Nice parking job, dick.
They’re coming. Hold on…
The US Open is gonna be wild on Sunday. I see Rickie choking and think Rory is gonna win. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Carlos Sainz is doing his best to alienate every single driver out there and has ten continue to come up with their strategies by blindly throwing darts at a board. Could be a good race though, depending on the weather. And lastly, Bob Huggins has decided to resign as coach at WVU. I guess he’d done one too many stupid things. Bummer. I always liked Huggie-bear. OK, now on to…the links (that somebody else was supposed to do two hours ago)!
Way to kick the festivities off. Dumbasses.
This is why you never go to the hospital. Your odds of cheating death are better at home.
I think I might have a solution: stop shooting each other.
FUCK OFF!!!
Christ, what an asshole. That’s people food, asshole!
I guess the old saying is true: you can’t fix crazy.
WANT!!!!!! But only if they can somehow mix in a Baja Blast reference.
YES!!!
The truth hurts. Now do your fucking job.
“Know your place, peasants.” Houston government is a shitshow.
I’m giving you some beautiful music today. And I wasn’t even supposed to be here, so this is a double-bonus. And here’s the one for you dads especially. Damn, it got dusty in my office. Anyway, enjoy them both.
And enjoy this Fathers Day, dads. And the rest of you as well.
Waiting…
“They’re coming. Hold on…” – Get a towel?
Thanks for doing this. We would have managed without, but we’re grateful…in our own Glib way! 🙂
From Mexico, no less. Yeoman’s work.
Nah, we’re back in the good ol’
USATexas Republic.Of course Rickie Fowler will choke. He’s an Oklahoma State University Alum. OkSU is the home of the “Poke Choke”, cowpoke being the alternative name for the official team symbol the “Cowboy”. Although unofficial mascot Pistol Pete is da bomb.
The OkSU Pokes get *this* close all the time and then choke it away.
It’s remarkable, really. Psychology?
did you go to Norman?
No, Norman is U of O. I went to Stillwater, home of Ok State U.
* sigh of relief *
congrats: not a single ZeroU alumnus who ever worked for me was worth a damn
conversely, Pokes are typically competent and friendly
FWIW: the three schools who have never delivered to me a single useful alumni are ZeroU, Tennessee, and Texas Tech
My grandparents all met at OU. Where would I be without Norman? /runs off sobbing
Good question./
Stillwater, home of
Ok StateEskimo Joe’sLOL.
I have seen 2 Eskimo Joes shirts randomly in Mukilteo over the past month.
When you know, you know.
The annual “Bedlam” football game between the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University is probably the origin of the Poke Choke phrase.
The Bedlam game, typically around Thanksgiving, raises strong opinion in Oklahoma. Brother against brother, that sort of thing.
It’s actually kind of a fun time if you don’t get stuck in the traffic.
Well, well. An interesting mix of personalities involved here. I hope that sparks some listeners/viewers to ask their own questions and do a little research.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12207209/Joe-Rogan-challenges-furious-vaccine-researcher-debate-anti-vaxxer-RFK-Jr.html
Maybe the best thing that libertarians can do politically at this point is just pique voters’ curiosity enough to question stuff.
That is all libertarians have ever been able to do; redirect people to liberty, as opposed to tyranny. Thinking it is a viable political party is a fools errand, always has been.
It’s wild. Steve Kirsch just upped the number to 600K.
Maybe the best thing that libertarians can do politically at this point is just pique voters’ curiosity enough to question stuff.
This.
cheating death
imagine what that was like for the son
“A California woman is suing the hospital that removed her breasts when she was 13, claiming her doctors pushed her into the procedure under the ‘erroneous belief’ she was transgender.
Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, says she underwent the invasive surgery after being urged to ‘entertain’ the plans by medical professionals when she was just 11-years-old.
According to a lawsuit filed by Lovdahl against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and four doctors, it is claimed they ‘handed Kayla the prescription pad, and allowed her naïve, emotional, childish, rollercoaster of feelings to dictate the so-called ‘treatment’ that she would receive.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12206847/Woman-pressured-breast-removal-13-erroneous-belief-transgender-lawsuit.html
The left realized there aren’t enough actual trans people and white supremacists to suit their agenda so they decided to manufacture them.
her naïve, emotional, childish,
rollercoaster of feelings parents to dictate the so-called ‘treatment’ that she would receive.people are stupid and do stupid things
parents are people
I did wonder if she’s also suing her parents.
I wanted to know the statistics on how many “trans kids” are from bitterly divorced parents who are still fighting, using the kid as a pawn.
Hard to find results aside from anecdotal. We aren’t allowed to do certain types of research and statistical compilations if feelings could be hurt, you know.
The parents who relied on the advice of medical professionals and a government that said get the surgery or we take your kid?
I can give full credit to my ex, she was a fully sane parent and we cooperated in parenting. It is sad that that is the exception.
Allegedly, the doctors pulled the “do you want a trans kid or a dead kid?” bullshit.
Ugh. Yeah, that emotional blackmail/cudgel does come up quite a bit.
“Parents are people.”
People who sometimes have Munchausen by Proxy disorder.
As I observed the other day, both lawsuits are directed at Kaiser Permanente. I wonder which other insurance companies are next, ’cause I think you could make a case that the insurance companies are just as culpable as the doctors, since they set themselves up to make the final decisions as to what’s covered and not. No way the parents paid for that out of pocket to a managed healthcare model, and of course, the parents have no money to sue for.
My next question is, how much did the docs push for this, and how pressured the parents felt. That pressure can get intense, especially if you think your kid is going to get taken away from you (now I’m just conjecturing, but I don’t think it’s that far-fetched).
It’s not far-fetched in California.
I can’t see it going that way. The prime movers are the parents and the doctors: everyone knows who is principally responsible.
The actions against insurers are generally limited to questions of coverage, timeliness, and bad faith.
Conversely, the patient’s insurer isn’t responsible for malpractice of any type: they can’t know when a diagnosis or procedure is incompetent.
What I think will be become the issue is whether malpractice insurers will essentially kill trans practice because they won’t cover doctors for those procedures. I’m surprised the market hasn’t solved (see where I baked in my preference there) this already.
The trans surgeons hadn’t been sued for malpractice yet. That’s just getting started.
“The prime movers are the parents and the doctors”
The prime movers are these gay & lesbian organizations such as the HRC. They are pushing it through schools, media, and ESG. Kaiser Permanente is a large corporation, so it would not surprise me in the least if ESG was involved, just like Activision, Fox News, etc.
I take your point and concur with your instinct to loathe such
but I’m speaking in the proximate cause sense: none of the organizations wield a scalpel
legally this would be like assessing liability to a bar for overserving that “led” to vehicular homicide,
which I’ll concede is the law if you’ll concede it’s garbage law as is “inciting to riot” and all the other crap notions that relieve physical perpetrators from total and direct responsibility, a trend that is bad for the country and the cause of libertarianism because it clouds the questions of agency and all the transactional theories that sane philosophy rely upon
The insurance companies were too busy hanging pride flags in every office cubicle.
*dragon otherkin*
As I observed the other day, both lawsuits are directed at Kaiser Permanente. I wonder which other insurance companies are next, ’cause I think you could make a case that the insurance companies are just as culpable as the doctors, since they set themselves up to make the final decisions as to what’s covered and not.
Kaiser is a unique commercial model in the United States. It’s essentially a single payer model containing both the healthcare providers and the insurers. The closest analogue would be the VA or Britain’s NHS. I’m guessing the target here is really the doctors’ employers are being sued and not as much the insurance company. For non-Kaiser employers, the targets will probably be large health care systems that employ the doctors and not the insurance companies.
Back when I was in Marketing, we’d have two different messages for selling in the US. Individual doctors and healthcare systems got one message about about how much money they would make from CMS and private insurance reimbursements for our products. Kaiser, on the other hand, got the same value message as international single-payer systems about how much money they could save from switching their clinicians to our products.
Kaiser is an insurance company masquerading as a healthcare provider, much the same way GM is a health insurance manager masquerading as a car manufacturing company. Managed healthcare has been around at least since I was a kid (new model in KC back in the day) that didn’t survive. Kaiser wanted to break into the market here and were unsuccessful.
So, my only real point was that suing a KP doc is effectively suing the insurance company. No idea who underwrites malpractice, or if Kaiser does that as well.
I’m not really sure why you say masquerading. Kaiser is a healthcare system. They employ health care providers and own healthcare facilities. A lawsuit against Kaiser, who also employs the clinicians and owns the facility, is not comparable to a lawsuit against BCBS
Managed care has been around for decades, but Kaiser isn’t really managed care in terms of typical commercial US insurance (HMOs etc). In the US, managed care usually means just contracting with providers to get a lower provider fee. Kaiser is more akin to a single-payer health care system. Unless if there has been a rapid shift over the past 5 years, HMOs/PPOs etc aren’t generally buying medical supplies for use by their employed clinicians at owned medical facilities.
“Managed care” is me misspeaking. I mean HMO.
Slutty Sunday for the dads!
https://archive.is/bRo6Y
apropos
At least 20 people were injured and one person has died in a shooting overnight at a Juneteenth celebration in Willowbrook, Illinois, police say.
Was it a cop doing the shooting?
Mastodon thread on the defunct Twitter Boulder, CO office.
“San Francisco spice lovers swipe Sriracha from restaurants as beloved condiment’s prices skyrocket to $30
San Francisco Sriracha lovers are swiping bottles of the once-cheap condiment from local restaurants as a last resort amid the national chili pepper shortage.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/17/san-francisco-stores-not-selling-sriracha-for-30-amid-pepper-shortage/
Good thing Sean grows his own.
“If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear hot chilis in your hair”
😉
I’ve noticed lots of sriracha sauce in stores, none of it rooster sauce.
I can’t decide if this sounds like bullshit.
For the past three years, too.
Never should have broken their partnership with Underwood Ranch.
From the “wall of shipping containers” article.
bullshit bullshit bullshit
I am so tired of that lazy tripe.
Link is that people in economic hardship typically are there because of bad judgement. And people who shoot other people in anything other than self/property defense also have bad judgement.
That is like saying that there is a link between capri pants and gun violence.
Depends on who is wearing them.
Why do Disney kid actors always end up cuckoo for cocoa puffs?
There are theories, but a tin foil hat is recommended.
I think it’s kid actors in general. Although many of them turn out OK.
Because they’re not all raised by Elijah Wood’s mom?
““Olympus Spa is not open to the public, nor has it ever been. The spa discriminates against men and it discriminates against those under the age of 13,” she told The Daily Mail. “This is different from other cases, like a cake-baking shop or a flower shop.””
https://nypost.com/2023/06/17/women-only-nude-spa-lawyer-calls-trans-activist-malignant/
Missed it by this much.
A decade ago, Gulfport, where more than half of residents are white and nearly 40% are Black, reported two or three homicides a year. Since 2019, there have been at least 10 killings per year.
In a city where about 26% of residents live in poverty, many see a link between economic hardship and gun violence.
“Some of our children and some of your young people are just helpless and hopeless,” said Sonya Williams Barnes, a former legislator who lives in Gulfport and is the Mississippi state policy director for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
And you do everything you possibly can to make the situation worse.
“Big Apple grocers who have been using facial-recognition technology to battle a citywide shoplifting epidemic are fuming over a City Council proposal that would ban the software — just as shopkeepers say it is beginning to prove effective.
The proposed bill — which follows the city’s feud with Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan, who has used the tech to bar his legal enemies from events at his sports and entertainment venues – would require private businesses and residential buildings to obtain customers’ written consent before their biometric information is captured.
Such a rule would make it practically impossible for supermarkets to use the technology to combat theft — even as Dolan has grabbed headlines for using it at Radio City Music Hall, where he barred one lawyer from attending the Rockettes’ Christmas Spectacular with her daughter’s Girl Scout Troop.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/grocers-cry-foul-as-nyc-weighs-ban-on-face-id-tech-that-stops-thieves/
Maybe try a low tech solution of prosecuting theft? It’s so crazy it might might work.
use the software
but allow everyone in
identify your enemies
eject or arrest them as necessary on whatever provocation
deny software was used: who’s going to prove the action wasn’t entirely for the cause cited
Poison darts.
All right I thought this was going to a one joke deal, but it works.
https://youtu.be/nHHmA2M0i_E
“The day after the meeting, two others, Stephan Hester and Sam Smith, came forward and told Turner with FOX 26 that they were also removed from the building. “We were targeted to be put out. Me and the guys who were put out in the streets came to every meeting. We have not caused any riot, we have not caused any violence,” Stephan Hester told her. Hester and Smith, who are Black, said they believe they were escorted off the property because of their race. “There were other people there doing the same thing we were doing,” Smith added.”
I doubt they were removed because they were black.
Several miles away, in another part of West Gulfport, Bettie Ewing, a retired housing rights organizer, is frustrated by how quickly the shipping containers went up to protect the Navy families, when there’s nothing similar to keep her home safe.
Go fuck yourself. You and the SPLC and the rest of the activist community parasites tell people they have no responsibility, no agency, no hope, and then act surprised when this is what you get.
Good morning, Sloop!
Happy father’s day to you and all the other dads. You do good work, people.
I think God agrees, as we are finally going to have a dry, sunny and warm day today!
Damn, it got dusty in my office. Anyway, enjoy them both.
No kidding. Thanks for those.
A spokesperson for Emerald Pines’ management company said the company uses security cameras and has requested increased police presence near the complex.
A spokesperson for the Gulfport Police Department said officials meet regularly with the complex’s management, but that having an onsite surveillance system is “not the entire solution.”
“Management must limit access to the complex and hold problem tenants and their guests accountable,” Gulfport Police Sgt. Jason DuCrè said in an email.
And when that happens, the ACLU and SPLC will ride to the rescue waving the tenants’ rights banner.
“Bonkers ruling—
Federal judge in Massachusetts says a shirt that reads “there are only two genders” is not protected speech and “invades the rights of others.
The ruling is about limits on free speech in schools, to clarify.”
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1669858762285363200
Judicial 🤡 world. What difference from the issue in Tinker v Des Moines
“protected class under Massachusetts law”
UPDATE!
The pot for the debate is now $1.5 million.
Nowhere to hide Pete, you miserable cunt.
Ron Desantis, demonologist
In this demonological worldview, ultimate evil is contrasted with ultimate good, embodied by a righteous “us” of conservative Christians — at least, a very particular kind of conservative and very particular kind of Christian. In our current book project, we argue that these versions of conservatism and Christianity, as well as the caricatures of liberalism they’re locked in cosmic battle with, are born of a quasi-religious shadow gospel whose roots can be traced to Cold War anticommunism and its panic over domestic leftist subversion. (Replace “woke libs” with “communists” and DeSantis could be mistaken for a 1950s red-baiter).
The shadow gospel’s cleaving between ultimate good and ultimate evil isn’t a simple left-right split, however. The label “liberal” shifts as needed, and is defined primarily in terms of “not us.” Actual liberals are frequent and obvious targets of the shadow gospel’s demonology, but conservatives and Christians who in any way threaten “us” are just as easily put in league with the devil. Based on shadow gospel logic, even Trump can be a liberal.
Only depraved lunatic fanatics don’t agree with our simple message of peace and coexistence.
The Communists only wanted what was in everyone’s best interests.
The projection is, as always, extremely strong here.
In 2021, conspiracism as embodied by Trump delivered a mighty blow to American democracy. In 2024, it remains a major concern. But the demonology as embodied by DeSantis is dangerous in a different way. What anti-liberal demonology does is assert that there is only one way to be a “real” American — namely, to be the right kind of conservative and the right kind of Christian. Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, Christian or non-Christian, if you fail to meet the requirements, you are literally demonized. Once that happens, any and all attacks using information, violence or professional retribution, like those currently being leveled against disinformation researchers, aren’t just justified, they are necessary.
In the never-ending end-times, it’s not enough to identify evil. You have to exorcize that evil by any means necessary. This is the corrosive force threatening our democracy, not the left, not “wokeness.” It needs to be called out. And the first step is calling it what it is.
Not a whiff of selfawareness.
“Miami Mayor Suarez had previously expressed support for the initial iteration of the Don’t Say Gay law but hadn’t taken a public position on the expansion.”
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1670106657701937157
TMITE
The country is in the best of hands.
The greatest buddy movie in history is playing out right in front of us.
Say what you want about Castro, but at least he was articulate.
“BIDEN: “Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun — makes it more — you can have a higher-caliber weapon, higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun!”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1670168576571965446
Someone was looking for this yesterday.
“Biden: “Down in Philadelphia and New York, areas I know well, like up here, you’d see a truck pull up, pull to the curb and selling weapons, selling guns, selling AR-15s.”
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1669787198105722905
Da fuck?
He’s been lying about guns for 50 years. Why stop now?
Speaking in tongues?
Everything I thought I knew about artillery was wrong.
Sigh.
Guess I should nullify my 25 year career as a weapons designer, turn in my diploma, and become a civil servant. That’s clearly where the real creativity is.
He doesn’t say it well, but I took it as saying you can use a higher caliber weapon if you use a brace, not that the adding a brace to a weapon makes that weapon higher caliber.
Understatement of the year.
Not saying it well is par for the course for him.
Thanks!