I’m exhausted. After all the letdown of Friday night, I was absolutely swamped at the lab fixing equipment because professors are unable to use simple tools like pliers and screwdrivers. And that was after a shift at the griddle. The students are all rolling back into town, partying loudly at night to celebrate, so sleep is at a premium. I’m feeling every bit of my 1437 years today. But I will persist.
One thing that has kept me amused is the campaign for Congress in our special election. Every day, I get a big campaign ad or two in the mail telling me that one of the candidates, a slimebag named Paladino, is a horrible human and likely to steal the silverware. The ads don’t mention his opponent, just focusing on Paladino’s evil. Each day, the ads got worse and worse. Where will it end? I wondered. Where can we go from here? They did not disappoint:
This put a big smile on my face.
Birthdays today include a guy who would gaslight you; a guy who was pro-integration; what you get when Lurch does Art Nouveau; a guy who made you wonder what is higher, a duke or a count: a guy who was the model for Yosemite Sam; a guy who left as his legacy an Easter Island statue who pretends to know about sports; a guy who was brilliant on… flumpet?; a guy who made some of the best ’70s comedy films; Mr. Twenty Thousand; a guy who finally folded; a guy Sharif didn’t like; arguably the most overrated quarterback in NFL history; and a guy on whom we can blame much.
Now before I fall back asleep, let’s hit up some Links.
Turkey hires Obama as a defense consultant.
“Throw me in the briar patch!”
Living rent-free in your heads.
Team Red: We’re Determined To Lose
Old Guy has been doing a lot of Molly Tuttle of late. There’s a reason for that. Proof below.
A. Wyatt Mann?
Jim McMahon is highly rated?
I was going to say “Happy birthday, Joe Namath!”
If he’s thought of anything beyond “played on a team where even Trent Dilfer could have won a Super Bowl,” he’s overrated.
I thought that’s kind of what most people think of him.
Liz Cheney couldn’t beat Hitler.
Carl Paladino sounds like just the Hitler we need.
Straight to Hitler.
Well played.
Given that Trump wasn’t so bad, and he was Hitler therefore, Paladino will do great.
*Paladino has run for some position or another in New York for the past ~15 years, but has always lost.
What’s the Buffalo school board, chopped liver?
I thought he lost that too, but he was kicked off after winning, that’s right.
I only got that from Wikipedia – he beat a HS senior. 🤣😂
Was the kid a dick? ‘Cause I thought that was the only thing he had beaten.
“Pro-Trump wins in blue states threaten GOP hopes in November”
No mention that Democrats are helping to finance their campaigns.
I do hope it backfires on them, and the media, everywhere. Although I’m sure I’ll have to seek medical attention for my schadenboner.
Only if it lasts more than four hours.
And I don’t think the guilt-by-association effect is going to be as helpful to the Democrats as they seem to believe – not after two solid years of them doing their best to turn the US into Venezuela.
As I’ve said, *if* (and that’s a big “if”) TEAM RED were smart, they’d do guilt-by-association for things like Merrick Garland’s comments on parents standing up to school boards being domestic terrorists, and the like.
Yeah, all the political ads for this season should write themselves. Just remind people of the unmitigated crap these idiots have done to the country over the last 2 years and end with “Do you want more of this?”
What does it say about Silicon Valley that they haven’t figured out that masks don’t work yet?
That there’s a lot of the cult mentality there, mainly. Been very, very depressing over the last 20 years watching the mindset go from fairly libertarian and pro individual / privacy rights (I distinctly remember a lot of outrage and discussion at the company I was in at the time when it was found some moron was trying to put telemetry in a product… now, it is ubiquitous) to the hive mind it has become. Fewer “built something cool in my garage” types truly building up a company to balance out the corporate elite types, I strongly suspect.
I think the dotcom boom and bust probably ruined it. It was definitely still independent minded in the 90s.
I came over in 2000 from my more native lands, so there was still a good chunk of the culture left up through the first decade. I should have had the sense to go MSCS instead of overshooting to try for a BSNE in the first place. Ah well. Also should have bought Apple stock all through the ’90s and just retired on that. 😉
Well, if you want to talk dumb career moves, I turned down Oracle in the late 80s in favor of TWO tech plays that failed.
They’re not very smart? Or they’re deeply embedded in their milleu which doesn’t broke dissent on important issues of debate.
That they are near universally hard-left authoritarians?
90% of it is TDS.
The people there (and I have some family) will do anything to show they aren’t in any way affiliated with him.
Love this big bolded (in yellow) quote from the Arizona link:
Funny — I would have called that representative democracy or something along those lines. You know, idiot — you’re supposed to be representing your constituents and all? And if they don’t think you’re going to do that, they’ll find someone who will?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3H5NB7fIB0&t=89s
Why won’t they accept my greatness?
They must be fascists.
Eat my shit and thank me doesn’t work as a campaign slogan?
The scary thing is that these people seem to miss the point Liz and idiots like her lose because they are elected to represent the views and wants of the people that vote for them, and unlike democrats that do whatever the top men in the party say they are doing and get away with it, now have been put on notice by their voters that if they go do whatever the fuck they want, their time will be short…
I am sure that I will hear that’s how all the Nazis do shit, right?
The GOP Just Borrowed a Soviet Skill and Disappeared Liz Cheney
Yea, just like how the Soviets disappeared someone.
Thank you for the dumbest line I’ll hear today.
It’s still early!
on orders from former President Donald Trump
Right, because GOP voters in Wyoming don’t have agency and the ability to independently come to the conclusion that Cheney is a shit-hole of a person who doesn’t represent them; Nope, they just do what mind-control Donald tells them to do.
That is next level stupid and/or dishonest.
Hasn’t Liz been on like 37 different MSM shows since she lost? I thought when the Soviet’s disappeared someone they stayed disappeared.
whaddup doh’
The ‘flumpet’ may be impressive, but its got nothing on the Hardart.
Stop WOKE stopped(for now): https://archive.ph/hE0AD#selection-1375.0-1378.0
“The law prohibits teaching or business practices that contend members of one ethnic group are inherently racist and should feel guilt for past actions committed by others. It also bars the notion that a person’s status as privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by their race or gender, or that discrimination is acceptable to achieve diversity.”
I have mixed feeling about this, all that mentioned above would be considered workplace harassment under a normal situation.
It does seem to open the door to mandatory Klan training by the employers, doesn’t it? Somehow, I don’t think the DOJ / DOL / EOC would sit idly by for those little sessions unlike the “Ze must be an ALLY!” crap DIE pushes currently.
Pretty much.
How is it any different from saying blacks are inherently _____?
Sorry, not just saying, but making your employees attend trainings that have such a message as their central tenant, and your employees risk losing their jobs for speaking out against it.
I think it’s a poor law that is probably unconstitutional.
This shit doesn’t stop until employees demand it stops.
Shanking the HR department is a good start.
Now I’ve cornered myself into having to put my money where my mouth is, if the situation arises.
Fortunately, my company is relatively sane in this area. They try to push DEI crap, but it’s just boilerplate at this point. Nothing mandatory beyond the multiple-choice online “training”.
I think you’re right. The best thing the governor could do is instruct whatever group in Florida that enforces anti discrimination laws that training like this are discriminatory under existing laws. The way it is worded now certainly seems like a restriction on free speech.
This is the best way forward. Make the case, legally and morally, that this is compelled speech and it should be ended for that reason.
On what planet would that be considered harassment if the privileged group was the one being attacked.
I dont mean to rush OT so quickly but I ran across some breaking news-
She-OUCH! Jameela Jamil Pulled a “Muscle In My A**hole” Doing Own Stunts on ‘She-Hulk’
*also it was a long damn night at work and Im pouring down the beer as quickly as I can
What do you do for a living? Do you ever see daylight?
I was originally working as a gigolo, but I went broke making change.
Math is hard.
Hawt
I didn’t realize Tatiana was the she hulk.
/still won’t be watching.
STEVE SMITH EXTRA ON SHE HULK, HELP DO STUNT.
BY STUNT MEAN….
Huh… so you’ve lived your life sufficient to regain the longevity of Adam’s immediate descendants, huh? Is your real name Enoch, good sir?
On a different note, but relating to your post — it is probably wrong that my first thought on the antisemitic propaganda pieces you find is “Just think, someone put long hours into this either because they’re just that messed up or someone paid them…. either way, really hard to grok needing a scapegoat or just being that messed up to go to all the effort.” 21st Century privilege and all.
Second thought — “I miss Jewsday Tuesday just for the corners of the Bible it reveals.” I can’t digest too much philosophy, but for some reason find the way the major religions evolved very interesting…. thanks for your past ones, not a whine that you do more (I know you’re busy), just wanted to let you know they were enjoyed.
Sleep well — thanks for the links.
I’ve been toying with a couple Jewsday topics, so there may yet be a few occasional bits of impiousness.
Is your real name Enoch, good sir?
Methuselah, my oldest friend.
VLADIMIR Putin’s “spiritual guide” Alexander Dugin narrowly escaped a car bomb attack that blew up his propagandist daughter
I’m extremely hungover, so I read this wording in horror. It makes it sound like Ukrainian saboteurs killed Putin’s daughter, the unspoken part being with US help or intel, sparking WW3. Now I see who it really was and am just horrified that a young woman was killed.
But she’s a propagandist!
Tabloid reporters call kettle black. Justifying murder on that basis won’t turn out well for them.
Haven’t dug into it, but I wonder if she was actually in marketing or public relations “BUT SHE’S RUSSHUN, SO PROPAGANDA!!1!”
A terrible line written by a terrible person. Trying to justify carbombing people just proves the plot has been lost.
Don’t worry, WWIII is coming – if the actions of “The West” have any say.
That was my take as well. Had to read it a few times.
I don’t know much about Dugin, but I know enough that Western media lies about him. I think it’s safe to say he’s not a “Neo-Nazi” like the article claims. Especially considering Nazism is hated (for very good reason) in Russia. Isn’t he more of a nationalist bent?
Anyway, I’m interested, and a little scared, to see how this scenario plays out and how Putin will react. Right now I’m thinking about 40% the CIA did it, 40% the Ukrainians did it, and 20% Putin did it.
They won’t even discuss Dugin in Western intellectual circles. They consider his ideas too dangerous.
That suggests to me he has something worthwhile to say.
As we slowly descend into fascism (straight out of Italy), we can never speak of fascism – only scream in incoherent rage about how horrid the Nazis were. Never mind that the Nazis weren’t original about anything – our eugenics, Italy’s politics, and antisemitism that was shared all across Europe.
That suggests to me he has something worthwhile to say. – this is an extremely silly thing to say
Didn’t say I necessarily agreed with him based on that aspect. Just that the act of censorship on the part of Western “intellectuals” seems to imply that they feel they can’t adequately debate him, thus it’s worthy of review.
Is it? Generally they only censor people who they believe are harmful to the political establishment.
it is. People being dangerous to the establishment does not mean their ideas are not batshit insane
the nazis and stalinists were fighting a bunch in 30s germany for being a threat to each other’s political space, they were all bad.
He’s a Russian nationalist and traditionalist, much more of a quasiTsarist than anything else.
He’s as much a neo-Nazi as the Azov Battalion.
Totalitarian collectivists are nasty, regardless of which flavor of collectivism they’re peddling.
Dugin has swastika tattoos?
it is not a requirement
He’s as much a neo-Nazi as the Azov Battalion
Wait, what? The video walkthrough of the Azov Headquarters had enough Nazi memorabilia to make the Third Reich blush.
But remember that we are supposed to #StandWithUkraine.
///PersonOfUkrainianDescent&Dissent
Nazism is hated (for very good reason) in Russia – meh the name maybe, the essence I doubt it. I think you will find people in any country who agree with nazi things if you don;t tell them they are nazi.
Indeed. Cut out the obvious Germanisms and many of the speeches at rallies from the top Nazi leaders (including Hitler) would find a very receptive audience at a Bernie rally.
Or the grievance study affairs (James Lindsay et. al.) where a paper that was essentially a chapter of Mien Kampf made it pretty far in the ‘referring’ process at some feminist journal – I think it hadn’t gotten accepted yet (but was going to be) when they got outed.
There was a browser plugin that replaced “men” with “Jews” but I can’t seem to find it.
receptive audience at a Bernie rally.
I tried to point this out to a leftist once. I doubt if he has even ever read the Nazi party platform.
This is part of the problem with equating fascism to Nazism. There are plenty of flavors of fascism across the world today, but Nazism has the added Aryan-superiority/Slavic-inferiority that Russians are against. The non ethnic components of Nazism (ie fascism) I imagine are pretty popular in Russia, just like they are here in America.
And yes, I’m aware that Fascism and Communism were fighting for the same political space. It’s a near universal truth that heretics are treated worse than total outsiders/strangers.
about 40% the CIA did it, 40% the Ukrainians
I do wonder at what point the US giving intel to Ukraine becomes an act of war. I also wonder what other shenanigans are going on covertly.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/12/with-87000-new-agents-on-way-4-facts-about-irs-gun-arsenal/
The 2012 report not only found that IRS agents fired their weapons by accident more times than intentionally, but that the agency concealed details about the accidental discharges.
“There were a total of eight firearm discharges classified as intentional use of force incidents and 11 discharges classified as accidental during FYs 2009 through 2011,” the report says.
Lulz.
😂🤣😂🤣
“A transgender woman who froze their sperm before transitioning is not the legal parent of the child they helped produce, a court in Japan has ruled.
Only a child born before their surgery and legal gender change is formally their child, the judge on Tokyo’s High Court decided yesterday.
The unidentified trans woman, a man at birth, had two daughters with their female partner using sperm preserved before their transition.
Four years ago they were legally permitted to change their gender on the family register, reports said.
A country where same-sex marriage remains illegal and many LGBT+ people remain in the closet, Japan obligates its transgender population to have surgery before they can legally change their gender.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11130331/Japanese-transgender-woman-froze-sperm-man-recognised-legal-parent-child.html
That seems rather contrary to their pop culture.
Based.
I find it confusing when plural pronouns are used for one person. If refusing to use “he” or “she,” I believe “it” should be the operative (or post-operative?) term.
Yup. “He” or “she” – pick one. If you’re presenting as a “woman”, WTF is wrong with “she”?
“If you’re presenting as a “woman”, WTF is wrong with “she”?”
I think there is something wrong with “She is the father”. On par with using plural pronouns to refer to a single person.
Speaking of, our work handed out gift baskets for mothers during Mother’s Day and to fathers during Father’s Day. I have a MtF employee who had two children years before transitioning and I had no idea what to do. I told HR to handle it. They gave her a gift basket for mother’s day. /Shrug
“operative (or post-operative?)”
ROFL
Calling people “it” seems offensively dehumanizing. Even though “he” is the grammatically correct word for a single person of unknown gender, people have been using “they” for a very long time. For a while some used “he/she”out of feminism and political correctness, but it didn’t last long because “he slash she” sounded ridiculous when read out loud.
Languages that don’t have gendered pronouns still lead to cultures that the left say are ridiculously sexist.
That can be fixed with liberal use of the letter X.
I accept that in the vulgar language, when the sex is truly not known.
I don’t accept it when it says “woman” in the same sentence.
I agree. No idea why they are using “their”.
Well, that person is not a woman, so “she” is wrong. That person insists you not use “he”. That person is a single individual, so plural pronouns are wrong. What’s left, other than “it”?
“It” doesn’t refer to singular people. It (referring to the word “it”) can refer to a group of people. “A crowd formed, then it moved down the street.” But you wouldn’t say, “When a police officer arrived, it asked them to disperse.”
“Well, that person is not a woman, so “she” is wrong.”
Pronouns are literally gender, so using feminine pronouns for feminine people shouldn’t be difficult.
“Pronouns are literally gender”
They are also sex, and the divorcing of sex from gender is a very, very recent phenomenon that I am not yet sold on.
“They are also sex”
They aren’t. Although I can understand how it might seem that way in English.
Well, I’m an English speaker, and I recall when the word “gender” was quite rare and it was universally accepted that he=man=male, she=woman=female. Notably, the civil rights laws at no point refer to “gender”, only to “sex”, for example.
I guess that’s why “xe” was developed.
Why bother analyzing Newspeak anyway? XX humans are women, XY humans are men.
What… there *weren’t* transgender effeminate samurai with demonic powers running around causing havoc in the Meiji Restoration or Medieval periods?
Why, I never….!
Transgender man. I hate newspeak.
It’s transgender woman, and has been for as long as “transgender” has been a word.
I don’t see why I have to play by their semantic games.
It is a man who claims to be transgender, thus transgender man.
Turkey hires Obama as a defense consultant. – i don’t get why anyone would blow up perfectly good sex slaves
Eat your own. – I don’t see why some don;t like the fact that the quality of women’s sports is improved.
womens sports needs more balls is what I’m saying.
Thank you for that line. Stolen.
Yup, quality snark.
Them damn, racist, misogynist Californians!
“A Virginia school district that has made headlines for woke policies and clashes over teaching critical race theory waited a year to fire a counselor after they found out he’d been arrested for soliciting an underage prostitute.
Darren Lamar Thornton, 50, remained employed by Glasgow Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, even after he’d been convicted of a sex crime and a year after they’d been notified of his arrest, according to WUSA9.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11131079/Woke-Virginia-school-district-kept-pedophile-counselor-year-notified-arrest.html
That’s because the groomers and CRT proponents are on the same side.
Fairfax, all you need to know
Mornin’, reprobates. Gotta love this guy:
In 2011, Van Peebles started doing shows in NYC with members of Burnt Sugar, under the name Melvin Van Peebles wid Laxative.[29] Van Peebles said that the band is called Laxative because they “make shit happen”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11131453/Kate-Beckinsale-beams-GOAT-takes-treat-mouth-sweet-Instagram-video.html
Interspecies erotica?
Oy, she’s in the uncanny valley now where she doesn’t look quite human.
Jailhouse tats too. 😒
I think I say like 5 episodes of Interspecies Reviewers, and in the end I think I would have chosen the elf chick
Born with a great thirst, as her ex once said (of someone else) on Craig Ferguson’s show.
Libertarian in the making. – the message round this parts is that when school comes back in september there is zero intention of requiring masking
most overrated quarterback in NFL history
Jim McMahon? Really? Joe Namath would like a word.
Namath at least managed to set a handful of passing records for his position at the time.
Namath had one shining moment, which I’m sure OMWC remembers fondly. Describing his career numbers as pedestrian is an insult to streetwalkers.
173 TDs, 220 INTs
He was also the first quarterback to surpass 4,000 passing yards in a season, which he did in 14 games.
Namath was first, not best. He’s not even a top-20 QB, but he was the first QB with the power to send his receivers on these deep crossing routes that everyone uses today.
But who is the best tackler?
All kinds of neat stuff is popping up because of Europe’s drought:
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/hitlers-scuttled-black-sea-fleet-centuries-old-hunger-stones-emerge-dry-riverbeds-drought
Stone circles, Roman camps, and even the Nazis make an appearance.
Forging a Copper Damascus Katana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYZPuAI_xk
I bet it can slice through plate armor like a hot knife through butter
Those kinds of videos are very satisfying to watch. The copper, which I assume is just a gimmick, looks dangerously close to the sharp edge on that particular example.
Think I’m going to keep doing duotrigordle before Quordle to warm up… since I don’t report those results and can screw up if my mind isn’t in gear. Worked reasonably well this morning (not fantastic… but not bad for me. Beats chumping.)
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Bah. Brain fart on UL cost me. In my defense, I had 3 teeth yanked yesterday and percocet is a helluva drug.
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Walkin’ the line. My best in ages.
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Started out good …
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Wow, neither one of my pairs of initial seed words got more than 2 letters in any of the words, had to go to the third seen word.
Thaddeus Russell interviews Dugin for anyone interested:
https://youtu.be/X2RxutaSGQU
Very long, about 2 hrs, though.
https://nitter.net/CBSMornings/status/1558555239170674688#m
CBS Mornings @CBSMornings Aug 13
Today’s children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age, a new study found.
The study points to climate change and rising temperatures adversely affecting childhood obesity, as children spend less time exercising outdoors.
When you lock children in their homes for 2 years and ban them from playing with friends and cover their mouths with cloth all day, climate change makes them fatter.
Let them forage for free range crickets.
Or spend decades teaching people that letting your children play outside unsupervised is child endangerment. Or shut down things like recess for liability reasons (and ideological reasons). Helicopter parenting, an excessive, oppressive safety culture, and a ‘public health’ establishment that has been pushing garbage nutrition on kids for decades has nothing to do with it. Must be that climate change stuff. Now hand over more money and power so can fuck things up even more and blame something else again.
In 2022, because of climate change, mothers in the US are literally arrested for leaving their kids at a park, running a few errands, and coming back for them.
I’m am so goddamn saddened every morning or evening when I drive by a school and see the road backed up for a mile as parents come to drop off or pick up their children – kids go 20 yards from the front (armored, locked, machine gun turreted) gate to the door of the suburban. Saddened because they are getting in my fucking way and are horrible, inattentive drivers, but mostly because it represents a complete loss of an opportunity for personal growth and the learning of independence for kids.
Climate change my ass, blame computers and Zoom. Kids used to have to go outside to play and associate with their peers and the play had to be physical because few alternatives existed. Now, not so much.
^^^THIS
Nintendo has made infinitely more kids fat than “climate change”.
Well, that and very unhealthy diets. Overly processed “foods”, and carbs and sugar everywhere.
It’s calories out more than calories in. There was plenty of junk food, fast food, and soda pop 50 years ago.
Of course, there was one tiny tv in the house with 3 channels.
Same goes for grownups. My grandpa worked in a shop. He was on his feet all day, carrying metal things around and fabricating things with power and hand tools.
His modern day counterpart has replaced the entire team of 50 years ago with a single CNC operator that sits at a pc uploading directions.
Calories in – they ate like lumberjacks back in the day. Calories out – the problem.
Very true.
Just look at Mario.
That nit is gone — they must have realized how stupid it was.
Minutes later the far-right racist philosopher was pictured holding his head in horror as he stood amid the aftermath of the explosion.
Journalisming.
They just want to be extra sure you walk away with the correct opinions.
Good morning, Old Man!
Just following orders. Now where have I heard that before?
Despite that top-notch analysis, the Republicans should wipe out the Dems in Nov. At which point they will do nothing, As Malice likes to point out, every institution that the Rs are bitching about have been completely and consistently funded by them, even when they controlled all three branches.
Speed the collapse.
The wind presents a change of course, a second reckoning of sorts
Straight into the face of time, no doubt.
Finally Old Man links to some good music.
Boat looks great! The trout don’t stand a chance!
Thanks. You guys will have to come over and float the river next summer. Fishing at the moment is no bueno the river is flowing brown. The monsoons are smashing us. It is a good thing.
Absolutely! The rivers and creeks have been pretty bad this year. The May snow kind of fucked things up.
Went out on Chatfield, though, and caught a bunch of walleye and smallmouth.
Zhang Meifang张美芳
@CGMeifangZhang
China government official
‘Puerto Rico seeks independence. China vows to defend it militarily.’ Get the point, America? For while this story is untrue and oversimplifies the picture as it relates to #Taiwan, it begs notice of the glaring hypocrisy of the #US and its foreign policy
https://twitter.com/CGMeifangZhang/status/1560217144230551552
two things. one chinamen don’t really get how to make propaganda credible to westerners. two, if PR wants independents I think you should give it to them, good and hard.
Another thing: Would the Puerto Ricans want the Chinese there and invite them in? Likely not.
Yeah — I think almost all of the US would be “If that’s what they want, that’s fine by us” Right of self determination and all — even those who are anti-secession shouldn’t mind since PR isn’t formally a state. I’m in the “They damned well should be independent already” camp, myself.
We could easily fire back — “Yeah, just like we kept the Philippines, right asshoe?”
Yeah, there has to be some kernel of truth. I don’t think PR even wants independence. Better to suck up US tax dollars than to go it alone.
What I gathered on a recent trip to PR is that its generational. Older PRians tend to be pro-independence, younger ones pro-statehood.
What brought you there? How was it? San Juan looks cute.
How does PR have a Levittown?
Very short business trip. Saw very little of PR, but had a long ride to the hotel and a talkative and knowledgeable cabbie.
Hey, most cliches have a grain of truth. He was a former supporter of independence, until he got off the island and saw what a craphole a lot of other countries were. Then he decided the US wasn’t so bad.
That’s not the same thing.
Over at the White House, Biden reportedly called to congratulate the No. 3 Republican in the lower chamber after her double-digit defeat, an act of bipartisanship that’s second nature to the president but that has become rare in an increasingly polarized nation.
Journalisming.
“Congratulations, Loser. You really showed them sheepfuckers who’s boss.”
I never thought I’d see the Democrats metaphorically fellating a Cheney. It’s just sad really.
Oh great… now the next Joemala is going to ditch the “metaphorically” part…
OFFS 🙄
“Moment disabled man, 66, is beaten to death with metal pole in Seattle ‘by serial criminal who judge freed on felony charges eight days earlier, after asking killer not to commit any more crimes'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11131207/Moment-disabled-man-66-beaten-death-Seattle-serial-criminal-judge-freed.html
Story after story after story, but no one does anything.
Oh, they will. And the journos will wring their hands and lament the ‘vigilantes’.
If the government refuses to use its monopoly on force to keep order, eventually the citizens are going to revoke that monopoly. I’d say they’re playing with fire – but I can’t help but think there’s a sizable contingent above the useless idiots who know exactly what they’re doing and think they can steer a revolution their way. I personally doubt it still.
These moron judges are really giving sentencing reform a bad name. People don’t want to see weed dealers and petty thieves locked up but violent psychos need to be handled harshly.
if asking nicely does not work, I guess nothing can be done, we are out of solutions
The judge failed to make him pinky swear.
Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-giorgia-meloni-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-europe
“Perhaps she will, if she wins. The polls suggest that Meloni, 45, is on the verge of becoming Italy’s new prime minister in next month’s snap election, which follows the collapse of Mario Draghi’s unelected national unity government. The Brothers of Italy, the party that Meloni co-founded just ten years ago, which got just 4 per cent at the last general election, leads the opinion polls as the senior partner in the coalition of the right, which includes Matteo Salvini’s radical-right Lega. The latter has fallen in popularity as fast as Meloni has risen. She may soon be the first ever woman leader of a still-macho country at the beating heart of Europe – as well as Italy’s first democratically elected (as opposed to bureaucratically appointed) prime minister in 14 years.”
something tells me that if she wins she will not be celebrated by the feminist left, but downgraded to not a real woman
I’d butter her biscotti.
He spoke his mind too about the very real danger facing democracy in America today – to his astonishment, at the hands of his own party.
“The constitution is hanging by a thread,” he told me. “The funny thing is, I always thought it would be the other guys. And it’s my side. That just rips at my heart: that we would be the people who would surrender the constitution in order to win an election. That just blows my mind.”
Argument by random vague overwrought assertion.
Anyone ever been to Lincoln, England? The Norman castle, spectacular cathedral, and other sights (for example the High Bridge ‘Glory Hole’) look really scenic.
have not. I have not been to Lincoln Nebraska either
*checks map*
Looks like I have travelled through Lincoln, NE – twice.
Nope but I remember the cathedral from architecture history class – that thing is amazing.
Yes, and they are. Steep Hill is aptly named. You thinking of going?
(Anyone know where Limey went?)
Someday, but not in the near term unfortunately.
Not the most interesting or affluent area. Canterbury, Oxford, and Bath are lovely. Ugh, all the towns I didn’t have time to see…
the future of california high speed rail?
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1561028091794833408
something tells me that if she wins she will not be celebrated by the feminist left, but downgraded to not a real woman
Real women have penises.
These times are really confusing to me.
My two cats (2 year old we’ve had for one year) and 10 week old are rapidly working through the trauma of meeting and realizing that they have to share a house AND share its humans.
They are doing a good job of adjusting and pushing boundaries. For the first couple of days, little kitty hid in the guest bedroom and big kitty growled a bit, knowing there was :something: but not knowing what.
Then little kitty got brave and ventured out. They met, and there was much hissing and growling.
Couple of days later, they are playing and chasing, mostly little kitty chasing big kitty.
My two played and slept together for the first year or so, followed by thirteen years of hissing and growling.
I hope yours continue to get along.
Did I mention Sophie is a tom? Vet said he is neutered and 17 lb.
Talk about transitioning
That’s good. My two are separated by a few years and get along well. But the younger one (female) tends to irritate the older one (male) sometimes.
I am perplexed by the rather sudden embrace by democrats about the US drifting towards or in a civil war.
https://redstate.com/levon/2022/08/21/watch-msnbc-host-suggests-civil-war-is-here-blames-maga-mob-n615241
I have not seen any assassinations or bombings or any “troubles” yet. I don’t understand why they think it would be so good for them. I would think that MSNBC hosts would be amongst the first set of targets by one side, and FOX hosts the first set of targets by the second.
The embrace makes sense when you consider that the State has begun labeling dissenters as domestic terrorists. Upset parents at school board meetings, January 6th political prisoners, gun owners, libertarians, and even people who grow and can their own food are all inconvenient and beginning to be pushed under the domestic terrorist label.
The civil war narrative is just part of the effort to expand and more easily apply the label, thus giving the State more options to eliminate anyone they perceive as a threat. Any guesses on how long until we see drone strikes on US soil against American citizen “domestic terrorists”?
They hate you and want you dead.
The US version of The Troubles is gonna suuuuck.
They are fine with it as long as they can blame it on Orange.
Trumpite street militia wearing orange battling it out with black-clad antifa.
A civil war is an excellent time to pick up some killer real estate deals.
I have been planning to move to the Shenandoah valley region…
They want to kill their political opposition.
I don’t understand why they think it would be so good for them.
They don’t understand who has the guns. They also think that a fighter jet and/or tank negates opposition to the regime. They are ignorant of war and history.
I was gonna talk about my car towing experience on Zoom last night, but a) I was too exhausted and b) it’s probably better as an article
No spoilers, but did it wag the dog? 😳
Thankfully no. But there was some…slight damage. 😬
When I was escaping from Muncie, IN, lo these many years ago, I towed my AMC Spirit behind the U-Haul truck along the slightly hilly and very curvy stretch of US 35 between Muncie and Richmond. I think TT finally pulled ahead of me in his car, pulled over (so I did likewise,) and told me to SLOW DOWN before the Spirit shimmy-shook me right off the road.
slight damage.
Uh Oh.
I vaguely remember zoom last night. I may have sniffed too many paint fumes yesterday.
Article!
In hindsight, Bowers now recognizes that the opening shots of the conflict were fired not around the 2020 presidential election but earlier in the year, in the initial days of Covid. Trump-fanatical Republicans in the Arizona house displayed in their anti-mask antics the same disdain for the rules, the same bullying style, that was later to erupt in the stolen election furor.
Bomb throwing anarchists! They hate the government. They hate order and obedience. They’re sowing the vseeds of chaos.
Why won’t they just obey?!
OBEY YOU FUCKING SERFS…
The global reset involves a return to one or another form of feudalism. Because they have so badly fucked up things that they know the serfs will sooner than later demand retribution when they realize they were fooled by these scumbags. The powerful & rich have decided that when shit falls apart, as it must, they will keep the luxuries and benefits of society & technology – like eating Wagyu steak, caviar, and lobstah, drinking champagne and expensive wines, all in air conditioned mansions or private jets – while the rest of us will be put (or already have been put) in pods, fed insects, and controlled through propaganda.
It was the pro-mask people who were the bullies.
Interesting choice of words.
Richmond’s highly anticipated — and highly discussed — gun buyback program event at Liberation Church was a huge success, according to a tweet from the city.
City officials said cars began lining up long before the event started at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20. Event coordinators say about $67,000 was made available for the program, which was to be distributed in the form of gift cards. People could surrender assault weapons for $250 worth of gift cards, handguns for $200, rifles for $150 and inoperable guns for $50. The city offered gift cards to Kroger, Walmart, Foot Locker, and Amazon.
I see no reason to ever enter the city again. In fact, I need to move further away from it. And I do hope that no one “surrendered” an “assault weapon” for 1/3 to 1/10 of the cost.
McMahon the most overrated NFL quarterback??
Shut your whore mouth!!
OMWC and WebDom – You dudes have a fantastic coffee shop. A nice young lady just complimented me on my Cowboy Bebop shirt.
Are you there?
Right this minute, baby!
I must have arrived just too late.
Nuts, sorry about that. I hung around for about as long as I could reasonably stretch a large coffee.
Next time for sure.
But how is the coffee?
Excellent. Go for the French press.
The Neo-Nazi mystic – said to be an architect of the Ukraine war and dubbed “Putin’s Rasputin” – switched cars at the last minute on Saturday evening.
Someone is Putin us on.
Boooooo!
Is this some special ops so the totalitarians can know who to label terrorists in their coming crackdown on anyone that will not obey?
In New York? They don’t really need the excuse.
The attackers blasted their way into the Hayat Hotel on Friday evening with two car bombs before opening fire. Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents claimed responsibility
At least they didn’t meander between velvet ropes after being invited in.
I want the “inviting in” and silly photo-op footage to be run non-stop, along with the body count of who died and how.
The corrupt, rotten, stinking media has succeeded in convincing half of Americans that there was a violent mob, just the tip of the Orange iceberg, of dangerous revolutionaries aiming to kill all the browns and the womyn.
Sadly, due to the enfranchisement of women, the Dems will win this year.
Due to the enfranchisement of anonymous dropboxes, maybe.
Women are the worst voters ever. They vote based on emotion and on some weird idea that their private vote will be somehow perceived by others as correct and popular.
As a woman, I hate to see the demographic breakdown in exit polls. 100% of the time, in every state, every decade, every election, if women did not vote, the candidate or issue I favored would have won.
100%.
Overheard in the runup to the 1960 presidential election.
Grandma; “I am voting for Kennedy”
Mom: “Really? Why?”
Grandma: “He’s so handsome!”
Mom: “$%#!??”
“I love the way he says ‘Cuber’.”
Sooo much this. See Bill Clinton in the 90’s.
Feminism ftw.
The attacks come in the context of increased meetings between Turkey and Russia and Moscow and Tehran, in which Ankara seeks to launch a new military operation in Syria against Kurds and other minorities.
Hopefully they will weigh their options before fully committing.
My new roku arrived. The “set-up” process did not go smoothly. Why can’t these fucking geniuses just allow me to add the new device to my existing account, with exactly the same channels as I had before? They’re so busy trying to hang a bunch of pay channel bullshit around your neck (now that linking a credit card to your newly created “roku pay” account is apparently mandatory) the actual activation of the device is less than an afterthought.
Select a channel to watch, and it reverts directly back to the “home” screen. Modern conveniences; where would we be without them?
At this point, I’m thinking I’ll end up doing a factory reset and starting over from scratch. I hope it works.
I’m sure Apple hates that I exist — but I still have a Mac mini with external drives acting as an iTunes server for my AppleTV. It still works (I’ve stopped upgrading MacOS so I have actual iTunes, which continues to… actually work), I don’t have to care about various pay options, etc. I’d be happier if the various streaming plans would stop locking up content as exclusives (I don’t mind if they’re exclusive for a year or so… but then make them available for people willing to just pay up front and not subscribe to your stupid plans.. if we haven’t in a year, that’s a clue we’re not going to… looking at you Orville, Season 3.
We just got a replacement Apple TV box. Setup works exactly as you describe – add to account (via confirmation on my tablet on the same account), and bada-bing – a few minutes later my Home Screen is exactly the same as it was. Had to relog into a few apps (via confirmation codes or my tablet). Total time about 10 minutes?
Interesting. I don’t recall such problems. I hooked it to the internet, added my account info and away I went.
I have the set-up of a defrosted caveman. The computer is connected to the TV with an HDMI cable.
Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) strong signal that she may run for president has Democrats talking about what a pro-democracy, anti-Trump conservative candidate could do to President Biden’s political future.
I’m not convinced Biden is even still alive. But it will be fun watching Dems support a Cheney.
My two cats (2 year old we’ve had for one year) and 10 week old are rapidly working through the trauma of meeting and realizing that they have to share a house AND share its humans.
They are doing a good job of adjusting and pushing boundaries. For the first couple of days, little kitty hid in the guest bedroom and big kitty growled a bit, knowing there was :something: but not knowing what.
Then little kitty got brave and ventured out. They met, and there was much hissing and growling.
Eventually their friendship solidified around mutual love of Friskies canned Turkey and Cheese. They are off the same saucer and were forced to share. Much lighthearted chasing with no hissing followed.
Now they play a lot, mostly little kitty attacking big kitty, some faux wrestling from big kitty, who occasionally requests to be let outside for some private time away from the young spaz.
They don’t yet lie down next to each other, but they will occupy a TV-watching human with big kitty on the lap and little kitty on the ankles of the recliner-human.
It is fun having a kitten again. Poor guy has no idea I’m looking at my calendar to schedule cutting his balls off.
‘I’m sorry – he’s not able to come in unless he has his mask on,’ says Michelle Williams, the school principal.
‘I welcome him here, and I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: I want him here, but it is our district’s policy that students have to wear a mask.’
I thought we were past this nonsense.
I welcome him here
In a world where “inclusive” means “except for the deplorables who are roughly 50% of the electorate” I guess “put your mask on or GTFO” is welcoming.
Thinking about this crime wave business. What are the chances of a for-real Magnum Force scenario?
Judges letting criminals off. DAs refusing to prosecute. Cops getting bushwhacked.
The problem is obvious; the cops will start pre-emptively blasting people who pose no threat to anybody, while studiously maintaining a safe distance from the real hard core menaces.
I would be shocked if this wasn’t happening right now.
But Republican voters have nominated loyalists of former President Donald Trump in several Democratic states, including Maryland and Connecticut, making the GOP’s odds of winning those general election races even longer. Massachusetts will face its own test next month as GOP voters decide between a Trump-backed conservative and a more moderate Republican for the party’s gubernatorial nominee.
That’s some mighty fine political analyzin’ there , Lou.
Dude, I’ll just vote for whoever survives the primary at this point.
I’m desperate enough to have registered GOP in Nevada, and even though my man Sam Brown didn’t win the primary, I’m voting for Laxalt against incumbent Catherine Marie Cortez-Other-Unnecessary-but-Vaguely-Ethnic-Names-Masto.
I hate politicians.
https://captainsambrown.com/
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Yup. Not a big fan of Black’s third here.
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This is a very Arizonan story. But it is also an American story that carries an ominous warning for the entire nation.
“People I don’t like might win elections. ZOMG.”
Bowers has a word for that kind of thinking. “The thought that if you don’t do what we like, then we will just get rid of you and march on and do it ourselves – that to me is fascism.”
Democratically electing representatives to do things the people want is fascism I guess.
Bowers has a word for that kind of thinking. “The thought that if you don’t do what we like, then we will just get rid of you and march on and do it ourselves – that to me is fascism.”
Letting the people decide the fate of a politician is a stupidly dangerous plan. What do they know about what’s good for them? Why should anybody care what they think?
There’s ruling to be done.
I don’t see why the LGPA can’t be inclusive and set up transwomen tees. Heck, they could be even MORE inclusive and have tees set up for every gender!
tees set up for every gender!
How many genders are there now? Two? Three? Fore?
The same as angels on the head of a pointed stick
There’s an opportunity here for Tiger Woods to make a comeback.
Unprecedented megadrought
Nearly 10 million people across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas are under flood watches Saturday, including Phoenix, Albuquerque and El Paso.
“The stage is set for southern Arizona and New Mexico to potentially receive prolific rainfall and widespread flash flooding today,” as a low-pressure system brings moist, tropical air to the Southwest in the form of heavy rain and thunderstorms to add to the already active monsoon season across the region, the Weather Prediction Center said early Saturday morning.
Widespread rainfall totals of 2 to 3 inches, with locally higher totals of 5 to 7 inches, are forecast across the region — leading the WPC to issue a level 3 out of 4 “moderate” risk for excessive rainfall ahead of the wet forecast. That could mean widespread flash flooding across the Southwest.
On Saturday, a search and rescue operation for a missing person continued at Zion National Park in Utah following a flash flood on the Virgin River, according to a tweet from the national park.
The earth has dried up. We’re doomed.
I dunno man we are having one helluva drought round this parts. I am fucking done with this summer. I want cold. And rain. When it rains a lot i usually complain but this year i vow not to.complain about rain. Let it come.
Same here. 70 days or so without rain. Finally got some late last week, more today. This summer was a bit of a drag.
“70 days or so without rain.”
*laughs in Tucsonian*
We are always doomed.
“If you scare people they will do whatever you tell them to do.” – Rudolf Eichmann? I think that is right but my memory is not what it used to be.
I am off to cut grass then do some baking.
Good to see you’re back.
Late to the party, so I doubt you’ll see this but… It is fantastic to see you around and I hope you and your wife are well.
It’s paint day. I am going to do some touch up in the bedroom and them paint the accent wall a different color. Last time lasted about 7 years before the wife wanted a change. I am hoping for ten years this time. Would rather unplug a toilet and replace innards on every toilet in the house than paint.
heading for 80 with serious drain bamage, and still a poon hound?
Fourth-degree sexual contact? What’s that, touching a calf over their jeans?
Here’s an idea- stop making things worse
Administration officials have pointed to a Treasury Department analysis showing that Biden’s decision to release 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves contributed from 13 to 31 cents to the more than $1 drop in gas prices since their highs in June, with similar releases by other countries adding up to 11 cents more to the decline.
But there is no indication that Biden’s other efforts, like publicly shaming oil and gas companies over their record profits, calling an emergency meeting with CEOs and threatening to pull unused drilling permits, have had any effect on price or production, according to industry experts. While oil production has increased, it has done so at a pace similar to what was expected before Russia invaded Ukraine.
“There hasn’t really been a policy that we can point you to that has helped the situation. When the executives met with the White House over the last few months, their primary message was don’t make it worse,” said Geoff Moody, vice president for government relations for the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers. “There were a lot of things that they were considering that they have not done that would have really exacerbated the situation. So to the extent that they want to take credit for anything, I would say it is by not interfering.”
Pay no attention to the eco-activist behind the curtain. When it is your expressed intent to destroy the petrochemical industry, it’s hard to pretend you want supply up and price down.
Although gas prices have dropped from earlier this summer, they are still close to pre-pandemic highs. A gallon of gas is around 75 cents higher than it was at this time last year and more than a dollar above where it was in 2019 before the pandemic caused demand to tumble and oil producers and refiners to slash production.
While touting the recent decline, administration officials acknowledge that prices could rise again, though they expect prices to fall slightly more as demand typically drops in the fall. “This is a global market. Anything could happen, especially as it relates to what’s going on in Russia and Ukraine,” one administration official said.
Think of it as an increase in the chocolate ration.
“Anything could happen.” No matter what happens, if it’s good, we did it, and if it’s bad, it was completely beyond our control.
A civil war is an excellent time to pick up some killer real estate deals.
CARPETBAGGER!
*points, shrieks*
One step the administration is looking to take to encourage oil companies to increase production is to guarantee that they will be able to sell their oil to the U.S. government at a fixed price as it begins to restock some of the barrels Biden sold off from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves. In the past, the federal government has paid the market rate when the oil is delivered, which could be more or less than the price when the contract was signed. The official said offering a fixed price now could take away some of the risk for oil companies investing in new drilling operations that could take months or years to get up and running.
The administration has also been trying to hammer out a deal with other European and Asian allies to impose a price cap on Russian oil to bring down gas prices and cut into the Kremlin’s revenue. The countries agreed to the price cap during the G7 meeting in June with the goal of putting it in place by the end of the year. But industry analysts have warned it could backfire and drive prices higher if Russia lowers production as a result, creating an artificial shortage.
Central planning, with prices set by experts, will save us. Ministry of Plenty, FTW!
Fourth-degree sexual contact? What’s that, touching a calf over their jeans?
Tapping her on the shoulder in an elevator to ask her to push your floor button.
I think we have yet to see. It could have been something horrible, or like you said, something totally benign.
“Would you push my floor button, please?”