Howdy, howdy. Bringing you guys links of the lowest common denominator and the on-going high-class problems shitshow of my current existence. What is a high-class problems shitshow? We moved to a short term rental last Wednesday to get our floors redone upstairs, but the flooring ended up backordered, so I have to move back into my house but can’t use the upstairs Saturday. Yesterday, at the rental, a hanging plate glass shower door fell and shattered with minor cuts to my wife and son — picture this: I’m feeding the baby, I hear a huge crash from the bathroom, I run in (luckily wearing shoes) and Mrs. L and the middle boy are huddled in the shower with an ocean of glass fragments between us and son starting to drip blood from his hands. I go find somewhere safe to put the baby, grab shoes for the wife, pick up the son, baby screaming because he’s been put down on the floor and left alone. It was pretty intense for a minute. Luckily, the net result was a couple of cuts which looked kind of nasty but were actually pretty shallow. Oh, and Mrs. L goes in for a hip replacement Monday, so she’s already gimpy and grumpy and in a lot of pain. Its a complete shitshow each and every individual moment, but its high-class, because (with the exception of the actual surgery) the problems are not life-and-death or even we go broke and live on the street if it all goes worse case. But once we’re on the other side of the floors and moving around and Mrs. L is recovered, there’s gonna be a week where I don’t do shit.
Now… the Links!
How sad is it that the Coalition of the Crazy is a voice of sanity in Congress? MGT and Matt Gaetz, a winning combination.
On the one hand, I think “terrorism” is overused by the government. On the other hand, if you turn state’s witness to escape felony prosecution, you may not be fit for a position in government that requires Congressional approval.
A poorly formulated challenge to Obamacare gets shot down. When Thomas is telling you you f’d up the standing, you probably are a minor or f’d up the standing argument.
Fuck you, weather!
…and this is why New Jersey is the best state to live in! I wasn’t even aware Mr. Floyd had a connection to Newark.
whaddup doh ?
“Bringing you guys links of the lowest common denominator….”
There’s a fine line between the numerator and denominator.
But only a fraction of people know that.
…and there’s no percentage in trying to explain it to the rest of them.
I know I keep missing the point.
Decimals are hard. They keep moving so it’s hard to reciprocate.
A low ratio of humor?
Folks are divided on the subject.
Always the common denominator.
I think you are blowing this out of proportion.
You’re going to be ratio’d for that comment….
But it’s so rational.
Easy to understand for this tan gent.
I agree. I would cosine off on this.
I don’t think he’s integral to the project…
But how did you derive that? Where’s your proof?
We’re in modern times — that’s no longer a factor.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
Do that with enough gravity and you’ve got a weighty punishment.
Coalition of the Crazy
Crazy =/= wrong. But even being right doesn’t change the crazy.
That said, I’d vote for Gaetz for president in a heartbeat.
At this point, anybody that is willing to put their thumb in the eye of The Cathedral is alright in my book.
Dunno – if you think someone is crazy, but they keep saying stuff I agree with, in stark contrast with almost all their colleagues, almost all of said colleagues being statist fucks and quite a few being clearly batshit crazy:
“You Keep Using That Word “Crazy”, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.”
Yeah, I have to ask what exactly is crazy anymore? Crazy has been so normalized that it’s impossible to phased by it. If I’m being told that someone is crazy by someone who insists not focusing on race is racist, I’m not so sure I should consider crazy a disqualifier.
They actually nominated a fucking eco-terrorist to head BoLM?
JHTFC
Do you not support the revolutionary activities of our bureaucrats?
They thought it was a nomination to head the other BLM.
Nothing was proven! She was just a roommate. Maybe a sympathetic fellow traveler.
“They actually nominated a fucking eco-terrorist to head BoLM?”
They always do. Where have you been?
The jokes on her. The BLM doesn’t control any land that has trees.
So true.
Yikes! Glad there were no major wounds.
On the other hand, if you turn state’s witness to escape felony prosecution, you may not be fit for a position in government that requires Congressional approval.
Oh, piffle. Having already sold her soul makes it easier for her to fulfill the job requirements.
@Brett, yeah that’s some drama. Hope it all works out for you.
A hip replacement at her age? Jesus Brett, take it easy on the lady. Maybe cut back on the Cialis.
Brett’s humblebragging.
St. George of Minneapolis, a martyr of the New Religion. He ascends to the Pantheon, with St. Michael of Ferguson, and St. Trayvon of southern Florida at his side.
Saints Fentanyl, Face-down Brown, and Grave-on Martin.
Awoman.
27 M buys a lot of statues for any one you want.
If Mr Floyd passed through NJ he probably left a few memories. Surely some of the ladies he met would remember him for 18 years or more.
Because Newark has the money to blow on a statue to honor a scumbag criminal. All their problems have been solved.
I immediately thought of my Italian wife’s grandfather in Philly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToJJEJJJtGo
I wish I was a billionaire… so I could airdrop 10,000 servings of Floydasylᵀᴹ (AKA Fentanyl) on the statue.
I’d settle for just having enough to retire now before our mandatory “implicit bias” training I just found out we’ll have to take some time this fiscal year.
Sure *that* won’t suck big hairy donkey balls or anything….
Just completed our annual training module. One of the video vignettes was a woman in a wheelchair wearing a pasted-on mustache who kept getting outraged that people were still struggling to call her “Michael” instead of “Michelle”. But one supervisor saved the day by asking their pronouns.
I prefer to call them Attention Whore.
^This^
Just call her Ironside.
Ooh, I just received an invitation to hike with Eric Swalwell on Saturday. Sounds like a hike into hell.
Or an opportunity….
Hmmm… is an opportunity of the type of “Does he have to come back?”
STEVE SMITH LIKE HIKES!
Will there be any hot Chinese ladies?
So no Hunter?
I knew he was sick but I don’t get the whole “no yellow” thing.
Charitable answer is inside joke out of context.
But Hunter…
How much is he asking for the “privilege”?
What is the ground like along the route?
A flat, straight, boring bike path.
I RSVP’d and told him it sounds like a real gas.
Probably smells like some real gas, too…
Poop Nukem.
Make sure you show up strapped.
Putrid – been a little behind on reading your articles but have enjoyed the mesquite projects very much.
https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/06/17/why-is-davos-man-so-keen-on-lockdowns/
I have tried to answer the question of why the global elite became such enthusiastic supporters of the heavy-handed, statist approach to managing the coronavirus crisis — stay-at home orders, business closures, face masks — and passionate opponents of less draconian alternatives, such as those set out by the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration.
So in the last year we have learned that the Chicoms and the Davos Set are not to be trusted. I mean the Chicoms and the WEF were filled with libertarianish ideas before 2020, right?
And why did libertarians think that a global bureaucracy was a good idea?
why did libertarians think that a global bureaucracy was a good idea?
Which ones were those?
No libertarians thought that, save for the ones inhabiting your imagination.
Beat me to it.
[golf clap]
And the ones inhabiting his mom.
Well, none did, so…
Now now… To Be Sure(tm), I’m sure some magazine or web site just might have had an article making the Libertarian Case for Global Bureaucracy.
Right after the Libertarian Case for International Socialism, and the Libertarian Case for Fruit Sushi and Making a Damned Sammich…
Well all the attacks on nationalism and support for internationalism were supposed to lead to what exactly?
Attacks from whom? If you are talking about the Libertarian party you won’t find much support for them around here. Those people are libertarians the same way Fauci is a scientist and the same way I am a flying reindeer.
Trying to goad us into defending that gaggle of shitweasels is a waste of time.
I went to a national LP convention once, since I was kinda randomly made the state LP Chair, because no one else wanted that shite job. It was attended, by my estimation, by about 1/3 ancaps, 1/3 people somewhere in striking distance of the top of the Nolan chart, and 1/3 statist lite Republican retreads and former leftists.
They nominated a real shitweasel Republican retread for president that year who was about as libertarian as my Corgi. Shortly after that I left the state and spam blocked any emails from the LP.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-prospects-for-global-trade-under-the-new-us-administration/
The WTO needs to establish new rules for dealing with digital trade and e-commerce, and it must also strive to deal more effectively with China and other high growth, mercantilist economies, particularly in contentious areas such as state-owned enterprises and industrial subsidies. There are other goals, such as environmental sustainability, which could also be progressed. For the present, however, the organisation, which, by some estimates, has raised more people out of absolute poverty than any other in the history of mankind, is no longer fit for this purpose.
Who pray tell is going to establish those rules?
Your mom?
Winston, we like you commenting here but try to do it when you aren’t stoned out of your mind.
Well, fuck, that disqualifies me.
And Winston’s mom too? 🙁
Yeah, shit, I didn’t know we had to be sober.
I didnt say sober.
*sips vodka and orange juice
Thank God.
*sips bourbon on the rocks
It’s possible libertarians who claim to be for global bureaucracy aren’t libertarians. In this era of propaganda, or to quote Old Pudding Head Biden “We believe truth over facts.” , my first reaction to almost everything that people claim is to say “bullshit”.
Almost everyone I read on this site reacts the same way.
And why did libertarians think that a global bureaucracy was a good idea?
I have to join in on some of the responses here. You’re talking about a relatively small but popularly accepted group of libertarians here. It kind of across as the equivalent of judging conservatives by David Brooks and Ana Navarro. You go to the libertarian websites and you find opposition to them runs about 50-67%.
Well, the turn signal issue appears to be the bulb socket. Waiting for a quote and a warranty determination.
Should be warranty, but if not an independent will likely be cheaper than dealer.
I’m past the initial warranty and into the less comprehensive ‘extended’ period. Still, it should be covered. The bulb might be a wearing part, but the socket is not.
I got a rocket in my pocket,
Finger in the socket!
/Lowell George
I got a rocket in my pocket…
But we already knew that last week, didn’t we, UCS?
I lacked the tools and inclination to remove the front end of my car to get a look at the light fixture.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1405336930938671110
One of the few sensible Canadian politicians on Tucker Carlson’s show…
I just came from TOS. Ken Shultz was there with his stupid wall of text of the day. And Tony. STEVE SMITH HAD CHOICE WORDS FOR TONY, FIND TONY IN WOODS AFTER AND TONY LOVE MOST.
Good thing for you bleach is no longer hard to find.
Nor is TP. Where is their office of wokeness now? Let’s TP them with TP with Glibertarians printed on it.
Jesus Christ. I went back there too this week. Why did I do that to myself? I also agree, WTF is a Libertarian anymore? If it is the people on TOS, screw that.
The fucking Feds already get tomorrow off?
FYTW.
Tomorrow’s a paid holiday at our company, too. Came out of nowhere.
We get it too. It’s Woketeenth, bro! Woohoo, long weekend!
At least it’s a real thing unlike Kwanza.
Juneteenth! I totally don’t know that that is, but I love it!
I want Glibruary to be recognized.
It’s that 30 millisecond period when the majority (50.0000000000001%) of Americans realize who the real enemies are.
We need a holiday for all the Japanese folks that camped out during WW2. Just don’t tell Hunter.
What about Glibtober and Glibvember?
On the 22nd day of Glibvember my fellow Glibs said to me…
We should celebrate Tax Freedom Day — and especially note it moving later and later in the year. Certainly more relevant to forced servitude in the modern age…
In recent years, Kwanzaa seems to have fallen off the map. Good thing, Karenga was a real piece of work.
I can only hope Ira Einhorn Day, oh, sorry, “Earth Day” follows.
It’s real! Just listen to Kwanzabot explain it .
/remember when people would tell jokes about shite like this?
Yeah, like all of five years ago. A simpler age.
What about Christmahanakwanzadan?
Needz moar Zyllabullz
Yeah, if it’d been called Emancipation Day, or something like that, people could grasp it quicker.
What about Ewomancipation Day???!!?
/some sjw, probably
I have celebrated Juneteenth for a long time. It’s actually something meaningful to celebrate, rather than someone’s birthday or Labor Day.
You’re not wrong.
I remember back in the day, it was always good for some, uh, mayhem in certain quarters of my hometown.
It is something meaningful to celebrate, and so therefor better than many other holidays, but IMO the name is pretty dumb.
All I get is early dismissal at 2pm. ?
At least I’m WFH.
I’m still working tomorrow. I get saturday off.
You should ask for Sunday also.
The government would fuck up a wet dream #78900000044
Top tier leviathan move = announce a federal holiday the day before – after close of business.
Seriously, WTF. It might be a paid holiday for my company next year, not tomorrow. The training facility is having a training day (I’ll probably sit in an office and read all day (and glibs) unless I can conduct some testing with someone else).
Great job upsetting everyone’s schedule with zero notice – most of the courses we handle have very little breathing room already – esp the ones that were previously shortened to plan for system upgrades (that were thankfully pushed right a year) – students already on an abbreviated schedule just lost another day of actual training….
Magically…I bit my tongue in my morning meetings about how stupid this is
My company announced yesterday that tomorrow is a half day, then today my main customer canceled our meetings tomorrow because they all got the day off.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1405465286313230337
NEW: Women of childbearing age should be banned from drinking alcohol, says the World Health Organisation
Internationalism will save us…
How will they get pregnant if they don’t issue the mating call, “I’M SOOO DRUNK.”?
“Anus! The other vagina!”
Wait, that won’t work.
*checks biology notes*
*checks party planner*
*squints*
Seems transphobic to me.
According to the CDC recommendations, women shouldn’t drink more than 1 drink per day. But even in 2020 airlines, bars and restaurants didn’t deny a woman a second drink while following all the retarded CDC Covid guidelines.
LOL!
That was supposed to be a reply to the STEVE SMITH replies post. That’s hilarious.
You know, the CDC might do better if they stuck to their actual mission of infectious diseases and stopped wasting resources on other bullshit.
God no. We would all be dead in a year from some kind of Hong Kong Cooties.
STEVE SMITH replies.
Democracy! Save our democracy so we can practice some totalitarianism!
I thought they were too busy covering the US’s and China’s asses on the cootie bugs to do anything else.
Hey, works for me. Start attacking the White Girls access to cheap wine, you might actually get some pushback…
We might actually get good wines again, and not a focus on Moscato and other nasty sweet stuff.
Nor do COVID vaccines
“How sad is it that the Coalition of the Crazy is a voice of sanity in Congress? MGT and Matt Gaetz, a winning combination.”
We could just cut to the chase and go back to ‘shall not be infringed’ like the founders intended. Lots cheaper less rapey of Constitution.
“Fuck you, weather!”
Here just in time for Woketeenth!
“How sad is it that the Coalition of the Crazy is a voice of sanity in Congress?”
Now do the FBI.
*I saw an interview with MTG and she did not seem that crazy to me…but maybe I am not the best judge.
“Biden Land Management nominee ‘collaborated with eco-terrorists,’ traded testimony for immunity”
The radicals are accelerating their radical takeover of everything. Look at that lunatic his handlers chose to run the ATF.
Buckle up and keep your powder dry people. We are in for a rough ride.
Dont worry, as soon as the R’s get the house, senate and the Whitehouse they promise they will repeal Obamacare.
My brother’s house is nearly half of a mile off of the highway and his driveway crosses a creek. The pipes under the driveway were getting in poor shape and causing flooding during rains so he spent a fortune digging them up and replacing both of them with four pipes. The day after he did that he got 12.5″ of rain in 24 hours. All of his work and money washed away. Jeebus. So…he spent a bigger fortune putting in 4 bigger pipes and hauling in gravel to rebury them (he had covered the previous work with soil).
That was less than two weeks ago. Now we have a tropical storm moving in. It appears that he is in a ‘you can never win’ situation. He should definitely stay away from casinos.
“Dont worry, as soon as the R’s get the house, senate and the Whitehouse they promise they will repeal Obamacare.”
You must have forgotten that Mittens is still among them.
It’s true they’ll promise to repeal Obamacare. They also true won’t do it. Just like last time.
True that.
I call him Shit Swampney.
Don’t forget Collins and Murkowski.
“I call him Shit Swampney.”
lol
Pssst… I think Suthen was being sarcastic….
He was. That was just my attempt at reverse sarcasm.
Remember this? Get a load of the look on that chickenshit’s face. I hope this lives forever.
https://i.insider.com/583ef2dcba6eb603688b5c20?width=1190
It’s been years, but yeah, that’s great. I might wear that on a T-shirt when
principledfuck-stick Mitt dies.If there is any justice in the universe, any at all, Romney and McCain will spend years in hell sucking each others festering cocks.
From the am linx:
“A solid majority of Texas voters don’t think permitless carry should be allowed, according to an April University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.”
I’m sure a joint poll done by students at the University of Texas at Austin, and a newspaper in Austin located about a block from the state capitol:
1) Did a non-push-poll
2) That had a representative sample of people throughout the state, rather than mostly calling people in the most Blue sections of the People’s Republic of Austin
3) And didn’t vastly oversample Democrats.
#And Also Believe In Unicorns Farting Rainbows
There has been some indepth analysis of polls by the department I work for. And the conclusion has been that polls are constructed solely for the purpose of getting the desired result the conductors of the poll are looking for. I’m not making that up.
Didn’t Gallup admit that they were rigging polls even in the run up to Pearl Harbor to increase interventionist sentiment?
Wouldn’t be surprising since it seems the NYT successfully changed journalism into state propaganda some time in the 20s or 30s.
“Hillary has a 97% chance of winning the election”
– some shitrig polling operation a week before the election in 2016
When I read ‘poll says….’ I stop reading.
Sadly for them, they hadn’t yet perfected massive election fraud, then they could have said ‘100% chance’.
Some are okay but most are garbage. Unfortunately, you need to dive in to the methodology, demographics, sampling procedure, and individual survey items (for ones that appear to be legit at first glance at least) to determine which is which regardless of who it benefits. It just isn’t worth the trouble.
“It just isn’t worth the trouble”
This. I have better things to do with my time than sort out who the one truth teller is in a room full of liars.
Apparently some Austin folks got their carry permit early. 6th Street will look like that cartoon (Disney? Walter Lantz) character’s shooting gallery
I’d take my wife to 6th street to see that, but then we’d likely have this conversation:
Mrs Prole: “I’ve never seen so many people carrying guns. It’s scary.”
Me: “That is probably about as accurate as when [my later-to-be-ex-wife] and I were driving around the Castro district of San Francisco on our first day after moving to the city, and she said it’s been an hour and she hadn’t seen a single gay person yet. Not recognizing =/= not seeing.”
Similar conversation with Mrs. Suthenboy in Key West. Five minutes later a lesbian bartender tried to pick her up with me sitting right next to her. The bartender treated me as if I were invisible, completely ignoring my drink order. She did not even acknowledge that I was speaking. She turned and started making the Misses drink in the middle of my sentence. I started laughing. Wife slapped me on the arm and told me to stop laughing.
No one tried to pick me up in Key West, what’s up with that? Mrs F had a better chance…
No one tried to pick me up either. They can smell it on me I guess. The tone of my voice, my body language, etc.
*thinks ‘Nope, straight and married, take a wide berth’.
Sure, that’s what it is….
Even if you believe the results (I don’t), it’s still a pretty juvenile analysis of the issue. A majority supports policy A. So, obviously the only sensible thing is to enact policy A. There’s a problem. Support/oppose captures the direction of a view, but not the intensity. If 95% of the majority that supports policy A could barely give two turds about it, but the minority that opposes it feels incredibly strongly about it, a republic is set up to implicitly recognize that. Supporting policy A will get you completely opposed by policy A’s opponents and won’t do a thing for you with its proponents.
Not to mention, if a “majority” of 50% of U.S. Senators plus a VP supported a policy of throwing [insert reviled minority group] in concentration camps, is the sensible thing to enact that policy? The assumption baked into that “solid majority” thinking is that individuals have no rights, just revocable privileges granted by a handful of leaders manipulating a fickle mob.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-how-the-lefts-obsession-with-american-style-culture-wars-corroded-canadian-identity/wcm/5301a1ed-e382-428c-9438-8c7092550512/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Social media has sparked massive political changes all around the world, of course. But because Canada’s national identity was thin to begin with, its corrosive effect on our intellectual life has been more severe. Once immersed in this borderless, American-dominated online world, Canadians began losing interest in their old parochial projects — equalization, bilingualism, multiculturalism, single-payer healthcare, regionalism — and instead fixated on America’s far more exciting political melodramas, especially its race-obsessed culture war.
…
Once imagined by the left as a light unto nations, Canada is now trashed in newspaper columns and the social media feeds of blue-check Can-con culturati as an incurably bigoted colonialist artifice. At the Toronto Star, one author recently instructed us to avoid singing the national anthem on Canada Day, and instead spend the day reflecting gloomily “on the many lives that the building of the Canadian state has cost.” Another Star writer described Canada’s creation as coterminous with “intentional genocide,” as if we were, and remain, a snowy version of the Belgian Congo.
….
There’s been a lot of talk about what statues need to come down and which ones should be allowed to stay up. But the larger problem we face goes beyond marble and mortar: This country is plagued by a ruling class that, in extrapolating its own private guilt to a national scale, now openly rejects the moral basis for Canada’s very existence. Having nominally dismissed capitalist success and “merit” as mere masks for unearned privilege, in fact, these plutocrats can’t even figure out a coherent way to excuse their own elevated socioeconomic status.
And so their only meagre claim to moral leadership now comes through increasingly off-putting performative gestures aimed at attesting to their ideological zeal in the service of anti-racism and reconciliation — of which the systematic bad-mouthing of their own country has become a non-negotiable component.
Seems Canada has no alternative but to collapse or become a tyranny. I know what Turdeau Jr and Mark Carney want…
“as if we were, and remain, a snowy version of the Belgian Congo”
The Heart of Darkness: A trip through the Boundary Waters.
Canadá should have hanged Camille Laurin as a traitor.
Why do you have an accent over the a of Canada? Even the Quebecois don’t do that.
Stupid autocorrect.
I find the history of Canadian nationalism quite fascinating. Until the 1960s or so Canada prided itself as a loyal son of the Empire unlike those rebellious Yankees. Then it changed to how Canada was far more progressive than those racist violent Yankees. Now it is “Canada is a racist shithole just like the US”.
Of course the big problem with “Canadian nationalism” has always been that it is code for “English Canada” and often just “rich Anglo Torontonians”.
Back in the day when I lived in Central Canada, the joke was that Liberals/liberals believed that Canada was everything you could see from the top of the CN Tower on a clear day.
Brett, from what little I know about hip replacement it’s obvious a serious surgery. The anecdotal info I’ve heard is that success is excellent and patients are up and about quickly. I’m confident that the Mrs will be back to her usual self in days, rather than weeks. ‘Course she may be able to work it properly and have you doing chores ’til 2022 and beyond. Good luck, I know a little about hip pain and it ain’t fun.
One of my friends at work had hip replacement. He was playing golf 3 or 4 weeks later.
They are getting really good at replacing joints.
“The Bungalow”, a Podunkville landmark, burned down a few years ago, from an accidental arson. The joint hasn’t been replaced. Well known restaurant/bar in the area for close to a 100 years. Seems like there should be some “Biden Bucks” available, even if the time frame doesn’t match up we could use a supper club sports bar in town.
Brett…if they try to give her opiates watch out. That can quickly become a bigger problem than the pain. A neighbor of mine had shoulder surgery years ago and he is struggling like hell to get off of the opiates.
I have RA. The docs all offered me opiates. Me – No thanks, I will take the pain instead.
I was appreciative of the OXY I got in the hospital but after about 7-8 days didn’t need it anymore. Heavy duty Tylenol did the trick at night after that., days were manageable. Then I quit the Tylenol as soon as I got home.
Sorry about the glass plate and your wife’s surgery. I hope all goes well.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and other regulatory functions are transferred back to the FBI.
I don’t like this part of Greene’s proposal. Otherwise, it’s good.
Hurricane season is becoming longer and more intense as climate change triggers more frequent and destructive storms. Global warming is also increasing the number of storms that move slowly and stall along the coast, a phenomenon that produces heavier rainfall and more dangerous storm surges.
CNBC is slipping. That’s the 5th paragraph. I was expecting a mention of climate change earlier in the article.
Except that we’re not seeing more frequent and destructive storms. That statement is nothing more than a catechism at this point.
Oh, we’re * seeing * more frequent and destructive storms. On our laptops, phones, and social media.
We’re just not * having * or * personally experiencing * more frequent or destructive storms.
True. The problems of an analog pattern seeking brain in a digital world. In the natural world if you see something happening again and again, it is actually happening again and again and the brain looks for a pattern in that. In the digital world if you see something happening again and again, it only happened once and you are replaying the video. The brain still looks for a pattern.
Remember SOOPER Storm Sandy? It hit NJ. There was endless gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and tearing of hair accompanying cries of “OMG! It his NJ! That has never happened before! Global warming is out of control!”
Riiiight. That has never happened before. Check out the history of hurricane paths from the NOAA.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ONZt-gxWtDM/V_4I85i283I/AAAAAAAA8os/ffKhIPJO1tAW1ngpqxtSS8J8hsM4oClIwCLcB/s1600/hurricanes.jpg
Bigger liars, the gun grabbers or the watermelons?
It’s a dead heat.
Yep. The question was rhetorical. Every single assertion they both make are calculated to deceive in some way.
No one wants you to be unable to defend yourself or your family for your own good.
No one wants you to be unable to create wealth for your own good.
They are both shitweasels of the first order.
Except that we’re not seeing more frequent and destructive storms. That statement is nothing more than a catechism at this point.
More storms have names! Explain that, mister smartypants.
A lot of the storms have foreign names so we don’t count them. We’re better’n that…
They need more names to reflect the increase in genders that storms have.
In fairness to Winston regarding his comment above about libertarians who embrace global bureaucracy……if I recall correctly, Brexit was not terribly popular among Reason writers.
Brexit supporters are icky. Now if I could just encase that sentiment in 4,000 words of obfuscatory nonsense, I could hang with the swells at Reason.
if I recall correctly, Brexit was not terribly popular among Reason writers.
I thought the topic was “libertarians”.
I couldn’t resist.
Dammit, you stole my snark.
That’s just it. If you look at the bulk of libertarians, and it strikes me you get a very different take on libertarianism than if you talk to the libertarian clerisy.
I subscribed to Reason and Liberty for many years, I would read them cover to cover the day they arrived. Then I moved on, too many writers/articles seemed to have a fall back position. Now it’s unrecognizable from 20 years ago.
No shit. There were always closet commies there, now it seems the lot of them have abandoned the closet. Well, not Stossel.
I subscribed to both for years.
Even when Liberty was off, it was still better than reason.
For those that don’t know, Liberty lives on.
Oh, and Mrs. L goes in for a hip replacement Monday, so she’s already gimpy and grumpy and in a lot of pain.
My late wife had that. If she’s in otherwise good shape recovery can be pretty quick. It still obviously sucks.
*Reads lynx*
*Suffers existential crisis and reaches for means to end it all*
*Remembers all the Good Times and calms the fuck down*
Scary shit with the fam, Brett. I’m glad all is well and I’m happy to see you back here!
It does seem to be getting worse. I dunno, maybe I am just paying more attention. It could be like the full moon myth. More crazy stuff doesn’t happen during a full moon, we just remember it that way.
Maybe we were always drowning in an ocean of idiocy and evil.
I never thought I would see a president of the US calling for citizens to report their family and friends to government thugs, yet here we are.
Maybe we were always drowning in an ocean of idiocy and evil.
As someone with an interest in history, I would say that this is the more accurate assessment. Although to me it seems that evil is fairly constant, while idiocy waxes and wanes due to intermittent spikes of hysteria.
Was expecting Good Times.
Loved that show.
Wow.
160 Republicans and 1 Democrat think the United States remains at war with Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq.
Fuck you, GOP. Worthless bitches.
I think the better way to interpret that is to say that a majority of both parties knows that they cant keep looting the treasury as efficiently as they currently are without the charade of war in the Middle East. Their war is against the American tax cattle.
War is a racket.
You are definitely right about the vast majority of the R’s being worthless, spineless squishes. If they all caught fire I would not bother to unzip.
The Republicans are progressives at the Speed Limit…
No shit. That’s just pathetic.
The Republicans are shit but the Democrsts are worse in almost every area. This sums up the state of politics for the last little while…
Not just worse, exponentially worse. The solution to the R’s is that they resign and get into a useful line of work like stocking groceries or picking up trash. The solution to the democrats is a bit different.
https://quillette.com/2020/10/10/is-china-the-governance-of-the-future/
The problems facing the globe will tend to force governments to exercise greater control over their populations. The coming crises, which could lead to popular demands for more state intervention and control, include the following:
Climate change: The remedies required by global warming will include draconian measures, some of which will result from public demand. If temperatures rise between one and three degrees centigrade, there will be heavier rainfalls leading to more frequent and larger floods; droughts will become more common; the sea levels will rise by between one and eight feet by 2100; the Arctic could be largely ice-free by 2050 and summers’ heat will be more and more extreme. All of these developments will call for state intervention of some kind—in building and maintaining flood barriers, cutting water use; providing defences against sea levels, moving populations inland and protecting vulnerable groups from oppressive temperatures. Some will tend to lead to heavily policed regulations, with fines and even imprisonment for their breach.
Pandemics: The main lesson gleaned from the COVID-19 experience by governments is to institute a policed lockdown. In many states, protests have been organised against (relatively mild) lockdowns, and these could spiral into the creation of major movements of opposition, requiring police and even army intervention.
Migration: Increased migrant flows are likely to meet with resistance in destination states, particularly those with wealthier economies. Stronger protection against mass immigration attempts will be demanded: police, military, coastguard, and other security forces may have to be deployed, and the scope for conflict will be large.
Food and water shortages: In poor countries, shortages will necessitate relief efforts, which may become hazardous if the distress in these countries is acute and produces violence against Western humanitarian missions. Droughts and famine will create extra incentives for desperate efforts to reach wealthy countries.
Artificial intelligence: The growth of AI and automation will lead to mass layoffs, rising economic hardship, and growing opposition on the streets.
Nuclear proliferation: The spread of nuclear weapons and other WMDs will lead to a greater militarisation of states and tougher domestic security regimes.
Inequality: Greater social conflict in the Western democracies over issues of discrimination and economic justice (access to housing and goods) will radicalise younger generations, throwing yet another burden on law and order forces.
Weakening international institutions: The possible failure of organisations such as the United Nations, the European Union, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, and other bodies, would mean a reduction in the availability of aid and crisis management by experienced teams.
The disunity of the United States: Since the end of World War II, the US has been the leader of the West, and of the democratic bloc of states. For most of that time, and particularly since the late-60s, it has suffered internal political rifts, especially around matters of war and race. The latter of these is presently prominent once more, as protests against police violence have again resulted in widespread demonstrations. These were accompanied in some areas by looting and violent rioting, with a few confrontations between the Black Lives Matter protestors and far-Right groups. These could worsen dramatically.
This article sums up the attitude of the globalists: the world is going to hell in a handbaskey and therefore we need TOP MEN to rule us like the Chicoms.
It is them darned libertarians that want top-down centralized control of the entire world. That is the only way to secure self-ownership of the individual.
The only ones that can save us are the international communists.
Eh my point was more that libertarians were stupid for thinking that the globalists wouldn’t “want top-down centralized control of the entire world.”
If you are talking about the cosmotarian/cocktail party sellouts you are exactly right. They dont have any more principle than either of the major parties.
RIP Herb Tarlek
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bonner
Lewy Body dementia. Cripes. What a way to go.
Well, feel like a bit of a douche for some reason. Got some Sanabul essential gloves after recommendations from you folks last month. Went to the gym for my cardio today. Got a new interval timer app – so I figure – try 1 min boxing heavy bag, 30 seconds, 1 min weighted jump rope. Continue for 30 mins.
Shyeah right – and monkeys might fly outta my ass.
I think I made 3 rounds of the boxing and 2 rds of jump rope before I gave up and went and did the rest of my time on the treadmill ;p
Guess I gotta work up to it – it is my second day back at the gym since memorial day weekend due to having to work late the last couple weeks.
The gloves are great though. A lot better than my weightlifting gloves – pretty easy to slide them on and off quickly between rounds.
As a Lieutenant Commander I assume you are not exactly a spring chicken. You might want to sit down. I have some bad news for you.
Even in my mid-thirties I could run a decent pace carrying a pack, a rifle and a water jug for 7 miles up and down some pretty steep hills. Today I get winded hiking from the bayou to the house. That is only a quarter of a mile uphill. The important thing is that you did what you could. Keep it up.
No kidding. Got an x-ray last week that showed my tailbone is moving around a lot more than it should – which explains why my ass hurts so much all day long at work (and half the time when I’m driving, etc).
Had another PT appt for my knees on Fri too – got some bands for them – hoping things improve before I do two more inspections back to back of the same class of ship that “busted” them in Jan – hope I can survive those so to speak – looking forward to the experience in principle – just not the flight deck boots.
Keep at it. With enough reps hopefully the high-intensity cardio addiction will kick in. The results will become apparent vs. running on the treadmill alone.
Well…for “What am I reading now” – after watching the Bey Logan audio commentaries on “Chinese Ghost Story” and “Mr. Vampire”, I picked up the collection “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” (Penguin Classics ed).
A nice set of weird fiction – you can see how some of the big movies pulled bits and pieces from a variety of the stories. There are apparently 500+ but a lot of them have never been properly translated – this vol is about 150 of them. Also some nice similarities and variations from Japanese and Korean stories from the period too – similar takes on Fox spirits, ghosts, alchemy, confucianism, taoism, etc. These were mostly written late 16th, early 17th century. Definitely worth a look. Looking forward to my DVD orders of a few more HK supernatural flicks from the 80s.
https://torontosun.com/news/national/canada-excoriated-as-racist-failure-during-farewell-speeches-by-departing-mps/wcm/44c45012-de99-4d7d-8a21-11d155a9a9d2/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Bloc Quebecois MP Simon Marcil also blasted Canada’s treatment of Indigenous People, calling Sir. John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, a “racist.”
But he spread his condemnation more broadly. He argued that the notion of Canada as a progressive, environmentally friendly, egalitarian and democratic country is false on all fronts, citing examples aimed at proving the country’s essential hypocrisy.
Marcil asserted that Canada “stole” the 1995 referendum on Quebec independence and stole its symbols — the maple leaf and the beaver — from Quebec.
He maintained Canada has only a “fragile” national identity, in which Albertans are more proud to be Albertans and Quebecers more proud to be Quebecers than they are to be Canadians. The only distinguishing cultural feature, he added, is hockey — and even then, he noted, the Toronto Maple Leafs can’t win.
“Vive le Quebec libre,” Marcil concluded.
The separatist types must be loving seeing les Anglais hairshirt themselves.
The instant the Frankfurt School lot set one toe in North America they should have been shot. What a fucking cancer.
Don’t worry it will stay on campuses and our elites will nip it in the bud…
Hope things are better soon, Brett.
Just shelled out $367.50 to have my bonus junk truck hauled off the property. Wrecker had to drive up from Wasilla, and had a job getting the wreck out of the patch of brush is was setting in.
Worth it.
Boy, did I parse that wrong at first. ?
#metoo
Mrs. Animal was happy to see it gone, which increases the odds of my getting my ashes hauled later tonight.
Bonus junk, indeed.
When you get that wood furnace cranked up you’ll get your ashes (or you’ll haul them) hauled much more frequently. I’m with you, I hate leftover lawn decorations. I want everything put away every evening.
When I was working we said any box left on the floor overnight became invisible, same with the collectibles outside.
We did plenty of that last winter. I was toying with the idea of keeping the clean wood ash to start leaching out lye, but haven’t made up my mind yet. Lye can be useful, but the process is messy.
In Alaska I thought you were just supposed to leave that stuff in your yard and let the forest reclaim it.
That’s what some of the neighbors are doing, honestly, but I intend to keep my place cleaned up a little better than that.
That aint just Alaska, rural north central Ohio is apparently having a contest to see which redneck can fit the most rusted husks of cars, truck, tractors, mobile homes, threshers, graders, cherry pickers, etc, etc…on their property. My money is on the guy on Morrow county road 59 just north of 20.
Dammit, East of 20. Just like a city slicker to get his cardinal directions fucked up.
Can confirm. Saw plenty of that around Zanesville when I had a piece of a hospital bed business out there.
“Portland Police’s entire riot squad RESIGNS after cop was indicted for striking ‘activist photographer’ who they insist was rioter with baton during violent protest saw government building set alight”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9698507/Portland-Polices-riot-squad-RESIGNS-cop-indicted-striking-activist-photographer.html
They had a riot squad?
Soon the entire city of Portland will be an autonomist zone while the population cheers it on. I think the useful idiots all have Stockholm syndrome.
“ while the population cheers it on.”
I do alot of business in and around Portland. People aren’t cheering this shit on. At least people with businesses, jobs, employees, families, responsibilities, etc. The assclowns doing the rioting and destruction are a minority of Portland. But somehow they operate daily with no consequences. It’s baffling.
We’re supposed to believe that a couple of guys from the Capitol Police committed suicide because of the “insurrection” that didn’t even last 4 hours, while these guys in Portland see worse on a daily basis, and all they do is resign.
The insurrection narrative is the biggest phoney baloney bullshit lie I think I have ever heard in politics. Reichstag fire my ass. It is being staged for exactly the same reason.
Buckle up, keep your powder dry.
They didn’t resign from the police force, just the voluntary riot squad. Big deal.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1405535303843008515
At every stage, the international synchronization of COVID lockdown policies has been key to their normalization. People see other countries doing them and think they must be sound. But they need to look at the one country NOT doing them—China, the country that invented them.
Internationalism will never go wrong. Oh and elite opinion will never be wrong…
Not doing lockdowns? What planet is he living on?They aren’t doing country or province scale ones but they sure as hell are doing it to neighborhoods and contacts as cases crop up, and there’s no advance notice either. Oh sorry, as official cases crop up.
Since I have tomorrow off due to Juneteenth, let’s have a zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82232753627?pwd=YmplUkVwMG5QclVPUGp6Q0FFdXBOZz09
Starts at 8pm Eastern time.
Sometimes I wish I could attend but by 8 I will be snoring. Not only that but my computer is in the living room where my wife watches TV and she always has the volume up. I would submit more articles if I could concentrate and write but Jeebus that TV destroys my concentration (y’all lucked out).
I’ll be there at 9:57. I am making pizza tonight.
On camera?
God no and I am kidding. I am not making pizza I am just rolling with Hype’s ribbing about my excessive pizza preparation time. I am likely not getting a day off for a few weeks.
Maybe for me. Adobo Pork Chops are getting ready to hit the grill
Fuck you, weather!
My kingdom for a nice tropical storm.
For a cloud and 1/2 inch of rain. 3rd driest spring in 127 years recorded history and 19th warmest. Grass is brown, like late August in a wet year.
While it is not at all uncommon up here in the high desert, we are off to a cooker of June. My brain is baked, and my newly fixed car broke again.
Wettest spring I can remember here. We are bracing for a lot more rain this weekend. The ticks and chiggers say ‘Hi!’.
I am off to bed. Y’all have fun.
Buonanotte amico.