OK, I always support the funniest option: I want Thomas to start laughing as soon as this clown starts talking and just keep laughing the entire time.
I’m not really against transpeople. I honestly don’t care what adults do to themselves as long as I don’t have to pay for it, but also it’s hard not to laugh at their political advocates. It’s just funny. This tiny woman filled with male hormones thinks she should be considered male for no other reason than she demands it.
(WordPress won’t let me embed the video.)
Also: The gift that just keeps on giving…
Jury in Daniel Penny trial asks to see several videos including police bodycam footage
Given the FULL RETARD of NYC, I assume that Daniel Penny will be convicted. He murdered one of the left’s beloved pets and that is a crime they cannot let go. I say pets, because that’s kinder than assuming they leave severely mentally ill people roam free as some sort of bizarre and dangerous variety of street theatre.
But remember this: Neely had been arrested 44 times, including for kidnapping a 7-year-old in Times Square. If the NYC justice system had done its job, Jorden Neely would be alive and safe right now in prison.
The world needs more heroic monkeys.
It’s odd to think I’ve experienced both the kids not knowing what Joy Division is and the kids not knowing what Interpol is. I often wonder what the next thing the next generation won’t know… There are just so many things to be ignorant about. It’s staggering, really.
That’s how I feel about the trans issue too. If you want to transition from a man to a woman or vice versa, do you but just leave me out of it and don’t demand that I go along with your gender issues. And definitely don’t bring my kids into it either.
And also first…I think?
Oh, you firsted all up in this bitch.
Same here, with the caveat that (especially when talking about actors) I’ll use the name they used when they were in the role, not whatever they’ve change it to since. As an example, Eddie Izzard was in Mystery Men, and Ellen Page was in Hard Candy.
Seconded.
+2 Wachowski Brothers
+2 Wachowski Sisters.
Eddie Izzard changed his name?
I’ve seen him perform – anything “female” he is playing at seems like performance art to me.
She was also in Umbrella Academy, but Netflix retconned the credits to the first 2 seasons to say “Elliot Page”
rhywun:
I just learned that earlier this week, he goes by Suzy now, but apparently isn’t a dick (or would cunt be appropriate?) about it:
Transitioning a child who has no concept of what s/he is doing is monstrous.
That child will now face a lifetime of never having an orgasm even once. That has to have big psychological consequences. Hard to imagine a happy future for those kids.
The erasing of gay & lesbian youths is just fucking insane.
“You’re not gay, you’re a girl trapped in a boy’s body! Hormones and surgery, stat!”
What the fuck?
It’s amazing that nobody is making that obvious point. I think the MSM is just so obsessed with the constant search for the next shiny thing that they’re happy to through the founding members of the alphabet soup under the bus to make that happen.
Then gay or straight, you are sexually crippled for life.
Trans the gay away!
We’ll finally achieve equality when we all have our sex organs removed.
Amen. And congratulations on the first.
It’s wrong to leave that much mental illness untreated, or to exacerbate it through medical malpractice.
On top of all this I am severely irritated that this stuff has been eating up all the air in the room as The Most Important Issue of Our Time for the last several years.
I suppose it makes excellent click-bait, though.
Enough already.
I think that is the normal person’s stance. I have a real problem with the agitators trying to shove this insanity down our throats and the mengelesque monsters mutilating children. A big problem with that.
It is obvious that this is a calculated, malicious attack on our culture – an attempt to normalize evil.
I regret to inform you that you broke a cardinal rule of Firsting by asking whether you Firsted or not. In doing so, you violated terms two and four of the Firster’s Compact of 1067 BC.
Had to be quick with a chisel back then, huh?
To add:
1. Be an adult to transition.
2. Do not expect me to participate in your mental illness.
3. MtF: Stay out of women’s bathrooms. Yes, we can tell. No, you don’t pass. Yes, you’re still intimidating to young girls and yes, we know you’re getting your rocks off to forcing women to participate in your fetish,
4. MtF: Stay out of women’s sports. There’s a reason the sexes are divided and that reason is males are stronger than females.
5. MtF: Stop threatening women with violence when we tell you no. You don’t get special treatment just because you throw a temper tantrum.
6. MtF: Understand this: You are not a woman. You will NEVER be a woman. Stop changing the language to force the idea that women are to be treated as a subset of men-who-are-performing-women, and, further, that you’re a superior being. You are not. You are a man. That’s what we call men, even ones who pretend to be women.
This issue is a lot more harmful for women than men, and it’s absolutely enraging.
It’s different, I think, but no worse.
Boys are being chemically castrated and de-dicked because they put on mom’s shoes one time. He was forced to do that because mom is a neurotic cunt eager to fit in with her brunch girls.
Muzzled, I do think it’s worse, but only in the sense that FtM aren’t a threat to men like MtF are to women.
Men increasingly participating in women’s sports; Women hardest hit?
Tag this as links.
It no show up in banners.
Yeah, I feel that way about the body snatchers too. Don’t care what they do. But what I will not do is foster the fantasy world they’ve built, while denying the real world the rest of us live in. A men dressed as a woman is not a woman and should not be treated like one. That’s how we get men in women’s sports. I will treat them with respect, so long as that doesn’t involve denying reality.
I didn’t use to care for Joy Division. Now it’s a regular on my youtube shuffle.
Ever since I heard Nine Inch Nails cover Dead Souls I was hooked.
I often wonder what the next thing the next generation won’t know…
That there was once this thing called ‘science’ and it really worked well, until people couldn’t stand how well it worked and they turned it into a mockery of its former self.
This. It has been poisoned to death by government money. The whole of Academia as well.
I love that song so much.
Like a monkey loves his rescue kitty. And that’s a lot.
Apparently!
Well, when you put it *that* way…
Back when I was working in the court system, defense attorneys often employed strategies known simply as “NK” (the victim Needed Killin’) or “DSF” (defendant Did Society a Favor). I’m fine with the jury rendering either verdict in this case.
If the NYC justice system had done its job, Jorden Neely would be alive and safe right now in prison.
Heh.
Florida Man runs afoul of Fourscore’s friends, has an argument with gravity, and lives to tell the tale.
I assumed that alcohol was involved, but apparently the guy wasn’t even buzzed.
Ordinarily, I’d give the fellow an “A” for his stunt work, but we grade Florida Man on a curve, so he gets…
(dons sunglasses)
… a Bee-plus.
Florida Man confirmed – nice
teethtooth.Up here we call those summer teeth.
Some are teeth, some are not.
Summerteeth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZVoDJZBnS8&ab_channel=Wilco-Topic
This Florida man not only survived the vicious bee attack but also the fall.
Florida Man, like Bruce Willis in ‘Unbreakable’, can only be harmed by water. Or stabby, cracked-up girlfriends.
You think Florida Man can be harmed by water?
I gotta tell you, Florida Man takes to water like a giant, meth-addled duck. All the better to molest the manatees, randy dolphins, bull sharks, alligators, and giant prehistoric herring.
It’s not like we pass all our time hanging out near the bug zapper. Have to do something else for fun once in a while.
I should have specified clean water.
Well at least you didn’t drone on endlessly.
You’d expect him to wax rhapsodic after that episode.
I was more impressed with him surviving the fall without injury (other than the nasty case of shingles).
I must be allergic to your puns. It gave me hives.
O’Keefe Media Group talks to a NIH employee
“I haven’t gotten the latest COVID shots, and I’m not going to… there’s mixed evidence about if it really does anything,” says Raja Cholan, Chief of the Health Data Standards Branch at the U.S. National Library of Medicine for The National Institutes of Health.
Cholan, who defines the strategy for health data standards at the NIH, raised concerns about vaccine risks, particularly for younger individuals: “For people that are 30 or under, it really increases your risk for heart conditions. The data does show that… I’m close enough to 30 to where I don’t want to have a heart attack.” He added, “I probably shouldn’t be saying this out loud,” acknowledging the sensitivity of his statements around vaccine safety.
He also expressed doubts about the vaccines’ effectiveness, adding, “I don’t even know if these vaccines stop you from getting COVID. They don’t.”
It amazes me that they are still pushing these shots. Financially there is money to be made, but who besides Taylor Lorenz is getting boosters?
I remember one of the big turning points for COVID. One day I started seeing FB posts from people saying they got all the boosters, but now they have COVID and it’s WORSE than the first time. That was the big stake through the credibility of “public health officials”.
I started to suspect it was all bullshit the moment everyone did a complete 180 on masks.
I was mostly on the fence until the masking recommendation. I already knew, as did the people recommending it, that masks are useless….unless you are trying to get sick. They help with that.
From there it as a short hop to “Holy shit, these guys are lying about everything.”
So why the fuck aren’t you raising hell, you cowardly piece of shit?
Now that would really get him in trouble.
Do they have hell in India?
I never got why only younger hearts are at risk – if the jab is not effective why risk my old heart on it either? Or is it just the old hearts are already wore out?
It’s possibly how strongly a young person’s immune system reacts and the effects on the heart.
When our old ass dies of a heart attack, they can blame it on being old, or lifestyle, or some other thing that is totally our fault and not the chemicals we coerced you into injecting into your system.
It gets harder to hand wave away a 23 yo dying three weeks after the shot.
Remember when they were rationing these shots to certain big shots and cohorts of people? I especially liked teachers teaching remotely as being able to cut the line.
Now they can’t give them away.
King Walz allowed the teachers to jump the line and get the first shots here in Minnesoda. Then after they all got the shot, the teachers still refused to go back to the classrooms.
That was a big kick in the pants to my old school Democrat aunt. She and her husband are old and sick and they had to wait for the teachers to get their shots first.
Before that, she loved Walz. Afterwards, she was a bit more open to the idea that he might be the asshole I said he was. Now? She’ll tell you he wasn’t ready for the national stage and running for VP.
I like my aunt a lot, so I don’t rub her nose in it.
NH is number 3 in outbound cigarette smuggling
New Hampshire is the No. 3 state in the country for outbound cigarette smuggling, resulting in a revenue windfall, concludes the latest annual report on interstate cigarette smuggling from the Tax Foundation and Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
From 2007-2022, New Hampshire earned $955 million in state revenue from cigarette buyers who then smuggled their purchases to higher-tax states, according to the report.
(At $1.78 per pack, New Hampshire has the lowest tobacco tax rate north of Virginia.)
Virginia is only 4th. It must have been all the NY cops coming down.
Flavor bans have been imposed in Massachusetts and California. Following the imposition of a flavor ban, smuggling skyrocketed.
Who would’ve thunk?
I say pets, because that’s kinder than assuming they leave severely mentally ill people roam free as some sort of bizarre and dangerous variety of street theatre.
I have used the term in the past in similar situations, and where the left will rush to the “defense” of some severely handicapped person in an untenable situation as a symbol of their righteousness.
This is how Insurance CEOs get shot.
“Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in CT, NY, and MO has declared it will stop paying for anesthesia if surgeries exceed an arbitrary time limit—regardless of complications, delays, or patient needs.”
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1864417443570913726
Make Healthcare Retail Again
Are you getting paid time and materials or one price for the job?
I find it hard to believe they are just going to have patients waking up. So my question in addition to the insurer being a dick how and why do the providers unnecessarily game the system for higher reimbursements?
This. When you see companies behaving like this it is not because they are evil, it is because they are operating on a thin margin or they have figured out someone is cheating them. In this case I am guessing cheating. They picked that one thing because of a reason.
Or, stay with me here, perhaps the DEA is up someone’s ass about anesthetic meds being diverted to black-market sale?
They won’t be waking patients up or denying the anesthesia. The insurance company just won’t pay that portion over the allotted time limit.
Note that the tweeter doesn’t link to the ASA’s assertion that this is happening.
https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/11/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-will-not-pay-complete-duration-of-anesthesia-for-surgical-procedures
https://providernews.anthem.com/connecticut/articles/anesthesia-billed-time-units-commercial-22477
So my layperson read is they now follow CMS guidelines. So they haven’t gone rogue. And there is an appeal process I’m assuming if something happens and can be documented you’d be paid.
I’m assuming they are going to lobby FedGov too, right?
Found this little piece over at TOS. My alma mater dicking over a student on a FOIA request.
https://reason.com/2024/12/04/college-student-slapped-with-84000-bill-for-foia-records/
I saw a movie once about a byzantine spy who implanted himself in an island community. For 50 years he documented every aspect of every individual’s lives on that island. Upon retiring he went to Constantinople to see the collection of his work. His boss had died and no one much knew or cared. At the hall of records no one knew who he was, none of his reports were ever read and they were stored in the back of a giant Indiana Jones style warehouse. The functionaries of the bureaucracy were just drones going through the endless motions, none of which came remotely close to the supposed goal of their agency. Procedure procedure procedure.
Humans just keep making the same mistakes over and over again. At least we have computers now. Think of poor old Ogg back in the Pleistocene having to heave all of those stone tablets around and store them.
I saw that and my first reaction was “there should be no charge for FOIA requests, the public already owns – and is entitled – to see public documents.” But then I thought, “if there was no charge then every Tom, Dick and Harriet in lefty organizations (or righty, for that matter) could completely budget-bust government agencies (even legitimate, constitutional ones like DoD or State) with endless requests to produce every piece of paper, e-mail, and whatever that agency touches.
Still waiting to hear the problem here…
Or, maybe all public records should be publicly available on a searchable database.
All of them. Including email.
For Sheldon:
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1864445131824194000
Actually you all may enjoy the drama queen that is the hognose.
Bravo, superb performance snakey.
That is obviously a different species than the hognose snakes we have around here. The ones here spin around fast as lightning and squirt shit all over you. It is an effective strategy.
I once had a juvenile otter do that to me as well. Also, an effective strategy for the otter.
“Ack! A hit! A palpable hit!” ::croak::
Aww! He’s a cute one!
Sadly (I guess?) captive-bred Hognose snakes don’t exhibit the same kind of behavior.
I’ve been thinking about Cods & Cuntes II: Trebuchet Boogaloo and realized I haven’t really started yet because I don’t really understand the politics of the time. I’ve been listening to videos on Henry VI and then I realized they’re not going to be in England most of the time. I’m trying to write a quest, which I’ve never done before.
Gah. I’ve forgotten how to write a book.
Keep at it, you’ll figure it out again.
Maybe Queen Margaret, escaped to Scotland in 1460 recruits hot and lusty guys to help her raise the army that returns to England and defeats York and Warwick and frees her husband Henry VI? Lots of opportunities to kill enemies, ravish ladies in waiting and do God’s work.
Maybe toss in some evil foes like William the Slick, the Duke of Barrack, and Joseph, Ealdorman of Bidenburg?
I’m trying to write a quest
I’m sorry, are you saying you have quest questions? Or just a stutter?
Literally just had a friend tell me “the economy’s doing great.”
What the fuck are people seeing that could possibly make them think the economy is great?
MSNBC?
Welp in my personal situation but I just wrapped up the best year I ever had (by far, like 50% over my previous best). I’m already scheduled out for the first quarter of 2025, and I could schedule further out but I don’t like scheduling that far as construction is filled with surprises. I hear how shitty the economy is but I still have people begging me to remodel their kitchens and they are will to pay a premium and wait because there just isn’t enough people doing the work. So shruggy punctuation thing.
My heat went out. I can get someone in to replace the boiler in mid-January.
Their S&P 500 Index 401k monthly statement?
Definitely not his stock portfolio, and not a MSNBC kind of guy either. I’m pretty sure he listens to the highest forms of stupid: government reports and numbers. They’ve been trying to gaslight us as to how great the economy is for years.
That’s some nice journaloing, Lou
So they threw up some shitty, ugly fencing for $75K, but that still isn’t enough. The kids are demanding moar. What is missing from the story is exactly how many kids have jumped off the bridge and killed themselves. My guess is 0.
Also, here is the view of the bridge being talked about in the story from the other pedestrian bridge that is only a couple hundred yards upstream. Go another bit upstream and there are three more bridges all with pedestrian sidewalks on them.
I’m worried that if anyone points it out to these idiots, they won’t realize that it is a waste of money, instead they will demand $$$$$ to suicide proof all the bridges.
What is missing from the story is exactly how many kids have jumped off the bridge and killed themselves.
Fewer than if I were teaching there.
Another opportunity to link to Nouvelle Vague, a French bossa Nova/ jazz group. Their self-titled album is covers of bands like The Clash, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Dead Kennedys etc. Their version of Love Will Tear Us Apart was apparently their ‘big release.’
Thanks, Katie Carmichael. High school sweetheart got me into that album in 2004 right when it came out. Holy fuck, I love it. Guns of Brixton is fantastic, but “I Melt With You” is swimming in nascent romantic memories of youth. (Fuck, I love that version of the song.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3GVd4DFFPA&ab_channel=Kwaidanrecords
Whoops: I don’t know Joy Division as well as I should, and I can say the same for Interpol, but FUCK is Turn On The Bright Lights a perfect album. Will re-listen.