Start your week with genuine Backpfeifengesicht.
After all the excitement this week, major storms, meteors crashing into our back yard, and escaped prisoner shoot-outs, we’re preparing for a quiet day to unwind. Perhaps a nice bottle of a fermented grape product while we brace ourselves for the week to come. Perhaps a handful of tranquilizers. Perhaps some semi-amusing Links. Well, these aren’t all mutually exclusive.
And speaking of exclusivity, it’s Birthday time. And before the list of ho-hum historical figures and celebrities, we mark the single most important birthday of all: SP.
That was the climax, now the denouement: other peripheral birthdays today include the role-model for modern politicians; the second-worst president in US history; the guy who taught Dizzy what’s what; a delightful writer and the author of one of my favorite lines: “After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening—on a lucky day—without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.”; a far greater man than the aforementioned president; an actor, who despite great talent and great Yiddish, I will always think of as “that guy I saw on Star Trek”; a guy who would never pick his feet in Poughkeepsie; a guy who showed us what an ideal politician is; a slightly less insane Bobby Fischer; founder of a disgusting dynasty; the best second basemen I ever saw play, and whose firing told me everything I needed to know about the future of the Orioles; an insane woman who had a unique and interesting life; and a guy rumored to be a crypto-Jew.
And with that… Links.
I sense the fine hand of Pie here.
Why yes, it IS fucking cold here.
I can’t see how this could possibly go wrong.
We’re reading something very deep into this. Not sure what, but it’s totally deep, man.
Oh, no, the Peter Dinklage of rock is expressing his outrage!
Want some insane trumpet playing? The Old Guy is here to give you truly insane trumpet playing.
“Start your week with genuine Backpfeifengesicht.”
What?
“Face in need of punching”
Thanks
Those people have a word for everything!
HBD SP 🙂
Happy birthday SP!
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This indeed! Many happy returns!
Happy birthday! ??
Hopefully SP finally got the pony OMWC has been promising – HBD!
Just a Barbie dollhouse this year. Maybe next time SP!
Happy birthday SP!
Happy Birthday!
May the candles on your cake, burn like cities in your wake!
Happy birthday SP!
^
Happy Birthday SP! Have a great next trip around the Sun.
Have you gone into the baking-cakes-with-files-in-them business?
The actual ending of the story is, as are most things in real life, rather anti-climactic and mundane.
We still want to hear it.
I feel like one of the characters in the show got written out of the series. Very unsatisfying when their story arc was just getting interesting.
Start your week with genuine Backpfeifengesicht.
I would have expected
PrincessSecretary Buttercup.“Why yes, it IS fucking cold here.”
Unfortunate. Guessing he underestimated how long it’d take to go through the shortcut… Usually these are caused because someone gets drunk and passes out.
“New York college student dies after he’s found outside in subzero temperatures”
The implication seems to be that if he hadn’t been found he’d still be alive.
Shot for tresspassing?
Heisenberg uncertainty FTW.
He was looking for his cat when he passed out.
Ahh, damn it, that was Schrodinger’s.
Well, some Kraut or another.
He would have survived subzero indoor temperatures.
The actual ending of the story is, as are most things in real life, rather anti-climactic and mundane.
Good.
“We’re reading something very deep into this. Not sure what, but it’s totally deep, man”
Never in the past have people had different opinions. Scary!! Doom!
You have to remember who the head of the IRS is: Janet Yellin. There is no idea too stupid for her to fall for.
Stupid or evil?
Embrace the power of “and”.
“No one should be forced to submit to facial recognition as a condition of accessing essential government services,” Wyden said in a separate statement. “I’m continuing to seek more information about ID.me and other identity verification systems being used by federal agencies.”
A Treasury official said Friday that the department was “looking into” alternatives to ID.me, saying Treasury and the IRS always are interested in improving “taxpayers experience.”
My money’s on DNA obtained via anal swab.
Don’t give them ideas.
Happy birthday, SP! A song for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFns51rl4BU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzXO_5e8oO0
Happy Birthday!
a guy who showed us what an ideal politician is;
Happy birthday Budd Dwyer!
I was thinking Harrison, but yeah.
He certainly ended his career with a bang.
“Oh, no, the Peter Dinklage of rock is expressing his outrage!”
I know people were doing the ‘who?’ thing yesterday, but really never have heard of him.
It’s so overblown anyway. He didn’t even seem like he was expressing outrage. If anything he was mocking Disney’s faux wokeness picking a Hispanic for Snow White while she has a house full of dwarves.
It’s all arbitrary and you can never win.
I meant the rocker being referred to.
I just chimed in without knowing what the fuck was going on. Happens a lot to me.
Are you saying you didn’t click on the links?
I think it’s fair to point out, most people haven’t read it heard what these people are saying. Like I have no idea what dinklage said, just what others are saying about it.
Making snow white ‘of color’ does bother me, but whatever I think it’s been done before anyway. Also, live action is lame when it comes to fairy tales anyway. They work better the more abstract they are.
Basically yeah.
I also think it’s cliche at this point. Disney has already gone through the full list of minorities. This is a stupid game. I mean I don’t care that much but also it’s just sad they have to play the stupid game for going on 3 decades now.
All parts should be played by a dwarf. Kind of like that gangster film that was all kids.
Ah yes, Bugsy Malone with Jodie Foster and Scott Baio.
Terror of Tiny Town was the movie with the midgets.
Have you seen Snow White and the Three Stooges?
Two Stooges. I refuse to accept the canonicity of Joe DiRita.
Shemp today, Shemp tomorrow, Shemp forevah!
Also, live action is lame when it comes to fairy tales anyway. They work better the more abstract they are.
Yep, and I’ll add critical drinker’s critique of remakes and reboots to this. If you’re going to remake or reboot an old IP, you need to be choosy about the source material and do it better than the original. Otherwise, all you’ll get is unfavorable comparisons to the original. It’s the difference between the Battlestar Galactica reboot and the Star Trek Kelvin timeline.
It’d be one thing for Disney to reboot Aristocats or Hunchback of Notre Dame or The Fox and the Hound. Selecting some of their most popular and classic movies to reboot? That’s just asking for trouble.
The name sounded familiar, but I couldn’t remember any group he was a part of.
When even Ted, master of arcane music, can’t place you…
If there is a less relevant musician than Nils Lofgren, then I don’t know who it is.
I sense the fine hand of Pie here.
From the sidebar:
Size matters more than we think, Israeli study concludes
Well in that case, here’s a memory maker.
The driver of the Challenger was among the dead, officials said.
Consolation prize. Sad about the Challenger though.
Wolter’s frustration boils over during a late breakfast in a town cafe. Seated with a reporter, he starts talking as if Anfinson is there.
“You’re lying to people,” he says. “You flat-out lie about things.”
Maybe he’s speaking directly to you, mister AP reporter.
That’s exactly what I’m thinking based on how it’s written.
Oh God, kill me now.
Hillbillies in the mists, redux.
Ugh. Here’s a good song, and appropriate.
Also, Happy Birthday, SP
Small town America is not always a Leave It To Beaver scenario. The local village has had a running feud between the mayor/police department and I’m not sure why, since that would require paying attention on my part.
As with so many towns that are dying and as the local economy dries up there seems to be different opinions as to the resurrection. It always includes using tax dollars to try to sustain the town via supporting businesses that are meeting the fate of dinosaurs.
Yeah; Peyton Place is generally believed to be based on the town where Grace Metalious was living at the time she wrote it, Gilmanton, NH.
Perhaps a nice bottle of a fermented grape product while we brace ourselves for the week to come.
Manischewitz isn’t nice.
It’s MD20-20 for Jews.
70 years ago that would have been fighting words.
No, but Weis Vineyards and Dr Konstantin Frank are. We powered through three bottles last night, and by “we,” I mean, “I had half of the first bottle and SP drank the rest plus the next two.” She was not going to glide into her birthday quietly.
Oh I’ll bet things have been very quiet there this morning. Make any loud noises, you die.
So I’m assuming first-worst president is Wilson (although some fringe-types would say Lincoln).
Worst as in “did the most damage to the country” I would think is FDR. He had over three full terms to fuck shit up. Wilson is up there though.
Joe Biden says “hold my
beerpudding cup”.Yes, Wilson indeed.
“Tom Brady, 44, DENIES he is retiring’ after ESPN reported that the seven-time Super Bowl champ is leaving the NFL”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10455571/Seven-time-Super-Bowl-champion-Tom-Brady-RETIRES-NFL-22-years-league.html
Happy birthday SP!
Once, neighborliness and good manners were near-commandments here. Now anger is on the rise.
Neighborhood shouting matches are more common, a local official’s car was vandalized, and a “F— Biden” flag now flies along a school bus route. Collins and the town police chief both say they sometimes worry about Anfinson’s safety.
“Ten years ago I don’t think anything like this would happen,” she said.
But that was then. Travel across the plains of western Minnesota and you’ll find plenty of people who are bestirred by a new and often dark vision of America.
They are not on the fringes, at least by current standards. They are, for the most part, mainstream conservatives who see a nation that barely exists in traditional newspapers and mainstream TV news broadcasts.
People like the store manager, sitting at an American Legion bar drinking $3 cocktails, who calls the billionaire financier George Soros, a Jewish survivor of the Nazis and a powerful backer of liberal causes, “one of the most evil men I’ve ever heard of.” And the semi-retired nurse who fears teams of sex traffickers she says operate freely in countless small towns.
If you listen closely, you can hear the hoofbeats of the Cattlemen’s Vigilante Brigade.
Weep for America.
“Survivor of the Nazis” is a bit rich.
Survivor, collaborator; potayto, potahto.
Good lord.
No looking further into why these rubes might hold such reprehensible opinions, of course. That’s some deep digging to understand America, there.
These people are analysts like Szell was a dentist.
“Donald Trump calls on his supporters to take to the streets if they find ‘racist’ and ‘vicious’ prosecutors doing anything illegal as they pursue the former president and his businesses”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10456373/Trump-calls-supporters-streets-vicious-prosecutors-illegal.html
“Trump says he would PARDON January 6 Capitol rioters and says they’re being treated ‘unfairly’ while teasing a potential 2024 White House run at raucous Texas rally”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10455577/Trump-says-hed-PARDON-January-6-Capitol-rioters-teasing-potential-2024-bid-Texas-rally.html
He could have done that before he left.
There’s a lot of things he could have done before he left.
I don’t think they were charged then.
I also don’t think it will matter three years from now.
What I would do if I were president is threaten to pardon these political prisoners as a way of getting the courts to move along this glacial (and thus unconstitutional) process.
Would they need to be charged first?
I thought you don’t have to be charged to be pardoned.
I don’t believe Nixon had been charged with anything when Ford pardoned him.
As If the deep state would allow those to go through, now or then.
Happy birthday Boris Spassky?
1972 was the best year, the year that the great American Robert J. Fischer wrested the World Chess Championship from the evil commie Boris Spassky. Seen on live TV, hosted on PBS by Shelby Lyman in a hastily assembled studio and, crucially, broadcast without a time delay.
For each game in the match, Shelby would have two guest commentators to provide some insight into the game. One fateful day his guests were Bob Moran, a tournament director who later became my good friend and frat brother, and Steve Brandwein, Shelby’s roommate, who was a strong master, an avowed Maoist, and on most days likely to be dosed on some random hallucinogen. A few moves into the match, Shelby turned to his guests and asked what they though about the move that had just been played. To which Brandwein responded, “What do you think about Nixon, the murderer of the Vietnamese people, and his Mad Dog Kissinger?”. Shelby’s jaw dropped followed by fade to black and a pitch for some PBS show I don’t recall. A minute or so later, the show resumed sans Brandwein. His absence needed no explanation.
I remember Nils Lofgren
Remind me again – we had this discussion a little while back on VA gun regs being repealed – didn’t we flip the legislature? Or are we still tied in house of delegates?
House is R. Senate is D.
Davey Johnson, best second baseman of all time, also my favorite manager.
Years later, he summed up his approach to managing by saying, “I treated my players like men. As long as they won for me on the field, I didn’t give a flying fuck what they did otherwise.”
Word.
He was great. The feud with Angelos was telling.
I’m remembering watching an infield consisting of Brooks Robinson, Luis Aparicio, Davey Johnson, and Boog Powell. Holy shit.
Yup. And yet, they somehow managed to lose to the Mets in 1969. Twas a fine summer for 16 year old me, not only for baseball.
Peter Angelos is the guy who made enough money to buy the team by suing asbestos manufacturers, right?
‘Nils Lofgren, the renowned rock guitarist and longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has joined Neil Young and Joni Mitchell in pulling his music from Spotify.’
‘Trigger Hippie on January 29, 2022 at 7:52 am
Poor Spotify. First Young, now Mitchell. They better watch out or next thing you know Country Joe McDonald will remove his music. Not sure they can survive that.’
I was so close.
Thank God there is still Facebook and Twitter and the like for them to retreat into the comfort of having their opinions carefully curated for them.
YAAAAAAASSS QUEEN!
The only one I’ve heard of is Neil Young, and I didn’t have a high opinion of him before this BS.
I’d rather listen to Geddy Lee with strep throat. Neil has one of the worst voices in rock.
Agreed
The singer from System of a Down is way worse.
They need to start a Musicians for Censorship organization. I’m sure they’d do great.
*RIAA smiles and waves*
Love to see some musicians have that moment of clarity – hey, wait, weren’t they the bad guys all those years?
They need a spokesperson. Is Tipper Gore still available?
There’s disinformation out there and they ain’t gonna take it anymore.
/thinks back to the days of the PMRC.
I feel like one of the characters in the show got written out of the series. Very unsatisfying when their story arc was just getting interesting.
Committed to an insane asylum, or called away on urgent family business?
Location scout for Justin Trudeau
INSURRECTION! LOCK HIM UP!
Before CRT no children in America learned that slavery and racism is wrong.
CRT iS nOt TauGhT iN hIgH sChOol!
HOW DARE HE DELIVER ON CAMPAIGN PROMISES!!!
Apropos of nothing…
I watched Slap Shot the other night. I hadn’t seen it in a very long time.
“I’M LISTENING TO THE FUCKING SONG!”
Should be getting my netflix dvd rental of that this week – still never seen it.
It is an epic movie.
Millions of Americans could soon have to scan their faces to access their Internal Revenue Service tax accounts, one of the government’s biggest expansions yet of facial recognition software into people’s everyday lives.
With or without a mask? (NSFW)
Yeah, that’s a no from me dawg.
Gonna love all the carve outs for website accessibility they will implement.
Across the U.S., many smaller newspapers, already facing economic decline with the rise of the internet, have cut back or completely stopped running editorials, trying to hold onto conservative readers who increasingly see them as local arms of a fake news universe.
But Anfinson won’t consider that, even if sometimes he feels like he’s tilting at angry, small-town windmills. He says it’s his duty to expose people to new ideas, even unpopular ideas like stricter gun control.
Stick it up your ass, you sanctimonious twat. No wonder people despise you. An hour ago, I had never heard of you, and now I want to dump fifty pounds of flaming dog shit in your lap.
He could just outsource that job to the AP and retire. Like every other small-town newspaper.
Somebody needs to expose the editor to ideas unpopular to him, like lockdowns harming the small-town working-class people who make up his newspaper’s readership.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/what-happened-when-i-ran-for-school-board-in-virginia
I lived in Falls Church from 08-09 (between active duty gigs). Even back then, the local (weekly) paper was hot trash (same editor).
So it’s totes cool that conservatives in most localities left school boards alone for 50 years and now that they want a seat at the table, it’s domestic terrorism and Jim Crow?
stricter gun control. – is that really a new idea?
It is to people who refuse to accept it.
What
https://mobile.twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1487621600715362304
People in Rural Romania are protesting this guy as we speak
If it’s tweeted it must be true, even when it’s a transparent pile of absolute bullshit.
Sure, Jan.
To be fair, he did stop Utopia from being achieved.
wait you mean to tell me without this guy I would be banging Emily ratajkowski this very minute?
An Emily Ratajkowski in every pot.
https://archive.md/i09T3/4ed88eaf7b3cce2b2bf2d2f97de1e016220fb083.jpg
NSFW.
Naked politics meets naked propaganda
goddamnit such a nice day for a walk wasted
I mean what are the odds of getting caught breaking quarantine? low I would think…
“Nils Lofgren”
He’s just following the old rock and roll tradition. You know, following the rules, proudly swallowing what the powers that be feed you without critique…all that stuff. I swear, if these cocksuckers had this kind of attitude back during the Vietnam War we’d still be over there. It’s just so pathetic.
I think rock bands had far less influence on our foreign policy in the ‘60s and ‘70s that rock bands would like you to believe.
That newspaper idiot should rename the rag “The Weekly Redeemer”.
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Toad in the hole with liver & onions by Steve G
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1487042731570606084
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Mixed Grill by Mark W
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1487153222372446212
? Sunday, Slutty Sunday ?
https://archive.md/J97Fb
A store in Bucharest just stocked WhistlePig 10 year old rye for about 100 US dollars and WhistlePig 12 year old finished (in port casks / sauternes casks) for 200. Now I aint paying that, but seems a large difference for a 2 years extra aging. It does not seem to be single barrel or special edition or anything and bottled at a paltry 43%. So why would I pay that? 200 US buys a lot of good whisky
Buys a lot more of bad whiskey.
/bottom shelfer
Diminishing returns is a bitch.
A Dodge Challenger was driving north “at a high rate of speed” on Commerce Street prior to the crash, police said. Cuevas said witnesses saw the Challenger run a red light.
“And, with that, it struck multiple vehicles and, unfortunately, it was a chaotic event,” Cuevas said.
Several vehicles were pushed off the road into a vacant lot near the intersection of Commerce Street and Cheyenne Street, officials said. An emergency call was made just after 3 p.m. local time, Cuevas said.
This reminds me of the last time I was in Vegas. A long time ago. They had recently put in an underpass to get traffic across town without intersecting the Strip. I swear to god there were squid marks ten feet up on the wall of the tunnel. Very impressive.
I swear to god there were squid marks ten feet up on the wall of the tunnel. Very impressive.
Indeed.
squid marks ten feet up on the wall of the tunnel
Does Vegas have giant squids in their sewers?
I am in quarantine and am drinking shitty wine… I have some good wine in my cooler but I feel like I should keep it for a special occasion…
Take that walk if you can safely do so.
well safely as long as I don’t somehow end up being stooped by a cop for some reason
Do they let you walk around on the roof of the building?
I mean no one would stop me but why?
the roof of the building is inclined and covered with metal tiles it is not for walking
Y’all still masking outdoors?
*stifles giggling*
I am not some are
Neil has one of the worst voices in rock.
Like an animal with its leg in a trap.
Back when Neil had his last hurrah, my roommates dog would howl along to Harvest Moon whenever it came on the radio, so that’s a pretty apt descriptor.
I mean what are the odds of getting caught breaking quarantine? low I would think…
You’ll be fine. Wear plenty of sunscreen.
News you maybe can use.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17461784/worried-big-penis-making-girlfriend-howl-pain-pleasure/
Next Week’s article – My boyfriend is worried his “big” penis will hurt me, but he is average sized at best. How do I tell him it’s just not that big?
A plot in early Sex and the City. Samantha picks up a guy too big even for her (!).
He’s wrong, there won’t be a reckoning. Those who have been wrong will never admit, not even under duress.
Yep, no reckoning…people and officials might stop paying attention though and that’s about the best we can hope for.
As more data are released and more investigated, it is very possible that the last two years will reveal our expert class to be anything but objective, honest, and competent. Quite the contrary.
Maybe, perhaps, possibly.
I think the author is both over-and understating his case. He is “awakened” to one little corner of the public trust crisis, but he doesn’t carry it to its conclusion. On one side, political and judicial accountability is dead and nobody is going to see consequences short of some revolution sparking. On the other side, there are millions of people out there who are fully cognizant of the destructive, agenda-driven shadow cast on practically every institution across our society. There’s no maybe, perhaps, or possibly. The trust gap will eventually resolve itself. Hopefully via a shift in electoral results, but I’ll not hold my breath.
Like Stinky says, the best we can hope for is for people, en masse, to quit paying attention.
For me, that’s enough. Their power is derived from the eyeballs they have watching. Much like woke colleges, they’re only effective if they have students; they can be as woke as they want but with empty classrooms, their power evaporates.
I think the woke colleges are a great example of the damage that can be done when people stop paying attention in the wrong way.
To the vast majority of people, college is still a rite of adulthood, a pre-requisite to any worthwhile career, and an austere institution of learning. They stopped paying attention decades ago, and the rot began. Their inattentiveness to the changes happening within the university system allowed it to qualitatively change while retaining the prestige earned in an earlier and different time. Only now are we getting the first few wisps of “college isn’t the only path”, and it’s coming up against massive resistance.
It would be great if public “experts” were wholly ignored, defunded and forced into a more productive line of work via market pressures. What’s more likely is that the current furor blows over, most people generally stop paying attention to the experts, but the ruling class uses the experts as facade of legitimacy for implementing more and more corrosive laws, regulations, business and cultural practices, and social mores.
tl;dr: the opposite of trust isn’t apathy, it’s distrust.
TOO LOCAL (wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean) news: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights
A little bit more Scottish focused but Malice talked about some of this with Count Dankula this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mXwulLRabQ
He’s wrong, there won’t be a reckoning. Those who have been wrong will never admit, not even under duress.
That guy’s delusional. The smarmy quacks will all go down in history as brave souls who meant well, and persevered in the face of adversity and ignorance.
in order to restore a proper balance between the rights of individuals, personal responsibility and the wider public interest.
I feel as if somebody just
walked acrosspissed on my grave.https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1487635747574272000?cxt=HHwWgMCylZS1kqUpAAAA
Heh.
Their offices are only 5 miles apart; I’m certain Daily Star has to have at least somewhat of an ownership stake in OnlyFans.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/nurse-quits-job-sex-husband-26072903
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/former-army-sergeant-switched-careers-26060315
People think I’m bimbo as I’ve got big boobs – but I make 6 figures a month’
OnlyFans model Isabella James says she often gets judged on her looks, with people thinking she’s a ‘bimbo’ because she’s blonde and has big boobs. However, she says she’s making six figures a month
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/people-think-im-bimbo-ive-26067981
yes as a pro bimbo
I’m not sure what the “however” is doing there. Seems like “therefore” would work better.
does the VA cover boob jobs and would anyone trust government supplied boob jobs?
Depends, are you “Transitioning”?
I would really like to see the people paying for this.
Linked on the army sgt. story:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/porn-star-promises-night-passion-25647537
Russians take their chess very seriously, and one woman has shown just how seriously she takes it by offering to spend a night with chess champ
grosspatzerIan Nepomniachtchi if he beats the current World No.1Should have spent more time refining my endgame technique.
“refining my endgame technique”
Just don’t attack prematurely.
This. Best to wait for an opening, then craft a mating attack.
Never change, The Daily Star.
https://www.chewboom.com/2022/01/29/hormel-is-giving-away-a-15-gallon-chili-cheese-keg-just-in-time-for-super-bowl-sunday/
Brilliant!
“There are hand-drawn swastikas all over the entrance to Union Station in DC. Almost every column:”
https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1487061768958623744
Chances a nazi did it?
Zero.
Damn Buddhists at it again.
Seems Neil Young thinks he has pull or something.
https://hard-drive.net/neil-young-demands-microsoft-oppose-activision-blizzard-abuses-or-remove-his-indie-games-from-gamepass/
Seems like satire?
It is.
that is a satire website
But effectively helps younger people who have no idea about him what it means to older people….it’s like…oh darn, now I can’t listen to Pocahontas anymore.
Just as they were turning their lives around
The expiration of that benefit, however, and Congress’ inability to pass the Build Back Better agenda that would have cemented the child tax credit for an additional year has left many parents in the U.S. — particularly those struggling to make ends meet in the pandemic’s choppy economy — overwhelmed.
The half-dozen parents in states across the country who spoke to NBC News expressed feelings of deep anger, intense dejection, simmering resentment and a fierce frustration with politics and Washington, D.C., as debate over the future of the expanded child tax credit remains on a gloomy trajectory.
That fight continues despite data showing the policy moved millions of children from poverty and a recent study concluding that providing financial support to a low-income family boosts children’s brain development. The expiration of the expanded child tax credit is expected to thrust millions of children back into poverty and increase child hunger.
Before you know it, those evil Republikkkins will be telling them to pay their damn rent!
“I’m angry because they stopped giving me free shit” is now worthy of a news article. What a great culture we have.
3 in NY, 3 in CA?
I’m thinking about getting Spotify just because they’re calling the censorious old bastards’ bluffs.
For once, a company put its financial well-being above the prevailing pseudoreligion.
Now would be the time for small bands to approach Spotify to fill in the gaps
What if you were a small band on spotify and no one listens?
/Me
Get your digs in an OnlyFans rotation as background music
TBF, that decision is probably included in the calculation for their decision.
(I suppose in my car, the only way it would work is via my phone – but may be an option if I have issues with my ipod not working great under very cold temps).
I don’t think he was actually bluffing. Neil Young was was annoyed at Spotify’s sound quality, and knew they would remove him if he made an unreasonable demand.
So was waiting for the perfect moment and Joe Rogan was that perfect moment?
Possibly.
Neil Young was very anti-GMO, so he’s not exactly “trust the science!”
He was mad because they couldn’t improve his shitty singing?
Even auto tune was nah, can’t be done
“But Neil, we’ve already turned all the filters up to eleven!”
Young was a major investor/promoter of a different streaming/hardware system, touted as having superior sound. It didn’t, it was badly executed, and it failed. He is still butthurt.
In that Jonathan Demme documentary he casually admits to blowing up frogs as a boy. ?
Why do I get the feeling Ukraine was chosen to be the sacrificial lamb?
Make ’em eat cake
https://emerging-europe.com/business/ukraine-the-breadbasket-of-europe/
Happy Birthday SP!
SP, it’s your birthday / Happy birthday, SP ?
Happy, happy birthday, SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY6oWB4eUg0
It’d be one thing for Disney to reboot Aristocats or Hunchback of Notre Dame or The Fox and the Hound. Selecting some of their most popular and classic movies to reboot? That’s just asking for trouble.
Don’t be silly. Just think of what modern CGI will do
forto Fantasia.“University of Nebraska mascot’s hand gesture revised to avoid connection with white supremacy
The University of Nebraska updated the image of its mascot to avoid any connection with white supremacy, switching out the character’s OK hand gesture to a “No. 1” gesture.
For nearly 50 years, the University of Nebraska’s Cornhuskers mascot — a cartoon caricature named Herbie Husker with a red cowboy hat, blue overalls and an ear of corn in his pocket — displayed the OK hand sign, according to the Flatwater Free Press, which first reported the news on Friday.
But the college decided to change the mascot so it displayed the “No. 1″ gesture instead after it learned the OK hand sign has been associated with far-right extremists and white supremacist groups in recent years, according to the outlet.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/591971-university-of-nebraska-mascots-hand-gestures-revised-to-avoid-connection
No one on 4chan could have possibly dreamed this big.
Gotta love it. Anytime one of their own do the OK sign it’s “you know they don’t mean white power! It’s an OK sign!”
Shows how simultaneously idiotic and eager to believe their own bullshit our elites are.
About a year ago white supremacists adopted the number one finger to symbolize their belief that the white race is number one. Anyone who uses this gesture is therefore either a racist or is helping racists perpetuate hate. This is not okay.
There’s a lot of stupidity floating around, but I think the winner is the OK sign = white supremacy WHEN WE WANT IT TO.
Is there anything stupider?
Do they remember the discussion over having “one finger” displayed can quickly be vandalized into a middle finger? No? Guess they will find out soon.
“The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship
All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party’s liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.
American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by “liberals,” I mean the term of self-description used by the dominant wing of the Democratic Party).
For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of “hate speech” to mean “views that make us uncomfortable,” and then demand that such “hateful” views be prohibited on that basis. For that reason, it is now common to hear Democrats assert, falsely, that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech does not protect “hate speech.” Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship.
Constitutional illiteracy to the side, the “hate speech” framework for justifying censorship is now insufficient because liberals are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful. That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.” These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning. Like the term “terrorism,” it is their elasticity that makes them so useful.”
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-pressure-campaign-on-spotify
The whole thing is worth reading.
Interesting thread here:
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1487500935333126155
Yep. Shapes the narrative.
JFC.
They’re more brazen than ever. Keep ’em coming, MSM.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1487210640498384897
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
is that racist, sexist, or transphobic?
Yes.
Insidious
Scientists and health officials around the world are keeping their eyes on a descendant of the omicron variant that has been found in more than 50 countries, including the United States.
This version of the coronavirus, which scientists call BA.2, is widely considered stealthier than the original version of omicron because particular genetic traits make it somewhat harder to detect. Danish scientists reported this week that preliminary information suggests it may be 1 1/2 times more contagious then the original variant
You won’t even know you have it! How’s that for terrifying?
It’s a 6th generation variant designed to maximize stealth capabilities.
2018 saw a bombshell of a paper tear open the decades old consensus of the British ‘Beaker Phenomenon’, with a population turnover of maybe 90%. So how have archaeologists responded in the last few years? A thread:
https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1487343991523848194
“Beaker Folx”? With those two words all remnants of credibility drained away.
English, Twitter Motherfucker, do you speak it?
I don’t see folx in that even ctrl f
ATTN: Tres.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/curvy-model-defies-trolls-who-26055099
MaoismLooks
@MaoismPictures
Maoists in India burn the flags and equipment of the reactionary CPI “Marxist”.
https://twitter.com/MaoismPictures/status/1487547905485508610
little do they know maoism in itself is reactionary
MaoismLooks
@MaoismPictures
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LONG LIVE THE PLGA AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA MAOIST. DEATH TO CPIM SOCIAL FASCISM AND THE FASCISTS, REACTIONARIES, AND FEUDALISTS THEY SERVE. FOR A RED INDIA
anarchists, liberals and other types of fascists with no skills of contextual deduction who are rting this: you will not escape jahannam on judgement day
https://twitter.com/N0tL0nker1st/status/1487445718776401921
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF?
Doctors advise the same precautions they have all along: Get vaccinated and follow public health guidance about wearing masks, avoiding crowds and staying home when you’re sick.
“The vaccines are still providing good defense against severe disease, hospitalization and death,” Long said.
The latest version is another reminder that the pandemic hasn’t ended.
“We all wish that it was over,” Long said, ”but until we get the world vaccinated, we’re going to be at risk of having new variants emerge.”
Maintain the superstitious rituals. Otherwise, the gods will strike you down.
until we get the world vaccinated, we’re going to be at risk of having new variants emerge. – the vaccine magically stops new variants
“until we get the world vaccinated, we’re going to be at risk of having new variants emerge.”
That’s not the way it works, ya feckin’ moron.
Their kickback from Pfizer says otherwise
Narrator: This will never happen. Also, obvious attempts to keep a firm grip on power are obvious.
Lol
https://twitter.com/cat_in_cerulean/status/1487786183731994628?s=20&t=jzg7HOiibYeCeJCocV-cag
Between facial recognition and more scrutiny over business transactions, I’m beginning to see how the social credit score will come about here.
COMPLY
Neil Young = dried up 60’s folkrock poseur
Change my mind.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1487785292820008961/photo/1
Didn’t know where else to drop it
If they don’t stop losing all the cool kids, they better at least lower their monthly fee.
CPRM hardest hit.
I can’t name a single song myself
I confess to owning and liking this album, esp. “Heart of Gold”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_(Neil_Young_album)#Track_listing
Also, Country Girl medley from Déjà Vu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noxlrqCe1vE
Zimmerman’s voice is the one I really can’t abide.
Who stole the Kishka!
I don’t know
Meh, he’s a proggie idiot but he wrote some of rock and roll’s all-time classic songs, guitar riffs and whatnot. I guess I you are rather young or never got into classic rock then you may not have heard of him, but I’d wager it’s most of the people out there trying to act like he’s some nobody are the ones doing the posing.
But it’s more fun shitting on him Hype.
There is no doubt back in the day he made a lot of great music. I even like some of his stuff. But until this week I had not thought of him in over thirty years.
I don’t get the phrasing
He’s a songwriting hero, but surprise surprise someone born in 1945 reached their artistic peak around Watergate. Further surprise, someone born in 1945 is not pretty anymore. Okay, the cock shall crew and every dog shall have its day.
It’s okay to laugh at someone who has overplayed their hand. I don’t care: the markets will decide this….no identity politic pileon is necessary to fix it. But what does cultural relevance have to do with anything….is the reverse valid: Taylor Swift should be a major thought leader because she isn’t dried up and she sold a billion albums last week?
My cultural vote: dumb people sure are popular in the US. I can’t imagine anyone with a triple digit IQ taking more than four minutes to figure out that Trump and Rogan are morons. Fifty years from now, Rogan will be dried up and irrelevant, and this will still be true
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
The cock shall crew what? Can a cock crew on a boat in any other position than coxswain?
Cock shall crew
You are 100% right on all counts; I couldn’t agree more with your comment.
Perhaps the phrasing was glib (drink!) but to me the hilarity ensues mostly due to Mr. Young’s assumption that Mr. Rogan’s primary demographic gives a shit and/or even knows who he is. Most who listen to Rogan are likely younger than me and I have the barest knowledge of Young’s existence and, prior to this kerfuffle, could not have named a single song by him if you held a gun to my head.
I’m young(ish), at least compared to others on here I think. I had heard his name, but legitimately had no idea what he had done. He was (is) just another Woodstock-era carbon copy to me.
When I was a teenager, I liked a song Crosby, Stills, and Nash did. Then I heard they used to have a “Young” at the back of it. The only way I had ever heard his name was in “Sweet Home Alabama.” Then I heard one of his songs and noped right out.
CSN changes if you you put Neil first.
Young wrote some good songs more than half a century ago. Most of his best stuff was with CSN. His voice is fucking atrocious, he makes Dylan sound like Freddie Mercury in comparison. He made a fuckton of money and has been an outspoken advocate against GMOs. He is a caricature of the worst aspects of the Boomers. Fuck him.
Between facial recognition and more scrutiny over business transactions, I’m beginning to see how the social credit score will come about here.
The party which rescued us (just in the nick of time) from despotic authoritarianism will not be content until they have total scrutiny of our every thought and deed. It’s for our own good, you know.
The lesson of 1984 is to trust your betters. And the central message of Buddhism is “Every man for himself.”
Wonder if Pearl Jam is going to join in with Neil Young or they thinking…please internet, don’t repost videos of us playing together!
Just so you know, the white space in Wisconsin is a lake.
https://twitter.com/OlgaInCali/status/1487248633586012171
until we get the world vaccinated
At the risk of committing the all-too-common sin of ignoring confounding variables: Africa’s record seems to undercut the “OMG VAXX THEM ALL ASAP!” narrative.
Not enough testing.
“our dwarven engineers came up with a new armor design protecting against the typical injuries sustained by warriors returning from battles in the netherworld”
https://twitter.com/leonard_ritter/status/1487565253697277958
Well just like in the real world, curvy fit girls’ bras and panties have magical properties.
The lesson of 1984 is to trust your betters. And the central message of Buddhism is “Every man for himself.”
Peter Rabbit is an expozay of fascist oppression and inequity.
Happy birthday, SP!
Yes! What the Hobbit said!
I’ll need to see some ID for confirmation
After the Gold Rush
Needle and the Damage Done
…..?
There are probably a few others, but I can’t think of any.
Sedan Delivery
Cinnamon Girl
Like a Hurricane
Cortez the Killer
and many more
Helpless (does CSNY count?)
Lockdown restrictions had little to no effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths, a new meta-analysis of empirical studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics and Global Health has found.
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1487682028682321921
No they will never admit any error. The lie of “it would have been worse” will be used.
Read the first fucking comment:
Fuck off you stupid cunt.
What’s wrong with you Tundra?
How dare you question our TOP MEN.
What really burns my is is knowing the assholes will face no consequences for all the death and destruction they caused.
What really burns my *ASS* is…
A flame about this high?
Yeah, you have to pry the great majority of the population away from “experts say…” and that ain’t happening.
Not real lockdowns!
Craaaaaaaappppppp. My phantosmia is back and driving me batshit insane. I am smelling cigarette smoke everywhere, and I haven’t seen anyone smoking in forever. The last time this happened this badly, I had to smell some real cigarette smoke to make it go away.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.RwNDOZm5OIfU7Zmv8s2IhwHaIp?w=164&h=192&c=7&r=0&o=5&dpr=2&pid=1.7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iawlT3HHW0
Heh. Game is at 2. XX just escaped the house so she doesn’t have to listen to me and my husband screaming at the TV.
There’s still football?
Oh wait, you must be talking about the US/Canada World Cup qualifier.
RACISTS!
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds that a plurality of Americans view the Supreme Court as motivated by partisanship, while President Joe Biden’s campaign trail vow to select a Black woman to fill a high-court vacancy without reviewing all potential candidates evokes a sharply negative reaction from voters.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel, comes days after the most senior member of the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, announced his retirement at the end of the current term. Breyer’s announcement provides Biden the opportunity to change the demographic makeup of the conservative-leaning bench.
During the spring 2020 presidential primaries, days before his set of big wins on Super Tuesday, Biden pledged to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, if elected. Now, with the chance to do so, just over three-quarters of Americans (76%) want Biden to consider “all possible nominees.” Just 23% want him to automatically follow through on his history-making commitment that the White House seems keen on seeing through. At a ceremony honoring the retiring justice, Biden told reporters he is able to honor his promise without compromising on quality.
Why do Americans hate black women?
Oprah?
not all, just the ones that look like Staci Abrams
Good morning, Old Man!
More importantly, happy birthday, SP!
Lockdown restrictions had little to no effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths, a new meta-analysis of empirical studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics and Global Health has found.
Somebody’s going to be in deep trouble with the Top Men over that.
Neil Young is going to ban his music from the elevators at Johns Hopkins?
What makes you think Top Men aren’t behind this? This allows them to beat the scary narrative while deflecting calls from the masses or fringe to institute lockdowns again.
I get the feeling they are looking for an escape hatch, but the ones they scared the worst won’t let them.
Yep. It feels like manipulation to force desired outcomes and avoid others. Like the cloth masking now.