Well…bye!
Some amazing basketball was played over the season, and it all comes to an end tonight. Fortunately, Duke was already sent home in an epic game Saturday night. So no matter what happens this evening, it won’t be the worst possible outcome of Duke and Coach Ratface winning it all on the way out. Tiger is a “game-time decision” on playing the Masters this week. And across the pond, Liverpool and Man City keep separating themselves from the pack as their showdown this weekend looms large in the race for the PL. And that’s sports.
Well this sure would be nice. Fingers crossed.
This, on the other hand, doesn’t bode well. And lest we forget they’ve got nukes.
Seems legit.
It’s one thing to open the floodgates. This is different. This is deliberately moving people around the country secretly. On our dime, I might add.
Now take it over. And burn it to the fucking ground (or fix it).
Still wondering what exactly happened here. My guess is gang initiation.
This is so freaking sad. Welcome the foster care system.
Sorry for your troubles.
Uh, you’re not exactly alone. Every licensed “professional” in the state has a continuing education requirement. Some of us have to do it every year. And no, we’re never paid for it. Oh, also you had nearly four years to get it done, two of which you had extended periods of time sitting at home on your ass. Why didn’t you just do it then?
Here’s an underplayed song by a great band. They were finally getting into doing videos then as well. And here’s a masterpiece (without a video). Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
whaddup doh’
“Well this sure would be nice. Fingers crossed.”
What’s Iran gonna get from this truce? Cause that’s the only way a truce happens…
“It’s one thing to open the floodgates. This is different. This is deliberately moving people around the country secretly. On out dime, I might add.”
With the left’s hard shift leftward into stupidland, I suspect that team blue will suddenly realize the tactic of importing people coming for free shit, and thus helping team blue in future elections (a future that comes sooner if they can force a change to allow anyone to vote in elections), is now defunct and done for, and then they will suddenly demand the border be closed.
I keep hearing people complain about the rising cost of housing without noticing the millions of people being dumped across the country and housed by Uncle Sam. The laws of supply and demand apply to housing as well.
First law of economics: Scarcity sets prices.
First law of Physics/Human nature: Actions have reactions & consequences.
First law of leftism; Use the power of government to ignore and override the 2 above items, then blame everything but the fact you are stupid enough to believe you can impose your radical marxist driven will on reality, when shit goes wrong. That and demand to be allowed to double down on overriding reality by doing more of the same stupid.
I think your 2nd and 3rd laws have a problem.
Now go sing the Morning Song or there will be no rain.
Almost forgot. We are experiencing high inflation on food costs and the Administration warns of impending food shortages.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-warns-americans-food-shortage-gonna-be-real-following-sanctions-russia
The same Administration that is going to completely open the flood gates to millions more mouths to feed. They truly hate us and want us dead.
They are never directly negatively impacted by their policies, and if you are, that’s just a bonus to them cause that should remind you you better never piss them off…
“Now take it over. And burn it to the fucking ground (or fix it).”
How do you fix a shit sammich? even if you scrape the shit off the bread, and cover it with condiments, you still will be eating shit.
How do you fix a shit sammich?
You ask Elizabeth Nolan-Brown to fix it for you.
She would just ad her own turd to the pile, and tell you now it is extra special…
Compost it and use it to grow a cabbage?
“Uh, you’re not exactly alone. Every licensed “professional” in the state has a continuing education requirement. Some of us have to do it every year. And no, we’re never paid for it. Oh, also you had nearly four years to get it done, two of which you had extended periods of time sitting at home on your ass. Why didn’t you just do it then?”
Working in IT, I point out that the day I stop learning new things is the day I will be forced to quit being technical and go into administration/management where the people that have let their knowledge go obsolete pretend to add value. Not picking on you Glibronis that do management in IT, but you know what i am saying..
*quitely lowers Alex’s evaluation a few points*
Looks like I will then need to start paying attention to all those “we have a work opportunity” emails I get from the various recruiters out there then… Cause I make sure that I know shit that lets me do that sort of thing.
On the plus side, all the meetings vacated today, so I don’t have to talk to as many people.
I am currently doing the CE for Security+. At least it isn’t every year. The every year tends to be bullshit HR training that is on the clock.
The HR mandated shit isn’t about learning anything as much as it is about the company being able t say “It was his/her fault” and not ours during the lawsuits….
Speaking as someone who managed engineers, this is mostly true. There’s practically no way to manage technical staff and stay fully current. Your job becomes making certain that they do their jobs and make money for the company.
I became better at quick reviews of problems to decide if my reports were on the right track or not, but if you had asked me to perform what they were doing it would have taken me three times as long. You have to be simultaneously humble and assertive in order to be effective.
I agree. I have to maintain knowledge about the latest and greatest tools and technologies my team uses, but at a very high level. I don’t have the bandwith to become an expert at any of it. I rely on my team to maintain the depth of knowledge on a subject. I help them to make the right decisions and troubleshoot issues when needed, but usually I would need to spend two to four times the effort to do what they do.
There are a few areas where I have to go deep when needed, so I try to maintain competency. These areas are general problem solving, failure analysis, and risk assessment and minimization/mitigation. Here I mainly facilitate and challenge their base assumptions and ask questions to ensure they are not missing anything important.
Hell, my technical skills have long since gone to shit. I’m at least a decade behind on anything. The only skill I bring to the table is troubleshooting. No one else seems to think through the symptoms and how things interact, or how to narrow down the cause of issues.
I guess I’m ready for management.
I have found it to be a rare thing that people in the younger generation have the ability to logically think through issues. Maybe it was because I started out as an AE/EE engineer and then went into IT, that I always was surrounded by logical thinking people, or maybe people just learned that ability as part of life/education, but these days I find that the ability to logically walk through things to solve problem is severely lacking in the younger crowd. Yes, it could just be the younger crowd I now work with is biased in that direction and the problem solvers are all elsewhere, but I am hearing similar complaints across the board. It almost feels like this group has been forcibly kept from ever having to develop that ability.
I’m wondering if this is really the case, or one of those perrennial “Kids these days” complaints that have persisted since time immemorial (If I had time, I’d find that quote from ancient greece)
There is no doubt in my mind that the engineering old-timers had a much better understanding of fundamentals than later generations. This was true for my generation as well.
Modern software tools can make up for a lot of missing engineering theory knowledge, and they lower the cost of design revisions so that you don’t pay as much attention to detail.
I’m guessing the latter. But I’m getting to the age where I can “kids these days” with the best of them. Like most things there’s a shred of truth to both sides.
“never change 2 pieces in a broken system at once- it may work but you’ll never know what fixed it”.
“who cares, it’s working now”
IT seems to move a lot faster than electrical engineering and manufacturing. There are new devices and technologies that have to be understood, tools that improve, and techniques that change/improve. We don’t see much of a fundamental shift where your skills are obsoleted, just some new designs, materials, and or tools that need to be learned.
I also have to be open to fundamental changes in the skill set of new engineers vs old timers. A lot of EE degrees are combined with computer science and programming skills that old timers never had or needed.
I was habitually out of date on EE design and modeling software.
I just didn’t want to commit the time to understanding the ins and outs of the new versions. I preferred lab and production work instead. As such, I got better at solving product failures, but was lousy at getting things out of the modeling design phase.
I guess that’s why I eventually moved over to management.
It’s a lot easier and cheaper to update a piece of software than it is to alter capital equipment. Especially when you have to consider environmental permitting regulations for even the smallest process changes.
The decision-making process for capital modifications to a traditional manufacturing process is way different than for software. Also, for more traditional chemical manufacturing vs. something like microprocessor production, the technology changes much more slowly, partly because all the low hanging fruit is already picked, and the returns on R&D are lower. Eventually you’d think the constant tightening of die sizes and such with microprocessor production, but who knows when? It seems like that industry is constantly on a plan–there’s always something new in the pipeline as compared with more traditional manufacturing, where we deal primarily with optimizing decades-old processes for best economy.
I landed in IT because I was one of the first AE engineers to focus on modeling (new vector thrust exhaust concepts) because none of the old timers wanted to deal with anything other than their slide rules back when. After the fall of the USSR and the general exodus from tech companies working mostly for the military, with the writing on the wall, I simply went to doing It work at another company modeling shit and writing software using my EE discipline. After that leaving engineering to just do IT in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” (my ex didn’t want to leave because of her family) was a given. I do it for the paycheck.
So about the changes in the IT field. Not as much as the vendors make it out. After all, they profit from it, so they have much incentive to exaggerate (or lie).
Oh sure, tools change, but the fundamentals still go back to The Mythical Man Month. Every step away from that ends up just creating a bigger mess (and there is profit in that for the consultant that can dig through the crap).
These days you don’t do man months cause it is sexist. Instead you do female months, and then your manager demands you get the 9 month job done in one by putting in 9 people to do the work, leading to the whole make that women produce a baby in one month by assigning the work to 9 of them…
Exactly why I don’t want to do that.
I have enough of it already but for that to be my main job function… well, in addition to making my boss look good… ugh I would rip my hair out.
I do a fair bit of making sure that my team is doing their job, but I’m not micromanaging them or on them daily. There are a few exceptions, like a Sr. engineer who got too comfortable working from home during COVID lockdowns and forgot that the lab is where he needs to work most of the time.
I’m surprised how often I need to give assurances to keep someone happy, let them know they are valued, and or provide a buffer between two that don’t get along. I managed a manufacturing site for a while and that was much worse. There was so much High School level bull shit I had to deal with. Engineers are easier to manage in a lot of ways, but there are a lot conflicting factors and personalities that make it a challenge sometimes.
I’m not built for that kind of “people” work.
And thankfully my work is purely online, no labs or anywhere else I need to be.
Now take it over. And burn it to the fucking ground (or fix it).
Fire all the “fact checkers”.
Agreed, that’s one of the first things that needs to be shitcanned. Fact checking is basically a bullshit excuse for the marxists to spin shit in their favor.
It is narrative checking.
So my company now has us going in 3 days a week and working from home 2 days a week, and the thing seems to not be jelling because most people are using the giant loopholes to have the daily checking system tell them to stay home. My company seems to have spent millions of dollars upgrading the space in the buildings they owned, cancelling the leases they had on other building was supposed to mitigate that, but damn the spend looks insane, and has implemented an open seating system with a check-in app, but everyone except for the leadership types (which have been told their prospective promotions depend on pretending to want/need/like a return to the office and tell you that is so) and people that have too many distractions at home (annoying wives or kids) seems to hate the idea.
I hate the thing cause I now have to pay for gas to commute, parking, and viands, also have to fight traffic, which always feels like I am wrestling with retards looking for cake, and most importantly am unable to visit you bastages in the AM to comment like mad on the daily happenings.
We’re at 50% telecommute, but on the days I’m in the office, it feels like my team is the only group in the building that follows the policy. It’s still very empty.
The security guards are there, having been in-office the whole time. They finally took down the useless plexiglas barriers around the security desk.
How do you feel about your productivity on your days in? It has only been 3 weeks of doing this shit, and I have already seen a pattern where I get about 50-60% of the amount of work I do when at home due to the in-office distractions (even with less people in). Already let my boss know I have no plans to go back to working into the late hours of the evening like I used to before we had the Kung Flu lockdowns and my productivity during the day doubled by working from home stopping that from being a necessity. He was not too happy about my revelation and choice (he is one that wants to go in all 5 days to avoid his wife) but he had no counter argument. Especially since I am not the only one that pointed this out and made the same decision about now needing to do extra work.
It depends on what I need to be doing whether I’m more productive at the office or at home. There are certainly some tasks I do better at the office,
It has only been 3 weeks of doing this shit, and I have already seen a pattern where I get about 50-60% of the amount of work I do when at home due to the in-office distractions
My boss’s boss has embraced this. Thankfully we’re only looking at being required in-office half a day every two weeks. He wants to make it a breakfast and brainstorm sort of thing for process improvements and cross-department discussion of various shared issues. I can’t complain too much about that plan… well, except for the fact that I’m not allowed in the office due to vaccine status….
I’m the opposite. My home is optimized for my own comfort and entertainment.
yeah, even with this site distracting me in the Am when I am home, I get more done in the PM hours when the meetings are mostly done & over with when at home. My home being optimized for my own comfort or not, when I need to go heads down to do work, it is easier without the distractions at the office.
Why not both? My home is optimized for my comfort. My home office is optimized for my productive comfort. My kids are trained to leave me alone when the door is shut, and I have better amenities in my home office than my company could dream of providing me in their building.
(sorry, meant as a reply to NA)
Like monitors large enough to actually use?
Yup. 2×32″ + 1x [insert laptop monitor size here]
You ask someone working inside govt about productivity? Bwahahahaha
All over a….virus…..where under 1% of people regardless of vaccination status are hospitalized……and a global survival rate of about 99.985%.
Rufus!
/Vaudeville dance.
Looks like I’ll finally be able to get back into MTL mid-June. Alas, the woman I’ll be with is a vegetarian Francophone, but I’m sure I’ll have fun in spite of that.
Why finally? Isn’t the border open ….to the vaxxed anyway.
Personal scheduling since they reopened the border. Though when they were requiring a recent negative test too, that was also effectively closing it.
Brown-bag it.
That’s the policy at mine. I haven’t been in since last summer and have no plans to do so.
I am much more productive and happy at home.
So they’re going to stop killing each other during Ramadan, then go right back at it when Ramadan ends? Got it.
Well, that’s unfortunate, because Ramadan is when they’re most violent from the fasting.
You just take out your frustration on your cattle then… Rape the camels & goats, and beat the women up…
Bad joke, right?
Yemen has been fasting for a long time now.
XOMG! He posted a MEME!
Can we quit calling them “migrants”? Migrants, like migratory birds, come and go seasonally; traditionally this meant the agricultural workers who planted then reaped then returned home in the off-season. Repeat annually, and always done by people willing to do hard work.
Bringing in unskilled workers and strategically placing them in cities throughout the US to guarantee certain vote outcomes is not about “migration”. It’s about creating more communities dependent on Father Government.
I always thought teachers were salaried employees.
I’d wager it depends on the school.
Some may be ‘overtime exempt’ instead of salaried.
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I used bad seed words today.
I use ‘party’ and ‘house’, every day.
I have been playing around with differnt ones.
I started with CHODE and TWATS just for fun a while back
Then I was using AMOUR and some others.
Today I used TWAIN and GROWL, then FUMES
I know repeating the W is dumb, I just like to mess around.
It’s not a competition.
After reading today’s comments, I figured I’d double fail, so started with LOSER.
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#metoo. Miracle I actually finished it.
#metoo – today was rough
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My morning routine has been completely disrupted these past many months. I just read the news about SP. I don’t know what to say. FWIW, Stay strong and my thoughts are with you. Comments seem turned off.
Being on the run from the law can do that Rufus! Stay strong brah.
Tell me about it. A country of losers.
I’m putting together a care package of tin can lids for her to properly threaten OMWC. I’m not sure how rusty tin can lids would do going cross-border, but if you have a message you’d like me to put on one on your behalf, just send me an email: trashy-glibs at disengage dot co (yes, dot co).
Offer is open to everybody who wasn’t able to send a can lid for whatever reason. I’m planning to start assembly later this week and ship early next week, so you have a couple days to get me that email.
I was late getting mine out, sorry Trsh. It’s sent though and should be there early this week.
No worries. I set the deadline with plenty of time for stragglers to get in. I won’t have the opportunity to assemble until next weekend at the earliest. My goal is to have it in the mail the weekend of the 16th.
Thanks. Comments are indeed off for that post.
Good to see you back, Rufus! Now I need to get back to work.
I just can’t wait
Former President Barack Obama will return to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he left office to promote the Affordable Care Act in an event alongside President Joe Biden, a White House official said.
The celebration of the 2010 health care overhaul will be their first joint appearance since they attended events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at Ground Zero in New York last fall, the official said.
Vice President Kamala Harris will join them in delivering remarks about the expansion of health care benefits under the law, as well as Biden’s efforts to further reduce health care costs and expand access to care, the official added.
Gibberish level: Extremely High.
They are prepping us for Michelle Obama’s 2024 Presidential run.
I thought the constitution banned Wookies in politics?
“Celebrate the ACA”
The ACA has cost me tens of thousands of dollars. I know where you can take that bill and shove it.
A friend of mine had colon cancer and was on Obamacare. He was told several times that as long as he had Obamacare, there was little that could be done for him treatment-wise. He dumped Obamacare and went for whatever program TX does for poor people. He ended up getting very good treatment and is now cancer free. He has socialist leanings and knows I’m a stark raving conservative, it pained him to tell me this.
Yeah, I’ve read many accounts of this happening to people with major medical issues on an Obamacare plan. They can’t get treatments approved, and are told by providers that they would be better off with either Medicaid, or no plan at all. It’s bizarre. I don’t know if it’s an issue with all plans, or just the crappy “bronze” ones. But it seems pretty common.
It’s probably because hospitals have to accept Medicaid patients, but I’m guessing there is no such law requiring them to accept Obamacare plans. Would be interesting to see RC’s take.
Alex Berenson has decided to piss off the remaining people who tolerate him:
It’s as if the Russians want to make their Western apologists look as stupid as possible
Has it not occurred to people that a lot of us simply do not support any faction in that fight?
Binary asshats can’t accept that reality…
I saw the Binary Asshats open for the Raging Cocks at CBGB.
That was the same weekend that Nostalgia Tongue played an incredible triple set, I think.
No.
I, OTOH, am supporting both sides in the conflict. I want to be on the winning team.
To really be on the winning team you need to sell arms & mercenary services to both sides, Fourscore.
For a small 5 figure donation your name will be included on the Congratulatory Card.
He’s done phenomenal work on the vaccines but seems to have lost that edge with his Russia takes and odd attacks on Malone and Ivermectin.
Berenson appears to be very prone to picking a side in an argument and never ceding any points, regardless of whether he’s correct or not.
Yep, he’s an unrepentant drug warrior, and an asshat about it to boot.
I see a lot of attacks on purported Russophiles and Putin-lovers and yet I have seen no evidence that they exist.
“Still wondering what exactly happened here. My guess is gang initiation.”
My guess is someone felt dissed and decided to “Will Smith” some people.
Outlawing “Weapons of War” aka AKAs will encourage those so inclined to switch to shotguns and buckshot as a workaround.
There’s always that one guy…
Thought it interesting the president went straight to “ghost guns”.
Re: foster “care”:
Follow the money. Sadly, foster “families” include some who are just out for the bucks. This has gotten worse since a family’s active participation in Christian churches became a non-factor, even a contraindication, to approving a potential foster family.
So true. One of the employees at work in his early 20s was telling me about growing up in a black foster family (kid is white) but also how he’s been on his on since he was 18. I didnt put the pieces together but Jugsy did for me, due to her vast knowledge of HUD, affordable housing and such things. I told her about him and she said, “so the foster parents put him out when turned 18 and they stopped getting checks. Happens all the time.”
re: the Turpin siblings. In addition to the horrific abuse they’ve suffered at the hands of others, the article states that two are homeless and that there is supposedly a crowd-funded trust for the siblings which none of them can access. Even if the two oldest ones were adults at the time of their liberation, you don’t just dump people like that out into society. I don’t know what the better solution would have been. Ideally, the courts would have assigned them guardians for a one-year period during which they would have been socialized, educated, and set free. But we all know that once the state gets custody it is loath to let go. And why the Turpins, and perhaps the Olguins, are not sitting on death row is a mystery. (SLD about death penalty.)
And Perris CA, no less. I’ve heard stories.
I don’t understand why none of the funds donated to help them have been used. Maybe whoever is trustee should join the parents in jail for a while.
Wonderfully fantastic music this morning. Thank you Sloopy.
My NYC public school teacher ex has required continuing education (NYC Board of Ed. calls it Professional Development) every single month. Sometimes it’s at school in groups, sometimes at home online. All teachers everywhere in the USA are paid for this because they are NOT hourly workers, they are salaried (those paychecks keep coming all Summer long as well, but nobody is bellyaching about that).
Jumpin’ Jimminy! The upper right word was stupendously difficult.
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Taliban seeks common ground
The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest opium producer.
“As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country,” according to an order from the Taliban’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada.
“If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed immediately and the violator will be treated according to the Sharia law,” the order, announced at a news conference by the Ministry of Interior in Kabul, said.
The order said the production, use or transportation of other narcotics was also banned.
Maybe they’re ready to join the family of nations.
Which is what? Turning the farmer into fertilizer? Giving his livestock a chance to be on top?
I did always love the album cover art for Candy-O.
Damn redheads.
The cops speculated as much. I’m guessing the nature of the coverage this gets will hinge on the answer.
“Gun violence” no matter what.
It’s interesting how little attention is being paid to the who or why and a lot to the how.
That’s hoplophobia for ya.
Poor teachers, they can’t ever catch a break. *goes back to filling out qtr end 941 form and then figuring out how much owes state for qtr end sales tax on own, unpaid time. Writes state a check for said taxes*
I wish I could find an article that says what the button is.
A pilot who lied about his flying experience to secure a job at British Airways was said to have been caught when he pressed a button ‘no qualified pilot would’
Was the button in the stewardess, I mean flight hostesss’, pants and he was rubbing it furiously Tres?
“CHECKRIDE EXAMINER EJECT”
“Leo DiCaprio Was Here” button gets em everytime
“Autocrash Enable?”
Did they even say what he pressed? My guess fire agent discharge cause other than that, there is not much else you can press that would be deemed that description.
Might have been an engine ignitor or something in a startup procedure out of sequence or at an inappropriate time.
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/92537/what-button-did-a-pilot-press-that-led-to-them-being-caught-for-falsifying-exper
Reads like he killed the APU with no shore power.
So basically he was scrolling reddit flight simulator and didn’t realize ctrl-alt-delete was not an official procedure
Seems like he’d been able to fool everyone enough to have been flying for some time tho.
I dunno. I guess at least he was wearing shoes, tho that BI article doesn’t relate.
A pilot who allegedly stole a civilian aircraft in Italy on Wednesday was wearing only socks when a French army jet forced him to land.
Lots of pilots (even airline pilots) fly in their stocking feet. It can give better feel for the pedals and be way more comfortable.
He took a fuel dump on the runway.
Shit happens…
Serious journalisming, for serious people
The uproar over Ginni Thomas and her actions in the run-up to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol left behind something of a puzzle: How did Thomas arrive at a state of such extreme agitation about the purported theft of the 2020 presidential election when that conspiracy theory had already been rebutted by the New York Times?
Rebutted! By the New York Times!
LOL!
They probably even have fact checkers!
From the gods’ lips to your ears, the NYT is the compendium of DC encyclicals.
Desperate people search for desperate measures.
“You know she’s going to MSDNC,” Trump said during a Michigan rally, using a demeaning nickname to call the network. “They need a redhead. They don’t have a redhead over there.”
Trump Says MSNBC Hiring Jen Psaki Because ‘They Need a Redhead’
“who couldnt use another redhead?” – my dick at all times
Both of my redhead experiences dissuaded me from ever trying that again. Bitchez be crazy dangerous.
In my experience, even when a seemingly normal, passive, woman, dies her hair red, she begins to embrace the nuttiness.
Allyson Hannigan in “American Pie”….”and then this one time at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy”.
*spit take*
I like red hair on women. Unfortunately, there’s something about that phenotype where the eyes are often blank, soulless, expressionless. Psaki included. She does nothing for me
Cause they are soul eaters…
LOL, he’s still on his game.
Good morning, Sloop!
WWIII here yet?
I think we’re up to WW IV. I argue that the Cold War was actually WW III.
“They need a redhead. They don’t have a redhead over there.”
Diversitize!
Ginni Thomas, of course, was radicalized during her husband’s 1991 Supreme Court confirmation fight over Anita Hill’s sexual harassment. To her mind, it showed how Democrats would do anything in pursuit of their agenda. The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee then was Joe Biden. The chief counsel of the committee was Ron Klain, now White House chief of staff, then immersed in the deliberations over how to handle Hill’s allegations. He tweeted in 2018 that he believed her testimony against Clarence Thomas. One of the foremost chroniclers of that episode was journalist Jane Mayer. That’s the same writer whose recent work for the New Yorker on Ginni Thomas’ political activism, and how this could be improperly intersecting with Clarence Thomas’ role on the high court, drew headlines earlier this year.
If disinfecting American politics of its crippling contempt were simply a matter of exposing that Donald Trump is promoting lies about the election, or that Ginni Thomas is guilelessly falling for them, it would be simple. The genuine mania she summons on behalf of her distorted perceptions of reality shows it is a lot more complicated.
Grotesque falsehoods. What sort of weakminded dupe would have anything but the highest regard for Joe Biden and the the rest of the loyal public servants whose sole motivating impulse was the reputation of the Supreme Court and the future nation itself?
This is a whole new level of concern trolling.
Interesting how the same cast of swamp creatures is still in action decades later, performing nearly the same roles.
To be fair, she’s not wrong.
Winston signal part I
You see dear fellow, this is about as tone deaf as your shtick.
Okay.
Oops.
OFFS
I don’t know that their preconceptions and predilections for globalist management could be any more apparent.
Well it is Fukuyama, so apparently history is what he thinks it is.
There may be literally nothing that Fukuyama has been correct about, but he still gets the funding.
At first, I was angry at the Times. Perhaps the news organization’s decision to put so much content behind its imposing paywall meant that Thomas had been unable to avail herself of its democracy-illuminating coverage, which would have reassured her that Joseph Biden was the lawfully elected president.
But that didn’t quite add up. Surely, as a board member or adviser to various conservative groups, Thomas could have submitted an expense account to be reimbursed for her Times subscription, or borrowed a login from her spouse, Clarence Thomas, who presumably gets his access subsidized by the U.S. Supreme Court. She could have relied on other responsible news organizations, including POLITICO, that don’t charge for political coverage.
It all leads to a rueful conclusion: Thomas has seen the comprehensive and credible news coverage making clear that Donald Trump has no legitimate basis for his claims of a stolen election and simply doesn’t believe it. Well, now.
Parody is dead.
I’m laughing so hard I can’t get past this.
Clearly she is in need of the kind of psychiatric treatment that only professionals from the USSR could provide.
Psychopathological mechanisms of dissent are all the rage these days.
As much as I hate to admit it, the NPC meme was really on point…
A non-prog cannot go through life without being exposed to the prog point of view 24/7.
A prog can go through their life every fucking day without having any exposure to the actual views of those who disagree with them.
That’s how you end up with this drivel.
What the author refuses to acknowledge is that their coverage would have been the same, whether the election was stolen or not. See: Hunter’s laptop.
Winston signal part II
I’m feeling a bit like derpotologist, after this one and yesterday’s Jen Rubin link.
Applebaum? She’s perpetually stuck in 1956 and the Soviets are still crushing Hungary.
That’s a perfect description of her.
Elitist lunatic is another.
Honestly, I think you’re too generous. I think Applebaum is a warmongering psychopath and an unmitigated hack. I think she has no qualms whatsoever in spilling young American boys’ blood if she thinks it’ll score points for Team Blue. And she’s has no hesitation to question the loyalty or patriotism of anyone who thinks that might be a problem. If I had my druthers, I’d ship her, Max Boot and Bill Kristol off with aging penknives to turn back the unwashed hoards they seem so willing to push war to confront.
IIRC she still lives in Warsaw. If she gets her way, she and her family will be among the first to get vaporized.
In her case, one can hope.
Those Workers’ Compensation disability checks don’t write themselves people!
7 police officers hospitalized after pursuit
She seems fun.
Reenactment of the Blues Brothers chase?
Certainly not everyone’s cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this early work with Burgess Meredith.
WW2 Training Film for US Soldiers | How to Behave in Britain | 1943
Fine Feathered Finks – Batman & Penguin Ep 3 1966
Very cool. Really well made, I wonder who directed it.
I watched some WW2 combat training films, and they actually provided some very useful tips for playing Hell Let Loose.
Directed by Anthony Asquith and Burgess Meredith; written by Sam Spewack and Burgess Meredith.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thank you. That was heartwarming. Also, FLOOFY DOG AT THE SEASHORE!!!
Wow.
I’m gonna need an insulin shot. That was awesome, Holiness.
You keep doing that, PJ, now I need another dose of curmudgeonness.
Go talk to Mrs. Fourscore about your roof. I’m sure that will top off your surlyness in a jiffy.
Kitty wants the batter – https://twitter.com/FredSchultz35/status/1510668083760967688
Much as we assembled the Department of Homeland Security out of disparate agencies after 9/11, we now need to pull together the disparate parts of the U.S. government that think about communication, not to do propaganda but to reach more people around the world with better information and to stop autocracies from distorting that knowledge.
Good grief.
So, propaganda?
But it is their approved propaganda, so that makes it the good stuff…
Well yeah…transparent and easily identifiable propaganda at that.
You see, when *we* do it, it’s making sure the truth is heard. In fact, we should be broadcasting it under a strong masthead. One that gets the idea across directly. Maybe just call it “Truth.” Yeah, that’s good. It’s a common theme in all cultures to respect the truth. Every language has a word for “truth.” Even Russian!
Same with election interference. Preemptive invasions. War crimes. And any and all general fuckery we engage in with regards to other sovereign nations.
I’ve said it before, but the people claiming to be trying to “reach more people around the world with better information and to stop autocracies from distorting that knowledge” have been saying things that are observably and provably untrue. They’ve directly contradicted themselves. When cornered, they claim privilege (either under the aegis of official secrecy or straight out authority). If you want to stop foreign disinformation, the answer is to improve the reliability of your own information.
And they refuse to debate at all, let alone in good faith.
They are transparently totalitarian.
I wonder if the people pushing NCAA women’s sports so hard have really thought things through. This piece from our local proggie outlet seems to think that only misogyny is keeping the ladies down.
Maybe ESPN is woke enough to pay $100M for the rights to the Women’s NCAA tourney, but I wouldn’t bet on it. My guess is that the NCAA will play along and give them a discount on the men’s tourney if they pay stupid money for the women’s rights. In the end ESPN pays the same amount for both, but the sjw’s will be happy because the women now are making more.
Also, the real measure of a tourney’s worth for me would be what tickets are being scalped for. Not selling out or not. I had a buddy who was a Valpo alumn who sold his two Final 4 tickets for $15K. When college alumns are paying stupid money like that for the Women’s finals, I’ll be impressed.
I frankly wouldn’t care if they zeroed spending out on both the Men’s and Women’s tournaments.
I’m not even sure how they apply those words anymore anyway.
I am all for letting men demanding everyone pretend they are women not just compete, but beat the shit out of the ladies. in order to show them that dudes do it better….
Fuck the marxists with their own shit.
The flood of tranx WNBA players will kill ticket sales with the lesbians. That seems to be their core demographic.
I have been dragged to a few Lynx games and am amazed at how many seats are taken by gal pals. There aren’t that many dudes in the stands.
*My dad was one of the people who dragged me to games. He loved the WNBA because they weren’t good enough physically to dominate on their own (like the NBA) and had to use passing and teamwork to generate buckets.
For some reason, I’m reminded of the Always Sunny episode where the gang coaches basketball – https://youtu.be/fG_p2fqx8mA
Will it kill ticket sales? I mean the level of competition may increase.
Meh, I think the WMBA is figuring out that if they lose the lesbian fans but get males to watch instead, they will make more money, and they are about to find out they will lose both and end up with another even shittier product.
so Juwanna Mann was prophetic?
“They no can dunk, but have good fundamentals.”
An independent analyst told Kaplan women’s basketball alone could be worth between $81 million and $112 million annually by 2025, the year after the ESPN contract expires.
The deuce I dropped in the toilet this morning could be worth $1 billion if enough people were willing to pay to look at it. Somehow, though, I can’t seem to find any takers. Women’s basketball doesn’t generate the kind of money men’s basketball does. That shows up in pro ball just as clearly as college. Even the example they bring up involves a local “hometown hero” that’s a special case. And like you said, “sold out” isn’t exactly the same as “bid up in the aftermarket”.
Perhaps they’re factoring in 25% annual inflation.
Do you buy the ticket for the thrill of the ride or the destination?
If it’s destination all the tickets would be $20, same as downtown.
I’m in a virtual class all week. It’s a new managers course and so far the curriculum is absent DEI….good it needs to remain that way
There is another course that is mandatory they will give you later after you pass this one….
I need need one of these for the office to drive my coworkers nuts.
https://poiq.sony.jp/
(Video with Sora is partially English subbed.)
I’m sure it costs a fortune however.
That’s a thicc vibrator, right?
Wow.
And I was kvetching about the dozen or so dudes doing wheelies down the highway yesterday.
LOL – https://twitter.com/GTA___Memes/status/1510738482288865285