It’s a special day for the goyim. They put on their fancy clothes, go to their fancy churches, listen to fancy orations from their fancy ministers, and allow me to surreptitiously climb into their windows and spread my (((ichor))) all over their possessions. I spent the next week giggling. So if you’re at home reading these Links, you are cutting into my fun. I hope you’re proud of yourselves.
Birthdays today are numerous, and include a guy who was OK in my book; a guy who was transformational; the original Joe Biden; a strong Second Amendment advocate; everybody’s TV mom; a one dimensional clown, but did that dimension very well; a guy whose classic textbook was the bane of my senior year; a guy whose funeral featured the best sign language interpreter ever; a revered piece of shit who wasted remarkable amounts of taxpayer money; the most abused philosopher ever; the original patent troll; a homo frontiersman; another revered guy whose work I find unreadable; a guy who deserves a medal for fucking Barbra Streisand; a lying sack of shit whom we can blame for the lionization of one of our worst presidents; another astronaut but with a bit of a twist; and a brilliant multi-instrumentalist who almost fits my theme.
Fauci can fuck right off. Again.
Crazy idea: if you don’t like their policies, don’t go there.
Between this and the Texas thing, I’m getting a bit suspicious that there’s an agenda out there…
There’s a simple fix. 100% guarantee they won’t do it.
This is impossible- they have gun control laws. Laws!
Crazy idea: we keep the fuck away from that shithole part of the world.
Old Guy Music today is… wait… Molly Tuttle? Again? Yeah. Bite it. Seriously excellent cover.
I thought Heath Ledger was the homo frontiersman.
“homo frontiersman”
I figured he was the pitcher in that movie, not the catcher.
I think it counts. Alternatively “Homo frontiersman” is an extinct species of hominid that was a lot tougher than their sapiens cousins.
the original Joe Biden
Happy birthday Neil Kinnock!
Woo-hoo!
I’m just happy I got the “transformational” b- day boy correct.
I guessed him on Fourier’s (or was it Laplace’s?) birthday.
Yeah, not too many to choose from.
Unless we include Caitlyn Jenner.
A better Lorentz
the most abused philosopher ever;
The favorite philosopher of Green Bay Packer fans.
“The far-right protesters called for a boycott of Wi Spa and chanted baseless claims about paedophilia, as women carrying signs reading “protect female spaces” and “It’s worse in women’s shelters” marched alongside men wearing helmets and masks that covered their faces.
Calls to defend “female spaces” and “women’s shelters” have become rallying cries of anti-trans groups, who have falsely suggested that trans-inclusive policies endanger cis women. California has for years had laws in place that allow trans people to use facilities that match their gender.”
Damn man, could they at least try to pretend they aren’t ridiculously biased?
I think today’s theme is “TMITE”. Spotted it in the first and third links, too.
That is unbelievably ham fisted propaganda.
I volunteered once as part of a group to help fix up a women’s shelter (all residents had been battered by a man in their lives).
Security was strict even for us volunteers who were there to repair, paint, construct. The women who were ok with encountering us were still guarded and timid.
I can’t even imagine how much it would suck for the women who finally got the courage to leave their abusers (often with kids in tow) to get to a shelter and find it’s full of trannies.
Trannies are mentally ill and should not be foisted on society at large. I hope they get help and solace, but they are straight up mentally ill.
I love the scare quotes in the quoted passage above. At least the Grauniad is honest about the contempt they have for women.
My one complaint about some of those rules are that they have (anecdotally) also caused issues with teenage boys being banned from the shelters as well.
Uh huh. https://www.rebelnews.com/incarcerated_women_in_california_are_being_attacked_by_men_identifying_as_trans_to_switch_prisons_womens_group_says
And https://news.yahoo.com/california-transgender-prison-policy-disaster-204126505.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma
Insanity.
BIGGOT!!
I swear, the main reason Trump won years ago was that ordinary people were tired of being called biggots, racists, misogynists, ___phobes.
But if you dare go against the mainstream narrative you will get labeled something hateful in a nanosecond.
It’s also become clear in the past few years that the interests of the Ts are not the same as those of Ls, Gs, and Bs.
Clear to others perhaps. There is a stunning lack of awareness, coupled with ideological enforcement, in the alphabet soup community.
I am starting to notice, in the UK at least, a separation of the LBG from the T.
Hoping that makes the leap over the pond.
zwak:
The Ohio Craft Beer Association put out a press release that they had put out an “All Are Welcome” rainbow flag. I saw it in the wild the other day. After seeing it, I’m not sure if it’s giving the groups room to grow, or if it’s a subtle troll:
The flag.
The interests of the “t”s runs counter to the interests of everyone, icluding the “t”s themselves. I don’t think any of this has to do with protecting people who wish they are the opposite sex and try to emulate them as much as possible. It’s about subjugating the rest of us. They need to find a line in the sand to cross and this one is pretty close. 2=2 must equal 5 and we all must not only say it, but believe it.
Yeah, that’s fucked up.
The Middle East is fucked. I’d like to become independent of oil not for crunchy granola hippie reasons but so that all we cared about in the Mideast is Israel.
The others can go fuck themselves and argue about Mohammed’s heirs through his 9 year old bride.
Even Lebanon isn’t a Christian country anymore since the 70s. No invasion or mass migration, just a matter of demographic birth rates.
… and a ton of open prejudice and government abuses towards non-Muslim religions.
The big factor there is the growth of Hezbollah, who are de facto in charge. Demographically, the country is still the most Christian in the Middle Eat (if one accepts Maronites as Christians, of course). But look at the president: he’s nominally a Christian, but he’s totally a Hezbollah puppet, knowing full well what’s happened to presidents there who weren’t…
What do we suppose would happen if somebody opened a gym with a single co-ed locker room?
I’d join.
He said “co-ed”, not “all ages”.
With in the first hour a old guy would be blow drying his balls in the locker room.
You don’t?
I have kids do that. They’re the right height.
LOL
Yeah, this guy!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRcHL2kHqCX
I love taking the kids to the YMCA as it allows me to use the family locker rooms. The have private showers with toilets and, at our local, are not full of naked, elderly, Eastern European men.
Is it fun there?
It really is. I do whatever I feel, like playing on the 3 story spiral waterslide; then bouncing between the steam room and the sauna until the kids are done with swimming lessons.
Your Y has a water slide, steam room AND sauna??? Lucky duck! I wish my local Y membership card would get me into YOUR location! 🙁
Inter-racial prosperity though Ricky Skaggs.
I only got up an hour ago because me and the mosquiters stayed up until 4am watching jazz fusion concerts on youtube. I regret nothing.
Bring back the guillotine
Over 100,000 people protested across France on Saturday against the government’s latest measures to push people to get vaccinated and curb rising infections by the delta variant of the coronavirus.
In Paris, separate protest marches by the far-right and the far-left wound through different parts of the city. Demonstrations were also held in Strasbourg in the east, Lille in the north, Montpellier in the south and elsewhere.
Thousands of people answered calls to take to the streets by Florian Philippot, a fringe far-right politician and former right hand of Marine Le Pen who announced earlier this month that he would run in the 2022 presidential election. Gathered a stone’s throw away from the Louvre Museum, protesters chanted “Macron, clear off!”, “Freedom,” and banged metal spoons on saucepans.
While Philippot has organized small but regular protests against the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, Saturday’s demonstration drew a larger and more diverse crowd of people broadly disaffected with politics: yellow vest activists angry over perceived economic injustice, far-right supporters, medical staff and royalists.
They denounced the government’s decision on Monday to make vaccines compulsory for all health care workers, and to require a “health pass” proving people are fully vaccinated, have recently tested negative or recovered from the virus in order to access restaurants and other public venues. President Emmanuel Macron’s government is presenting a draft law Monday to enshrine the measures.
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French health care workers have until Sept. 15 to get vaccinated. The requirement for COVID passes for all restaurants, bars, hospitals, shopping malls, trains, planes and other venues is being introduced in stages starting Wednesday.
Foochy is jealous.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that France ever produced a no-shit hero like Charles Martel.
Ze German wasn’t bred out of him yet.
You actually make a good point, CPRM.
“The peasants are revolting.”
“You said it, they stink on ice.”
That’s China-level totalitarianism.
Sorry, France.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/french-face-6-months-jail-entering-bar-or-restaurant-without-covid-pass
5 years! Vat Dafuq!?!?!?
Ahem, 1 years:
“People in France who enter a bar or restaurant without a COVID pass face 6 months in jail, while business owners who fail to check their status face a 1 year prison sentence and a €45,000 fine.”
Pour encourager les autres…
https://mobile.twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/1416560016966959104
I shouldn’t feel good about this, but I do. Fuck Antifa.
That seems completely justified. The clip is in slow mo, but the cop did fine with his non lethal “shoot” I’d say.
the one time I like watching a cop shoot someone, Bravo!
Dangerous crackpottery
The two most monumental events of the last year in the US were the election of Joe Biden to the presidency and the introduction of Covid-19 vaccines. Yet there are those who falsely believe Biden won only because of fraud or that they shouldn’t get a vaccine.
Having either belief is dangerous – for either the health of society or the health of the republic. It turns out that about half the people in this country either have doubts about Biden’s legitimacy or have not gotten the vaccine.
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It turns out that we’re not just a 50-50 country when it comes to elections – we’re a 50-50 country when it comes to belief in science and truth about this election.
This isn’t to say that believing a conspiracy theory about the election and not having gotten a dose of the vaccine aren’t correlated. They are. The Monmouth poll showed that 64% of people who falsely think that Biden won because of voter fraud also have not received a vaccine dose.
Indeed, a lot of this breaks into partisan camps.
Most Democrats in this poll (and others) have either received a vaccine dose (83%) or think Biden won fair and square (90%).
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Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that a good portion of the country either doesn’t want a vaccine or doesn’t believe that Biden won legitimately.
A 2014 study from the University of Chicago looked across a bunch of conspiracy theories and found that 50% of Americans believed at least one of them to be true.
Many Americans believed and still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in killing President John Kennedy.
The difference between most other conspiracy theories and doubts about Biden’s election and the vaccine is that you have a lot of powerful people arguing against taking the vaccine and pushing the false belief that Biden’s win wasn’t legitimate.
Most of them are Republicans. You have Republican members of Congress pushing false claims about the vaccine. More than half the Republican House caucus voted to throw out the electoral votes from at least one state.
People have died because they haven’t gotten a vaccine. People died because of the Capitol riot.
These conspiracy theories aren’t anything like believing the moon landing was fake.
The conspiracy theories about the vaccine and the election have had deadly consequences this year.
Half the population is dangerously insane, and should be forcibly institutionalized until they recant their blasphemous anti-government heresies and murderous rejection of SCIENCE!-tistic dogma.
#NotMyPresident?
#SelectedNotElected
Holy shit.
That is scary. I can’t even…
I used to proud of being a scientist. We were taught to question everything, including ourselves.
Now the term “science” is thrown around like the new race card.
Yes, but not for the reasons in your stupid little mendacious head.
People have died because they did get a vaccine.
*sigh* Who’s gonna tell them?
I know, right?!?
Only one stands out as having died because of the protest and she was murdered.
Where is her George Floyd square?
Where all the calls for police accountability? This cop shot and killed a lady who posed no threat to anyone with no discernable reason. It’s a slam dunk bad shoot.
She threatened them with WRONGTHINK!
The mainstream left thinks she deserved to die and the mainstream right won’t criticize a cop.
And the normal people understand that our legal system is purely political now, just like the Nazis.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1416467630064607236
More Antifa bashing. ?
Swing and a hit by Morales.
Lapd do not fuck around. They were ordered to leave them mostly alone last year. Seems like they may have relaxed the rules of engagement some.
Yeah, and it looks like there is a lot of pay back in those swings.
I can’t take someone named “Molly Tuttle” seriously, it’s an inherently ridiculous name.
Molly Hatchet cover band?
Tuttle, Buttle, what’s the difference?
Molly Buttle?
Somebody is worried
More than 18 months before the first presidential primary of 2024, most potential Republican candidates are just getting a sense of the political landscape, tiptoeing through early-voting states and trying to make friends in key places. Then there’s Kristi Noem.
The South Dakota governor has come out swinging as she tries to carve a niche among an early crowd of possible GOP rivals for the White House. Her combative style, no surprise to those who follow her, is evidence of how competitive the nomination race will be if Donald Trump stays on the sidelines.
Noem charged into Iowa on Friday singing a battle hymn and armed with barbed comments for her fellow GOP governors. At a conservative gathering in Des Moines, she told the crowd she “really hates this America” under President Joe Biden’s leadership, then led them in singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
But Noem didn’t just take aim at political foes. She also unleashed sharp-edged comments on those within her own party, accusing fellow GOP governors of “rewriting history” by claiming they kept their states open during the pandemic.
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It’s easy to see why the 49-year-old governor, who is known as a scorched-earth campaigner in her home state, is elbowing out anyone trying to claim a more hands-off approach to the pandemic. She doesn’t have the experience of working alongside Trump, like Mike Pence, Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo — all of whom have visited the presidential-proving ground of Iowa in recent days. Other potential rivals like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have the advantage of governing states that figure prominently in national politics.
The pandemic was rocket fuel for Noem’s political rise. While she had been laying the groundwork to build a national profile and looking for ways to make South Dakota a testing ground for conservative policies, she jumped on decrying coronavirus restrictions early.
Conservatives nationwide have since made efforts to try to halt the pandemic’s spread into a favorite punching bag.
They’re mixing up a big batch of mud at Associated Press HQ and fixing to throw it at Governor Noem at every opportunity.
She hates SCIENCE! She doesn’t care about teh peerulz.
At least they didn’t say Abbot had a leg up, am I right?!
Gov. Abbott wants to shake you down.
The poor people in SD are not starving. The small businesses are still open. Her ‘vid numbers are better than nine other states, most of which tried their damnest to steal the futures of their residents. She’s clearly way ahead of most governors. Desantis is catching up, though. Man, do I hope we can shitcan Newsom.
If you shitcan Newsom, will you get someone worse?
Don’t care. Personally, I’m voting for Elder, but whatever happens this Newsom guy needs fired. If the next guy’s worse, we’ll fire him too. We can’t let this level of mixed tyranny and incompetence be accepted.
Whose this we? Californians appear to prefer living with tyranny and incompetence.
But… THE FEELZ!!!
‘Many Americans believed and still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in killing President John Kennedy….
People have died because they haven’t gotten a vaccine. People died because of the Capitol riot.’
Non Sequiturs do not prove or reinforce one’s attempted points.
Christ, I’m half retarded and either drinking or stoned for most of my free time and even I know that.
Many Americans believe that vaccines cause Autism.
Many Americans believe the moon landing was faked.
Many Americans believe all Republicans are secret Nazis.
Many Americans are fucking morons.
It’s not clear how her record on the virus would play beyond the Republican base. South Dakota recorded the nation’s 10th highest COVID-19 death rate. Although some states with far more aggressive approaches to mitigating the pandemic saw similar outcomes, South Dakota had the worst mortality rate in the Midwest. But that hasn’t stopped Noem from bragging about it.
Wait. Back up. So what you’re saying is hysterical draconian panic stricken hiding under the bed didn’t work?
shut the fuck up science denier!
Pay no attention to the destroyed economy behind the curtain.
Excellent.
If applaud if the situation were more humorous.
People have died because they haven’t gotten a vaccine.
People have died because they fell down a flight of stairs.
BAN STAIRS.
Joe Biden approves this message.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/cdc-scrambles-rare-case-monkeypox-turns-texas-after-infected-person-took-inbound-flights
O.o
A visual virus. The media is going to have good fun with this Flag!
You know what?
It’s a Sunday, a sabbath day for {{some}} , the last day off before the work week.
Imma perform an attitude adjustment and just not look at the idiocy that surrounds us and compliments and self-preens as their way of life crumbles about them.
Yeah, I’m a scientist but I fervently believe in God. This world is not our home.
No matter how crazy all this gets, apple pie still tastes good and it still feels good to make little kids laugh and smile.
Fondly remember this tune from a little songbook in the basement of the Presbyterian church of my upbringing. Closest the “frozen chosen” ever got to foot-stompin’ gospel. (Sorry about the extraneous shilling before & after.)
It’s my only day off this week, I shall spend it walking amonst the trees, it’s a beautiful day, enjoy it!
Emily Dickinson approves.
Obligatory music link.
I’m planning on biking through the park this afternoon. Getting out in the world and in nature helps.
Fanatics
When President Biden gave a much-anticipated voting rights speech in Philadelphia this week, he called the fight against restrictive voting laws “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War” and decried what he called a “21st century Jim Crow assault” on voting rights.
But a lot of people who turned out voters to elect Biden think he’s failing them in the battle for voting rights so far.
LaTosha Brown, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said that Biden raised a number of meaningful points during the speech, but added that “the challenge for me is what he didn’t say.”
“If we’re talking about a sense of urgency, like he laid out in his speech around democracy, this country has actually gone to war in the name of democracy,” Brown said in an interview before meeting with Vice President Harris about voting at the White House on Friday, along with other Black women leaders. “The question is, how are we going to respond to what the Republicans are doing right now? And will the full weight of the White House be used to make sure that we get we secure permanent voting rights for our citizens?”
Why can’t he just throw everybody who disagrees with us in jail?
Also- nice bait and switch there, with that part about “voting rights for citizens”. It sounds so innocuous when you put it that way.
That thing they’re trying to secure has nothing to do with rights.
LOL
Never change, NPR.
https://www.ksl.com/article/50206302/moon-wobble-climate-change-seen-as-driving-coastal-flooding-in-2030s
We’re ALL GOING TO DIE! In like 10 years….
Really guys! It’s gonna happen this time!
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No really guys! My model, it says right here, we’re all gonna die!
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Ok guys, it’s 2050… definitely 2050. P.S. don’t shut off my grant money.
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2060! Definitely 2060, we’re just a few more carbon taxes away from slowing it down but it’ll definitely be 2060!
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2070 Guys! The end is near! 2070! YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE SCIENCE!!!!
Uh huh.
Thank goodness we were able to avoid all of those by the applications of their desired scientific solutions.
What do you mean? Iceball Earth means that I can only survive on the equator now!
Slutty Sunday tickles your pickle (or taco as the case may be).
https://archive.li/lXpRH
So many winning contestants
Hilarious that Fauci should bring up polio vaccines to try to win over those who are questioning the covid vaccines. If anything, it’s going to shine a bit more light on existing vaccines, including polio, that aren’t all that people think they are, both in efficacy and safety/side effects. Or even exactly how widespread polio or many other commonly inoculated diseases were (or weren’t) prior to vaccines.
Assuming all of the vaccines work correctly, once a virus has been eliminated from a population, wouldn’t it be prudent to stop vaccinating the population? Not even taking the side effects into account, isn’t there a big discussion going on to over use of drugs/vaccines/antibiotics that is creating more resistant strains because now the viruses are getting more exposure to our weapons against them?
Honest question here.
That’s what they did with smallpox. q-ette is not getting that one; it’s only recommended for soldiers going into possible bioweapon zones.
Not sure about the other part of your question, but smallpox is no longer inoculated against and places like the US where polio threat is low, have switched from OPV to IPV even though the level of protection is reduced because the side effects are also reduced (along with a delivery infrastructure that can handle the IPV).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9798165/Delta-variant-make-new-cases-NYC-August.html
We’re all gonna die! AGAIN! Trust the models!
TICKING TIME BOMB!!11!ELEVENTY!
We are fucked, but not in the way they think.
The morons fighting over some dipshit spa in LA should get C. diff.
HOWEVER, that story by the Grauniad is not journalism. It’s beyond blatantly biased, but we expect that; it’s the disjointed, confusing and terrible writing that stands out to me. It reads like a 16 year-old’s SocJus blog. I guess that’s what happens when “journalists” learn how to write from Twitter.
Anyone dumb enough to inject that much bias into what’s presented as a news story, probably writes even worse than me, and I’m pretty bad at it.
Yes. It’s just like a red state, but way more extreme. We all live in “compounds” and run battle drills.
You’d have to be bad at math to think that a state with 43 Dems and 11 Rs in Congress, and most of those Rs in thinly populated parts of Northern CA or the Central Valley, has a center of right wing extremism in SoCal.
Good morning, friends!
Great song, Old Man – Molly is legit.
Fauci is losing badly. Were this a legit threat to millions, you wouldn’t need to threaten people to get vaccinated. Fuck off.
Kind of a steamy day here in the People’s Republic. One more cup of coffee and then out for a walk.
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday!
Good morning, Tundy! Always happy to read your cheerful greetings (cheerful except for the well-deserved instruction to Faux-ci. Happy to read that, too! 😉 )
Don’t know if you saw, but DeWine has said he’s not going to introduce another mask mandate here in Ohio. I think he may have twigged to the fact he isn’t popular with anyone at this point.
I hadn’t seen that, but that’s great news! Thanks! 😀
TPTB at my office are a bit perturbed that fewer than half of our staff have sent me proof of vaxxing. (I know who, but they don’t. I only report the numbers.)
Must be nice to live in a two-party state.
Honestly, it’s two one party states. Big cities all have their Democrat machines running, while the rural and suburban areas lean heavily Republican.
So, you’re saying Ohio has demographics similar to pretty much everywhere?
Your Democrats wish they had the kind of machine that’s in operation in NY.
Another turd polished to a mirror-like shine by NPR:
Stephany Spaulding, a spokesperson for the Just Democracy coalition, warned that if Biden is unwilling to address the filibuster, it will lead to Black and brown voters being disenfranchised.
“Democracy itself is on the line,” said Spaulding. “We are really on a path to authoritarianism, and that will be the legacy of Biden’s presidency.”
Christ what a drama queen.
Blind squirrel? Freudian slip?
When your enemies are talking, pay attention to what they say. Or something.
Yeah, if one is all that stands between us and authoritarianism, aren’t we already there?
But I think the simpler answer is that authoritarianism is just another synonym of “bad” for them. Hitler = Mussolini = Nazi = Fascist = Authoritarian = Dictator = Tyranny = Despotism = White Supremacy = Climate Change Denial = Anti-Vax = Insurrection = Traitor = Evil = … = Bad. A thousand words that, in practical effect, all mean the same thing.
if one person is all*
For them, “democracy” is about achieving a desired outcome. As long as there exist people still thinking the wrong way, we haven’t achieved democracy. Some day, we’ll achieve the pinnacle of democracy, when everyone who convenes is in total agreement, and anyone who would disagree doesn’t exist.
“Reality has a liberal bias.”
Yeah, they’re pretty open about it. It’s their way or the highway.
Who will claim brown so it can capitalized too?
Didn’t UPS already do that?
I’m going to take a leaf out of Hayeksplosives’s book and enjoy the day. I have BBQ leftover from yesterday’s Glib meetup, work on my computer, and a cross stitch project, so life isn’t too shabby right now.
I’m gonna hold down the couch and later grill some porterhouses.
Maybe hang the new clock to replace the broken one, if I get ambitous. ?
Sounds like a great plan!
How many Glibs came to your KC gathering last night? Name names, but don’t give away any secrets. What happens in KC… 😉
DEG and Ozy, Mr Mojeaux, and me. A great time was had by all.
And I am having leftover BBQ for bfast.
Breakfast of Champions! 😀
… burnt ends and molasses sauce…?
Not me! Mr Mojeaux brought his own ketchup-and-molasses. I had the appropriate vinegar sauce.
Blind squirrel? Freudian slip?
Exactly. The only thing scarier than authoritarianism is the kind of authoritarianism where the wrong authoritarians have the whip and the reins.
https://www.nj.com/weather/2021/07/storm-drenches-newark-flooding-streets-submerging-cars.html
I don’t see anyone sitting in a folding lawn chair. We are clearly not as cool as the Romanians.
Did a rain wash all the scum off the streets?
Spaghetti aglio e olio: original vs. gourmet with 3 Michelin star chef Norbert Niederkofler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZSYI5fAPTg
When I check back and my comments have zero bites I’m never sure if that means I’m not commenting enough overall compared to the regular gang, or whether it means I ought to just f#%$ off.
*retreats to safe lurking distance*
No way, dude. Just let ‘er rip. I’ll bet there were days when it was just the opposite.
Or simply say something about pineapple. That always works.
I haven’t had Hawaiian pizza lately.
Just say something about food – IPAs taste great, thick crust pizza is the best – and you can enjoy lots of profanity laced replies.
Aww – don’t stop commenting limey! We still love you! Sometimes it’s just a matter of timing, and being in a much different time zone than most of us denizens doesn’t help, I suspect.
You need to comment moar.
zero bites – i blame the mosquitoes
I quip a lot. It’d be nice if we had some way for people to acknowledge our posts other than replying. Sadly, the silence can be deafening. I really feel for the article writers too. It’d be nice if there were some way to acknowledge someone’s comment or especially article other than just a comment.
Some comments seem very hollow or dry, but I think a lot of times it’s just people trying to acknowledge the others out there in the abyss.
We don’t have a nod, smile or whatever emoji around here. It would open the door to other shenanigan’s but I think it’d be a net positive. Not to in any way criticize the current efforts and accomplishments of our current site admins. They have been doing a VERY good job in keeping things going.
“I quip a lot”
So do I, Cheers!
We also need eggplant and peach emojis
When I’m accessing the site via my phone, I have access to emojis and will often use a smiley or a thumbs-up. When her via laptop, not so much.
(“her” s/b “here,” of course.)
If you’re on Windows, hit Win+.
Assuming Windows 10, Windows key + Period.
Got it! ?
Hits *Dislike* *Down Vote* *Unfriend* and *Report Violation* buttons.
?
If no one responds, that means you were right. That’s how I look at it.
That’s just wrong Man…..
So the rest of Glibs are S Club fans too? I knew it!
Hannah Spearritt was a cutie.
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Same. If you’re wrong, you will hear about it.
Yes you will.
You all had Special K with banana!
It often takes me a while to get through comments as I am usually doing something else while reading them. I see something upthread that is interesting but it is long past. Anyways, since you said you like jazz fusion this should be in your listening wheelhouse. There are other periods of Miles that I enjoy more, but damn, this first track rocks so fucking hard and the bass line is just fan-frigging-tastic. If you don’t know, then now you do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhOYTUjBukU
Hey, all.
Still in bed, chillaxing with an eye on the hub, making sure he is still breathing.
I’m listening to the Audiobook version of Mike Rowe’s “The Way I heard it” narrated by Mike Rowe.
Highly recommend.
***SIGH!!!*** I’d listen to That Voice reading the side effects of every prescription drug known to modern medicine. ::swoons::
We need a chuckle emoji.
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“anal leakage, heart attack, death…”
Sitting in my outdoor undercroft enjoying cofeve, the links/snark, and letting Spotify run wild with Molly. I had no idea she has so many excellent covers.
So far, no sign of government jackboots. Still okay in Xiden’s Amerika. It’s all good. Peace.
The theistnormative threat to DEMOCRACY!
“In God We Trust” became the national motto 65 years ago this month. But over the past few years a string of bills and city ordinances has sought to expand its usage and presence. Such efforts include legislation requiring or encouraging the motto be displayed in government buildings and schools, on license plates and on police vehicles.
The rise of bills across the country at this time is no coincidence. It fits with a concerted effort by Christian nationalists who view the motto as a tool to help legitimize an agenda of passing legislation that privileges conservative Christian values.
Christian nationalism is a political ideology that fuses conservative religious beliefs with a – usually white – American identity. Christian nationalists assume that the laws of the land should be based on Christian morals.
As a scholar of religious and political rhetoric, I have observed how Christian nationalists are using what I call “theistnormative” legislation – government-endorsed policies, rituals, laws and symbols that use vague religious references, such as “God” – to encourage people to view the United States as a theistic collective – that is to say, as a nation of believers in God.
Oh my God the oppression and enslavement is neverending.
Fucking stupid white people, they’re a curse and a blight upon the land.
No POC can be religious. It is known.
But over the past few years a string of bills and city ordinances has sought to eliminate its usage and presence.
Two can play that game.
So far, no sign of government jackboots.
They mostly come at night.
Mostly.
Well who doesn’t like getting vaccinated against their will, half asleep, in their own bed?
CDC! open up!
“Do you want the 0.642mm or the 9mm JHP injection?”
*STAB! STAB! STAB!*
12ga vs 22ga.
“Oops, we missed and jabbed the baby instead.”
#qualifiedimmunity #thinblueline #ipulllevers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_nR3IYdv7k
“Nothing But Thieves x Bucharest Symphony Orchestra – Real Love Song”
Beautiful ?
That dude can sing.
Since it became the national motto, conservative Christians have used “In God We Trust” to justify opposing abortion rights and same-sex marriage by suggesting that they violate the principles embedded in the motto.
Earlier this year, Mississippi state Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith justified legislation that would ban voter registration on Sundays by holding up a dollar bill and saying, “This says, ‘The United States of America, in God we trust.’ … In God’s word in Exodus 20:18, it says ‘remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.’”
While most Christian nationalists claim to support religious freedom – which would seemingly apply to all faiths – most believe Christianity, specifically white conservative Christian values, should be privileged in the public sphere.
It’s anecdotal crazy people, all the way down.
The word God should not be on money. Nor should their be anyone’s likeness. I’m not sure what the motto should be. Maybe “Fuck Off Slaver” with each denomination having a different Iron Law too. My 0.02.
“there” @#$%!
I’m with you there.
IIRC we got the whole “in God we trust” thing everywhere thanks to one of those Religious Revivals. And our money did not have likenesses of real people on it until around the same time. It’s almost like the founders knew what they were doing.
It’s almost like the founders knew what they were doing.
They created a national bank that was conspiring against the public, so much so that Jackson (who was nine when the Declaration was signed) was elected in part to destroy it?
Real people’s faces on paper money in the U.S. is a lot older than “In God We Trust”; silver and gold certificates from the 1870s and 1880s had Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, etc. on them.
“In God We Trust” first appeared on the two-cent coin in 1864.
Dang, I could’ve sworn that happened in the 1950s.
loooooooooozer
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15612924/my-girlfriend-keeps-demanding-sex-from-behind/
use a strapon
Give it to her unlubed and good and hard, she might change her tune.
I honestly have no idea what is up with my laptop and wifi access (other than a few private networks). My phone does fine anywhere- even with Nord VPN and malwarebytes. The govt laptop i bring for work connects through a VPN and has zero issues.
My stupid laptop can’t access the hotel login page even after I turn off my Avast, Nord and Malwarebytes…..
So frustrating.
What browser? And any script/ad blockers running in it?
Right now, it won’t work on *any* browser ive tried – Pale Moon, Firefox, Edge, IE.
At the Navy hotel I stay at on another base – for their wifi, I would get an “error” screen on firefox, but the “get more info” or “continue” button that popped up would get me to a workaround screen that would let me force access to the login screen. No joy at this Best Western. Its just getting so tedious everywhere I go. Sometimes its a breeze, more often than not, its barely worth the effort.
Wouldn’t be quite so frustrating if I had permissions to access YouTube or other streaming from my govt machine but no joy ;p. Maybe just muck around a bit more in the phone. Glad I had some stuff downloaded on my laptop at least.
What’s the error that’s coming up? Odds are that they have an expired certificate on their sign in website, which quite a few browsers now don’t allow you to go through “for your protection”.
I’ll take a look again, but my govt laptop blasted through it on edge (multiple times this week) ditto for my phone DDG app.
Well lately detectportal.firefox.com is just timing out completely…..
(Thought I might have forgotten to allow a script in noscript, but not this time).
Who wants a Mercedes?
Four people have died and two people have been injured in a terrible single-vehicle accident that ended up splitting their car in half.
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Police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident but an eyewitness told WLS that the aftermath of the accident was shocking.
“I have never seen anything like it,” Joanna Proszek told WLS. “It was bad, tragic. I think they just, like, started flying because there is a hill. So I am thinking they just revved up the engine and they just flew into the tree.”
It is unclear if speed was a factor in the accident but authorities say that the investigation into what caused the crash is ongoing.
Unclear. You don’t crack your car in half like an egg at 30 mph.
“a car ended up losing control”
Yeah, it’s a mystery. I hate when cars do that.
Like when guns just go off by themselves.
Damn inanimate objects always subverting the will of their users!
The lake is fucked again
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tvTkZk-s_7zLYJ8LgawvCOF2hOfVNnci/view?usp=drivesdk
Lake?
Fucked?
I think it’s that carpet of “grass” in the background.
We’ve had so much rain this week that when I tried to take the dog for a walk this morning, we reached a point where he didn’t want to walk through the water and just wanted t0 turn around. 🙁
The word God should not be on money. Nor should their be anyone’s likeness. I’m not sure what the motto should be.
“This note is legal tender for all debts, public nd private.”
“This note is worth less than half of what it used to be #auditthefed”
“Girlfriend demands sex from behind”
Maybe she wants to watch the hockey, too, eh?
Joe Biden’s America
One woman has died and six other people were wounded after a shooting in downtown Portland, Oregon, early Saturday, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
The victims were taken by ambulance to a hospital, where the woman was treated for what police had described as serious wounds.
The woman, who was not identified, died at a hospital, police said in a statement later Saturday.
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The Portland shooting – which police said occurred just after 2 a.m. – is the latest in a spate of gun violence that has gripped US cities this summer.
There have been 361 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA). CNN defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot, not including the shooter.
With states lifting Covid-19 restrictions and more people out in warmer weather, US cities have been experiencing a surge in shootings and homicide numbers.
Has anything else been occurring in Portland? Anything which might cause heightened tension?
We should probably just lock everything back down. Out of an abundance of caution.
A sudden influx of Proud Boys?
This has zero to do with heightened tension.
Reduced policing + service demands elsewhere + blind eye towards criminal activity and behavior + demoralization = what’s happening now. It’s been growing for several years.
This has zero to do with heightened tension.
There is a striking absence of detail in that story.
And I have no doubt the normalization of lawlessness is a factor.
There’s a striking absence of ability to recognize reality in Portland too. It’s had a serious crime and gang problem for a while but due to several DOJ driven consent decrees, lawsuits, and PC, they can’t (and won’t) deal with the organized crime in a systematic way because racism. They changed their gang violence task force to gun violence task force before disbanding it (because gee, it was primarily going after the same criminals as before) and now reconstituting it due to increasing numbers of very public incidents.
Similar in NYC and now the mayor-elect promised to “go after illegal guns” again, whatever that means. I don’t think anyone is unaware of where almost all of the crime is coming from but I guess we’re going to keep blaming the guns.
go after
illegalundocumented gunsTo each his own, but uh…. OK?
Except for the “essential medicine” bit, how is this so much different from the U.S.?