Way to stereotype!
I remember that in school (the student body of which had a sizeable Jew proportion), the teachers felt obligated to somehow tie in a Jew with the American Revolution. And it was always the same guy, a fucking moneylender. I was repelled by the obvious pandering and wanted to know who the Jewish Crispus Attucks was. Answer: ummmmm…. Hey, it was a Jew who gave George Washington a loan!
American birthdays on this auspicious day include an American whose book was typeset in red; an American to whose memory we should all drink; a brilliant and very, very American composer; my choice for the best president that the US ever had; an inventor who was even better than Edison; (((our))) true contribution to American culture; a true American who is Zardoz’s spirit animal; the female Donald Trump; the most American playwright; the father of the funniest looking billionaire in America; one of the Americans who ruined our National Sport; a great American songwriter who worked in a truly American genre; and finally, an icon of American capitalism.
However, we are not independent from Links.
The photo made me wonder about cost of living in NY.
This just checks every Progressive box. I couldn’t make it up.
“Your OnlyFans account should be enough.”
Never apologize. Never apologize. Never apologize.
How do you wear a mask over a burka?
Old Guy Music features a birthday boy (whose name came up in Zoom last night) singing a song of freedom. And the theme is something we can all get behind.
Happy treason day, ingrates.
You needed help last Century, aren’t you glad we were around? or do you prefer German?
We would have been speaking German for centuries now if not for the Brits.
Just remember, we took white trash Meghan and Harry off your hands. You should be down on your knees 24/7 thanking us.
FTFY
You can be white trash regardless of race.
*ahem*
The inclusive term is “trailer trash”.
Ah, not a sore loser now are ya?
*admires gun collection*
*lights sparkler*
USA!
🙂
It’s only treason if you lose.
Well, except for the Confederacy of course.
We’ll exhume some Rebel graves and hang ’em high. Do what those pussies Grant and Lincoln refused to do. Oooh! There’s the opening for unpersoning Lincoln.
If it is any consolation, our government is crooked as fuck.
Happy tyrant eviction day!
Thanks, former oppressor!
Still propping up the royals, I see. At least we can pretend to not have royalty here in ‘Murica.
somehow tie in a Jew with the American Revolution. And it was always the same guy, a fucking moneylender.
Played by Claude Rains in the movie
that NY Post link is a hot mess of popups and auto play,
But due to a brazen lack of compassion on behalf of governing bodies for the Olympic Games, she won’t get the chance.
Oh, woe. Contracts are hard.
WADA’s rules requiring you to tell them where you are every single day are pretty damn draconian.
And they more or less have a government-approved monopoly.
And for Sha’Carri Richardson, who I thought at first was going to be the main focus of the article, it’s not racial, as Ross Rebagliati did it first.
The pot ban is pretty stupid, but dem’s da rules. It’s one thing to criticize the rules and advocate for their change. It’s another thing to flout the rules and then bitch to the media when you get caught.
The rest of it is much more justified, IMO. The Olympics organizations have two paths they can follow. They can take the blind eye approach that cycling did for years, banning only the clumsiest of violators until their sport became a de facto juiced league. Or they can police it very tightly and implement very draconian rules that are a pain in the ass, but catch all but the most sophisticated (*cough* Russian *cough*) doping schemes.
As somebody who is exposed to the Olympic sports during non-olympic times (wife loves gymnastics and track and field), the idea that this is in any way racial is laughable. There are plenty of white folks sitting this cycle out because they got caught doping, too.
Fun factoid: my parents graduated from high school with Eppie and Popo.
That IS cool!
(Pity they grew to have a Joan-Olivia relationship.)
That IS too bad. I didn’t recall that. 🙁
My favorite currently-active advice columnist (with all due respect to Zardoz and the Cryptids.)
Hate speech
Trump was not charged, nor were any other company executives. The defendants have pleaded not guilty and vowed to battle the charges.
“It’s unprecedented, unheard of, and totally unacceptable in America for prosecutors to run for office on a promise to get their political enemies,” Trump continued. “How about the one in New York state? ‘We’re going to get Trump, I’m running.’ She knows nothing about me, all she knows is she’s going to get me from the day she got in. But you know that people are wise to it.”
Trump is referring to James, the first woman and first African American to be elected as New York attorney general. Throughout her 2018 campaign, James pledged to go after Trump on “day one” of her term over his alleged violation of the Emoluments Clause.
“It’s just fascist and authoritarian. The people who talk about democracy are literally destroying it before our very eyes. Nobody can believe the things that we’re witnessing,” Trump told his supporters. “Four years of searching, dozens and dozens of interviews, and millions of millions of dollars spent of taxpayer funds, all wasted.”
“The radical left continues to search for a crime and wreck lives, break laws, violate every principle of justice, fairness and liberty—you say it, you see it—on a constant basis,” he added. “It’s really called prosecutorial misconduct.”
Newsweek reached out to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and New York Attorney General Letitia James for comment. This story will be updated with any response.
Charges to follow.
The process is the punishment. And most of the unwashed masses will conflate charges with guilt.
They went from conspiring with the ruskies to overthrow “democracy” to illegally handing out free parking spots. I guess they’ll take what they can get.
Happy insurrection day!
Trump is referring to James, the first woman and first African American to be elected as New York attorney general.
Fuck off, you fascist TMITE drone!
I offer my most sincere apology. I have since removed that upsetting tweet,” Rashad wrote in an email shared to Twitter.
She acknowledged that the tweet she shared this week, in which she praised the court’s decision to overturn the disgraced comedian’s conviction, “caused so much hurt in so many people.”
“I’m sorry you’re such a bunch of pathetic thin skinned bitches.”
How about the hurt caused by prosecutorial misconduct?
CNN gets a chub: “Unvaccinated people are ‘variant factories,’ infectious diseases expert says.”
*Applies for PPP loan*
Hawt.
This would explain why the ‘vid numbers are so crazy high. I think we had two deaths Friday and one yesterday. 40 million people. Out of control!
None of the assholes flapping their gums about this even know what a virus is nor do they understand the dynamic between host and pathogen. I really wish they would just shut the fuck up.
It’s not unusual for fireworks offenders to have “significant” criminal records, John Miller, deputy commissioner of the NYPD’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism bureaus, told The Post.
“When we see fireworks, we see weed and stolen credit cards,” he said. “So what it tells us over the years is that entrepreneurs involved in other criminal activity handle this as a seasonal biz.”
Entrepreneurs, they are.
Drug dealers are just unlicensed pharmacists.
One of those things is not like the other ones, not like the other ones…
Often those who break the law have broken it before? Who knew?
Happy treason day, ingrates.
Back at ya.
Thanks for the Georgian architecture!
an inventor who was even better than Edison
Happy birthday Nikola Tesla?
+120v. AC
Great Sunday Funday links.
Happy Independence Day everyone! Keep those fingers and try not to get arrested.
I am fully expecting fireworks show video links from some of the more serious pyromaniacs among us.
I’ve got lots of freedom bangs for this evening. Smoked the brisket yesterday. So after work it’s: Drink, hit the pool, drink, eat the brisket, drink, blow some shit up to loud Rock N Roll, drink some more, repeat until pass out.
“…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
His birthday gives me the perfect cheap, tawdry (the finest kind) excuse to post a link to my favorite song of his (featuring at least two token Canadians and a half-Canadian.)
A. Lincoln,
“Now, it happens that we meet together once every year, sometime about the 4th of July, for some reason or other. These 4th of July gatherings I suppose have their uses. If you will indulge me, I will state what I suppose to be some of them.
We are now a mighty nation, we are thirty—or about thirty millions of people, and we own and inhabit about one-fifteenth part of the dry land of the whole earth. We run our memory back over the pages of history for about eighty-two years and we discover that we were then a very small people in point of numbers, vastly inferior to what we are now, with a vastly less extent of country,—with vastly less of everything we deem desirable among men,—we look upon the change as exceedingly advantageous to us and to our posterity, and we fix upon something that happened away back, as in some way or other being connected with this rise of prosperity. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us.
We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done in this process of time of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it; and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves—we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations.
But after we have done all this we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration [loud and long continued applause], and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world. [Applause.]
Now, sirs, for the purpose of squaring things with this idea of “don’t care if slavery is voted up or voted down” [Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” position on the extension of slavery to the territories], for sustaining the Dred Scott decision [A voice—“Hit him again”], for holding that the Declaration of Independence did not mean anything at all, we have Judge Douglas giving his exposition of what the Declaration of Independence means, and we have him saying that the people of America are equal to the people of England. According to his construction, you Germans are not connected with it. Now I ask you in all soberness, if all these things, if indulged in, if ratified, if confirmed and endorsed, if taught to our children, and repeated to them, do not tend to rub out the sentiment of liberty in the country, and to transform this Government into a government of some other form.
Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow. What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden.
That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will—whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent, and I hold if that course of argumentation that is made for the purpose of convincing the public mind that we should not care about this, should be granted, it does not stop with the negro. I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out! Who is so bold as to do it! [Voices—“me” “no one,” &c.] If it is not true let us tear it out! [cries of “no, no,”] let us stick to it then [cheers], let us stand firmly by it then. [Applause.]
Moving speech, but I prefer the shorter version by Senator Bluto Blutarsky. “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
From the birthday boy:
Read the whole thing.
Easily the greatest presidential speech ever given.
They don’t make presidents like that anymore.
I can’t imagine a modern politician speaking so elegantly while making such a strong statement on liberty.
That’s through no fault of yours; neither is plausible today unless Rand gets elected.
Agreed, but lost on so many.
In FEE’s daily email.
Meet the Only US President Born on the 4th of July
Kinda partial to this description.
Good call.
It explains why there is trouble in the forest.
/nerd
The only song I can think of from that band that I dont hate.
I think beneath, between, and behind more accurately covers where we are now.
In the new normal, an “abundance of caution” must guide our every decision. There is no such thing as an acceptable risk.
Merry Independence Day / Happy 4th of July to all y’all. Today will be a great day. Been up for a few hours smoking some brisket with the hopes it is ready by the time some family arrives this afternoon. Have a great day!
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Hot dogs are not adult food.
We’re gonna grill up some porterhouses on this ‘Murica day. Picked up a pair yesterday, one is 1.7 lbs and the other is 1.8.
Fweedom!
*cackle*
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S11E14/688560
Hot dogs are not adult food.
Neither is pudding, but I still like ’em.
Brats and Hot Italian Sausage will be smoked today/tomorrow.
Kielbasa would also be an acceptable choice.
Ribs will go on in a couple of hours. The boy (ha, man) and his girlfriend (almost-fiance?) will arrive in the late afternoon. In between I’m going for another horse-ride.
Picked up a bottle of Powers Gold Label and a couple of cigars for this evening.
Beats all night smoking parmesan cheese!
Smoking cheese is something I want to try. My coworker has done it but says it’s difficult to do unless it’s cold out. Something about melting cheese all over your smoker…
Hunter goes to McGinty’s house, has a sad.
The rain has held off for a little bit. It rained all day Friday and Saturday. Manchester, NH has fireworks on the 3rd, but postponed to the 5th because of rain. It’s supposed to rain more later today. Nashua, NH is still supposed to have theirs tonight. I thought about going to the range this morning, except everything is still soaking wet from two straight days of rain. Maybe tomorrow things will be a little dryer.
I’ve been trying to remember a particular poem where the author is writing about how free he is while being restricted from celebrating on his own and going to watch fireworks that ‘they’ allow him to watch to celebrate his freedom…
Ring any bells?
Roses are red,
fireworks are blue,
You can’t buy what we have,
So, happy fourth and a jolly fuck you!
/your local fire department
Yeah. Same here.
Yeah, some NYPD cops are gonna have a blast tonight with the fireworks they stole from that entrepreneur.
Cops’ kids always have the best (insert name of illegal, easily confiscated contraband here).
The local district is lamenting they don’t have the power to ban fireworks for safety. Fuck those unAmerican tax parasites.
All the local unelected unionized Fire Chiefs around me have arbitrarily banned them.
If the LAPD had never found that cache the other day, nobody would have gotten hurt and no property would been damaged. The outlaws were way more careful with the stuff.
Sacrifices will be required to appease the doom gods
Scientists have warned for decades that climate change will make heat waves more frequent and more intense. That is a reality now playing out in Canada, but also in many other parts of the northern hemisphere that are increasingly becoming uninhabitable.
Roads melted this week in America’s northwest, and residents in New York City were told not to use high-energy appliances, like washers and dryers — and painfully, even their air conditioners — for the sake of the power grid.
In Russia, Moscow reported its highest-ever June temperature of 34.8 degrees on June 23, and Siberian farmers are scrambling to save their crops from dying in an ongoing heat wave. Even in the Arctic Circle, temperatures soared into the 30s. The World Meteorological Organization is seeking to verify the highest-ever temperature north of the Arctic Circle since records there began, after a weather station in Siberia’s Verkhoyansk recorded a 38-degree day on June 20.
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Experts who spoke with CNN said it was difficult to pinpoint exactly how linked these weather events are, but it’s unlikely a coincidence that heat waves are hitting several parts of the northern hemisphere at the same time.
“The high pressure systems we’re seeing in Canada and the United States, all of these systems are driven by something called the jet stream — a band of very strong winds that sits way above our heads, at about 30,000 feet where the planes fly around,” Liz Bentley, Chief Executive at the UK’s Royal Meteorological Society, told CNN.
Bentley explained the configuration of the jet stream is preventing weather systems from moving efficiently along their normal west-to-east path.
“That jet stream has become wavy, and it’s got stuck in what we call an Omega block, because it’s got the shape of the Greek letter Omega, and when it gets in that, it doesn’t move anywhere, it blocks it,” Bentley said. “So the high pressure that’s been building just gets stuck for days or weeks on end, and these Omegas appear in different parts of the northern hemisphere.”
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There is a growing acceptance among some political leaders that climate change is a driving force behind fueling many extreme weather events, particularly for heat waves and storms.
“Climate change is driving the dangerous confluence of extreme heat and prolonged drought,” US President Joe Biden said Wednesday. “We’re seeing wildfires of greater intensity that move with more speed and last well beyond traditional months, traditional months of the fire season.”
Scientists are working on sophisticated tools that can rapidly assess just how much climate change may have contributed to a particular weather event.
We are fine tuning the models to get the output we desire.
It’s not their fault. Assholes gotta spew shit.
Any mention of Cuomo shutting down the nuke plants that used to supply NYC?
Oh, and this summer has been quite cool on average.
Nice try, CNN.
It is every New Yorker’s patriotic duty to suffer and risk heat exhaustion and to wear dirty clothes to cover for their Benevolent All-Knowing Leaders’ fuck-ups.
Meanwhile, you can see Times Square from space.
Can’t you feel it? This heatwave is .02 degrees hotter than it would have been if only you’d have bought a Prius and gone vegan.
The prophetess of doom speaks. She really needs to consider martyring herself for the cause, or risk fading into irrelevance.
Roads didn’t melt in the NW. we had major expansion of aging concrete on HW 195 that had already experienced frost heaves and finally failed.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
EAT, DRINK, BLOW SHIT UP!!
“Celebrate the birth of your country by blowing up a small part of it.”
racist
Christidis said in the past, without human-caused climate change, extreme heat in the Northwest US or Southwest Canada would have occurred “once every tens of thousands of years.” Presently, it can occur every 15 years or so, Christidis said.
And if greenhouse gas emissions continue? Christidis said as often as every year or two by the turn of the century.
Soon there will be triple digit temperatures every day, all year around. Why won’t you offer up your love and obedience to SCIENCE!?
Jesus. How can anyone write that with a straight face?
presently it happens every 15 years or so? so how does that make a high pressure system AGW?
/Idiots
by the turn of the century.
Most of you won’t be alive then to check my claims. We must act now!
Soon…it is always just around the next bend.
Tony Heller takes them down on their bullshit claims.
Apparently someone doesnt want that to be seen so they took down your link.
Oops. If this one doesn’t appear…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYZmpa2bVRk
a fucking moneylender
Daddy Warbuckstein?
“Clashes break out in LA between rival protesters after viral video showed spa customer complaining about a transgender woman exposing herself to children while in a female-only steam room”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9753675/Violence-breaks-spa-customer-complains-transgender-woman-exposing-penis-kids.html
Curious, still no pictures of this “transgender woman”.
This story seems somehow familiar…
I know, I posted about it yesterday.
The point is that, unlike Fox, The Daily Mail is known for their pictures. And even they don’t have one.
I think you need to scroll up, hence my and OMWC’s comments.
Scroll up where? This is the link OMWC posted https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-spa-protest-transgender-exposure
Cool link, bro.
Works fine from my end.
Curious, still no pictures of this “transgender woman”. – wanna se what she is packing?
I’m suspecting this person isn’t all that transgender.
Wasn’t there a congress critter who got prosecuted for tapping his toes in an airport bathroom stall? He’d have been fine if he just waved his dick in your grandmother’s face in the one place she’s always been safe from that until now.
The best comment was about the police searching for five suspects.
One went that way and another went that way. Many of them go both ways!
Larry Craig. Here’s a funny video made by somebody back in the day. Animated Village People are featured.
https://youtu.be/cV1BGh6XYUU
Larry Craig. The guy that went after him was a gay reporter that was pissed Larry didn’t like the gays. He hired an airport security cop to follow Larry around. It was a totally made up story. What got Craig was that he used his office budget to settle the lawsuit (less expensive than fighting the accusations) and that’s what took him down.
You can’t fight the rainbow people.
“REVEALED: Self-proclaimed leader of ‘Rise of The Moors’ militia who claims he is the ‘grand chief of Rhode Island’ and was arrested along with 10 other heavily armed men on I-95 north of Boston after standoff”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9753683/Leader-Rise-Moors-militia-arrested-Massachusetts-standoff.html
Look at those white supremacists.
No women…hmmmm…
do not assume their genders
He said, ” we are not anti-government and we are not anti-police” I bet he changes his mind on that after this.
I’m certain they’ll find a way to rationalize keeping that view.
TOS still makes a good video,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei5reygPojE
here’s another, short and funny in a sad way,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1u_S1ANsrA
Happy Independence Day Old Man!
My song contribution.
Their first two albums were great.
I was just going to post that.
X was the greatest of the west coast punks, and beyond!
I posted that yesterday, without even clicking, Great Song by a great punk band,
Call before you dig
At least it’s not Katla.
Tourists? Hell, I would use it to heat my house and supply hot water.
I’ll spare you and not link. I just read a long-winded rumination (at Wired, so you know it’s super serious) about how that building collapse in Miami is a metaphor for the climate doom which awaits us.
tl;dr- People are selfish assholes with no sense of their responsibility to our collective future. What we need is DEMOCRACY! guided by Wise Men of Science, who will put an end to toxic individualism and greed and lead us all into a glittering future of communitarian bliss.
can we get just the tip first, see how it feels like?
Wired is own by the same company as Teen Vogue.
It’s a metaphor for the democrat party.
Man, I hate that rag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3N9pYZSIpI
This *white privilege* test being used by Cambridge will merely identify you as being or not being from the majority race in a place. So applied with the same questions in China or Nigeria the result will be *Chinese Privilege* or *Black Privilege*
…
K_Niemietz
“The food, music or clothes which represent my race”
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1411600017668857857
lol
So I got promoted (yay!) to senior associate. Yes, it actually feels good to know I am appreciated !
And I already have a client (client’s mom to be precise) complaining about the increase in my rate (even though she hasn’t been charged it yet).
Andy: But you do need someone to set it up for you. That’ll cost you. A lawyer.
Captain Hadley: A bunch of ball-washing bastards!
Mazel tov!
If clients are complaining already, I think that means you’re shitladying right.
Congrats!
I’m confused though. I know how billing works at big firms and I’ve never had to deal with a small firm where I wasn’t working with a partner and paying partner rates and/or associate rates.
If it’s business you brought to the firm shouldn’t you be able to bill what you want?
I’ve been at the firm almost two years, and I just got the promotion. I didn’t bring her as an existing client of mine. So the rate this lady was quoted was the “typical” associate rate. Apparently she wanted to be with a regular associate and not get charged senior rate(s). So once the new guy is trained (he’s brand new out of law school, poor thing), I will let him take over that case so she won’t bitch again.
There’s four rates at my firm (partner, senior, associate, and assistant).
Got it!
I’d most certainly take it out on the associate and just discuss the issue with whichever attorney owns the relationship.
I’m the odd guy that comes from a legal family, but went into finance.
But friends and family are attorneys of all kinds. Sole practitioner, white shoe and corporate.
So dealing with attorneys doesn’t phase me. Which is good because I’ve been in business meetings with three product people, two inside counsel, two outside counsel, two vendor reps, and their two counsel.
Do you notice how the members of the Bar outnumber outnumber the actual business people?
Err not take it out
Do you notice how the members of the Bar outnumber outnumber the actual business people?
It’s a habit that’s hard to shake, even when we’re off the billable hour. I was on a call this week with a colleague, my boss, and my boss’s boss, as well as 3 people from marketing and 1 from R&D. How many lawyers needed to be on that call? Probably 2, could’ve done it with 1 in a pinch. We just simply don’t think about it that way. It’s a mentality of “you might be needed or you might need the info provided in the call, so you have to be there.”
You are a bit of a nontraditional attorney.
The best man at my wedding worked as broker / financial advisor for four years before deciding to become an attorney. I think that four years in business makes him a much better attorney and also contributed greatly to his success.
Yep, even for in-house, our practice is a bit unique. I’m happy the billable hour practice was a short couple years of my life. I’m not wired that way.
I will also say that the pandemic has been a huge boon to the family law business. Divorce numbers = skyrocketing does not come close to describing the uptick in cases being filed.
I’ve often been afraid of the damage done by domestic violence during forced lockd downs.
There are no deleterious side effects to the lockdowns. Lockdowns now, lockdowns forever. For the children.
All the people supporting lockdowns *want* the increases in divorce/domestic violence/adolescent mental health issues.
I mean, if they’re going to claim we want to kill Grandma, the counterclaim is no less valid.
There is no question in my mind that the collectivist/socialist/authoritarian mindset has a strong misanthropic element.
What would be the equivalent one-word term for hating the family unit?
What would be the equivalent one-word term for hating the family unit?
Marxist?
antifamily is a word and evidently some sort of leftist movement.
Anthropology is the study of humankind. Misanthrop is the hatred of human kind. Someone with better latin can put it better. Where is Heroic when we need him?
congrats!
Shoulda got hired by Garcia, Rodriguez and Hernadez. Everyone there is a senor associate. ( too lazy to find Spanish punctuation marks)
So the free hour you gave me (with great advice!) has now gone up in value?
Congratulations on the promotion!
I’ll second what GT says about you shitladying right.
Nice, congrats.
So what is everyone drinking? I don’t think I have any Americanese whisky left besides half a bottle of rittenhouse rye
I could go to the store and get a bottle of sierra nevada pale ale or something
Do so, it’s a very fine ale, not an IPA,
This stuff – in “Light” in hopes of partially offsetting the indulgence of the last week. Still a bit of pulled pork left from last Sunday’s celebration, and an entire strawberry rhubarb pie in the basement fridge. And the wares of a new vendor at the neighborhood farmers’ market – baked goods being sold to support a local Girl Scout troop. HAD to buy two tiny apple pies and a couple of peanut butter fudge brownies…
“an entire strawberry rhubarb pie in the basement fridge”
*sneaks into basement*
Could you please throw in a load of laundry while you’re down there? A load of bright colors in cold water, please.
*multi-tasking*
Bombay Bramble – a berry gin by Bombay. 10/10 would not purchase again. I will finish the bottle however.
I am drinking margaritas, which were invented in lands that we conquered from asylum-seeking Spanish immigrants. Or something like that. So they are as american as it gets.
I also picked up a package of special Oreos with red-white-blue filling. If you don’t want that, you are not american.
Hydrox were first and were better. Fight me.
::suddenly think of the highest and best use of the last little bit of whole milk left from UCS making his famous homemade mac & cheese for us::
No need. Mom was, for a few years, a sales rep for Sunshine Biscuit.
My brother and I used to get a lot of slightly out-of-date cookies.
Did I mention that I was fat as a kid?
Soup broth.
It must not be TOO hot at your house, unless it’s gazpacho you’re having.
75 and breezy.
We had that yesterday. Delightful! Already 82 today, though, and “feels like 85.” Enjoy it while you can!
I’ll be drinking beer at the brewpub later.
DEMOCRACY! for Dummies
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package, if it ever becomes law, won’t just construct new bridges, tunnels and highways — it could also help cement the Democrats’ House majority for another two years.
This dynamic is particularly pronounced in northeastern Pennsylvania, where Republicans see a pair of seats held by vulnerable Democratic incumbents as ripe for pickup and redistricting threatens to inject additional uncertainty into the high-stakes midterm elections.
Reps. Susan Wild, whose 7th Congressional District encompasses the Lehigh Valley and its cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton, and Matt Cartwright, whose 8th Congressional District includes Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, each won re-election in 2020 by fewer than 15,000 votes.
Both are banking on the passage of Biden’s revised, bipartisan infrastructure plan, which would bring critical projects and jobs to their districts that the lawmakers, as well as political strategists, say will bolster their chances at keeping the seats — and the House — blue in 2022.
“I don’t mean to sound too quaint about this but I honestly believe the way I navigate my race is by producing results,” Wild said. “That includes infrastructure projects.”
Vote buying 101: Baconbaconbacon!
Pennsylvanians outside Philadelphia and Allegheny counties are noticing that, when the stakes weren’t national, all their legitimate votes actually fucked over Wolf, so why were those same legitimate votes cast for Biden, even though no one they knew voted for Biden?
Meanwhile, in Philly and Pittsburgh, voter fraud go brrr
Remember when pork barrel spending was embarrassing when exposed? Pepperidge Farms remembers!
Now it’s a rush to get some before there isn’t any left.
Nah, pols have been bragging about bringing home the bacon forever.
Yes, and Newsom just might be able to buy his way out his recall, too. Without spending a dime of his own money to boot.
Medium take: The USSR was overthrown by a dipshit like Gorbachev and a vodka-filled skinballoon like Yeltsin because instead of using the post-war period to have a Kulturnaya Revolyutsiya where they made sure to beat the liberal and reaction out of everyone, they ‘de-Stalinized.’
https://twitter.com/nalpraxis/status/1410755177804599296
tankie tweet of the day?
Anyone who uses ‘Praxis’ in their SM handle should be stuffed into a burlap sack, hung from a tree, and beaten with rubber hoses.
I was going to say lead bars…
It helped that they didn’t produce anything that the rest of world wanted, except maybe energy and that could be found elsewhere just as easily. China learned that lesson well.
Destalinization happened as a feeble attempt at appeasing Nazis.
The 50s were the height of Nazi power.
re the LA protestants as far as I know in Austria most saunas are mixed nude saunas. You Americans are too puritanical or something.
“LA protestants”
It looks like your spell checker agrees with you.
instead of using the post-war period to have a Kulturnaya Revolyutsiya where they made sure to beat the liberal and reaction out of everyone, they ‘de-Stalinized.’
See what happens when you take your boot off the peasants’ necks?
Music for the losers
trail cam in romanian mountains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3bfQbaV8M
If it works, stick with it. Most wild animals are extreme creatures of habit. While deer hunting from a stand I noticed the squirrels appeared in exactly the same place at exactly the same time every morning and ran through the trees on exactly the same path every morning. I could set my watch by when the deer would show up in the same place every morning. It is hard living in the wild so when you find a strategy that works, stick with it.
Celebrate Independence Day by shrieking hysterically about the plague. Join us as we blame Trump and toxic individualism.
Welcome to Meet the Press.
Now the senile quack is on a big harangue about vaccinations.
Delta Variant will git you!
An’ the Variunts’ll git you
Ef you
Don’t
Vax
Up!
Meh, it’s just a faded rose from days gone by.
WEAR A MASK.
Asymptomatic spread.
STFU.
There is asymptomatic spread of countless thousands of bugs every day, all year long. How many vaccines are we supposed to get? Five thousand? ten thousand?
These assholes haven’t told the truth yet, I dont know why anyone would expect them to start now.
The Best Whiskey For Your OLD FASHIONED??? (4th of July Edition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_WO-nP8Ok
Little ditty for the 4th.
I’m headed out to the Beach in a bit, my friends reserved a pavilion, so we should have a total BBQ blast. Fireworks are very legal here, not to mention the over the Lake Show tonight.
America! Fuck Yeah!
Flipped on NPR during my drive to the store this morning. They were all in on Independence Day- but not ours. Everything was about Haiti’s revolution (celebrated there NEXT month) and racism. Then they segued into something about COVID and racism, and how Republican cities are the worst about it.
My tax dollars at work.
You should know better than to listen to NPR.
I seek my amusement in odd ways. As you in particular know.
Just think of it as monitoring enemy transmissions.
I only listen to NPR when I want to curse at my radio.
Change is bad. Growth is bad. Competition is really bad.
A group has filed an appeal to the approved site plans for the Whole Foods Market, complicating the project planned for the Gallatin Valley Mall property.
A group called Bozeman Matters filed the appeal in June, according to city documents. The matter is set to come before the city commission in late July. If city commissioners side with Whole Foods, Bozeman Matters would be able to appeal the matter in district court. City spokesperson Melody Mileur said the city cannot issue building permits while the appeal is still active.
Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, announced in October that it was coming to the former Fuddruckers location at the mall.
Bozeman Community Development Director Marty Matsen approved the site plans on June 1, finding that it conformed with the zoning for the area. The site plans call for a 30,000-square-foot grocery store and a 10,000-square-foot pad building with a parking lot.
The approval document includes public comment the city received about the building, including concerns about the impact the store will have on traffic and on local grocery stores.
The appeal states that individuals represented by the group Bozeman Matters “live or work in Bozeman and are concerned with the explosive and unbridled growth in the community.”
Attorney Kim Wilson, who is representing the group, said that while they were alarmed by a Whole Foods coming to town, they took issue with the potential traffic impacts.
“I think my clients in general are concerned with the rapid pace of growth in Bozeman and just want to make sure that the city planners are keeping on top of it in a way that doesn’t add unnecessary hurdles for regular Bozeman folks in terms of traffic and those kinds of impacts,” Wilson said.
Other areas of concern listed in the appeal include stormwater and parking.
John Morrow, with the Gallatin Valley Mall, said the appeal is baseless, likening it to a similar effort begun in 2018 to block the WinCo Foods from coming to Bozeman.
In that case, several Bozeman residents, backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local-4 Union, filed an appeal to WinCo’s site plans, citing concerns that the store would impact Bozeman traffic and would imperil other jobs at other Bozeman grocery stores.
Nobody needs twenty three different grocery stores.
“backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local-4 Union”
I knew that was coming right from the beginning.
This is close.. but I don’t think it’s the on I’m looking for:
Poem to Read on the Fifth of July: Howard Nemerov’s “Fourth of July”
NICK GILLESPIE | 7.5.2013 9:31 AM
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
With a hat tip to Eli Lake for bringing it to my attention.
Here’s Howard Nemerov’s wonderful poem “Fourth of July”:
Because I am drunk, this Independence Night,
I watch the fireworks from far away,
from a high hill, across the moony green
Of lakes and other hills to the town harbor,
Where stately illuminations are flung aloft,
One light shattering in a hundred lights
Minute by minute. The reason I am crying,
Aside from only being country drunk,
That is, may be that I have just remembered
The sparklers, rockets, roman candles and
so on, we used to be allowed to buy
When I was a boy, and set off by ourselves
At some peril to life and property.
Our freedom to abuse our freedom thus
Has since, I understand, been remedied
By legislation. Now the authorities
Arrange a perfectly safe public display
To be watched at a distance; and now also
The contribution of all the taxpayers
Together makes a more spectacular
Result than any could achieve alone
(A few pale pinwheels, or a firecracker
Fused at the dog’s tail). It is, indeed, splendid:
Showers of roses in the sky, fountains
Of emeralds, and those profusely scattered zircons
Falling and falling, flowering as they fall
And followed distantly by a noise of thunder.
My eyes are half-afloat in happy tears.
God bless our Nation on a night like this,
And bless the careful and secure officials
Who celebrate our independence now.
“The sparklers, rockets, roman candles” which I am about to go buy at the fireworks store, Michigan is alright!
Don’t want to go to school?
Here’s How Kids Are Using Soft Drinks to Fake Positive Results on COVID-19 Tests
As far as the CDC is concerned those are valid positives.
+1 Delta Variant
My first thought too.
OT – God bless the NYT.
A few pictures a chat with some experts and now suddenly the NYT is an expert on the necessity and quantity of rebar for construction with concrete.
Condo Wreckage Hints at First Signs of Possible Construction Flaw
It’s got to 1,000 words or more and can be summed up as some pictures suggest that there wasn’t enough rebar, but it’s early and that may or may not be the case.
I spoke to a concrete guy I know down there. The scuttlebutt is that there was an upper pool deck that had been leaking for years. The pool water had been getting into the concrete piers and causing the rebar to corrode,
As a rule, corroding rebar expands and cracks the surrounding concrete.
Combine that with foundational issues and you have a recipe for collapse.
I can buy that. Especially if there were construction lapses and/or design deficiencies.
You get the perfect storm.
And how many false spikes in cases did that cause?
The kids are alright.
And bless the careful and secure officials
Who celebrate our independence now.
Indeed. I hope no harm comes to them at the hands of insurrectionists and radical anti-authority types. That would be tragic.
Treason charges are for the losers.
I did not purchase American beer but I did get a romanian one which they call california common style. Not sure i like it would like more bitter.
5.4 abv 12.6 plato and for hops it says northern brewer and chinook whatever the hell that means
California style beer? ?♂️
Check the label for avocados. ?
Indian tribes around the Columbia River, a type of salmon, a warm winter wind, and a helicopter. The last being pronounced “shit-hook”.
Also a dog breed. And apparently hops
Ain’t no nookie like CH47.
https://untappd.com/b/anagram-brewery-big-sur/3500288
“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”
-John Adam
He was off by a couple of days, the founders weren’t perfect.
*John Adams
No worries; we’re cancelling them as fast as we can.
“When we see fireworks, we see weed and stolen credit cards,” he said. “So what it tells us over the years is that entrepreneurs involved in other criminal activity handle this as a seasonal biz.”
I’m surprised at the cop calling these folks entrepreneurs.
Tense protests erupted Saturday outside a California spa where a transgender woman allegedly exposed herself to children, teens and adults in the women’s area.
Fuck off. It’s a dude who whipped his cock out. And Antifa didn’t get what they deserve.
She acknowledged that the tweet she shared this week, in which she praised the court’s decision to overturn the disgraced comedian’s conviction, “caused so much hurt in so many people.”
The Court was right. Those people can go fuck themselves.
Old Guy Music is good.
Someday I hope my basement looks like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHZy2ShV7w
Yes.
Yeah, I might even have some of those guns in it too.
https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2021/07/oregons-deadly-heat-there-will-be-a-next-time.html
Paywalled, but reader view should work.
I hate everyone in the story, particularly the scribblers. The paternalism dripping off the page is sickening and the government is responsible for all of it, so we need more government. Fuck you slavers.
https://metv.com/quiz/can-you-guess-what-decade-these-4th-of-july-ads-are-from
I got 5, 10, 12 wrong.
Hey Ted’S, LT CDR Fish, or any other old movie buffs about – is this day-appropriate flick any good? Thinking of suggesting TT & I watch the rest of it over Sunday brunch instead of more Untouchables reruns.
It’s not bad, but there are better movies out there.
Too bad Drums Along the Mohawk wasn’t on the schedule.
“1776” will be on TCM later today. It tells the story of drafting the DoI. It is a musical, but the guys playing Franklin and Jefferson nail it.
“It is a musical…”
I will take your word for it.
Robert E Howard wrote a similar tale to Drums along the Mohawk but I cant remember the title. Either he got the idea from DATM or Edmonds got the idea from Howard, I am not sure which.
I need to print out all of Howard’s stuff. He wasn’t Hemingway but he was close.
Ok, I found it. ‘Beyond the Black River’.
http://howardworks.com/beyondtheblackriver.html
My annual Independence Day contribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOUxNAexRzs