In the Heights’ Light-Skinned Cast Fails to Do Latinx Communities Justice
In the Heights, director Jon M. Chu’s cinematic adaptation of the 2008 Broadway smash hit, has received praise for its refreshing and multidimensional representations of the Latinx diaspora. But ever since the first trailer premiered in 2019, the film has cultivated some backlash, even prompting a public apology from its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda. The problem: the film’s lack of dark-skinned Afro-Latinx folks in lead roles, which critics have since called out as a product of colorism and anti-Blackness in Hollywood—and in Latinx communities as a whole.
The clip from the film’s initial trailer features protagonist Usnavi (Anthony Ramos) narrating the barrio’s gentrification while shots from the movie’s bigger dance scenes play in the background. All the Latinx leads featured in the trailer are white or light-skinned, where dark-skinned Afro-Latinx people are seen in the background of the hair salon or in the many ensemble dance groups.
Though critiques of the trailer circulated on social media at the time, the pandemic ended up delaying the release of In the Heights a full year after that initial trailer. But with the renewed press cycle, the criticism once again came to the fore.
“Where are all of the leading dark-skinned Afro-Latinx folks?” wrote The Root’s Felice León, just ahead of the film’s June 11 release, in reference to both the original trailer and more recent, updated ones, including an early look at the film’s first eight minutes. “Granted, the trailer (and film) showcased Black dancers and there were certainly Black women in the hair salon, but where are the dark-skinned Black Latinx folks with a storyline?”
Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel’d with doctors and calculated close,
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
-Walt Whitman
Did you think this would just end with those dumb old white people? The cannibalism never ends, Mr. Hamilton. Eat, eat, eat, shit and eat more. Hahahahaha.
An employee of Seattle, who has been called a “social justice warrior” and is now a progressive candidate for the King County Council threatened to blow up a school bus, then called middle school students cowards as they fled.
According to court documents obtained by The Post Millennial, Ubax Gardheere boarded the Highline School District bus on Jan. 12, 2010 as it travelled on its morning route. Once aboard the bus, which was heading to Chinook Middle School, Gardheere demanded the driver tell his dispatcher “that a national security incident was going on.”
Gardheere then began yelling at the children about America’s relationship with Somalia, according to police reports. An audio recording of the incident demonstrated that when the driver told Gardheere to leave the bus she said, “You need to calm yourselves down ’cause I could have a bomb. Look how loose my clothes are.”
Deputy Prosecutor Gretchen Holmgren said students were afraid for their safety and as students fled through the rear emergency exit of the bus, Gardheere began screaming that they were “cowards” for abandoning their classmates.
Holmgren wrote the court, “While speaking with the middle school students, the defendant stated that she might have a bomb and might have a gun. When students attempted to escape out the back of the bus, she called them cowards and told them they would be responsible if something happened to their classmates. Several students believed she had a weapon of some kind and many feared for their lives.”
According to a detective with the King County, Gardheere told the arresting officer she was “prepared to die.” However, no weapons were found in her possession. She eventually pled the felony charges down to a gross medemeanor [sic] before trial.
New Rick James doc reveals how penis-wielding coke binge helped Lionel Richie
He’s Rick James, bitch — and don’t you ever forget it.
That classic Dave Chappelle catchphrase is exactly the kind of emphatic statement that the late “Super Freak” funkster made in one encounter revealed by his former manager Kerry Gordy in the new documentary “Bitchin: The Sound and Fury of Rick James,” which premiered Tuesday night at the TriBeCa Film Festival and will be available to stream on TriBeCa at Home beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Gordy — eldest son of legendary Motown Records founder Berry Gordy — vividly describes how James, frustrated by disappointing sales for his 1982 album “Throwin’ Down” and its accompanying tour, marched into the office of then Motown President Jay Lasker to deliver his next LP. Then he proceeded to pour coke onto Lasker’s desk, snort it, jump on top of said desk, take out his penis — and shove it in Lasker’s face while yelling “Sell my goddamn record!”
The album was Cold Blooded (1983). The title track is about Rick James’ relationship with the actress Linda Blair.
Rick James began dating Linda Blair in the fall of 1982. In early 1983, she aborted their baby then informed him she had been pregnant after the procedure. James was hurt by her decision.[1] He wrote “Cold Blooded” about Blair. “It was about how Linda could freeze my blood,” he wrote in his memoir.[2]
During one of Blair’s visits to James’ home in Buffalo, he took her to his recording studio.[1] She was interested in learning how to write music so he fired up his synthesizer and absentmindedly began noodling with the keys and came up with the bass line. Running with the idea, he played all the instruments on the track.
Vince Neil leaves stage, says voice is ‘gone’ during festival
Maybe he ate it.
One of the few Pearl Jam songs I like and the video is fantastic.
“She eventually pled the felony charges down to a gross medemeanor [sic] before trial.”
WTF?
That response works to pretty much all the links. Especially the Rick James one.
Ok.. maybe not for Vince Neil… but the rest, yes.
On a related note, that crazy black guy who shot people for being white men (but also shot a black woman) isn’t being charged with attempted murder.
She claimed post-partum depression.
My thoughts exactly. Either she had a psychotic break which may mean she isn’t responsible or she is a felon.
Serious question – can psychotic breaks be a one-off? Assuming it’s not substance-abuse related?
If it’s from bipolar mania, it can be controlled and kept rare. Many successful people have been able to live full lives despite bipolar disorder by keeping on meds and recognizing impending episodes; there can be long intervals of remission. Schizophrenia, however, is much more difficult and would be more persistent. But yes, many substance intoxications can cause one-off psychotic episodes, especially meth and hallucinogenics.
Linda Blair’s a very freaky girl….
She’s also her own best friend.
Well, she was possessed.
The original chick who sleeps above her covers. Three feet above her covers.
She also dated Rick Springfield (when she was only 15!) as well as Tommy Shaw. Man, the 70’s were WILD.
She dated Tommy Shaw?
You’re foolin’ yourself if you don’t believe it.
She must have had too much time on her hands.
Gardheere then began yelling at the children about America’s relationship with Somalia, according to police reports. An audio recording of the incident demonstrated that when the driver told Gardheere to leave the bus she said, “You need to calm yourselves down ’cause I could have a bomb. Look how loose my clothes are.”
Deputy Prosecutor Gretchen Holmgren said students were afraid for their safety and as students fled through the rear emergency exit of the bus, Gardheere began screaming that they were “cowards” for abandoning their classmates.
Gardheere sounds nice.
Click through to the link and watch the video of her 2017 Inauguration Address. It’s the voice of crazy.
Imagine her + coked-up Carrie Fisher in a tawdry lesbian tryst, a la “Girls Gone Wild”.
/I may retire to my bunk
Are either of them big enough for you?
Well, Vince isn’t the important part of that band anyway.
My ulcers and I say good afternoon to Glibertopia! Propofol is a helluva drug.
Are you OK?
Yes, thanks. But I now have a medication regimen that was described to me as my “new second job” for the next couple of months.
Glad you’re OK. Sorry about the drug regimen.
https://youtu.be/HjJhbnz8YX0?t=141
Sorry to read that, Mojeaux. Hope everything works out.
Sorry Mojeaux.
Oof. Sorry to hear.
Sorry. Hope everything works out quickly.
I hope that goes well! Sorry you have to go through that.
Ugh, sorry Mojeaux.
That’s what they murdered Michael Jackson with, isn’t it?
Don’t know, but it’s so funny that when you sleep, you are still aware of time passing. Getting put under is a trip when you’re waking up with no sense of time passing.
I enjoyed the 10 seconds before I went under for my recent endoscope.
Yes.
From my minimal reading about it, it was quite the accomplishment as therapeutic and fatal dosages differ by some order of magnitude.
In a normal person, but I believe Jackson had built up such a tolerance that the therapeutic dose was not too far off.
We had a client who made a machine to administer Propofol. We were coming up with campaigns to sell it.
Then Michael Jackson died.
Yikes.
So your client just beat it?
Yeah, they didn’t want to be startin’ something.
None of that!
*narrows gaze*
Swissie Jean is no pun lover…
Dammit, that doggone pun is mine!
He’s just a dude that says we can’t write a pun
But we’re just havin’ fun.
And a cat-butt ain’t much fun.
She’s livin’ off the wall
Sounds like a thriller.
You all are bad.
They are. Because it should be alphabetical, or at least, numbered. It’s as easy as ABC, 1,2,3!
Is the most important member Tommy’s?
Let’s ask Pamela…
Be well, Moje.
Thanks. It’s all good. That time of life where your body nickles and dimes you. It’s just going to be inconvenient for a while.
At least Vince has never had that problem before, amirite?
For contrast here’s Triumph, same day, same stage.
My favorite Rick James story is he was in a band with Neil Young for years (I was unaware until recently). I expect crazy coke fueled Rick James stories but I didn’t expect that.
The Mynah Birds. Rick James had a crazy ass life.
It’s in the article. Apparently the manager of the band reported Rick for desertion (from the Navy) and ended the relationship.
OT: Buying a car sucks. If one more salesape tells me “come on down for a test drive and we’ll talk about it” when I ask for a price, I’m going to buy the damn thing from carmax just to spite them.
I enjoy car shopping. *shrug*
I’d enjoy it more if I could get a dadgum all-inclusive quote from somebody. I don’t want to drive 4 hours to end up getting nickle and dimed for another $5k when I could get the same final price at the place down the street.
I don’t know how many times I’ve said “out the door price” today, not to receive a single damn out the door price.
If you have a Costco membership or Geico insurance, both have a no hassle quote service. We’ve bought a car with one of each. You’ll get a bunch of OTD quotes back from participating dealers, no games, and a set price for any add-ons.
The pricing is very good. It costs the dealerships little to sell the cars this way, and they usually have a non-commission or fixed price commission internet person that handles the actual sale. I’m assuming the advantage is it bumps up the dealerships’ monthly/quarterly total vehicles sales to hit goals and get manufacturer incentives. The finance manager will of course try to fleece you though, even if paying cash. One Toyota FM actually told me I was taking food from his kids’ mouths when I wouldn’t fall for any of their scams.
I could have shaved off another few hundred dollars to get absolute rock bottom pricing by emailing ten dealerships, selecting the top 5 for a new round of quotes, and then playing the final 3 against each other. Not worth it though.
“One Toyota FM actually told me I was taking food from his kids’ mouths”
Heard that from a real estate sales guy
“My kids have to eat too”
He had the contract all ready with a 6% commission, I said 2, we settled at 4 but he didn’t sell the property anyway, I still have it and its appreciating
I loved it when I would contact the selling agent directly and they’d try to take the entire 6% commission. Lol, no.
If you pay more that what car dealerships pay for the vehicle, youre doing it wrong.
The Double walk out helps. Candy line up not help so much.
Even in kungfu hysteria times, there are still vehicles that sit on a lot that the dealership wants to move.
I’ve had consistently good experiences with them. Not great, but also never a bad experience.
I gave it up long ago and refuse to shown up or even speak to them until they give me a price through Edmunds, Carmax or the like.
Walk out. That’s the best tactic to getting a better deal.
It can be. We walked out when my wife was buying her work truck and as I was backing out of the spot the guy ran out and said “they got creative and found that $4000 they can strip off the price.”
He talked to the sales manager, right? I once stood up and offered my hand and said I was going to the next town over. Then he made a trip, bathroom/coffee shop and got the the OK from the sales manager…
A coworker just bought a new car and he said that inventory is so low now that they are charging msrp and getting it.
But as far as walking out, that is your only leverage. Everything else is tilted in favor of the dealership. Walk out. If you can’t get a better deal somewhere else, you can always go back.
The other tip I got from an old web site that was built by an ex-salesman was to bring a kitchen timer with you. Tell the guy that you think you should be able to wrap up the deal in an hour. Then set the timer for an hour and let him know that if the deal isn’t done, you are leaving. So if he wants to go back and talk with his manager, that is fine, but he’s on the clock.
If you are okay with used, I recommend getting a former rental car. Enterprise has a website and I’ve never had bad luck with buying a rental.
Auctions also work. Find yourself someone with a license to buy and give them an idea of what you’re looking for.
We’ve done great buying Hertz cars.
Carmax has a lot of nice fleet cars. We bought my wife a two year old BMW 528 with 20K miles there a couple of years ago for just $21K. But as a fleet car it had no extras; she almost didn’t want it because it didn’t have heated seats. I reminded her we live in California, and any comparable model with seat heats would be several thousand more and out of her price range. So she finally moved forward, thankfully she’s loved it ever since.
Never buy a rental.
I almost always practice my J turns in every rental I get.
It’s snobbish, but there’s a big difference between buying a run-of-the-mill car and a luxury vehicle in how you are treated.
So, a nice prosecco and name brand xanax and lube vs a shot of moonshine and a mexican roofie and a dab of axle grease.
Uh, sure!
Let’s just say Hyundai dealers work on volume. BMW dealers, less so.
Between me, my husband, XX TD, and my mom, we have four Hyundais (and one Dodge Ram). My little Zippicar that got crunched was an Enterprise castoff and is a trouper little car. I bought it from my mom, who said it was the best car she’d ever owned, so she bought another Hyundai.
Last time I drove a hyundai, I felt like I couldn’t see anything around me. The frame just intruded too much into my line of sight, especially around the edges of the rear view mirror’s field of vision.
Funny. I went from having a motorcycle as my only vehicle to a car as my only vehicle and for MONTHS I felt my line of sight was severely restricted. My entire car was a blind spot. Nerve wracking.
In my case it was the rental car between the time my Focus was totalled and when I took posession of my CMax. Going from one regular passenger car to another shouldn’t have had such a big effect.
Lots of cars are like that. Thank all the government safety rules like the one requiring the car’s roof to support the weight of the car.
SLD: It shouldn’t be a government mandate, but after watching rollover accidents, I’ll always buy a car that had that feature.
Nothing wrong with the cars, but the margins are thinner.
I don’t own a BMW. I have a Honda. But my wife has an Acura, and we tested out a Volvo. The experiences were different than buying our Jeeps or Mitsubishi.
Hyundai has some of the worst dealer satisfaction scores in the industry.
I believe it is a leftover from when they first came here in the 80s are were absolutely terrible.
Now can we get a Glib consensus on the NADA and state franchise laws? Talk about a protection racket.
The Rodney King Excel: now there’s a model you never see on the road anymore.
Ayup.
The BMW salesweasel didn’t take me for a test drive. He gave me a car for the weekend.
When I bought my Wife’s Focus (Certified Pre-Owned), they handed me the keys and sad ‘Come back tomorrow’.
Apparently CarMax is offering 24-hour test drives now.
Quite true,
Although my best sales experience was for a Ford Taurus station wagon. I was utterly shocked.
We’re actually toying with the idea of having a new F-450 made to order, for a couple of reasons:
1) For once, get the exact vehicle we want.
2) If we get a brand-new one, it may well be the last pickup I ever need to buy.
I know about the “lose 20% when you drive it off the lot” deal on new vehicles, but I reckon that doesn’t matter much when you’re planning to drive it until the wheels come off of either 1) the truck, b) me, or II) the rest of the world.
Complication: A built-out F-450 like we want is somewhere in the neighborhood of $75 – 90k.
I know about the “lose 20% when you drive it off the lot” deal on new vehicles,
Because of the weird market, this is not true right now. Late model used is closer to 90% of new prices. Hell, I just got off the phone with a guy who has a used current year van at the same price as new (despite new having a $7500 tax credit associated with it). Some idiot is gonna get a garbage deal on that one.
That doesn’t surprise me right now, although I read that some of this is due to supply-chain problems with a certain type of computer chip, which issue doesn’t apply to Ford Super-Duty trucks for whatever reason. But either way, since the plan would be to keep the truck basically forever (from my point of view anyway) it’s not an issue either way.
I was looking at Genisis G70s and 2019s with 30K miles were just couple grand cheaper than the new 2021s.
Yeah, the cheap cell phone I wanted to get to replace my 6-year-old LG is out of stock thanks to the chip shortage.
Fuck the coronavirus panic from governors that engineered the shortage.
Yep, used trucks are a shit market right now, they either have 180,000 miles on them, or they’re only a few years old and just a tad cheaper than brand new. May as well bite the bullet pay a little more and have the exact truck you want for the piddly savings you’ll get.
I bought a used Tacoma a few years ago for about $21k. Kelley Blue Book estimates the trade-in value today as exactly what I paid for it in 2018.
Pennies.
A Denali-trim pickup or Escalade will be in the same ballpark or more, and its not your design.
I saw one of those of the 2021 vintage in the wild today.
I hate that crap. Do as much of it via email as possible and just ignore their pleas to get you captive for a sales pitch.
Last car I bought, I never stepped foot into a dealership until it was to sign the papers. Also have your financing lined up before you go to buy.
Yep, almost 100% by email. I’ll happily get on the phone with them if they are playing ball, but I’m not lifting a finger until I get an all-in quote.
What I have in my back pocket is a few guaranteed offers on the trade in, enough cash to pay 100% no matter the final price, and a couple all-in offers from TrueCar on the same model, just with trim packages that don’t quite check all the boxes.
My wife is the one you want doing your car buying for you. She is merciless and is willing to spend a lot of time calling/emailing dealerships to get the best price.
When we bought our swagger wagon, it was just like you said, we showed up signed the paperwork and cut them a check for it. Done in about 20 minutes.
Back when the dealers first started getting squeezed by the internet, I sent out a ton of emails to local dealerships asking them for prices for a Ford Ranger (with specific options). About 40% of them sent me a price. Others were all “come on down” responses.
A month later my wife’s car was in for some service (factory recall thing) and one of the salesmen came up and said he noticed that I had sent them an email about Ford Rangers and since I was there, did I want to do the test drive.
I told him I had already bought one from a nearby dealership that sent me the lowest price. They guy (older) went nuts. Actually started yelling at me for not giving him a chance to match the price. Went on and on about how you can’t just ask for a price via email. No, you have to come down and see the car and talk about the price.
Got so bad, I asked to see the manager and tried to lodge a complaint. I say tried because the manager basically said the same thing. Can’t just tell you a price. Have to come down and dicker. He did it with a much better tone, but still.
The internet really broke a lot of business models. Not unhappy to see the car salesmen take it in the shorts.
“And that, Mr. Salesman, is why you don’t get any sales anymore.”
As in, that sort of behaviour would mean I’d never return to that place and warn all my associates away.
I’ve been very free about bad mouthing that dealership to anyone I run into. (Except for Tundra, I told him that the place was great)
He paid half of what you did, didn’t he?
In Denver, for about the last fifteen years our family bought all our vehicles not only from the same dealership, but through the same sales guy. He always listened to us, strove to get us in the vehicle we wanted, never gave us a song-or-dance or tried to move something we didn’t want just to get a sale. Relationships like that are great when you find them.
Now, of course, we have to see what things are like here. Kendall Ford has dealerships in Wasilla and Anchorage, so I suppose we’ll go through them.
John Elway’s?
Barbee’s Freeway Ford.
“Like usual, list price, not a penny more!”
Just wait until 6 months after you buy, the dealer is going to cold call you about selling it back to them.
My house was more absurd on that front. Just after closing, before my first payment was due, I got notice they’d sold the loan to one of the clearinghouses (Freddie Mac?) and the credit union turned around and asked if I was interested in refinancing.
Mind you, there was no change in interest rates, and I’d get nothing out of the deal save a hit against my credit rating.
I’m a veteran. I have a mailbox full of refinance offers.
So, after dealing with frequent calls after buying the last car, I decided to use Abine Blur to mask my email address and my phone number. Errything is getting toggled off once I sign on the dotted line.
Carmax. I have used them and loved it. So easy, no bullshit.
This episode of Econtalk is very illuminating:
https://www.econtalk.org/cole-on-the-market-for-new-cars/
Does it though? Aren’t most “latinx” supporters awfully pale in proportion to the latino?
Yeah, but la-twinks pay extra for “diversity”
Ass Wednesday is living its best life.
https://archive.is/jenIm
Face diapers. Blech.
Are we looking at the same photos?
There is a woman wearing a face diaper in a gym picture about 2/3rds the way through.
Just say no to face diapers.
If I ever return to the office I’ll have to try the Rick James method to get more budget. Doing it over Webex just seems pathetic.
I mean, sometimes you just need to go crazy to let them know what you’re capable of.
Jeffery Toobin was able to negotiate a vacation with this method.
Zoom might make the threat appear greater.
I admire your dedication. Tell us how it goes.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘No yellow!’ Hunter Biden used slur to refer to Asians in 2019 texts with his cousin Caroline who asked if he preferred ‘foreign or domestic’ women – as he’s already been blasted as racist for using the n-word”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9689809/No-yellow-Hunter-Biden-referred-Asians-slur-2019-texts.html
What a lovely family. I wonder if Joe was hooked on coke too.
CWAA
Is Caroline one of the relatives he was banging?
The Chinese Woman – Seinfeld
“My first date ever with the Pacific Rim.”
+1 Changstein
Maybe he didn’t want to be Swalwelled.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9690793/Demi-Rose-leaves-little-imagination-catsuit-racy-snaps.html
Nope. Hardly a shrinking violet.
Jugsy gets home Friday. Having been a few weeks since Ive seen her, I may take I night off work and get in on the ZoomCall.
Then Ill show ya thicc, hoss
#ThiccThighsSaveLives
Parents send their kids’ masks for testing
It only stands to reason that one of those health ramifications would be the fact that millions of people, particularly children, have been forced to wear and carry around pieces of cloth they’ve continually breathed through for hours on end. What lurking pathogens might be found on these disgusting contraptions being incessantly handled, stuck in pockets, and mindlessly tossed on books, tables, and desks? Well, one group of Florida parents sent a batch of masks worn by their children to a lab to find out. And yeah, you’ll probably need to make sure you aren’t eating dinner anytime soon before you digest THESE results.
Via press release:
Gainesville, FL (June 16, 2021) – A group of parents in Gainesville, FL, concerned about potential harms from masks, submitted six face masks to a lab for analysis. The resulting report found that five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria. No viruses were detected on the masks, although the test is capable of detecting viruses.
The analysis detected the following 11 alarmingly dangerous pathogens on the masks:
• Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia)
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)
• Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis, sepsis)
• Acanthamoeba polyphaga (keratitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis)
• Acinetobacter baumanni (pneumonia, blood stream infections, meningitis, UTIs— resistant to antibiotics)
• Escherichia coli (food poisoning)
• Borrelia burgdorferi (causes Lyme disease)
• Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria)
• Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires’ disease)
• Staphylococcus pyogenes serotype M3 (severe infections—high morbidity rates)
• Staphylococcus aureus (meningitis, sepsis)
Kids are the worst. Dirty lil germ factories.
That’s just from six masks?
Staph aureus is all over your skin, so that’s no surprise. But some of those others are pretty scary. Remind me again why we’re forcing children, who have close to zero risk from covid and don’t spread it either, are being forced to wear masks everywhere, including outside at summer camps.
Remind me again
“Solidarity! With, uh, someone…”
Wait, I’ve got it:
“Equity!”
It is the forcing part that is necessary. That is what it has been all about since the beginning.
So that the rulers and a large part of the society don’t have to admit that they were very wrong in the last 15 months.
Obviously if the kids weren’t wearing masks they could spread *checks list* Legionnaires Disease. //sarc
The contrast between the response of Kansas versus Missouri was stark. Today I was in KS for my procedure and the nurse was saying, “Yeah, Missouri’s kids are in school and ours aren’t? So stupid.”
I guess KungFlu knew not to cross the state line.
Because SCIENCE!
It’s a plot by the International Order of ENTs to drum up more business.
Emergency powers reform might be dead in NH
But Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, spoke out about the ongoing dispute about competing versions of a second bill (HB 417) to change the process for dealing with states of emergency.
Morse said he wanted to put the emergency language compromise into this budget bill, but vowed to oppose any amendment that lacks the support of Gov. Chris Sununu.
“I will not put tomorrow into the budget something the governor will not accept,” Morse said at the close of the budget talks Tuesday.
The seven-person conference committee dealing with the emergency powers bill is set to meet Wednesday at noon, an hour before the budget negotiators are to return.
“They are now facing two amendments, one that is acceptable to the governor, and one that is not acceptable,” Morse said.
Update.
Remaining sticking point on the budget talks is the Governor’s proposed family leave benefit. It’s a back-door to a broad-based income tax. The Senate and the Governor want it, the House doesn’t.
Wouldn’t taxing only women violate title IX?
Oh, you misunderstand. They tax everybody, but you have to pay your taxes in women.
A year or so ago that would have immediately triggered the ol’ snark-o-meter.
Today? Thecthought that a government is willing to tax a woman AND use the word “broad” to describe it barely moves the needle on the snark-o-meter.
Snark aside, here’s my understanding of the proposal:
– Employers decide whether or not they opt-in to the state-run benefit system
– If the employer does, the employer receives a bunch of tax breaks from the state. Employees at that employer have money withheld from their paycheck to go to the state government’s coffers to fund the benefit
– If an employee at an employer that opted into the program uses the family leave benefits, benefits are subsidized by the state government
Prediction: If the program passes into law, damn near all NH employers will opt-in to the program.
I used “broad-based” because NH current income tax is the Interest and Dividends tax. Phasing it out over five years is the one of the things the Senate and House budget negotiators agree on. Taxing salary and wages, which the family leave benefit will effectively do, covers a larger base of money, hence “broad-based”.
Emergency powers reforms do better in PA than NH
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s administration has certified the results of the May primary election, bringing a formal end to the disaster emergency declaration that the Democrat first issued at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tuesday’s certification formalizes the results of the May 18 primary election. That’s when voters approved Republican-backed constitutional amendments giving lawmakers broad new power over extending and ending disaster emergency declarations.
The Republican-controlled Legislature voted last week to end the disaster emergency declaration. But it also extended hundreds of regulatory waivers that Wolf’s administration approved under the authority of the declaration.
So… maybe I should more back to PA?
Surely this has already been linked here, but LOL at 3:54
Hail
LobsterHydra!It’s Reasontown, NA.
Cocaines one hell of a drug.
I really hate proprietay charging cables, because those are the ones you invariably misplace.
*gives Sony the finger*
It’s probably in the same place you left the other sock.
Are you calling his cables crusty?
Sorry we only have crusty jugglers.
Why USB keeps changing
TL;DW: Nokia.
At the very least with the various USB variants, the odds are I’ve got another cable that works.
Im still not clear on what a USB-C is vs. DisplayPort or Thunderbolt
Isn’t Thunderbolt just an Apple brand name for USB-C?
Heisenberg’s USB Superposition
A bit of good news is welcome now and then.
https://www.ammoland.com/2021/06/louisiana-constitutional-carry-with-veto-proof-votes-to-go-to-governor/#axzz6xzEIAuyJ
Not that it’s quite the same, but this reminds me of a time I was in high-school in German class and we were watching a German movie and one of the other students commented about the movie “where are all the black people?”
I saw a Tumblr post complaining about the lack of POCs in Disney animated movies. Someone retorted that they were German/Scandinavian/European fairy tales and what the hell did they expect?
SNL (of all things) made fun of this recently.
Also Disney has painstakingly gone through every ethnic group any way to avoid this criticism. There’s no winning.
The specific complaint was that the *European fairy tales* don’t have POCs in them, not that Disney hadn’t done its due diligence in diversity.
They are in camp.
A former coworker of mine vacationed in Russia several years ago. He found it so unusual that all menial jobs were done by white people.
Where are all the leading blond-haired Euro-Latinx Volks?
Argentina
All the blondes in Andalucia haz a sad.
That’s not how you deescalate a situation. I can imagine no incident in which one party says they might have a bomb would cause the other party to calm down.
The woman is a lunatic.
Cray-cray gonna cray.
I know she’s Somali, but I read that in the voice of Miss Cleo for some reason.
“caull me now?”
Why aren’t you calling? You could be. In grave danger. And I can help you.
I’m amazed that the white supremacist pigs didn’t summarily execute her on the spot. Must have been a coupon day at Dunkin Donuts…
If I had the sight picture, I might pull the trigger when I heard the crazy woman with the loose overcoat say “bomb” on a bus full of children.
Thanks for the tune, I’ve been on a PJ kick for the last few weeks but haven’t come across that one. I like their early stuff.
IIRC that vid was 100% Todd MacFarlane (Spawn). Remember my freshman college roommate getting hyped for the premiere. Pretty sure it came out before that Korn freak on a leash vid.
Never could stand Pearl Jam
“Russian Security Tried To Push U.S. Reporters Out Of Biden-Putin Summit: Reports” https://www.dailywire.com/news/russian-security-tried-to-push-u-s-reporters-out-of-biden-putin-summit-reports
Maybe it just was time to have the fucking.
Huzzah! We get to be treated like adults for another year, despite the lamentations of the liquor store lobbyists.
Vince Neil is on the Axl Rose diet.
He limits himself to eating one Axl Rose per day.
LOL I see the internet is way ahead of me again.
Cake?
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/6662445_700b.jpg
In preparation for my (presumed) impending homelessness, I worked on the Airstream today, to get it ready for the road. The trailer brake controller on the truck died while i wasn’t looking. A hunnert bucks here, a hunnert bucks there…
Are you going to nomadhood for a while?
Are you going to nomadhood for a while?
That’s not the plan. It depends what’s available once I have the money in hand. There are a couple of places I’d seriously think about writing a check for if they’re still on the market in six weeks, even/especially if I didn’t plan to be there forever.
You should log your reno with pix and write an article.
He’d have to figure out how to make it appear at the bottom of the front page. 😛
LOL
https://www.wtae.com/article/mixed-drinks-to-go-passes-pennsylvania-senate/36743576#
Repubs in PA looking to expand liquor sales. ?
Or they could just do away with state owned liquor stores. Just sayin’.
I think of New Hampshire as a generally pro-liberty state but I’m always somewhat thrown by their state liquor store monopoly. I assume the answer is “Puritans”.
Have you been following my “Too Local News” posts and comments? That might help enlighten you into why “Live Free or Die” is a bit of a joke.
See also the attempts to legalize recreational marijuana in the state.
Just for laughs, i checked realtor.com. Two of the places I had my eye on are now “pending”.
The kind of stuff I’m looking at is going to require being right there with ready money.
The grocery store chain website has been down all day. Outrageous.
Just got around to Joemala
“exposed security flesh” is probably going to hang with me for a while.
Saw this headline “Four-time PGA champ Rory McIlroy says green-reading books should be banned” and spent a few seconds wondering if he was talking about climate change focused children books or Nooks and Kindles. I think I need to take a break from politics/culture wars for a while.
I can’t even parse that. Green-reading like reading a book on the green while playing golf?
I’m guessing a book that tells you how to read greens for putting.
Oh, that makes sense.
I thought it was a book that’s envious of all the better books.
I had to look it up:
Green-reading books have grown in popularity in recent years with almost every elite Tour player using them, even some who have advocated banning the aid. Critics say the books offer too much assistance, effectively negating the skill of reading putts. The books feature highly detailed illustrations that note the direction and degree of slope from anywhere on the putting surface.
Err, greens can be and are periodically changed.
It’s the dictionary they carry in their back pockets.
Holy Crap. Talk about cannibalism. This is gonna take “Get Woke Go Broke” to a whole new level.
https://twitter.com/exjon/status/1405272840195100673 (also feat Iowahawk)
Seriously…to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy – “Victoria doesn’t have any secrets left.”
Does not seem like any attempt to expand market share or increase shareholder value. Maybe time for a hostile takeover or other action?
Yet another nail in the coffin of the American male.
Pretty soon testosterone will be outlawed.
LOL. Good luck with that.
I got nuthin’. ?♂️
Best reply “Spirit Halloween ready to pounce”
I love Rick James.
So absolutely over the top, but he was so damn good. I will likely watch that documentary.
Yeah, definitely will watch.
I used to like Pearl Jam, but for the life of me I can’t remember why.
“I can’t remember why.”
Chalk it up to youthful ignorance.
Meh, they’ve got a couple bangers, I mean they’re no STP or Soundgarden but they earned their place in the 90’s rock pantheon. Oh, and while I’m here REM sucks.
*hides Debbie Gibson anthology*
She was more late 80’s pop, One of my good buddies was a huge DG fan in high school, the rest of us were classic rock types, so we teased him mercilessly. He never backed down, a few years out of High School three of us shared an apartment, and Miss Gibson was trying to make a come back, Jamie (the Uber fan) got tickets to her Cleveland show and on the fateful night he got all gussied up and headed up to the show only to return thirty minutes later, he heard on the radio that the concert was cancelled due to lack of ticket sales. I’d like to tell you that me and our other roommate were understanding of Jamie’s disappointment and didn’t spend hours mocking the poor sap but I can’t.
Eh, this is a great little pop tune
I love old REM but I have to admit they went off the rails sometime in the mid-90s.
I agree REM sucks. Everybody might cry, but mostly they do it alone so we don’t have to hear it.
REM and Pearl Jam suck in exactly the same way. A few bangers, shining like diamonds in a cesspool of mediocre navel-gazing donkey shit.
Ayup. I’m not all that enthralled with the whole grunge movement. It has a certain whininess that just should not have ever been introduced to rock and roll. The 70’s and 80’s both had some self respect that the nineties was mostly lacking, at least as far as mainstream rock went. Ya can’t fucking whine about your parents not raising you right and expect to be taken seriously.
Btw, having listened to most of the US festival “Heavy Metal” day, I think Triumph won the whole thing, followed by the Scorpions. I didn’t listen to Ozzy, because I just don’t really do that.
Ya can’t fucking whine about your parents not raising you right and expect to be taken seriously
Have you heard of The Who?
Btw, having listened to most of the US festival “Heavy Metal” day, I think Triumph won the whole thing
Unless April Wine was included the entire thing can be considered a farce.
I have heard the Who and after maybe 1970, I don’t care much for them. Thanks for pointing out the likely reason.
As for April Wine, they should have been there. their music was all over town!
All I wanted was a Pepsi…
I love grunge, and am an uncloseted emo kid. Whininess is not the problem, not from my view anyway.
Repetitiveness and lame musicianship is the problem…
Man, TOG had to find an exception! That’s more like get the fuck off my back, than whining, I think. I mean, putting you into a funny farm is pretty legit gripe. Not like them not mentioning that you’re adopted ( which, btw, I don’t have to worry much about, LOL!)
I saw REM on the Green tour.
Between them and Rush, I learned rock and roll really could be boring.
Vintage photos of busty gals – obviously NSFW
https://www.tumbex.com/eroticaretro.tumblr/posts?page=1&tag=busty
New meme gif for Not Adahn
https://twitter.com/burbeari/status/1405288397892034564
OO! My favorite music video! I hate Pearl Jam… love that MV.
Next favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4
Also… where’s the zoomie zoomie linky linky?
STEVE SMITH snags a Twatter “like” from Fox News’ Kennedy.
Lol
By snags, you mean…
Glorious!
I see Colorado is succumbing to the stalkers of Masterpiece Cakeshop and are compelling him to bake the cake..well it isnt the cake he is refusing to make, he is being compelled to write something.
Vindictive, small minded, bureaucratic pieces of shit
hopefully gets back up to the supremes and they release a real decision and not that mess of hash they crapped out last time (Roberts!)
I’m unfortunately not going to be around to host Zoom tonight. If Tulip or anyone else wants to do so, have at it!
Sorry, kids. Life has gotten increasingly busy and stressful the last few weeks. I just need to make it to the end of August and all will be well. I think.
That is a great Pearl Jam video.
FFS, not meant as a reply, but the comment still stands.
Question of protocol for the Glibs:
My aunt died on Monday (she was 91 and it wasn’t unexpected) and I have been tasked with writing her obit and eulogy. My question is about the former. She never had children so I wrote, “She was predeceased by her parents, brothers, and husband”. With no children is it expected to include nieces and nephews (and great- and grand-)? I don’t want to get too carried away, especially since the newspaper charges by the word.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
“She is survived by many nieces and nephews.”
My take (worth what you paid for it, likely): Unless a niece or nephew was particularly close, I’d lump them in a group – “n beloved nieces and nephews”, and I wouldn’t go further down the chain than that.
Well, we are all pretty close and she was like a surrogate mother to all of us in the family. Complicating it slightly, my sister passed away a year ago.
Might be a little wordy but I will try,
“She was predeceased by her parents, her brothers, her husband, and her niece. She is survived by her nephews and many great- and grand-nieces and -nephews.”
Does that work?
Thank you for your replies.
I think that’s the way you should go. Sorry about your aunt.
Yes, that sounds fine.
Thank you.
Go for brutal honesty, “She had many nieces and nephews but only really liked Bob, Malcolm, and Helen.”
“But Hobbit was her favorite, and she only really pretended to like the others.”
This is why I lurve you guys so much!
/staggers away drunkedly
You know her best evidently and obits are forever. If y’all liked her, pay for more words. If not, maybe one sentence.
I have changed my outlook on my own death to inconvenience others since so many have inconvenienced me with kungflu hysteria and the near destruction of America.
My obit will be two pages long.
I am also debating having 500 lbs of cremated animals added to my ashes to really shake things up.
“; survived by x nieces and y nephews”? I usually see immediate relatives listed by name, even if deceased.
Tonight’s Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85232715118?pwd=Sk0zS2hSRmJrS01UOWlkOFRnU1JRQT09
SP & OMWC are busy (I confirmed – no dueling zooms tonight) Starts at 8 eastern.
Thank you for hosting.
(Today’s baking is up in the Forum.)
I’ll keep the link open until 8:45pm Eastern
I am planning on showing up at 8:57 Eastern so hang in there…………..I am kidding, I am going to eat dinner and go to bed but thanks for hosting. Today kicked my ass and tomorrow is going to be worse.
Did you have to make a pizza?
First pro-recall ad from the folks behind the effort to recall Newsom. It’s short. It’s OK.
I know all of you who live in freer states have had this forever, but today I went to my first place and didn’t wear a mask inside! Got my hair cut, and every single person there was like “NOPE WE’RE DONE”. This is the same place that was doing speakeasy cuts on the patio even when haircuts were verboten, so not a surprise really, but it was so nice to be able to chat without that damn thing. Hopefully this snowballs (though tbh I didn’t go anywhere else today to check if other stores were loosening as well).