Music. No bagpipes. This is the earliest recorded version of this song.
Scottish Heavy Athletics is not just for big, burly men; our women athletes are not to be trifled with, either. Tossing the sheaf had its origins in throwing bags of hay up into a barn loft. All sports are open to women athletes, but the sheaf event has the most women participants so competition is fierce.
SATURDAY EVENING PREVIEW: Join Double Eagle at 5:00 PM for a stirring nautical tale of Hawaii interisland sailboat racing. Your timbers will be shivered, or your money back.
SPACE ROUND-UP:
Second uncrewed test flight of Boeing Starliner spacecraft, originally scheduled for August, likely to slip until 2022. Boeing officials said last month that nitrogen tetroxide propellant leaked through Teflon seals on the valves and interacted with moisture on the “dry” side of the valve, creating nitric acid that corroded the valves and caused them to stick shut. Meanwhile, rival SpaceX has conducted four successful crewed orbital missions, and a number of uncrewed ISS resupply missions with various versions of their Dragon capsule.
Space Force reveals dress uniforms for their “guardians.” All we can think of is Walter Koenig saying “nuclear wessels.”
NASA reveals landing site for Lunar VIPER rover which will look for water ice in the always-shadowed craters near the Moon’s South Pole.
Below here, there be nutpunches.
SETTING THE STAGE for DEATH PANELS: US FedGov controls supply of approved COVID-19 treatment, Harris/Biden administration plans to ration distribution to states.
TALIBAN: “Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security.” Planned return to amputations and executions as judicial punishment. But at least they’ll have women judges this time.
“nitrogen tetroxide propellant leaked through Teflon seals on the valves and interacted with moisture on the “dry” side of the valve, creating nitric acid that corroded the valves and caused them to stick shut”
Don’t you hate when that happens?
I had that one time. Miralax and Preparation H solved the problem.
Get yer ivermectin now kids.
You’re not my supervisor!
Yer not gonna like the guy who will be.
Look at the rube with his horse paste!!!!
You should see how I treat my mange.
Kreso is the only way to go.
https://slscompanyinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/kreso-dip-32oz-10-1-768×1024.jpg
I need my wife to order her stash. She seems to think whoever gets sick first gets first dibs. Those are my pony pills.
Wonder how to get my hands on some. I really should….
Your timbers will be shivered
Aye, matey. The brawny lass in the first image shivers me timbers. Thicc as a mainsail mast she be.
Just don’t get her angry or you’ll get the same treatment as the bag of hay.
Re 2: Hey, inclusive.
Even the smaller ladies below her are not to be trifled with.
Any lass who uses a pitchfork with her tampon should be treated with all due respect.
One complaint… no redheads.
It’s the highland games and we can’t get a ginger lass?
Do highland games include archery?
No, unfortunately.
What if you steal $80b+ of US hardware?
“That’s ‘asset forfeiture.’ We learned it by watching you!”/Taliban
Did they really steal it though? It was abandoned, one could argue that it was available for salvage.
I think a lot of it was gifted to them by its owners at the time – the Afghan “Army”.
The Regeneron thing seems to be a lesson in “always have a backup plan”
Once it caught on in popularity, they had to know the Feds would start prioritizing it since they controlled the supply.
This, and the mandate on government contractors (and workers) should remind all normal people why the government should be as small as possible.
Every expansion of the government comes at an immediate cost to freedom and another potential cost when shit like this happens.
What does one call the power of inaccurate observation?
Voting?
*golf clap*
Quod erat demonstrandum…
“Cuz you’re our friends! And you’re going to vote like your friends do!”
“Forty acres an’ a mule?! Gee!”
(GWTW Reconstruction scene, as best as my memory allows)
“we’re your friends”, probably.
Being dumb?
In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers.
Do you think they call him ‘One-eye Turabi’?
Left Eye Turabi?
Don’t go stealin’ from the Taliban.
Since he seems like kind of a dick, they should call him the ‘One-eyed Snake’.
“The name’s Plisskin.”
/couldn’t resist
Just watched that last night after at least a decade or so.
Still hysterical. My favorite bit was the revolver that never runs out of bullets. Doesn’t hurt the story at all.
“‘People are scared of big boobs’: Billie Eilish says she lost 100,000 Instagram followers after posting a selfie showing off her cleavage in a corset”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10022481/Billie-Eilish-lost-100-000-Instagram-followers-posting-cleavage-selfie.html
Yeah, OK, sure.
Utter horseshit.
Big Boobs in a corset is one of the greatest views of all time,
/ up close and personal
Seconded.
It aint named The Daily Fail for nuthin.
Fucking patriarchal society, hates women and their big bosoms.
Do Your Worst, Say Glib Men
Space Force reveals dress uniforms for their “guardians.” All we can think of is Walter Koenig saying “
nuclear wesselsthe Space Force is Mother, the Space Force is Father.”Fify
Their dress uniforms look dumb. Maybe something red instead?
We kind of are living B5 aren’t we…
/looks around for Vorlons
We couldn’t be so lucky.
“AOC bursts into tears as Iron Dome’s $1bn funding is OVERWHELMINGLY approved in House 420-9 and Rashida Tlaib is accused of anti-Semitism by fellow Dem after she called Israel a ‘violent apartheid system'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10021351/Rashida-Tlaib-says-shell-vote-no-Dem-bill-fund-Iron-Dome-accuses-Israel-war-crimes.html
A Billion dollars to make AOC cry seems a bit expensive.
Yeah, but if they have to spend a billion, I’d rather they do it on something that made AOC cry than something that made AOC happy.
I’d have done it for $20.
I bet I could get her to cry without spending a nickel.
Purple nurple?
Those ain’t tears.
Depends on bookies’ odds.
And although she wants to defund the police, apparently she’s just fine with a police escort.
It’s part of an elaborate sting. All will be revealed at the Policeman’s Ball.
But, will there be Dancing at the Policeman’s Ball?
But she HATES meter maids.
I thought she just hated her maids.
Too many teardrops ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC5m-IRns
“Battle of the abs! Mel C and Bling Empire star Christine Chiu both show off fit bodies in matching sports bras at Dancing With The Stars rehearsals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10022545/Mel-C-Bling-Empires-Christine-Chiu-wear-matching-sports-bras-arrive-DWTS-rehearsals.html
I guess she really is sporty. That’s a good 47.
Alright, alright, alright.
Actor Matthew McConaughey said in a recent episode of the “Set it Straight: Myths and Legends” podcast that he is still considering a run for political office. …
“Well, thank you, man. I’m measuring it. Look, it’s going to be in some capacity. … I just — I’m more of a folksy and philosopher poet statesman than I am a, per se, definitive politician,” McConaughey told the hosts in an episode released yesterday.
“So I go, well, that’s a reason not to, but then I go, no, that’s exactly why you should, because politics needs redefinition, but I’m measuring, you know, what is my category? What’s my embassy?”
I bet his candidacy will fail to launch.
Pffftttt…. I bet people in Dallas will be buying his schtick.
His entire campaign is nothing but Fool’s Gold
Once the skeletons come out, his name will be Mud.
He’ll be fine, I don’t think he suffers from Frailty.
I think the boy has a shot, if he can leverage his experience with the Lincoln campaign.
I’m not sure how that will play out.
Good catch. Lincoln is, after all, a Ford product.
Naked bongos for everyone!
That leaves me dazed and confused.
“Cleo Shepherd, 20, died in Boise, Idaho, hospital, on September 20, two weeks after contracting COVID-19”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10022063/Woman-20-dies-COVID-Idaho-hospital.html
20 was also her stone weight.
Not far wrong there.
Maybe a little on the light side. Can’t tell how tall she is, but she could easily be 300 pounds.
Tres will be devastated
Uh…I would wager that COVID expedited that process, but no, COVID was not the case.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10018979/Demi-Rose-showcases-enviable-hourglass-figure-busty-red-underwear-Italian-getaway.html
Talk about Stoneweight…..
Nope. Brunette beauty playfully flicking her luscious locks.
Nah, that was the a.m. gif.
🙂
All we can think of is Walter Koenig saying “nuclear wessels.”
The uniforms look more Psi Corps.
I was thinking Battlestar Galatica.
See Gustave Lytton’s comment above.
must be psychic
What Is the Average Federal Individual Income Tax Rate on the Wealthiest Americans?
That seems misleading to say the least.
What if anything does the Wayback Machine show in the recent past for this or a similar question?
The IRS has updated income tax rules. Taxes will no longer be based on your actual income, but what you could make. You have a PhD but are working as a barista, you pay taxes based on what the IRS thinks you could earn with the PhD. All you retired/unemployed also have to pay up.
Is that a two way street?
Stop laughing.
Ah yes… the way probate courts calculate income for child support purposes.
Should be classified as misinformation. I’m sure Twitter will be right on that.
untaxed (“unrealized”) capital gains income
So, not income at all.
I’ve also had unrealized gambling gains. The taxes on those are going to be brutal.
“Well, Mr. . . . train, is it? We see you invested a dollar in the Holy Roller slot machine at Caesars, which had a potential $1mm payout. Please remit $370,000 immediately.”
Look the cash in your wallet right now has optionality. May as well tax cash too.
1/19
RIP George Harrison
Nope a wealth tax. Which would lower the value of the wealth as people sold their assets to pay for it. Meaning the value of those assets will go down. Meaning the government would get less than they were expecting and wondering what happened.
No tax plan has ever brought in less than projected.
“EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of Haitian migrants who flocked to Del Rio were already working and living comfortably as refugees in CHILE and only set off for the US after Biden scrapped Trump-era deportation policy
The thousands of Haitians who have turned up in Del Rio, Texas didn’t migrate from Haiti at all but from Chile, where they had been granted asylum and were working and living comfortably as refugees.
The dozens of Chilean identity cards that litter the ground in Ciudad Acuna, just across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, all bear distinctly non-Hispanic names.
There is Prosper Pierre for instance, or Linode Lafleur or Eddyson Jean-Charles. None of the cards carries a name such as Gonzalez or Muñoz or Rojas.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10017659/Haitian-migrants-flooded-Del-Rio-cartel-let-cross-free.html
They thought it was a bit too chilly.
Did they arrive by helicopter?
Somebody working in Chile’s HHS dept deserves a huge bonus.
Old news, that was like 4 or 5 days ago Man!
That road map is impossible – there is no land route through Central America. And they are suggesting these people walked twice as far as Boston to LA for “a chance at a better job”.
BULLSHIT
We have global satellite surveillance, penetration of electronic communication, and visibility into the global banking system, and
(1) Tens of thousands of people show up on our border and nobody saw them coming.
(2) Somebody organized and paid for tens of thousands of people to travel thousands of miles to our border, and we don’t have a clue who it was.
Why, its almost like there are people in our intelligence community who support all this. Either that, or they are so blindingly incompetent they couldn’t manage a street corner hot dog stand.
Depends on whether they trickled to the US border in small numbers or whether there were convoys. But they had to pass through multiple border crossings unless they flew. At some point you’d have thought that one or more of the countries through which they transited would have noticed something. I presume our intel has mechanisms in place to pay people to report this sort of information, whether officially or casually.
There were convoys, I believe. My understanding is that thousands showed up within a few days at one border crossing.
The countries they transited want them gone, baby, gone. The best way to do that is get them to the border ASAP. Telling the gringos they are on their way would not be helpful to that goal.
This account suggests some of them were residents of Mexico…
https://www.texaspolicy.com/someone-orchestrated-the-border-crisis/
“The Haitians reported that they, longtime residents of Mexico, were abruptly released by Mexican authorities to proceed north and cross into the United States in mid-September. The reason given: a gift in celebration of Mexican Independence Day.”
“or”?
“Exclusive”? Everybody already knew this.
What, for reals? Surely they won’t be allowed to judge men.
Well, shit.
He asked to be identified by just one name.
If he didn’t want anyone to figure out who he was, he should have gone by “Mohammed”.
^^^^ Highly underrated line.
It’s more an issue of he want’s to be Afganistan’s “Bono”.
Just going by what the article says. No further details were given on that. But you do raise a good question.
Probably just for cases involving women.
“New emails from Hunter Biden business associates reveal he asked for $2 million plus ‘success fees’ to help them unfreeze $30billion in Libyan assets while his father was VP, as they discussed misgivings over his ‘alcoholism’ and ‘drug addiction'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10021713/Hunter-Biden-asked-2-million-plus-success-fees-help-unfreeze-Libyan-assets-emails-reveal.html
Because no one could have looked into all this shit before the election?
They did, and were promptly banned from their platforms.
Look, just because the information is true and didn’t come from Russia doesn’t mean it’s not Russian Disinformation™ that needs to be banned.
Did you want actual Hitler to win?
Did he send them his bank account number? Because I swear I got that email.
“Please to inform you, I am the former Finance Minister for Libya, and am requesting you do the needful to assist with the release of assets . . . .”
Figures that would be the one that was true. All it would have taken is 10% to the big guy.
Some Minnesoda school board members are pretty full of themselves. I’d love for a lawyer to explain how they can ban taxpayers from public meetings for a year, but I’m sure FYTW covers it.
*sorry for the long quote, but the story is behind one of those annoying popups and I didn’t want any of you to miss the enlightened words of your betters.
“
Some Minnesodaschool board members are pretty full of themselves.”“
Some Minnesodaschool board members arepretty full of themselvesassholes.”“
Some Minnesodaschool board members are pretty full ofthemselvesshit.”Fine. I’ll wear a mask. And nothing else.
Its parent/teacher night at my daughters high school and my wife has a softball game tonight. Shoot me.
You’re not getting out of it that easily.
I think you’re outta luck. I hear ammo is hard to find these days, gotta save the bullets for high-value targets. Sorry. Maybe the teacher is hot?
Allow me to present today’s WTF Japan?
E-girls / 「THE NEVER ENDING STORY ～君に秘密を教えよう～」
(It’s going to start at the WTF moment, but feel free to watch in it’s entirety.)
I feel like their English is too good. I remember lots of heavily accented English in older Japanese songs.
I think it’s more exposure via internet.
For example, this gal sounds british to me.
Hiroyuki Sawano feat. Laco
86 -Eighty Six was a gut punch of an anime considering the times we are living. Usually not my preferred genre, but recommended.
I regularly get mail offers to refinance or buy my house. I received a new angle. An offer to buy equity share in my house. No offers yet for an equity share of my car.
How peculiar.
The 2022 NDAA — H.R. 4350 — contains the provision for prohibiting gun possession in Section 529, which is titled, “Authority Of Military Judges And Military Magistrates To Issue Military Court Protective Orders.”
The provision appears under the subtitle, “Restrictions On Access To Firearms,” contained in the directives for protective orders. It gives military courts the authority to prohibit gun possession via protective orders in two ways: 1. By giving the subject of the order an “opportunity to be heard on the order.” 2. By issuing the order ex parte.
Seems odd considering that military members are ostensibly well-trained in firearms use. . .
You would think. I spent over ten years in the Army, firing uncounted rounds, yet never hit anybody. Must have been a defective scary-looking rifle.
Well. . .bye.
The U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigned in protest in a letter that blasted the Biden administration for deporting hundreds of migrants back to the crisis-engulfed Caribbean nation from a camp on the U.S.-Mexican border in recent days.
Daniel Foote, a career diplomat named to his post in July, said conditions in Haiti were so bad that U.S. officials were confined to secure compounds. He said the “collapsed state” was unable to support the infusion of returning migrants.
“I will not be associated with the United States’ inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants,” Foote said in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken that circulated publicly on Thursday.
Related.
In 1994, Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, spoke derisively of Haiti when asked if the Clinton administration would intervene after Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted in a military coup.
Biden told host Charlie Rose on PBS, “If Haiti —a god-awful thing to say — if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interest.”
And Trump was on the ass end of several news cycles for referring to Haiti (and others) as “shithole countries” in a private conversation.
If it was only that easy to get rid of all of them….
Reuters reports that “more than 500” Haitians were sent to Haiti. Haiti can’t absorb that?
What if it tips over?
“There’s no such thing as natural immunity”
https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1440511198345056266
OFFS!!
Speaking of spreading medical miss/disinformation…
They’re redefining the term in order to make people second-guess themselves.
Their definition of natural immunity means immunity that you’re born with. It’s just cheap semantics in order to sway opinion, but it will work on the dimwitted that want to believe it.
Don’t newborns have natural immunity then to most things (that their mother was immune to)?
Wouldn’t that mean that even according to their dumb definition it exists?
That’s what I’ve read before. Some of it is genetic. Also part of an infant’s immuno-development requires skin to skin contact with the mother because of bacteria or something.
Free online, no registration needed.
Ah zut: https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional
Not only that, they are just flat wrong. If kids aren’t born with some degree of immunity to coronaviruses, how is it that infants don’t die from it? And by “don’t die from it”, I mean, I don’t think a single infant has died from COVID.
Get out!
Here’s what the CDC says about that: “Active immunity results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease. Exposure to the disease organism can occur through infection with the actual disease (resulting in natural immunity), or introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination (vaccine-induced immunity). Either way, if an immune person comes into contact with that disease in the future, their immune system will recognize it and immediately produce the antibodies needed to fight it.
Active immunity is long-lasting, and sometimes life-long.”
So yes, it is misinformation. Once again, I’m sure Twitter will be right on that.
I am confident that I have natural immunity to Orthotospoviruses.
“There’s no such thing as natural immunity”
So, everyone already died of the common cold and this really is a simulation we’re in?
FINALLY, some equity from those shitlords in Minnesoda’s legislature.
Native Americans can finally engage in their traditional way of life and worship by betting a free State Park vehicle permit.
What I get from that is, for some (most?) Native Americans, engaging in their traditional way of life and worship isn’t worth $35.
$35 for a parking permit prevents people from worshipping in the same way that requiring a trip to the DMV to get an ID prevents people from voting.
the DNR in 2020 asked state lawmakers to give tribal members blanket…
that didn’t work out so well last time.
There are many good reasons to install Linux on your computer; for instance I doubt that Windows or Mac have a system monitor like this one:
https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/hot-babe
Hot-babe is a small graphical utility which display the system activity in a very special way. when the cpu is idle, it displays a dressed girl, and when the activity goes up, as the temperature increases, the girl begins to undress, to finish totally naked when the system activity reaches 100%. of course, if you can be shocked by nudity, don’t use it!
Works best on really old hardware.
I really like the mint distro. Even before this.
I’m writing a script to see if I can stress out this Ryzen 5 rig enough to get the monitor to display anything interesting.
https://www.tecmint.com/linux-cpu-load-stress-test-with-stress-ng-tool/
I can just compile chromium. That will produce hours of naked woman.
Now do Firefox. I think even Gentoo is shipping binaries these days.
You have your choice of a binary or naked woman install.
Thanks! My homegrown script works a treat, got the CPU up to 95%. For the purposes of this exercise, sufficient. If I actually needed to monitor something, I’d go with your link.
Even though there’s no beefcake, I still love the Tonio links
I’m enjoying this particular set, myself!
Kindler, gentler Taliban indeed…
Were you expecting the Spanish Inquisition?
Nobody expects that.
The Taliban kills people up close and personally, whereas the U.S. government does it from afar with drones. I have a hard time considering the former categorically worse.
https://brownstone.org/articles/twenty-steps-to-end-the-madness/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
We are all doomed, every one is going to Die, the economy is collapsing and China is taking over, and Humanity goes on…..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091167/quotes?item=qt5507002
You miss my point, it seems every Link, post or comment is just doom and gloom, the world isn’t that bad, yet, Smile FFS!
I am ze king of trampoline! (see a.m.)
Inventing the Philosopher-King was Plato’s greatest sin, Scientific Government is just a fancy way of saying managerial socialism, and a bureaucracy will intentionally choose the worse options.
To paraphrase Curtis Yarvin, leaking power into science pollutes science. The Ivory Tower is bad enough in its pedestrian way when left alone; when given a taste of power, it becomes a monstrosity.
Not an Isaac Asimov fan I take it.
I read Foundation and was too bored by it to continue the series. Beyond that, I would be speaking from ignorance.
I read the whole thing, but not my favorite by a long shot.
Preferred his Robots series. More straightforward mystery / action type SF.
Comparing catalogues much preferred RAH.
Yes, we have seen constantly how these technocrats only want scientists to tell them things they want to hear and far from being free from vulgar politics they care about politics quite a bit even if it just applies to censorship and repression.
Or how a lot of it is just blind faith that a TOP MAN will fix everything and how they will do everything I personally want. See how many people are surprised that Biden is a big-spending woke tyrant.
How did right to vote become a duty to? I forget.
The scientist, the policy wonk, the National Review article writer, these are all people who want power but not responsibility. They want to periodically trade out the figurehead who is supposed to take the blame for their own failures. Then they get snippy when the figurehead occasionally bites back. The politician is just a simple con-man; the others are the root of the evil, not the victims of it.
Hello, nice black people!
Fuck.
Again.
Both work in this instance
Never attribute to Malice that which is adequately explained by poor linking skills.
“What’s the worst tweet you’ve seen on here? I think “Ruthkanda forever” is a top contender, but I wanna see all the top candidates.”
https://twitter.com/benner/status/1439286310494113792
Down in the comments:
We have a winner!
Perfect!
Bravo!
Excellent
Couple of her photos looks like she could be HE’s daughter..just sayin. And yes, winner winner
No,
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1441123467294699526
Poor Al Sharpton…
Look at all that false consciousness. “Hispanic” and “conservative”? Unpossible.
I may just quit during the impending shutdown 😉
Federal agencies to be informed by the @WhiteHouse today to begin preparations for a US government shutdown
And Yusef was saying its all doom and gloom.
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/ideas/2021/09/21/three-forces-that-threaten-liberalism-and-how-to-counter-them/
Why were these things assumed? Poland and Hungary have not had very stable or liberal governments in centuries. They were mainly created after WWI and these quickly fell to home-grown authoritarianism before these regimes were ousted by Nazis and then decades of Soviet rule. As for China well the iron-fisted authoritarianism never went away…
Why was thus assumed? Also is it really accurate to describe the last 76 years of US politics as merely a debate over economic regulation?
How exactly are these “norms and intutitions” to be protected from “the world” and “cultural change”?
The Poles Dominated Northern europe for nigh on 900 years, Rus means mud, and that’s what the Poles literally did to the Rus,
Try some History,
I thought it meant redhaired. Possibility of unreliable instructors acknowledged earlier today.
I’m a Ginger, I’ll cut your head off with me axe!
Why does this ring a bell? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMqddRGVBY
That was my first thought, too. Wikipedia suggests it comes from an old Norse word for “rower”, since that’s how the people in Rus’ got around.
That’s what thought.
Interesting that liberals are being open about the importance of society and culture. It seems they spent the last 76 years denying that was even a serious possibility. I think they felt those concerns were too reactionary and well Nazi-like and furthermore that it would cede to much ground too segregationists, immigration restrictionists, protectionists and socons…
The biggest problem here is the very term ‘liberalism’. If you’re in the majority of human beings alive today, you don’t have a clue what that even means. Clue: The phrase wasn’t originally coined to mean ‘progressivism’, ‘socialism’, ‘communism’, or ‘collectivism’. But it has somehow been twisted to the degree that somewhere, just shy of 100% of the population thinks it means exactly one of those things.
Why are Poland and Hungary the ones in the wrong, and the other countries the ones in the right?
Failing to see the cultural water all around them that is setting these null hypotheses is why the liberals, assuming they are in any way sincere about their beliefs, will lose.
Poland and Hungary have failed to realize that progressivism, AKA communism, is winning the future, building back better. Maybe Biden can set them right, it sounds like he’s fixing everything everywhere and fixing all the Trumpism. That’s why he rested in the basement for so long. All these great works of wonder must take a lot of energy.
PERFECT!!!
https://babylonbee.com/news/orders-border-patrol-to-stop-riding-horses-just-bang-two-empty-halves-of-coconuts-together
The kicker,
“Fortunately for Border Patrol, most migrants are deciding to return to their home countries after hearing horror stories of vaccine ID restrictions unfairly targeting minority families in cities like New York City.
“
“Which, if true, means death for us all.” /Kent Brockman
Fortunately for Border Patrol, most migrants are deciding to return to their home countries after hearing horror stories of vaccine ID restrictions unfairly targeting minority “families in cities like New York City.“
Talk about over the top parody.
Pure gold.
“NASA’s Artemis Rover to Land Near Nobile Region of Moon’s South Pole”
And if Musk refuses to
helpdo every single aspect of it, it ain’t happening. NASA can talk about this until the year 3000 and nothing.will.happen., including getting out of low earth orbit.NASA has a pretty good track record of robotic exploration. What does that have to do with Elon?
People>Robots, WE explore, robots are just scouts at this point, but that gives a story idea, what if our plantary defence turned on us?
Oh. I guess I was somehow confused because I was associating the term ‘Artemis’ with this:
“With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.”
When we were referring to only the probe, not any of the rest of it.
Sure, I have confidence they can land an unmanned probe there and drive it around.
The part about human beings on other planets though, ain’t happening without Musk. The prospect of NASA getting that done even if you give them infinity to do it? Zero.
There is a reason NASA doesn’t play into my Tales, wonder why?
/just a footnote,
“There is a reason NASA doesn’t play into my Tales, wonder why?”
You didn’t think talking about Scifi stuff from low earth orbit laid the course for an exciting adventure?
I could, I have an entire storybpoard of ideas for TOTB, now I have another, thanks!
Wait.. I did that already! maybe read the whole story when it’s Published,
“
ModerateTotal Democrat Lite Sock Puppet Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan”FIFY. Fixing stuff is my other full time job.
Hogan is a more honest and true Republican than Rand Paul.
This is not meant as a compliment to Hogan nor as an insult to Paul.
Controlled opposition keeps their jobs and junior seat at the table. Uncontrolled opposition doesn’t.
“Hogan is a more honest and true Republican than Rand Paul.”
Oh, one of those things they call a RINO, AKA Democrat Lite Sock Puppet, like W, Mittens, or McCain.
I get that much, that’s what I was trying to say.
And what I’m saying is that RINO and “Democrat Lite” etc. falsely imply that the GOP is beset by traitors from without when the reality is that the so-called “RINOs” are the party. They’re not traitors; this is their job and they do it well.
So you don’t believe that the party can be infiltrated and remade from the inside, like Ron Paul envisioned, like the dems were infiltrated and remade by Marxists?
I’m not disagreeing with you at all. The current repub party is the party of McCain, Mittens, and Turtlehead. Just like the current dem part is AOC and The Twat Squad.
AOC hasn’t remade shit. She’s riding a wave, a symptom of other factors, not a cause of any of them. The Democratic Party was remade in the 1960s. It hasn’t materially changed since then.
As to the question of remaking: sure, the Republican Party can be remade. It probably should be. What good is controlled opposition anyway? It’s just a black hole for dissident political energy. But there will be consequences. The remakers will be called traitors and terrorists. They will likely get blacklisted, and they may even be forbidden from running for, or taking, office. They are more likely to split the party than to remake it whole.
Just the other day, George W. Bush was trotted out to compare January 6th to September 11th and to not-so-subtly imply the right wing is full of people no better than jihadis. It’s an absurd comparison (for now), but not many Republicans said otherwise.
None of this is to say it shouldn’t be done, just that it shouldn’t be done naively.
The remakers will be called traitors and terrorists. They will likely get blacklisted, and they may even be forbidden from running for, or taking, office.
Not too long ago, Chris Sununu, at a NH GOP event, said there was no room for libertarians in the Republican party. He’s pissed because libertarians are infiltrating and slowly taking over the NH GOP plus were behind all of the attempts by the Legislature to push back on his Lil Rona Panic Measures.
I expect given his family’s control over the NH GOP party leadership (note: not Legislative leadership, party leadership), that he and his family will attempt to exact revenge during the 2022 elections.
We’ll see if they are successful.
The Democratic Party was remade in the 1960s. It hasn’t materially changed since then.
yes and no. The same impulses are there from the 1890s and the 1910s and the 1930s, but they’ve been morphed into something more acceptable in the modern age. The reason they were able to morph is because they enjoyed near unanimous one-party power nationally and in many states from the 1930s to the early 1980s. They (*cough* LBJ *cough*) were smart enough to see the writing on the wall with the mass dieoff of the old Dixiecrats and made a strategic move to subjugate minorities under the guise of helping them rather than openly discriminating against them. Of course, they’ve* been prog-fascists the whole time, but have only gotten to take the mask off twice now. First was the Progressive Era. Now the mask is off again for Progressive Era 2.0.
*they being the movers and shakers at the DNC
The GOP almost became a regional party during the 20th century. Part of the reason why Reagan was such a force (and Limbaugh a few years later, when he started his show) is because they took a party that wasn’t particularly successful and reinvigorated it. I’d argue that they didn’t fully accomplish their job because it quickly reverted to form, which is the snivelling, table scrap desiring chumps of a party that exists today. Trump was an opportunity to break out of that mold again, like Reagan accomplished. Unfortunately, Trump was too much of an asshole and the Deep State was all too real.
GOP had no national power in the 20th century
Holy shit!
I guess they didn’t taste that good.
They’re gonna need a bigger boat.
WTF – what happened to them?????? Those whales can dive to inhuman depths!
Trick of the camera angle. They got knocked over, not swallowed.
Still, pretty fucking awesome!
That’ why you don’t float on top of a bait ball.
The Scottish sheaf throwing lasses – I’d like to see more of them.
It’s not just conservative Republicans. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a centrist whose state has a high vaccination rate, demanded answers from the White House for the “sudden rationing of these life-saving treatments, without any warning, after the administration urged us to promote them,” the Washington Examiner reported.
Hogan criticizing Biden, and over Covid? That’s interesting. Hogan went all in on lockdowns and other Lil Rona Panic restrictions.
One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
Look, Fat, executions and amputations are small cheese compared to lack of LGBYQWERTY in their government!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-term-jedi-is-problematic-for-describing-programs-that-promote-justice-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/
What the fuck does any of this have to do with science?
It’s nerd stuff and scientists are nerds?
I sometimes wonder if you’re secretly an accelerationist.
I have no Idea what that is, so I don’t think I can be a “secret” one, “unintentional” at best.
An accelerationist is someone who sees the decline of the system and wants to speed it up. Usually, it’s because they want to see what comes next and are tired of waiting for that next thing to arrive.
The Jedi are inappropriate mascots for social justice.
Good. SW was better before you woke fucktards ruined it.
I stopped reading there.
FFS.
Yoda was really a white dude?
The heroic Jedi are thus emblems for a host of dangerously reactionary values and assumptions.
This isn’t (entirely) wrong, but the attitude behind the critique is short-sighted. The most effective cultural assaults come from taking good things and perverting them. Leaving them to rot in cultural ghettoes is how you get meme culture.
Actually, you know what, forget I said anything. Yes, purge the Jedi from polite discourse.
Sending the message that justice work is akin to cosplay
is bad enoughshould be done a lot more, since most SJWs are just LARPing anywayIf any of them really believed that POCs are the victims of systemic racism in the workplace, they would offer to resign as soon as the company hired a POC to replace them.
That’s not enough, they must themselves take to the street until they find a POC living in a homeless camp, convince that person to follow them back to the office and personally train them to be their replacement. They have to do all of this without pay.
Anything less is just more white supremacy.
Thot Thursday bringing more cushion for the pushin’.
https://archive.li/3WMXp
The Cab Calloway song is good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JGKdGov-lmA
Come on guys, a Cab Calloway song but not this one?
Man’s got a point.
Signs you might be a libertarian autist: you can’t make it through the song without getting annoyed that something made in 1931 is still under copyright.
“accelerationist”
“ibertarian autist”
kblino tired of carrying a dictionary around all of the time and had a dictionary chip implanted in his brain. Impressive.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/boyfriend-of-slain-gabby-petito-charged-with-bank-card-fraud/article_3d859792-ae85-5fd5-8c47-91969ad37ef2.html
Wait, what?
Probably an easy charge to get an arrest warrant for while they work on the murder case.
US FedGov controls supply of approved COVID-19 treatment, Harris/Biden administration plans to ration distribution to states.
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!
I’ve read that they cut shipments of monoclonal antibodies to Southern states in half.
For Great Justice!
Question (ignoring that the feds shouldn’t be distributing goods , and nor should the States be playing middle man) – Do they have enough to send the States the amount they are requesting and just aren’t, or is their a greater demand than the supply so they have to ration them?
Answer, someone is making bank on test kits, this is just a false punishment, driven my money,
Try flying international right now. You get he bonus of paying $250 for a Covid test both ways, even if you’re fully vaccinated. Pure opportunism through cronyism.
So for 2 people flying together internationally, there’s a good chance the tests will cost you more than the round trip ticket. And you get the bonus of wearing a mask the entire flight, both ways, even though the tests were negative, even if you’re both fully vaccinated.
There isn’t a shortage. There is a fuss about whether they can be given in hospitals, or only in outpatient infusion centers, but that’s about it as far as I know.
Most outpatient infusion centers are for chemo, so I suspect that if there is a bottleneck, it has to do with that. And I would further speculate that where there are shortages of outpatient infusion centers, its because of CON laws.
So, there is a very real possibility that what the feds are doing is saying “Hey look, not enough people in this state are getting monoclonal antibodies. Let’s ship them a whole bunch more!” Which will do nothing but decrease the treatments given nationwide.
Remember, no matter how bad you think they are, they are worse.
That is a great question. I know from first hand accounts in my area that the whole Covid treatment plan has been test positive, go home until you are sick enough to go to the hospital to die if you are in the age group or have issues that lead to that. They do not treat people. They push the vaccination that they say lessens severity. But that is said by the same people who said when it came out if you got it you would not get covid but that has been swept under the rug. Now it is, of course we never said you would not get it, it was always lessen symptoms. We now know the vax lasts about six months to help stop you from getting it. How long until the “lessen severity” goes away?
only if you need a Vax, are you so old you need one? or just scared? in other words, who Fucking cares…
They are talking about the “one approved” treatment Yusef. (that actually shows promise to helping people recover quickly if administered in the first six or so days of symptoms) Not the vax. Pay attention. The kicker in my area is, and I asked my Doc yesterday, they can’t administer any treatments unless the patient is in the hospital. This is the most fucked mass medical malpractice response in world history. We may as well go back to leeches because those are as effective as the government and politics taking over the system. Actually it is fucking synonymous.
What’s it like in Mexico? ¿Tienen pasaportes?
re 46, that is…
Open Borders Strawberry
There ain’t no border, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around. It’s all part of my rock ‘n’ roll fantasy. It’s all part of my rock ‘n’ roll dream.
And these are part of a bad hair plug job, I was born with these blatant in your face weird overly artificial looking hair parts all over my scalp.
And a plastic spoon in his mouth?
Am I the only one that finds the performative ASL interpreters at every frickin’ government event annoying? Run farging close captioning, which will help the ASL “speakers” and a whole lot more people. But that doesn’t let you get that warm, smug feeling, so nope.
No.
“Am I the only one that finds the performative ASL interpreters at every frickin’ government event annoying? ”
No. But if everyone here wasn’t a far right wing white supremacist, I suppose the ‘No’ might not result in as much of a super majority.
This ain’t no Mudd Club! Or CBGB! I ain’t got time for that now–
I remember sign-language interpreters often decades ago, especially on PBS, and especially before captioning was common. Hm.
It hit a high of 47 today, no more Summer? Tomorrow is supposed hit 70, here’s hoping,
Wow, makes me really remember that part of the country. You guys could have frost in as little as a week from now. I think it was in the upper 70s here today. But the forecast doesn’t have anything lower than mid 50s for the low through Oct 7. 47 sounds cold, I’d have to turn the heat on!
80+ and high humidity every day this week here ugh. Over it already.
This is one of the two times a year here when we start the weather where it’s mid 70s for the high and mid 50s for the low. That lasts for a couple of months in fall and spring. We can leave all the doors and windows open and not need heat or AC. I’d like to live somewhere that lasted all year. But outside of the tropics at high altitude, it’s not happening as far as I know.
I don’t have A/C up here, many do, that’s fine but I have only been truly Humidified maybe 10 days this year, it’s not hot enough to matter,
I think I’d have a hard time sleeping here in July and August without AC. I suppose you get used it it since humans didn’t have it until the past 50 year or so. I remember in the Ohio back when I was a kid though, we didn’t have AC and it was hard to sleep some of those really hot summer days.
I guess a lot of us will find out soon enough when they kill fossil fuels and AC will be a thing of the past forever, except for the ruling elite of course. I’m sure if there’s no AC in Washington D.C., a lot of fat politicians will perish soon enough.
I can make cooling without Mechanical means, heating as well,
Keep my house at 78, I am a Lizard, but it’s very frsh and brisk right now, Tomorrow looks 70 and nice, enjoy it while you got it…..
Cold snap here. Low 80s.
Which really is quite cool for Tucson this time of year. Typically more low 90s.
Yeah, we thought about moving to Tuscon. Had our eye on a couple of places in the Catalina Highlands area. But we ultimately gave up on that plan for a couple of reasons.
It looks difficult to garden there outdoors. I suppose it can be done, but would be a lot different than it is here I suppose.
Tucson, like Bullhead City, is very extreme, even for AZ, Beautiful country, very open, and open carry, but you need to be ready for 7 months of 100 plus temps all day and all of the night, yea ah!
/All Day, and all of the night!