientists also admitted getting spattered with blood during the research, according to the Sun….”
https://nypost.com/2021/05/28/scientists-at-wuhan-lab-filmed-being-bitten-by-bats-report/
First Biden’s laptop and now this. When did the Post become a bunch of shitlords?
Is this “leak” supposed to distract from the “gain of function” hypothesis?
That was my first thought as well.
The scandal here is that they were performing extremely risky research that should be extremely difficult to justify even when done in a well-secured facility. And they were doing it with the support of the US government.
This way it’s some bad actors in the field. Nothing to do with either safety controls at the facility or worse questionable research.
But what do I know, I’m just some antigovernment crank.
Yep, it was just totally natural from a bite in 2017. Long incubation and such. Also there was a pangolin, this is known.
Speaking of Ginger Baker, in the 70’s he helped bring the music of Fela Kuti to Europe and America after he drove down to Nigeria in an old Land Rover from Europe across the Sahara. There is a cool short film of the trip called “Ginger Baker Goes to Africa” that anyone who has interest can dig up. Fela’s massive band included my all time favorite drummer, Tony Allen, who died last year. They recorded a live album together with both trap drummers that is very good. Here is one sweet ass kicking track on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sxJdr5B-I
It was actual racism, as opposed to what they define as racism now.
Undoubtedly. I just wonder if there was a precipitating event, and what it was.
Accusation of assault by a young black man against a young white woman that the purported victim denied ever occurred.
David French did another weekly essay on it today. Sounds like a claim of “black man arrested for sexual assault on a white girl” based on an interaction in an elevator – unconfirmed actual event.
An elevator seems like an odd place to keep a chifforobe.
Ironically if he did look at her today that would in fact be construed as sexual assault.
Just play Mahjong instead.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/14828106/husband-no-longer-turns-me-on-want-to-cheat/
Fucksake. I hate everyone.
“Prison guards ‘didn’t notice’ that Satanist tortured, beheaded cellmate”
https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/prison-guards-didnt-notice-satanist-tortured-beheaded-cellmate/
Seems like they would’ve kept an extra close watch on this guy. You can’t judge a book by its cover and all but good lord.
They should definitely check his ass for drugs once in a while.
Indjanapolis Five Fucking Hunnert today.
So many womynz. So many barriers smashed to smithereens. Just yesterday, women were suppressed in unimagineable ways.
Today- FWEEDUM!
With the 500 on, Tom T might actually be talked into watching some roundy-round today. My concern is that with NBC covering it, they’ll turn the woke up to 11.
I miss watching sports on TV. It’s when I get most of my knitting done – doing just enough “useful” stuff to keep from feeling like a complete couch potato.
Accusation of assault by a young black man against a young white woman
Ah. Pretty much what surmised.
It’s not like I’m willing to enact my own labor.
Alright all… hope you have a wonderful day. I’m out to try to get ~30 miles in and meet up with a friend for a pint (or two!), and check out a new brunch place.
We had a good sex life but, since he was diagnosed with terminal cancer just over a year ago, he has lost all interest.
DUMP HIM!
Think of yourself. Think of your needs.
Asked Mrs Prolefeed why, despite being vaccinated, she still masks up in places that don’t require it. She shrugged.
“Does it make you feel safer?”
“No.”
Had several follow up questions, not of which it seemed politic to say out loud:
Are you that obedient to signage?
Are you virtue signalling?
Are you afraid of being mistaken for a Deplorable?
Do you care so deeply about the irrational fears of strangers that you’re willing to asphyxiate yourself?
One or both of these, I’d bet, but she’d never admit it.
Sorry. I’d send some supporting data, but I suspect it won’t move the needle.
You can’t reason someone out of a decision based on emotions. ?
^This, unfortunately. Sorry, bro.
Have her do Tom Woods Covid chart quiz.
Sen. Pat Toomey’s (R-Pa.) coming retirement combined with President Biden’s narrow win here in 2020 have given Democrats what they see as one of their best opportunities to flip a Senate seat that has been held by Republicans for 50 of the past 52 years.
Given how the constitutional amendments to rein in Wolf did combined with the hatred of Democrats among people that supported those amendments, I wouldn’t count on flipping that seat.
Yeah, I know the amendments were close.
But Republicans believe they have an opportunity to oust Hassan next year, especially if their top choice for the nomination, Gov. Chris Sununu, jumps into the race.
So far, only one Republican has announced his candidacy for the New Hampshire Senate seat, Don Balduc, a retired Army brigadier general who unsuccessfully sought the GOP Senate nomination last year. No other Republican has emerged yet as the party awaits Sununu’s decision.
Sununu is also weighing whether to run for a fourth term in the governor’s mansion or step back from elected office altogether and return to the private sector. He’s not expected to make a decision before the end of the state legislative session next month.
It’s Bolduc, not “Balduc”. Whatever Sununu does, I’ll oppose him. This is the first I’ve heard that he might seek a fourth term. All the talk so far has been about him jumping into the Senate race.
Artificial market is unsustainable
Mask mandates have eased, a welcome milestone in the battle against COVID-19. But for the two dozen domestic companies that jumped into the mask-making business last year, the good news comes with a downside: a calamitous drop in sales.
Some of the slackening demand is tied to the loosening of masking guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but industry experts say a bigger factor has been the return of inexpensive protective gear from China that began flooding the U.S. market earlier this year.
Industry executives and some members of Congress have accused China of dumping, noting that many imports are priced so low — sometimes one-tenth of what U.S. factories charge for comparable products — that there is little chance for domestic companies to survive.
In recent weeks, at least three companies have stopped producing masks and medical gowns, and several others have markedly scaled back production — among them Premium-PPE, a year-old surgical mask-maker in Virginia that recently laid off most of its 280 workers.
Boo fucking hoo. Get them some subsidies.
Lower prices = dumping.
Same prices = collusion.
Higher prices = price gouging.
If only we had some Top. Men. to set the perfect prices for us.
In Congress, a bill with bipartisan support would allocate $500 million in annual spending over the next three years to support domestic manufacturers of vital medical equipment.
While industry executives commend these moves, they say that time is running out. The American Mask Manufacturer’s Association, a recently created trade group, said its 27 members had already laid off 50% of their workforce. Without concerted action from Washington, most of those companies will go belly up within the next two months.
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“We’re not looking for infinite support from the government,” said Lloyd Armbrust, the association’s president and the founder and chief executive of Armbrust American, a mask-making company in Texas. “We need the government’s support right now because unfair pressure from China is going to kill this new industry before the legislators even get a chance to fix the problem.”
Business as usual. Never let a crisis go to waste.