Man, it’s the 4th Monday in January, and I’ve pretty much used up my share of witty anecdotes. Although my littlest one has learned how to surmount the two steps up/down to the playroom from the kitchen, and also how to change elevation on the Nugget futons we have there. I’m not going to link to the Nugget, but if you’ve got crawlers or toddlers, its a neat little two futon, two cushion couch/chair thingy that lets them build forts or learn to crawl/step up and down for the littlest. My 3rd (first to learn to crawl/walk around them) has way better balance and ability to change elevation than the first two. But anyways, the littlest now crawls out of the playroom and seeks out things to destroy/chew on throughout the house now.
If this thing only dispersed day after pills, you could have a one-stop “day after poor life decisions” vending machine.
I want to see 33 ~1/3 Saturn V engines fire up at once.
Imagine a high-level member of a party with “Socialist” right there on the label saying… socialist things! (h/t Warty)
That’s a really shitty thing to do, Florida Man!
I woke up today Ready to Go!
I can First. Nothing can stop me.
I can First. Nothing can stop me.
Seemed on topic.
IP theft! (Yes, I skimmed the River thread…. 😉 )
Reservoir Dogs – Tipping Scene
Hey, stop that.
– 1 buddy
https://youtu.be/KEpzfDxHnco
You can first if you want to
But leave your friends behind
Because your friends don’t first
And if they don’t first, well
They’re no friends of mine
My Firsts are my intellectual property. Any attempt to copy, proliferate, altar, or otherwise make use of my Firsts is protected by US copyright law. Cease and desist immediately.
Your firsts utterly lack originality, they are derivative and therefore beneath both contempt and protection of the law.
The moral equivalent to feces on the sidewalk. [which is where this comment was supposed to go]
Socialists will continue to argue that Nazism was not “real” socialism, but the Nazi propaganda despised capitalism and spoke like Karl Marx.
It would be fun to give a leftist an untitled copy of the Nazi platform and see how many things they agree with in it.
I was arguing these points to a lib coworker. He asked me if I also thought the Soviet Union was a Republic cuz “Republic” was right in the USSR’s name.
union of
soviet
SOCIALIST
republics
Well, it didn’t have a king, so yes?
Republic defines who makes decisions not what they are. Republics can be authoritarian.
Exactly. And while I like Dan Bongino, he has a habit, when speaking of the illegal doings of our fedgov, says things along the line of, “you can’t do that in a constitutional republic.” Well, that depends on what the constitution of that republic says.
So what FDR was attempting. We’re now returning to something similar but driven by liberal corporate culture’s enthusiastic cooperation with government regulators.
I was reading that stuff and thinking to myself: “So how is this any different than where we are right now in the US of A?”. History, doomed, repeat, etc.
first time I heard that song was in Vegas Vacation
Before you are Ready to Go, you have to be Ready to Start.
Didn’t see that but this song is giving me 90s flashbacks for sure.
Way to crack an eggsclusive story.
People in the area said in Tijuana one carton of eggs is 50 pesos which equals nearly $3, but for those trying to smuggle those eggs into the United States, you might want to think twice before doing it.
That $3 can quickly become a fine of up to $10,000 if you fail to declare your eggs at border crossings. Federal law prohibits Americans from bringing raw eggs or poultry across the border.
According to Customs and Border Protection, that hasn’t stopped people from trying. It’s a trend that’s being noticed across the country.
In a tweet the director of field operations for CBP alerted the public about an uptick in egg seizures and reminded people crossing the border of hefty fines.
Now if we could hatch a plan to stop the fentanyl and illegal aliens.
What we need is an egg tunnel. But, alas, far too many are such chickens that it will never by tried.
Chicken Run 2: Huevos Rancheros!
Have to worry about those damn poachers, too.
All these puns are scrambling my brains.
It seems their priorities are totally scrambled.
*scroll down, sigh*
Ei wouldn’t let if bother you.
It seems you have a little egg on your face.
That vending machine is depressing.
But that song is fabulous.
Congrats on the new destructive force. Such a fun and frustrating age.
Step outside of your bubble and into another bubble.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/10jgaqy/former_top_fbi_official_charles_mcgonigal/
In this bubble, FBI officials covered for Trump during the Russia investigation. Republicans in general are all associated with Russia and on the take from Russia.
Republican voters are simps who will vote for any republican even when they know they are on the take from Russians and passing secrets to Russia.
To the actual story, former top FBI guy from counterintelligence gets arrested for working for Russian oligarch via a contract as an investigator for a lawfirm. Supposedly working to get him removed from sanctions list.
They say this is a crime.
Looks identical to stuff from the Manafort and Carter Page cases. He used to work for the same group. Makes me wonder if he was talking about fight club
But the Blue Anon bubble is way goddamn stupider than our bubble.
Reagan was making back room deals with not just Iran, but a whole organization of mass murdering child rapist psychopaths to help his election campaign.
From a comment thread about Reagan rolling in his grave because Putin took over the Republican party and every politician is getting $3 million donations from russia.
So your joke was not even a tiny bit exaggerated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBeoReu12E
Live feed of the SpaceX goings-on
Do we know if this is indeed a full wet dress rehearsal?
Looking like it
When does the fire start coming out?
Not this one for sure, first attempt at dress rehearsal that is looking solid
They’ve got full tanks on the booster now
They might do a burn, but no launch. There’s a TFR up to 14,000 feet.
Rather than vent…makes sense.
It is astonishing that this thing does not simply collapse under the weight when just sitting there, let alone under the full thrust of 33 raptors.
That thing is huuuuge!
Wikipedia thinks Starship weighs 5,000 tons when fueled. That sounds like a lot for 4mm thick stainless steel to support.
The ship and booster tanks have to be pressurized with air or nitrogen when empty to give them resistance against crumpling
As we saw spectacularly when they loaded the top tank and not the bottom and it liquefied the air. Oops. Squish
Looks like they successfully filled it up and are now unloading the LOX and methane.
Maybe this means a full 33 Raptor static fire soon, and then we get to watch it fly.
Also, the new Starlink V2 are on site. I wonder of they are going to deploy them on the first test flight.
That’s a really shitty thing to do, Florida Man!
+1 Najeh Davenport
Dookie!
According to Customs and Border Protection, that hasn’t stopped people from trying. It’s a trend that’s being noticed across the country.
In a tweet the director of field operations for CBP alerted the public about an uptick in egg seizures and reminded people crossing the border of hefty fines.
Price arbitrage moves markets toward equilibrium?
Those people don’t even have Ivy League economics degrees.
The market balancing out would be pure poultry in motion.
Gold
Why is it that we don’t allow eggs?
It’s preventing an avian disease from coming to the United States and wiping out millions of chickens, which would help drive up the price of eggs and create an international black market for them.
Probably because they aren’t inspected by the FDA, USDA, or whoever does that. God forbid people should make their own food choices.
Eggs can be imported, but only after a lengthy process of forms and fees.
I’m involved in a breed (landrace, actually) of chicken (Swedish Flower Hens). They’ve only been in the US for about 15 years or so, and have only had 2-3 importations of eggs. Others have wanted to import eggs for hatching, but the process is long, expensive, and arduous involving not only our shitty government, but also Sweden’s.
Sure, people can have chickens to get eggs, but a Glib isn’t so easily satisfied.
Ready to Go is a catchy tune — but for some reason for that timeframe I prefer Elastica… and one of their lesser known at that.
Got a loysance fuh dat prayer, mate?
A UK man was reportedly hit with a fine after silently praying for his “deceased” son in what has been dubbed a “censorship zones” surrounding the nation’s abortion clinics.
Physiotherapist and Army veteran Adam Smith-Connor shared footage of his interaction with two council officers who confronted him about simply standing and praying outside of a British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) clinic in Bournemouth. …
In the video, a female officer repeatedly asked Smith-Connor what he was praying about, to which the man responded that he was praying for his “deceased son.”
According to the questioning officer, this seemed “pertinent” enough to the topics banned by what the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) calls “censorship zones” to warrant trouble.
Such zones exist in several other countries, including Canada, Australia, and France. According to the ADF, a legal advocacy group, multiple censorship zones have been attempted in the US, with many being thrown out due to being unconstitutional.
In Smith-Connor’s footage, the officers can be seen warning him about the zones, which are officially noted as areas under the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which sets a perimeter around abortion clinics where “engaging in any act of approval/disapproval,” including praying, is prohibited.
https://youtube.com/shorts/GTn1He86oJk?feature=share
Constantine Kisin getting brutal about free speech in Britain.
Coming soon to a country near you.
Just announced, dude who put his feet on Pelosi’s desk convicted on 8 counts, including having a “dangerous weapon” (a taser).
Faces 20 years in prison.
“I was praying that fascists wouldn’t oppress me. Prayers often go unanswered.”
Hope Elon’s design works better than the Soviets’ N1 with 30 separate rockets in the first stage. They never got it to work right, maybe due to systems limitations 50+ years ago.
I seem to remember that vibrations from many engines were causing issues with other engines in that arrangement
The Soviets were also much poorer than reported. They canceled that massive rocket because it got too expensive after a couple of failures. They probably would have gotten it working eventually, and had the first full-flow staged combustion engine to make it to orbit.
As it stands, SpaceX aims to take that honor soon with their Raptor and Starship.
So cool connection.
Uffda. I missed the discussion about Haley Davidson’s big new electric bike dreams this morning until it was too late.
I would have told you all to tip your cap to HD! It takes a special kind of bravery to shout to the world that you are going Big and Electric. Especially since your first foray into electric bikes didn’t go that well.
Lesser businessmen would have cut their losses and kept making super expensive bikes that only old people can afford. But it takes a special kind of management to decide to double down on making a hated electric bike.
Or one getting hefty subsidies
If you read the article and read between the lines, it seems to me the current CEO is saying “yeah, we’ll be electric eventually, but after me and you and everyone who wants a Harley is dead.” The headline is misleading.
I worked on a big proposal for Harley several years ago. The smarter ones there are aware that their bikes cost too much and that their customers are all dentists and lawyers who want to pretend they are rebels. Kids all despise their bikes so even if they came out with a cheap bike they couldn’t get younger customers.
The brains decided that the thing they needed to make their bikes “cool” with the kidz was ….. a module that would automatically connect their bike to social media! Your connected hawg would automatically share everything about your ride with all your other buddies.
So rebel. Much Easy Rider.
I feel for you Brett. Once they start climbing and getting into things your life gets a whole crazier.
There is a curve.
Your first kid takes a bunch more of your time because you are learning too. You spaz about everything because you have no idea what is going on. By the third kid you are way more chill because you know what the real deal is.
Also the first kid is kind of like a mine sweeper. They are the ones who get into the knife drawer. After that, you put all the knives up where the kids 2-N can’t get to them.
We were looking at old pics of the kids and were laughing at all the baby gadgets that we had for the Altar Girl (our oldest) that had been tossed or given away by the time the Altar Boys showed up.
Hey! My third can get to the butter knives. Just not the sharp ones. Mostly. But the point stands. These last two mostly got put down on the floor to do whatever if they weren’t crying or being fed.
After a couple, you start to figure out that eating dirt doesn’t require a trip to the emergency room.
It just keeps em busy for a few minutes.
The good news is his brother has a 17 month head start on destructively testing everything he can possibly reach, so he’s probably going to survive. The 2 year old is… being 2. Holy shit. So many strong feelings stuffed into such a tiny package.
I feel you. My younger one turns two this weekend. He’s suddenly become very vocal about…everything. This is also when they start getting really fun when they are in a good mood though.
He needs a job. What a leach!
or a leech, even
Have they asked you about income inequality or why racists are gentrifying neighborhoods?
Dick move.
Ireland (warning graphic) In Ireland an immigrant tried to take a child from her pram when caught he exposes himself and fiddles with himself saying “f**k the children”
Just following in the footsteps of He Who Shall Not Be Pictured?
“We are not a charitable institution but a Party of revolutionary socialists.”
No Free Lunch?
That’s not what happened.
Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack in the second major trial of far-right extremists accused of plotting to forcibly keep President Donald Trump in power.
The verdict against Joseph Hackett of Sarasota, Florida; Roberto Minuta of Prosper, Texas; David Moerschel of Punta Gorda, Florida; and Edward Vallejo of Phoenix comes weeks after after a different jury convicted the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes, in the mob’s attack that halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
More than anything else, these cases are making me despise the DC jury pool.
Stay out of DC. There is nothing worth the risk.
Yeah, if DC got nuked by terrorists I’m not sure I would think that there was any collateral damage. Everyone there deserved it.
Roberto Minuta and Edward Vallejo sound like white supremacists.
They’re definitely white hispanics.
Our Healthbox is available to those 16 or older in Canada (18 and up in Quebec). The process to access Our Healthbox is anonymous, with clients confirming their age and then being provided with a code.
“When they come back they use that code to sign in so that we can actually start to understand more about the need for each person,” Rourke said
What’s the use of gathering information on a patient to “understand more about the need for each person” if you don’t know who that person is? Or is this somewhat less “anonymous” than we’re being led to believe?
Holy Shit!
By statute and policy he should be court-martialied.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Did I say he was going to be court-martialed?
https://twitter.com/YesSirHumphrey/status/1484033269670760451
And nothing else will happen.
To be fair, if you didn’t string him up for breaking the chain of command and talking directly to the CCP, this isn’t gonna be the thing that gets him in trouble.
JWICS can store information below TS.
Putting one piece of TS information in the phone book makes the whole phone book TS though.
Taking the information back apart is technically illegal without classification authority approval.
Portion marking requirements were added to solve the problem of finding the needle in the haystack. Declassification officers can approve release after classified portions are removed.
They claim its only for the top secret classification and then claim the EO establishes that. Which…it does not. However, if we look at the EO on classification there are some prohibited applications that Milley would fall under and what they pinned to Trump and the Ukranian phone call.
Further down, the point is made that this “should have been unclassified but I classified it so that we could make it available only to the committee” material may have been relevant to the defense of individuals who were tried while it was kept secret.
“Commie tested, Beria approved”
Thats the part that should court-martial him and a mistrial/retrial in any one of those cases.
“We hid evidence because it could clear the defendants” fits the times.
I am so glad I’m done with babies. I mean, I like babies. I guess. Maybe. As long as I can give them back after 2 mins.
Thanks to many years of babysitting, I was over babies by the time I was 18. Like, really over it.
I baby sat two neighbor kids, like 4 and 6, once. One and done for me – never again.
It was… not pleasant, at all. The four-year-old boy was a monster. The older sister was OK but my hands were full with the brat.
renting is better than owning
The product or the facility?
Both. If it flies, floats or Fu.. fornicates. Rent it. The long term costs are lower.
rent to own?
Weren’t we just talking about 99 year leases?
Children are on lifetime leases.
https://youtu.be/mJa0Ofgz_KA
3 year contract with option to renew.
That’s called “babysitting” and the money flows the OTHER way.
The nugget is great, Cowpoke loves his. I enjoy it too, as a spot to chill while he’s getting his bedtime nursing from Momma.
Speaking of crawling everywhere and exploring climbing up and down, I’ve been taking him to the playground a lot lately, and his favorite thing to do is grab daddy’s hand and practice going up and down up and down all the diffrrent steps. And for 18 months hes doing great!
At first I was anxious to get him to try to hold the handrail, and do it himself. But then I looked around and saw all the other dads who would sit on the bench, and just “be there”. And it made me feel things, about how I’m so glad to enjoy being a part of his play right now, instead of just an observer, and how special these moments are. So, little Cowpoke, you take your time, I’ll be glad to hold your hand and help as long as you want me to.
The next day’s patrons couldn’t smell any difference.
Agreed. Went to a Joe’s one time, food was terrible. We had one the next town over for a while, but it unsurprisingly closed.
It’s a breathtakingly bad restaurant. I can’t recall how the fuck I ended up there, but it was quite literally the worst fish I’ve ever eaten.
And that includes the Filet-O-Fish.
So — a real shitshow?
“I can’t recall how the fuck I ended up there…”
Was alcohol involved?
Shortly after my now wife moved to Boise, we went to the one there on the recommendations of her coworkers. They either had no taste at all or never had
goodokmediocre fish/seafood before.Yeah, I’ve become very wary of recommendations about “the best”: “best Mexican food” (Qdoba); “best” hot dogs and burgers in town (local chain); “best” Italian food (local shop that looks like it’s out of 1950s sitcom).
“best” Italian food (local shop that looks like it’s out of 1950s sitcom).”
Well, this one is probably the best.
I’m in the Boise area too. That is not limited to seafood. What most people think passes for good Mexican around here is unbelievable.
Strangely, the Kilted Kod had some of the best fish and chips I’ve ever had and that was a food truck in a parking lot.
I think we only had crab there and it wasn’t too bad.
We liked the one in our town because it had a playground in front for the kids to play in while you waited to get a table. You could watch the kids from the deck with a decent drink. Not a bad way to kill time on a nice summer evening.
That’s why we went to the Lookout or Champp’s.
Uffda. Champp’s was the place I couldn’t stand.
Is Joe’s Crab Shack a sanctuary restaurant?
Shorter PM Kishida:
Fuck!
Just in time for my teens and their trip to Japan…lucky them
China says “WTF?!?”
Is he going door-to-door with flowers and bottle of wine to get things going (IYKWIM)?
They need to open comfort houses for visiting Korean men.
Love Hotels to be renamed Love Fertility Clinics.
It’s a serious problem. Judging by Old Enough, critical functions of society there are carried out by young children. Who will get groceries or run errands if a family doesn’t have pre-K kids?
Hence the odd focus on humanoid robots.
Which they haven’t exactly blasted out of the park.
My japanese nieces are doing their part!
5 kids between the two of them.
They are both pretty as hell. They’d probably have 10 kids if they weren’t such exaperatingly goofy and spoiled.
On Nazis and socialism, a partial disagreement. The Nazis despised both capitalism & socialism (which was in keeping with their fascist brothers in Italy & Spain). And part of the motivation for the Night of the Long Knives was to destroy the more militantly socialist wing of the National Socialists to appease the military and the landed aristocracy. Now, what would Hitler have done if he’d managed to establish a stable, dominant Nazi state? I suspect the aristocracy would have quickly found out they were useful idiots.
I would make the argument (and this is how I present things in my classes) that Nazism, fascism, socialism, and communism are all examples of collectivism. That way I can point out common problems with all of them without getting into a pissing match over terminology. It also makes it easier to show that the New Deal (& responses to the GD in Britain) were on the same (collectivist) continuum.
Of course, I know a lot won’t agree with this.
YMMV
Sure – It was an attempt at collectivism based on race rather than class.
Of course, I know a lot won’t agree with this.
I am not among them. Arguing the nuances is so ridiculously unproductive.
I’m a simple man. To me collectivism is bad, mmmmk?
Agreed; The reason I try to argue that the Nazi’s are more appropriately classified as ‘socialists’ is the rhetorical trick that has been played in the telling of history, at least in the US. NAZI == right, the right in the US is associated with individual and economic liberty (wrongly in most cases, but broadly speaking), therefore individual and economic liberty = NAZI.
I totally get that. That’s one of the reasons I use the larger grouping collectivism. And, the more I developed that lecture, it was chilling just how much common ground there was between totalitarian states and New Deal/social democracy thinking. It also gives me a chance to have them read an excerpt from “The Road to Serfdom.”
I also tell them the story of Jacob Maged: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091505090.html
Maged’s public penance: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-nra-is-o-k-with-jacob-maged-tailor-now-hes-pictured-news-photo/514698440
Would you say you’re grooming these kids? ; )
“it was chilling just how much common ground there was between totalitarian states and New Deal/social democracy thinking”
Before WWII, FDR and many others were looking at Herr Kanzler and Il Duce and thinking they had some good ideas about a third way to get out of the Great Depression. Truman got rid of a lot of it but not everything and we’ve been stuck with this ersatz fascist system ever since.
Obviously cutting spending and taxes wasn’t the way.
I should add, in contrast to my overall disagreement/quibble, you’re quite right about the New Deal. If memory serves, the fascists specifically modeled their thinking on the same underlying War Progressivism (WWI) that shaped the New Deal. It wasn’t just happenstance. They just saw themselves as taking it in its logical progression.
There ate assholes out there that scream to the moon that nazis weren’t socialists, because they don’t want their beloved system of government to be stained with a strong connection to nazis. You must learn to stomp on their delusions with no mercy. Give no mental quarter to such ignorant bastards. I sometimes feel it is my goal to plant that seed of doubt so that at least some of these deluded leftists can find a way out.
“There ate assholes”
Freudian slip much?
No, broken keyboard and I can’t even replace it for a year. Fuck my life.
Or a USB one, since your Mac seems to be old enough to have the ports, correct?
Calling HM.
Yeah. I’d try text to speech but Apple mocks my dialect.
But are you a true Scotsman?
Get an external keyboard
Fair. The classes I’m referring to is freshman world history. I figure they’ve been beat over the head with the Nazis/evil. So, I give them a little more info on Stalin and Mao. Then show the common ground among all these groups. I’m kind of pushing them a little in what I hope is a productive direction.
That is an excellent idea. I hope you make at least a fee converts.
Few. Aaaaaaah!
I am just going to retire for the night. Work pressures and broken equipment are clearly putting me on edge.
I’m amazed you still have a job.
It was made clear in grad school that I had no place in academia, and quit before it was too late.
I refused to follow the suggested curriculum which was all environmental doom and gloom, racism, etc. we definitely discussed racism in my classes, but not in the ways they wanted me too.
My TA contract was not renewed for my PhD, and within a year stated they’d no longer accept grad school applicants who weren’t also a TA.
Lots of factors in my favor: teach at a smaller state school so less bullshit; tenure is powerful; I try to avoid current politics (except when it’s equal-opportunity attacks); since I’m not a conservative, I have no problem railing against things like US interventionism, support for thug states, etc. I just make sure to point out that no one has clean hands. I also stress Sowell’s idea of “there are no solutions only trade offs.” OK, you want to collectivize American agriculture? Then you have to accept the slaughter of millions of livestock and the dumping of crops when people are going hungry. You want to cheer the way FDR conducted WWII? Fine, you also get to explain why he interned thousands of people based on ethnic identity; etc., etc.
scream to the moon that nazis weren’t socialists
That must really amuse the Nazi scientists who are living in their secret moon base.
It does.
It’s very simple.
Left wing = good
Right wing = bad
Nazis = bad = right wing
Republicans = far right wing = badder
I read a book (forget the title) that was a collection of interviews with German soldiers that had been stationed in France on D-Day. Interviews were taken in 1955, I think.
One soldier said (paraphrasing) “yes we were socialists, but it was good national socialism, not bad international socialism.” Seems a subtle distinction and possibly what he really meant was “good German socialism, not bad Russian socialism.”
Communism seeks to replace all of the institutions with the State.
Fascism seeks to co-opt all of the institutions to the State’s purposes.
So yes, the soldier was correct. Fascism is just a tweaked version of communism.
You can bet that soldier knew the difference between the Eastern and Western fronts.
It was an interesting book. The interviews were taken ~10 years after the end of the war, so obviously the soldiers had plenty of time to rationalize and revise their behavior in the war. But it was a constant theme through the interviews that the German soldiers believed the Nazi propaganda that they were saving Europe from the commies and their allies, England and the US.
I would hope you reference The True Believer in that discussion. The sooner that is read by young minds the better (save for the odd sociopath that reads it as a manual).
Most people read it as a judgment of effective release instead of as a self-examination.
Effective release?
“Everyone else”
I hate typing on phones
“Effective Release” has a nice ring to it. Album title?
This is essentially the contribution that Ayn Rand made to the conversation.
In practice, do the differences really matter? Don’t compare the Nazis to some hypothetical idealized communist state, but to the communist states that existed at the time. Functionally, aside from racism, how was life functionally different in the Nazi state and the Soviet states? Okay, you had nominally private property in Germany. But, you were essentially fulfilling the same role as the local commissar was in the Soviet states. In both cases, control of the property was vested in the centralized state with administration delegated to loyal, local elites. In both cases any dissent from the ruling orthodoxy would mean getting shot or sent to the gulag/concentration camp. Sure, the particular Gods of either state (Proletariat versus the Master Race) differed. And the particular set of gangsters who ruled were from different groups. But, really, those are mostly just semantic differences.
Agree. That’s why I emphasize the commonalities.
Agreed; The reason I try to argue that the Nazi’s are more appropriately classified as ‘socialists’ is the rhetorical trick that has been played in the telling of history, at least in the US. NAZI == right, the right in the US is associated with individual and economic liberty (wrongly in most cases, but broadly speaking), therefore individual and economic liberty = NAZI.
You can’t let them get away with the pretense that German Nazis and Soviet Communists were somehow polar opposites, rather than two competing brands of totalitarian collectivism.
Like academic politics – it’s the smallest differences that generate the most ferocious disputes.
See also ancaps (a bunch of head in the clouds damn fools I tell you) vs minarchists
There are a lot of interesting observations in War Factories about the Nazi way of doing business. They were not focused on efficiency.
Speer had to have been some kind of genius to have Germany churning out the piles of war material they were in 1944. Then again perhaps the Allied bombing was not nearly effective as flyboys and historians made it out to be. Last Tuesday night, I happened to be seated at dinner next to a man who said he was born in Munich in 1935 and lived next door to a Messerschmidt factory that the Allied bombers never managed to hit once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive
Just stay away from the cans.
A The Jerk reference? Bravo!
Who did it better, Summer Glau, or this guy
https://youtube.com/shorts/Lj1h6wBUm3I?feature=share
Someone needs to get their soundtracks straight.
Funny one just below your video
He’s got a point
Apparently, you are all commies perfectly ok with Nick stealing my intellectual property. Cool, cool.
Don’t come crying to me when Firsters stop Firsting because they are all being ripped off by cheap imitations.
Hmm, someone original, like Fist of Etiquette?
The moral ecrying? There will be celebrations in the street.
The moral equivalent to feces on the sidewalk
Accursed editor, inserting previously cut text without being asked. Almost as bad as “firsting.”
And posting comments in the wrong place. Bleah.
Intellectual property rights support is for cucks.
Won’t someone think about the poor Transportation Committee budgets?
Uh-huh. The article doesn’t mention any examples of cuts that they want to make. But the mention a 5 cent gas tax hike and a surcharge on deliveries.
First!
And a beautiful one at that. Kudos.
/deep bow
Off the beaten track football upset: West of Scotland Darvel FC knocked Aberdeen out the Scottish Cup.
Straight up pub team?
Not quite, but probably all part-timers. Think a National League South or National League North team beating someone like Aston Villa.
No way! Aberdeen rules!
Marine in ’21? Except Marine would’ve had to win.
Okay they are idiots and they are in a car
Somebody yesterday (?) noted here that the world is being run by unserious people with a serious amount of power.
One sign of an unserious person: anyone who writes we live in a society of “unregulated capitalism.”
Can we blame public education?
Another note: I went back and read the kind of comic books kids got into in the 1950s and 60s. Man, a lot of stories pushed the whole anti-commie, “do it yourself” attitude. Stories of True Grit, so to speak. By the 1980s, it was mostly superhero comics. Somebody else saved the plebes. The plebes didn’t save the plebes. I found that interesting.
+1 Sgt Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfrQDQfbRJY
No Angels
Ignoring the cheerleading, I had no idea Poland had so many tanks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/01/22/germany-okays-a-dozen-polish-tanks-for-ukraine-hundreds-more-could-follow/?sh=7f10dab07893
It is my understanding that Greece has many more, but I doubt they will be forthcoming with them. The Ukrainian clusterfuck is very unpopular there.
God damn.
And a white knight rides to the rescue!
Malice is the best.
Doocy smells the blood in the water. I wonder how long he was holding on to that question.
I know it’s not the WAWR thread, but does anyone have any funny books? I couldn’t sleep last night and I can’t keep reading war, crime, intense violence and current events shit.
I already have all of Adams and Moore.
Thank you for your service.
Some Twain, perhaps?
Excellent. I’ve only read TS and HF. Any suggestions?
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Thanks!
Hitchens’ Arguably – a collection of his essays most of which are full of his wit and mercifully little of his politics.
Thanks! Is there a specific collection?
The book Arguably.
Hah! Library had it. Thanks!
If you don’t mind potentially getting sucked into a series, I’ve long been raving about one that starts here. Time traveling historians, AKA “disaster magnets.” Hysterically funny and heartbreakingly sad by turns, but hang in there just when all seems lost. Trust me.
That looks great!
Warning: TT has been known to stay up until wee hours reading one of the series because he couldn’t put it down…then he’d finally come to bed grumbling, “Damn book!” 😉
I just got the first one. I’ll yell at you later.
😁
Feynman comes to mind
Richard?
Yes
I found a relatively funny show called “Sprung”.
It’s about three criminals who get sprung during the COViD lockdown. They get picked up by a trashy mom of one of the cons driving a bicentennial PacerX. The mom is played by Matha Plimpton.
Written by the creator of My name is Earl.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprung_(TV_series)
You had me at bicentennial PacerX!
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
Perfect, but after 30 years, I know them all by heart. I still read Hogfather every Christmas!
I believe Scruffy’s sister had some funny books.
/ducking
Ouch.
But LOL.
Too soon!
Also, Scruffyy has two y’s you bigot.
Thanks!
You People are alright!
You take that back!
Fuck you!
*drops gloves, gets distracted by book suggestions, disappears*
Dave Barry has written a few novels, ‘Big Trouble’ was good. Also Eoin Colfer’s “Plugged” it’s crime/noir but pretty tongue-in-check more humorous than gritty. And ‘The Stranger Times’ series by C.K. McDonnel, he wrote “The Man With One Of Those Faces” which I believe you read.
Give P.G. Wodehouse a try. You might like his stuff, you might not. Some good examples:
Summer Lightning
Heavy Weather
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
Holy shit, Safari sucks balls.