Kraut Power!
German threw a perfect game for the Yankees. And even though it was against the Athletics, it’s still a hell of a feat. Jamaica and the US won in their Gold Cup matches. The US needs a draw or win against Trinidad to advance. And that’s it for sports.
The cover must be run for this guy. I’m surprised they didn’t call him brave. Meanwhile, he’s very clearly sleeping half the day.
Wait, you can arrest these people? Oh wait, it’s not in an American city. I guess their laws are different in Frogland.
You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.
Nothing to see here. Which is why I had to get to the NYPost to see it instead of the first three outlets I linked from.
OK, and…?
Oh give me a fucking break. Our government is even condemning it? Sure, the dude did it to be a dick. But either we stand up for freedom of speech or we don’t. And condemning it is a bullshit move. Especially since it had nothing to do with us and didn’t happen here.
Desperation is a stinky cologne. This has gotten funnier by the day.
Wow, this guy’s cracked the code. I guess pasta was nearly unobtainable for the masses in California until now.
This ought to be good. There’s no way they do enough, but I bet they make progress at least.
Going hard this morning. Wait, that might need phrasing. Oh well, I don’t care. These songs both rock. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this steamy Thursday, dear friends.
“The cover must be run for this guy. I’m surprised they didn’t call him brave. Meanwhile, he’s very clearly sleeping half the day.”
And he is wandering through the other half in a haze/daze.
Time, time, time… look what’s become of him.
Its a hazy shade of winter of death for the unvaxed or something.
When you hear that song in your head is it Simon and Garfunkel singing, or is it the better version by The Bangles?
I know which one is in my head right now. Thank God I’m a child of the 80s.
I watched Space:1999 when I was a young lad and could first vote around the GHWB years… so take a wild guess. 😉
Space:1999
Moon breaks orbit after a nuclear waste storage site goes kaboom regardless of the fact that’s impossible based on the chemistry/physics to trigger a nuclear event. Then as the moon goes wandering through the universe (at multiples of light speed considering they were in a different place every week light years in distance) they can only move around using nuclear powered space ships that sucked.
No wonder people still hold irrational beliefs about nuclear energy. But I still laughed my ass of as a young lad at Landau.
Ignore the silliness and enjoy season 1 again – it’s so good.
Season 2 kind of sucked though – even Landau get fed up with it.
Indeed. Great monsters though. And the sets looked marvelous.
Yeah, part of season 2 sucking was getting rid of that amazing set.
The Bangles cover is flattened out and silly, just like the Disturbed cover of “Sound of Silence.”
Plus walking around Central Park with a gun in your hand is a bad idea.
Sheet music sez “carry your cup”.
OG version is “Book.”
“Wait, you can arrest these people? Oh wait, it’s not in an American city. I guess their laws are different in Frogland.”
What free shit demand or handout were these frog rioters not happy about and why?
If it is the same riot I saw mentioned elsewhere – it is more their version of a George Floyd (think it was Floyd) riot. Cops shot an “Arab teen” and they went nuts demanding “justice” by burning crap down. Always a productive solution.
I would not blame Europe a micron if some mass deportations happened in the backlash, though for France it is a lot more complicated since I thought they gave the Algerians (I think it was French Algeria) dual citizenship back in the day and all.
In the early ’60s Algerians were already on the low end of the totem pole. Still, it was better than Algeria/Morocco if eating was high on a person’s list of priorities.
The mother deliberately called for riots.
As I understand it, it’s always a powder keg in those areas; I get the sense they were looking for an incident to justify going off.
And yes, France did this to itself by colonizing huge chunks of Africa.
When you bring in so many ex-colony lower class workers and never provide them with the ability to integrate into your society, don’t be surprised that they hold grudges.
I don’t know to what extent that is accurate. What exactly is stopping it?
French culture. Heck European culture. These nations never do anything to make their immigrants French or any other Euro nationality, integrate into their cultures. The parents come and work hard at menial labor jobs, then their kids find out that the local population will balk at them getting educated and not staying in the strata that keeps doing those jobs nobody local wants to do. You end up with major parts of every urban area being no-go zones for anyone other than the immigrant nationality that makes up the sole population in that area.
I had a girl of Turkish extraction in my 10th or 11th grade class in Germany. She and her family whom I met were perfectly integrated that I could see.
Anecdotal of course but I just don’t get what is specifically stopping them other than “choice”.
I Wanna Riot?
“Biden’s sleep apnea: What is it and how is it treated?”
That’s some hard hitting journalism right there.
“A crack rock a day keeps the apnea away.”
-Hunter
(Probably)
That might be part of the fabled “great big shot in the ass” that gives him the Jaws black beady eyes before speeches…
Crypt keeper needs oxygen?
“Nothing to see here. Which is why I had to get to the NYPost to see it instead of the first three outlets I linked from.”
But but but the EBIL ORANGE MAN!
But either we stand up for freedom of speech or we don’t.
Well, I know which one the Democrats would like.
Burning a Bible = good
Burning a Koran = bad
Burning an American flag = freedom of speech
Burning a rainbow flag = hate crime
They’d publish a rule book but the rules change too fast.
There’s a website thru the DU.
Most of the world does not believe in freedom of speech.
The US gets close but there’s almost no way to watch it disappear faster than by lighting that particular text on fire.
You are far less likely to do stuff that pisses off people that will saw off your head. Especially when you do not want to male the people that will saw off heads understand you will make them pay for that action with more than just prison time. The British empire was brutal in dealing with the rise of the head cutters in the lands they colonized, and these people didn’t get to far.
Nah, it’s too expesnive to run a restaurant in commifornia with anything but the cheapest food products on offer.
I took it more as “Celebrity chef will open a restaurant that doesn’t charge a lot more for what you can get at a regular restaurant.”
Well, the article did have this little tidbit in it:
The fact they went through all of those and more makes me think taster or appetizer portions.
Chick restaurants serve ultra expensive crap in concentration camp portions.
I rarely order pasta. (Gnocchi, sure.) Easy enough to make at home.
Trader Joe’s has the cheapest decent pasta IME. The bronze-die Italian stuff.
The pictures looked like real portion sizes.
It looked good, but its pasta, its hard to screw up.
The review was like someone giving a Michelin star to McDonalds.
That would bring a real Grimace to the epicureans, yeah.
It’s nice for once to see some appreciation for just good food and good service at a reasonable price.
Sure, but the article seemed overblown. There are probably 1000 places in America where you can get that food at that price.
When I lived in Louisville, there was a great little Italian place. It was funny, on a weekend, Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill would have 2 hr waits. This place, might, if you got unlucky, have a 15 minute wait. It was a bit out of the way, and in a moderately sketchy neighborhood (not the ghetto or anything), but it was better food at a better price with better atmosphere. And less wait.
An old review, I am sure the pricing is way out of date, but you get the idea: https://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/comeback.shtml
Its a well written review abd isn’t falling all over itself to turn pasta into some master creation.
Current menu with current prices: http://www.comebackinn.net/Dinner-Menu.html, pasta entrees are $14-15.
I would usually get either the Greco or the Ravioli.
Well we have to assume Banjos did at least.
The number of people defending freedom of expression since the Charlie Hebdo attack has been depressingly dwindling.
It’s a sad state of affairs. That’s for sure.
So a German guy throws a no-hitter? Looks like the American pastime has already peaked and is past it’s “Best Used By” date.
“Say it isn’t so”
Now now, 4×20 — no need to be sour about the kraut.
I sausage what you did there.
He’s just being frank.
I havent done a WAR baseball post in a long time.
Top 5 players in MLB history born in Germany:
1. Glenn Hubbard 19 WAR
2. Pretzels Getzien 18 WAR
3. Max Kepler 17 WAR
4. Craig Lefferts 9 WAR
5. Edwin Jackson 9 WAR
Pretzels is a HOF nickname. Charles H Getzien was his actual name.
No idea where baseball-reference gets the H.
SABR says Charles Friedrich Ludwig Getzien.
He was the first German born MLB player. He was born in 1864, and by the 1880 census, his family was in the US. He debuted in MLB in 1884.
His youngest sister, age 8 in 1880, was listed as born in the US. So it looks like they arrived after the 1870 census but by 1872.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Pretzels-Getzien/
It would be far more logical to pick I instead of H, as it’s the average of F and L.
Well, it will be a dry heat here — but our atypically cool June is apparently coming to an end. Shooting up to high 90s this afternoon, then we have temps close to 110 through the 4th. I suppose it is a good thing that my grill drip pan rusted out over the winter — don’t really relish (hah! take that anti-ketchup hot dog people!) grilling in that heat.
I’d replace it… but I really do want to get back East within a year, so no point in doing so and hauling the grill all the way back.
Weather here has been the reverse. Summer kicked off early in May, June was like August usually is, now back to more ordinary expectations, hopefully with rain. Yesterday was nice, rain and all.
It’s normal here: 98° and up for the last month and carrying on until September.
The East is getting another dose of Canadian air. Combined with heat and humidity makes for poor grilling weather. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments advises
The EPA recommends
Cloth masks can only stop viruses, not smoke you silly rat.
Science!
All of those vaping through mask videos are really confusing everyone now.
Nothing I like better than working outdoors on a 92 degree day with a mask on.
Ron DeSantis says he would eliminate four federal agencies if elected president
That only leaves dozens, if not hundreds, that are objectively unconstitutional.
Maybe once the others are gone and people realize that government is all graft with zero value, he or whomever follows up can eliminate another row of useless entities?
I got me a chubby…
Me too. At least he said the words. Have to start somewhere.
On the other hand, President Harris can probably think of dozens of new ones to impose on us.
As much as it pains me, this will not help win the primary.
Ah, overcast and cool, highs in the 70s, paradise is expensive,
Covfefe everyone!
Still in June Gloom?
All year so far,
I will be out there in a week. Hopefully it clears but I will take what SoCal has for summer over Virginia.
Nice afternoons, then is rolls back in at dusk.
Still great weather.
Where at? Look me up
I will be in Orange and then San Diego.
Hit me up in SD, we can go to Phil’s for BBQ, excellent,
I’m staying near Old Town. I’m taking the family to Sea World and the zoo.
The previous night’s unrest was concentrated in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the fatal shooting took place. Overall, 31 people were arrested, 25 police officers were injured and 40 cars were burned on Tuesday night, according to Darmanin. In response, the interior minister ordered the deployment of 2,000 law enforcement officers in the Paris region and around other big cities on Wednesday to “maintain order.”
I guess they leaned from BLM.
As long as they are burning down their own community all is col. But when you want to fuck with the others, then a crackdown is needed…
BLM are pikers compared to the French. I watched some videos of the riots there earlier this year, and it was intense. Multiple vids of squads of 20+ cops flat out running for their lives. Where the cops didn’t turn tail, they got fireworks lobbed at face level. All of their ballistic shields and helmets were full of holes and riddled with shrapnel.
I get the feeling the BLM/Antifa riots are more about pseudo-controlled training than anything else. That impression’s reinforced by the catch and release policies of the DAs wherever the riots occur.
The main difference is that their rioters riot and burn shit down while the BLM people are more focused on looting free shit and then burning things down.
You gotta at least respect the euro-rioters for staying focused on violence as retribution for a perceived wrong. It’s hard to do that here when you see people toting a 80″ TV as their buddy laughs and sets a fire while decked out in all the new Jordan gear.
The imported French were rioting and burning before anyone had heard of BLM.
When I arrived with a friend around 5:30 p.m. on the first Friday of dinner service, the place was bustling but not overly crowded. A server gave us a menu to look over, and we ordered while waiting for our table (the restaurant doesn’t take reservations). When we were next in line, the nice server asked us if we were “Beau and Betty.” We were not, but we said that we wished we were. For the rest of the night, whenever our server checked on us, he called us Beau and Betty. We all laughed each time for his commitment to the bit.
This place sounds like some sort of fifties throwback MAGA hangout.
“the place was bustling but not overly crowded. A server gave us a menu to look over, and we ordered while waiting for our table”
If there’s a wait for a table, it’s overly crowded in my book.
Maybe there was a lot of open floor space and only one table?
Members of President Biden’s family may have accepted in excess of $40 million from foreign nationals in exchange for favorable policy decisions, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer suggested Wednesday.
Yeah but Trump had that phone call where he inquired on corruption and took some papers from his presidency.
Funny you mention that, because the one big revelation from the Bidens taking bribes from China and the Ukraine, is that the people that demanded and got Trump impeached for asking the Ukrainians WTF the Biden thing was, did that because they were desperate to stop anyone from looking at the corruption in Ukraine. And just in case it isn’t obvious, it was not just the Bidens making bank from crooked shit (with Soros and his various entities right in the middle of all the criminal activity) in Ukraine, but the Obamas, Clintons, Kerrys, and a whole bunch of others that all got on their high horse to keep the American people from finding out what they had been doing with our tax money in Ukraine.
👆👆👆
Several Muslim countries have condemned Sweden for allowing an Iraqi protester to burn a Koran outside Stockholm’s main mosque on Wednesday.
Oh, well, they can go fuck themselves.
The United States State Department also weighed in, with spokesman Vedant Patel calling the burning of religious texts ‘disrespectful and hurtful’. ‘What might be legal is certainly not necessarily appropriate,’ he said.
Because we get that type of deference from muslim theocracies and muslims in general. You can fuck off too.
If the burner owned that copy of the koran then everybody can fuck off. It was his property, and he is free to dispose of it as he wants.
Pronoun play puff piece.
The NY Post is letting zoomers write the “News” again.
Non-binary is such bullshit.
If you call me non-binary or cis, I am triggered and will demand HR action!
That’s how you solve that shit.
Don’t be a Trinary Digit.
Quantum computing is the future…
I am in a state of quantum superposition and you will respect this!
I was dissuaded by HR whom had been pressuring people to add pronouns from adding mine, because when they told me I was not being serious when I said my pronouns were battleship/battlestar I acted highly indagated and told them I was going to sue for discrimination as they were othering me.
HR should have just replied: “By your command.”
I’m guessing if you claimed to be quantum you’d quickly get entangled with HR in a big battle.
I’m guessing “Greek life” goes away within ten years if the culture doesn’t swing back to something resembling normalcy by then. Surprised it’s lasted as long as it has.
LOL, the pictures…
Just one of the girls!
With what looks like a five o’clock shadow in at least one.
I kind of feel bad for that dude. He worked out an elaborate scheme to get easy access to trim. He jumped through all the hoops, did things their way, and was ready to get laid any time he wanted to. And now his dream is gone.
Yeah, my bet was he was kicked out cause he was getting more guys than the other gurls were, and that made them all look bad…
I’m wondering if Chi-O has a policy about sisters banging.
That dude is straight. He’d cracked the code. They changed the rules afterward.
He was gonna do all the screwing. Instead he got screwed.
If you must work outdoors, choosing a mask that will protect you like an N95 respirator mask. Cloth masks will not protect you from wildfire smoke.
*hits self on head with giant cartoon mallet*
Now hold your hands here and go “WAA… WAA!”
Abbott’s first special session agenda focused on property taxes and border security. It ended Tuesday afternoon with no deals on either issue and bitter disagreement among the chambers on how to cut property taxes and by how much.
IOW the taxes will remain and the border will remain unsecure.
The break room TV was just saying that Hunter Biden will be deposed today in the laptop lawsuit. I would have thought that would be enough reason to not bother with the lawsuit.
Doktor Grandma treats Joe’s sleep apnea with a ball gag?
Ring gag.
This. Like lots of people here, I usually sleep with a CPAP machine. I bet none of us are walking around in the middle of the day with strap marks on our faces.
My marks last until about lunch time.
Members of President Biden’s family may have accepted in excess of $40 million from foreign nationals in exchange for favorable policy decisions, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer suggested Wednesday.
Palms were greased.
But having a bought and blackmailed President is okay for the country, right?
The radio version of this story emphasized that the homeowner should have retreated, but since there’re no charges being filed…
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/06/28/adams-homeowner-fought-intruder-later-died-no-charges/
Where was Paul Pelosi?
Muh legitimussee
The rulings have prompted debate over whether certain justices are wary of issuing too many broad rulings that move the law sharply to the right, possibly in response to claims that the court risks losing its legitimacy by being viewed as a partisan institution.
Don’t worry; the shit flinging howler monkeys will call you political lackeys who want to turn the clock back to 1803 no matter what you do. Especially if you were appointed by you-know-who.
NBC seems pleased that racist gerrymandering is totes OK.
I don’t get why the maps thing is a “Democrat” or “Republican” issue – both sides want to control that.
I fail to see where the constitution guarantees proportional representation based on race.
I think it’s in the penumbras and emanations of the “Voting Rights Act”. That thing sure does a lot of heavy lifting.
A good condition for a President to have.
Maybe he thinks he’s criticizing Bush?
On two separate occasions in the last 24 hours, President Joe Biden has mistakenly referred to Ukraine as “Iraq.”
On Wednesday morning, as Biden spoke with a group of reporters outside the White House before departing for Chicago, a reporter asked the president if he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin had been weakened by recent events in Russia, including an abortion rebellion by the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“It’s hard to tell,” Biden replied. “But he’s clearly losing the war in Iraq. He’s losing the war at home. And he has become a bit of a pariah around the world.”
At this point, he probably thinks Cornpop is prepping his rusty razors to take down the Shah by going through Baghdad on his way to liberate Hanoi.
He thinks that because those are the behind doors discussions going on now. Two wars are better than one when seeking re-election.
I skimmed through as much of that sorority “sister” article as I could bear. I suspect the sisters of yore threatened a full scale mutiny if that farce was allowed to continue. The prospect of a million checkbooks slamming shut is a terrifying thing.
Heh, good point. It hadn’t occurred to me that they might depend on donations.
Eh, we need the dues.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/mediaviewer/rm2500152832
Is liberal society making us ill?
Yes.
AZ’s problems are solved.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs issued two pro-LGBTQ executive orders on Tuesday, banning state support of so-called conversion therapy and allowing transgender state employees to receive gender-affirming health care under their insurance plan.
Hobbs made the announcement from the offices of a central Phoenix nonprofit that focuses on helping LGBTQ youth. …
Also, state employee health insurance plans can no longer list gender-affirming surgery as ineligible for coverage. A ban on such coverage was enacted in 2017.
Was the ban enacted through legislation of an executive order, I wonder?
If the latter, it should serve as another wake up call to GOP executive officeholders to stop legislating by pen because whatever you do will simply be undone by the Dem who eventually replaces you.
Right there in the quote man…. 😉 I know — still probably going hard and distracted and all.
No, I mean the ban she’s overturning. It just says it was enacted in 2017. It doesn’t say how it was enacted, be it legislatively or by EO.
Ah — gotcha. My apologies for the misunderstanding then.
Legislative. Her EO guts language in their revised code I believe. Looks like only applies to State employees though? So compassionate.
I can’t imagine it’s constitutional for the governor to unilaterally order that state employees be subject to a different law than the untermenschen. Devil’s in the details, I suppose, but still.
More serious / on-topic thought — yup… and this is Yet Another Example where one would think the Legislative Branches would zealously guard their power to set policy via lawmaking and either defund Executives who step out of line or pass veto-proof laws telling them to knock it off.
But they’ve apparently all decided the Congress model of “Let the Executives rule and fundraise whining that they need to be re-elected to stop them” is far, far better. Less work before the cocktail parties!
A first class Fitzgeraldian intellect right there.
One wonders what is meant by “conversion therapy” here. Some I’ve read are positing that the Dems intend to use this phrase to prevent a therapist from suggesting that maybe rendering your son or daughter sterile or messing around with their body parts might not be in their best interest. That the Dems are overloading the previously understood meaning of “conversion therapy” used on gays and counting on people not noticing that fast one.
“One wonders what is meant by “conversion therapy” here.”
It means not automatically confirming a child as trans.
That is what I suspect.
They’re basically setting up a sex-change pipeline.
Yes, that’s exactly what they are doing. Ironically, without that, many of those kids would have just turned out gay.
Especially the males. The whole thing is a gigantic Fuck You to gays.
It does not seem to have sunk in that pretending to be heterosexual almost always doesn’t work.
Being gay doesn’t shock the squares anymore, which doesn’t suit the needs of a miniscule number of political revolutionaries.
And as is so often the case, many or even most of the people pushing this stuff are not part of target “community”. They’re just doing their Marxist duty.
The LGBT Foundation recommend using the term “bonus hole” instead of “vagina” to avoid offending trans people (this isn’t satire btw).
Everyone sure is worried about offending trans people but don’t give a bonus hole about offending women, do they?
https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1674368678832242692
Oh man…. Next time I am banging some chick I will tell her I love her “bonus hole”….
The other holes are the bonus holes.
Genghis Khan’s troops made lots of extra bonus holes.
So oral and anal are the new defaults? PIV is a bonus?
I’m sorry…. WHAT?!?
That’s a completely new level of dismissing women down to biological function. Hell, was “Walking Glory Holes” taken? The ever popular “Cum Dumpsters”? I mean — if you’re going to be insulting… go for the gold, assholes.
the problem with this movement is that the farther they go and the more visibility they get the worse it is.
The LGBT Foundation recommend using the term “bonus hole” instead of “vagina”
The vag is the standard hole.
Why aren’t they opting for cishole and transhole? Seems more on-brand for their type of retardation.
These people really hate women.
Demons have co-opted the church.
Edina pastor Anna Helgen reads the “Sparkle Creed,” saying she believes in a “non-binary God” and that Jesus had “two dads.” She also invokes Taylor Swift’s lyrics during a prayer.
Sunshine! If it pleases and sparkles I would like to read a creed.
Edina is the Old Money elite suburb in Minneapolis. Not surprising at all that this happened there.
The derogatory nickname for people from Edina is “cake eaters” and EVERYONE else in the state hates them. Mostly because they were the first place to get indoor ice rinks and it gave their high school a big edge for years in the state tourney (trust me that is a big deal here)
Now do St J, (oops) St Louis Park.
I was taught that Edina is an acronym for “Every Day I Need Attention”.
Sometimes Edina pastor Anna Helgen doubts your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Xe’s claiming Mary was a dude?
But even if the court does end affirmative action and kill the student loan program, the rulings in which liberal lawyers surprisingly prevailed mark a sharp contrast to last term.
Then the conservative justices issued a series of maximalist rulings that ended the right to abortion, expanded gun rights, curbed the power of the federal government to combat climate change and undermined the separation of church and state.
In the aftermath, some prominent figures — including members of the court — questioned whether it was at risk of losing its legitimacy by radically remaking the law at such a swift pace.
“When courts become extensions of the political process, when people see them as extensions of the political process, when people see them as just trying to impose personal preferences on society, irrespective of the law, that’s when there’s a problem,” liberal Justice Elena Kagan said in a public appearance last September.
Unless, of course, those decisions go your way. Then they’re just reasonable jurisprudence based on facts and law.
ended the right to abortion
Did not.
expanded gun rights
Did not.
curbed the power of the federal government to combat climate change
Did not.
undermined the separation of church and state
Did not.
The Constitution is only valuable if it doesn’t block us from forcing utopia.
I am quite pleased with the latest ruling that race should not be used to pick college admissions. It should be your academic drive and grades.
Is there no “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” chapter in Sweden? They would be acclaimed for acts mocking out religion (or at least one religion).
“PICTURED: Boston social worker, 32, charged with posing as a 16-year-old from a foster home to attend three local HIGH SCHOOLS for an entire academic year”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12243347/PICTURED-Boston-social-worker-32-charged-posing-teenager.html
Didn’t some asian woman do that a few months ago?
“How’s it going, fellow youths?”
She got busted for failing to turn in her homework or what? Public schools are not for the public. I understand the false statements but otherwise she’d not have been allowed to attend anyway.
Now it’s “Strangers With Candy” that turned out to be prophecy.
“The Great Opioid Lie: Addictive painkillers do NOT reduce lower back or neck pain, Lancet study shows”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12243829/The-Great-Opioid-Lie-Addictive-painkillers-NOT-reduce-lower-neck-pain.html
Doubt.
As someone who herniated a lumbar disc, I can tell you that is absolute bullshit and opioids were the ONLY thing that alleviated the pain.
Like with every other drug, different people react differently to them.
The medical industry is always trying to enforce a one size fits all approach.
The LGBT Foundation recommend using the term “bonus hole” instead of “vagina” to avoid offending trans people (this isn’t satire btw).
Gash.
“Six white Mississippi deputies are fired after they entered home of two black men and ‘tortured them for hours’ before putting gun in one’s mouth and shooting him
Michael Corey Jenkins, 32, and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker, 35, said deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department burst into a home in Rankin County, just east of the state capital of Jackson, without a warrant.
The men said deputies beat them, assaulted them with a sex toy and shocked them repeatedly with Tasers in a roughly 90-minute period during the January 24 episode, Jenkins and Parker said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12244597/Six-white-Mississippi-deputies-fired-entering-home-two-black-men-tortured-hours.html
Probably won’t hear much about this because there is no controversy.
So what made this event occur? It probably wasn’t random. It certainly does not excuse this, but what started this?
Deputies are probably working for a rival gang and enforcing their territory.
This makes sense.
Obviously there’s more to it than that. They probably heard that it was a stash house, and were looking to rob it.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Nice. I like the little tike with a bathing suit wedgie tagging along.
This story made me literally snort milk out my nose this morning.
You see this?
Met Council derided as ‘agency gone rogue’ after latest Southwest light rail report
Clowns.
They will get away with blowing literally billions of dollars.
Everyone already knew that the original ridership projections were bullshit. Now with everyone telecommuting we are going to lose even more money than before.
Tortured
“SIX WEEKS IS, quite simply, not a reasonable period of time,” the majority held, in an opinion authored by Justice Kaye Hearn.
In January, South Carolina’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban as unconstitutional. The 3-2 majority explained that, while the state has the authority to impose limits on the right to privacy, “any such limitation must be reasonable and… the time frames imposed must afford a woman sufficient time to determine she is pregnant and to take reasonable steps to terminate that pregnancy.”
Hearn, the lone woman on the court, left the bench in February after reaching the mandatory retirement age. When she left, South Carolina’s Supreme Court became an all-male body for the first time in 35 years. It is the only state Supreme Court in the entire nation with no female members.
On Tuesday — less than six months after it issued that decision — the newly male-dominated court heard arguments in another challenge to a ban that is virtually identical to the one it just struck down.
WTF?
And, of course, the prospect of men deciding questions of law which affect women is simply too inequitable for contemplation.
They will keep passing similar laws until one makes it through. Judge selection will become a political issue if they persist.
Politically, six weeks is stupid. It’s too much for pro-life, and not enough for pro-choice. So no one is happy.
Sounds like a reasonable compromise to me then.
“No one is happy” is the best you’re going to get on this issue.
^ There is no such thing as compromise on this issue. The two positions are mutually exclusive without overlap. One side believes abortion is the murder of innocent children. The other believes abortion restriction is modern slavery. I don’t agree with either position, but also understand why it’s the hill the prolife people have chosen as their line in the sand. The people okay with a compromise of something like 12-20 weeks don’t have a dog in the fight.
It’s not dissimilar to the fight over firearms, where there can be no compromise on firearm rights.
“The people okay with a compromise of something like 12-20 weeks don’t have a dog in the fight.”
Except those are the majority of people, while no one, not the pro-life people, not the pro-abortion extremists, nor the normies, wants six weeks.
Fuck compromise.
The six week limit is based on the start of heartbeat in the fetus. It’s a concrete marker in fetal development. There is clear logic is saying you can’t abort a fetus once the heart starts beating.
I am not saying that I agree with banning abortion at 6 weeks, but it is clearly a logical point in fetal development.
Isn’t six weeks a compromise?
“There is clear logic is saying you can’t abort a fetus once the heart starts beating.”
What is that logic?
Meeting starting up. So, no long discussion.
Summarizing from many, many previous post on this topic: When does clump of cells become a person with 14th amendment rights to equal protection under the law.
Clear cut points in development:
Conception
Heartbeat
Viability
Birth
There may be other points that people will argue for.
Some people will argue that being born is not enough and will argue for letting infants die by withholding care to infants with medical problems.
“letting infants die by withholding care to infants with medical problems”
This is exactly what we do with incapacitated adults who have terminal conditions, with the consent of their legal decision maker. It maps over precisely to providing only comfort care to newborns with terminal conditions. Lumping it in with abortion is a category error. I have argued in court, with a clear conscience, that doing so with adults is the right thing to do. I’ve never had to argue it with infants, because a kid born with no brain (yes, it happens) or any of a number of other fatal birth defects dies before anybody can file any paperwork, much less schedule a court hearing.
Lumping it in with abortion is a category error.
Correction noted.
My mistake in posting anything at all.
No worries, kinnath. I thought your point about developmental stages was on target.
One of the issues with six weeks is that a lot of women, especially those on birth control pills, miss periods periodically (so to speak), and that leaves you with one (1) missed period before the clock runs out. I know two women who were on birth control and didn’t know they were pregnant until late first trimester/early second trimester. This may not be relevant to the personhood debate, but it’s relevant to policy/politics.
This may not be relevant to the personhood debate, but it’s relevant to policy/politics.
Yes, the six week ban very close to a de facto ban considering how many women will not recognize they are pregnant before the clock runs out.
And, of course, the prospect of men deciding questions of law which affect women is simply too inequitable for contemplation.
Well duh. After all, men don’t have bonus holes.
“while the state has the authority to impose limits on the right to privacy, “any such limitation must be reasonable”
I guess the state constitution has this right to privacy? Because the federal constitution, for better or worse, doesn’t.
Six weeks is stupid, true. Probably about the worst compromise to land on, short of the dog’s breakfast of restrictions that were piecemealed together during the Roe era.
Also “only except in cases of rape or incest” would lead to a bunch of false accusations.
Pre-Covid, I would have instantly called this guy an embarrassing nut. Now?
They guy is native american, so he is extra spiritual. And the Govt is refusing to comment? Sounds like they are stonewalling.
Sounds like he’s trying to give the whole country a big heads up.
Mount Rushmore is a “freemason shrine” and a portal for demonic entities to enter and spread communism throughout the country.
Pass the peace pipe, man.
That’s crazy, Hoss
“It’s time for men in this chamber — and the ones across that hall and all across the state of South Carolina — to take some ejaculation responsibility,” Republican Sen. Katrina Shealy said in May while attempting to filibuster the law a second time. The vote was eventually allowed to proceed, and the ban was passed by a vote of 27-19.
Que?
1. ALWAYS KEEP THE PENIS POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION
2. TESTICLES SHOULD BE UNLOADED WHEN NOT ACTUALLY IN USE
3. DON’T RELY ON YOUR CONDOM’S “SAFETY”
4. BE SURE OF YOUR PARTNER AND WHAT HER PLANS ARE
5. USE CORRECT LUBRICATION
6. DON’T GO OFF HALF COCKED
7. ALWAYS ASSUME THE TESTICLES ARE LOADED
8. DO NOT FIRE UNLESS YOU’RE PREPARED FOR THE CONSEQUENCES
9. DO NOT STICK IT IN CRAZY
Is M-t-F surgery a decocker?
Racial discrimination in college admissions violate the 14th Amendment.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
Fuck yes.
The wailing from the racists will be loud.
AWFLs?
I think that is the longest Thomas concurrence/dissent I have ever seen. Especially since he concurred with the decision in full. He just had a lot to say about it.
He’s been itching to hit this issue for a long time.
Well no shit. Just surprising they actually ruled on the plain meaning of the 14th amendment.
This should be entertaining.
😲
OMG the howls from the left are going to be epic.
I was hoping for a split decision…ruling against UNC and for Harvard while throwing out the concept of public accomodation.
I guess this was the 2nd best result.
I don’t believe there’s as much difference between “public” and “private” schools as some people think, at least not when following the money. So happy result for me.
No worries. The universities already have their workarounds in place. Anti-white and anti-Asian discrimination will continue uninterrupted.
That’s because this isn’t a policy problem any more. It’s a personnel problem. Until you replace the people who are dead set on discriminating against whites and Asians, they will keep doing so. One of the consistent errors the non-left makes is believing they can fix things by just adopting a policy, without wholesale terminations.
The WaPo comments are delicious.
“ The conservative court (I can’t call it supreme because it isn’t) has ruled against woman, unions, minorities, and the planet. So the only thing they care about are rich white men.”
Also Asians.
AKA honorary whites.
CWAA
“Green” energy shatters expectations.
Solar panels destroyed by large hail north of Scottsbluff, Nebraska last night. #newx Photo Courtesy Matt Larsen #hail
Think of all the people who will benefit from the repair work! GDP is going up.
At least the windmills were up and running, right? Right?
150 MPH winds are gonna generate some high voltage.
In high winds, some “clutch” disengages and no electricity is produced. This is to prevent the generator from being destroyed.
It’s shocking how narrow the safe operating conditions are.
Well currently, yeah. I’m sure there’s some potential for improvement.
It’s a terrifying law, and this completely unrelated incident proves it
Anyone with good sense in Florida is dreading July 1. That’s the day when the state starts allowing people over the age of 21 to carry a concealed weapon without a permit and without any gun training — at all. It’s the terrible law that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the complicit Legislature pushed through this session as they piled aboard the DeSantis-for-president train, intent on giving the governor the rightest of far-right of platforms to run on, in the hope of siphoning support from Donald Trump. Florida isn’t the only state to do it. In fact, it’s the 26th, joining Kentucky, Alabama, Maine and Texas, among others. But in a state that spawned the “Florida man” meme, lowering restrictions on guns is crazy. And scary. You don’t have to look far to see why. Just a few weeks ago, on June 15, a Dunedin man emptied his assault rifle at a pool cleaner he thought was an intruder.
Half the states in the country have done this, and just look at the wholesale slaughter which has ensued.
And that guy in his own home with a rifle is the perfect illustration of what we can expect to see on every street corner.
Fortunately he can still move to California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey, which have sensible gun laws and, consequently, no gun violence of which to speak.
Because a permit prevents crime…
Cool. I’ll bring Mr. Snubby and his pocket holster next time I visit. He doesn’t get to go on vacation much.
“But in a state that spawned the “Florida man” meme, lowering restrictions on guns is crazy.”
That’s some solid logic.
Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin. This Nation’s constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.
Ouch.
Why is that sleep apnea story even out there? Who cares? Probably 10% of the people I know have apnea and are using a machine.
It’s the excuse they put out for Biden’s face being all bent up. Probably had him on an oxygen mask before talking to the press so he was almost coherent.
That would make sense
They have to get ahead of the criticism by providing a reason that does not suggest general poor health due to age. Alternatively he was napping in the middle of the afternoon while using the machine.
Apparently he had some weird marks on his face that needed to be explained.
The court just kicked Harvard and UNC in the nuts.
It took a lifetime, but Roe V Wade and Affirmative Action have finally been corrected by the courts.
So… Public Accommodation laws next?
See up above, I was hoping for a split decision, UNC loses, Harvard wins due to the court throwing out public accommodation. That was too much to hope for.
You mean the court violated precedent and removed civil rights. ///TheLeft
Waiting for corrections of Buck v Bell, Wickard v Filburn, Korematsu v United States, Kelo v New London, …
A good and long overdue ruling but just the beginning.
Amen, the only problem is this is 100% a Trump win, and I don’t think we’re getting another rightwing president for a long time.
Good work by the federalist society though.
We haven’t had a rightwing president in over a century.
Not Silent Cal?
The end of civility
More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League, with a dramatic rise in incidents over the last 12 months, especially among teens.
Why it matters: Experts say what happens online is causing significant real-world harm and also keeping large numbers of people from fully participating in an increasingly digital society.
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What they’re saying: “Online hate and harassment isn’t just ‘hurtful speech,’” Yael Eisenstat, head of the ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, said in a statement to Axios. “It pushes people out of the conversation, impinging on their own freedom of expression, causing emotional distress, reputational and economic harm.”
It’s also inspiring real-world violence, Eisenstat said. “Mass shooters are finding inspiration in the misogynist, anti-LGBTQ+ and antisemitic content coursing through their feeds. And social media posts on mainstream platforms that target trans people have been directly linked to bomb and death threats against hospitals that provide gender-affirming care.”
Who will silence the haters an return this great country to harmonious elite progressive consensus?
The other half have never been online.
How about those of us who get called racists and NAZIs for thinking that civil liberties should be protected for everyone, including deplorable?
Man, fuck the ADL. That is all…
Keep in mind, what people consider hateful and harassing is neither most of the time. Being debated in an argument and exposed to other ideas is not hate.
Telling someone to DIAF is not actually a death threat, either.
Shut up you fascist Nazi!
So we need more censorship not to impinge on freedom of expression.
You can’t make it up.
And good morning!
Apartment windows are not very secure in Russia.
Every nation needs to have their go-to method of disposing of persons. We do a double-tap back of the head suicide, Russians randomly fall out windows.
Would have.
Transformational
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday launched a $7 billion competitive grant program that aims to give low-income communities access to residential solar panels, the latest effort by the Biden administration to expand renewable energy across the country.
The agency will make up to 60 awards to community groups around the country representing specific states, Native Americans and Alaska Natives and multi-state programs.
The grants are part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund established by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to infuse “transformational” capital to communities that have not been able to attract clean energy and transportation investments and overburdened by pollution.
A chicken in every pot. A car in every garage. Free unlimited everything.
A middle class suburban lifestyle is a human right. At least until the pods are completed and the cricket farms are up to speed.
SYSTEM ERROR – Buzzword overload
“$27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund established by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act”
Printing money to lower inflation.
What people don’t realize is that the Inflation Reduction Act was just the Green New Deal, slathered in extra bacon grease. Nearly the entire GND program is in there in some form or another.
We laugh at AOC, but damn if she didn’t just get a massive piece of legislation through very early in her career.
Talking with my teens…yes.
Protecting their virginity, smart.
Well, their technical virginity, anyway. In my book, somebody who’s boyfriend has been boffing them up the bunghole isn’t a virgin anymore.
I knew I should have put the /catholic tag on that.
Fewer accidental pregnancies too!
No, no, no. Orang Man Bad.
DOJ claims Trump is on tape showing classified docs on July 21, 2021, the docs have never been found
But 6 days before on July 15, the New Yorker had an article where Milley accused Trump of wanting to strike Iran
Is it possible he was just holding the article?
“shows”….its an audio tape.
Good.
Switzerland again refused to transfer arms to Ukraine on Wednesday, this time rejecting the export of almost 100 Leopard 1 tanks belonging to state arms company RUAG.
Despite pressure from Kyiv and its allies, Switzerland has so far not allowed countries that hold Swiss-made weaponry to re-export it to Ukraine.
Switzerland’s Federal Council said the export of 96 Leopard 1 A5 tanks was “not possible under the law as it stands.”
“Such a sale would contravene the War Materiel Act and would result in a shift from Switzerland’s policy of neutrality,” it said.
One would think that the reason would be “They are ours and we need them.”
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Or “You already broke the ones you had.”
Daily Quordle 521
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 29
Letters: G I M A N P R
My score: 323 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 521
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horseshit again today
Daily Quordle 521
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, June 29
Letters: G I M A N P R
My score: 368 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌺 🌹 🌷 🌸 💐 🏵 💮 🌻 🌼 🌺 🌹
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
BR was a crapshoot and IMHO not a fair word but whatevz
Daily Quordle 521
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Lineage
Extremist jamboree
Several GOP presidential candidates are heading to Philadelphia this week to attend a convention hosted by the right-wing extremist group Moms for Liberty, whose members style themselves as protectors of America’s children.
Members of the organization have been linked to incidents of harassment and threats as well as to the Proud Boys, another far-right extremist group. And Moms’ members have led some of the most fervent efforts to ban nonwhite (particularly Black) authors from schools.
But Republican candidates are set to appear at the conference regardless, in a show of allegiance to the far-right. Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Asa Hutchinson and Vivek Ramaswamy are all scheduled to deliver remarks at the group’s so-called Joyful Warriors conference, which begins Thursday.
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The Joyful Warriors conference has an ironic name, given the event’s focus on a raft of right-wing cultural grievances.
A glance at the conference schedule gives you a sense of the type of programming attendees can expect from this four-day affair. At one lecture, a right-wing minister will apparently claim Black people’s so-called victim mentality enables “divisive and manipulative distortions that have attempted to sever Black Americans’ attachment to their own nation.”
To state the obvious, it’s an odd argument to make in a lecture hosted by a group whose members try harder than just about anyone else to ban comprehensive Black history from bookshelves.
It’s just like the Nuremberg Rally, only more terrifying.
I wondered about that huge convoy of searchlight trucks going up I-95 yesterday. Have the city’s tailors been alerted to the need for snappy black uniforms? Hob-nailed boot makers doing a land office business on South Street.
“And Moms’ members have led some of the most fervent efforts to ban nonwhite (particularly Black) authors from schools.”
“try harder than just about anyone else to ban comprehensive Black history from bookshelves.”
BULLSHIT
I don’t know how that woman can walk around being so completely full of shit.
A perfect song for the French riots.
lol-snort
Deus vult.
j/k love my Christian arab brothers.
For example, there’s also a planned lecture from a speaker who denies the existence of trans children; a lecture advising conservatives on how to “master the spin” and “control the narrative”; a lecture railing against social-emotional learning programs that help kids deal with their emotions in school; and a lecture condemning “comprehensive sexuality education.”
Those are just a few of the “standouts.” Rest assured, there’s more bigotry in store.
Pernicious wrongthink!
The Department of Justice should sue Moms For Liberty for false advertising and gross misrepresentation. They are obviously, in reality, Moms For Slavery.
https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1674073538666409984
It’s funny because it’s true.
Obligatory…
https://www.theonion.com/gay-pride-parade-sets-mainstream-acceptance-of-gays-bac-1819566014
That was back from when The Onion was funny.
“Ukrainian trafficker stopped at border attempting to steal 11-month-old baby to sell for organs”
https://humanevents.com/2023/06/28/ukrainian-trafficker-stopped-at-border-attempting-to-steal-11-month-old-baby-to-sell-for-organs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12242035/Evil-child-trader-caught-trying-child-Ukraine-sell-organ-transplants.html
WTF??
Dude is trading a kid for organs? He must really like playing music at the baseball game.
So, purely theoretical question here, what’s the going rate for a full set of 11 month old organs, anyway?
Apparently $25K
I am really, really pleased as peach with the affirmative action ruling.
One thing I didn’t realize is that it was already outlawed in Florida. God bless this state.
‘Sotomayor and Jackson write dissents’
…I mean, I guess people who benefitted from it would be against getting rid of it, but that doesn’t make it any less racist and evil.
One of the left wing talking points today is that Clarence Thomas is only successful because of affirmative action.
Entirely possible(?), but I don’t know his life story that well. IIRC it is kind of impressive since he came from nothing.
Also how Democrats stood athwart ‘history’ trying to stop his appointment.
I believe that Thomas has addressed AA in relationship to his career. I believe that he believed it was an impediment not a benefit.
“I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I’d made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value.”[43]
Based
He was admitted to law school in 1971 and graduated in 1974. I’m not sure how much AA there actually was in the early ‘70s, but I think it was around.
It was everywhere. And there was a pervasive opinion, amongst certain demographics, that “professionals of color” were not fully qualified for their jobs because of AA.
LOLOL
Are you sure you want to do this extreme and irrevocable thing?
Bills banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors in Michigan passed the state legislature, Tuesday, June 27 and are headed for the desk of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Once signed by Whitmer, Michigan will join the 21 states, plus the District of Columbia, which have already enacted bans on administering conversion therapy to minors.
“Michigan’s LGBTQ+ youth should be free from needless attacks and torture, and deserve to live in a state where they can be healthy, safe, and reach their full potential,” Equality Michigan Executive Director Erin Knott said in a statement. “Ending the dangerous practice of conversion therapy for youth is a critical step in making Michigan a safe and welcoming place for LGBTQ+ people and our families.”
Can they torture the language and obfuscate any harder?
When I read ‘conversion therapy’ I thought they meant turning the kids gay/trans and was left wondering why Whitmore would sign it.
It might be entertaining to read the tortured definitions of “gender-affirming care’ v “conversion therapy”. Of course, conversion therapy doesn’t cause permanent physical changes, but I doubt they want to hang the distinction on that.
Bonkers if true
https://zerohedge.com/political/biden-picks-after-journalist-calls-secret-burner-phone-revealed-hunter-scandal
Why would you keep a burner around for that long?
I can see why he would want a secret line of communication with Hunter. Of course, it should be changed periodically, and especially after the number is published as belonging to you. But these are the same clowns who abandoned a laptop stuffed to the gills with incriminating evidence, so . . . .