That’s tight.
The NFL Draft for underway last night and I don’t know who the big winners or losers were. I do know Houston took the bold route though. Let’s see how that plays out over the next two years. Elsewhere, Vegas is the first team to inch their ticket to the second round of the NHL Playoffs, while Toronto failed to do so. More action tonight and over the weekend. And across the pond, Spuds and ManUre played to a draw that helps the teams chasing for the last spots in Europe, with a few humongous matches taking place over the next few days. Oh, and F1 is back in Baku this weekend. Should make for a great next few sports days.
Awesome.
This kid is awesome. He should be given an A in all his classes this year.
What a dick. No seriously. I’m jealous.
This is just great. Now they’re using kamikaze tactics against the moon. OK, just kidding. We know this was just another situation where the metric system failed where standard would have succeeded.
I guess they’re not serious about being a sanctuary. Also, FEMA has no authority, so he can suck it.
Dick
Imagine the balls on this person. Telling women what feminism is takes stones.
Reviewed or revised? At this point, I doubt anybody in the public will ever see the actual document.
Well, he had a good run. Or rather a long run. Personally, I think he contributed to the decline in American culture, as did Rikki Lake and Phil Donahue. But he’s dead so I won’t talk shit about him.
Fire up the woodchipper. This blades need to be lubricated.
“We’ve failed to do our job, so we’re gonna blame someone else.” I figure this is more about tax collection, but they’re not gonna say that.
Here’s a lively tune. Such a great sound from such a small band. And here’s another gem. That staccato sound really pops. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
Baku is one of my favorite tracks — the mix of the old city section (tight corners) and the long straights is just fun to race (in game anyway) and to watch. My favorite / worst moment was last year or the year before in the F2 race when the poor kid leading the race for like 85% of it took the Castle corner just a hair wrong and kissed the barrier, breaking their front suspension. That (and the usual chaos in Turn 1 on a start or re-start when folks out-break themselves) is the sort of thing that can easily happen when you think the race has settled and keeps it interesting.
My favorite moment was really two years ago, with Hamilton getting the brake settings wrong and just driving straight off the course on the restart 😀
(he annoys me)
I haven’t watched anything from this weekend yet. I’m curious how the new format for a sprint weekend is going to go. And I’ll also add that o think Saturday will be as much fun as Sunday this year as mid-pack teams start panicking to score points any way they can and I think their best chance is gonna be the sprint.
Agreed, Baku is a great race. I didn’t have any idea before I started watching F1 a few years back that it was such a beautiful city. I’d say it’s the best street circuit on the calendar, with Silverstone and Spa tying for my favorite overall (with Interlagos getting a third). Qualifying is on now, but I’ll wait to get home from work tonite to watch it. Also like that they split up the Sprint and main race qualy, more Saturday fun. Rooting for Alonso this year after Aston’s unexpected start.
“This is just great. Now they’re using kamikaze tactics against the moon.”
Did the moon ring from the impact?
It bathes in the divine solar wind apparently.
Dude, only Saturn Rings when hit.
“Fire up the woodchipper. This blades need to be lubricated.”
The pedos are hell bent on getting society to approve their perversion.
It’s been posted here, but MN has a bill on the table to make pedophiles a protected class. And it’s MN, which has a pretty hard left government, so the odds of it passing are probably pretty decent.
I don’t see what could go wrong.
Yup — seems like a kid with a solid head on his shoulders. If he keeps himself up physically, he should have prom dates lined up two years in advance. And in a better time, the military academies should have been taking an interest — officers who can keep their head and adapt are kind of important outside of paper pushing political jostling. Which is why (combined with the “nationalism is domestic terrorism” et alia) he should stay away from them now, of course.
How committed is the kid to big government hacks like climate change, DEI, CRT, and letting pedos fuck kids? Cause that’s essential to get promoted and a must have for flag rank these days.
There’s enough wrong with the real military personnel management/promotion system that you don’t need to add it.
From someone who is living it, that is an understatement.
If you are in the military today you are seeing a whole new level of stupid.
From someone who is living it, that is an understatement.
O-3, O-4? They haven’t squeezed the competence out of you yet.
O-5 – now there’s the real tipping point.
““We’ve failed to do our job, so we’re gonna blame someone else.” I figure this is more about tax collection, but they’re not gonna say that.”
Government is the one entity that has made failing profitable. Once they fail at whatever stupid shit they are doing, they can blame others or claim not enough of the same was done, and double down on the stupid. Our problem is how many people still have not realized the source of most big problems, and by design, is government and them letting government do shit.
No government agency will ever do anything but find more of whatever “problem” they are there to solve. Especially when they need to create it so they can claim it is there.
There is no fail in government, because there was never a measure for success to begin with. There is only politics.
And perpetual growth and need for more funding…
I.e., politics.
Failure means not enough was “invested” and so they need more money.
Success means the program must be expanded and so they need more money.
According to the Houston Police Department, there have been nine murders at Houston bars and clubs since November 2022. The department also tallied 32 robberies and 103 cases of aggravated assault in that span. According to the city presentation, many of those violent crimes happened after 2 a.m.
Is it just me, or does that not seem very high? 4 murders/year at bars in a city of 4 million? Less than one aggravated assault a week?
Those numbers are a quiet weekend in Chicago.
Not just you, no. And “drunk/high possible gang members whipping out their pistols” doesn’t really seem that unexpected to me either.
The population of Houston itself, not the metro area that HPD has no jurisdiction in, is about 2.3 million.
But, still tiny gotdamn numbers to justify further regulations on BYOB bars – especially since those numbers of murders and ag assaults seem to lump in those committed at non-BYOB places. For all we know, the non-BYOB places might be more peaceful than the more regulated places.
9 since November 2022 is more like an annual rate of 20 per year, not 4.
That’s my take too.
Probably safer than the average crime ridden area.
Or mental illness. Not like the gender dismorphia community is known for that or anything.
There’s a distinct need for a collective “Fuck off, go away” to several groups these days, not that I expect it to happen.
I have a crazy idea. Stop giving them free everything.
That left a mark…
At this point you know if anyone tried it would be a repeat of Prop 187. The courts would “find” fundamental human rights for anyone to come in and get whatever they want. Bloody depressing.
“Trans swimmer Lia Thomas is now telling women what feminism is – and if we protest then we’re bigots.”
It is primarily women, and college educated ones even more so, usually with mental issues, that empowered the idiocy and marxist shit because of the feels. Now that shit is eating them up, And most of them, for whatever insane reason, remain quiet if not outright are supportive, even going so far as to cancel the women demanding this idiocy stop.
The snake eating it’s tail. Is it a wonder that so many women now say letting women vote might have been a mistake for society?
They have a solution to that — they’re doing their best to raise the boys to lack emotional control and vote based on feels… so it won’t be a gender issue soon.
And there will not be a society that has values worth defending and people able to defend them soon either. Hope that women will not mind their burqas and third place behind the men and their valuable cattle once the societies that value their beliefs and fight to keep them, wrong as hell as they may be to us, show up and take over.
Medical Science!
Yeah, time to tell all these government entities to fuck the hell off. I am going out on a limb, and see this move as a new desperate attempt to protect their asses, since their first attempt to just tell the swath of people they fucked over during the Kung Flu to let bygones be bygones, failed miserably.
Technically, vaccines never have prevented infection. You’re going to get infected, but your immune system is primed to deal with the invader, supposedly. They’ll use that fact to obscure the argument.
But suppressing or preventing transmission by keeping the infection below a certain threshold of replication is the entire justification for vaccines as a public health program. Otherwise, they’re nothing more than preemptive therapeutics, and not very good ones at that.
If the government can mandate a speculative therapeutic, then they can mandate anything.
something something “can the government make you eat your broccoli” something something
sigh
Which is what we said about health care…
Xi won the 2020 election.
I daresay you can’t go far wrong assuming most/all government issues, especially local ones are about the right parties getting their beaks wet, yeah.
I love these guy’s sense of humor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EydsqgAIhs
I really would not want to run a 5.56 indoors.
I only shoot (pistol & rifle) with plugs & electronic muffs anymore.
Ditto.
No coments on the video? Especially around the 0:20 mark?
I just kept replaying the lululemon ad I got at the beginning.
That did elicit “sensible chuckle.”
I’m single-earproing outdoors. I have found that the shooter blocks a lot of the blast when I’m running Open competitors.
If I want to shoot 5.56 faster and less accurate, why would I use a bolt gun?
European gun laws.
There are a couple, as I am sure you know, Euro makers of AR platforms that they have to set up for straight pull, and this is pretty close to what they do. Many of them are quite quick and accurate. Straight pull is better than bolt for this, though.
https://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/rifles/schmeisser-straight-pull-sp15-ultramatch-and-m4fl-AR-15-in-223-test/
Ack!
That’s what I was originally thinking of.
I poked around after I hit submit but before I posted the “Scratch that” comment, and found a .22 conversion kit from them which is not quite the same thing.
Scratch that, I’m thinking of something else.
The Brits did that first with the Lee-Enfield. I think they officially started teaching soldiers this technique around the Second World War. They reference Bloke on the Range. British Muzzleloaders also has some videos on it.
Polenar Tactical is truly a gift.
Me neither. Hence the silencers and the 300BO build I’m playing with.
Even with a can though, 556 indoors is not super fun.
Worth it.
Michael Douglas is that you? I would risk cancer to lick Kathy’s little man in the boat.
I’d suck her tits for lupus…
-G. Gottfried
*NSFW
That sort of in dept and thought provoking interviewing is what we need more of.
…and is most likely caused by HPV.
The vaccine for HPV is 80% effective.
Wait, you mean you don’t know that is specifically to blame? And claim it’s a harmless virus otherwise?
Medical research, searching for a statistical signal in the noise. Just how far removed from voodoo are we?
At least with voodoo they stick the needles in a doll instead of, well, you.
I mean, seriously – what other cancer is associated with a viral origin?
Hep C -> liver cancer. Tasmanian Devil’s get a face/mouth cancer that’s viral in origin. Pretty sure there are others.
OK, but this isn’t established – per the article anyway, so maybe journalism to blame – that HPV actually is the cause. It appears there is a statistical inference in place of a biological mechanism. Science is more than correlation.
Dr. Fauci?
It causes at least 2 types of cancer, how is that harmless?
Per the article, so maybe this is just standard [i.e. incredibly bad] science/health journalism?
“Eric Adams wants FEMA to ban cities from busing migrants to NYC — as 1,300 arrive this week alone”
So he admits they were just virtue signaling about that shit, obviously to make the cities that normally are impacted and complained look bad so people like Adams can claim it is racism, since he doesn’t want what he wants inflicted on others.
The FEMA angle is the crazy part. The government would have to declare an illegal Im migrant emergency to even come close to having the authority to restrict travel between states for a specific group of people. And there’s no way in hell they’re gonna do that.
They’d do better by stopping and searching every bus coming into the city, which would also be illegal unless the drivers agreed to the search without a warrant. I suppose they could get a warrant to search each one individually based on PC that human smuggling was taking place. But even that would imply that the feds are smuggling people when they do the same thing.
Adams has no play here but to accept the consequences of the policies his side put in place to virtue signal. The fact that it’s biting them in the ass is just too damn bad.
Skimming the article it looks like Adams is claiming their using FEMA funds to pay for shipping folks to NYC. He wants FEMA to cut said funding, not that FEMA can unilaterally set up state line barriers or something.
they’re using, you fucking idiot in need of a proofreader before you push send. Jesus wept.
When you beat yourself up like that you take away all of Ted S.’s fun.
Teds’. I mean, come one!
Now they’re using kamikaze tactics against the moon.
You will never bring honor to famiry!
Northern California professor tried to lure 7-year-old girl for sex
The FBI should also investigate this creepy predator.
They are too busy entrapping people.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
Megyn Kelly just got hotter.
https://twitter.com/gregissnacking/status/1651064749977751557
That girl can get me to really fuck myself over for a chance to tap that…
Countdown with Keith Olbermann has…340 followers.
Off the top rope.
This is the way.
‘Orning ‘ordles — ending the work week back at “borderline tolerable”.
Daily Duotrigordle #422
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:10.71
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Meh.
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Blossom Puzzle, April 28
Letters: A B E M L R U
My score: 238 points
My longest word: 10 letters
💐 🌺 🌻 🌸 🌼 🌹 💮 🌷 🏵 💐
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Meh x 2
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Bleh
“I hope that this ruling leads to a ban on mass donation and spreads like an oil slick to other countries. We must stand hand in hand around our children and protect them against this injustice,”
What am unusual metaphor to use. Maybe it’s a literal translation of a common Dutch expression?
Not familiar with that expression.
In that same time, eight new emergency shelters opened up to cater to the growing influx, according to the data, though it wasn’t immediately clear where in the city they are located.
Curious how they have these for illegal aliens and not homeless citizens.
There are shelters available for the homeless, they just don’t want to use them.
Curious that illegals can find the shelters, but reporters can’t.
But that lunatic moron Adams was sending migrants to the Canadian border though.
Progressive tactic of kicking the can down the road?
Yes. And they were called out on it. Imagine being called out by the retards running Canada. How much of a retard are you?
Adams looks to be a high functioning retard, but a seriously stupid one.
‘They’re like, ‘Oh, we respect Lia as a woman, as a trans woman, whatever, we respect her identity, we just don’t think it’s fair,’ Thomas said.
It’s not fair to actual women.
Here was Navratilova in a 2019 op-ed for London’s Sunday Times: ‘I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers,’ the tennis great wrote, ‘but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair . . . it’s insane and it’s cheating.’
Your first error is to validate the delusions of the insane.
I don’t respect its identity any more than I would respect the identity of an adult pretending to be a baby.
I am not obliged to participate in others’ fantasies or validate their mental illnesses and pressuring me to do so is a violation of my speech rights. It’s also pissing me off.
Yup. Adults can do whatever crazy shit they want as long as it is not impacting me financially and it is consensual with other adults. The line is drawn at trying to fuck kids or in demanding I cater to their mental disorder.
Regardless, you shouldn’t call people “it”.
There aren’t any good alternatives (including “it”, I suppose). “Lia” isn’t a woman, so “she” is out. “Lia” is an individual, so “they” is out. “Lia” will pitch a fit if you use “him”, so that’s out. So what’s left?
Wil can get over himself.
Shim?
I use those to level furniture and appliances.
“It” doesn’t refer to people. Grammar issues aside, this asshole is still a person.
“Asshole”?
I’m under no obligation to conform to their expectations of language. That’s how we got into this insanity in the first place.
It/He is not a woman. It/He has no place in women’s sports. It/He is a narcissistic psychopath. It/He should have been shamed out of their behavior a long time ago.
Then just use “he” then.
This. And it has the added benefit of being the only way this madness ends.
If you set up a logic trap, I am going to find my way out.
IT is A way out.
It’s not a logic trap.
Pronouns are a part of the language and a person does not get to dictate which ones are used for him.
Wil is not , has never been, and never will be a woman. He gets the appropriate pronoun.
There is no logic trap, and “it” wouldn’t be a way out.
In the past, there was an unspoken but well-understood agreement that it was polite to use the desired pronouns of someone who had transitioned, because it’s a nice thing to do.
In the past ten years or so, the demoralization campaign shifted to ‘Trans whatevers are real whatevers,’ and the whole tenor of the conversation shifted.
That’s true, but even fake trans people are still people. We don’t call the worst people “it”.
Part of me says that I have no desire to respect the feelings of people who hate me.
Another part of me realizes that most of the transtrenders aren’t really the perpetrators of the progressive demoralization campaign, but are rather the victims, so show some fucking empathy.
A third part of me is thinking about Indiana Jones.
The guy currently polling second in the Republican primaries just traveled abroad to sign a bill limiting the speech of Americans (again).
He’s pandering to some Evangelicals more than Jews because his campaign must have done the math. And it’s carefully worded to seem like it could apply to anyone, but won’t.
Yeah, the evangelical pro-Israel crowd is almost as pathologically single-minded as the abortion crowd. It’s annoying at best.
And will used against those criticizing progressivism, the religion of current year.
But of course…
That was a seriously stupid move on his part. I’m in the official Fuck DeSantis camp now and I’d imagine plenty of others are too.
Yeah, you realize he probably successfully pandered to more people than he pissed off. Pissing us here off? That’s 100% normal for any politician.
He might have padded his numbers slightly in Florida and New York and among the few evangelicals there are left with that move but doubtfully elsewhere. The going to Israel to sign it is just too over the top.
Agreed, it’s very disappointing. But that’s what happens when you start expecting things from politicians.
Worth the look just for the chart. I wonder why polls have become increasingly less predictive.
Polls’ Representative Samples Often Merit Skepticism
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In the late 90s, when I worked for a market research company, we started up an online consumer products poll based on those panels.
Q4 of 1999 was the first test run. I left the company the next year, but continued to do contract work for them. I think it was 2003 before they went live to customers with any of the data. It took that long for them to get comfortable with it. We had to weight the data as mentioned in the article, but we tried to minimize it, to get to a panel as close as possible to the demographic breakdowns we were looking at. The big problem at that time was income and age. Low income people weren’t online and neither were the very old. That got better with time.
You can do a good survey with panels if you are professional about it.
I’m currently half-assed shopping for a Volvo 850R.
Wagon?
Yes. Ive always adored them, and having owned 2 240s and a 260 (PRV engine) Im getting the bug again.
Love my 2018 S60. Love it even more cause all that money I spent to have my son become a mechanic pays off when I avoid the insane dealer maintenance costs.
My first car was a 164. I didn’t appreciate it then because all my friends had sweet Mustangs but I’d love to have one now. Built like a tank it was.
Knowing Tres, I was thinking “euphemism”.
Well, Volvos of that era are kinda thicc.
Going to do the trip to Sweden?
Noice
“The investigation has advanced to the point that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release. That process is underway and will take a little time.”
Release it in full now, or I will know you are dishonest.
Yeah, I am going to bet it will be redacted to hide the shit they don’t want us to know if not outright some fake shit.
I like the “if we release it, hundreds will die” line.
Enrique Tarrio argued that the federal government was trying to make Tarrio a “scapegoat” for Trump, whom he blamed for the attack on the Capitol.
Pence ain’t the only turncoat it seems.
Link
When you’re facing thirty years in the federal pen the main thing on your mind is saving your skin, for most anyway. He likely feels he was set up and Trump wasn’t vocal enough in his support and in condemnation of the way the Jan. 6thers we’re treated and he’s right if that’s the case.
Turncoat? Who owes Trump one lick of loyalty? How does he repay even those who are loyal?
I see no reason to cooperate with the totalitarian left/Dems/deep state. Doing so only invites more tyranny.
Let the weight of the federal apparatus lean on you for a while, we’ll see how stalwart you remain. Tell them fuck you to their faces and see what your defiance buys you.
Pence is in a perfect position to lead by example. I can only assume he is a swamp creature like most of the cuntes in the gov’t. And this Tarrio fellow has no principles.
Pence is part of the system, Tarrio isn’t.
“ The court document states that an undercover FBI agent on March 25 created a Grindr account posing as a “taboo-friendly” uncle, using tags such as “dirty, discreet, curious and parent.”
There was no kid and the initial prurient photos were sent by the agent. No kid received his photos or was shopped around so no crime and entrapment. As much as I dislike predatory pedophiles, and is it predatory if there’s no prey, this is a fake crime.
See also: Setting up suckers for terrorism charges.
Yeah, let’s skip the legal bullshit. Let some MMA-types run the sting, and administer the justice. At least then it’s all private and not the govt fucking over someone.
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CatchBeat A PredatorWell, he had a good run. Or rather a long run. Personally, I think he contributed to the decline in American culture, as did Rikki Lake and Phil Donahue. But he’s dead so I won’t talk shit about him.
I originally lol’d at the clip, but after thinking about his legacy more…well, I guess he is at the very least a cultural icon.
He was more a reflection of a debased culture than a shaper of it. Somebody’s gotta cash in on our descent into clueless debauchery.
Springer was just illuminating ghetto culture of all types in the US for titillation.
Oprah was and is far more destructive by promoting the culture of victimhood. Donahue as well.
I wonder what direction he would have taken if he hadnt gotten busted with the hooker and the bounced check.
Also, (Im not sure of the timeline) like our local Bill Cunningham (700 WLW AM), don’t Morton Downey Jr and Maury owe their careers to riding the coat-tails of Springer?
I’m pretty sure Morton came before Jerry.
He was also far more personally bombastic.
Woman at work was SHOCKED that I had never watched a single episode of his show.
My wife reminded me that she had watched it once and I made fun of her for it, so she thought about it and quit.
Sometimes I can be a good influence.
For the ladies.. (and a few others here)
Who knew he was that jacked? The spandex wasn’t telling us the whole story.
I remember reading when he got the role as Superman, they were going to put foam muscles in the suit, since he wasn’t very big.
He told them “Superman is not going to have foam muscles”.
Then he went through a brutal workout regimen and apparently it paid off.
Interesting. I follow zero basketball and couldn’t name a single current player. This is more a comment on what a measured response in the current media climate provokes.
Why the Giannis Antetokounmpo ‘Failure’ Speech Is a Viral Phenomenon
I think the WSJ reporter nails it – our culture wants dumb answers. A thoughtful and nuanced answer – that means I have to think, not feel. And fuck the thinking business. I want my rage, my lust, my immediate gratification in one way or another.
We just don’t know how to quit you.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/04/27/house-votes-down-resolution-to-withdraw-from-somalia/
So, um, we have troops in Somalia?
The list of where we don’t have troops would be shorter.
Wherever there be a hornet’s nest, there will be America’s dick.
Shocking revelations/a>
Allegations painting Fox News as an abusive workplace that excuses misogyny and anti-Semitism have been put on blast in the aftermath of star host Tucker Carlson’s abrupt firing earlier this week.
Misogyny was “blatant” on Carlson’s show and across Fox News, Abby Grossberg, a former senior booker for Tucker Carlson Tonight told NPR’s Leila Fadel on Morning Edition.
“They don’t care about telling the truth and they don’t care about women,” Grossberg said of Fox News. “All they care about are ratings and revenue.”
I didn’t mind so much when they were paying me, but now, I haz le grand outrage.
Her evidence of misogyny is all innocuous and ambiguous nonsense anyway. She’s the stereotypical overly sensitive whiner and a hyper paranoid nutbar who was recording her coworkers.
They didn’t give me what I wanted so they must be the problem…
Lots of people that think like that out there…
She never once met Tucker Carlson in person.
Sexual harassment by osmosis?
Or is she identifying as someone that was harassed by Tucker?
“And we will gleefully share these unsubstantiated accusations with our clapping seals over and over and over again.”
“all they care about are ratings and revenue.”
… Yeah. No shit.
Or maybe not, given the hit their ratings took over the Tucker Carlson debacle.
Where is Archer?
‘His Majesty’s Airship’ Review: Empire of the Sky
IT’S A PERFECT COVER!
Obligatory
That’s what happens when your singer is a commercial pilot…
Yup!
Rigid-frame airships in their era were somewhat analogous to EVs today.
The right people are enamored with them. They seem pretty technologically impressive in a lot of ways. And when all the conditions are right, they can “work”.
But…. when it ain’t all right, it can get very wrong. And though they can “work”, they didn’t REALLY get the job done in the way the dreamers hoped they would.
Now the car’s on fire, now the garage, now the house…Oh the humanity!
In those days, I thought they called Hydrogen “safety gas”.
“Mr. Gwynne, citing recent computer modeling, believes that the high winds tore the R101’s skin, and that hydrogen had corroded the control cable, which snapped under stress.”
How is hydrogen going to corrode ?
Wow, great songs. Now that’s entertainment.
Both Carlson and Wells are named as individual defendants in an ongoing lawsuit by Grossberg, who is suing them and the network for gender and religious discrimination, as well as unequal pay and failing to accommodate disabilities in federal court in New York.
Grossberg began working at the show in September 2022, moving over from Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. In her suit, Grossberg describes an environment at Fox News that “subjugates women based on vile sexist stereotypes, typecasts religious minorities and belittles their traditions, and demonstrates little to no regard for those suffering from mental illness.”
Insufferable torment. I wonder why she put up with it, instead of just leaving.
I guess I’m a little encouraged today’s headlines. It does seem that certain people are pushing certain things a bit too far, and they are getting some push back.
Legit LOL. OMG I’m going to be surrounded by people who don’t share my viewpoints. Or pretty much everyday for me in NYC.
Priced Out of Florida, More Retirees Are Trying This Sunbelt State on For Size
Good luck Alabama Glibs!
You should be greeting them progs with “That’s a purdy mouth!”…
“The higher an area’s income level, the higher its cost of living, according to a 2018 study by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Baldwin County’s lower average income makes life there more affordable, says Professor Johnson. ”
No shit.
That thar is a perfesser of thinkology!
Most people aren’t presumptuious dickheads like Mr. Fox.
If passed, the ordinance would require new permitting for places that the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission does not license but still allow customers to bring in their own alcoholic beverages.
They need a piece of the action.
Yep. FedGov (and the state) already taxed them on the purchase going in- get em’ on the way out, too.
Needs more DEI.
Two U.S. army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth.
Two of the soldiers died at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, and a third died on the way to a hospital in Fairbanks, the Army said in a statement. It said a fourth soldier was being treated at a hospital for injuries.
The names of those killed were being withheld until relatives could be notified, the Army said.
Aviation accidents never happened before c
At Carlson’s show, male colleagues regularly made comments that were demeaning to women, according to Grossberg. “There were conversations that women who had tattoos or piercings or colored hair were disgusting,” Grossberg told NPR’s Leila Fadel.
Hmmmmm.
Having a preference for non-altered females is discriminatory by definition.
They probably even preferred cis-women!
Morning half formulated brain lint: I keep wondering if the new zeitgeist will start diminishing and stigmatizing attraction for classically (or at least 20th century) beautiful women. Are we going to see silicone boobed vixens in media and entertainment replaced by some flavor of otherkin (or children)? In ten or twenty years will the purple haired wildebeest be getting all the attention?
Some of the ancient cultures prized young men/boys above women for sexual attractiveness.
I guess it’s a classic nature vs. nature question about the degree to which sexual attraction is innate or learned, but it seems likely the people who hate reality won’t be able to leave female beauty alone either.
*nurture
You’ve got obese women and sad boys playacting women walking the runways and selling makeup. The ship you’re describing has already sailed.
And some of the modern ones.
Well, that won’t be good gnus.
Depends if it is opun season or not.
You’ll want to keep an okapi for later.
I wish I kudu that.
based
OK, zoomer.
Divide and conquer.
Democrats are converting Minnesota schools into recruitment centers for a race war. Curriculum must be “antiracist,” working to redistribute “power and resources.”
This fully transforms education into indoctrination. And only @AlphaNewsMN has covered it.
For me, it’s personal.
They’re only going by the playbook. Say what you will about Saul Alinsky- he laid it out for them.
I feel like communism has been tried before. I wonder how it worked out.
The right people were never in charge in those instances.
This time…
Nono. Communism was about sharing resources equally. This is about equity.
That’s more better, right?
Nope, real communism has never been tried. The revolutions degenerated rather than being continuous – because human life really thrives under the constant turmoil of revolutions! [This is what Trotskyites actually believe.]
Seems like they were both frustrated with each other and not getting along.
Video Reveals Steven Crowder Emotionally Abusing Wife. In Statement, Hilary Crowder’s Family Says She Hid His Emotionally Abusive Behavior For Years
Michael Malice has been posting about this after having Dave Landau on his show talking for over an hour about what a POS Crowder is to work for. I’ve never taken much notice of the millennial Conservasphere so it means little and less to me.
Cumia’s reaction to that video, and his subsequent segment with Landau was hilarious.
You would think an anarchist would have more respect for privacy.
I don’t want to watch a segment of a family fight. For all I know she purposefully triggered the argument and saved the video for years to damage or extort him.
We know Crowder would never record anyone without consent.
It’s also quite possible that she was being emotionally abusive and that was driving him crazy. I know from experience with a woman doing so and pretending to be the victim. But a few minute long video is not exactly a picture of a personal relationship.
Occam’s razor tells me that Crowder has control issues that extend beyond his professional life, and the evidence has been coming to light. That said, it’s not for me to decide what happens to him, and I think sharing private video is irresponsible.
I’m just gonna raise my hand and say – and maybe I’m the only one, since that happens a lot – that until this thing started popping up in Glib links the other day, I’d never even heard of “Steven Crowder”, and still haven’t the slightest idea who he is. If y’all tell me I should really get up to speed on this, then I will. But dang, this is just one of those thing that’s never entered my universe.
Conservative blogger guy. Never bothered listening to him often.
He did do a lot “change my mind” interviews on college campuses that became the source of endless memes.
https://cdn-akbcd.nitrocdn.com/uAzHNABcNZTqTDDLuOdKkQlOQcZsAuFo/assets/static/optimized/rev-d7561ce/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/https-geeksoncoffee-com-wp-content-uploads-2019-1-6.jpeg
The simple version is he sucks and it is bizarre that anyone would want to defend him.
::also raises hand:: I may have heard the name, but never cared enough to inquire further. Not into chasing all the hottest (in the sense of “most popular for the last week”) podcasters. In fact, not much of a podcast consumer.
It’s an e-celeb thing.
Some people follow sports, some people follow tubers.
Same here. I vaguely recall him from PJ Media years ago. Never watched a single second of his videos.
He’s the “change my mind” guy.
Seems like good advice to me.
DEMOCRACY! as performance art
<em<Silenced by her Republican colleagues, Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr looked up from the House floor to supporters in the gallery shouting “Let her speak!” and thrust her microphone into the air — amplifying the sentiment the Democratic transgender lawmaker was forbidden from expressing.
It was a brief moment of defiance and chaos. While seven people were arrested for trespassing, the boisterous demonstration was free of violence or damage. Yet later that day, a group of Republican lawmakers described it in darker tones, saying Zephyr’s actions were responsible for “encouraging an insurrection.”
It’s the third time in the last five weeks — and one of at least four times this year — that Republicans have attempted to compare disruptive but nonviolent protests at state capitols to insurrections.
That’s our word. You’re not allowed to use it.
responsible for “encouraging an insurrection.”
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, said insurrection is understood as a coordinated attempt to overthrow government.
“Disrupting things is a far cry from insurrection,” Gerhardt said. “It’s just a protest, and protesters are not insurrectionists.”
Nevertheless, conservative social media commentators and bloggers have used the word insurrection alongside videos of protesters at state capitols in attempts to equate those demonstrations to the Jan. 6 attack, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to halt certification of the presidential vote and keep Trump in office. Some of the rioters sought out then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and shouted “Hang Mike Pence” as they roamed the Capitol.
January 6 was chaotic, and might have been a riot, but it was not an insurrection.
conservative social media commentators and bloggers have used the word insurrection alongside videos of protesters at state capitols in attempts to equate
“How dare you hold us to our standards!”
in an attempt to halt certification
To investigate the election…
Some of the rioters sought out then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and shouted “Hang Mike Pence” as they roamed the Capitol.
Dems/leftists would never use such rhetoric…
“Some trans activists shoot up religious schools.”
Two can play that game.
I’ve always imagined that if I were POTUS, my use of the “suppressing insurrections” thing would be because a local government somewhere decided to openly ignore the 2nd Amendment. It’s basically saying “we’re setting up a government here in our area which is outside of and independent of the US Constitution”.
Say somebody from PA was driving with a firearm in his car, and went into (example – not sure of laws) NJ and got arrested for it, in Camden, say. If they didn’t immediately release him, I’d be like “Look, you have captured one of my citizens who’s doing something clearly legal in the United States, and are holding him prisoner under color of law. So you are clearly setting yourself up as an putative armed (your officers) state that is explicitly overthrowing the Constitution. So here’s the deal – let him go right now, or else I’m activating and Federalizing a whole bunch of the (mid-state) PANG and ordering them to capture every public official of the insurrection styling itself as ‘Camden County’.”
Presumes that the government’s interest is maintaining the freedom of peaceable people, which is how it is supposed to be but it isn’t.
Incidentally, I’d like to sign up for your newsletter.
In that scenario the PA guy, if he didn’t have a NJ carry permit, would be looking at 7 years.
Well in my scenario he’d probably be looking at some mechanized infantry with air support knocking on his captors’ doors in something like 72 hours after the announcement.
You could start with all the state legislatures that immediately went to work on new laws that directly contradict the recent Supreme Court decisions on gun rights.
I’m not saying it’s aliens…
Astronomers have doubled the known number of repeating rapid bursts of powerful radiation emanating from distant galaxies outside the Milky Way.
These blasts, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are so powerful they can outshine the entire galaxy from which they emerge. But despite this incredible power, the origins of FRBs are mysterious.
In a new study, a team led by astronomers from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)/FRB Collaboration and the University of Toronto found 25 new repeating FRBs, bringing the total known to 50. This could lead scientists to the discovery of what causes these bursts and also suggests that many more FRBs could eventually repeat than previously thought, team members said.
You know who else had ‘powerful bursts’?
Peter North?
Cyclops?
An old dog fed canned food?
The rhetoric lines up with the refusal among many Republicans to acknowledge that the Jan. 6 attack was an assault on American democracy and the peaceful transfer of power.
If American democracy is broken, who broke it?
If that was a credible threat (it wasn’t) our democracy (not a democracy) is doomed anyway (it is but not because of what they’re claiming).
There is no transfer of power. One temporary occupant of the White House makes way for another. The job of the occupant is to administer the government, to see to the faithful execution of laws, etc. The power to DECIDE what the government does resides in Congress.
Good morning, Sloopy and the Gang!
Fucking squirrels are at it early today.
I had all kinds of thoughts about the shit show unfolding in front of us, but this too local story takes the cake.
This happened just up the road. I want these little fuckers put down. Is that wrong?
Execute the trio and their parents, too. On TV and in public.
They are irredeemable, depraved, and dangerous so putting them down is really the only option.
Do you want Repairman Jack? Because this is how you get Repairman Jack…
Happy birthday to me! I’ve made it 3 years longer than Alexander the Great or ‘Christ.’
It’s important for documentation, but Sept. 22, the date of The Incident, is my real birthday. More of a conception and reawakening moment.
I don’t get birthdays. I didn’t do anything. Why doesn’t the mom get the celebration? She…uh…literally did all the conscious work.
I gotta make a phone call and get some simple quotes. That will finish my newspaper and I’m done for the day.
I can save you a phone call for a quote:
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
-Samuel Johnson
Happy birthday, Evan!
Happy birthday, Evan!
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIRrmNN_CQ
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
HBD 🙂
Look you can’t just change units of measurement willy nilly. An “Evan” should remain constant. I implore you not to grow older (it kinda sucks).
/happy birthday, kid.
Alexander the Great faked his death. He’s alive and well, living in Skokie, Illinois and working at a 7-Eleven.
let power be unconstrained
The Department of Justice is suing Tennessee for allegedly discriminating against transgender youth with a new state law banning the use of puberty blockers, hormones, and other medical procedures that affirm a child’s gender identity.
The DOJ asked the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee on Wednesday to declare that the law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and to prohibit state authorities from implementing the statute.
Tennessee’s law is set to take effect July 1.
“No person should be denied access to necessary medical care just because of their transgender status,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
The Constitution means whatever the President says it means.
Also- “necessary medical care” seems to be more of a political concept than a verifiable medical necessity, these days.
Listen asshole, if you want to not mutilate kids go to Russia.
“necessary to the advancement of our agenda”
Also, “People who don’t get what they want might get upset and kill themselves” = “life-threatening” these days.
Wait until they mutilate themselves and then realize that their bodily form wasn’t truly the root of their problems and There’s No Going Back! That’s when the suiciding will really pick up.
“The popular thing” is never “the popular thing” forever. It might take a while, but it will go out of fashion eventually and then you’re left with the people you described.
That’s when the suiciding will really pick up.
Perhaps some murder-suicides to encompass the enablers.
necessary medical care
It’s necessary to sterilize and generally fuck up the children. We have a depopulation agenda to adhere to.
Right…
Does anyone buy this garbage.
‘Trump broke the border. We’re just trying to fix it.’
Gaslighting cunte.
Le BISMARCK Has Arrived.
DOJ attorneys said in a court filing that the law clearly targets transgender minors by banning medical procedures to treat gender dysphoria, while allowing the same treatments for conditions such as congenital defects, physical injury and delayed or early puberty in children who identify with their biological sex.
Under Tennessee’s law, a doctor could prescribe testosterone to treat delayed puberty in boys who identify with their biological sex but would prohibit the same treatment to affirm the gender identity of transgender boys, the government’s lawyers said.
And…?
Justice Garland would’ve been worse than Justice Bork.
but would prohibit the same treatment to affirm the gender identity of transgender boys
It couldn’t be because trans boys are not boys and extra T would fuck up their hormonal balance could it?
“Say goodbye to awkward first dates! RizzGPT smart glasses listen to your conversations and tell you what to say in real-time
Dubbed ‘RizzGPT’ – where ‘rizz’ refers to one’s ability to seduce a romantic interest, similar to charisma – the specs display responses as text in front of your eyes.
A microphone picks up on what a speaker has said, and the glasses use ChatGPT – the chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) – to generate potential replies.
They use augmented reality (AR) technology to allow the user to see the text and the person in front of them simultaneously.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12025093/RizzGPT-smart-glasses-listen-conversations-tell-say-real-time.html
That doesn’t sound smart.
You too can spout stilted talking points!
What’s your sign?
Did it hurt when you fell from heaven” – because you’re an angel.
Are you a member of the Thieves Guild, because you stole my heart.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Here’s your citation for fishing over the limit.
-DNR
Fucking markets- how do they work?
When Jenny Nguyen signed the lease to create her dream bar, she wasn’t sure it would stay open for more than a few months.
But earlier this month, 43-year-old Nguyen’s first-of-its-kind establishment in Portland, Oregon, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Aptly named The Sports Bra, it’s a sports bar where only women athletes appear on the TVs.
Business has been good, despite the niche business model and record inflation sending food and beverage prices soaring. The Sports Bra brought in $944,000 in revenue in the eight months it was open in 2022, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.
It was profitable in that first year of business, Nguyen adds.
“It turns out, it’s pretty universal — that feeling of being a women’s sports fan and going into a public place, like a sports bar, and having a difficult time finding a place to show a [women’s] game, especially when there are other men’s sports playing,” Nguyen says.
I wonder if she refuses to admit men. I’d go watch women’s rugby, or World Cup ski racing.
If you have a Y chromosome I don’t think you would be welcome. Probably can’t legally keep you out but you’d get bad service and spit in your food.
Sub one million in gross revenue doesn’t typically cover costs for a bar/restaurant. Especially in leased space. What expenses isn’t she counting in asserting profitability?
Not mentioned: Half of TVs are set on Beach Volleyball, Gymnastics, and the Lingerie Football League.
Unemployed Guy’s Basement Selfie Video Crushes Fox News In Primetime Ratings
love it
Bonus points to Carlson if he actually does this.
For years, she joked about it. Then, the fallout from social justice movements like #MeToo and the country’s racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder left her wanting to make a meaningful impact on the world and her community.
One wouldn’t just do it for the money. That would be crass and shameful.
Amended for accuracy
Kamala breaks out the word salad.
“Embrace this moment in time in which we currently reside right now…”
Ugh, Someone needs to dust off their Strunk and White
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X
Some woodworkers are better than others.
Damn.
Bud Light wants you to forget about these hilarious commercials from 1994…
It was a better time.
That is freakin’ hilarious. I had forgotten about that too.
Sorry for quoting Karl Marx, but he was absolutely right when he said, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
The one (minor) downside of not having a TV is that I miss out on some pop culture references. Like, I know that “dilly dilly” is a thing but I’ve never seen the commercial.
Ironically, I would think pool would be one of the few sports where men and women could compete on a more or less even playing field. Admittedly, men’s spatial reasoning and reckoning is on average better, but I seriously doubt its as much as the advantage in muscle and stamina.
Something gun guys know that non-gun guys usually don’t is that women are very, very often better natural shooters than men.
Could speculate on reasons, but it’s true.
A friend of mine is an instructor. He almost exclusively teaches the women’s classes now. He said not a single student ever thinks she knows more than him!
https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-in-car-software-vs-google-and-apple/
This is a dumb idea to waste time and money.
General Motors is joining the Eclipse Foundation open-source software alliance as it aims to create cars that are as sophisticated as smartphones.
What could possibly go wrong?
“Law enforcement officials are searching for a twisted Texas baby-sitter accused of raping a 13-year-old boy as her own son slept nearby — ordering the victim to endure the horrific abuse “like a man” and threatening to hack off his penis.
The sick attack took place in July 2021, though Charlene Kornegay, 41, was only charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child this week….
The young teen recounted that he was in the Houston woman’s care on July 11, 2021, when she ordered him to put on a bra, dress and high heels after he got out of the shower in her condominium…
At the time of the depraved incident, the sitter was serving a deferred sentence for possession of methamphetamine.
Her rap sheet also includes theft and insurance fraud charges.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/texas-babysitter-accused-of-raping-13-year-old-boy/
Who the Hell thought she should be a babysitter? Mommy Hitler?
Is there no lunchtime article?
Try to be stoic about it.
I will note the lack of a Stoic article in my manifesto.
The Dashboard is showing a Stoic post listed as Pending.
I guess we can Philosophize about what it means to have pending stoicism.
Q can contribute to pendulant stoicism.
I been in six hours of meetings already this morning. I need my stoic fix. I shall just close my eyes and listen to the endless meeting drivel….
Just think about the guy killing the zombie with a snowmobile. That was genius.
Where did the zombie get a snowmobile?
I assume that means I should post the sequel soon. I held off until the first one was available, as I feel it is superior.
Goose stepping, undead Nazis replete with all equipment. In the second movie they have a tank and start firing on the town.
I checked the calendar, looks like we jump to links at 3:00. Hopefully all is well. I have had no time to make additional content.
Six more years! Six more years!
The certainty Americans feel in having enough money for a comfortable retirement has taken the biggest dive in 15 years, according to a new survey.
Just 64% of workers are very or somewhat confident they’ll have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, down markedly from 73% in 2022, according to a survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Greenwald Research. Less than three-quarters (73%) of retirees were confident, down from 77% last year. The survey polled 1,320 workers and 1,217 retirees online in January.
Soaring debt and inflation are hurting respondents’ ability to save and even forcing some to reconsider their investment decisions, as many worry about a potential recession.
“The most significant finding is the drop in retirement confidence that hasn’t happened since 2007 to 2008 and 2008 to 2009 when the economy was in a recession,” Craig Copeland, director of Wealth Benefits Research at EBRI, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research institute based in Washington, D.C., and chief researcher for the group’s 33nd annual Retirement Confidence Survey, told Yahoo Finance.
“Americans are having the same reaction as what they did during a recession,” he added. “The current economy is not the best, but it is certainly not in a recession. This shows that the perception of rising costs and lower retirement balances without the corresponding contraction in the economy and higher unemployment seems to be similar to actually having a contraction in the economy and higher unemployment.”
It’s all in your head. The economy is doing great.
I think I’ve only placed one ammo order in 2023.
A semi-trailer full? Or a Cargo ship?
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