On the brink
Well it was a nice Halloween, unless you’re a D-backs fan. They got shelled. The first CFP rankings are out and there’s a few minor head-scratchers but nothing all that crazy. The Raiders have fired their coach, for whatever good that’ll do them. And a flurry of NFL trades happened and that’s about it. Now on to…the links!
Shit like this is why there should be no omnibus spending bills. There’s no way these boondoggles were directly budgeted for. Because of they had been, they wouldn’t be announcing it now.
We’ll see how it goes.
I can see how this would be challenging. I have a proposal for the standard: if the official posts anything work-related at all on their personal page, including campaigning while in office, then they lose the ability to block anybody. Draw a sharp and clear line defining personal and professional and err on the side of free speech for constituents when it’s crossed.
There’s a team this kid can join. It’s called the boys team. Because sports are sex-segregated, not segregated based on feelings.
Entitled douche
Buy your own canvas, asshole. Destroying or defacing private property is not a right. also, apply that standard to every other graffiti situation.
It’s a good thing we have solid immigration controls then. Oh wait…we’re probably fucked.
They’re the only ones? Damn, Mother Nature sounds racist.
Grab a mirror, dumbass. You’ve enabled this by letting the goons on campus stifle the rights of the people they opposed. So temper your surprise and/or admit you’re part of the problem.
THE END IS NEAR!!! THE END IS NEAR!!! This is it, folks. It’s been a good run.
Here’s a solid track. Such great stuff. And here’s another. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely, yet chilly, Wednesday dear friends.
🤘 Comet!
I spit in your general direction.
SCOD, where are you?
Hot Fudge Sundae will come on a Tuesdae, as I recall.
But when will Lucifer’s Hammer fall?
Is that comet more of this?
Let me guess — that one jackass at NASA that kept pitching the hockey stick all the time and now his “data” is used as the basis for all the models….
Like a fortune teller, the warnings caused us to alter our future.
My last conversation with a fortune teller:
Me: You can tell the future, right?
Her: Yes
Me: Then you already know I am not going to give you any money.
Did he/she/it give you the evil eye and the devil’s horns?
Shit, we all just died from a fentanyl shipment. Now we get to die from a comet. Next year we all die from Trump’s WW3.
Bon Ami, Barkeepers Friend
Comet is only if you have zero hand strength and want to ruin everything.
Needs more abrasive.
The Hype usually checks in later on in the day
…nice.
abrasion—Ted’S”
“There’s a team this kid can join. It’s called the boys team. Because sports are sex-segregated, not segregated based on feelings.”
How fucked up are people that kids think shit like this is anything but a sign of a damned mental disorder?
You know the old saying about soft times make soft people…. well, at least the Biden Administration is working diligently to get our society back to having real problems so we won’t have to put up with this sort of stupid crap for a while.
Send the tranny brigades in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irKU7xKjKw
MUGATU!
Derelict is the bomb, yo!
I love that film.
Didn’t keep Klinger out of the Army
Food on table, many problem; no food on table, one problem.
…Fake Chinese adage
Sports aren’t segregated based on clothes, hairstyles, or behavior. A boy in a dress is still a boy.
“Grab a mirror, dumbass. You’ve enabled this by letting the goons on campus stifle the rights of the people they opposed. So temper your surprise and/or admit you’re part of the problem.”
The truth is that the elite, the people teaching and believing the marxist colonizer shit, have to wipe out Israel, because the Jews are a sticking craw in their oppressor vs. oppressed bullshit. That and they seem to have always been Jew haters too but it was difficult to just be fucking shit like that after the Holocaust in polite society. Now they have excuses. And the one now is that terrorists should be allowed to terrorize.
Certainly falling into the “things I should never say at work” category — but I really think multiculturalism of the “diversity is our strength!” variant has proven to be a horrible idea. People are fine. The old melting pot model of “remember your culture, keep the best aspects and share it — but at the end of the day, you are now American” worked. Importing every culture from around the globe and especially the war-torn, tribal parts and then not defending or promoting your culture? Suicide. Which of course, is partly the intent — drive division, drive social instability so they can leap in… I just think those who thought they were going to leap in and more likely to be dead when and if shit goes down.
Yay! A cheery Wednesday morning thought! (On that note… was a little surprised only one Wednesday and one Barbie last night in the kids. Also surprised that apparently the teenagers said “Fuck it” this year — everyone who looked to be 8th grade or higher was in street clothes from what I could tell… zero effort. And because I tend to overbuy out of paranoia… I fostered the behavior. Just call me an advocate for Sloth, apparently…)
“but I really think multiculturalism of the “diversity is our strength!” variant has proven to be a horrible idea.”
I think that had been proven before the scum that foisted that “multiculturalism and diversity” shit on us all for whatever stupid reason did so.
A country without a unifying culture is not a nation. It is multiple nations competing for dominance.
The article by the professor does a lot of virtue signaling to the effect that he’s gonna keep voting for people who side with Hamas. Because supporting those terrorists is what the revolutionary communist intellectuals who seem to be driving the Progressive agenda feel is the next step to sow social division, to advance the overthrow of the government and usher in a socialist utopia.
I’m wondering what exactly would have to happen for him to have the epiphany that he’s giving aid and comfort to politicians who want him dead? Getting tossed in a re-education camp?
“Why did you bring me to this trench, anyway?”
Being dragged in front of the firing squad while screaming at the top of his lungs that this is all a mistake because he is a true believer…
Maybe.
“You can take them to Siberia and show them the death camps. They still will not believe. They will believe only when the military boot is crushing their balls, not before.” – our old friend Yuri Bezmenov on useful idiots.
If Comrade Stalin only knew.
Someone in his immediate family would need to be raped and/or murdered while the perp screams “free Palestine”. Anything less and it’s not a problem in any concrete way and he’d just excuse it.
Given the title of his book, he can go eat a bag of dicks.
Go Texas Rangers!
*Suddenly becomes a fan
Oh you evil, evil BEM….. (“Go go Texas Rangers… dooo dooo doo doo doo… go go Texas Rangers!” now looping through my mind… 40 lashes from Rita Repulsa to you!)
/puts on Browns shirt that says “Never Bandwagon, Never Meant to Be”.
My wife’s grandfather has been a season ticket holder since the Rangers moved to Texas in ’72. This was the first year that he didn’t renew because he has gotten too frail to go out there regularly. If the Rangers drop the next game, I may need to work with the family to get him to one last game.
Firing squad? Graffiti “artists” are the lowest scum.
OK, what did one of them assholes tag that belongs to you? Cause I would like to see them passed around in prison, but you sound like you would want more carnage there rhywun…
Nothing. I just think they deserve more than a slap on the wrist. They are the epitome of the postmodern celebration of the ugly.
I’ve seen nice ‘graffiti’ but I think they were usually commissioned.
Which completely goes against the spirit of the practice, which is that of dogs marking their territory – whether it be gangbangers or leftists.
I’d like to see them hanged from the nearest lamppost with a rattle can shoved down their gullet. Pour encourager les autres.
How can anyone at all, much less someone who works in academia full-time, be surprised that colleges are hotbeds of Jew-hate that would make any Goebbels proud? It’s only been going on for 20 years, and escalating in recent years, after all. Is Chemerinsky really that dumb?
That last one is one of them rhetorical questions, counselor, correct?
See my comments above about how Chemerinsky is a useful idiot who hasn’t yet understood the underlying agenda behind radical Progressivism.
Yes. Yes he is and there is a lot of that going around.
Well, if my mothers family is anything to go by, they (college professors, as that is the family trade) have selected for choosing anything “progressive”, as defined by the far left, as good simply by dint of upsetting the conservatives, then, yes, they are surprised that they are hot beds of hate – Jew hate and raw bigotry of any sort. Incrementalism works, but suddenly a major change comes along and shows you just how far you moved, which you simply didn’t notice due in main to the fact that you eliminated any dissenting voices.
I blame student loans who profit the Jews who run the worlds financial system.
“Shit like this is why there should be no omnibus spending bills. There’s no way these boondoggles were directly budgeted for. Because of they had been, they wouldn’t be announcing it now.”
My memory is vague of when the omnibus shit became SOP (but I think it was when Obama and the dnc crime syndicates had full control of all government entities and were fundamentally changing shit to destroy America starting with the Obamacare scam), but I recall it became the way to do shit so they could hide massive amounts of pork and real fucking bullshit spending that would never pass as single bills.
The corruptocracy is now unwilling to give this up because they have fleeced trillions doing this shit and hiding it from the people whom would turn their wrath against them.
Alex your animus to Obama blinds you. This problem stretches back to post-Watergate reforms.
I mentioned that it became SOP under Obama’s tenure (as a lot of the really, really bad shit we now all worry about). I am sure this stupid practice happened before the lightbringer’s tenure, but it was not the way D.C. conducted its business of robbing the productive in the country all the time before his administration.
I can’t find anything on it with my weak web search skills at the moment — but the podcast I’m 2 years behind on (so am getting the joy of listening to them react to 2021’s stupidity now) claimed/commented that the House moved from bills being put out on the floor and members pushing amendments to said bills to a model where the Speaker set out the bills, and it was a pure “go/no go” vote from then on. Something like 900 amendments in one year and zero by 2020. I believe the time frame was the 2010s, but again.. this is all from memory.
So yeah — a lot of this is ongoing, but I do think it got worse. I don’t think it was an Obama thing as much as a Pelosi thing — she very much favored the “Pass the bill to find out what’s in it dumbasses!” model, so it would fit.
Or said radio show podcast was full of shit. I have no backing evidence, after all. Just another Wacky Wednesday!
Yeah, that is the final state it decayed into, but even worse have been the continuing resolution years – where an old budget was just extended.
Ironically, Brookings had a paper on this that recommended bringing back earmarks and reducing transparency, i.e. walking back progressive reforms.
It’s probably speaking to my priors, but It seems like it got much worse with Pelosi/Reid running the show in Congress.
I know our primary Gramsci fan hasn’t been around for a while, but those who still take note of him should enjoy this as well. Apologies for the wall of text, but I just couldn’t cut it down without sacrificing what I think everyone needs to see. There is still plenty more in the article itself.
Elsewhere in that article, he notes the decline of Islamic science, which had flourished until the establishment of the madrassas, and how that relates to wokeness in our higher educational environment.
There are three types of marxists. The first and largest group are the fucking morons that never read anything marxism related and got their programming from the education steeped in marxist bullshit. The second group are the idiots that read this drivel and actually lacked the brain power to figure out marxism was not only never going to work, but was evil and anti-human. The last group, and the smallest, is the most dangerous one. Those are the people that read this marxist shit and realized it was evil and anti-human, never going to work as promised, but loved that it would allow a new crop of even more evil feudal lords to overthrow the old ones and wreak havoc on everyone’s lives.
Marxism appeals to losers that want to blame others for them being losers.
Marx isn’t even the problem, but you rant on like a Bircher.
All the stupid shit we see these days goes right back to that guy, but you keep defending that shit.
Please quote me on ever defending Marx. You’re like a fucking Baptist ranting on about Satan. Nothing else matters. The world is full of far worse people, before, during and after Marx.
I’m gonna guess that perhaps 5% to10% of the U.S. population are actual revolutionary communists who explicitly want to overthrow the government and subject us to communist rule. And they seem to be well on their way to skin-suiting the Democratic party, given the number of elected politicians who have come out of the political closet and overtly label themselves “Democratic Socialists”.
But hey, Marxist-Leninists aren’t a problem, yeah?
American Progressivism was a home-grown, non-Marxist (until the 1960s) brand of stupidity. Sure, the New Left married up the dying branch of Marxism to the left beyond the New Deal, at a time we were building ourselves into a fascist political system (with the uniparty).
Even today, if you bother to read any progressive source, they bitterly complain that the Democrats are selling them out. They aren’t bragging about their command of the party. Of course these same folks believe we [libertarian crypto-fascist white male supremacist] are in control of the Republicans – so you can tell how balanced their perspective is.
“American Progressivism was a home-grown, non-Marxist (until the 1960s) brand of stupidity.”
Oh, I call bullshit.
The KGB had infiltrated the American left and a lot of institutions (including academia) long before WWII, and they only got better and more adept at it as time went bye. This shit is what led to all the marxist backed violence of the 60s.
CRT and DEI are nothing but repackaged marxist deconstructionist drivel that uses race instead of class and based on that idiot Marcuse’s fever dreams.
Yeah, but the Progressives were bullshit collectivist eugenics proponents going back to TR’s era at least, Alex. There’s no way the KGB did shit back then.
Face it — we have more than our own share of dumbasses round these parts too.
SDF-7:
It Can’t Happen Here!
/watches it happen here
Yeah, when the Nazis borrow eugenics from you, you don’t have to find other bad people around the world to be the biggest problem.
The KGB wasn’t involved, but there were still Marxist influences.
Yeah, but the Progressives were bullshit collectivist eugenics proponents going back to TR’s era at least
Yes, and the commies accelerated it. Marx isn’t the progenitor of all of this, but he was a giant can of gas dumped on the top of it.
Much of the rot that took hold in the late 19th century was due to various forms of Enlightenment thinking coming unmoored from any useful foundation.
Trashy is on it – the Enlightenment – though it may be less unmoored and more like ultimate conclusion.
Just like libertarianism descending into libertinism and becoming little more than hedonistic narcissism.
Unionism, specifically the Industrial Workers of the World or Wobblies who were founded in Chicago, was part of the internationalist socialist movement specifically advocated by Marx and furthered by Lenin. The American Communist party, CPUSA, was formed in 1919. The Democratic Party goes back and forth on how much it supports the ideas of unionism depending on how much of it’s elected representatives support these platforms, unsurprisingly as it is the left wing of American politics and thus creates the tug of war with reactionaries, who are represented politically by Republicans, that forms the bell curve of acceptable opinions.
As long as the D’s support unionism, they will be aligned with Marxism, to a greater or lessor degree informed by the acceptance of it by the general population. Progressives of the furthest left will always bitch about how little the D’s support them, which is no different than the above mentioned reactionaries complaining about “RINOs”.
By 1919, Progressivism had peaked.
The AFL-CIO was as anti-communist as the Birch Society.
You’re using some reeeealy specific definitions of “progressivism” “marxism” and “communism” aren’t you?
Progressivism – wanting to force society forward.
Reactionaryism – wanting to slow society down.
The two ideas are always there, and always at odds, in the same way that no matter how you slice it, half of a people will be more conservative than the other half. That is the nature of people.
Good grief if it’s that high we’re so fucked.
Look at all the damage a tiny fraction of 1% that are sexually confused have done.
proles, outer party, inner party
We are far, far closer to Brave New World than 1984.
Is that a good thing?
At least 1984 had a happy ending (assuming the theory that everything fell apart in the early 90s), just not for Winston Smith.
Brave New World did have the islands where those who didn’t fit into the main society could be “exiled” to, as well as an abundance of food and energy.
See my music link just below, it was posted for you. I figure you probably saw them sometime or something. No idea how long they lasted.
The dock for the boat that leaves for those islands is located near the farm upstate where puppies go when they get old.
Is that a good thing?
Choose the form of the Destructor!
Lots of useful idiots who believe Christ was a communist without the bad Soviet features and, as enlightened and educated folks, they are an elite who can manage your life better to create heaven on earth.
I point out to these people that claim Christ is a commie that his mom, Mary appeared to kids in Fatima Portugal in 1917 to warn them and have them tell the church of the dangers and evil of communism that would be coming humanity’s way. If Jesus was a commie his mom sure as hell did him no solid when she did that…
Sure, and how many kids listen to their mothers?
So now Jesus is also a rebellious kid?
Heh, I think he might point to that commandment about honoring thy mother and father thing…
I think you could interpret the honor thy father and mother thing either way on this one:
I point out this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yspSI8JA_4
God warned the Jews explicitly what a bad idea it was to ask for a human King. That sums it up. Government by man = stupid.
Since I am bible quoting already:
Shorter version:
Thanks. I was short time to pull in that quote.
Then, of course, there is Romans 13.
Jesus was certainly all about forcing people to follow his ways at the point of a gun.
The Catholics certainly thought so, though less the point of a gun and more a stake and pile of combustibles.
-1 Goose
In the day and age of scripture decontextualization, the whole “if my kingdom was earthly, my servants would have fought for me” line can be seen as prescriptive, I guess.
I skimmed through that whole piece…while I generally agree with the argument, I think there are some places in history where there was a kind of thesis–>antithesis–> synthesis result. Not causative as Marx argued. Of course, having said that, I’m blanking on the examples I would normally use.
If you look back in history, you may find that – most likely because it is what you want to see. Looking forward into the future, it is insanity, but we humans are bound and determined to be able to predict it.
Yeah, that’s what I was trying to say, albeit very badly (I claim insufficient caffeine). This is, essentially, the problem with all trajectory-based history: “ah we can explain past events with theory X, therefore we can predict the future with the same theory.” And, when the future stubbornly refuses to comply, we will reinterpret out theory. This is what the British Marxist historians basically did by forming the base/superstructure argument.
Give the climate catastrophists credit – they can’t explain the past climate so there is no attempt to ground the future to that!
Why do you hate Hari Seldon?
But, yeah, the Great Men theory of future history definitely has its faults. Marxism is a pernicious mind virus that appeals especially to the intellectual, as it flatters them with the idea that they will be the ones making the necessary decisions. Stalin, in all his raw brutalism, should have put an end to that idea, but intellectuals are really, really vain.
Yeah, no shit I hate the conceit of the creation of the character Hari Seldon. Fuck that nonsense. Worst of all as sci fi. It is straight up wizardry.
Also, Stalin’s purge and exile of the Trotskyites spread the disease.
the contradictions in capitalism will lead to utopia sooner or later
Allow me to play 🎻
It’s also classist, did you know that cold weather has a disparate impact on those that are experiencing being unhoused?
Government should hand out more needles, pipes, and drugs to help these people to overcome mother nature’s sexism/racism shit!
And to think, Marxists wouldn’t worry about that because they understood about useless eaters.
Marxists will tolerate useless eaters as long as the eaters also eat the bullshit they peddle and ask for seconds…
If we wanted to maximize the number of crazy and/or addicted people “experiencing being unhoused” it’s hard to think of a better way of achieving that than following all the policies the left has pushed for the last fifty years.
And then they have the nerve to claim they care. Bullshit.
Or inner city violence. Not that we haven’t seen this before, but the sixties and its resulting social change are outside the memory of most of these brats.
That Daily Mail link is crashing Brave on my smartphone.
Why do you think it’s known as the Daily Fail?
You’re Brave… it’s afraid of Americans?
Blue on blue marxist shit fight?
They do. It doesn’t change anything.
As I mentioned, the oppressed vs. the oppressor bullshit driving the new revolutionary marxist left’s agenda needs to resolve the Hamas terrorism vs. normal people fight in Israel, and they have chosen to destroy Israel, because this particular conflict is the proof their bullshit is bullshit.
I hear endless debate on the Palestinian issue as I have all of my life. It is as if there is something to figure out. Only a billion more words of debate and we will discover the solution, everything will just come up roses.
The solution is right in front of our noses. It always has been.
See my post below that the problem with the jibber-jabber crowd is that they refuse to understand they have no ability to institute/force changes that go against human nature, the laws of physics, biology, economics, to solve problems like this.
Denouncing does nothing.
Consequences, now those might make a difference.
Which one of you Glibronis can give a helping hand and date this lady?
All of the people I have seen doing that appear to have serious mental issues.
It could just be hate. There is a lot of that out there.
I’d rather date Dylan Mulvaney.
OK no kink-shaming hate fucking.
The first CFP rankings are out
Ohio State is not a top 5 team.
Are you talking about An Ohio State, or The Ohio State?
all of the above
Is that affectation out of envy of the University of California, wherein there isn’t just one. It really would be a shame to be envious of Cal.
I was making a riff off of Sloopy’s insistant verbiage.
Believe the affectation comes directly from the school.
It’s the full name of the school, so much so that they trademarked it. Hence, the jokes about tOSU.
Michigan is still gonna kick their ass regardless
Just because they stole signs!
/glances over at the Astros
::exaggerated jacking motion::
Cal State has more than U Cal including the California State University Maritime Academy Keelhaulers.
There are the UC’s (UCLA, UC Berkeley, etc.) and then there are the Cal States (Northridge, Fullerton, Chico, etc.) And then there are the Polytechnics(Slo and Pomona.)
The Marine Academy’s are Fed.
The other day I was watching “University of Michigan” versus “Michigan State” and for the life of me I have no idea what is the difference between them.
About 60 miles, and radically different campus layouts. UoM is urban, interspersed amongst the city. MSU is borderline rural and runs from abutting the city of East Lansing to deeply rural farm research areas 5-10 miles south of the city. I don’t know what it’s like now, but when I attended MSU you were far more likely to be taught by a full professor than a graduate assistant. The opposite was true at UoM.
The MSU campus approaches beauty. The UoM campus does not.
Go Green!
TW: Gross generalization:
One of them (typically the one without the “State” in the name”) is a classically academic campus, The other one is the practical major-focused one, see also: Polytechnic, Agricultural & Mechanical, etc.
MSU was originally Michigan Agricultural College. Thus, MAC Avenue, and the letters on the old, since removed, power plant smokestack.
World class Landscape Architecture department, which is a big part of why the campus is so lovely.
Also, it was the first Land Grant college.
UM is a land grant university, while MS is a commuter college.
MS offered me a scholarship, UM did not.
My MIL went there too!
There several UT campuses, and even more TAMU ones.
I think there are two or three Oklahoma U ones, and plenty of OSU ones.
And of course, SUNY and CUNY…
Not sure why you think it’s a Cali thing.
[Because it amuses me most to tie any envy to Cal]
Not taking the Eurotrollbait.
If Israel could target just Hamas fighters and officials, it would. Israel is unable to kill just these, so it kills innocent people too.
If Hamas could target just Israeli soldiers and officials, it would. Hamas is unable to kill just these, so it kills innocent people too.
It’s strange that many people believe one of these but not the other
https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman/status/1719685336656175357
Yeah… weird how those videos about reveling in killing and raping civilians will do that, huh?
(Dumbass)
Over and under that we will soon see all that video evidence disappeared so the left can go back to defending the evil of entities like Hamas just to prop up their colonizer rhetoric and their oppressor vs. oppressed marxist evil shit agenda that is guaranteed to end in arguemnts to support/justify/cheer on the extermination of the oppressors/colonizers??
I found this interesting:
It make sense, prior to the 6-day war there were no “Palestinians” recognized as any kind of a nation. There were people who lived in the West Bank, called Jordanians, and people who lived in Gaza, called Egyptians. After Israel took these territories in the war, they became “Palestinians”, oppressed by Israeli “occupiers”.
Didn’t Britain rule over the Palestine Mandate between WWI and WWII?
The whole thing is a bit of a word game. At one time it was called the Levant, later the Palestine Mandate, Israel after 1948, etc. None of that mentions biblical names of it, Palestine, nor ancient kingdoms of Israel. Of course the people are going to be called after what the country was called at the time. I remember more than a few Yugoslavians, but that word means nothing now. Czechs are only from one half of that country, as another example.
So, yes, people lived there, and other people migrated there. Call it what you will.
And today neither the Jordanians nor the Egyptians will take that trash back.
No Arab nation wants these people. And neither does Iran. They are just idiots that the factions jockeying for power in the ME will throw under the bus to help their goals. After decades of teaching their kids to hate and turning them toxic, nobody wants these fucking people near them.
They don’t want them as the the West Bank and Gaza are great for politicizing the age old conflict. As long as they stand, there is a reason for hating the Jews. remove them and people move on.
Sure, music festivals and kibbutz cribs are common hiding places for Israeli officials.
Look, I’m sure there was the family of at least one government official at both locations, hence legitimate targets.
/ignores the difference between targeting a specific individual and the family of said individual
Okay, we have a new winner for the stupidest thing I’ve seen all week.
He’s FSP?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Stupid dusty house.
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I don’t think I posted this yet:
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It was a fun one. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjaqrPpdQYc
Correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment weakens over birth cohorts
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-44605-6
Across multiple measures of educational attainment, we find a steady long-term decline in the correlation of cognitive ability scores from conscription testing and educational attainment for males in Norway. The correlation remains moderate to strong in recent cohorts and cognitive ability remains coupled to educational attainment, but the clear trend indicates that educational attainment is weakening over time as a signal of cognitive ability. This observation together with the finding that we already find a very high correlation between educational attainment and cognitive ability for birth cohorts prior to educational reforms and the democratization of education, goes counter to the hypothesis that educational attainment increasingly aligns with individual level ability as educational opportunities are broadened. Essentially, it questions the presumed evolution from ascription to achievement as the guiding principle of success in post-industrial societie
The greatest determinant for success is drive. People driven to learn skills and never to give up will always get better outcomes than the most educated credentialed douchebags.
Mount your best effort and thrust into the second half of the week until you forcefully emit the success you know you have in you.
https://archive.ph/4usuD
Ass Wednesday.
Cheeky.
that is some above average assage
Hall of Fame Community Note
https://twitter.com/BenSmithDC/status/1719358045396807686
No wonder the left hates Musk’s Twitter.
Here is how govt “budgets”
Don’t actually hold students responsible. Just buy a shit ton extra and hope they get tired of stealing them.
As Sowell pointed out, and I paraphrase, the left’s ideology is based on the fact that they know they can force man to change to be the drones they want, while people that are not suffering from a mental disorder understand you do not fight the laws of economics, physics, biology, and human nature., because you will always lose. That is why the left is only able to create systems doomed to fail.
It’s also why only they can create systems that are popular or can rule over and crush people for a century before failing and being replaced by another leftist bullshit system that will stick around for a good long while before being replaced by another wash.rinse.repeat.
Free shit and upending constraints continues to be popular. There’s a reason 3 of the Ten Commandments we’re about greed and envy.
Grand Swiss Round 7 update:
Yesterday was rest day, so nothing changed.
Here are today’s pairings: https://chess-results.com/tnr793016.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=7&fed=KAZ&flag=30
Most amusing pairing is board 10, where the top IM (discussed in detail yesterday) is playing Vladimir Fedoseev. At the recent Qatari Masters, Fedoseev lost to two consecutive non-GMs. In the 2nd match, he was blitzing out his moves, had 94 minutes left of his clock (in a 90 minute match, his 30 second increment had added 4 minutes on, he was playing so fast) and went to the restroom…and never returned. His opponent had to sit and wait out the 94 minutes to claim his victory. And by never return, I mean he may have been on a plane leaving Qatar before the match ended. So there could be interesting fireworks if this IM takes it too him.
Actually, Fedoseev did show up for Rounds 3-9 of the tournament. So he didn’t leave entirely. And after the two losses, he won 6 of his next 7, tied for 9th-22nd (although he was 22nd by tiebreaker).
So after 6 rounds they have to stop and reload? Must be a revolving tournament.
Boooooooooo, which is appropriate, I guess.
Targeted bills/laws might not be all that much better. At least when they lie about the numbers when voting and then announce after passing that it will require a lot more taxes.
Sure. Nothing to worry about. Private businesses don’t worry when their predictions are off by 20% either. You just get more money and the problem is fixed!
with the employer paying at least half
Bwahahahaha – sorry WTF I believe we have a new contender for stupidest thing said today.
Yup
“Hi boss, I’m think I’m going to ill for the next twelve weeks. See you next year.”
Halloween movie psychology question:
Which movie scared you the most when you first saw it?
(Note that this is a different question from ‘What’s the scariest movie overall?’)
https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1719514069516902420
hmmmmm
The Day After.
I do not think I remember the name of it as I was young but there was one that freaked me out.
I did not see a scary movie in a while but the trailer to Smile kind of creeped me out. I only saw the trailer.
Scariest when I FIRST saw it. Probably the Exorcist.
Smile isn’t bad, but to me it didn’t really stick the ending. No One Will Save You terrified the girlfriend and she hit me for putting it on. She did enjoy both Benny Loves You and Totally Killer.
There’s a small amount of the neighborhood kids who are getting terrified of the costumes I’ve pulled off the past several years, going as Sam from Trick ‘r Treat the past several years, and going as the Baby Face killer from Happy Death Day (as well as Happy Death Day 2 You) last night. The elder kids were more creeped out by the costume last night (cheap mask, black hoodie, black jeans) then the younger kids, years past it was the opposite.
Probably Gargoyles, which I saw on TV when I was really little. Really freaked me out for a long time.
Ah yes. That one got to me when I was young too. Also, Burnt Offerings.
Long ago I was speculating out loud while Mrs. Suthenboy and I watched a spook movie and she interrupted me “You realize these people are all crazy. There is no monster. The protagonist is schizophrenic. It is all in his head.”
I see all spooky movies through that lens now. They dont scare me so I rarely watch them.
Amityville Horror.
When I first saw it? He Knows Your Alone, featuring Tom Hanks.
Still not a fan of that whole genre.
When I first saw it? Nightmare on Elm Street.
Still not a fan of that whole genre. I have never seen Halloween.
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1719705470913622465
the top kind of ruins it
Had not considered the hot girl Hunter Biden costume possibility.
That underwear should have been two-tone to be more realistic… Yellow in the front, and brown in the rear…
It’s genius. Where was this during the costume posts?
Notice that none of Hunter’s floozies are coming forward for notoriety. I wonder why that is?
They enjoy breathing too much.
They are good call girls, and know when to keep the mouth shut.
Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the Defense Committee of UAE 🇦🇪: “We want everyone to acknowledge and accept that Israel 🇮🇱 is here to exist and that the roots of Jews and Christians are not in New York or Paris but here in our region. They are part of our history and our future.”
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1719495937620386145
A man soon to experience a Clinton-esque suicide.
From the comments keep the mute on. The important thing is:
1: Film yourself being cool!
2. Gloves? Yeah we all took that MSF rider course it’s all good!
3. Intersection coming up? Best time for filming and only one time on the bars!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/17kugvk/my_friend_was_filming_a_video_of_him_riding_his/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Doesn’t excuse the alleged drunk turning left in front him. But in the above mentioned MSF course what’s the first thing they warn you about?
MSF?
https://msf-usa.org/
French name for Doctors Without Borders.
That was really hard to watch. The guy is lucky to have gotten back up.
Yeah, a good friend of mine got hit by someone under the influence. Ripped his tank bag off with his dink.
I refer to them as coffins on wheels. ER personnel call them organ donor machines.
There is a memorial set up on the other side of town for a few folks who were riding together when Drunky McKaren plowed head on into them. I don’t do motorcycles, not because I doubt my ability to safely operate them, but because I doubt others’ ability to safely operate their vehicles around me.
In today’s living proof of the old “Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt…” adage:
numbers are numbers
Math… Is hard!
Jeez, another supposed conservative exFoxer shows she was on the other team all along. No wonder they can’t conserve shit.
Did you know that in places with a 5 day standard work week (Monday – Friday), about 40% of sick days come on Mondays and Fridays?
I actually sat in a meeting where a manager, being completely serious, said that, and proposed that something be done about it.
Close the office on Mondays so there are no more sick days taken then?
Is that a “Work from home Monday” or a three day weekend?
It’s my go to reference to try to explain why using raw percentages doesn’t mean anything if you don’t understand what you’re reporting on. Usually at least one person in the group twigs to the point.
No kidding? We had a slightly different problem…
Once upon a time I was employed in the HR department of a distribution center which was staffed by members of Teamsters local 863. Paychecks (yes, the paper things, this is how it was once done) were distributed on Thursdays, prior to start of second shift (3-11). Coincidentally, there was very high absenteeism on Thursday second shift. But management came up with a solution.
We hired private detectives to go to a local watering hole on Thursday afternoons where they observed and recorded certain individuals calling in sick from a pay phone (yes, such things once existed). Said individuals were terminated, and the message was sent.
Granholm said a recent Department of Energy report found “we need to seriously build out transmission in order to improve reliability and resilience, and of course, to lower energy costs and relieve congestion on the grid. And that’s exactly what these three projects that we selected are going to do.”
Lower energy costs. Right.
If you are not generating enough energy or any new energy, what new capacity is there to transport?
In the OECD’s latest Education at a Glance, the wage premium in the U.K. was above the EU25 average for Bachelor’s, but below it for Graduate degrees.
The U.K. was below the OECD on both counts, while the U.S. had the highest wage premiums for a rich country.
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1719399891770769836
the fuck is Bulgaria on that list but Romania isn’t
I discovered recently that my employer completely blocks internet traffic to a number of foreign countries because “there aren’t many useful sites there and a lot of malicious traffic originates there” (paraphrase). Europeans countries on that list: Croatia, Czechia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Is the pattern of malicious traffic from those countries really so much worst than Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, etc? And, I wonder what constitutes “useful” sites. Do those countries have no academic institutions that perform research?
The rest of the list is Afghanistan, China/Hong Kong, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, South Sudan, Sudan and Syria. Still seems like some countries are conspicuous by absence.
Daily Star covering the penis beat admirably.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/women-magically-attracted-big-schlong-31315105
Relevant?
Wasn’t there a detailed, lengthy and expensive study done a while back showing that women prefer big dicks?
I was shocked at those findings.
I don’t think it was as long as you remember.
Eh, it was a pretty thick report!
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated.
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Quickly, Faculty Force! To the Contextualizemobile!
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1719694569355333784
The solution…right there in front of everyone’s nose.
Exactly. Just like Pharaoh called out what the tend plague was gonna be, this guy’s shit should result on that being done to these evil people.
AlexinCT:
Advisors: Comrade Khrushchev, the project has failed. It is a disaster. We cannot get competent labor.
Khrushchev: What? Shit. We live in a country full of drunks
Advisors: Well, our system crushes all hope. People’s lives are awful and they cant do anything to make them better so they turn to the bottle. It is human nature.
Khrushchev: Then we must change human nature. We will create The New Soviet Man!
That is a poor paraphrasing from my vague memory but the gist of it is there.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Megan Mae Miami Swimwear / New York Swim Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALL4smwsXx0
I hear that Venezuela is warm in January. Start walking now, and maybe they’ll be back there by then.
Another huge problem with an obvious solution.
ah well, signs and portents
All or nothing
President Biden would veto a package put forward by House Republicans to provide aid to Israel while cutting funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and leaving out funding for other national security priorities, the White House said Tuesday.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) picked apart the House GOP proposal in a lengthy statement of administration policy, arguing it “inserts partisanship into support for Israel” and fails to meet the moment by leaving out humanitarian assistance for the people of Gaza and aid for Ukraine and allies in the Indo-Pacific.
“This bill is bad for Israel, for the Middle East region, and for our own national security,” the OMB said.
The White House further asserted that the GOP proposal marks a break from bipartisan precedent by seeking funding cuts as part of an emergency national security package.
“Congress has consistently worked in a bipartisan manner to provide security assistance to Israel, and this bill threatens to unnecessarily undermine that longstanding approach,” the OMB said. “Bifurcating Israel security assistance from the other priorities in the national security supplemental will have global consequences.”
Bipartisan compromise means do what I say.
So, everyone is asshoe. Linking cuts to already approved IRS funding (while laudable itself) is little different than linking Ukraine to the same. It will never pass the senate so Biden won’t have the optic of vetoing muh Israel.
“FBI Director warns Hamas attack on Israel could inspire terrorism on AMERICAN soil: Christopher Wray says Hezbollah has also attempted operations in the U.S. in bleak prediction”
Give us more power!
FTFY. Anyone still falling for this shit needs to lose the right to vote.
A lot of people will buy it unfortunately.
It was a pretty weak argument in 2001 that Iraq was going to kill us all and that was right after there was an attack on actual American soil. Now an attack on a far away country means Lebanon is going to kill Americans? Ok. The only way today’s FBI is going to foil a plot by Hezbollah is if they show up to a school board meeting to protest tranny bathrooms.
Let me guess, the only way to stop it is to take away guns and censor people.
Definitely won’t result in border lockdown.
https://www.chewboom.com/2023/10/31/digiorno-introduces-new-thanksgiving-pizza/
I’m sure one of you people will be interested.
Friend: I can show you how to cook turnips so that they taste just like potatoes.
Me: No, thank you. I hate turnips.
Friend: But why?
Me: Because if I want something to taste like potatoes I can just eat potatoes.
Parsnips are where it’s at.
Parsnips are woefully underappreciated.
The GOP package unveiled Monday would provide $14.3 billion in aid for Israel in its battle against Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza that carried out terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, which left roughly 1,400 Israelis dead.
$14.3 billion dollars? Are they planning to buy every Gazan a house in California?
No, just three or four of them.
Not following – why would aid for Israel buy houses for Gazans?
Prolefeed asked: I’m wondering what exactly would have to happen for him to have the epiphany that he’s giving aid and comfort to politicians who want him dead? Getting tossed in a re-education camp?
As other commenters noted, that True Believer would be saying “there must be some terrible mistake” as he is led to the pit with bodies in it by his fellow progressives. But I do think that October 7th was an inflection point and that many who previously may have considered themselves “liberal” or “progressive” got a very rude awakening. Right now the standard explanation is that it is due to anti semitism, and while that certainly plays a large part, it is also due to the fact that the progressives now view the Jews as “white settler colonialists”. They often pussy foot around it, but deep down many of them think the same thing should happen in the United States. They can’t just come right out and say so for the most part, but it is certainly there with the merest scratch on the surface. I’m very much hoping that this is used to cleave a giant fissure in the left and help deprive it of its current stature and power. Interesting times.
The logical conclusion of this DEI/CRT marxist shit about the battle between the oppressed (colonized) and the oppressors (colonizers) is what you always get from marxism: body counts.
I just shake my head at the massive amount of white progressive idiots, especially those cat lady types with the dumb signs about al the things progressives believe in that are nothing but tripe, think if they virtue signal their support enough they will be spared the axe at the end for being as the cult calls it: Allies…
Bitch you ain’t going to be spared.
It may be my natural optimism, but I do believe we have reached a peak of sorts with the woke bullshit. I think in the next few years that CRT/DEI are going to be increasingly sidelined to their place on the fringes.
I’m optimistic about that too. In general woke entertainment is not popular, and people are moving away from DEI investing because it doesn’t make money. At the very least, I no longer see wokism spreading like it was.
I pray KSuellington and TOC are correct on their optimistic view – mine is different, whereas I see the situation as the left, now a cornered animal, will lash out with violence… lots of violence – but I still think there will be though times ahead. And like Hydra from the Captain America comics, you cut one off, two more pop up. If I was a ultra religious man, I would hold no doubt that marxism is the devil’s weapon against humanity and its ability to shake off some of the bad instincts that plague it….
the left, now a cornered animal, will lash out with violence
I’ve always been skeptical of the cornered animal analogy. The left is ascendant. They own all major cultural institutions. Aside from a few social media personalities in the hinterlands, they speak with the sole voice and control a solid majority of the population, even if parts of that population don’t vote for the blue wing of their political entity. The only sense of urgency is one of impatience from the younger generation… a generation so corrupted that they’re incapable of the attention span required for the Fabianism that has ruled for the past century.
I’ve said it before, the left isn’t a cornered animal. It’s a cat playing with its dinner. We can only hope that it underestimated its prey’s ability to fight back.
What goes up, must come down. As pointed out, people hate it the more they learn about it. Hollywood is dying, university enrollment is down, publishing is being taken over by DIY, and so on. It might have all of those things now, as it has been ascendant, but it has reached its zenith, and will start moving towards it’s nadir. Only to be followed in the exact same course as any conservative movement that comes behind.
The thing that shut it down back in the late 1990s (IMO) was Clinton deciding to argue that he could have a consensual sexual relationship with an underling. Prior to that, the media had been going with the True Faith that power differentials nullified consent (as pithily stated by Andrea Dworkin: “All heterosexual intercourse is rape.”) But the media class is much more interested in pushing the right-now political messages of the DNC than the ideology of their friends in academe.
9/11 shut down the “reparations” fad which was gaining a lot of steam up to that week.
Just a thought.
Meanwhile it turned out, the media and entertainment industry was filled with old time casting couch types who wormed their way to the top and expected to be able to enjoy the fruits of such positions.
In the Warby article I linked, he posits the cautionary tale of Islamic science pre and post madrassas. There was no rebound.
They don’t have enough awareness to know that there even is an axe, much less the need to avoid it. They’re completely disconnected from reality.
ding-ding-ding
I was surprised by this and I’m also finding it very interesting. With identity politics, there is no over-arching philosophy, so pitting different races/sexes/religions/ethnicities against each other was eventually going to result in today’s “in crowd” being tomorrow’s “out crowd”.
There is an underlying philosophy, that of love your neighbor above your master, basically. But, like any movement, it goes from being a calling to a business to a racket. And in so doing, tosses aside anything that prevents the new motives.
For the average prog-fascist on the left, this isn’t a crisis of conscience but of courage. They’re having a hard time stomaching the consequences of putting their money where their mouth has been for the last 40 years.
They have had the luxury of always being the cancelers, which is consequence free, and now are the ones feeling the cancelations…
“If only Comrade Stalin knew what is going on, he’d straighten it right out.”
What they want is for every white person to go back to Europe, which would end the whole colonialism thing in their eyes. What they don’t understand is the whole thing is a result of a society growing while it encounters a society declining, or at least not growing as fast.
You can see this dynamic at play at every point in history in every part of the world. From the smallest to the biggest societies. It just doesn’t matter how you feel about it, it just is. The law of nature.
Paging Nephilium
Samuel Adams Utopias returns: Super-strong beer illegal in 15 states available again
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/10/31/samuel-adams-utopias-2023-illegal-beer/71392886007/
It’s 28% ABV. I didn’t think you could get that high without distillation.
Looks like special yeasts can get up to about 25% give or take:
https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/110/what-is-the-highest-alcohol-content-achievable-through-brewing
The highest beer made (to this point) is a collaboration between BrewDog and Schorschbrau (out of Germany) called Strength in Numbers, which clocked in at 57.8% ABV. They “freeze concentrate” it, which is technically a style of distillation that isn’t as pure, but accepted for Eisbocks.
Never had the opportunity to taste the Utopias, last several times it was sold it was legal in Ohio, but the places that got their allocation were even auctioning off the EMPTY bottle after it was consumed for hundreds of dollars.
I feel a bit like the freeze concentration is “cheating”.
Not that there are any rules here other than those created by the state for control and revenue.
I feel a bit like the freeze concentration is “cheating”.
Ice beers, ice wines, and apple jack are valid styles.
Using existing techniques to make new things is also valid.
The regulatory regime gets in the way of experimentation. Otherwise, I think you see a lot more new products made with fractional freezing.
Sure. And I don’t have issues with that.
Technically something CNC machined can be “hand made”, but not what I think of as typically “hand made”.
That’s why the quotation marks and the note that there aren’t rules here. As long as what you create doesn’t cause blindness go have at it.
Don’t stick it in crazy?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/24494071/faked-own-death-after-wife-hired-hitman/
And if you do stick it in crazy, don’t marry it?
I didn’t know Kamala and Al Roker were married.
Egypt won’t take the Gaza “refugees” and neither will Jordan.
Why do I get the feeling that the US is about to receive thousands of new “migrants” who will be housed into little enclaves in cities and never encouraged to integrate or to work?
They’ll certainly try but it’ll be one of the most unpopular political moves ever if they get serious about it.
Please. There will be zero political consequences for Team Blue. Just like the migrants in NYC aren’t going to cause a Republican Revolution in that cesspool.
I think you mean the illegals in NYC, etc., no?
It wont cause a Republican revolution, but it will cause a moderating of the local D’s. As crime gets out of hand, to get elected you will have to be hard on crime. They wont have to call themselves Republican to be more conservative.
This is basic economics.
The anti-Israels of the world don’t want people moving out of Gaza because they’re an extremely useful proxy. If all the non-Hamas people moved out of Gaza, Israel would crush Hamas and the whole thing would be over.
If all the non-Hamas people moved out of Gaza, Israel would crush Hamas and the whole thing would be over.
I have the feeling that this is like saying “if all the non-criminals moved out of the inner city, the cops would crush the drug gangs and the whole thing would be over”. The problem is the culture the innocents will invariably take with them. It’s a culture that breeds Hamas type groups.
^THIS x 1000^
Ideas shape culture. Culture shapes character.
They will mostly NOT be housed in little enclaves in the cities.
They will be spread in large batches to small towns in generally conservative areas. HUD supplements for apartment complexes, etc. This is already going on – the Gazans are going to just be the next piece of the invasion and replacement.
None of it is an accident. All of it is war.
I don’t think even the Biden administration could do something that politically suicidal.
Since it won’t make a difference against Trump in a fortified election, they will do exactly that.
Fortification only works when one side does it. Expect both to play the game this next round. Second, even a lot of the legit Dem votes that Biden got in ’20 will be lost with this kind of move.
I wouldn’t bet on it.
Civil society experts confounded
Hamas is currently barred from Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, but the group and its supporters have still found ways to post grisly videos of Israeli civilians being killed or kidnapped on Oct. 7 online.
A spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, declined to comment on specific incidents. They referred to an Oct. 13 statement that the platform had removed or marked as disturbing more than 795,000 pieces of content for violating its standards in the three days following the terrorist attack. The Meta spokesperson said the company does not know how many of the messages were posted by Hamas.
Facebook also added a “Lock Your Profile” tool after the attack that allows users in the region to lock their Facebook profile in one step. “When someone’s profile is locked, people who aren’t their friends can’t download, enlarge or share their profile photo,”the statement said.
Meta is not alone in struggling to moderate content. Soon after the Oct. 7 attack, X, the platform formerly known as Twitter that is owned by Elon Musk, was overrun with falsehoods and extremist content. Researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which tracks hate and extremism online, found that in one 24-hour period a collection of posts on X that supported terrorist activities received over 16 million views.
It’s so easy to share. Let the world know what you’re doing.
I’d rather have a world where morons, racists, and haters are free to speak their minds, so that the rest of us can see for sure what they stand for, than a world where they are suppressed and allowed to fester, with only government surveillance to monitor them, and likely miss the warning signs of a real problem.
^^^ This, x100
Remember Lyndon Larouche? I do.
I also remember the press saying exactly what you said db. Apparently Morans cant learn.
My favorite LaRouche bit:
Ted Kennedy 1, Three Mile Island 0.
Marry that up with the kinds of algorithms that give you more of what you just clicked, and you have the kind of echo chambers that make people crazy, hateful, and violent, though.
Researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
🙄🙄🙄
What does that institute for tactical dialogue say?
Doesn’t matter much. Everyone knows the Institute for Logistics Dialogue is doing the real work.
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” — Garry Kasparov
“When someone’s profile is locked, people who aren’t their friends can’t download, enlarge or share their profile photo”
Is it just me, or is that more of a protection for people who post hateful garbage (as it prevents exposing them), than it is a protection against hateful garbage being posted?
https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2023/11/hundreds-of-bags-of-fentanyl-found-in-pa-drug-counselors-home-da.html
Maybe he misunderstood the job title?
Hidden in plain sight, as they say.
“I was holding it for someone!”
I was looking thru Mencken quotations (see above) and ran across this one. It applies to so much today (not just religion) and people wanting/expecting more than that is a major issue.
So I should smile and nod when someone spouts off their socially and economically illiterate ideas?
Not if they are advocating hitting you or taking your stuff.
Only if the ideas are progressive.
‘Buy your own canvas, asshole.’
The black Hispanic Muslim face of white supremacy.
Once upon a time I was employed in the HR department of a distribution center which was staffed by members of Teamsters local 863. Paychecks (yes, the paper things, this is how it was once done) were distributed on Thursdays, prior to start of second shift (3-11). Coincidentally, there was very high absenteeism on Thursday second shift. But management came up with a solution.
We hired private detectives to go to a local watering hole on Thursday afternoons where they observed and recorded certain individuals calling in sick from a pay phone (yes, such things once existed). Said individuals were terminated, and the message was sent.
That must have been a really long time ago. The NLRB would never let you get away with that now.
1970’s. We (my boss and a few other coworkers) were much better employees. We watched the Gong Show at someone’s house while drinking lunch, but always made it back to work before closing time.
hard to tell which one is the parody.
https://twitter.com/WKCosmo/status/1719385531404919158
The Sokal text makes more sense than the allegedly serious one.
I consider them both to be jokes.
None. None more black.
I want UCS to use that and take some pictures.
So, apparently it’s Native American Heritage Month, and the cafeteria is celebrating with Injun recipes.
To show how authentic these recipes are, they have a cookbook out on display. That cookbook is (turn away now Swissy)…
<emSioux Chef
(-.-)
LOL, can forgive the tag fail!
Just in case y’all think I’m joking:
https://www.amazon.com/Sioux-Chefs-Indigenous-Kitchen/dp/0816699798
“Recipes include Cherokee Lime Pie…”
*sputters* But… but… but… Citruses are old world plants.
So…Key Lime Pie. I love Key Lime Pie.
A lot of recipes we think of as ‘ours’ originated from Native Americans. Many of them were fairly widespread across the continent yet each tribe claims them as their own. See: Navajo fry bread.
I remember being told as a child that Zwolle had our tamale festival because lots of Spanish settled there. Nope. Tamales are a Native American dish.
I have had more than one furriner get mad because they came to the US and found ‘their’ recipes being eaten here. Their anger only escalated when I matter of factly explained that that’s what we do. We find out what other cultures have that is good and we make it our own, often making it better. Sadly, tacos do not fall into that category. The Apache originals are much better than our tex-mex.
Never mind….I could go on all day about this.
Deep digging
Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not have a bank account.
At least, that’s what Johnson reports on years of personal financial disclosures, which date back to 2016 and reveal a financial life that, in the context of his role as a congressman and now speaker, appears extraordinarily precarious.
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Jordan Libowitz, communications director for watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, offered a more blunt assessment, saying that if Johnson truly doesn’t have any assets, it “raises questions about his personal financial wellbeing.”
“It’s strange to see Speaker Johnson disclose no assets,” Libowitz told The Daily Beast. “He made over $200,000 last year, and his wife took home salary from two employers as well, so why isn’t there a bank account or any form of savings listed?”
Johnson has also carried debts over for several years, which Libowitz said would sharpen the question.
“He owes hundreds of thousands of dollars between a mortgage, personal loan, and home equity line of credit, so where did that money go?” Libowitz said. “If he truly has no bank account and no assets, it raises questions about his personal financial wellbeing.”
Oh, no. He’s a security risk. He’s hiding something. He’s Russian asset.
He’s only been in Congress for 4 terms. It takes awhile to build wealth from graft. Especially if you start out honest. It takes awhile for the temptations of graft to find a foothold.
I can be “that guy”.
I have no idea what form Congress critters fill out, but you an have a brokerage cash account that you pay bills and receive payments like pay checks through.
It is a bit odd, but it isn’t out of the question.
“Hey it’s awfully suspicious that this guy’s not a gazillionaire!”
So now they’re suddenly interested in politicians’ banking records.
With Johnson appearing to not have even a single dollar in the stock market, a savings account, or a retirement plan, the new speaker may have plans to use his congressional position as a springboard to something more lucrative once he’s done in government. That could happen once he’s done in government, but if the new speaker sees a boon while in office, he certainly wouldn’t be the first member of Congress to do so.
The possibilities are limitless and terrifying.
On the one hand, we have a guy who is a financial blank slate, with, as a result, no evidence of graft or corruption.
On the other, we have any number of people with all kinds of evidence of graft and corruption.
Naturally, the first guy is the one to worry about.
The guy on the “other” hand is our guy.
No need to worry.
What evidence? There hasn’t been one check found with the word bribe written in the memo line.
This is true! It said “loan repayment.”
Dog whistles were tweeted
Pete Simi, a Chapman University sociologist who has studied far-right extremism for more than 20 years, testified that in the months after President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, Trump led an effort to influence violent extremist groups that “ultimately resulted in the attack on the Capitol.”
Simi, who said he’d conducted hundreds of interviews with members of extremist groups while researching their communication patterns, pointed to repeated references to “1776” by Trump supporters in the lead-up to Jan. 6. Those references, Simi said, were “a violent call for revolution” and an example of the “doublespeak” that extremist groups and their allies use to urge violence while maintaining deniability.
“It would have a certain meaning to outsiders,” Simi said. “But insiders would understand and interpret that word differently.”
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Silt Republican who came under scrutiny for her own role in the events of Jan. 6, posted the short message “Today is 1776” on social media hours before the attack.
Trump’s robot army awaits instructions. He must be stopped or democracy will soon be but a dim memory.
a Chapman University sociologist
Stupid, evil, or both?
Why do you think the judge issued a gag order? Trump says one phrase and the cells activate.
“Those references, Simi said, were “a violent call for revolution” and an example of the “doublespeak” that extremist groups and their allies use to urge violence while maintaining deniability.”
I was joking about this yesterday. They are literally using mind reading as evidence. “Trump said this, but I can read his mind and I KNOW he meant the EXACT OPPOSITE!” Unbelievable.
I have no idea what form Congress critters fill out, but you an have a brokerage cash account that you pay bills and receive payments like pay checks through.
They are saying he claims (admits to) no assets at all. Which does seem weird, because we can only assume Congress has written their rules for such things in simple easy to understand terms.
“Recipes include Cherokee Lime Pie…”
Shouldn’t that be Seminole lime pie?
Fantastic.
https://babylonbee.com/news/fellow-senators-compliment-john-fetterman-on-his-excellent-frankenstein-costume
Maybe he (Johnson) conducts all his personal finances with gift cards and loadable debit cards.
A living trust. I am seriously considering forming one myself.
Eyewitness and expert testimony during the trial’s first two days has put a spotlight on the widely diverging interpretations of Jan. 6 violence still held by plaintiffs and Trump’s legal team.
As outlined in their opening statement Monday, the plaintiffs’ case hinges on their claims that the Jan. 6 attack constituted an “insurrection,” and that Trump “engaged in” that insurrection. Trump’s attorneys have disputed not only the latter claim, but the former, too.
“There are lots of definitions of what an insurrection is,” Gessler said during his own opening statement. “When there are numerous definitions, there might as well be none.”
In cross-examination of witnesses to the events at the Capitol, including two police officers who were assaulted by the crowd, Trump’s attorneys have sought to emphasize that several different pro-Trump protests and events were planned throughout the day on Jan. 6. They pressed both officers to acknowledge they didn’t have “mind-reading” powers and could not say with certainty what motivated the crowd to storm the building. Gessler on Tuesday lodged repeated objections to portions of Simi’s testimony in which he said that some of the Capitol rioters were armed.
They don’t have perjury laws in Colorado?
I keep going back to this. “MAGA Republicans” are supposed to own the most guns in the country. So the group that owns the most guns planned to overthrow the government but didn’t bring any guns.
The Jan. 6 insurrection is the lamest shit. No one believes that. No one.
No, there really are people who believe that Trump directed the mob to attack the Capitol Building in order to stop the certification (and possibly kill Senators/Representatives). This would get him time to “prove” he won and get himself certified with the alternate electors and hold on to power. /TDS