Minor excitement on campus this week, but when you’re as isolated as we are, even minor excitement provides a break from routine. In our engineering building, Campus Security encountered a young fellow wandering the halls wearing a lab coat and no shoes. Spoke with a Nigerian accent. The guard asked him who he was and he responded that he was a teaching assistant for Professor Briggs.
Of course, we have no Professor Briggs.
On discussion, it turns out that he had also been found (this time by a grad student) sleeping in one of the classrooms. And apparently had swiped the lab coat from an unlocked room. Several others had encountered him, challenged him, and were bluffed successfully. I have always maintained that if you act confident and brazen, look like you know where you’re going, and can improvise stories, you can go anywhere and do anything.
I’m still stuck on how a barefoot guy managed to reach the building- it’s cold as fuck here, lots of snow and ice on the ground. One of our grad students told me that she was starting to lock her door while she was in her office. “I’m just totally creeped out.” “But your office is right across the hall from me and yet you had it unlocked before.” Much glaring.
Anyway… some days are just shit for birthdays, and today is one of them. But there’s a few marginal ones, including a guy who was Castro before it was cool; a pioneer of shitty cars; some guy who was choppin’ real good like; a guys who knew nothing; a guy whose art inspired Peter North; a guy I always confuse with Bent Fabric; a guy who is as smarmy as Tom Hanks; a throwback to the halcyon days of bush; and the fiftieth second coming of Hitler.
Let’s get to Links.
I’m sure this is the fault of the Jews.
So if you raise your kids to pay no attention to race, they’ll be racist.
I’m prepared to suffer the disruption and inconvenience of tar and feathering this dork.
“It’s the big one, Elizabeth! I’m coming!”
I’m geek enough to find this fascinating.
And I’m nuts enough to find this fascinating.
I’d give him a medal, but then again, I don’t have the leftist love for cops.
Old Guy Music is delightful and is making me hungry.
I’m sure this is the fault of the Jews. – blame the Jews for everything and odds are you will be right most times
“I’m sure this is the fault of the Jews.”
Because they’re white?
I wonder if Israeli-Americans will be accepted into the upcoming MENA census bucket so they don’t have to be white anymore.
New research published in theJournal of Family Psychology finds that the more parents ascribe to a color-blind racial ideology, deny blatant racial attitudes, and deny White privilege, the less likely their children are to demonstrate sympathy toward Black victims. These findings may provide insight into how educational settings can increase race-based compassion in White children. – cannot allow the racial grift to go away no sir. do Black victims deserve extra sympathy compared to other races?
Journal of Family Psychology – should rename themselves to woke
lol implicit bias totes science.
If they’re not steeped in the 1619 Project grift, may as well get them Kiddie Klan robes.
They’re going to Science the country into a fucking race war at this rate. Of course, that is exactly what the left wants.
especially in White families. – did they test it on black families?
science knows
Science has a naughty list and a nice list. Be a good boy or you’ll get a lump of bat virus in your stocking.
Because most of the “black victims” the media trots out aren’t terribly sympathetic victims to begin with. I’m not saying it’s ok to strangle an arrestee with your knee, but Floyd was no Tamir Rice.
I’m prepared to suffer the disruption and inconvenience of tar and feathering this dork. – I am not sure long covid is a thing.
“I can think, for instance, of five prominent environmentalists who denounced lockdowns, vaccines and even masks as intolerable intrusions on our liberties, while proposing no meaningful measures to prevent transmission of the virus” – like those measures work
“George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist”
I think that might be the only job he could do. What a rambling pile of crap.
Ooooo… Monbiot. I’ve got to go check whatever insanity he’s spewing today. I’ll be back.
I found one correct statement in that compendium of falsehoods, bullshit, and outright lunacy.
Are there any politicians who actually banned such systems?
Dude, they didn’t give everyone a free filtration system. That is denying it to them.
His gripe is more about eQuItY. Evenone deservers a hyperbaric chamber or something of their own.
I don’t need to read the article to know that “sympathetic” means “submissive to the modern race agenda.”
less sympathetic to
Black victimsgrifters of all races and ethic groupsa guy I always confuse with Bent Fabric; – I never know why the clarinet is more popular than the oboe in jazz
Traditionally, black musicians couldn’t afford double reeds. 3/5 of a reed was the limit.
I thought it was because the oboe, being larger and blacker, is a threat to white supremacy.
Once you oboe, you never . . . I got nuthin’.
… get Luke off your back?
Yusef Lateef would like a word.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JaC04oBfmbQ
a throwback to the halcyon days of bush; – not a fan of bush myself
google.com hmmm nice tits though
“It’s the big one, Elizabeth! I’m coming!” – is it the bacon, the moonshine, or the tobacco? or the voting republican?
I guessed the Peter North reference correctly. So I got that going for me.
‘The exact reasons behind these rural-urban health disparities are unclear and are still being explored. Researchers said a multitude of factors may be at play, including structural racism, inequities in access to health care, and a dearth of grocery stores that provide affordable and healthy foods, among others.’
Structural racism is now possibly responsible for heart attacks amongst black country mice? JFC, it’s too early in the morning for this bullshit.
*meanders away for coffee and smokes*
Structural racism ate my homework.
I’m curious how or if those numbers may be skewed because a goodly number of young black men in urban areas never reach the age where heart issues may become a more prevalent problem due to early death via alcohol, drugs, and violent crime. Not saying it would account for all the difference in heart failure rates but it certainly has to factor in at least a little bit.
That avenue of research is not allowed. Try again.
Oh, lord. I woke up this morning thinking, “what craziness did Monbot write this time?”
*rolls up sleeves*
One hopes that Moonbat is vaccinating himself to death.
so what is everyone drinking (yes, I know, probably bad coffee, laaame)
I had just a little bit left in my bottle of Glenallachie CS 10 batch 6 so i poured it and took another glass and opened my batch 7 to taste in parallel. But I do not know how much of the difference comes from the fact that one bottle was open like 9 months and another one like 9 minutes. the 6 seems more fruity, the 7 more earthy but they are irredeemably similar in taste. they both smell sweet and of red fruit, some dark chocolate and a bunch more stuff, very complex. good malts really. pie recommends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Ww4cvgZOk
I’m drinking some excellent coffee, thank you very much.
Still trying to think of a decent bottle to drink tonight.
try Balla Geza Cuvee Aradinum 2009
It should only be a 14 hour round trip to a shop that might have that.
More. Seems to have zero US availability.
It has zero Romania availability as it is long gone. I would not expect any in the US. Great wine though.
I wish I had a bottle in my collection. I was at a restaurant in like 2017 or something that had one and we ordered it and drank it. I should have talked to the waiter on the side so I buy it for myself and get something else for my friends at the table. But alas I did not think of it in time
Manischewitz?
I’m having hamburgers tonight, and am going to have a Monastrell to go with it.
Just drink a good Priorat
Home roasted small farm Costa Rican Tarrazu.
It took you 9 months to work your way through a bottle of Scotch? How many eyedroppers per serving?
I went through probably 25 bottles of scotch in that time. I save the cask strength for occasional sips.
*the face you make when you turn on the New Wave station and they’re playing U2*
Dude… if you know you’re being played, up your game.
Nuages | Django Reinhardt | Pomplamoose ft. John Tegmeyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxAlMM8M8Ko
speaking of clarinet this band often has this John Tegmeyer fella playing the thing
Ion CIOBANU cu oile în vârf de munte, printre NORI | Câinii se joacă în ZĂPADĂ | Turma lui Ștefan C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gatAealns
Hey, lets knock it off with the fag talk.
Don’t be diacritical.
John Somebody…. Dogs do something….
Hey, sheepdogs. Romance languages for the win!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECa1toPGth4
“Our tanks are greener than yours!”
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1619009480901169154
what i see is American tanks have 7 kilometers less range than European ones, and an extra machine gun. If the European tanks don’t have it, i assume it is pointless, so if you would dump the pointless machine gun you would lower the weight and probably match the range of the other tanks.
I doubt the Loader’s 20 pound M240 would change the gas mileage of a 65 ton tank. With the governor removed, the Abrams is probably the fastest tank. The problem with the turbine engine is that it uses almost as much gas while idling as it does while moving.
The M240 – officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240 – well no the pointless one is the 12.7 mm one
.50 cal pointless? That’s silly talk.
if it was useful the german tank would also have it.
“CNN’s Van Jones claims black cops who ‘killed’ Tyre Nichols may be ‘driven by racism’ – because ‘black people aren’t immune to anti-black messages'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11686365/Van-Jones-slammed-op-ed-claiming-cops-killed-Tyre-Nichols-couldve-driven-racism.html
I was waiting for that.
It was inevitable.
Before I read it, let’s list the target words: internalized, systemic, supremacy..
Check
Check
No “systemic”, I am disappointed.
Well OMNIPOTENT kind of overrules systemic.
Omnipotent? Really? I guess they’re really trying to drive recruitment in the Aryan Brotherhood or something by portraying them as the winning team or something.
(See also Inigo Montoya “inconceivable” gif….)
Yup, gotta keep the narrative going. Can’t have people wake up to the idea that the out-of-control cop problem has nothing to do with race.
Were there riots last night? I went to bed early.
Minor skirmishes here. Nothing like 2020.
I guess Antifa just didn’t have it in them last night.
It’s not an election year. It’s also January.
Was this much attention paid to Thomas Kelley when six cops beat him to death?
Oh, never mind, he was white so it was no big deal. Bee Tee Dubs, wypipo be racist.
I wonder if some of the cops knew the guy and had some kind of grudge. The whole story makes more sense that way.
My thought also. And/or roid rage.
Roid rage is my vote. A gym I worked out at had some young cops-to-be that used to work out there and they weren’t “natural”. Also had a friend who was into juicing while we were younger and his steroid guy had a lot of cop customers. It’s one reason he never got busted even though he dealt more than steroids.
That heavyset black dude who frequently appears on Tucker – I think he’s a radio personality? – made some noise to the effect that all of them were young black men behaving as young black men in “the city” often do, and then ranted about “authoritah”, missing fathers, etc.
My first question after seeing that video was WTF did the victim hope to accomplish by running away from the cops?! That usually doesn’t end well.
“WTF did the victim hope to accomplish by running away from the cops?!”
Not get beat to death?
As Chris Rock noted in his classic bit “If the cops have to chase you, they’re bringing an ass-kicking with them.”
“You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test.”
Indeed. And if you demanded that people be separated from family members in their time of need, that children be masked and socially isolated, and that people lose their jobs and be ostracized for refusing an experimental treatment, then you failed.
I’m waiting for those friends to come back and admit that, maybe, just maybe, that they “didn’t understand” what was being promised.
That’s crazy talk. If people would only obey legitimate authority, we’d be living in paradise.
Is that you I see weighing in on one of my favorite blogs? Highly recommended.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com
“He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
I drop an occasional observation there, yes.
Blarney
The Banshees of Inisherin and the put-on Irishness of Martin McDonagh.
https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/martin-mcdonagh-irish-banshees-inisherin-blarney.html
“Over the next two hours, Martin McDonagh’s film—nominated this week for nine Oscars, including Best Picture—delivers exactly that. Landscapes of ravishing desolation. Donkeys, and occasionally other livestock, inside cottages. People wearing thick woolen clothes that look like they would be horribly scratchy. Auld fellas drinking loads of pints. Stoic and long-suffering women. People talking in poetically inverted syntax, and committing acts of unfathomable savagery. You know: Ireland. Or rather, “Ireland,” because—as McDonagh knows as well as anyone—this version of Irishness has always had an uneasy relationship with the actual country and the people who live in it.
McDonagh was born and raised in London. His parents were both from the west of Ireland, and he spent frequent summer months there as a child; when he was in his early 20s, his parents returned to live in Galway while he stayed behind in London to pursue a writing career. His early plays, which went on to massive international success, were all set in the rural west of Ireland. Those plays drew far more deeply on the Irish literary tradition than on the complexities of the contemporary country itself”
so this guy is fake black it seems
“Oirish”?
Galway is very very Irish; ask KSuell.
antidote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUV00NSQT9E
“I’m still stuck on how a barefoot guy managed to reach the building- it’s cold as fuck here, lots of snow and ice on the ground”
Probably shipped up there by Governor Ron DeSATAN
on the snow situation we got to about 10 cm so half a dick length in other measurements
Good things come in small packages?
I’m sorry you have such a tiny dick.
there is such a thing as too much.
We all know that Ted is packing 8+ inches.
Much glaring.
Pondering – it would seem she doesn’t know you well enough, but it is possible she knows you more than you realize.
Rural-dwelling AmericansFormer Confederate states* at higher risk of developing heart failure compared to theirurbanUnion counterparts*note for pedants; plus two, minus one
It’s sweet tea. Gotta be.
South Africa has signed an agreement to introduce dozens of African cheetahs to India over the next decade.
The first batch of 12 cheetahs will be sent next month, the South African environment department said.
It plans to send a similar number annually for the next eight to 10 years to help establish a “viable and secure cheetah population”.
Asiatic cheetahs became extinct in India in the late 1940s because of excessive hunting and loss of habitat.
In 2020 India’s Supreme Court ruled that African cheetahs, a different subspecies, could be brought into the country at a “carefully chosen location” on an experimental basis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64425297
Cheetas never win.
You ain’t lion.
If you’re not cheetah, you’re not trying hard enough.
I wonder what Swiss is doing right meow.
*narrows gaze*
As if you didn’t know.
Like a cat’s eyes in the sunlight?
Uh oh, we better tow the lion.
I’m sure the dirt-poor locals that get attacked by leopards will appreciate the introduction of another large cat species.
dont be so human centric
Not to worry, the cheetah is a specialized predator – they’ll starve long before they are threat to humans. Or does India have a ready supply of Thompson gazelles?
“Brian gave some of the very last breaths he had defending the Capitol building … and our democracy,” Edwards said Friday.”
Lmao, spare me the bullshit. Did the Lincoln Project write that line for you, you pig?
All cops are racist pigs who deserve to die! Also, Brian Sicknick is a national hero!
sin,
Leftists
“BREAKING: @YouTube has just removed our @Pfizer story from the platform “due to a violation of our Community Guidelines”
Project Veritas channel has been given a “strike” and ability to upload ANY new videos is “restricted” for a week with threats of future “permanent removal””
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1619128177082908672S
Was anyone expecting anything else?
That’s okay though. The pool of support for the vaccination regime is shrinking with each revelation and the resistance is hardening. Those who have been red-pilled will not go back.
‘black people aren’t immune to anti-black messages’”
Especially the ones who work hard and save their money.
Parkinson’s: Using exercise to turn the table on disease
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64401274
Excercise and dont eat crap goes a long way
Parkinson’s is a kind of exercise.
Comments like this is why I am here.
Yup
Some Glibs comments I will happily re-use in public.
This is not one of them. Damn funny, though.
You remind me of a bit from the book MASH – one that wasn’t going to make it into either the movie or the TV show. IYKYK.
We also know that, with every new exposure, we are more likely to suffer adverse effects. A massive study in the US found that the risk of brain, nerve, heart, lung, blood, kidney, insulin and muscular disorders accumulates with every reinfection. The impacts of long Covid, according to health metrics researchers, are “as severe as the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury”. Now that we know how the virus attacks our cells, “traumatic brain injury” looks less like an analogy than a description. The outcomes can be devastating, ranging from extreme fatigue and breathlessness to brain fog, psychotic disorders, memory loss, epilepsy and dementia.
We are all playing Covid roulette. The next infection could be the one that permanently disables you.
Wear a helmet.
Seems it got to Monbiot years ago.
We also know that, with every new exposure, we are more likely to suffer adverse effects.
Even if true, so what? It’s not like there is are any available* pharmaceuticals that prevent infection. Life with COVID is the new reality, get used to it.
*in the US, that we’re allowed to talk about *cough* horse paste *cough*
Fearmongering? In the Grauniad? Never!
“Move on”, “get over it”: these are the incantations of people who seek to shed responsibility for their actions.
“Incantation” is an interesting choice of words, coming from a cargo cultist who fetishizes the saving powers scraps of cloth.
For an environmental extremist who habitually tells people to stay in their lane when they criticize his “work”, he’s pretty fucking far outside his lane here, no?
He could play the role of Howard Beal in Network, and it wouldn’t be acting.
One of our grad students told me that she was starting to lock her door while she was in her office. “I’m just totally creeped out.” “But your office is right across the hall from me and yet you had it unlocked before.” Much glaring.
🙂
You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test. Who was prepared to suffer disruption and inconvenience for the sake of others, and who was not? The answer was often surprising. I can think, for instance, of five prominent environmentalists who denounced lockdowns, vaccines and even masks as intolerable intrusions on our liberties, while proposing no meaningful measures to prevent transmission of the virus. Four of them became active spreaders of disinformation.
The author can fuck off and die.
This week’s Powerline fun.
For a Gourmeltz meet-up tomorrow: I plan to leave NH by about 7 AM Sunday morning. That should put me at Gourmeltz between 3 and 4 PM. I have Ron’s e-mail, but no other contact information for the VA glibs. Folks can reach me at thorby455 AT proton DOT me.
This week’s winner: https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/01/m42lq2vrccea1.jpg
It appears Powerline no longer allows you to link to individual images. 🙁
Huh, works for me.
Worked for me AFTER I’d clicked DEG’s Powerline link. Go figure.
⬆ same here
Have fun! I hope someday to be at Gourmeltz.
‘Orning ‘ordles… not quite chumptown, but nothing to write home about unless you’re in a Ken Burns documentary…
“Dear Mother, again we attempted to break through the quordle fortress. I watched as wave after wave of truly idiotic attempts were made by our commander. He truly seems to not be improving as the months drag on. Oh, for the halycon days of the Sudoku Wars where we returned in triumphant parade. Extend my love to Mary Ann, I hope to return to plight my troth some time soon. As always, your loving son — Clueless Carl, Seventeenth Wordle Brigade, Second Corps, Chumptown Division One”
Daily Duotrigordle #332
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 04:04.40
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 369
8️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
give up
“Nuts.”
Daily Quordle 369
7️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
The Line.
I’ll take it.
Daily Quordle 369
7️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 369
8️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Meh.
Daily Quordle 369
7️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
quordle.com
From Elon Musk to Rupert Murdoch, a small number of billionaire owners have a powerful hold on so much of the information that reaches the public about what’s happening in the world. The Guardian is different. We have no billionaire owner or shareholders to consider. Our journalism is produced to serve the public interest – not profit motives.
They forgot to mention Jeff Bezos. Just an oversight, I guess.
The Guardian is owned by a trust specifically set up to engage in tax evasion.
Security encountered a young fellow wandering the halls wearing a lab coat and no shoes. Spoke with a Nigerian accent. The guard asked him who he was and he responded that he was a teaching assistant for Professor Briggs.
Was he solving equations in the dead of night?
How ’bout them apples!
Officer Caroline Edwards, who was sprayed at the same time as Sicknick, said he turned “ghostly pale.” She went on to explain that she couldn’t help him because she was temporarily blinded from the chemical spray, and as a result continues to struggle with survivor’s guilt.
That’s what disability checks are for.
Oh fuck off…
Mystery donors
In September 2020, George Santos’ congressional campaign reported that Victoria and Jonathan Regor had each contributed $2,800—the maximum amount—to his first bid for a House seat. Their listed address was 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
A search of various databases reveals no one in the United States named Victoria or Jonathan Regor. Moreover, there is nobody by any name living at 45 New Mexico Street in Jackson. That address doesn’t exist. There is a New Mexico Street in Jackson, but the numbers end in the 20s, according to Google Maps and a resident of the street.
Santos’ 2020 campaign finance reports also list a donor named Stephen Berger as a $2,500 donor and said he was a retiree who lived on Brandt Road in Brawley, California. But a spokesperson for William Brandt, a prominent rancher and Republican donor, tells Mother Jones that Brandt has lived at that address for at least 20 years and “neither he or his wife (the only other occupant [at the Brandt Road home]) have made any donations to George Santos. He does not know Stephen Berger nor has Stephen Berger ever lived at…Brandt Road.”
Mother Jones is on the case. I wonder what sort of results they might get if they did this same sort of deep dive into the donor lists of a random sampling of Congressmen.
I encourage this deepdive into all of the congresscritter funding.
I’m sorry we don’t have the resources to examine all of them, we’ll just select a few (oh, what a coincidence, they all are from the same party).
Let’s not get carried away here.
19 by Paul Hardcastle just came on.
“America’s longest war…”
Not anymore.
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AOC Gives Speech To Single Tree On Final Environmental Frontier: Her Own Hair
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Jan 25, 2023 · BabylonBee.com
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) took a break from her other endeavors last week to give a rousing speech to a single tree on her own head. After thorough research, AOC concluded that her thick, lush hair was the final environmental frontier — and a deserving recipient of her impassioned words.
“It is time to stop and ask ourselves, what are we doing to protect the environment we all call home — even if that environment rests atop our own crowns?” AOC challenged her rapt audience, her enthralled colorist nodding in agreement from where he sat to the side, scissors in hand. “And if the Earth can’t trust us, who can? Who else will fight the good fight of climate change and progress with the same unwavering commitment? Not the speaker of the House — that’s for sure!”
The awe-struck tree could only nod in agreement, making AOC beam with pride as onlook
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1619297161589714945
Also a kind of exercise?
Like a toddler’s temper tantrum with a beat.
Just reaffirming the Satanic aspect of Western leadership
In the near future, you will pretend to enjoy that or else. Because that’s the only “entertainment” there will be.
Field research for her new career in porn?
Why Hyejeong Shin, a 29-year-old city woman, used a false birth certificate in an attempt to enroll at New Brunswick High School remains a mystery.
In a letter addressed to high school parents and guardians, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Aubrey Johnson on Friday, Jan. 27 did not offer any insight into the question that has lingered since Shin spent four days at the school while officials attempted to verify her identity.
“I’m sure all of you are curious about the motives of this individual, as I am. This is, however, a matter for law enforcement officials and we must allow their investigation to take its course,” according to Johnson’s letter.
——-
“It wasn’t like you could look at her and she looked like a grandmother,” Caldwell said. “So, there really was no indication. Some of the students said, ‘Well, you should start looking at people.’ Well, my dad marched in the Civil Rights Movement to fight that thing that people look at you because you’re Black or you’re short or you’re tall or you’re old and make judgments of you. You can’t do that. There’s some kids in the school who look very, very old, but some kids look very, very young.”
Art demands authenticity.
If a girl can identify as a boy, why can’t a 29-year-old identify as a teenager. Deal with it, bigots.
Strangers With Candy II?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxZndHASU0
Greg Oden agrees.
Have some unabashed corporate media apologia.
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-the-media-is-honest-and-good
Yeah, it’s unrealistic to expect the MSM to question attempted or successful coups by Democrats.
Is that an attempt to answer Taibbi?
And talk about a punchable face! It’s the face equivalent of his ideas – just begging to be knocked down.
https://www.econlib.org/the-missing-right-wing-firms-a-plausible-resolution/
They’re not fooling me – that’s Boy George.
Again, we see the problem of unrealistic standards being applied, while critics of the media are never held accountable for anything.
There is no difference between those who lie and those who debunk those lies. Seems legit.
Have you always been a fascist?
A spokesman for Florida governor Ron DeSantis is accusing a writer for CNN of engaging in “media malpractice” for using unnamed “Experts” to push the narrative that the governor’s decision to reject a pilot African American history course “echoes similar decisions made by fascist dictators” including Vladimir Putin.
According to an exchange on Twitter, at 10:07 a.m., John Blake from CNN emailed Bryan Griffin, DeSantis’s press secretary, asking for comment on an article he is writing about the governor’s decision to reject “an high school Advanced Placement course on African American history course in Florida.”
“I’ve talked to one of the nation’s leading scholars on fascism who, along with another scholar who is an authority on fascism, say that DeSantis’ decision echoes similar decisions made by fascist dictators to force what one historian calls ‘collective amnesia’ about the past,” Blake wrote.
Knowledgeable unnamed sources have suggested you intend to slaughter all the blacks. Is this true, or do you merely intend to reintroduce slavery? Care to comment?
Don’t even engage with those assholes, you’re wasting your time.
According to CNN’s website, Blake is an enterprise writer and producer covering race, religion, politics, “and other assorted topics.” He has worked for the outlet for over 16 years, according to his LinkedIn page. When reached on the phone Friday by a National Review reporter, Blake said “no comment” and hung up.
The flap comes as CNN is attempting to shed its image as a leftwing outlet and to rebrand itself as more of a down-the-middle, reporting-centered news organization.
Not everybody got the word, apparently.
https://johnkblake.com/bio
“enterprise writer and producer“
Which is what, exactly? Is this a euphemism for “contract” or “freelance”?
Stand-up philosopher.
Dole Office Clerk:
Oh, a BULLSHIT artist!
Good morning Old Man!
Great story. Dude should have stolen some shoes, a clipboard and an IR thermometer and he’d be safe indefinitely.
“Got a roof leak. Just trying to track ‘er down.”
What’s on the agenda today, people?
Possibly a tethered balloon ride on Lake Superior (wind dependent)
Otherwise, patiently waiting to see if my real estate offer is accepted (house, garage, and small barn on 7.6 acres with 200 public acres abutting)
And celebrating the 1 year anniversary of my divorce.
Have a great day, Nick! Good luck with the offer!
Seconded!
Enjoy, Nick!
For dinner pie grilles some mutton
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9V6WYkQLoUwFtbVx5
what is the Official Glibertarian View on eating mutton chops when you are alone and no one can see you, still knife and fork or can you just pick them up in your hand and rip them with your teeth?
Probably “You do you”. I doubt anyone really cares all that much, especially if you’re by yourself.
nono we are libertarians there is no you do you, there is a right way for everything
I’ve never seen mutton in a regular supermarket in the U.S.
well in the picture you see some chops and some loin that is tender, if english has a word for that
Yes english understands the word tender but not in conjunction with mutton.
well that long thin bit of muscle is tender on basically a any animal
Lamb may be tender, old sheep not so much.
i was trying to make a joke based on the word tenderloin for which Romanian equivalent is used for most animals, maybe different in english i am not a native speaker
I’m unclear why “when you are alone and no one can see you” is an important distinction in this case.
mutton may not be the best word, in romanian is berbecut which translates as “little ram” which is something more than lamb but less than fully mature sheep…
Oh, goody. It looks like winter is back. Weather man calls for single digit daytime and negative nighttime temps.
“How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military
“I’m not the American dream, I’m more like the American nightmare,” beams the influencer known as Haylujan in a video to her 363k TikTok followers. With full-face E-girl make-up, drawn-on freckles and a rosy nose, the 20-year-old is the face of an unsettling new breed of E-girl garnering millions of views online. She posts thirst traps inside choppers and pouty selfies with assault rifles, with hashtags like #pewpew and #militarycurves. She shares cutesy unboxing compilations and make-up tutorials, Get Ready With Me videos and lip syncs. She jokes about war bunkers and plays with remote control tanks, which she overlays with sparkly filters and heart emojis.
Known in esoteric meme circles as the psy-op girl, Haylujan, also known simply as Lujan, is a self-described “psychological operations specialist” for the US Army, whose online presence has led to countless memes speculating that she is a post-ironic psy-op meant to recruit people into the US army. Lujan, who’s actually employed by the US army psy-ops division, posts countless TikToks and memes that play into this (her official website is called sikeops). “My own taxes used to psy-op me,” says one commenter. “Definitely a fed (I’m signing up for the army now)” writes another.
But Haylujan isn’t the only E-girl using Sanrio sex appeal to lure the internet’s SIMPs into the armed forces. There’s Bailey Crespo and Kayla Salinas, not to mention countless #miltok gunfluencers cropping up online. While she didn’t document her military career, influencer Bella Porch also served in the US Navy for four years before going viral on TikTok in 2020, and is arguably the blueprint for this kind of kawaii commodified fetishism in the military. An adjacent figure, Natalia Fadeev, also known as Gun Waifu, is an Israeli influencer and IDF soldier who uses waifu aesthetics and catgirl cosplay to pedal pro-Israel propaganda to her 756k followers. She poses to camera, ahegao-style, with freshly manicured nails wrapped neatly around a glock, the uWu-ification of military functioning as a cutesy distraction from the shadowy colonial context: “when they try and destroy your nation,” she writes in one caption…..”
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/57878/1/the-era-of-military-funded-e-girl-warfare-army-influencers-tiktok
Not like advertising in general and recruitment in particular hasn’t used sex appeal in the past.
I’d think it would risk disrupting the trans quotas in their recruitment standards for the PPP admin, though.
People tend to forget that the military has what is probably the largest psy-ops operation on the planet at Fort Bragg.
And if you think they’re aren’t pointing those capabilities inward…
For some reason I can’t help putting psy-ops right up there military intelligence.
WTF is an ‘E-girl’?
Forget it, I don’t want to know. It’ll be something stupid.
I’ve linked to this guy’s site before, but here, enjoy a ray of sunshine:
https://twitter.com/iamrodneysmith/status/1619085189631848448
Doughboy, in knee deep mud, peering into the gloom from his trench:
“It’ll be fun, they said. A snap, they said. Ooh la la French girls with loose morals will be throwing themselves at your feet, they said…..”
Question: americans say Eggplant english say aubergine but is there any regional difference as in is there anywhere in the US where people say aubergine ? like the standard soda, pop, coke etc which shows regional difference
That’s a French word, right? Maybe Louisiana. Unknown word to the rest of us.
Never heard an American use that term except when making fun of those snaggletoothed warm beer guzzling Limeys.
I’ve heard aubergine used in reference to the deep purple color when describing clothing. Makes it sound more haute couture than “eggplant.”
| I have always maintained that if you act confident and brazen, look like you know where you’re going, and can improvise stories, you can go anywhere and do anything.
Absolutely true. Part of my work is gaining access to locked vacant commercial and residential properties that have no keys or codes available to the current agents/owners, and a good portion of this I am doing by myself. While I have often gotten funny looks and maybe a handful of random people have questioned me, I have never really gotten much, if any, pushback. I’ve only had the cops be called out and draw on me once and that was due to an alarm that we didn’t know would be on in a vacant commercial unit. 98 percent of people just walk on by if you look nonchalant about it.
I learned this valuable life lesson from Jim Rockford.
It’s a shame those magnetic car-door business logos aren’t a thing anymore.
Heheh, I actually still have one those things, it’s pretty darn faded at this point though.
Old People TV has a wonderful commercial for that called “The Rockford Smiles”. I guess it takes a variety of them to get away with shit.
*lights cigarette, hangs up pay phone, and burns out in a sweet ass gold Pontiac*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928
Those new messages every week were a nice a touch.
Excellent music, OMWC!
I normally rage quit any song with a banjo in it, but that was great.
Bela Fleck: slumps shoulders, kicks pebble, shuffles away
Petitioning the government for redress of grievances
Chief Executive Elon Musk met two top White House officials on Friday in Washington to discuss how the car maker and Democratic President Joe Biden could work together to advance electric vehicle production and speed electrification of U.S. vehicle networks.
Musk met John Podesta, a Democratic stalwart who serves as Biden’s senior adviser for clean energy innovation, and Mitch Landrieu, who oversees infrastructure spending, the White House said. The billionaire and Biden have often been at odds over political and labor issues.
“John Podesta and Mitch Landrieu met with Elon Musk to discuss shared goals around electrification and how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act can advance electric vehicle production and charging as well as the broader cause of electrification,” a White House spokesperson told Reuters.
Musk responded on Twitter to the initial exclusive Reuters report that he met with the officials, saying it was “True.”
We all just want to make the world a better place.
Also, self defense.
The coffin is being nailed shut, from the inside.
Meanwhile in Donbass
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1619371101263642629
“Maker of shitty cars”. You’d recently done Louis Chevrolet and Andre Citroen so I wasn’t sure.. Nash? I’ll accept that.
Relations have often seemed antagonistic between Biden, who has pushed for companies to use union labor, and Musk, who has pushed to keep unions out of his factories.
Musk called Biden “a damp sock puppet in human form” last year after Biden highlighted EV production by GM and Ford in a tweet but left out Tesla.
Biden only publicly acknowledged the role of Tesla in U.S. electric vehicle manufacturing over a year after taking office, after Musk repeatedly complained about being ignored.
In June, Biden compared Tesla unfavorably to Ford and sarcastically wished Musk “lots of luck” on his “trip to the moon” after the billionaire expressed reservations about the economy.
Still, Musk has long-standing important relationships with the U.S. government, and those have continued under the Biden administration.
Tesla has benefited from tax subsidies given to buyers of its electric vehicles while SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, has contracts worth billions of dollars to deliver astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station, and to build a moon lander.
The spice must flow.