Nobody needs this shit, yet I’m still for it.
Finally, a man bringing the dignity to the office that it deserves. I hope he talks about how much they’re paying him. It’ll be at least as interesting as the fight itself. Tampa is putting everybody in the AL East in their place. Gerrit Cole got hurt and that’s soooooooooooooo sad (enter eyeroll emoji here). Houston is getting some separation in the AL West. the Giants are keeping Los Dodgers (enter second eyeroll emoji here) at bay. The second NL wild card race is a doozy. That Canadian chick is rolling through the US Open. Somebody thinks too highly of herself. And Joker and Zverev will both be on the court tonight to see if they can book their places into the semis. Dios mio, that’s a lot of sports stuff going on.
More shit nobody needs.
English king Richard The Lionhearted was born on this day. He shares it with such people as French poet Frederic Mistral, James Garfield killer Charles Guiteau, country singer Jimmie Rodgers, communist douche Andrei Kirilenko, socialist douche Lyndon LaRouche, comedian Sid Caesar, actor Peter Sellers, country legend Patsy Cline, grifting douche Bernie Sanders, soldier-turned-political creature James Mattis, musician Aimee Mann, pitcher Mike Dyer, acting great David Arquette, Frodo Baggins actor Martin Freeman, political talking head Kennedy, baseball player Gil Meche, singer Pink, the aforementioned baseball player Gerrit Cole, and soccer player Bruno Fernandez.
Right, now on to…the links!
Cannibalism-free!
I hope they packed a lot of limes. And a lot of VD and pregnancy tests.
What an anticlimactic end to this fiasco. Bummer. I was really hoping it would get to a public hearing and some of the crazy shit that goes on in Hollywood would have come to light.
Maybe one of you can fill me in on the details of this. I know there’s some weird shit about the case, but it all sounds like grandstanding to me.
Nice job with the misleading headline. They’re not restrictions, you imbeciles. Unless you think improving election security is restrictive to your political agenda. Oh wait…that’s exactly the problem to these activists/journalists.
Lying piece of shit.
“The truth shall set you free.” Well, in this case, the truth won’t do shit. Because that lying little fuck won’t even be charged for his perjury.
“Biden draws huge crowds as he tours storm damage.” Well, that’s what the lede would be on CNN. 81 million votes though, right?
This is awesome. Unfortunately, I bet the city settles, the taxpayers pay for a huge settlement, and the bullshit continues.
Thanks a lot, climate deniers! Oh wait, it’s just like the majority of these fires: arson. Now the real question comes: is it an activist or a guy looking for some overtime?
Blind squirrel finds acorn. Or broken clock is right. Either one works, as Teddy Boy is spot on in his analysis.
Sure it’s gibberish, but it’s still fun. Enjoy it.
And enjoy this Wednesday, dear friends!
The people behind Fauci all are crooks!
Elizabeth Holmes is a reptile. The case rests on whether the presumably mammalian jury can determine this. Their lives depend on it.
So she’s not being judged by a jury of her peers? Mistrial!
Nice one sloop.
The question is whether the jury will be able to detect when she speaks with forked tongue.
I have no doubt she’s gotten corrective surgery for that. It’s the double eyelid blink that’s the real tip off. Usually you need to watch slowed down video to notice it.
Are we sure she won’t shed her skin, thus changing everything?
Elizabeth Holmes is a
reptilestronk independent woman who don’t need no man and is the hero to the next generation of womyn leaders who only did those awful things because her boyfriend was mean to her and she couldn’t resist, the poor victim.Elizabeth Holmes is a reptile.
Paging Mr. Lizard. Mr. Lizard… you out there?
“Nice job with the misleading headline. They’re not restrictions, you imbeciles. Unless you think improving election security is restrictive to your political agenda.”
That’s EXACTLY what they are thinking. And they are pissed about it, because if too many states do this, then they will have to actually stop being fucking evil assholes and actually do what the people want. And they want none of that, because the people want them to stop marching us towards becoming a tyrannical banana republic.
Do you think these laws are enough to stop “election fortification”? I really have my doubts. That these laws make such evil people apoplectic gives me hope.
The problem being the laws don’t matter. The courts generally agree that states violated the constitution when the executive branches usurped the legislature’s authority and issued changes to the voting process (because covid), but since the election was certified and Biden took office it’s a moot point. I don’t see how any new laws change any of that.
That’s the really big fucking deal.
Criminalize changing the rules unless the correct process is followed. But nobody will do this cause that might have consequences…
Not this law. IIRC it still leaves in a bunch of giant loopholes you can drive an election theft through.
“Do you think these laws are enough to stop “election fortification”? I really have my doubts. That these laws make such evil people apoplectic gives me hope.”
Oh, one needs to remain vigilant, because these fucking evil assholes won’t just quit trying to steal elections when they understand how much wealth & power is at stake. What they are now clear on however is that censoring people that point out they constantly cheat and are always trying to steal elections isn’t enough to allow them to claim power, so they MUST have some wiggle room to keep stealing them without too much evidence coming out that’s what happened. So any rules that make the system less opaque and easier to audit will remain anathema to them.
The only thing these laws will do is change where the mischief occurs. When you mail out a ballot to everyone then the mischief can be done by third-party activist groups. These laws reduce the ability of those groups to ballot harvest, so to steal elections they must corrupt the voting officials or the machinery.
No law is enough to stop criminal behavior when the people who want to violate it are, or are closely tied to, the people who are supposed to investigate and prosecute infractions of it.
Do they, though?
More and more people do want to prevent this as they become aware of what’s going on. The problem is the pro-banana republic people are far, far more vocal and hardcore, especially in academia, the media, and government than the majority that is too busy just trying to keep their head above water as the ship is circling the drain.
Last weekend I watched some of the first season of Community (2009). When the show aired I thought it was a kind of smart, wholesome and “safe” comedy. By 2021 standards it’s incredibly edgy. Many of the jokes about race and sexuality rate at least three problematics. We are regressing.
Amazon (to my knowledge) is the only one that has all of Community at this point. Hulu and Netflix both removed one of the best episodes (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) due to black-face. Community also had a social credit score episode before Black Mirror did it.
Whycome they hate cosplay?
Other than the fact that people who shouldn’t engage are too enthusiastic about it and produce greatly disturbing images no retinas should be exposed to and which scar innocent minds for life.
I once put on clownface (like profile pic) but used too much green and grey. Then with sweat it probably mushed into a mossy oak blackface. Whew, dodged a bullet.
Tropic Thunder.
Me? I know who I am. I’m a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
Nobody though it was edgy when it was still on TV. SJWs have gone too far with their destructive crusade.
I think every episode of Black Mirror is basically a ripoff of an existing dystopian sci-fi, or just some post-modern “parody”. The guy is a nihilistic, misanthropic hack.
And an uptight prude.
Nice troll of LOTR fans.
Hobbits look alike.
I can’t even right now. Next you’ll say they’re just shaven dwarves.
Mornin’ Peeps,
Just got back from a weekend at the beach. Cool hotel, if a little old and beat up. Fairly remote and very relaxing. I’m struggling to get my outrage back. Especially with Sloop’s kinder gentler link theory. I’m sure I’ll quickly get back to seething.
Embrace the contentment.
You’ll be pissed off by lunchtime. Glad you’re feeling good.
“baseball player Gerrit Cole, and soccer player Bruno Fernandez”
Because the Bruno was right under Gerrit I saw “Burrito” Fernandez instead of Bruno. I feel so ashamed.
Thanks. Now I want a burrito.
Mmmmmm….burrito…..
Unless it’s in some contract she signed, I call bullshit.
“If I don’t post a bunch of shit, nobody will pay attention to me.”
…
“I lost, why won’t people leave me alone!”
Please harass me! I need the victim cred to up my endorsement deals!
Nobody had this sort of sympathy for Tennys Sandgren.
Well, he tweeted lgtbaphobic stuff a few years ago and he’s a yokel.
If I was a big sports star with endorsements, I believe I would stick to having a professional PR person manage the account only to post the contractually-obliged endorsement fluff, and leave it at that. That’s all much of a nothing since I’m not and this is all none of my concern.
Yeah, that makes sense. They have help for that stuff. She doesn’t ever even have to look at the stupid account.
But then you couldn’t directly emote with your fans over how hard it is to be a big sports star and get lauded for quitting.
This. It’s a massive ego stroke to people in a highly egotistical industry.
“Oh look, my adoring fans want to talk with me. How cute!”
Do yourself a favor and don’t watch any of the sycophantic coverage on ESPN. That crap is their bread and butter.
I would also hire a driver to take me everywhere.
How dumb do you have to be to get a DUI when you are making that much money?
I’d also get snipped and keep some swimmers on ice. When I’m finally married and ready to have kids, we could use those. But in the mean time, no gold diggers having kids and having to support 20 kids.
I would 100% get a driver, and a PA if I was mega rich.
After her disappointing US Open defeat at the hands of Great Britain’s Emma Raducanu in straight sets, Shelby Rogers said she’s now going to have to deal with “nine million death threats” on her social media accounts from strangers who are unhappy with her loss.
What? I can’t imagine anyone even cares.
Who?
And I’m not even sure what sport that is. Golf? Curling?
Alright all. I’m out for a week. Hold down the fort, and thanks in advance to Tonio and Tulip for hosting this weekend.
Have a safe trip. Don’t forget to maintain your deep cover identity.
Enjoy! You will still be bringing the occasional snark, right?
Not likely this week. There will be much meeting, drinking, gambling, dancing, and drinking. Airports and Vegas… The two places in the world where you can order a drink at 07:00 and no one bats an eye.
The two places in the world where you can order a drink at 07:00 and no one bats an eye.
Germany? Ireland?
Wisconsin?
Good one. I hadn’t thought of Wisconsin because in all my times there, I didn’t order a drink at 7 AM.
France, Italy (also Spain).
Ask me how I know.
Ever worked third shift? Any place where there is a factory or other 24-hour operation of any size, there’s usually a bar around that caters to the third shift crowd. There was one in Cedar Falls when I lived there, the Blue Room, opened at 0600 to meet the John Deere and railroad guys that worked the overnights. My buddy and I got blasted in there a few early mornings.
Yep. All the little river towns in the Pittsburgh area were there were/are furnaces, rolling mills, etc. had multiple bars that were on the way home for the men who worked there, any shift.
I’ll miss you, Friend.
I plan to return in triumphant fashion. I may be able to snark some for the Browns Chiefs game Sunday.
Enjoy your trip!
Theranos and its leadership is accused of defrauding investors because they claimed to have an amazong cheaper faster test system that would allow them to pretty much take over the testing market. All the while any test results they returned were being run on the existing more expensive machines made by other companies because they never had any working technology of their own. Some investors and the ndustry press were willfully blind to it because OMG Womyn CEO! It’s basic misrepresentation fraud that got sensationalized because the early reports got smears as “muh soggy knees”.
Oh and when tests were run on their hardware, the results were awful.
It’s remarkable how many big names were sucked up into that scam. But what I found interesting was that it was the grandson of George Schultz, who sat on the Theranos board, that blew the whistle on the fraud after being hired there.
Credit where credit is due to Tyler Schultz. He was committed enough to his principles to destroy his grandpa’s job.
And get cut off from his family….
Seriously, a lot of family members won’t talk to the younger Schultz anymore because he disobeyed grandpa’s orders to keep quiet.
You left out USMNT World Cup qualifying vs Honduras tonight. Of course, you have to either subscribe to a premium service or speak Spanish in order to watch it and the ‘vid theater plus general suckage isn’t helping their campaign much.
Happy Birthday Peter Sellers. This bit (to me) just never gets old.
The dude played a Nazi, AND wore yellowface. CANCEL HIM!
LOL. I love that, but this one is my favorite, and somewhat topical in the era of vaccine passports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlIWpZSPXU
“Are you blind?” ‘Yes! Yes!”
Two-thirds of the world is our playground,” said Lt. Cmdr. Ben Evans
Make the British Navy great again.
Someone will be filling the power vacuum left by the US, but I doubt it will be the Brits.
Mountain time has really screwed things up, this is way too early for lynx.
Even the new chick running NY is saying that we will “probably” stop paying layabouts to not work here, though she clearly wants to.
Katie Hokum has officially declared that Covid-19 is an Airborne Infectious Disease!
LOL, wut?
Or is this some attempt to squash more small businesses?
Yup. By intoning the magic words, she activates a pile of unfunded mandates on privately owned businesses.
This shows that she’s fighting the pandemic!
“HERO Act”
Oh god, I don’t even wanna know.
They were going to call it the ‘bend over and take it Act’, but that was already taken.
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that the commissioner of health has designated COVID-19 a highly contagious communicable disease that presents a serious risk of harm to the public health under New York State’s HERO Act, which requires all employers to implement workplace safety plans in the event of an airborne infectious disease, helping to prevent workplace infections.
So she is going to be a bigger convid cunte than Cuomo.
Looks like. Hold on to your wallets, folks. Between the bailout for that, and the tax bill for “infrastructure,” we are totes fucked.
***Looks out the window at a beautiful autumn morning in the Great Land***
***Sighs in relief***
What’s with the Gerrit Cole hate? I literally haven’t paid any attention to him since the Pirates traded him away.
He left the Astros and went to the Yankees, which makes him an a-hole.
Ewww. Yankees.
That payday was hard to pass up.
300+ million and not being associated with that cheating scumbag team? Win-win.
The British Empire is back on the high seas, cuppa tea then?
Fauci getting the attention he deserves. Will he the Times magazine man of the year?
Biden getting the business in NJ. Good, but I doubt he understands what’s going on.
Robyn Hitchcock is fun even when he is being morose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBrX__d-bf4
The real question is whether Fauci will have to return his Oscar, his Nobel Peace Prize, his Emmy, his Golden Globe, and his Kennedy Award.
The very worst that will happen to him is a forced extremely comfortable and well paid retirement and I don’t see even that happening and certainly not from lying at a hearing. Too many powerful people are just too invested in the guy.
Hercules speaks!
https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1435223611606978565
I need to know where Sloopy found that photo of me from 1983. Dude, that was private!
Glad to see you around.
Thanks Tonio!
Is there something that legally prevents Fauci from suing Rand Paul for libel and slander? Because he’s totally not lying, has nothing to fear from discovery, and would win the case, slam-dunk, hands down. It would really put that pesky Senator in his place.
Yeah, it’s called “discovery.”
Rand Paul is useful to them, so no. Remember that in The Narrative Rand Paul is a fake doctor and a nutjob. “Attacks” from Paul just give Fauci victim cred. Do you even tinfoil, bro?
Republican Governor Greg Abbott headed to East Texas on Tuesday where he signed an elections overhaul bill into law that adds more voting restrictions in the state.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
They are technically restrictions, but when the rules revert back to what they were in 2018, they are not unreasonable.
The election laws restrict THE DEMOCRATS from committing more election fraud than they normally do.
At this point, voting in person on election day and putting your thumb in ink is really the only way to fix this without bloodshed.
Yikes.
I have a friend who is a pediatrician and she is absolutely not like that. She’s been hanging out in public, maskless, since last summer.
Love that the older kids are just shy of rolling their eyes.
I have hopes that the kids who have endured all this BS will develop strong pro-liberty and skeptical tendencies as a result.
Or they’ll all turn into agoraphobic shut-ins who demand the the government’s teat.
Sadly this is more in line with what I’ve come to expect.
Yup. The abused become abusers. It’s the worst thing about being human.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw
Because that lying little fuck won’t even be charged for his perjury.
He totally smacked down Rand by raising his voice and calling him and idiot.
Ass Wednesday wants you to split the difference IYKWIMAITYD.
https://thechive.com/2021/09/01/your-hump-day-reward-has-arrived-36-photos/
Archive still no worky.
1st World People Problem: so since Jugsy switched us from AT&T to SpRECTUM, I have this annoyance. Whenever I reboot my desktop, it wont pull an IP from the router. The physical location of the router is in another room, but connected to the devices in another room via ethernet, which goes to a hub for the other PCs and peripherals (I prefer wired over WiFi always). After rebooting with no TCP/IP connection, if I take the cable for the problematic desktop and move it to another working port on the hub, we’re back in business. Likewise, I take the other device and plug it into the “dead” port and it springs to life.
But I have to do this anytime I reboot it. I never had this problem with the previous arrangement. Ideas ?
Check the thermostat, dude.
Stop shining the beam on the floor and up on the wall. It’s distracting.
Fixed IP address for the desktop. I also like to use those for printers, etc.
Also, reboot the hub if you haven’t recently, and check the port settings for any annoying auto-sleep features. Does the problem follow the port, or the desktop? IE, if you swap the desktop cable with that of another port, and leave it that way, does the problem persist?
I reboot, dead port. I switch ports, back to normal. Reboot, dead port. Wash, rinse, repeat.
And it seems to only be this machine, tho I havent paid enough attention see what the other 2 desktops are doing.
1) Is the router new or did it come with the change in internet service?
2) what happens if you unplug the computer and plug it back into the same port?
3) Is there any firmware update available for the router?
4) does the device table on the router show the desktop after reboot?
Also, does the port have a link light? Does that stay dead?
There should be a IP address for the router (usually 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 by default), enter that address into your browser and the menu interface for the router should come up. See if you have MAC filtering or if there is a setting somewhere where the MAC address is linked to a particular port.
Or see if the device has the same IP as the router.
Well, I’m dealing with a 3rd world ISP/cable company and that isn’t fun either.
I need to make another attempt today to get the company that provides internet to my dad’s house to correct the billing so I can pay them. It a rinky dink company that somehow got the cable monopoly in my home town and are totally inept.
The most recent kerfuffle is that they overcharged me for last month’s bill and their solution is “just pay it, I’m sure next month will credit you back the right amount”.
This sounds like the whole “I will just put in the tip, I swear” or “I won’t come in your mouth, honest!” thing to me your holiness… Remain vigilant!
Using an ISP-provided router as anything other than a network bridge is doomed to failure. Get yourself a small NAT gateway/firewall, install DD-WRT or another open-source software package, and run your DHCP off that.
This. Setup your internal network, even if consumer grade. The ISP router is only to bridge the networks. Don’t forget to turn off their WIFI.
Why do these top-rated tennis players keep quitting?
Well, it’s really bad for your elbows.
At my age, so is pr0nhub.
So you’re saying it’s hard for someone your age?
That has a certain ring to it.
They are triggered by the thought of being in a love-love situation that includes fuzzy balls.
NTTIAWWT!
STEVE SMITH EVEN MANSCAPE FOR THEM!!
but he received a hostile welcome from some North Jersey residents who heckled him and flashed middle fingers.
Most. Popular. President. Evar.
Biden repeatedly attributed the flooding that killed at least 50 people last week — 13 of them in New York City — to climate change as he pushed his $4.7 trillion infrastructure and social spending bills.
It never rained/flooded before the industrial revolution. It is known.
One person held a protest banner that said “F— Biden And F— You for Voting For Him.” Another sign said “Biden go back 2 the basement.”
If it is any consolation, not many people actually did.
“Looks like a tornado — they don’t call them that anymore — that hit the crops and wetlands in the middle of the country,” Biden said in New Jersey during a listening session with officials.
I guess this was getting close to naptime for him.
He was all about “Desperatado” by his favorite band from the 70’s, You know the one. The Beagles!
At around 10 p.m., Press Democrat photographer Kent Porter was on the scene and first reported the blazes around 2-3 miles north of Healdsburg. Firefighters quickly contained the small fires that numbered up to 10, six of which were on Mill Creek Road.
I suspect a little climate activism is afoot.
Yeah, ten fires sounds like the monkey-wrench gang.
The junior senator from Texas and avid tweeter sparked backlash after saying people who will lose unemployment benefits should simply “get a job” – as if the only reason they’re unemployed was out of sheer lack of will.
Indeed, why don’t you get a job?
I can’t imagine not working.
Is it bad that I think the same thing about the unemployed slackers as I do Afghanis?
You’ve known what was coming for months and months, but somehow I’m supposed to feel terrible for you because you didn’t get your shit in order back when.
Why should we do anything to get a job, huh? We thought you would just buckle and extend the free cash for another 6 months!
Of course they ignore the fact that there something like 10 million job openings in the country right now.
Unfortunately too many of those jobs require you to show up and do actual work. Who wants that when you could sit on your ass and get paid.
At least Winston’s mom shakes her ass to get paid, yo…
Please clap.
Jeb Bush and I want conservatives to take action on climate change!
A useful idiot for the GOP
Heh.
That is funny. Red anodized crap aside, strike used to make a pretty nice buffer tube that used a notch to time up with the detent perfectly. I wish I would have bought more of them.
Gun humor
“You routinely send random objects from your home out to be hard chromed because you love hard chrome so much.”
I would send my Shadow 2 off to get hard chromed, if I had another one to use in the meantime.
Yeah, but Apex triggers really are good.
I love the fact that the most fierce and empowered CEO grrrrl evah! was merely a puppet of her evil boyfriend.
She really is trying to have it both ways. And there’s a strong chance she gets away with it too. She made them look like fools and if they punish her they have to admit it.
“She really is trying to have it both ways. ”
That’s practically every single one of these strong feminists I have ran into. They are strong, though, and independent women that don’t need men until it suits them to claim the patriarchy is attacking them and being mean…
^^ the man speaks truth. It’s amazing how many “strong feminists” have such a big chip on the shoulder that it’s borderline paranoia. Then it becomes a self-defeating thing because they’re so wound up about every little thing that they burn out quickly.
I have known some strong women. These women never had a problem with being women or with men being men. They didn’t feel the need to let the world know how strong they were and how little they needed men, and they certainly never once they fucked this up blamed it on men and the patriarchy. But the feminists will tell you these women are sellouts.
There’s a limit to the number of things that an individual can care about. Attention really is a zero-sum game.
She’s a sociopath. It’s not like sociopaths just come clean and stop lying at some point.
She’s lobbying hard for that pussy pass. Because she has no agency of her own. I suppose there exists documentation and evidence of this abusive relationship, calls to the police, restraining orders, contemporary witness accounts, etc.?
Believe all women
I choose to believe this woman when she says that she’s a mental weakling.
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vermont-troopers-state-police-fake-vaccine-cards-covid-19/37503723
🙄
That coworker is a cunte.
Sent you a message in the forum about getting some peppers.
I don’t think “incentives” is the right term here.
At the beginning of the summer, institutions started to wave the prospect of scholarships, laptops, game consoles and more to students who got a Covid-19 shot. Now, as thousands of young people move back to campus, hundreds of schools are mandating vaccines and penalizing students who resist without a medical or religious reason.
Quinnipiac University students who aren’t vaccinated will be fined up to $200 per week and lose access to the campus’ Wi-Fi until they get the shot. The University of Virginia booted more than 200 unvaccinated people from its rolls before the semester began. And Rutgers University, the first university in the U.S. to mandate vaccination for students, is threatening to disconnect email access and deny campus housing for students who don’t comply. Some colleges used similar tactics last year to get students to follow testing procedures.
“The Delta variant has been a game changer, and we need to respond accordingly,” said Anita Barkin, co-chair of the American College Health Association’s Covid-19 task force. She noted that schools with immunization requirements have a distinct advantage over schools that have to use incentives to get students vaccinated.
As I pointed out to my son last night as he was panicking over this, the colleges are cutting their own throats. The initial impact to current students is severe, but the long-term damage to the higher ed system is accumulating rapidly. There are plenty of up and coming students and parents who are just saying “fuck that shit” and looking for alternatives.
Quinnipiac University students who aren’t vaccinated will be fined up to $200 per week and lose access to the campus’ Wi-Fi until they get the shot.
Yes, because those things definitely aren’t designed to be purely punitive. They might give the Wi-Fi a virus!
Cheerleader should offer blowjobs as vaccine incentive to do their bit for the common good
Did they poll the student body to see what the reaction would be?
Remember when students would occupy the Dean’s office when they didn’t get their way?
Proof that there is no “Good Guys” in the Minneapolis riots last year.
The cops really are just the official gang of thugs.
So anyone who purged a message goes to jail, right? Is destroying evidence a felony of misdemeanor. I would assume the former.
Spanish bishop quit for love for erotic writer
https://www.bbc.com/news/58486790
When Spanish bishop Xavier Novell resigned last month, the Roman Catholic Church cited strictly personal reasons without going into detail.
It has now emerged in Spanish media that he fell in love with a woman who writes Satanic-tinged erotic fiction.
In 2010 at the age of 41, he became Spain’s youngest bishop, in Solsona in the north-eastern region of Catalonia.
He has backed so-called conversion therapy for gay people and carried out exorcisms.
Seen as a rising star in Spain’s Catholic Church, his decision to resign with the Vatican’s approval came as a surprise last month. He is said to have met several times with Vatican officials as well as the Pope himself.
So, he became a bishop because he liked the outfits.
he fell in love with a woman who writes Satanic-tinged erotic fiction
During the Inquisition, that Bishop would have been flogged.
What a show!
The bishop was caught bopping the bishop.
Last weekend I kept seeing an ad for some upcoming special on how comics had to cope with 9/11. How important comics are and what a duty they have to make people laugh.
Got me to thinking that there has to be a metric that can be formulated to determine exactly when a profession has jumped the shark. Journalists and comics are two examples of jobs where the people doing them think that they are some special tribe of the Annointed.
1. Thinks job is extra special
2. Everyone doing the job is super smart
3. If it wasn’t for them, the rubes would be totes fucked
4. ???
Probably add teachers in there too.
They’re pushing this shit as a religion. It’s the “S” in ESG. Social impact means 1) do woke shit, and 2) feel smug and superior about it.
4. Even during a deadly pandemic, we are permitted to work.
these trolley problems are getting weird
https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1435573271165079557
That’s sensitive content?
These fuckers get how progressivism works however, even though this example only uses a gorilla instead of an actual human being…
Baseball birthdays: The aforementioned, aforementioned Gerrit Cole is already #1 for today.
Following up is Negro League HoFer Buck Leonard (just to be clear, he is in the Baseball HoF, but only played in the Negro Leagues) and Ken Forsch.
Further down the list is Jim Bagby, Jr. He is famous for 3 things: was, along with Jim Bagby, Sr, the first father-son to have pitched in the World Series. Second, he ended DiMaggio’s 56 game hit streak. Third, he is one of 3 pitchers in history to record 3 put outs in the same inning. That is a lot of sprinting to first base for a pitcher.
I’m a cousin (few times removed) from the Bagbys. They were the only “famous” people in our old family history book that somebody compiled in the mid-’70s (only went back to my gg-grandfather, who was Bagby Sr.’s grandfather).
Good morning, Sloop!
Great song that I haven’t heard in many years! Lots of my music pals love RH, but I haven’t listened to much of his stuff.
Am I missing out?
Meanwhile, I’ll adore the birthday girl!
Happy Wednesday, peeps!
Geddy Lee’s backup singer had her own band? Neat.
She’ll have the lingonberry pancakes.
Perhaps this lesson will stick.
According to the student’s mom, the boy got up to drink water, but forgot to put his mask on.
“He went to get a sip of water, forgot to put the mask on. The teacher did not tell him to put it back on or send him to the office, she instead pulled him up in front of the classroom in front of all of the students and she then taped the mask across the top of his face,” she said.
The mom said the sub added a second layer of tape from his nose to his forehead, and with the tape still on his face, he went to the office to pick up homework he’d forgotten at home and his dad dropped off.
I had forgotten what dicks subs can be. Usually they’re resigned to their overall ineffectiveness.
I sense a fake mugging coming on for a particular teacher….
As if we weren’t on enough lists already, this could be an opportunity for a Strangers on a Train situation. No parent at that school can kick the teacher’s ass – they’d get caught. But some random stranger on the internet could do it. In return, the parent could do me…er, the random stranger, a favor.
The only way to get away with murder is to have no connection to the victim and never ever talk about it. Those never get solved. I’m a passionate person and can’t keep my mouth shut.
Didn’t that agreement fail to work out for the train riders?
“MY husband suggested a threesome but when I got somebody lined up for it, he accused me of cheating[…]My husband made me feel dreadful but still talks of having a threesome, like nothing’s happened.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16065353/my-husband-suggested-a-threesome/
Probably because, for all his talk, he wanted another woman to join, not a dood.
“He thought it would be a turn-on to see me with another guy. I was up for anything, so agreed.”
“I couldn’t wait to tell my husband, but instead of being pleased he went ballistic, called me all sorts and said I’d betrayed him and was a “cheap slut”. ”
what a half cuck.
That’s exactly it.. When a straight guy says he wants a threesome, he means he wants another woman cause he is tired of banging the same chick. Not another cock to sword fight with. The mistake was this lady’s for assuming her guy wanted to see her banged by someone else, since he likely only played along with this cause if the told her no way I want some other kid playing in my sandbox but you should let me bring another woman to bang, it would have been a deal killer…
Point of order!
Martin Freeman played Bilbo, not Frodo.
But I’d much rather recognize him as Dr. John Watson.
Who played Dildo Teabaggings in Lord of the Cock Rings?
Tom Byron
Jason Statham Buzzes To Miramax’s ‘The Bee Keeper’
https://deadline.com/2021/08/jason-statham-to-star-in-miramax-movie-the-bee-keeper-1234823345/
The Bee Keeper is a lightning-paced thriller deeply steeped in the mythology of Bee Keeping. Miramax is currently searching for a director. Statham, Wimmer and Miramax CEO Bill Block are set to produce.
Is Jason attending Honey Harvest as prep?
Jason’s obviously been taking career advice from Nicholas Cage.
Is that the Gene Hackman/Dabny Coleman theory of “Accept every role, some of them will be good.”
There is also the Michael Caine, “I heard it is awful, but have you seen the house it paid for?” theory.
The Transporter came 19 years ago.
I’d still let Shu Qi make me madeleines.
Hope not. Fourscore would make Jason feel inadequate.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems creates viable path to commercial fusion power with world’s strongest magnet
https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/cfs-commercial-fusion-power-with-hts-magnet
20T is pretty impressive.
That’s enough to wipe all my old VHS tapes!
So ‘Biden’s’ plan to get people out of Afghanistan after we left is charter flights. Heard on the radio this morning that since the Taliban is in charge of security checks no country in the region is letting the flights land, so the planes can’t leave. Good thing the Grown Ups are in charge.
Just nuke the whole damn thing and take some collateral damage
Because the thousands of people flown out previously on military plane underwent extensive security checks and vetting?
The story didn’t give much detail, but I’d guess military planes land at our military bases. Charter flights have to land at commercial airports. Could be a BS story, but it gave me a laugh. That’s all I ask for.
Charter flights have to land at commercial airports.
Its a law of nature. They physically cannot land at military airports. No conceivable action of the Department of Defense, the State Department, or the President could get them to land at military airports.
In general the commander of a military base has the authority to authorize non military flights to land at that base. Presumably unless he or she has been ordered otherwise.
I’m sure we can trust them.
“We are not aware of anyone being held on an aircraft or any hostage-like situation in Mazar-i-Sharif,” Blinken told a news conference in Doha where he and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met their Qatari opposite numbers.
The Taliban told the United States that “they will let people with travel documents freely depart,” Blinken said.
“The entire international community is looking to the Taliban to uphold that commitment,” Blinken said, referring to a UN Security Council resolution that urged safe passage.
Because they care what the “international community” thinks. You are not dealing with France. You are dealing with a brutal, terrorist regime, you feckless cunte.
Every time I see one of these idiotic pieces, I simply ask if these feckless douchebags carrying water for the donkeys would have written the same thing if the guy in charge was Orange King.
Uh oh. You can be sure that whatever they are “not aware of happening” is, in fact, happening.
“Our subordinates understand implicitly that certain types of information are inappropriate to communicate to us.”
Steyn’s rockin again!
https://www.steynonline.com/11674/subterranean-tone-sick-blues
Razorfirst listened to the new Iron Maiden album. He didn’t like it.
He says it’s the fault of fans like me who like their stuff no matter how awful it is, with a harsh comparison to how much better Judas Priest became after their fans excoriated them for the album Nostradamus.
He’s not wrong.
But I actually like the album.
It’s pretty meh. If they were a new band and this their debut album, it’d go nowhere.
–Formerly diehard Maiden fan
They lost me with Seventh Son of etc. I still like giving their older stuff a listen though.
I was good through 7th son, nothing really after that. Glad that I don’t have to buy-to-try anymore. Hopefully streamed music is rated by number of plays rather than one-time downloads.
Mostly in agreeance here. Dance of the Dead was solid. Several of Bruce’s solo albums were pretty good.
Our nation is at a point where we need to focus on consolidating our nationhood and making sure Americans feel like they own America. I heavily doubt CRT is the best way of doing that, but…find me a better way, or CRT is what it’s gonna be.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1435344283809116160
I think Noah Smith is getting dumber by the day
“I say, if you want to ban CRT, you need to come up with another way of credibly telling minority kids that their society doesn’t view them as trash.”
How about stop the racemongers from telling this to kids
you need to come up with another way of credibly telling minority kids that their society doesn’t view them as trash
“Your culture is garbage. Either embrace your culture or embrace success. Almost nobody hates you because of your race. There are plenty who will hate you if you become a violent, mooching, racist lump.”
And how about telling the Dems to stop treating them like trash.
But where are the votes in that?
Why not national socialism?
the real one this time with the right leaders
The Brownstone Institute has published its first book, and they’ve exerpted a chapter.
Covid and the Madness of Crowds
In 1841, the poet Charles Mackay authored the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds in which he describes what he learned from watching cities, villages and countries in times of war, illness, religious and ideological fanaticism. His key message to the future is embodied in this quote: ‘Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.’ Earlier and later writers said similar things. We take Mackay’s pronouncement to be an empirical claim that once a crowd has lasted for a while, it will not dissolve in a bang, but slowly.
…
The clearest distinguishing feature of a crowd is its joint focus on something. The ‘something’ can be almost anything and need not even be real. Crowds can form around an obsession about a fear of vampires, a religious ideal, a desire for vengeance, a charismatic leader, a coming apocalyptic event, the second coming of a god or the production of a particular flower. The ‘something’ need not be anything the individuals would in tranquil times care about or even believe in, like vengeance or vampires. Yet, individuals in a crowd will attend to and talk about the ‘something’ constantly, make plans and promises to each other about it, and berate anyone who wavers in their determination to stamp it out, get it, avoid it, unite with it, or whatever the logic of the obsession demands.
A second distinguishing feature is that in a crowd both truth and morality cease to be fixed things held by individuals. They instead become outcomes of the obsession of the crowd that are almost instantly adopted by all crowd members. Whether or not Jews are the enemy ceases to be an individual moral choice and instead a truth emerges that they are, as an outcome of the group obsession. Whether or not surface cleaning helps to avoid infections stops being the outcome of scientific inquiry, and instead the truth that it does help is elevated to this status as a result of the group obsession. This truth is then instantly adopted by all in the crowd.
…
Everything that individuals normally relate to as if it is fixed becomes fluid in a crowd. It is this fluidity that outsiders find most fascinating, seeing it as a form of insanity. The crowd members see those who do not go along with the new truths and the new morality as either in denial, evil, or outright insane themselves.
…
A third element of crowds is that the group as a whole sanctifies behaviour deemed unconscionable at the individual level. The crowd openly does what individuals in it would still see as unethical and criminal to do on a personal basis. Repressed desires often come out at the crowd level as sanctified group behaviour. A crowd will become boastful, domineering, vengeful and violent precisely in societies made up of people who are conditioned to be shy, humble, forgiving, and peaceful. To the outsider it is an extraordinary and chilling phenomenon to see the crowd become an agent of group crimes, while those within the crowd fail to see this transformation.
Group crimes have been richly evident in Covid times. The lonely have inflicted loneliness on others via the edicts of the crowd. Those being bossed around in their normal lives have inflicted humiliation on others through the decisions of the crowd leaders to humiliate those resisting the crowd. Lacking warm social lives themselves, crowd members have been living vicariously through their crowd leaders, while inflicting misery on everyone else. Operating as a crowd, people can do and celebrate things that are otherwise impossible, which is why crowds can be so dangerous. In the wrong circumstances, a lust for destruction can emerge and can then be indulged on an industrial scale.
What can we do to draw the people we know away from this pernicious crowd?
When you set up your axioms so only your preferred framework is acceptable, lo and behold only your preferred framework appears acceptable.
Meta-analysis: “Abstinence from alcohol is associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1435522111133655041
I choose to believe this
People judge hypocrites, who say one thing while doing another, more harshly than open transgressors, particularly if they appear quite competent.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1435462701619232772
Cutting away for now. Have a good one if you can, Glibs! I’m at a loss.
I just replied to a whole bunch of comments on my FreedomFest report on the FreedomFest report thread. Thanks for all the comments!
Two Royal Navy patrol ships left the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a five-year deployment that will see them act as “the eyes and ears” of Britain from the west coast of Africa, to the west coast of the United States, according to a British Defense Ministry statement.
Hopefully it ends better than this.
The files were obtained by The Intercept as part of an FOI request to drill down the possible root of COVID and whether the US had any role in it.
Hmm…. I’m guessing the factional infighting is going against whatever faction Fauci is part of. Otherwise, I think the response to the FOIA would have been, “We have no documents about this topic.”
President Biden on Tuesday traveled to New York and New Jersey to tour areas struck by deadly flooding from Tropical Storm Ida, but he received a hostile welcome from some North Jersey residents who heckled him and flashed middle fingers.
🙂
But what’s missing from Cruz’s discussion is some important context: Many employers pay unlivable wages or offer little to no benefits, creating a situation where the bare minimum needed to survive through unemployment benefits is more attractive than toiling for pennies.
Go fuck yourself.
This would be a lot more common, but prostitutes can’t get unemployment, and thus has to scrimp for less than a living wage, so they are still working.
I like it.
I know some legislators in NH. They’re gearing up for the next session to do more and are looking to 2022 to expand the number of legislators that want this shit to stop.
Cool – Where do I send the campaign contirbution? DegForNHSenate@protonmail.com?
HAH!
Some folks have suggested I run for office.
I haven’t made a move to do it.
If you actually want to send a contribution, there is a committee to elect more Republicans to the NH legislature. I think, but am not sure, that it is dominated by NHLA endorsed people and Free Staters. I kicked some money in under that assumption. I mentioned the donation to a legislator I know and said, “I hope this leads to more liberty oriented people.” The legislator didn’t respond to that, so I’m a little worried I might have made a mistake.
I’m guessing the factional infighting is going against whatever faction Fauci is part of.
Same here. Especially since the Pentagon sent a lot more money to the Wuhan lab than the NIH did. You would think if there was one agency that would be on the back foot for factional infighting these days, it would be the Pentagon, but who knows what goes on in the DC snakepit.
He stated with delight.
Speaking to the BBC’s Stephen Sackur, the South Carolina Republican explained that the Taliban “have a view of the world out of sync with modern times” and “want to impose a lifestyle on the Afghan people that I think is going to make us all sick to our stomach.”
“We will be going back into Afghanistan. We’ll have to because the threat will be so large,” the four-term senator said. “But most importantly, they’re gonna give safe haven to al-Qaeda, who has ambitions to drive us out of the Middle East writ-large and attack us because of our way of life. We will be going back into Afghanistan as we went back into Iraq and Syria.”
When a glasses-on-the-rim-of-the-nose Sackur sounded perplexed, Graham, one of the leading voices on foreign policy, explained how recent history and President Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal factor in.
“Why did we go back to Syria and Iraq? Why do we have 5,000 troops in Iraq today?” Graham asked. “Because of the caliphate rising, projecting force outside of Iraq, killing Americans, killing the French, attacking the British. So, yes, it will be a cauldron for radical Islamic behavior. You cannot deal with this over the horizon.”
Maybe the internal situations of these countries are none of our business and we should concentrate on actual counter-terrorism without attempting to nation-build.
want to impose a lifestyle on the Afghan people – I am not that sure the lifestyle is imposed for a good number of the Afghan people
Counter-terrorism and punitive expeditions when necessary. None of this idiotic long-term occupation and nation-building bullshit.
Don’t presume it’s about security or national defense or even anti-terrorism. Nationbuilding is where the real $$$ are at.
P.S. Graham is a warmongering shitbird.
Nationbuilding is where the real $$$ are at.
Which is why it will never end.
Until it does, of course. Probably as a result of the US Dollar collapsing and taking the economy and society with it.
“they’re gonna give safe haven to al-Qaeda,”
Like they don’t already have safe havens in other countries? In fact, it is far better AlQ concentrates in one place where the drone controller folks at Creech AFB in Nevada can, hopefully, locate them. If AlQ is scattered all over, they will be harder to find. Do they really need “safe havens” to plot bomb attacks on the U.S.? They could probably do that anonymously from almost any big city in the world.
Sex, drugs and the Modern Review
We wouldn’t have survived amid today’s echo chambers and cancel culture
You could have knocked me down with a feather when I read in the Evening Standard last month that “legendary Nineties hellraiser magazine Modern Review” is making a comeback. It was the first I’d heard of its return since I closed it down in 1997. “Burchill won’t be involved,” a source confirmed, which is probably for the best. It won’t be anywhere as good as my one.
https://unherd.com/2021/09/sex-drugs-and-the-modern-review/
You could have knocked me down with a feather when I read in the Evening Standard last month that “legendary Nineties hellraiser magazine Modern Review” is making a comeback. It was the first I’d heard of its return since I closed it down in 1997. “Burchill won’t be involved,” a source confirmed, which is probably for the best. It won’t be anywhere as good as my one.
This month marks 30 years since the first publication of the Modern Review, the magazine which I co-founded with Toby Young, my then soulmate, and Cosmo Landesman, my then husband. Toby was a teenager when I met him in 1984, his academic family living next door to Cosmo’s in Islington. When I abandoned my first marriage and small son at the age of 24 to elope with Cosmo, I promptly annexed Toby as my amigo-in-chief.
It certainly helped that I was loaded. Sometime in the Eighties, in my late 20s, I was earning more than the Prime Minister and the Chancellor combined, simply by writing for newspapers and magazines. Then I pocketed an advance of £100,000 to write a smutty novel about a girl reporter on the make, called Ambition. But there’s only so much cocaine a person can take — and even after I gave away a not insignificant proportion of my earnings to charity every month, there was still quite a bit left, so I started us off with a few thousand.
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Could someone rescue my comment from the SPAM filter? I promise it’s not spam.
That’s what she said…
It’s not restrictions, it’s just commonsense.
There are currently no restrictions on where a gun store can be located in Newton. Proposed zoning amendments were released on Friday, April 16. The City Council, which was due to meet on April 20, will likely refer these amendments to the Zoning and Planning Committee (ZAP) for a public hearing on May 10, according to the city’s Law Department.
The proposed amendments “would only allow firearms sales related uses in certain zoning districts in the city,” according to an email from Mayor Ruthanne Fuller. They “will also require firearms sales uses to be approved by special permit by the City Council. Finally, it will create specific special permit criteria, including a buffer zone between a firearms dealer and residences and schools.” …
When asked why there were no zoning ordinances on the books limiting where gun stores could be located, she said, “We just didn’t think about it.”
“That is completely inequitable and unreasonable” to open a gun shop in that location, said Emily Norton, a councilor for Ward 2 where the store would be located. “I was very disappointed that the city knew about this over a month ago and that I didn’t find out about it … until I started getting constituent emails [on April 15].”
It is rather surprising there are any gun shops in Newton. That’s liberal ground zero.
Them guns might escape! You don’t want escaped guns near schools or homes, do you?!
So the issue is it’s opening next to a weed store. Other than busybody pearl clutching assholes who gives a damn?
“That is completely inequitable and unreasonable” to open a gun shop in that location
While she failed to provide any reasonable explanation as to why that might be so.
They have no zoning at all? No residential areas, no business districts, its just a total free-for-all?
Oh, they do. There are restrictions on where a gun store can be located. They just want more of them, so they lie about it.
Gibberish.
Regarding Homple’s stats below: Gun deaths in Grant parish over the last 100 years – 4
Herewith the Windy City’s daily update of murder statistics. It would be nice if somebody would sue Chicago to stop this stuff.
September to Date
Shot & Killed: 14
Shot & Wounded: 92
Total Shot: 106
Total Homicides: 15
Week in Progress (9/5 – 9/11)
Shot & Killed: 4
Shot & Wounded: 33
Total Shot: 37
Total Homicides: 4
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 539
Shot & Wounded: 2637
Total Shot: 3176
Total Homicides: 569
Source: heyjackass.com
So, you’re saying the trend is down? See! Their policies are working! If they start not working, it’s the fault of those dirty Libertarians that run the city!
Follow-up from DEG’s post about Freedom Fest last night. In it, he mentioned Patrick Newman, a college professor from Florida. Turns out that Dr. Newman is part of Florida Southern College’s Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.
Part of their “Vision” statement reads: “Entrepreneurship is the beginning of production, a major fulfillment of personal freedom, and an integral part of a market economy based on private property and free exchange. To excel in the real world of business, students must understand how market economies function and why capitalism is the most efficient and ethical system of provision.”
Here’s where it gets personal for me. My mother was a Florida Southern alumna (’61). When she passed some time ago, her trust dictated that a decent portion of her assets go to two different organizations; the Shriners (Mom was a patient in a Shriners Hospital for over a year as a child), and FSC.
Since I’m the trustee, I have sole discretion over how the funds are directed. Knowing that Southern has one of the prettiest campuses in the country, I was going to request that the money go toward restoring the historic buildings that are falling into disrepair. But seeing this little island of free-market economics on a college campus has made me change my mind. Next week, I’ll be contacting the dean (whom, it turns out, I had classes with at UF back in the day) to obtain advice on how to earmark Mom’s money to his department. I can only imagine his reaction when he hears that an eight-figure* check is coming his way.
(Travel tip: Lakeland, Florida, home of Florida Southern, is midway between Tampa and Orlando. While Frank Lloyd Wright was a Grade-A bastard, and his buildings leak, they really are striking to look at. A guided tour of campus is a cool way to spend a few hours if you’re ever in central FL looking for something non-theme-park-related to do).
* there’s a decimal point involved
That will no doubt be appreciated.
Hah. As I started to type “appreciated” my cell phone suggested “appropriated”. Such times we live in…
Your mom sounds like a good lady. I hope they put her name on part of her legacy, at least at the hospital.
This is excellent.
I’m certain the Dean will like the money. Hopefully they continue pushing free-market economics.
I see BS, alright
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1435230121519161354
Thousands of minutes? Who talks like that?
“You are not wanting to be waiting thousands of minutes? I can tell you are for the reals. Please, just wait for some minutes while I pull up the profile that is yours to your account. Please thank you for holding.”
1/525 of a Year!!!!
Saying a couple of days isn’t alarmist enough.
Patients forced to wait thousands of minutes in rural Texas ER: “We’ve never seen this. Ever.”
17 hrs? Really?
That’s a standard weekend night in Baltimore ERs.
One this nobody clarifies is if it is a public emergency room, like Parkland in Dallas where that wait is normal, of more of a Baylor type facility that can staff appropriately and can take that load. My bet is it is a Parkland type facility that takes the charity cases. Also was that just a day? On going? Also my bet is it was just a surge over a day.
I find it funny that See BS also employs a woman who is pretty much the only investigative journalist in the national media.
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1434984369396068358
I wonder which patients had to wait. Many moons ago I waited over 5 hours in the RWJ ER IN NJ after fracturing my hand in a softball game. Sucked, but so what. When I walked into that same ER with a severe tension pneumothorax I wanna an operating table in 15 minutes; in that situation a 5 hours wait might have killed me. Triage matters, as does context.
Back in my college days my girlfriends sprained her ankle one Saturday night. Not knowing if it was broken we went to the emergency room in the south side of Chicago. After hours of waiting I lost my patience and asked someone when we were going to see a doctor. “Well we’ve got gunshot wound, stabbing, and gunshot wound ahead of you. You’ll have to wait.”
The rural Oklahoma story was busted as fake within hours so why not let’s try rural Texas. The rubes will fall for it this time.
Uh…if they never had it, then they aren’t lacking resources per se. More like, they were never caring for this patient except normal GP checkups my guess.
Plus they link to an article with this statement “overwhelmed with COVID patients” to a November 2020 article.
My dad’s wife, literally the world’s worst driver, wants to drive me to the airport.
I gotta check if my last will & testament is up-to-date.
Uber black.
Uber Bach.
Was expecting Sebastian.
https://youtu.be/I9Vjzf6170E
Was he the one with the pinup on the inside of his memoir’s dust jacket?
YouTube lined up glider action for me last night
https://youtu.be/Puia_yQxir8
which led me to
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber
?
ECG Elizabeth City?
All the background chatter about “His engine is out” is not helpful to the pilot. Those other guys need to shut TF about that. He doesn’t need that.
That second one links to a Gunnery failure which is only funny because no one was really hurt.
Can i get something? Like do you have a good bottle of scotch and no one to leave it to?
The left only lies because they love us.
it’s a reminder that fake news is hardly limited to the right.
It seems to mostly come from the left.
Questioning a tally of votes is much worse than discouraging the use of possible treatments for a sometimes fatal infectious disease. Did I get that right?
Just given the fact of unprecedented mail voting should at least raise scrutiny
“There’s no doubt…”
Stop. Go blow it out of your ass somewhere else.
How did George W. Bush win in 2000 again?
Merriam-Webster has another new definition.
Definition of anti-vaxxer
: a person who opposes vaccination or laws that mandate vaccination
I’m surprised it’s not “a person who suspects not all vaccines are beneficial or warranted”
I have started calling all women that refuse my offers of a hot beef injection anti-vaxxers!
Hot Beef Vaccination.
I saw them open for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen!
“I got vaccinated but I don’t think others should have to if they don’t want to.”
*points and hisses Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers style*
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspeak
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda
That’s some mighty fine headlining: Schools become political ‘battlefield’ in culture wars Trump cultivated
Schools have become the focal point for culture war fights that animated former President Donald Trump’s base and have been advanced by conservative activists and influencers since he left office.
Conservative grassroots activists have zeroed in on local education policy with a tea party-esque fervor for months — spanning debates about reopening, how to teach U.S. history and required masking. Now, conservative personalities are urging followers to run for school board seats that have rarely generated much interest, while dozens of activist groups focused on schools have sprouted to advance the fights.
The influence of the effort can be seen at nearly all levels of school administration. State legislators have passed bills to restrict what can be taught. Republican governors are locked in standoffs with school administrators over district masking policies. School board meetings have devolved into shouting matches, and some have even turned violent.
Maybe that is because parents are catching on to the leftist indoctrination in the “education” system.
When republicans do something bad or get caught doing something bad, that’s the story. When democrats do or get caught doing bad, the republican reaction (in as negative as possible light) is the story….
You are assuming that this is “something bad?” Only in the eyes of those who cannot tolerate any pushback to forcing their own ideas on others.
I was framing it from the perspective of the accusers. They are prone to label anything they don’t like as bad. That doesn’t mean the thing is actually bad. It is just they want YOU to believe it is bad or the reaction is something bad…
Always Be
Closing</del Framingoops
Always be closing your tags?
lol
That deserves some applause.
conservative personalities are urging followers to run for school board seats that have rarely generated much interest
We captured school boards while you weren’t paying attention. How dare you start paying attention.
I can say that i am baffled by the cov thing. The waves in various countries make no sense. Nearby countries are not corelated has little to do with weather or vax or mask mandates or anything
Romania passer 2000 cases per day again recently. Why doea israel have so many? They are more vaxed warmer weather… maybe people there avoid the sun and are vit d deficient who the fuck knows
“cases.” What about severe illness, hospitalizations, deaths?
Somewhat rising as well but less for now
Perhaps metrics vary between countries; sometimes within countries.
Most likely
That’s the problem with metric metrics, no one understands them.
Oh yeah. You already said this. Disregard what I just said.
Countries also don’t track things the same way. There’s so much b.s. in how a covid “case” is tracked, measured, etc. and a death is attributed to covid.
I remember early on Germany was kicking ass because they use much more restrictive methodology in marking covid deaths.
Now I don’t even bother.
I don’t think even cross-state analyses mean anything.
It’s all BS to me. After a good friend lied to everyone about her father dying *of* covid, only to find out later it was from a heart attack and *with* covid which he’d caught in hospital after the heart attack, I just don’t want to hear it anymore. And she had the nerve to do a gofundme for funeral expenses based on the lie.
Story after story of cooked covid books. The mad pursuit of a CURE sans a parallel pursuit of therapeutics. The whole thing stinks and I long for the days when no one will have believed the hype about it like no one voted for Nixon.
It’s because the vaccines don’t work. Remember why we don’t have a vaccine for the common cold? THAT x 1000.
The people going “boosters now, boosters forever!” have turned over their immune systems to the FDA and Big Pharma.
This is a virus that attacks the very old and the very fat (okay, that’s flippant, it attacks people with high A1C, but those are correlated).
So we’re going to stick an experimental RNA tech into healthy people – what could go wrong?
Of course the Israelis are getting crushed; the unvaxxed are way, way better off than the vaxxed. Watch. Mark my words.
We’re driving the viruses to mutate with the pressure of vaccines that were designed for a variant that doesn’t even exist anymore.
I think the work, in the same sense that the flu vaccine works. It sometimes stops it, and sometimes lessens the severity when you still catch it.
Of course, in this case, the vaccine also is much more likely to harm you. It is still useful if you are old or unhealthy.
The young and healthy should stay as far away from the vax as possible.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/nsw-health-limits-residents-of-lockeddown-tower-block-to-six-beers-per-day/news-story/0e387ceccee145a611ddb6e38872d3d5
Shocked, I am.
Former (?) penal colony, they can make bathtub gin.
Pruno!
Sounds like an invasion by Red China might actually be welcomed by the residents. Then Australia. And don’t come running to the Yanks to bail you out.
If this doesn’t make those drunks rebel nothing will.
Much like Afghanistan, and American colleges, and everything else – the init universal rule is ‘You get what you’ll put up with.’
The public health tyrants are firmly in charge
Residents are allowed to receive a ration of one of the following: six beers or pre-mixed drinks, one bottle of wine, or one 375ml bottle of spirits.
It’s not so bad. A bottle of wine or half a bottle of whiskey a day keeps Aussies pacified.
What’s the ration for those who are older than kindergarten age?
Teetotalers will make out like bandits.
Heck yeah. I don’t need six beers a day, but you can bet I’d be getting them to re-sell to my neighbors.
I wonder what the chocolate ration has been “increased” to.
Welcome to the Biden regime, where the competence is made up and the compassion doesn’t matter!
“Ask President Bush how it went for Katrina. Disasters can bite, so they’re not risk-free.” My look at Biden using storms to try to project his political calling cards — competence and compassion.
Of course, the compassion is fake as well.
I think Bush’s poll hits from Katrina don’t even match Biden’s poll hits from Afghanistan.
I mean the latter is a thing that the president is actually responsible for too.
Bush got beat up for not having FEMA all over New Orleans before the rain stopped falling. Odd, that I haven’t really seen (1) anything about how FEMA is swarming the flood zones after this hurricane, and (2) articles excoriating the administration.
Let’s look at how the media coverage differed, shall we?
What a tool.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Erin O’Toole, promised a federal proof-of-vaccine system if his party gets elected, which means that those who support civil liberties are going to be left with few options.
Prime Minister Trudeau made a similar pledge and NDP’s criticized the current PM for not having already implemented a federal vaccine passport system.
In a stop on his campaign trail in British Columbia, O’Toole revealed his party’s pandemic-related plans, including a national proof-of-vaccine system, arguing that Canadians would need it for travel.
The only winning move is not to play.
Shit Sandwich or Giant Douche…make sure you vote, Canadians. But seriously, why even bother?
This is why there will never be a true “none of the above” option on ballots. I write it in a lot, but very few people give enough of a shit to voice their real opinion and simply go along with the either/or/nothing mentality.
I know it’s likely a waste of time. If enough people wasted their time on this, it might stand a chance of having an effect.
Erin O’Toole
Always nice to see a Bond girl do well in the world.
Oh, that’s a dude? Never mind.
National Archives Places ‘Harmful Language Alert’ On Page Hosting U.S. Constitution.
Harmful talk of limits on the government, I suppose.
reminder that “…and domestic…” is a thing
Just depends on who gets to define that part…
3/5ths of it is extremely harmful
Sadly, the harmful language disclaimer in question is not “this document is full of pretty lies”
I’m late to the party, but I’ll simply say Elizabeth Holmes is a fraud and a sociopath. And the only reason she’s stayed out of jail for as long as she has is the same reason she was able to get away with her fraud as long as she did – she’s a pretty young white girl who fits the story of what progressive gentry want to believe in. It’s been six years since her entire scam was revealed as a house of cards. How many people at the center of other scandals, Bernie Ebbers, Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff, were free that long after they’d been caught? And not only free, but still treated as respectable in a lot of polite society. Even now, when the case might actually see a courtroom, she’s trying to pin the blame on someone else. And the media is willing to give it credence. In the end, I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets away with it. But, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if someone she defrauded proves not quite so forgiving.
“…she’s a pretty young white girl…”
Unfortunately sociopathy doesn’t discriminate.