That was fun to watch.
Even if you’re not a golf fan, yesterday afternoon was some entertaining stuff. Cantlay has ice water in his veins. The A’s won and Astros lost, so that tightened up. The Saints moved to Dallas to practice asIda bears down on New Orleans. Nebraska football has become a complete embarrassment under Scott Frost and it’s time for him to go. UCLA pounded Hawaii in front of fans (all four or five thousand even though they were letting in as many people as they could get in the Rose Bowl. And across the pond, Liverpool wasted an opportunity against Chelsea as they played to a draw. ManUre won, Spuds won, and Man City hilariously heat Arsenal 5-0 as the London club is officially garbage. Oh, how I want to see them fighting and clawing to avoid relegation at the end of the season. And that’s sports.
Smooth as silk
The not-so-nice Spanish king Peter The Cruel was born on this day. He shares it with English author Mary Shelley, the “father of nuclear physics” Ernest Rutherford, actress Shirley Booth, coonass political legend Huey Long, actor Fred MacMurray, the greatest hitter of all time Ted Williams, rent-seeking businessman Warren Buffett, guitar string guy Ernie Ball, race car driver Bruce McLaren, cartoonist Robert Crumb, baseball player Tug McGraw, comedian Lewis Black, basketball great Robert “The Chief” Parish, Belorussian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, bald actor Michael Chiklis, DJ Paul Oakenfold, actress Cameron Diaz, and tennis player Andy Roddick.
And now its time for…the links!
Things continue to get worse in Afghanistan. But we told everybody to not bother coming to the airport, so there were apparently no casualties. Well, none at the airport anyway. Not sure how many there might be of people we didn’t evacuate before our troops who are now under complete Taliban control and are quite possibly on a kill list our government gave them.
Ida, you bitch!
Hurricane Ida tore Louisiana a new asshole. They’ll be able to start assessing damage today, and I don’t think it’s gonna be pretty.
Did it ever really stop? If so, it validates Trump’s foreign policy attempts, I suppose. Or it just speaks to the weakness vibe that Biden oozes. Either way, it doesn’t bode well for Japan and South Korea.
Gee, who could have possibly seen this coming? Maybe anybody who had opened their eyes way before the covid thing hit.
Nice response, you fucking imbeciles. What’s doubly sad is that the “high profile” targets we were going after aren’t even high enough for our government to name. But at lest we didn’t double-tap the rescue workers. Maybe Biden didn’t remember that strategy from when his mentor Obama was in office.
“Oh shit, it’s my nap time.”
“C’mon man, I don’t know what’s going on there” would have been more honest. Nice work on letting it slide, you media dopes.
Family Court judges have way too much power. And this particular asshole needs to go.
This is the fault of your state government, Californians. Remember that the next few times you head to the polls.
Jeez, I had no idea how much more gas costs everywhere if this is the average. Regular here is hovering around $2.50. Although that’s about to change if there were many refineries damaged from Ida.
Here’s a solid Morrissey track you probably haven’t heard in a while. Yeah, I know some of you will cringe at just seeing that name. Fine, here’s a song by someone else with a very similar title. Now everybody should be happy.
That’s it. Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
“Even if you’re not a golf fan”
I would rather watch paint dry…
Morning Glibronis!
https://youtu.be/PLOPygVcaVE
Next time golf is on and I have a hankering to watch TeeVee regardless of nothing being on, I will keep this link for entertainment Ratty.
“Hurricane Ida tore Louisiana a new asshole. They’ll be able to start assessing damage today, and I don’t think it’s gonna be pretty.”
Will they blame George “Dubya” Boosh or Trump for not fixing the same problems that made Katrina a hellscape event 16 years ago? You know, corrupt democrats in charge for decades stealing the cash that was supposed to allow them to take care of real infrastructure as well as bungling anything related to having a ,plan for something like this….
Good Morning Gibs,
Have to take Foster Child to doctors today, the state is frustrating to deal with.
Sun is coming up, could be worse in so many ways.
My old home ski area is burning. This fire wasn’t supposed to make it this far but the wind changed yesterday and now South Lake Tahoe is in the evacuation zone. I think they will be able to protect the base area but the whole resort is now engulfed in flame. The fire is about to cross through echo pass and into the valley where the majority of people live, today and tomorrow are rough. I know the hurricane is devastating but fire is terrible, terrible weather.
I’ve been through both.
It’s hard to pick between the two. Fires suck hard.
But it’s the people after a hurricane that scare the shit out of me, not the hurricane itself.
It’s a shame Nevada doesn’t get a vote on Newsom’s recall.
*Looks in trash at ripped up LA County ballot* I would never…
We’re all stakeholders.
Regular here is hovering around $2.50
I paid 3.17 for regular yesterday in Pennsylvania. Prices peaked around 3.25 late July, early August. The highest prices I can remember paying was 4.40 in summer 2008.
Cheapest I’ve found in my area is $2.99.
4.80 for premium for the last few months down here.
$3.20 for premium here in Ohio. Last year it was $2.70.
Around 3 bucks in NY but i lucked out when i bought my used F150 a few years ago it takes that E85 corn gas that is still only $2 a gallon.
I run corn squeezings in my Mustang during the warm months which gives it a very noticeable boost in performance. Gas mileage drops to 11 – 12 MPG as It’s very hard to keep your foot out of it. On the plus side E85 is cheap, about $2.20 a gallon so totally worth it.
Only about 72% of the mileage of gasoline, so you’re losing significant efficiency. On the plus side, it cleans your catalyst.
I did not know that. Here i am thinking i got lucky for once.
I saw the cheapest station in “The People’s Republic of CT” yesterday at $3.09. Most stations were between 15 and 40 cents higher. I bought mine at BJs where I was able to pay $2.79. This is crazy because it is almost double the $1.59 I paid about a year ago for gas there…
Gas was $3.079 on Friday, and $3.159 this morning.
A bit over $4/g for regular out here. Even at COSTCO or on base is was $3.90/g on Friday.
I’ve paid $5/gallon the last two fillups. I have a turbo, so it needs the expensive stuff.
Right around $3.50 to $3.60 here in our part of the Great Land.
Good morning all. Watched trashy’s video this morning. As I expected, it’s a shitshow.
Maybe it’s just the engineer in me, but I’ve got a bit of a hangup about proving something works before you implement it at scale.
I missed that. Can you re-link or tell me where he posted it?
https://tv.gab.com/channel/starcrest/view/how-the-covid-vaccine-destroys-your-61256f39e777d97a1d7d900a
I imagine this will become very apparent over the succession of 5 month “booster” shots
Booster shots now! Booster shots forever!
proving something works
It’s worse than that. Like the science man says, they are not even looking because they don’t want us to see. Just evil and greed.
Like he said in the video, we should take the ‘guilty until proven innocent’ approach to any investigational medication.
Holy shit, the North Koreans can make their own fissile material!? Ok I did a tiny bit of reading, looks like they’ve had this facility for a couple of decades but they openly dismantled the whole operation in 2018 “for good”. Looks like the deal is off. If we had honest media we could talk about how Trump’s foreign policy worked, what it accomplished. Instead it was practically never mentioned at all. Good luck Worst Korea and Japan. Best Korea is back!
Remember when peace in the Middle East was a running joke?
/looks over Trump negotiated deals in the Middle East
They were clearly precursors to WWIII…. And racist…. And an attempt to become the next Hitler. I know because I have CNN.
Yup.
I’ve been semi-closely following North Korea’s nuclear ambitions since Bush II’s terms. So, 16 years or so, and there was just radio silence about what Trump did to get them to stop, no mention of it in this article either. He must have done something good there, because I don’t believe they wouldn’t have hammered him on that if they could.
‘I’m not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead,’ he said as he turned to the travelling press pool.
‘On Afghanistan…’ said a reporter before he cut him off.
He snapped: ‘I’m not going to answer Afghanistan now.’
Approved questions I am not supposed to take only.
“Leader” of the free world literally cant answer a simple question off the cuff. Strange times.
Look man, I wasn’t elected President to answer questions. I was elected to… you know, the thing.
That’s way too close to the truth.
“Mr. President, who told you that you weren’t supposed to take questions? Maybe we should be talking to them instead?”
This right here.
Yup.
Bonus observation:. None of the late night comedian-hosts have managed to find anything funny to monologue about in this.
Can you imagine how this would have been reported if the orange man told the dnc operatives with bylines he would not discuss some real calamity with horrific implications to the country and the world (not the usual bullshit they attacked him for like pointing our Rosie O’Donnell is some kind of ugly) cause he was told not to?
Yeah, sure….
Seems that I recall his orangeness taking questions daily for over an hour during the start of the pandemic, to the glee of a national political press who were certain they would fillet the Great Cheeto.
When it turned out that their ridiculous attacks were backfiring and he was gaining in popularity, they all coordinated to ensure that nobody would cover Hitler 2.0 live again.
Isn’t California Cantaloupe Center a plastic surgery clinic?
You’re thinking the West Hollywood location, common mistake.
::polite applause::
Heavens to Betsy!
People who don’t want to wear masks blow themselves up?
This is a strong contender for the stupidest thing I’ll see all week, although the week just started.
The vax protects against spontaneous combustion.
Yeah, that is going to be hard to top.
Well there is this…
CDC: An Unvaccinated Teacher Took Off Their Mask to Read Aloud. Half the Class Got COVID
“No one identified in the outbreak required hospitalization.”
There we go.
An unvaccinated, unmasked California elementary school teacher who came to school in May even while visibly sick infected a dozen students with the coronavirus, all too young to be immunized, according to a report published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here’s an idea: if you are sick, stay home.
It all would have been ok if they were wearing a mask.
DON’T YOU EVEN SCIENCE BRO?
Nope, I’ve been blinded
Remember, Arne Duncan is the asshat that gave us Common Core and the policy of ignoring the crimes of minority students because it hurts the narrative, which directly led to the Parkland shooting.
Expecting anything other than rank stupidity from him is stupidity in of itself.
Oh, I can see her squaring that logic. The CoVidians dont like to be inconvenienced. They demand their own clean, personal, habitat. The idea that the people that can make a valid, reasoned, argument against the vaccine, transposes nicely into “they’re terrorists” in their head.
These are the same people that would never live within and hour’s drive of a landfill, or recycling center. But insist on trash being picked-up. And feel all warm and smug when they set that recycle bin on the curb. The same people, that when they learn the place the trash goes is generally in an economically depressed area and maybe kinda polluted, demand that the people they demand pick up their trash do SOMETHING about how they handle the trash. To protect the poor.
You know, assholes.
Virtue signaling assholes think virtue signaling makes them better than people that see through the shitshow and decide not to engage in doing stupid shit…
Today’s Mask Editorial said that “the only alternative to masking our students is isolation.” You want to isolate, be my guest!
There’s evidence that bombs work.
I was just thinking, Cornpop could have prevented this.
He was a bad dude!
The Taliban would leave their straight razors in a rain barrel to get them rusty.
What was the origin of that one?
The Corn Pop story. That’s why Biden had to arm himself with a pool chain.
https://youtu.be/rC3_Sa1iBB8?t=100
I knew Cornpop’s cousin JiffyPop. Under heat, he’d really blow-up.
Army Doctor: Many More In Military Have Died From The Vaccine Than Have Died From Covid
Young fit people are not generally susceptible to covid.
I had no idea the five year mortality from myocarditis was that high.
“Depending on the cause and extent of myocardial damage, the mortality rate is up to 20% at 1 year and 50% at 5 years. Despite optimal medical management, overall mortality has not changed in the last 30 years.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459259/
Fuck you!, bend the knee to the mandarinate or get canceled..
/globalists
My son’s at Ranger School right now. He’s been one of the holdouts through Basic and AIT and the pre-RS stuff. Most of the training cadre wouldn’t even get the shot, but the from-the-top administrative punishments have been constant on the trainees.
Obviously out of contact right now, but I’m pissed in general that he’s gonna get forced into it right into the middle of something like that.
Mammary Monday’s melons will never fall victim to drought.
https://archive.li/XPlBd
Thanks Q, it is my birthday today and I needed something to feel good about.
Happy Birthday, Eggo.
Mine’s just around the corner.
Happy birthday man.
Happy Birthday doodski!
https://archive.li/nt5VO/e9644506e8ca4475b909ade75f49ae8cda1cd23d.jpg
NSFW.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfy18ynhWNU
Make it a good ‘un, Mr Waffle Man
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday ?
Happy Birthday, textured one.
Happy birthday, waffles!
I hope it’s a good one.
Happy birthday
Enjoy the day!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Econ perspective: People make choices to satisfy their preferences.
Psych perspective: People adapt their preferences to justify their choices.
Here’s a theory that combines them.
https://twitter.com/ShengwuLi/status/1415849320973324290
based on the tweet thread seems like nonsense to me
If [tweet thread] then [nonsense]
Logic checks out.
there is a paper but probably more behavioral econ bullshit
Yes it is.
But the example given does make some sense, but I think there is a much easier rationale: A preference towards not wasting money even if it is a sunk-cost fallacy decision.
“His eyes fixed on each transfer case as it move from plane to van, first lady Jill Biden beside him.”
Prolly cause he had no idea what was going on with all those shiny wood boxes. Im sure Dr. Jill told him they were giant Lincoln Logs.
“From time to time he bowed his head as if in silent prayer.”
Power naps !
Maybe he was worried that one of the caskets was for him.
But not a propaganda piece.
Nothing about him checking his watch?
It’s a smart watch. He was checking the thermostat to see why everything is blowing up.
I left a link to KF&G on practiscore on the GUNZ subforum for anyone considering coming for a visit.
I couldn’t help but notice that the gunz sub is the most active one. *flexes*.
We’re just a bunch of deplorable bitter clingers.
9/11 charity shoot at Saraspa on 9/11.
9/11 is the day I’m driving from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon.
Win a round for me.
It’s you and EvilSheldon.
I need to get my shit together and shoot more.
Psalm 25:15-21
I’ve been reading psalms before bed to calm myself from the craziness in the world. The seem to be written by people going through somewhat similar bad times long ago.
Im trying to make a joke about “be in my bunk” and “hairy Pslams”.
So far, nuthin’.
Smooth soft hair or like razor stubble?
Thanks
This is near where I have family.
The Jersey Shore Is Sinking. Do We Want to Save It?
The good news is that Bloomberg style has now capitalized “White”. We’ve achieved true equality people!
while mentioning they are white is irrelevant, no the federal tax money should not be used, I would say
I have no interest in subsidizing other people’s housing decisions.
That said, Bloomberg can take their racist rhetoric and shove it up their White asses.
“and overwhelmingly White community”
Yeah, fuck those pinkskins, amirite?
There are reasons to not subsidize it but that’s not one of them.
Yes, but Jews are not White.
According to MTV, there are zero white-skinned people there.
The world ecosystem depends on saving that beach. If it sinks, it’ll take those Jersey shore people with it, which, at first glance, seems just fine. But all that Axe Body Spray entering the ocean will cause a toxic bloom that will kill oceanic organisms for decades to come.
That capitalize the W in white thing, is it new? This racial obsession with White as a scare word can’t be healthy.
All of this will not end well.
Roughly 12 to 24 months ago for many news sources black became Black in their style guides.
…that has been doing its thing for millions of years, I’m sure they just coincidentally decided to omit.
Adding that tidbit would ruin the effort to create panic around this cult’s agenda to fuck people over.
Zoom fatigue: Being watched by the camera drains energy from attendees, particularly from women and newer employees.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1431493726686351364
Women and children hardest hit.
Will no one think of the poor camgirls?
Chaturbate sites?
What happens to this energy that gets drained? Could zoom meetings be a new green source of energy?
Only if it takes more energy to collect than it provides.
I agree that being on camera for meetings is draining. Have no idea if it’s worse for women.
Everyone at my work is on a camera all shift, except for a few select rooms. Low energy. Please Clap?
Almost no-one at my company uses a camera for onine meetings (we use Teams). The only ones who do are folks in China and some in Europe and Japan, but the latter two are kind of spotty. For a while, some of our customer-facing people would try to use their cameras for internal meetings but the rest of us stubbornly kept ours off.
It’s fun when we’re on a call with a vendor and they all have their cameras on, and are dressed nicely with a fake office background on, and we’re all blank screens. I think it puts salespeople off their game because they can’t see our reactions.
There has been one work meeting where I’ve turned a camera on. My boss specifically required it… so he could tell if we were paying attention. I complied by doing work on the second monitor during the meeting.
I keep mine off and haven’t taken the opaque piece of tape over the laptop camera off in several years. Except when getting a new one and forgetting to transfer it over.
One guy on my extended team that’s a little less than technically adept didn’t seem to notice he was on camera during meetings for a while. I think he finally figured out the mute and camera buttons.
I don’t even know what most of the people I work with look like.
Cameras are only for the higher-ups at all-hands presentations.
That sounds nice. We’re “camera preferred”, but people don’t feel obligated to turn it on. I don’t mind that. See people if they want to be seen, traditional conference call if they don’t.
I usually turn mine on because it keeps me accountable so that I don’t start doing other work during the meeting.
“I usually turn mine on because it keeps me accountable”
Toobin’ in the trashcan?
My boss’s boss wants us to turn our cameras on during meetings.
Most of my coworkers, like me, have stubbornly refused to do so.
Heh. Just got off an all-hands Zoom announcing $employer’s latest acquisition. In my backyard, smoking my pipe, camera on, got several compliments on my “background” and pipe /not a euphemism. WFH rocks!
“Increases in happiness, but not in depression, were associated with people being in a higher group of cardiovascular risk.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1431212913860222978
Stereotypes are generally partially based in reality. There’s a reason Santa Claus is a jolly fat guy.
Falstaff would agree, but he’s on one of his quarter-of-a-fortnightly visits to the brothel.
Yeah, not surprised.
At this point I am convinced his is being turned into a disaster because the fucking assholes that are in charge hope people get mad and demand they send more troops in…
Yep, one of today’s columnists basically said that. He says Reagan’s bugout after the Marine barracks bombing encouraged the terrorists to step up attacks, eventually leading to 9-11.
He urged Biden to surge in troops, re-take Bagram, and pound any Talibaners who interfere. Otherwise, the U.S. is a paper tiger and the terrorists are coming our way. Ever notice how many Tuff Guys there are in armchairs far from the frontlines?
The part about this that is galling is that these fucking cowardly armchair assholes then send young men to fight these fights with both hands tied behind their backs and are itching to destroy anyone that decides that they will not follow ROEs that are not just insane but obviously designed to make sure they can never finish the job and leave.
Hey, wait a minute! Just because the prez had 4-5 deferments to avoid the VN thing, he whomped Cornpop’s ass, mano a mano.
Wanna do some pushups, man?
I am going to bet that I can beat Biden if he was stupid enough to challenge me. I can’t knock of 84 military pushups in under a minute (and go over 140 in 2 mins) like I used to back in my late teens/early 20s, but the other day my son was asking me if I still could whip those things out the way I used to when he was a kid and I wasn’t as old and 20lbs heavier than he remembers, so I tried and got 45 in in under a minute. Not bad for doing it more than 35 years after the glory days….
See, if Carter hadn’t allowed the Iranians to hold Americans hostage, there never would have been a barracks bombing…
It’s turtles, er, uh, war all the way down.
I blame Sargon of Akkad.
This is insanely evil. I don’t want to believe it. But deep down I know it’s certainly possible.
I am fairly sure there were elements in the Trump administration who delayed departure and insisted on conditions just so the enemy would have time to do something that would require escalation.
When Biden pulled out of the deal and delayed departure, I was sure that it meant the neocons had won and we were staying (along with those juicy military contracts).
I suspect that the “we are leaving” announcement was a spur of the moment sop to the AOC wing, created because of that vaunted “last one he spoke to” effect we heard about with Trump.
Then they held his feet to the fire and once the air base was abandoned, it was out of or control.
Risqué Dukes Spring/Summer 2022 Miami Swim Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxEz4d9Pe0g
If this is true, the only conclusion is that what’s going on in Afghanistan is intentional.
Intentional or incompetent doesn’t matter at this point.
Heads should be on pikes.
If we’re working that closely with the Taliban it seems like the panic, at least concerning our own citizens, might be a little unwarranted.
If your motivation is to create panic to make people choose to do something they would otherwise never agree to, this makes perfect sense…
Its possible, at that point, that the Taliban didn’t realize how much of a paper tiger our forces were under Biden. Now that the truth has been revealed, I suspect the Taliban will take advantage of it. Time will, unfortunately, reveal all.
In my opinion they’re rational actors that want to facilitate us leaving so they can have a smooth transition, as smooth as possible anyway. They’re a rough bunch but they aren’t ISIS and the last thing they want is for us to turn around and reinvade.
I don’t get it. Unless this is a way to screw over Biden by people who didn’t want him to end the war. That’s the only way this sabotage makes sense,
Don’t underestimate the power of incompetence.
I’m starting to think that we left billions in equipment to the Taliban so that they’d have toys to play with when the Chinese move to take the poppy fields.
I said that a few days ago. Screwing over the inevitable Chinese invasion.
Probably not.
They are producing uranium? Isn’t that nuclear weapons the hard way, similar to the manhattan project?
Yes, it is. Getting deuterium to make hydrogen bombs is painfully difficult.
Matt Welch
@MattWelch
America: Still great.
https://twitter.com/MattWelch/status/1431712440450957323
ok this is sort of funny
From the replies
Ouch.
Racin’ bacon!
Came in the “other tweets”
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
I’d hate to see what the wrong person would have done.
Quote Tweet
Alyssa Milano
@Alyssa_Milano
· Aug 29
I’m proud of @POTUS and the incredible job he’s doing. He’s the right person for the job in this moment in history.
#IStandWithBiden
The other day I was thinking about all those geniuses who fortified the election. I’m sure they are super proud of how things turned out.
#resist #victory
They will assure themselves OMB would have been so much worse, all evidence to the contrary.
BIT RICH? My rich bloke funded my luxury lifestyle but he’s refused since we broke up – it’s abuse, he made me this lavish
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/15993649/rich-ex-refuse-fund-lifestyle-abuse/
Taking to social media, she asked whether she had grounds to sue her ex after he ignored her calls when she came to him asking for money, claiming she “never asked for this lifestyle.”
Buh?
She didn’t learn to find another Sugar Daddy in gold-digger training?
Yeah she got complacent, probably outcompeted.
She needs to get off her posh ass and learn to spread her legs wider.
3 years is too short but that’s the basic idea behind palimony lawsuits
“If you liked it then you should’ve put a binding relational contract on it”
*shakes hand repeatedly*
You would think that with some of the moral opprobrium being lifted off of these kind of relationships, that the ladies would be getting smarter about their end.
But you can’t bring up time preference these days without getting fitted for a Klan hood…
Ermagherd! She’s gots da Affluenzas !
“Women can’t go back in lifestyle. ” – Chris Rock
“You cant take back an entitlement” -Tres
“You should deal with my Section 8 tenants when they get evicted” -Jugsy
OnlyFans model can’t get a normal job – because she’s ‘too hot’ & men can’t speak to her without getting turned on
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/15984751/amy-kupps-only-fans-too-hot-to-work-teacher
this one was recommended by the previous maybe a hint
Who punched her in the mouth?
A prospective employer?
Christians listen up:
The faith struggles of young people today aren’t like past generations. The typical questions:
-scientific atheists demanding proof of God’s existence
-the problem of evil
-Questions about all other religions
Are not what young people are asking…
e standard Christian apologetics:
-Aquinas’ 5 ways
-William Lane Craigs Kalam cosmological argument
-presuppositional apologetics
-Alvin Plantinga’s work epistemology
Can’t get traction because they don’t speak to the questions and issues todays young people struggle with.
The “big questions” of life fit into 4 categories:
1. Origin (where did we come from)
2. Meaning (what’s the purpose/telos of life)
3. Morality (how should we live)
4. Destiny (what will become of us)
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1431539171676413953
I’m an agnostic and I can’t even grok that derp…
The faith struggles of young people today aren’t like past generations.
LOL, nope. Checked out right after one sentence.
I would venture that the likelihood of a young person being familiar with any of the apologetics is next to nil. Forget about whether or not those apologetics apply to their burning questions.
I mean, at least they know who Aquinas is. That’s a start. I’m not familiar with Craig, but I’ve heard the name Plantinga. Can’t say I’m particularly surprised with my lack of exposure to them given that they’re reformed.
That said, I’d go to Augustine for the problem of evil. He treats it at length, but his summation (evil prompts the unfaithful to make change and tests/strengthens the faith of faithful) is a damn fine starting point for the conversation.
Still, the first sentence reeks of prideful self-centeredness. “I’m special because I’m here during the downfall of a Christian Nation®”. This isn’t any different than the fall of dozens of other societies throughout history. Scientific atheism? As if the church has never spawned something that has been turned against it before. As if atheism is new.
Just like young people think they’re the first to invent sex, young Christians think they’re the first to encounter opposition to their faith.
Reading down further in the thread:
“**MEANING** is the thing that matters. You need to understand the nihilistic despair that lies at the heart of postnodernism and figure out how to inject hope and meaning into a world of nihilistic cynacism and despair.
That is what needs an answer”
I would posit that it is useless to try to inject meaning into a person’s life unless they understand how postmodernism is destroying all meaning first. It really is an example of Plato’s Cave. In order to escape it, you have to know you’re in it in the first place. Once you understand how postmodernism works and how it deconstructs everything to no end, you can start the journey to meaning and avoid the obstacles the postmodernists have put in your path.
^^ Nailed it. Christians are called to be a “light to all nations” for a reason. Can’t convince people that there’s something better out there when you’re not advertising anything better.
Heck, I’m very guilty of that, especially here. It’s very easy to fall into despair, taking on a tone that I don’t use in real life, overemphasize the negative, overdramatize hatred for oppressors, etc. A thousand missed opportunities (both here an in life generally) to present a starkly different worldview and lifestyle than the one prevailing in our culture.
From sermon yesterday, re: church plants. Apparently the unchurched are far more comfortable going to a startup church than an established church. This surprised me, but I can think of a number of reasons this would be true.
Also, apparently nationwide over 80% of church plants fail within 5 years.
Just tell the “young people” that the greatest king in the Bible, David, sent one of his best buddies off to die in war simply so he could bang his wife.
Hollywood ain’t got nothin’ on Judeo-Christian scripture.
And which of David’s wife got to birth the heir?
His first one? Nope.
One of the others he acquired under other reasonable circumstances? Nope.
The one from above? Yep, that’s Solomon’s Mom.
David was interesting, but Lot anticipated PornHub.
Fun note: Arsenal has never been relegated. They joined the 1st division in 1919 under shady circumstances (they were voted promotion despite finishing 5th or something). They have been in the top division ever since. No one else has been at the top as long.
I would love to see it happen. But then again, Man City was relegated down 2 levels very recently and came back stronger than ever.
It’s amazing what a virtually unlimited amount of petrodollars can do.
And ignoring FFP.
Our “,just a bunch of guys at work” softball team got promoted after running roughshod through the local B league. This was a “meet up after work and drink some beers” softball team. No practice. Our only ringer was a girl.
So they move us up, saying we are not allowed to stay at the lower level.
Uh… Yeah. We were ready to be relegated 2 games in. We had no business in the A leagues. Oof. Painful.
So you can bounce back and forth every season!
Collect the A league money in year 1.
Collect the parachute payment in year 2.
Repeat and Profit!!!
Okay, probably not any big TV money involved in local softball.
Quite the contrary… Since I was an executive I usually picked up the majority of the beer.
I don’t like beer.
So I paid extra and we got our asses handed to us.
Sloopy missed HoF baseballer Kiki Cuyler.
Between Cuyler and McGraw are also Adam Wainwright, Cliff Lee, Bing Miller, and Marlon Byrd.
Wainwright having a close to CY Young type season is absolutely astonishing. Guy looked cooked a few years ago. Good for him.
The Freedom to Be Left Alone
That guy has an interesting podcast too.
Excerpts from the Dune Encyclopedia:
Some creative sadists worked on this project
is that the book sort of approved by Herbert or some online thing?
Approved-ish by Herbert, denounced by his kids.
denounced by his kids. – irrelevant.
He who controls the copyright, controls the Duniverse.
Typical Herbert.
Fuck Brian Herbert, yo.
I realize California is a big state and has varying climates and geographies, but why does it seem like every crop they grow in that state requires way more water than what the area can naturally provide?
they have the climate for it if not the water. I assume mismanagement is to blame
It’s a desert that has periodic and unpredictable flooding. But with 330+ days of abundant sunshine and otherwise fertile soils (alluvial valley, at or near sea level) you can get crazy fast growing and harvest 3-4 times per year. So when you can grow “anything” by just adding water you will grow everything.
A century and a half ago there were very few people, great soil and weather, and abundant water in rivers flowing down from the mountains. Now there are way too many people and all kinds of rules over who can use the water.
Cheap water for farmers.
Mississippi River flowing backward: True, bullshit, or true, but not really that interesting?
Storm surge pushes more water from the sea into the delta than is coming downstream from the north. Interesting only as a reference to the intensity of the storm surge (which implies massive flooding).
Good morning, Sloop!
I think I’ve evolved on Morrissey. I used to cringe, but I’ve deliberately been listening to him lately, both solo and the Smiths.
Maybe you had something to do with that.
I hope out Gulf Coast Glibs are ok.
The Smiths are brilliant. Even better, they didn’t wear out their welcome.
Likely the only Morrisey that doesn’t make my ass hurt.
“Girlfriend In A Coma” makes me want to arson something.
That’s serious.
A small rant:
My bank recently replaced/overhauled/”upgraded” their online banking system. Big whoop. Their online bill payment system appeared to be unchanged except for some minor cosmetic changes. All the payees appeared intact, and automatic transfers were listed.
The other day I started getting messages from my electricity provider, asking if I “need help” with my electric bill. Hmm. Better check on that.
Sure enough, while all the payees were still listed, all e-bill connections were completely severed. Seems that anything that wasn’t an ACH transfer was obliterated, but transfers to other banks and loan payments were mostly untouched.
So I just spent an hour an a half “correcting” the issue.
I called the bank’s customer service line and lodged a complaint. “From what I was told,” the unhelpful customer service lady said, “a communication went out online about this.” Well, I got some communications about “we’re creating a great new online experience for our customers” but apparently they hid the fact that their bill pay system was going to be reset pretty far down in the communication.
Why, oh, why can’t they send an e-mail specifically regarding this to users of the Bill Pay system that isn’t disguised as a marketing e-mail? Why hide this? I can’t be the only customer that this has happened to. FFS.
I was hoping that this past year would reintroduce customer service into industries, but another prediction of mine has fallen.
What led you to that?
Being shutdown, clamoring for customers, etc.
Yeah, I was expecting worse. A lot of “customer service” is now sitting on its ass and collecting unemployment.
They really shouldn’t have required any input from the customer anyway. This kind of thing should be completely transparent. Instead, they figured an e-mail communication that looks like a rah-rah marketing e-mail was sufficient notice.
I imagine there are other customers who are on the hook for late payment charges with some services, which might be a difficult situation for some people right now. I was lucky I caught it when I did–I was able to avoid late charges on all but one bill.
Yeah, whichever suit signed off on that change ought to be looking for another job.
The first question to come up during the kickoff meeting was probably “how do we transfer the autopays to the new system”.
Bank of America’s service has gone down the toilet. A large number of their branches are closed or on reduced hours still. Wait times are yuge when I call. On top of that they were giving up customer data to the Feds. I’m probably going to move my banking somewhere else, but I’m not sure where.
credit union. If/when Cap1 decides to piss me off, I already have accounts at my college credit union and, frankly, they still have customer service. That’s what happens when you have all of 6 or 7 branches. Of course, they’re members of the credit union alliance that allows me to go into a number of local CUs if I need to do in-person banking, but I haven’t needed to in years.
Also, “customer service” is frequently a hidden cost of inflation. Just a bit fewer workers per customers. A bit of the perks curbed. Etc.
Oof. Been through that a couple of times.
You get pulled to sleep and quit paying attention… Then Wham! Everyone is about to shut something off because you haven’t paid in 2 months.
The Greeks are getting mad
Are the Athenians and Spartans bickering again?
Guess who is a low level FedGov manager? This guy…which means WFH full time and a 10% raise. That took 3 months to process
*celebratory gunfire*
*ducks*
*can’t afford to return fire*
Damn ammo prices.
*runs around frantically, collecting brass and bullet fragments to recast and reload*
Congratulations! ?
Congrats, Obe!
Good news!
Huzzah!
Woot!
Great. Any other Feds here want to ’fess up?
I have not been shy about it 😉
I’m Fed adjacent.
Thank you thank you…now to slash my budget *cracks knuckles…* now let’s cut some federal spending!
Oh, you’re going to be a *terrible* fed. I can’t believe you got promoted with that kind of thinking.
On the other hand, you might be able to get a personal audience with Thomas Massie or Rand Paul when you’re fired for what ought to be a decorable act of heroism.
My tax bill thanks you. Congratulations!
Congrats!
Congrats man!
Congrats!
I’m sorry!
Mazel tov!
congratulations!
Media gleefully reports that anti-mask-mandate guy in Texas has died of COVID. Death to sinners.
https://kdvr.com/news/caleb-wallace-anti-mask-organizer-and-co-founder-of-the-san-angelo-freedom-defenders-dies-of-covid-19/
But what were his last words…inquiring minds need to know
Ooh wait… Is this the part where the press solemnly reports that the deceased heretic whispered, “I wish I’d gotten the vaccine”?
“Live free AND die” ???
“Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine”
“not yet”
ghouls doing ghoulish shit. More at 11.
I’m not sure why anyone, ghoulish though they may be, would think this is some sort of coup. Anecdatally, I don’t know anyone anti-mask mandate who thinks that covid can’t kill you. The point is that wearing a mask is not going to stop you from getting it or passing it on. And there’s plenty of evidence that this is true. So I don’t know how this is a ‘gotcha’ moment. In order for it to be a gotcha moment, you have already had to have accepted their premise in which case you might still be anti mandate, but you’d probably be wearing one. So it’s just total non sequitur. I mean, if I point out the people who have died from covid who were pro mandate and always wore their masks, is that some sort of a gotcha? In a way it’s more so than this because that explicitly means that someone who wore a mask still got it – it’s a piece of evidence against the premise. In this case here, there’s no control group; there’s no way of knowing whether he would have got sick if he wore a mask, let alone been pro mandate – which has nothing to do with anything at all.
It’s a “gotcha” for people who want their preconceived notions confirmed. For the incurious. For the busybody.
It is more than that.
None of those scolds were gleefully celebrating all of the democrat lawmakers who came down with covid during their flight from Texas.
(A completely different set of scolds celebrated the petard hoisting though)
“The point is that wearing a mask is not going to stop you from getting it or passing it on”
But a lot of people don’t know that. They really, really believe that the paper masks* are a legitimate barrier to catching and/or spreading covid.
*It’s possible N-95 masks might have more efficacy.
It’s sooooo windy! LOL
One guy is braced in one direction actively pushing his body as if fighting the wind, the other just standing there and two dudes just stroll on by.
We get it, there are gusts but come on man…just report the weather without theatrics.
STORMWATCH! If you don’t watch our coverage, you will die.
Is he wearing a baseball batting helmet? Also, the staged dumpster on its side is a nice touch.
Assuming what Biden admin is saying is true (potentially a big assumption, but lets roll with it):
What are we supposed to do if a truck loaded with bombs and known suicide bombers is coming towards us, but there happens to be kids in the car with them?
I’d say you can still blow it to hell. It sucks, its not pretty, but war is ugly.
Yeah, if the government is to be believed, this one was “car bomb gets destroyed on the way to blow up people at the airport. Bomb explodes and that explosion kills a bunch of people in a nearby house.
So, basically the streetcar problem?
“Melons”
Love that guy’s license plate, could this be Q? Maybe we’ve misunderstood this whole time.
#266 – Lightfoot Strikes Twice | The Tim Dillon Show
The Tim Dillon Show
Tim discovers a scathing Yelp review from Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, talks about a moment when you will accept your own death, Spike Lee re-editing his documentary about 9/11, and goes full motivational mode in this weeks episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWg2dMHcsD8
As many as five rockets were fired at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday local time, a US official told CNN.
The C-RAM defense system installed at the airport engaged with the rockets, the official said. There are no reports of any casualties at this time.
C-RAM is an automated system that detects incoming attacks and uses a machine gun to destroy the incoming fire before it can hit its target. The system has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan to intercept and destroy incoming projectiles targeting US forces.
The US official said the rockets aimed at the airport were likely launched by ISIS-K, but cautioned it was too early to know for sure.
Dien Bien Phu redux?
Louisiana. Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday on NBC’s “TODAY” that the damage is “really catastrophic” in southeastern Louisiana and that the death toll could rise “considerably.”
Ouch. Hopefully Suthen and the rest of the glibs in the path are OK.
On Aug. 10, Cook County Judge James Shapiro barred Rebecca Firlit, the mother of an 11-year-old boy, from seeing her son.
The judge can get fucked.
It is not too bad right now, the meat of the storm is supposed to come around this afternoon. Suthen(i think) and I are on the leeward side of the storm so I am not expecting it to get too bad. Jackson, MS is going to get clobbered.
But if we do get hit, every gas station is a liquor store in Louisiana, so we will be okay.
I Grill up Blue Corn Steak Tacos in Texas | Gordon Ramsay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9whtgkas0
Looks great!
This morning I had to go around and take the temps of the unstuck (i.e., no COVID-19 shot) in my work location. I was unhappy that I had to do it, so I tried to soften the blow by offering each of them one of my zucchini brownies. I also offered one to Reliable Co-worker because I play favorites.
But I’m not offering one to the CEO.
Good on you.
My brother’s brother-in-law used to have a brush clearing business in California. He would have a lot of work during fire season creating fire breaks. California’s ever changing regulations on emissions made it too expensive for him to maintain his trucks and tractors, so he sold it all and moved out of state. Those fighting the fires now sure could use his service, but he was driven out of business. This is one of those impacts from overregulation that we’ll never see, but these things all add up.
I am sure the good people making those regulations know what they are doing
That’s true. We should trust the experts.
The scary part is they know exactly what they are doing.
That’s what you get when you have a one-party Republican state!
Because of those deplorables sending Republicans to the legislature, the Democrats can only lose a few of their members before they drop from a 3/4 super majority to a 2/3. How can you get any meaningful legislation through with such a narrow margin?
Ask Nancy.
Massie doing some good work. I am going to let my Rep know where I stand on this issue.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1432365062002561027
Good stuff; now do the rest of us. We have religious and health objections, too.