I know I’ve been stingy with the tunes of late, so I’m making it up to you people with an extended version of a funk fave.
AND SPEAKING OF FLASHLIGHTS: SpaceX stood down the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying private lunar lander Hakuto-R and NASA’s Lunar Flashlight. Flashlight is a really big deal because it will give us a map of lunar ice deposits which are necessary for lunar colonization.
THE GASSING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: US Army accidentally tear-gasses own troops during “morale” event.
SELF-PARODY OF THE WEEK: There exists a thing called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Just kill yourselves already and set an example.
JOURNOLIST – THE PLAY AT HOME VERSION: The federal government has awarded $5 million to a group of journalists called Hacks/Hackers to develop software that will encourage regular Americans to confront their friends over “harmful” posts, and “correct misinformation” by replying with text suggested by the software. HTF is this even legal? The original JournoList.
PEOPLE SUCK: German authorities say a 72-year-old woman has been arrested after she allegedly switched off her hospital roommate’s ventilator – twice – because she was bothered by the sound it made.
RUGGEDIZED, SATELLITE-ENABLED SMARTPHONE COMING IN 2023: British handset maker Bullitt said Nov. 29 it will release a smartphone early next year capable of sending and receiving texts via satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO). […] Bullitt, which designs and builds ruggedized mobile phones under brand licenses from Motorola and heavy-duty vehicle specialist Caterpillar, expects to launch initial satellite coverage across North America and Europe in the first quarter of 2023, “with the rest of world following very shortly after.”
WHYCOME NO CTHULHU FILM: Director Guillermo del Toro has long wanted to make a true-to-text film of HP Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” but hasn’t been able to get the project greenlighted. This video explains why. Short answer: too expensive, too dark, R-rating (for violence). Also, too similar to Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” which started filming when ATMOM was in pre-production.
I first read that as fleshlight.
Look, just because you think NASA should be probing Uranus and all…
I heard those could be fun,
Fleshlights in space? You have summoned “Flesh Gordon “
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aW4lFV2NA0o
Ooooh, you could do a writeup on classic porn parodies of mainstream books/movies starting with “Lord of the Cock Rings.”
Not quite that elaborate, but I am planning in posting “Flesh Gordon” with some history at some point.
The one that was the go to joke title in my circle of friends when we were younger was Edward Penishands.
Regular movie title for which no change is required for the porn version:
Driving Miss Daisy.
Shaft
Although after some thought, I am open to a collaboration on the subject entitled “Rule 34.” When do we start?
“Could they survive?”
“Unlikely, but they might be able to by foraging for peanuts and corn.”
Hmm.. are Japanese moon landers just cursed or something?
whaddup doh’
“The group is also organizing Wikipedia censors to determine who is a “credible source” on vaccines, and block anyone else from being cited on the online encyclopedia. Job ads for the project do not require that applicants have any expertise in medicine.
That list is already taking shape on Wikipedia, with liberal outlets such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and The Atlantic all marked “reliable.” Conservative sites, including The Daily Wire, Daily Mail, Epoch Times, and The Federalist, are all classified as either “unreliable” or “conspiracy.””
Wikipedia has been awful for years. Anytime I see a locked article, I assume it’s bullshit.
“The group led by Hacks/Hackers received $5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF)”
SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!
“NSF recently spent $500,000 for a 22-page study that used Critical Race Theory to argue that science itself is racist.”
LOLOLOL
Re: Army tear-gassing their own troops. They’re just jealous of the Navy getting all the press.
marked the boundaries of the course with tear gas
Couldn’t just use shock collars like you do with dogs?
Based on the article, and what I could see of the sailors on deck not shitting themselves, Id say it wasn’t nearly as bad as the scarelines make it out to be.
Back when I was a young Army Man they used to gas you for morale on purpose.
Made a man out ya!
Grew hair on your lungs!
I’ve been gassed a few times in the field. On one MILES exercise:
OC: Why aren’t you masked?
Me: It is easier to shoot the enemy without a mask.
OC: Can’t you tell the area has been gassed?
Me: Yes, but it’s not strong enough to bother me.
OC: It could be nerve gas.
Me: Only the Soviets use the real stuff during training.
OC: You’re dead smartass.
I was gassed so much back in the early ’80s that I actually built up a tolerance.
The HC white smoke bothered me worse than the CS.
Turned out the HC could actually cause long lasting lung damage, but they didn’t know it at the time.
“Leaders at echelon participated in this event with Soldiers…”
“Hey! Top and the Old Man got a whiff of it too, ya pussies”
Since this is the porto fire of links, the Secretary of Dumpster Fires!
We’ll take the blame in our house, we went out for a nice dinner last night.
It’s not that the government has injected trillions of dollars into the economy. It’s that you bought a grill last year.
I bought milk and eggs. I’m spending money like a drunken sailor.
I put gas in my car! To go to work!
Woah, easy there, dude. Let’s not get nuts here.
While the injecting has certainly helped — I think going after the energy sector is a big part of it too. Make the foundations of the economy more expensive, everything just compounds from there. But no… Wise Shaman Yellen insists they did a bang up job… just ignore your lying eyes!
Reminds me of a t-shirt I used to have in the late ’70s.
“Injection is Nice, but I’d Rather Be Blown.”
Picture of supercharged street-rod.
Don’t let the last admin off the hook – it went along with the shut-down bullshit and that was a catastrophic shock to the economy.
Granted — though I suspect if they’d held the line on further “relief packages” and kept energy prices low things would be a lot lot better.
“Two weeks to flatten the curve” would have been OK.
Except that was bullshit as well and we know they never meant for it to be two weeks only.
John Ziegler is doing some interesting reporting on the timeline of it all.
He mostly blames Gavin Newsom and the sports media. The first domino to fall was the Ivy League tournament, then all the other sports started following suit and of course the sports media was all over it.
Newsom rode the wave and shut down California, which then gave political cover for Cuomo, and then every other Democrat governor and most of the Republicans.
Nobody wanted to be the guy who killed grandma and the media lapped it up. Even Fauci was altering his bullshit to fit the popular freakout.
Didn’t Italy do it first?
Absolutely, but he’s limiting it to the US and how it played out here.
The price of oil went negative under Trump because of the lock-downs. That had impact. Just think of sitting on an inventory of oil, that even just for a short while was a negative asset.
If I recall, Trump wanted to re-open everything on Easter.
But the spineless fuck didn’t, did he? He was talked out of it.
I think it was more that the lockdowns were by State.
Yeah, I remember Shithead Cuomo saying Trump didn’t have the power to make the states re-open.
To be fair, the feds never had that right. It was always at best a state thing (not that I think they had that right, either).
Shut off the “emergency” money spigot, and the lockdowns don’t last long.
Yeah, the DemOp Complex would have gone after him. That would have been a real change from business as usual.
Yeah, Oregon wasn’t going to do anything Trump said.
And had he not kow-towed to the Fauci cabal, every Covid death would have been pegged on Trump.
What, like they weren’t anyway? The media and Dems (but I repeat myself) had that line covered.
Facilitated the lockdowns, and blew out spending (to subsidize the lockdowns).
Whatever you think of Trump, I think his handling of the pandemic disqualifies him as a serious Presidential candidate.
Of course, for the vast majority of voters, Trump’s handling of covid disqualifies him because he didn’t do nearly enough in their eyes, even if they can’t articulate what it is that they would have liked him to do.
That includes a large number of Republicans and the vast majority of independents.
True, those voters are what we call, morons.
Assuming that we lived in a fantasy world of legitimate elections, it seems any candidate who has any appeal to the libertarian mindset beyond being the “least bad of all choices” would also be completely unelectable by the general public.
There is no President I would want who is considered a serious candidate by the general public. But I’d take DeSantis over Harris in a preference ranking.
It’s the majority of the potential electorate at a minimum. It’s the majority of “adults” in this country by a lot when it comes to covid.
The people here attacking Trump as non-serious because of his covid response are in the tiny minority on this subject. And there has been no great reckoning where the average voter has had to face the stupidity of the policies they supported because there is no self-awareness. There are no public figures really beating the drum that spending was out of control and caused inflation. That shutting down much of the economy for the better part of two years was the stupidest, most arrogant (not to be mistaken for most evil) fucking thing governments have done in human history. It takes a lot of hubris and detachment from reality to think that you could do that without consequences while spending trillions of dollars you didn’t have to spend.
There are what, some 350 people here – and we aren’t all in 100% agreement. That makes us quite literally 1 in a million in this country. We are not the electorate that either party is looking for.
That experiment was already run with Goldwater, confirming your hypothesis.
Just got you JI: https://youtu.be/KKSz4NE6PwY
Nice!
What did you have?
VHEM has been around for quite a while, hasn’t it? I swear this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of those nuts… granted, this is the first time in a while I would believe a significant fraction of world leaders are members… (at least of the icky unwashed… they plan on sticking around, like all good cult leaders).
Well of course, somebody really smart has to be around to run the whole thing. The scary thing is that being a manipulative psychopath or creating an addictive product that a lot of people buy, somehow qualifies these people to decide the fate of the world. Could you imagine the robber barons of the 19th century doing something like this?
Only in really, really cheesy remakes of Wild, Wild West with mechanical spiders and all.
Yeah, I encountered them online in the very early ’90s.
How did I find them? How did one find anything back then? OTOH, search engines were even more garbage than they are now. OTOH, there were only like 150 web pages back then.
I beg to differ: back then, if a search engine had a result for you, it actually showed the goddamn thing. Now they give you pages and pages of “suggestions” first, and if you’re lucky, you might find something relevant on page 6 or so of your results.
Plus their search parameters also used to actually behave like they were supposed to.
As for the VHEM, they’ve always side-stepped their own “moral responsibility” to off themselves first as an example, which is why they’re simply bullshit.
Speaking of… when did search engines start completely ignoring my commands to omit words with ‘-‘ or require words with ‘+’ or phrases with quotes around them?
At least a year ago?
I’ve given up trying to tell them to so the search properly.
PEOPLE SUCK:
If this one happened in a movie, we’d all be laughing at it.
I hate this “misinformation” thing so much. And so many idiots go along with it, believing their party will always be in charge, and there is no way they’d ever be on the receiving end of censorship. IDIOTS.
It just goes right back to that old line about the useful idiots being lined up against the wall with the most shocked faces.
Division leadership overseeing the event at Fort Carson, Colorado, marked the boundaries of the course with tear gas, an unusual use of the chemical irritant given it can easily move with the wind.
/adjusts tin foil hat
Division leadership is trying to encourage those that won’t shoot their fellow Americans to leave.
Well, there you go – answered yourself.
Outsourcing the propaganda, or censorship, means it is all the fault of the corporation!
Once the Feds started outsourcing tax collections to businesses, it was all downhill. They outsource just about everything now in order to avoid the legal restraints and blowback.
Fuck you Milton.
Heil Hitler!
Lol, WTF? Dude’s fishing for a top seat at the WEF or what? He could be Klaus’s 2nd dude.
He’s mentally ill, not so much because he doesn’t damn You Know Who but because he doesn’t have the good sense to keep his mouth shut about it when he’s got so much to lose. When this manic episode ends he’s gonna be hating life.
Who did na-zi this coming?
That sort of thing will likely result in an auto-ban from most places.
Tonio, there’s still hope for del Toro:
Guillermo del Toro Is Trying to Get At the Mountains of Madness Made Again
He’s going to make an attempt at a stop motion version.
Interesting. Thanks.
Then there’s this butt-biter.
Doesn’t look like a heroic mulatto to me.
Oh, and if you haven’t watched it the Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix adapts a couple of Lovecraft stories, and was a fairly well done anthology horror show (IMHO).
I now want to watch both Cabinet of Curiosities and The Color of Water.
I tried so very hard to like “Lovecraft Country,” but just couldn’t.
You mean the Shape of Water? The girlfriend and I watched it, and neither were big fans. The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth on the other hand… if you haven’t seen them (and you can tolerate a subtitled movie), watch them.
Cabinet is ok but the episodes are too long for the payoff. Twilight Zone really nailed it with compact stories.
Twilight Zone had a season with hour (45 minutes after commercial breaks) long episodes. Rarely in syndication.
I can’t think of any other director I’d rather see have a go at Mountains of Madness.
Rian Johnson has a knack for making films that will make you feel like your a little less of a human for having seen them.
Yeah. I watched the Last Jedi too.
“Also, too similar to Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” ”
That movie sucked. OK, not as bad as that German lady, but it was still bad.
Lina Wertmüller?
RUN SIDEWAYS!
NH Dem state rep still in jail
With control of the state House of Representatives down to a handful of votes, New Hampshire Democrats continue to count on every vote from their caucus — including one member currently sitting in a Manchester jail cell. And while Rep. Stacie Laughton (D-Nashua) is a repeat offender accused of stalking a Hudson woman for years, Granite State Democrats have declined to denounce her or call for her removal from the caucus.
It’s no fun unless you’re absolutely certain that you’ll get credit for your ultimate virtue signal.
I propose a fund to get them a monument built. Where can I donate?
Voluntary extinction has been done already…..over 20 years ago I think
https://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/
Death Race 2000 was not a documentary!
How many points do I get for running you over?
Looks like 100 points.
Yeah, but now those folks are Middle Aged in Asia.
But who will be around to care?
I had this argument with Nikki once upon a time. This is all just an argument against higher intelligence.
It assumes there is a “correct” state for the biosphere and that humans aren’t part of it.
The correct state of the biosphere is the one that supports maximum human life.
The bugs don’t care.
Without humans around, there will be a glorious equilibrium for all of eternity. No chance one species will cause another to go extinct, damage the ecosystem, or anything like that.
On the plus side, there won’t be a bunch of self-loathing asshats sitting around worrying about it either.
Remember that our ur-myth is the Garden of Eden where everything was just peachy. These people have bought into that hard, even though they’d be offended by the comparison. They want to return to an imagine golden age of hunter-gathering. I remember White Indian becoming enraged when I asked him who would make the polio and smallpox vaccines in Gamboltopia.
There’s a handle I haven’t heard in a while.
And never want to see ever again. I’m hoping he died from an infected blanket.
You say his name three times and he’ll appear on this site.
That’s a gambol most aren’t willing to take.
One of my many back-burner projects is a refutation of Gamboltarianism where I treat those arguments with the kindest possible interpretations of good faith, etc. It still backs right up to socialism with “why is the food under lock and key?”
Mrs. Stack is long gone I hope.
We need more anti-glibs.
Its hard to disagree with everyone about everything around here.
Try taking the position that Ukraine didn’t deserve to be invaded by Russia and that no, the West didn’t make Russia do it.
There was a game blogger (Shamus Young) who in one of his posts pointed out that most of the people reading would not have survived to the age they are now in the middle ages. Not from wars or starvation, but just general illness and infection. Have you needed antibiotics? Broken a limb? Had pneumonia?
How to speed up Idiocracy.
Nikki was the worst.
Birthrates are already down, damn near everywhere. Is this group going to have a moment of clarity and start the “Fuck for Survival” church?
Motto: For Fuck’s Sake, Fuck!
Alternative: “Contraception is for Losers!”
They are like the people who claim they are willing to pay more in taxes but somehow never send extra money to the Treasury.
There should be a punishment for that, like the Yakuza have.
I encourage to people to administer beatdowns to those who do this.
Literal NPCs
Digital Stasi. Sounds nice.
My first Regimental Commander had a rule about us always having our gasmasks with us. At one point he gassed a bus full of Marines sleeping in a bus – many of who had tossed their masks in with stored gear under the cab. Luckily I was driving a Humvee.
RUGGEDIZED, SATELLITE-ENABLED SMARTPHONE COMING IN 2023
Oooooh. I like this.
Reminds me of those earlier phones with “push to talk”.
I think those were also Cat-branded phones, so probably made by the same people. Non-service-dependent PTT was a big feature for their target audiences.
There are already rugged sat phones like Iridium, but they don’t do cellular.
Yep. And my kid has a Garmin beacon with limited text capabilities for backcountry. This looks like a good all around.
And those phones and services are very pricey. This is killer because you use the normal cell phone network for voice and internet, but can get out a text or SOS from pretty much anywhere via sat, some terrain restrictions apply.
some terrain restrictions apply
Afghanistan veterans nod knowingly.
“Woke mob slams Tim Burton’s smash hit Netflix Addams Family reboot Wednesday for casting black actors as bullies and owner of PILGRIM-themed amusement park”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11491019/Woke-mob-slams-Tim-Burtons-Netflix-series-Wednesday-casting-black-actors-bullies.html
This shit is tiring af.
The funny thing is the show is extremely “woke”” with rants about how white people mistreated the natives and shit. My kids watched it last week.
But nothing is ever good enough.
I made it through an episode or two. It just was not compelling. Beautiful camera work and costumes though.
The production design is to die for. But that’s what Tim Burton does. Great production design but no substance.
His best films are ones he himself had a hand in the storytelling (or seem personal):
Edward Scissorhands
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Frankenweenie
I saw one clip of Wednesday beating up some rapey jocks to know to stay away.
No, I lied. Burton’s entire filmography over the last two decades was enough for me to stay away, woke or not.
I’m not that familiar with his work but The Mad Hatter breaking into an impromptu dance routine for no fucking reason convinced me that his entire catalogue must be shit.
The good:
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Beetlejuice
Batman
Batman Returns
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
Frankenweenie (original)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
I might include Big Fish in the good category, and yes, hellspawn that I am, I really appreciate his take on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I feel like I need to start a substack just to defend the film)
Big Eyes and the Frankenweenie remake were decent.
Long but good read.
Dude, history ended back in the 90’s. The rest of the world just hasn’t realized it yet.
Don Lemon with his most reasonable take ever and this is the left turning on him.
Oh what a perfect hill for him to die on.
When I say they are better skilled, I don’t want to actually defend that “MIC DROP!” opinion.
The discussion of skill is a red herring anyway. What does audience want to watch and what will they pay for?
CNN should know that better than most by now.
A subscription to women’s soccer plus would make those ladies incredibly rich.
On Onlyfans?
They no can dunk, but good fundamentals.
The US women’s national team loses to teams of teenage boys. That’s all Lemon had to say.
He’s more interested in the men.
Users are encouraged to paste in their friends’ Twitter and Facebook posts, and the tool will tell them how “harmful” they are. Then it “suggests relevant responses through tailored response examples or templates” that the user should copy and paste as a reply, according to a video demonstrating the software.
Just wait until the autists at 4chan get ahold of this and flip the script. Every government press release and MSM article gets fact-checked with anything from “Well Ackshyually” to “BULLSHIT!”
Looks like I’ve got another round of unfriending in my future.
Wait, you have friends? I really don’t glib right.
I hope someone infiltrates them and busts their prog friends by showing screenshots of what the app says to say underneath their friends posting the same shiznat word -for-word.
L O L
I cannot WAIT to see somebody wearing that. I would bet now it would be a young person.
Gnarwals!
I’m surprised nobody has suggested bringing your own tank of air. That’s one way to be 100% sure of what you’re inhaling.
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.v6e7_fBQ-_d68O_MYf-nsgHaHa
Just vacuum seal yourselves and be done with it already!
Narrator: This message brought to you by the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement with the support of viewers like you!
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Kathryn
@kadamssl
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Nov 30
Buckled up and ready to go. [wearing a different kind of mask to be fair/RN]
Safety chic. 😉
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Frances Leboe
@FLeboe
Replying to
@kadamssl
Do those masks have valves? If that’s the case, they may not be filtering the air you exhale meaning you’re not protecting those around you. I’m 100% for masking up, but they need to protect everyone, not just the wearer. If they don’t have valves, please disregard!
Holy shit. It’s real.
Why the stupid horn thing on top? Couldn’t you just flush-mount the intake filter?
Too subtle.
You could plug it with a post it note from behind
At the least you would get a flapping effect. Makes it enjoyable for others.
encourage regular Americans to confront their friends over “harmful” posts
[Insert appropriate 1984 quote]
WORDS ARE VIOLENCE! I MUST DEFEND MYSELF!
*Starts punching asshole spouting lines from a government propaganda site.
“Of course Comrade Napoleon wants you to speak freely! To think and express yourselves as you wish is fundamental to our revolution. But comrades, what you say or think could mislead you or other animals, and then where would we be?”
Animal Farm distilled it down to the essence, imho — easily adapted.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11491815/Kanye-West-says-sees-good-things-Hitler-brought-value-world.html
Nice of him to wear that not to make Alex Jones look crazy.
Good lord what a nutjob.
I like how Alex Jones is trying to back him off the ledge because he’s just too extreme.
How do we know that it was KanYE? It could be any old asshole in a mask.
I watched this last night. A well made Brit scifi/horror film, in glorious technicolor. Suggestively racy, for the time, I’d say.
Huh… before I hovered I was expecting Lifeforce.
I saw it at the drive-in when I was about 6. I had nightmares for years.
In a few days late news: Boreham Wood drew Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup 3rd rnd. The wood is going to make another deep run, aren’t they?
I have no idea what any of that means, but… maybe? 😉
FA Cup is a soccer tournament in England for all of the professional and semi-professional and even some amateur teams. It goes down to the 9th? level of leagues.
Round 3 is where the top two leagues enter, the premier league and the championship league. Round 1 is where the other professional leagues enter, League 1 (tier 3) and League 2(tier 4). Below that is “non-league” teams, which are a mix of pro and semi-pro and eventually amateur teams.
Non-league teams have to play in qualifying rounds to even get to round 1.
Boreham Wood FC (located in Borehamwood) is tier 5. Last year they finished 9th of 23 teams in that league. Also last year, in the FA Cup, they advanced to Round 5, which is the final 16. To give an example of their size, they play in a “stadium” that holds 4500 people, with 1700 seats.
Their are only 20 teams that advance from round 2 to round 3. Their are 48 teams in League 1 and League 2 combined, so non-league teams have no business in round 3, but 1 or 2 make it every year. Boreham Wood won round 2 last week to make it to round 3 again this year. They drew a team that is currently 19th of 24 in League 1, so about as easy a match as they could hope for. And they have the match at home.
I miss the FA Cup since they moved it off cable. I love watching the rinky-dink teams go at it.
that holds 4500 people
So a medium size high school football stadium.
Hah!
About time I gave a “worst club in Britain” update. Fort William FC finished bottom of the Highland League in 2021-22: played 34, won 1, drew 4, lost 29. Scored 34, conceded 134. Remarkably they only finished last by 11 points. They were scheduled for a play-off to see if they stayed in the league. But, they voluntarily forfeited over player eligibility rules. They now play in the North Caledonian League and sit comfortably mid-table.
So, by definition, being midtable they aren’t the worst club in Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNg1Il8uZg
There’s a North Caledonian League? with its own table?
Every 3rd male in Scotland must be in a league somewhere.
That means there is room for 2 more tiers!
In tier 11 in England, their is a “South West Peninsula League Division One East”.
LOL.
“Tier 11” anything in the US would be like pee-wee T-ball or something.
Informally it goes to Tier 21: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_league_system#The_system
https://www.northcaleyfa.com/
From Juris’ link above:
Yellen argued the administration managed the COVID-19 pandemic so well that consumers felt comfortable to “splurge” on goods.
That’s exactly what I was going to say!
This is not, repeat, IS NOT, pent-up demand finally being released.
It’s entirely a product of the Era of Good Feelings For Some People created by our illustrious administration.
Yellen argued the administration managed the COVID-19 pandemic so well
I never thought Yellen would say something nice about Trump, but there it is.
So supply-chain was screwed by people buying treadmills and inflation due to people buying grills? Got it..
Animal Farm distilled it down to the essence, imho — easily adapted.
There is an animated version of Animal Farm that’s pretty good. I haven’t watched it a while. Maybe I’ll try to find it.
There was an old one I remember being shown at school as a kid. It did make an impression on me, even at a young age.
Yeah, that was a good one.
My kids each read Animal Farm in school. Really shocked it’s still in the curriculum.
Project Veritas’ latest:
Project Veritas released a new video today which shows several migrants detailing their experiences upon arriving in the United States.
These individuals said they were removed from school, put through forced labor, and even provided with fake social security cards — all of this to pay off debts to cartels.
“When I got here [to the United States], I began studying, and then working. I went to school for six months. From a year ago, I began working…I go in [to work] at 4PM and get out at 2AM,” an underage female migrant said.
Frander, who is a male migrant, said he “cannot work legally” in the United States, but since he was forced to pay “$150” for “a small piece of paper that you get to be able to apply for jobs – a social security [card],” he has been able to work.
“You just call the person, and he comes to your home and brings it [fake social security card],” Frander explained.
Another underage male migrant even stated that migrants go to work “wherever they take you,” referring to the cartels / traffickers.
Tara Lee Rodas, the whistleblower who approached Project Veritas from within the federal government to expose all of this, said she was horrified by what has been taking place.
“I think most people believe, and I originally thought, that sponsors were families because HHS says, ‘We’re reuniting children with their families.’ In fact, that’s not the case,” Rodas said.
“This is a terrible thing, and then you look at some of these children who are teenagers, who’ve never been to school, can’t read, can’t write. It’s a very wicked thing to take advantage of these children,” she said.
Wow, I didn’t realize DeSantis and his plane flights were so evil.
This might be the funkiest track I have ever heard. Hot damn.
Dude, the whole album is bangin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLYlrE2lPs
God, that’s a great song, Tonio.
Thank you for making my afternoon properly funky!
History of Funk in two minutes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=38IFCiqc6LQ
What did I just watch?
That was AMAZING!
Mighty Boosh, episode “Old Gregg”
There was an old one I remember being shown at school as a kid. It did make an impression on me, even at a young age.
Made in 1954.
Maybe Kanye’s saying all that crazy shit so his sponsors will drop him and he can go back and renegotiate the divorce agreement.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
*golf claps*
You know whoever picks photos at the NYT had fun here.
Verdict in Trump Organization Trial Could Come Down to 3 Little Words
Paywalled. I’m guessing the three words are Orange Man Bad.
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More like “Pull my finger.”
Deja vu all over again
The economist Austan Goolsbee will take over as president of the Chicago Federal Reserve early next year as the central bank weighs critical policy moves ahead, according to an announcement Thursday.
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Currently a professor at the prestigious University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Goolsbee previously served as chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors from 2010-11 under then-President Barack Obama.
Just don’t call it Obama’s third term.
Non-conforming speech
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it.
Pressure has been mounting on Amazon to discontinue sale of the film, called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” since Irving shared the link to the documentary with his millions of Twitter followers in October. The synopsis on Amazon says the film “uncovers the true identity of the Children of Israel.”
At The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in New York City, Jassy said it is difficult for the company to determine what content crosses the line to where Amazon doesn’t make it available to customers.
“As a retailer of content to hundreds of millions of customers with a lot of different viewpoints, we have to allow access to those viewpoints, even if they are objectionable — objectionable and they differ from our particular viewpoints,” the Times quoted Jassy as saying.
What makes it “anti-semitic” aside from the ADL’s official stamp of disapproval?
I don’t care if it is, people are free to not watch it. Fuck this digital bookburning shit.
I have not heard any specifics about the movie, but the Amazon CEO being a Jew likely gives him cover here. I’m real surprised he’s standing firm on this one.
Regardless, maybe if you want to show the stupidity of someone going with conspiracies on the Jews running the world, you shouldn’t take an incredibly wealthy individual with a large platform like Kanye West and then ruin him because he said some things you disagree with? I don’t know how many of the decision makers at the banks and in the other corporations were Jews, but I’m going to guess the number is greater than zero and none of them said this really isn’t our fucking role as a bank…to play the thought police and give up accounts worth millions of dollars.
I hope it shows up on TUBI so we can all critique it.
If Kanye wanted to, he can say and do all the anti-Semite shit he wants to. All he has to do is pretend to be a leftist. The left are the most anti-Semit fuckers since the real Nazis and they get a total free pass for it.
^ The Azov say hi. Well did before the Russians took them out.
MOA put together a pretty funny pre- vs. post-invasion compilation of articles from the NYT and Washington Post about the Azov. Pre-invasion were articles about the looming Nazi threat in Ukraine. Post-invasion were tongue-bathing the Azov freedom fighters. Same group, just showing the difference of being in and out of the Left’s favor.
*long exhale*
I found that the front half of the model I’d done a gradient highlight for the cape had another piece of cloth – which was wrapped around a number of other highly detailed elements hanging from its belt. So, to avoid having it look like I didn’t finish the model I had to apply a gradient highlight to that cloth – which was far less straightforward than the cloak. It is a painstaking technique that is very different from my normal methods.
I’m taking a break before painting the model’s legs.
“ Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room…”
…😔
Paint and watch movies. A good one is posted tonight to kickoff December.
I can’t. if I’m not focused on the painting, it turns out poorly. So having a distraction going isn’t a great idea.
Tonio,
That PFunk song is one of my favorites of theirs.
I’m not even into that stuff but that tune was great.
Lots of space geekery!!! And I’m in b4 ded thred (I was napping!)