Music link returns with NSFW lyrics.
HASTILY DELETED, BUT PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS: Wow, Bob, just wow. Seek help now for your violence ideation and misogyny issues. This is what they really think, folks. He later acknowledged having made the tweet and subsequently deleted it, but did not retract or apologize for it. “Widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media.” Bullshit. The plain meaning of your words made even clearer by context.
PEAK ORWELL, YET? Calls for curriculum transparency in government K-12 schools is equated with censorship.
ANOTHER DAY OF INCOHERENT BLATHERING: Biden/Harris administration gives presser, then another presser to clarify previous presser, finally veep is pressed and stressed, though not fressed.
GERMAN HEALTH MINISTER: Nobody gets vaccinated against their will. Even the obligation to vaccinate leads to the result that one ends up being vaccinated voluntarily.
DEPARTMENT OF NFW: Biden signs “infrastructure” bill which also mandates government-controlled kill switches for all new autos starting in 2025. What could possibly go wrong? Other than hackers, terrorists, hostile foreign powers, domestic government incompetence, system failures. Nobody mentions that this was a bill with bipartisan support.
GEE WHIZ DEPARTMENT: Sony plans to launch a six-unit cubesat with a full-frame camera later this year as part of its Star Sphere project that seeks collaboration with artists, entertainers and educators. Once in orbit 500-600 kilometers above Earth, the spacecraft and its built-in camera with a 28-135mm f/4 lens will be linked with an online controller via a ground station in Japan, enabling selected users to capture and record the Earth and stars using a broad range of camerawork options. Those interested in the project can experience how it works through an online simulator.
NSFW, but a song for the first link.
I always pictured RR as more a Volvo C70 type guy.
Well, this particular bit won the internet for me today.
If BARBIE GIRL Was The Hardest Song In The World
Worth it solely for “Johann Sebastian Aqua”.
*sighs*
Guy is talented.
Yeah, I’m torn between being impressed and being jealous.
There is always somebody better. Took me a while to deal with that learning Japanese at my age.
Now I just enjoy my progress and the enjoyment from my learning itself.
This was a close second on my YouTube list today, however.
https://youtu.be/x0RV0kgdqJU
I’ve been partial to this version since I first heard it.
That fits the tune well surprisingly.
Ackshually — wasn’t the first link the NSFW song Tonio linked?
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The last ditch effort of a dying narrative. Keep their hooks in the scared.
The picture got my blood pressure up.
This line did it for me…”Fauci said younger children will likely need three doses, because two shots did not induce an adequate immune response in 2 to 4 year olds in Pfizer’s clinical trials.” Fuck you, you mass murderer.
Won’t bring myself to read it.
Someday I hope we get to a point that he’s sitting in a cave somewhere talking to himself about the 71st dose.
With a torn, faded picture of himself on the opposing wall.
Conservative activists want schools to post lesson plans online, but free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools.
Hiding speech is free speech.
Does the open curriculum of college courses lead to censorship?
If you dig deep into the article it does mention college curricula and how ebil conservatives have gone from doxing uni profs to our valiant public school teachers.
I see you haven’t received the latest newspeak dictionary.
On FB an acquaintance wrote a rant about one of those laws they were considering in Indiana. Apparently it would be a big burden for him or something. Did not read.
Cause he would have to censor out all the bullshit they are teaching….
I would hope after years of teaching the same thing he’d have everything written out somewhere.
Scanning to PDF is such a burden.
Given it’s already electronic to begin with…
(I mean, unless they’re hand-writing their curricula)
Typesetting the plans daily.
The pommel of the Spear they are.
Somehow in my head, I always picture Robert Reich as Kramer’s midget friend.
I didn’t even have to click and now, forever, it is ingrained. Good show.
Brain works in weird ways — I first read that as “Kermit’s midge friend” and took 2 minutes trying to figure out what Muppet I was forgetting or something….
Kyrsten would kick the crap out of him then suffocate him with those thic thighs.
Can we throw in Penelope Cruz and Selma Hayek?
Why do you want him to die happy?
Even though Im already heading to my bunk, you have my attention.
Go on….
Tonio!
Thanks for that exquisite music link!
It almost makes up for that fucking kill switch article. Looks like I’ll have to get my vintage Land Cruiser sooner rather than later.
I am in the process of buying a 2015 Nissan Titan. That’s about as late as you can get without all the new electronic horseshit that is is modern vehicles already.
Wife’s 2017 Toyota has some electronics but no wifi connection, so should be safe. Our 02 Exploder and 05 Toyota 4-Runner will need to be given much love to keep running.
The wife’s 2019 Rogue has lane departure warnings (that can be turned off); blind spot warnings (that can’t be turned); and an automatic braking function (that can’t be turned off).
So I was looking for mode years 2015 to 2017 or so. Happened to find a 2015 at a dealer three miles from my house.
Is there any word on efforts to overturn that nonsense?
Depends on if we start seeing news reports on this sponsored by Geico and Progressive Insurance.
I expect this will be a case of “the ratchet only goes one way.”
Maybe we need to start a Ghost Car company?
We do have a resident 3d printer…
The “kill switch” thing isn’t quite as bad as they make out (but it’s still bad):
original source: https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/barr-bidens-infrastructure-bill-contains-backdoor-kill-switch-for-cars/
Thirdly, it will be an “open” system, or at least one with a backdoor, meaning authorized (or unauthorized) third-parties can remotely access the system’s data at any time.
The concern is remote data access, not remote “kill switch”. Which is still going to be awful.
I just downloaded the whole 1,039 page PDF & here’s the bit:
Ridiculous and vague. But not a “remote kill switch”. Yet.
So what is clause A(ii) and B(ii) if not a means of remotely killing the vehicle? I mean the moment any user gains access to the system, they can trigger those functions.
What should be done is the banning of computers from cars.
This is all mandated to be built into the car itself. Thus, not remote.
Now, would the manufacturers hook it to remote control systems? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sounds like a bad idea to me, so probably “yes”.
OnStar can already do that sort of bullshit: https://www.engadget.com/2007-10-09-onstar-stolen-vehicle-slowdown-hits-the-brakes-on-jacked-cars.html
” IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY”
Hey look, if you see me walking it’s because my car won’t start because of my impairment. I would like dibs on Biden’s Trans Am though, that doesn’t have the impairment Seal of Approval. He shouldn’t be driving, under any circumstance.
It’ll take five months for a company to come up with an override that plugs in the ODBII.
I had a 1976 FJ40 when I was 24. It was the most awesome beast! Well, except rolling down Cedar Ave at 55 mph (pretty much its top speed) in the middle of Minneapolis winter.
I kept a hammer under the driver seat. When it wouldn’t start, I’d reach under the front wheelwell and bang on the starter a couple of times. Then she’d start right up.
I never should have sold it.
DOOMCo has a beautiful one. They are sweet!
Had a friend with an MG like that (needed a hammer whack to start it.
That wasn’t that unusual for those old starters. My buddy’s duck boat required similar persuasion.
At least it was mechanical!
Percussive maintenance
Cirriculum transparency would result in parents knowing what crap they’re trying to force on kids, attendance at school board and other meetings and political pressure to knock it off.
ipso facto, censorship of their crappy ideas. 😉
Re: the German health minister — well you didn’t physically stop us, right? Therefore you chose to submit, herr comrade…
Really seems like re-unification was a bad idea and the East Germans just took over their government or something.
I am seriously keeping my 2003 Monte Carlo running as long as humanly possible. No desire for the over complicated, crash and back door-tastic newer models.
No real comments on the nano-Hubble from what it looks like. Not sure why “entertainers” are mentioned, though… whatever.
Have a good afternoon, happy people.
Germans are gonna German.
They’re like pigeons. When they’re on top they shit all over you, when they’re down low they eat out of your hand.
Remembered long-ago quote: “France loves Germany so much they want there to be two of them forever.”
It sounds better auf Deutsch….”Schon die Impfpflicht führt dazu, dass man am Ende freiwillig geimpft wird”
Short summary of current headlines on Daily Mail.
Note: these are all separate articles.
DM headlines
Yeah, the Brits are starting to criticize him — but you know it won’t get to the point of muppets or anything. That’s reserved for the latest Worse Than Hitler(tm) incarnation.
Just out of curiosity I checked out CNN this morning. No mention of Biden’s speech, but the headline was how the Jan. 6 commission is interested in Trump’s wife, and another story about how Biden lies, but it’s just to prove a point and not as bad as Trump was.
Lots of men are interested in Trump’s wife too.
The idea that we have a dementia addled buffoon for a president making comments while we’re provoking the Russians unsettles me just a hair.
Fortunately (I think and/or hope), Putin knows Biden is not really in charge and doesn’t take his comments seriously.
Frankly, it’s not Biden that worries me. It’s war lobby that infests most of DC. They’re not above provoking an incident to get their desired outcome.
^^^ There is a gaping hole in need to churn out war toys right now.
“…and CNN’s Dana Bash says staff will now have to clean up his mess”
Uh, staff is scripting this mess.
If you have to tell people you’re a free speech advocate…
I’m a free speech advocate, but…
I’m a gun rights advocate, but… We need common sense gun regulation.
I promise not to holler Fire in an uncrowded theater
Looks like it might be cover your ass time. Im afraid to be hopeful that this is all going to come to light.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/new-british-medical-journal-one-of?
Congress moves to declare all such data national security and will be available to be considered for release in 2122.
Pfizer isn’t answering that call.
You probably couldn’t get 50:1 odds in Vegas on Li’l Bob in a Reich-Sinema cage match.
Don’t have the Tweeter. Has she responded with an open invitation to let him have a shot?
We are thinking the same thoughts, you and I…
It would seem after their failed merger they all went “WTF”, but realized that probably wasn’t a good idea.
Willis Towers Watson releases new branding
So I’ve thought about why Kamala keeps reminding us that she’s the VP. I suspect it’s because Biden is out of it most of the time and can’t make any decisions, so his handlers make the decisions for him without her input. Kamala feels like she should be making decisions in his absence, because “I’m the VP”.
The handlers know better than that.
“She’s worse than he is!”
Now that we know the vaccine doesn’t work and can have dangerous side-effects…
Austria’s parliament voted Thursday to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults from Feb. 1, the first of its kind in Europe, with maximum potential fines of up to 3,600 euros ($4,000) for people who don’t comply after a series of reminders.
Four thousand bucks seems kind of low for an Indulgence.
Vaccines so great they need to play with the numbers.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/alberta-gets-caught-palming-cards?
An idea for a movie or the next episode of Joemala: Russia has invaded Ukraine. Kyiv is in chaos. Hunter Biden’s diaries and other incriminating documents are at risk of falling into the wrong hands. Two FBI agents are sent behind enemy lines to retrieve them. After a final showdown with Vlad the Invader, Our Democracy is saved.
Can we get Larry the Cable Guy to star in this?
I was thinking George Clooney as Hunter, but sure, why not?
I think LTCG’s got too much gravitas for the rôle.
Heh…I was just thinking Delta Farce universe fits this pitch.
Ray Epps and Richard Trask will be the leading men. They will locate the dumbest Ukrainians they can find and talk them into doing something so stupid it never even occurred to them.
Then the Russians win, of course.
That’s like, a whole season.
That German Health Minister should do a one-two comedy buddy act with the Premier of Quebec.
As the saying goes, “Orwell’s 1984 was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.”
I actually prefer to hear the banal edicts of power-addled authoritarian bureaucrats in the original German. It sounds so much more authentic.
My daughter got her booster yesterday because she needs it to return to college in a couple weeks even though the first 2 weeks will be online. She just came home early from work because she’s feeling crappy. So infuriating that she’s practically forced to get a shot that will do no good.
My son was in the same boat.
Our decision was Pfizer over Moderna as the booster variant is the same as any other adult Pfizer does 30 mcg. Whereas Moderna is 100 / 100 mcg and even its booster is a 50mcg dose,
I’m annoyed enough with the will do no good, but it’s the this may kill you today or in 5 years that makes me angry.
I’m still trying to connect the dots between feeling like shit after each shot, but having a mild case when infection inevitably happens.
How does the entire experience compare to someone who is unvaccinated?
Dealt with like a normal cold/flu for me. That might be what I had, I don’t know.
Teen #2 requested I help him set up his appointment cause “everyone at school is sick!” I showed him the 250+ emails I have received in two weeks of “confirmed” positive cases in the FAA that denote the employee was vaccinated.
If your goal is to not get sick, this isn’t how to do it.
After testing positive for covid my partner started taking my vitamin D pills that I’ve been taking every day since May 2020. Better late than never I guess.
Yep. I was never a daily vitamin taker as we have a well-varied diet, but why not boost it? D3, B12 (don’t know if that helps, but my wife takes it so do I), and Zinc on daily rotation. Any sign of sickness, quinine/zinc is rotated in.
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2022/01/20/presidential-rhetoric-and-the-return-to-normalcy/
The fact that anybody thought Joe Biden was going to be done enlightened Centrist technocrat is laughable. What about his 50 year career showed that?
Not to mention that anyone thinks some enlightened technocrat is a good idea or thinks that unity is more preferable to good policies….
*some*
Damn autocorrect
This is a pretty good take on the subject. TW: TOS
The 0.1% were unavailable for comment.
Oh wait, no they weren’t.
I don’t understand the fixation on unity. It’s another empty word. If we were unified, what would be the point of having elections?
They say “unity” they mean “obey”.
I’m for unity! It’s all you assholes who disagree with me that are divisive!
“What about his 50 year career showed that?”
Well, at no time during that career was he named “Donald Trump” and that alone was enough reason for smug, virtue signaling suburban Kens and Karens to vote for him.
There seem to have been a lot of people who wanted someone other than Trump – much as that mystifies people sold on Trump.
“Even the obligation to vaccinate leads to the result that one ends up being vaccinated voluntarily.”
You always have the choice of doing what they say or taking a bullet in the head. It’s always up to you.
The gas chambers were voluntary too according to that logic…
For now…sure, its ‘voluntary’ but given that poll about what certain portions of our population wants to do with the unclean, it will be Austria in no time.
An old friend has escaped Canada:
https://mises.org/wire/who-needs-personal-responsibility-when-we-can-just-trust-our-overlords
Why is it that thus attitude is most prevalent after massive increases in wealth, urbanization and social freedom?
Escaping Canada is not as easy as it sounds
This is the only way to leave the country for unvaxxed Canadians.
Uffda. I’m betting that they were all tested for the Rona. If positive, they will all be flagged as Rona Deaths.
The “Dead Infant With Rona” headlines will make their way to my wife and I will have to hear all about how wrong and stupid I am.
Well, duh. Since xey were dead xey couldn’t tell you now could xey?
And of course Malice brings the heat!
I love Twitter.
Interesting take.
So contrary to some expectations, Biden and Garland have not pulled the plug on this. Perhaps to ultimately use it to keep Hillary out?
I’m hoping it’s gotten too big to cancel.
Speaking of cars
The European Commission’s strategy to phase out combustion engines in favor of EVs is a political choice that carries environmental and social risks, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said in an interview with European newspapers.
Since merging Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot-maker PSA Group, Tavares has mapped out a 30 billion euro ($34 billion) electrification plan that helped Stellantis shares surge more than 60 percent in their first year.
“What is clear is that electrification is a technology chosen by politicians, not by industry,” he said in a joint interview with France’s Les Echos, Handelsblatt, Corriere della Sera and El Mundo.
He added there were cheaper and faster ways of reducing carbon emissions.
“Given the current European energy mix, an electric car needs to drive 70,000 kilometres (44,000 miles) to compensate for the carbon footprint of manufacturing the battery and to start catching up with a light hybrid vehicle, which costs half as much as an EV,” he said.
Talk like that could get him kicked out of Davos.
Yeah, you’re not supposed to talk about the batteries.
That’s a good example of what I think we can call a progressive caste system. There are cheaper and easier ways of reducing carbon emissions, as Tavares shows. But, it what if the goal isn’t just lower emissions? What if the goal is to deny cars to the riff-raff, to make them live in cities, and submit to centralized control? I’m almost inclined to think they want a world of masked serfs.
It’s almost like you’ve met some Europeans before.
SLD applies: Mandates are counterproductive and result in most players trying to forever chase the subsidy, etc etc
So the EV starts 44k in the hole
What’s the break even point? What’s the lifetime carbon balance vs gas and hybrid at 100/200/300k miles?
Also have to remember, the grid gets cleaner over time, at least as long as government doesn’t muck it up, and as it does so the timetable for negative carbon also decreases from that.
It would also decrease as efficiency and scaling of resource extraction and product production improves which it would as demand increases.
As to cost, the typical hybrid and the current most popular EVs (Model 3/Y) are not in the same vehicle class, so price comparisons aren’t exactly fair.
Price is also to some degree higher because the raw materials and battery production capacity are presently rather low, being primarily sized for meeting cell phone/laptop/portable device demand.
Whoever said something like taking a random page of the NY phone book would produce better politicians was right, paraphrasing
The sign says 800 folks live in Podunkville Township, I daresay any one of the adults could have made a better the presentation than we saw yesterday.
Any would be adversaries enjoyed it way more than the American people.
The linked article is a steaming pile of mendacious, puling claptrap. Too many instances of carrying water for the DNC to even choose one to cite, and I could only stomach the first few paragraphs.
An entire K-12 curriculum is already posted online at Khan Academy, for free. We don’t want parents comparing that with what the local school teaches.
Although no “free” baby sitting.
For funsies, I am going to request the year’s curriculum from my teen’s teachers. See what they say.
I posted on the last thread.
New Mexico is going to fill in for teachers out sick, so they are going to utilize random national guard and state bureaucrats to be substitutes. Nothing says teachers are irreplaceable by such actions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-drafts-national-guard-to-stem-teacher-shortage/ar-AASYzxj
Why don’t we just use prison guards?
Seems more appropriate for the task.
I am so looking forward to 2026 when a hacker blocks attempts by the cops to shut off his get away car and instead counter jams all the cop vehicles.
Having the cop drive at OJ speeds down a hiway while everyone else is shutdown would be awesome TV. Bonus points if he drives a white Bronco.
Life imitates video games.
Who would have guessed Watch_Dogs would be the game to predict the future the best?
Whoever said something like taking a random page of the NY phone book would produce better politicians was right, paraphrasing
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
Wm F Buckley
That’s rich coming from that warmongering, banker shoe wearing, upper class twit with soft hands.
The first time I met my wife’s family, a bunch of the women all were amazed by my hands. I had at least a dozen old Korean ladies grab my hand and paw at it.
I thought it was because my hands were so big, but after asking my wife she laughed and said “No, it is because they’ve never seen a man with such soft hands”.
Still one of my prouder moments.
” they’ve never seen a man with such soft hands”.
Pornhub tested
Who said boomers can’t be funny.
That was back in the Poor Days. I couldn’t afford that much hand lotion. Rough and Ready all the time.
It’s all the lotion…
Remember the old commercials?
“I’m gonna need an ocean of Jergens…
I don’t think that was a compliment.
Never change, NYT, Never change. They couldn’t wait to run cover.
They changed the headline. Was originally:
Changed already.
Biden Strengthens His Words on Ukraine After Flustering European Partners
AHAHAHA I hate this rock.
Wow, Bob, just wow. Seek help now for your violence ideation and misogyny issues. This is what they really think, folks. He later acknowledged having made the tweet and subsequently deleted it, but did not retract or apologize for it. “Widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media.” Bullshit. The plain meaning of your words made even clearer by context.
I was going to channel Keith Olberman on Rand Paul, but I see you did it better than me.
I’m cutting the cunning runt a break.
If women want to be equal, then I think it is OK to make vague threats of violence. Would anyone have gotten that worked up if he had tweeted the same thing about Manchin?
If you think that any blathering with semi-violent imagery is wrong (regardless of who is getting 5 across the eyes), go ahead and complain. I think you are overreacting, but you be you. However if you think it is horrible because violence against women is never right, then I think you are a hypocrite (and overreacting).
Lighten up Francis.
The midget is still a runny cunte.
Remember: Hitler was Austrian
Austria’s parliament voted Thursday to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults from Feb. 1, the first of its kind in Europe, with maximum potential fines of up to 3,600 euros ($4,000) for people who don’t comply after a series of reminders.
Lawmakers voted 137 to 33 in favor of the measure, which will apply to all residents of Austria aged 18 and over. Exemptions are made for pregnant women, people who for medical reasons can’t be vaccinated, or who have recovered from the coronavirus in the previous six months.
So covid parties every 6 months….
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/four-big-questions-for-the-counter
Interesting take. Even secular libertarians are increasingly aware that secularism has not to lead to libertopia. Or how New Atheist James Lindsay is a fervent opponent of wokism.
There is also the fact that Western Liberalism is a response to post-Reformation religious violence so wouldn’t the end of Western Christendom undermine liberalism? For example freedom of religion was adopted thanks to the Religious Wars and set a clear limit on government and is the basis for Pluralism and Tolerance. Not to mention modern “pluralism and tolerance” is increasingly code for “shut up and obey the elites on everything” whereas freedom of religion resulted in serious theological differences that could not be ignored. For example even the Northeastern WASP elites had very serious religious differences between them. And we can see that freedom of religion is in decline (church lockdowns anyone?) After increased secularism…
My (probably mis-)interpretation of Freud is that it’s a rare person who is a true atheist. If you accept the idea that the notion of God serves as an ersatz father figure, rejecting God is just a play on the Oedipus complex. But, the rejection can’t make the need for a father figure to kill go away. So, people just create a new God to slay. Usually that’s the state or some variant on the collective. They just transfer their innate need for religious thinking to a different
Organized religion collapsed? I will let my pastor know on Sunday.
Dude. God is dead. Remember?
Some Aussies still have a sense of humor
https://mobile.twitter.com/allseeingalicer/status/1483979803707723779
So what would a Russian invasion of the Ukraine really look like? And a conventional war between US and Russia?
And where is the anti-war left? Demanding that we wear masks and stay inside?
What anti-war left?
Weapons Contractors and the military are woke and pro-CCP so that resolved all the issues that the anti-war left really had.
Oh wait, I found some…
https://democraticunderground.com/10142855956
Nice photo. It looks like Blinken just got done fondling the German Foreign Minister’s ass.
So what would a Russian invasion of the Ukraine really look like?
My bet would be a quick annexation of Eastern Ukraine and not much after.
Committee hearing on NH secession bill is still going (at 5:06 Eastern). It started at 3:30 PM.
Keep us posted
Godspeed.
The people speaking, so far in favor, have been Free Staters. I think a bunch never bothered reading the advice from the NHLA about how to testify at these committees. Nobody (his legal name) is currently speaking, and his being a bit too melodramatic.
They aren’t sending their best.
Oh, they might actually be.
Heh.
Sarcasm.
Independence poll at the Union Leader came up. Something like 75% supported independence (i.e. NH secession).
I remember the poll. The Free Staters spread word about the poll through their network. People that answered it skewed towards the Free Staters. It’s not representative of the general population.
Someone speaking against the bill. He opposed the bill because he loves the country despite having seen the worst of the country because he is black.
To be fair to this guy, he does think the Federal government is tyrannical.
Committee chair says he is on the fence about this proposal. He says he likes the idea in theory, but he expects it will be a disaster in practice. He thinks the folks pushing for secession haven’t thought about a lot of things that need to be thought about.
The committee chair has an A rating from the NHLA, so he’s a pro-liberty guy. He also seems to know some of the Free Staters that have been speaking.
Oops.
Baldasaro is the committee chair.
Last speaker.
Whoa. Someone who is not a Free Stater got in at the last minute to speak. This person supports secession.
Hearing is adjourned but the livestream is still running.
Committee secretary is speaking. She mentioned her husband was in Federal prison for five years and she thinks the folks pushing secession are doing good work.
And… as I type that, the livestream ends.
My expectation: ITL (Inexpedient to Legislate) recommendation from the committee.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/four-big-questions-for-the-counter
Very worrisome take. For example isn’t lockdownism an attempt to save us from the tyranny of disease? And transgenderism to save us from the tyranny of biology?
And aren’t covidism, wokism and environmentalism expressions of very deep dissatisfaction with modern life despite the massive increases in living standards?
And the fact that socialism and Communism are becoming more popular as the memories of the USSR fade away?
Or that the Engkish Civil War and the French Revolution showed that classical liberalism always had some totalitarian tendencies?
I don’t think it’s liberalism (classical or otherwise) is what has “some totalitarian tendencies.” There appear to be humans involved.
Well John Lilburne, sometimes called “the first libertarian” was a supporter of Cromwell until they had a falling out…
And Tom Paine defended the Revolution from Burke…
How about the fact that Parliament, not the king banned theates and did do long before Cromwell gained power?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_theatre_closure_1642
I don’t think it’s liberalism (classical or otherwise) is what has “some totalitarian tendencies.”
Relative to what came before, almost certainly not. But, I do see where the argument flows. At some point, looking to liberate people from tradition, from culture, from history, from mediating institutions, or from physical reality becomes an exercise in authority. The anti-clerical French Revolutionaries may have thought themselves as liberating mankind from a corrupt and superstitious religious tradition. But, what happens when they find that large swaths of the population happen to like and support that corrupt and superstitious religious tradition? Do you halt progress and let mankind wallow in superstition and ignorance? To me, that’s always been the danger of “thick libertarianism”. That “thick” part will always subsume the libertarian part.
The public school system was supposed to do this. Glad that worked out…
Well, that hints at an element of Chesterton’s fence in the entire matter that I wasn’t thinking about. But, you’re right. Those traditions and institutions often have centuries of learning implicit in them. Thinking you can simply replace them with one’s own more enlightened alternative puts you in the position of relearning all of those lessons. Even if not every implicit lesson learned is still relevant or meaningful, there’s a real cost to relearning those lessons that are still relevant.
For no reason other than it still makes me laugh:
Patrick Stewart being hilarious on Extras
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Murphy#Early_life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Wagner
In case anyone was ever under the delusion that Tammany Hall was some corrupt bulwark of libertarianism…
Who, besides the strawmen inside your head, was under that delusion?
“…the country’s last universally acceptable form of bigotry”
Paging Matt Welch.
Because careerists and hacks make their living off the system, they have a stake in assembling durable coalitions, in retaining power over time, and in keeping the government in functioning order.
Except, that’s not necessarily so. It’s certainly not so obvious as to be taken as a given. Any interest they’d have in keeping the system working would be offset in their more obvious, immediate, and compelling interest in self-dealing from that system. And in a stable system with a great deal of accumulated political and social capital, their marginal concern with keeping the system functioning would be highly limited. Put simply, if you take it as a given that our system is incredibly robust and will continue to “work” no matter how much pressure you put on it, there’s no reason for an establishment not to push the system to overwhelmingly serve their own interests.
The establishment does not wish to be held accountable for their actions. Sweet gig if you can get it, but why should anyone outside of that establishment buy in?
Death walks among us
You may think that store and restaurant workers in America who catch Covid-19 are staying home to recover and keep the public safe.
But millions of frontline employees aren’t able to do that without missing a paycheck. So, many Americans, working precarious, low-wage jobs in the service industry, can’t stay home — even if they come down with the virus or are exposed to someone who’s been infected.
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Bill Thompson, a cook at a Burger King in Independence, Missouri, also doesn’t have paid sick leave. He worries about being exposed to co-workers who are showing up with Covid-19 because they can’t afford to take off. (Burger King franchise owners set paid sick and Covid-19 leave policies, a spokesperson said.)
“I feel like I’m playing Russian roulette with my life going in to make hamburgers and fries for $11.15 an hour,” said Thompson, a member of Fight for $15, which advocates for stronger wages and benefits for workers.
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Isaac Pierce, a grocery manager at a Vons supermarket in San Diego, California, said some of his co-workers are coming in with coughs and cold symptoms. They “play it off” and say it’s not Covid-19, but there’s no way for him to know.
A few weeks ago, one of Pierce’s co-workers at Vons showed up to work days after testing positive for the virus. One of the employees protested that he was back working so soon, so the store sent him back home.
Everybody with a sniffle has the plague.
Everybody who clears his throat, or inhales a crumb while eating,, is putting your life at risk.
Need to start a rumor that bad gas causes COVID to spread.
“My Uncle Johnny has wretched flatulence and won’t take the vaccine! Every time I see him I double mask and stay six feet away, but it just isn’t enough to make me feel safe! Especially in a confined space!”
Uh, weren’t the Chinese pushing anal swabs awhile back?
Anyone else getting a bit tired of those teaser “Biden’s approval rating is plunging” and “New poll shows spike downward in Biden’s approval” that keep appearing on Fox? Yet, when the poll is discussed, we find it is still (seemingly) always 42 or 43%. I guess it is just click-bait to keep tuned in but damn I keep hoping Brandon has fallen to 35% or something that he cannot conceivably come back from by November.
Meh. Polls are bullshit.
42% is really bad honestly. I wouldn’t even think it were possible to get that low with partisan loyalty being what it is today.
https://www.chewboom.com/2022/01/19/mcdonalds-launches-new-chili-paste-pork-ice-cream-in-thailand/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/no-amount-of-alcohol-is-good-for-the-heart-new-report-says-but-critics-disagree-on-science/ar-AASYGfV
I’ll take my chances.
#metoo
So time to ban booze again? I am waiting for the health issues with pot to be revealed so it can banned again…
Remember the days when Pot legalization was supposed to lead to freedom rather than “ban bad stuff”? I don’t since was smoking tv ads banned in the 1970s?
Our species would have gone the way of the Dodo if this were even remotely true.
To be fair, it helps you reproduce and if you die at 75 vs 80 it makes little difference to the species.
Depends on the type of whiskey dick someone is prone to now isn’t it.
I told you not to bring that up.
I’m not dead yet.
damn there goes the theory that it gives you an iron and unstoppable heart.
Mrs F said drinking would be bad for my health. I believe her.
I have no idea why this has over 1.3 million views.
Dudes be thirsty, yo.
It was known…shrugs.
Seen and raised
https://www.youtube.com/c/GyrocopterGirl/videos
Oh my…I need to bomb my YT to clear those out of the recents….
Top comment says it all. “Can’t imagine the number of young women you are going to inspire. Great job!”
I mean, it is inspirational cause flying is accessible to anyone but that video is not geared towards women/girls. That is for da boys, especially the first 3 minutes in shorty shorts.
The Doctor Killer!
Shit. Transformer somewhere nearby is getting ready to blow.
I can see the glow out the front window and the lights are fluctuating.
Guess we’re losing power tonight.
Maybe we got lucky and it was just a branch that burned off the lines.
Yay for now.
‘No vaccine, no booze’: Quebec introduces new restrictions for the unvaccinated
They are finally banning access to essential things. I understand it only affects hard liquor, which is sold only in government stores, wine and beer are sold in supermarkets.
They can’t secede fast enough.
Legault is an ex-Pequiste.
Do the PQ, QS and Liberals even oppose lockdowns?
I am curious since liquor is used in cooking, how can you deny a person an item that is needed in cooking. Fuck em. I don’t like Quebec, but we will take them.
I’m thinking I know what Viva Frei’s next video will be about.
He should call for our generation to enact a Quebec Airlift (or boatlift) and Americans can ferry in alcohol.
Do any of these rules work? I got vaccinated a long time ago but if I had known this shit was coming I never would have. Don’t like being told what to do.
Do any of these rules work? Depends…for COVID? No. For compliance? Maybe
Lol, a Montrealer was apologizing to me about their stupid backwards system of alcohol sales. I laughed and told him about 3.2 beer.
I gained so much weight in OKC cause of that…sooooo much weitght.
Health officials say they hope the order will encourage more people to get vaccinated,
Huh. They aren’t even pretending it’s about any sort of medical or scientific logic. They’re just doing it to punish people who haven’t complied.
It was a natural progression because of the data that says the shots don’t deliver as promised. Their window for maximum vaccination was the first 6-8 months in 2021. Now? It will be the boot that continues it and fear.
My limited interactions with some die-hard vaxxers indicate that they feel it’s a civic duty that you should have already done. They truly resent the non-compliant.
It’s similar to those who get all bent out of shape when you don’t show sufficient reverence towards the flag.
I think that is a good comparison. Throw in absolute reverence for military vets, “front line workers” and “respect for the presidency”.
I expected maybe rolling eyes, not so much the seething hatred that we’re seeing.
Sigh, I should have known better.
Everybody is looking for some moral high ground to leverage. Makes them feel important.
I’ve run an imaginary conversation through my head a few times that goes something like this:
Asshole: The government should penalize the unvaxxed and prevent them from leaving their houses.
Me: That’s cowardly.
Asshole: What?
Me: If you want me to get the shot, then come make me. Stop hiding behind the government and agitating for them to do your dirty work.
Asshole: WTF
Me: I’ll make you a promise. If you call for using force against me or my family and it comes to pass, I’m not going to win against the government, so I’m going to take it out on you, personally. And I’m armed. Consider yourself warned.
Doubt I’ll have that conversation, but I’ve definitely had it rolling around in my head a lot.
So, we’re done with the whole “Canadian nice” thing, right?
Cuz those in power are straight up evil, petty tyrants.
“Canadian nice” was always bullshit..
Particularly in La Belle Province. Les Québécois loves them some authoritarian technocracy, they do . . .
I laughed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XKejiShL07U
https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1484287549619286020?s=20
City air will set us free!
If they get sick and go to the hospital I hope they get a ground floor room with windows so the kids can visit .
https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/in-kamloops-not-one-body-has-been-found
Remember those dead Indian Kids which resulted in Church arsons and the mass cancelation of Canadian historical figures?
Funny that….
So then how did they come to the conclusion there were a bunch of dead Indian kids?
Social Media said it was true. SMITE
Underground radar that turned out to be tree roots, IIRC.
Have they actually determined that it’s tree roots, or is that just one of the possibilities and we don’t know because no digging has been done?
Something tells me this changes nothing for people who arson churches.
I don’t know. As a church arsonist, i usually seek out the ones who were historically cruelest to the indigenous peoples. Or who have the worst doughnuts after service.
Urthona, you should come to Southeastern Baptist churches. Krispy Kreme, all the time.
Norwegian death metal bands?
They can show Sinema the backs of their ballgagged heads as she’s pegging their sorry asses.
Nttawwt.
Read somewhere recently that Manchin’s approval is skyrocketing — unlike most of Congress’s.
Good.
I really like the hostility he’s engendered among forever online professional Twitterers who don’t seem to understand that if he or Sinema are backed into a corner, they can always, you know, not be Democrats.
It’s very scary how we were only two slightly reasonable senators away from such a horrible and radical agenda, however.
Wait until the next Dem president…
I have a theory borne of nothing but likely misbeggoten optimism that Dem seniors understand what a monumental, generational disaster uncontested rule would be for Democrats, and keep around the like of Sinema and Manchin to throttle the disastrous leftward lurches taken by the party.
I was told there would be no kink shaming.
https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/stop-appeasing-the-woke-jihadis
Getting rid of the Confederate Battle Flag fixed everything right? I was saying so at the time…
If we let them gorge on cultural victories eventually they’ll become culturally obese and they’ll die of cultural corpulence, and then we can rebuild.
Hey, semi-emergency request for verbiage on a military vax religious exemption:
Can one of y’all please point to (or paste) what you’d consider current “best practice” for this?
Son needs to fill one out. Will have doc from an Elder confirming he’s a for-real member, and the presbytery’s backup resolution, but good verbiage would be helpful as well.
Thanks
Did you check trashy’s language on the forum?
no. will go look. thx.
Found some of OBE’s the other day
While you are there, send Ozy a note.
k, will try. You know, I’ve never tried to participate much in the forum – didn’t even think about it when I asked my question. Just hang out here, and was gone for a few months, too.
I keep forgetting about it, too. Great resource.
Well, Epoch Times is reporting that my agency, DOT, is storying and tracking my religious accommodation request with their creepy database…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/25-federal-agencies-tracking-employees-religious-exemption-requests
Look, I understood when I answered the questions they would be kept, somewhere, while the request was determined one way or the other. I also expect those answers would be deleted once the adjudication was passed down.
If we feed them all of our personal information eventually they’ll try to swallow too much and then they’ll choke to death on all our most intimate, exploitable data, and then we’ll rebuild.
Assume the worst. Then double it.
Bodies need to swing from lamp posts.
I’m a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren’t Alright.
I hate this more than government.
I imagine some of the terror she feels is if another female classmates catches her without her mask.
Tundra, you can still hate the government as much – if not more! They have really been outsourcing the implementation of their evil through private channels for a while now. Making companies implement their policies so they can avoid blame, making Karens and Kens a social vector for shaming those who dissent, as well as cultivating potential sources for informants – if they can get the laws they want passed.
Government is the cancer of society, and nearly every bad thing in society is either created by it, or worsened by it.
Oh, I still hate them, Penguin.
I just think that the front line, children-harming shock troops deserve a special hatred. Because they ostensibly care most about The Children.
Mine are almost done with college. I’m getting my head around home-schooling my grandchildren!
I heard a story I can’t Google search verify about a NASA probe that had a one-shot soil collector arm stymied when a lenscap landed where a sample would have been collected… anyone know what probe this was?
ASK STEVE SMITH. HIM PROBING EXPERT.
It was Soviet actually: Venera 14.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_14
Thank you!
“M&Ms go woke! Chocolate giant will trade green M&M character’s stilettos for sneakers and end her rivalry with brown M&M in order to reflect ‘a more dynamic, progressive world'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10423249/M-Ms-woke-new-versions-characters-reflect-dynamic-progressive-world.html
“BEFORE: The original M&M characters. Mars, the maker of the candies, has been criticized in the past for making the green M&M too sexy, and either pushing a rivalry or a possible flirtation with the brown M&M.”
Everyone knows the green ones make you horny. Or impotent. Or sterile?
No mention that the yellow M&M is in the Aryan Brotherhood.
I saw him curbstomp Orange. If was delicious.
Don’t eat the red ones.
Fuck this, life has gone to shit, let there be rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f2g4RMfhS0&list=RDErXbMB9R5-0&index=2