Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another whimsical day and the links!
Garland Testifies He Can’t ‘Recollect’ Contact With FBI HQ About Hunter Biden Probe
Signatories of Hunter Biden laptop letter get plum jobs after pumping disinformation into election
Biden unveils massive govt work program to fight global warming
Staten Island Residents Are Sick of the Immigration Chaos, Block Buses Full of Illegal Aliens
New Report Nearly Triples Estimated Amount Covid Fraudsters Stole In Unemployment Benefits
Seattle pulls the plug on initiative to end homelessness two years after it began
Ford Has Lost an Astonishing Amount of Money on Electric Vehicles
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Fed declines to hike, but points to rates staying higher for longer”
Inflation numbers to “unexpectantly” go up in the coming quarter!
When will oil get kicked out of inflation calc?
It isn’t already?
Core inflation removes food and energy, but CPI includes both.
I’m an asshat though, could be wrong.
They already took out energy, I thought?
“Garland Testifies He Can’t ‘Recollect’ Contact With FBI HQ About Hunter Biden Probe”
So he suffers from the Hillary Clinton mental disease that makes people not remember criminal activities when convenient?
“Signatories of Hunter Biden laptop letter get plum jobs after pumping disinformation into election”
They need these criminals more involved with “fortifying” the 2024 election to make sure the proles don’t get their way and elect someone that will fight the corruptocracy and the rich & powerful criminal class it serves.
Clapper and Brennan are two of the biggest liars on the face of the planet but when it comes to the feds vice is virtue and virtue is vice. At least they lie so often and unconvincingly that all one has to do in order to determine the truth is assume the opposite of what they say.
“Biden unveils massive govt work program to fight global warming”
So another massive grift where these crooks steal billions from hard working tax payers for themselves?
Biden unveils massive govt work program to fight global warming
Global warming’s weakness is getting punched.
managing forests to improve health and prevent catastrophic wildfires – should this not be done regardless?
Only when it can be used to signal virtue, and the wildfires aren’t of use in pushing the climate grift.
Yeah. Something tells me this new group will not be managing forests, more likely they will be managing internet censorship.
Well, it depends on what you mean by “managing forests”. If you mean allowing responsible logging and clearing underbrush, then no as that would make Gaia cry. If you mean sending a bunch of untrained idiots out into the woods to commune with nature and plant trees in locations where they will die, choke out other trees, or become a fire hazard themselves; then of course!
“If you mean sending a bunch of untrained idiots out into the woods to commune with nature”
This made me think of Timothy Treadwell
I remember that moron – he said something to the effect of “bears are just big party animals” shortly before joining the party.
Throw money at everyone’s hobby horse. Win win win.
“Ford Has Lost an Astonishing Amount of Money on Electric Vehicles”
Even tesla would lose money were it not for the government subsidies. As an engineer I am not going to buy electric in my lifetime.
As an engineer – I’m gonna have to see some credentials.
Papers, Please.
College was 35 years ago, but I have a masters in EE and a bachelors in AE & EE.
You can’t spell “geek” without “ee”.
You can’t spell REEEEEEEE!!!!! without “ee” either.
Touch-EE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkChK1gfdJY
I have a bachelors in EA and BB and a masters in Vuvu and Krick-Krick arm pit farts.
I’m not a serious muppet.
You are DA MUPPET, homey..
“You won’t ever see me cry/A tear don’t fall from a glued-on eye.”
“Garland Testifies He Can’t ‘Recollect’ Contact With FBI HQ About Hunter Biden Probe”
Interesting wording that reveals the answer. Can we fire this fuck for lacking candor?
Only the president can do that, unless the president is a Republican, then all civil servants are protected from firing.
Steve Martin had it covered.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zXmQW_aqBks
Staten Island Residents Are Sick of the Immigration Chaos, Block Buses Full of Illegal Aliens – sent the migrants by boat then
Really? Screw them. There is a whole pirate city of illegal aliens growing in the middle of Texas. Roads are being built, shanty towns assembled. It will lead to untold problems. Staten Island doesn’t know shit.
RJ – Staten Island is the last remnant of of Red in NYC.
They’ve not willingly gone along with either NYC or Albany on many things. However, similar to my home state of NJ they are simply fleeing and the Blue is creeping in.
I’m still pissed about Texas.
*Tightens onion, goes back to cave.
They will however vote for the same people that are doing this to them come the next election. Things have not gotten bad enough yet to force these idiots to confront the problem is them and their idiot marxist beliefs. Just like the Carter years finally forced America to recoil from progressivism’s evil in despair and disdain, such an awakening is due sooner than later again after the progressives have done their best to cripple the nation.
Staten Island is more red than blue, unlike the other deep blue boroughs of NYC. So they didn’t really vote for this, but the rest of the city more than cancels out Staten Island’s votes.
Yeah, do a search for Staten Island, with all that red may as well be Oklahoma.
Whoops, link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html
That’s a cool map. My PC hates it. Will have to view on something else.
The tomato in the blueberry soup, to flip around the phrase about Austin, TX
Yes – for a long time it was a relatively safe and affordable place near NYC for normal people to live.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12515107/Woman-hotel-room-New-York-view-PHOTO.html
That’s hilarious.
It’s a good thing we don’t need those useless facilities anymore.
“New Report Nearly Triples Estimated Amount Covid Fraudsters Stole In Unemployment Benefits”
My bet was this was by design…
Seattle pulls the plug on initiative to end homelessness two years after it began
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/homelessness/seattle-initiative-to-end-homelessness-fails
Men, women, and children forced to sleep on the streets because of rising house prices, addiction, or mental health problems were told two years ago a plan was in place to save them from their nightmarish conditions. – we are from the government and are here to help… Also do all this people want to be saved from e.g. addiction? Or just some cash.
O Government, help me to get clean, but not yet.
You cannot save people – people have to save themselves. It was all money down a toilet. The root cause of most homelessness is drugs, which leads to crime.
Interventions would help. Putting them in a nice place only enables more bad behavior.
I’d imagine the directors of Partnership for Zero and the various nonprofits involved did just fine though and that’s all that really matters isn’t it?
I deal with a lot of homeless people on an almost daily basis. I think there really is some chance of helping a small percentage of them when they first become homeless but they have to actually want the help. But after a certain point it’s pretty useless.
Absolutely. You can reach some of them when they first go to a shelter, and there really are some people who did fall on bad circumstances. But the drug problem is insurmountable after they live on the street for a while. Then you are lucky to catch them on the way to the E.R., maybe save a person or two.
Those people have probably already had interventions and turned away from the help. I have a nephew who is down that road right now. You can only lie, cheat and steal from so many family and friends for so long that they’ve had enough and demand you either get help or get out. I feel really bad for my sister, but he has to help himself and he’s made it clear that he’s not willing to change, yet.
Totally misleading headline. It’s getting pulled not due to failure but because their money ran out.
Translation: they want to be a gatekeeper to the homeless industrial complex and funnel money to other orgs
“There is no work.”
I think I figured out how Biden is going to kill private car ownership. Kill the producers of cars.
My son’s car is probably totalled from a flood. Inventories of affordable new cars seem to be really low.
Yep, affordable inventories are low and good luck talking the dealer down while all of the what would be now super affordables were crushed in the Cash for Clunkers scam years ago.
Yes. It all fits together now.
*Tinfoil hat expands like a Jiffy Pop cover
There is a 1990 Excalibur limousine going for under $20,000.
https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1990-excalibur-other-saint-peters-mo-404246
Perfect choice for a young libertarian. Just add monocle.
That also pairs well with a pimp cane.
Kill the producers of cars. – HEI! Some people here have bonuses depending on car sales!
The Uneasy Truth About Traveling While Fat
Fatphobia, tiny plane seats, and size limits can deter large travelers, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/plus-size-travel
You don’t have to be that fat?
The Author
Jabba da Hut?
I was expecting this.
Fat liberation should be the name of an exercise program.
Why does anyone treat people who use the term “fatphobia” with any degree of seriousness at all?
I don’t take anyone using a -phobia suffix as anything other than an issue like Acrophobia or Agoraphobia as being the crazy ones.
I’m not irrationally afraid of these people.
Uh…
Shut up, bigot!
Did I do that right? Just trying to be a good citizen. Can I have my social credit now?
Seriously, it’s not “phobia”, I don’t think most folks are really afraid of fat people.
I am afraid of Lizzo..
I have nightmares where I am trapped somewhere with her and she makes me do her right before she eats me (and not in the fun way).
Look. I’m fat. I don’t fly in planes. They aren’t made for me. I accept that. I also accept that being fat is not fun and I can either suck it up and regret shit I can’t do, or suck it up and lose the weight. That said, menopause has made this a difficult, if not impossible, task.
I don’t want to be ridiculed, but that also comes with the territory. I lost the weight twice and people looked at me differently, and it was uncomfortable. Now I’m just invisible because half of everybody else is fat, too, AND I’m old(er). Invisibility is the ideal.
It’s not fatphobia if I don’t want you spilling into my seat. Buy 2 and cut back on the carbs.
Anyone know MI laws?
If the automakers “temporarily lay off” workers, does that mean they get unemployment and therefore don’t need to tap the UAW strike fund?
Correct. But part of the UAW contract appears to be the automaker’s paid supplemental benefits to laid off workers. Because of the strike that condition doesn’t apply in this case.
Flood-Insurance Program Faces a Backlash—and a Deadline
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/flood-insurance-program-faces-a-backlashand-a-deadline-79c7de0e?st=3t7j3pshzbtb9n1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Please, subsidize some more seven figure vacation homes!
Lots of people commenting on this as some sort of expression of a woke cancel culture. But it’s much worse than that.
The UK is currently run by a “Conservative” government. In other words, you cannot vote your way out of this Orwellian nightmare.
https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1704785125869789657
Ding, ding, ding!
Nobody is coming to save you (us).
as I said below….
“We’re from the government! We’re here to help!”
Not even UKIP?
UKIP is so unfashionable these days.
GOP Lawmakers Warn White House on Ukraine Aid as Zelensky Visits Washington
Group opposes Biden’s $24 billion request, calls U.S. strategy unclear
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/gop-lawmakers-warn-white-house-on-ukraine-aid-as-zelensky-visits-washington-28f7924?st=7964s6ubvnsllgm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The dissenters will settle for $10bn and feel like they got a huge win!
$14bn SAVED!
La Mejor Cola del Valle 2020 Part 2 (FINALS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nvzd_VS3EM
thicc?
When you have the cash equivalent to the GDP of many countries you can overcome these things. Still not a good look, however.
Apple had planned to have its modem chip ready to use in the new iPhone models. But tests late last year found the chip was too slow and prone to overheating. Its circuit board was so big it would take up half an iPhone, making it unusable.
Investors had counted on Apple saving money with an in-house chip to help compensate for weak demand in the larger smartphone market. Apple—which hasn’t publicly acknowledged its modem project, much less its shortcomings—is estimated to have paid more than $7.2 billion to Qualcomm last year for the chips.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-modem-chip-failure-6fe33d19?st=1rhmnmp29i15t4h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Someone made the wrong specs…
“Oh, you meant millimeters? We thought you meant inches.”
People and places Justin Trudeau has managed to attack and piss off:
-Unvaccinated
-Truckers
-Farmers
-Parents
=Online content creators and alternative media
-Alberta and Saskatchewan
-Italy
-India
And what difference does that make? If there were elections tomorrow he would still win.
That’s a head scratcher. Trudeau has royally pissed of a major chunk of what should be his base.
In the US, there is zero chance Biden could get more than 30 million votes today. Zero.
Yet, should he stand for election, he will likely be counted as having 90 million votes.
How does that happen?
Why doesn’t anyone ask how that happens?
Today the India debacle has reached places I didn’t think it was going to go.
How is the relationship within Canada itself between the Indian and Sikh communities? I went to an Indian wedding in Vancouver with both present and no issues.
did they have their knives?
It’s actually pretty good from what I hear. Indians had become a symbol of a great success story in Canada. Now the community has been put into a tight spot because of this idiot. Imagine going up in Parliament accusing a fellow Commonwealth democracy of extrajudicial murder without EVIDENCE. He’s yet to produce it. So, either he has the goods or he’s a supremely dangerous buffoon doing it for domestic political reasons. The U.S. has been tepid in its response while the UK and Australia don’t appear to be buying it. They must all think Canada is a trouble-making country under this jerk-off.
Oh. I forgot. He picked a fight with the grocery industry too for ‘price gouging’. As commies like to do.
Justin probably did this because of his sagging poll numbers. Which are pretty terrible at the moment. It’s hard to tell if he’d get re-elected at this point but he’s not popular at all except for his rabid retard base. The urban centres remain a decent source of support – especially in Edmonton and Toronto.
But… but… Castreau darkened his face and put on a turban! Whycome Indians no luv him?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-killed-hardeep-singh-nijjar-india-canada-china-trudeua-modi-b793c3e0?st=ld46ybqtuq8zoyv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Seems to lay out the issues well.
Killing foreign nationals on their home soil just isn’t cricket. You’d think a colony would know that.
Having said that, I totally support a Sikh homeland in the same manner I support an independent Catalonia, Cascadia, Republic of Texas, etc.
Yeah. The India/Canada kerfuffle is bizarre as hell to me.
What’s really shocking me is how he’s still walking around making an ass of himself and not cowering in a bunker.
He did leave for NYC during the parents protests across the country.
He’s a coward of the highest order. A true commie.
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Tim Wise
@timjacobwise
I see Thomas Sowell is trending. Which means a bunch of white dudes just discovered a Black person they’re willing to listen to, while dismissing the vast majority of the rest.
https://twitter.com/timjacobwise/status/1704640032500568462
“I’m not racist for dismissing his views out of hand due to the color of his skin, because I’m one of the good guys”
The color of one’s skin is clearly more important than the content of one’s ideas.
I am sure he wrote that without a hint of self-awareness. Jeebus.
I will enter a new comment about such people. Read below.
Judging by what is popping up on Twitter, there were reasonably large protests in Canada and Europe yesterday about pushing these gender ideology things on kids in school.
I saw pictures from a couple of cities in Canada and ….. Brussels??
So – the “it really isn’t happening, you are just a conspiracy theorist Nazi” thing is not just happening in the US, it is happening across the west.
Late last night I posted about my personal experience with the push this week. The Broward County public library pushed a recommendation for “Gender Queer” to my 12 year old daughter on her library app – the main book they displayed to her when she logged in. Don’t tell me this isn’t a coordinated, planned and detailed effort. The press telling me it isn’t happening and “parents shouldn’t be dictating book choices for others” is just the icing on the cake.
They really are just shoving everyone who isn’t on the team into the crazy opposition camp. I’m naturally on their side. I was rallying for gay rights when Happy Days and Mash were the hit shows. But then they tried to convince my 12 year old that she should read a book about how great it is to try out a strapon with your girlfriend and how having a gender is really a hard choice and you might choose to not even have one.
I’m trying to figure out my response to this. We have to fight back. Nobody needs to have that crap shoved at them when they are dealing with being a prepubescent girl in middle school.
Coincidentally, the wife and I have been watching “Shameless”. How it escaped me until now, I don’t know. It is utterly fantastic. The most bonkers, offensive thing you’ve ever seen… and the most real at the same time.
Last night we watched a couple of episodes with a Trans elementary school girl (actually boy) and with mean girls teasing the middle school daughter over body issues at the pool. It was wonderful and heartbreaking. The kid’s performance was raw, and I felt it right back to my own teen years.
In it, they indulge the trans girl and her girl penis issues until the older sister – the mom figure in the show – finally yells at her “You are not a girl. You are a boy. Your psycho mom just convinced you that you are a girl because she’s evil and crazy.” and then walks off. (or words to that effect)
That isn’t that long ago – and it was pretty prescient. Couldn’t make that today. Amazing how much things have changed in such a short time.
The first couple of seasons were really good. Just wait until you get to the Gay Jesus storyline…
That’s when I checked out.
Cyto, what state do you reside in? Thought you were a Florida glib.
Yeah, Broward County Florida. Home to Ft. Lauderdale. Lauderdale by the sea. Lauderdale lakes.
I’m in Pompano.
Because I took Steve Martin’s “Individualist’s Oath”
Rishi Sunak
@RishiSunak
We will never impose unnecessary and heavy-handed measures on you, the British people.
We will still meet our international commitments and hit Net Zero by 2050.
https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1704522548648509467
Sam Bowman
@s8mb
The Climate Change Committee report that claims that Net Zero measures will *make* money is based on post-Keynesian model? Bit like getting the Ludwig von Mises Institute to model the effects of inflation targeting. Not exactly mainstream econ!
https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1704542775281086712
And yet…. if you voice opposition to our plans, we reserve the right to eliminate your ability to earn a living, have a bank account, etc.
We’re from the government. We’re here to help!
But it’s for their own good. Would you let your own toddler burn his hand on the stove if you could slap it away?
damn, that is a great line.
Yes, I will let my toddler burn his hand, because he will FUCKING learn a valuable lesson. He will learn that doing something stupid hurts. Which is something the completely coddled have never done.
Yup, I remember my dad explaining this to my mom when I was a kid and my youngest brother kept trying to reach up to the stove and touch the fire. Our feminized society thinks that preventing people from learning from stupid mistakes is bad, and now we have a bunch of idiots because of that. I am not saying you should let your kid drown or end up scarred by burns to do so, but some smaller lessons of doing stupid hurts will prevent worse things in the future…
Yep. Youngest when he was knee high didn’t listen to my warnings to not touch the top of the bbq grill. He did and hasn’t since. Momentary pain is a lifelong lesson learned
When I was a kid (60s/70s) whenever we got hurt doing something stupid, our parent’s response was always “Well, I bet you won’t do that again.”
“Thats a bet you are gonna lose.” — me, probably
I don’t think I had to do that.
What I DID do, though, when my daughter bit my son, was to bite her. She never did that again.
I knew we were secret soulmates. My wife did the same thing.
“Trust us.”
Nope, get fucked you wanker.
Sizewell C’s nuclear power station planning application had a 44,260 page environmental impact assessment.
Yet, the project will now be judicially reviewed on the grounds that they failed to consider the environmental impacts. Net Zero is impossible if we don’t fix this.
https://twitter.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1704087169923437043
Greens are actually just ‘nothing new ever’ and ‘convert existing development to fallow’ people. In their ideal world humanity just disappears.
Except the little cowardly fuckers won’t lead the way on that disappearance. No, not procreating isn’t enough – you really want a world with fewer people, off your own ass.
‘What about the poorest in society who don’t drive so don’t need to change their car?’ asks Jayne Secker on the petrol car ban delay.
@KemiBadenoch
says it’s a “ludicrous statement”, adding “the poorest in society drive because they live in rural areas.”
The “poor people don’t drive” narrative is such a London bubble thing.
The pink areas on this map are where people use public transport more than driving.
https://twitter.com/NeilDotObrien/status/1704803570808201615
I believe the approved response is “Shut up and pay to subsidize my pet project, prole!”
Stupid redneck bumpkin hicks don’t count as people.
This is true in the minds of so many Elite jerks.
So Israel is going to provide nuclear material to Saudi Arabia.
It’s interesting times.
Saudi Uranium Enrichment Floated Under Possible Israel Deal
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-considers-saudi-arabias-nuclear-program-under-potential-normalization-deal-617ae9bd?st=ehnsteyd5avk6rf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m sure there’ll be no blowback from that decision whatsoever.
This might be the greatest classic blunder since going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
If the “not Donald Trump” wing of the western governments would get out of the way, we might actually achieve world peace.
Or at least whirled peas.
The news is never good but the music is great.
You’re a fine girl, Banjos
“What a gooood wiiife you would be” –Sloopy
I had a wonderful discussion with my 13 year old daughter last night. Some of the gender/pronoun stuff came up and she asked about it.
She’s the tomboy who was teased in 5th grade …. “Hey, you’re a lesbian!!” and quickly answered “That’s right. That’s all I do all day. I just kiss girls all day”. She don’t take no shit. She is based on steroids.
So I told her “You aren’t going to know this for another 10 or 15 years, but I’m pretty sure you are going to turn out to be a hard-core libertarian.”
I proceeded to explain the ethical libertarian ethos and the Non Aggression Principle. She totally got it, and clearly understands it at a base, intuitive level, just like most of us weirdos do.
So I connected the gender identity dots for her. “The right to swing your fist ends at my nose” means that we believe that people can live as they choose – even if we don’t personally approve. “none of my business”…. unless you are my child, other family, or a close friend… really not any of my business. So wear a dress. Don’t wear a dress. Call yourself “nonbinary”. Don’t care. Not my business.
BUT….
That same courtesy extends both ways. Nobody else has power over me. You can call yourself “Steve” and say you are They/Them, and out of politeness I will try to treat that with a degree of respect. But you don’t have the right to *make* me say anything. And if the government comes with a gun to make me call you “They”, I’ll tell them to take that gun and shove it up their …..
She got it.
She totally loved the non-initiation of force stuff, particularly the whole idea of not initiating aggression – but answering aggression that comes your way with overwhelming force.
So if you guys hang on for a few years, we’ll have some more female company in the weirdo camp.
It was a pretty great conversation.
I guess the shortcut would be do you believe in freedom of religion?
Make Grooming Libertarian Again
[school administrator takes notes, makes call to CPS]
exactly.
I’m already on their radar.
Gonna be way, way more on their radar when my cabal comes for the public library admin.
“So I told her “You aren’t going to know this for another 10 or 15 years, but I’m pretty sure you are going to turn out to be a hard-core libertarian.”
The first time I read it as ‘hard-core Librarian’, which kind of made sense. 😛
Good job teaching your kids the correct moral philosophy. Keep it up.
THE TOMBOYS WILL SAVE US!!!!111!!11elebenty.
I’m on board with this.
Right on cyto, good on you. I’ve also had to have some conversations around gender with my three boys, 8-12, because of our current shitty culture. I haven’t given my kids any overt libertarian ideology, but plenty of libertarian adjacent ideas and a general ethos of morality and leaving other people be. The Vid hysteria gave me lots of opportunities to show them how initiation of force sucks. They learned how arbitrary and capricious the government and power structures can be and how a society can be induced to panic over a manageable threat. I do have hope that this generation will be a big counter weight to the f’d up millennial one.
Study of road noise in Sweden: each decibel is worth a 0.6% discount in property prices.
A thirty percent (!) reduction in property prices for being on a loud road versus being on a quiet street.
https://twitter.com/bswud/status/1704084450672353765
Central Bucharest where I live is noise and I don’t like it. Though I am on a side street not a boulevard. Less traffic but traffic nonetheless at rush hour, because traffic being bad people try to waze their way on the side streets and avoid jams. But no tram no buses and overall slower moving and fewer cars. There are some boulevards where I would really hate living on
There’s a reason I live in the woods. The most noise I hear is my neighbors (or me) shooting and only when I’m outside in the afternoons. OTOH I don’t call that noise. My oldest grand daughter was here over the week end. She recalled how she sent the Census Taker here a few years ago, knowing the welcome he would receive. She laughed because she was right.
duh?
Of course, I managed to gash open my index finger on a piece of plastic.
Curse you, 3D Printing!
What were you printing?
I was removing the supports from part of the MadCat arms. The adhesion pad slashes me when it broke (it’s waste material anyway, but the sudden release was unexpected)
what a waste of good blood
heh
Where is your super glue?
I already glued the cut. I did that before typing my complaint.
An elderly relative of mine is a raging progressive that still thinks Jimmy Carter is a ‘good man’. She has often accused me of being a racist/white supremist over things that had nothing whatsoever to do with race.
A black man that lives across the street from her had been helping her for a few years with her house and yard doing things she is unable to do.
She paid him but he did such a good job that she decided she would cook a special meal for him. When he arrived for the dinner he walked into her kitchen while they chit chatted and looked into the pot to see what she was cooking for his special meal.
turnip greens
fatback
cornbread
He turned around and walked out of the house, not saying another word. He has never spoken to her after that.
When she told me about it she was completely baffled by what he had done. She went on and on about her bafflement asking me to explain it.
As soon as she told me what she had done my jaw fell and I was speechless for a bit. Finally I asked her: “Maybe he was insulted that you didn’t sing a ditty with an exaggerated grin and do a little jig across the kitchen while flapping your elbows?”
It was her turn to drop her jaw. “Why would. you say that?” she asked me. ” I dont understand”
To this day she professes to have no idea what she had done to insult him. Like idiocy, unself-awareness is infinite.
Tim Wise (oh, the irony) is of the same ilk.
Sowell is trending because of his interview on Mark Levin last Saturday and his new book is being released. He has had zillions of white fans for decades. Apparently Tim Wise has just discovered Sowell. This is what we are up against people. Idiots.
I have maybe a dozen of his books. I have his latest book on order. I wish he would write more…I am afraid we will soon lose the man. He is. a national treasure, truly.
I remember you mentioned that story before. I was equally shocked.
Did you tell her he was just mad there was no watermelon?
And no chitlins.
“turnip greens
fatback
cornbread”
He was insulted by the lack of protein?
Lots of protein from pork in turnip greens, if prepared the Southern way.
As an ignorant northerner, I need more context.
I have to infer that this is not what she would have cooked for herself.
What was supposed to be the centerpiece of the meal? Those sound like side dishes.
Context: He is a nigger so she cooked what she thought niggers like.
*There is no black food/white food in the south. We all like the same things. Her menu comes from a time of crushing poverty when that is all poor people, especially blacks, could get their hands on.
I would have done steak, mashed potatoes w/gravy, field peas w/ bacon and a nice fresh salad. Or crawfish bisque….or….you get the idea. Things I would cook for my own family.
Your story does not surprise me at all Suthen. The most racist shit I ever witnessed or saw in 6 decades of life, always seemed to come from people that make it a point of telling you they are progressives/liberals and thus virtuous, that were completely oblivious to how racist what they said or did was in a moment of candor.
C’mon, they know the white man’s burden is to lift up them poor dumb darkies. They just won’t recognize it.
That’s the things I hear most often….
How those darkies just are too stupid/inept to take care of themselves, so the college educated, white, urban, cat lady and her ilk need to protect them from the evil of those not as progressive as them by straddling society with the works of the dnc crime syndicate.
She thought
color of skin + food = stereotype of black people food
No steak.
#fail
‘Garland Testifies He Can’t ‘Recollect’ Contact With FBI HQ About Hunter Biden Probe’
Lying liar lies. shocking.
What – was someone actually expecting him to produce the memo?
Here’s a memo.
Huh. Never happened to me.
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1703746473135931433
Good morning, Banjos!
Seattle pulls the plug on initiative to end homelessness two years after it began
There’s a shock. I was listening to a podcast recently that featured a dude who worked in that world. As usual, the NGOs have zero incentive to fix anything as long as the money rolls in.
I’m sure this won’t exacerbate the problem
Ford Has Lost an Astonishing Amount of Money on Electric Vehicles
Deploy the bailouts! I mean, why not? And let’s bail out GM while we’re at it. Or maybe we should just nationalize them all! Trabants every – well, maybe not every – garage!
What could go wrong?
Thanks for a great song from a simpler time.
‘Garage’?
That wasn’t in the plan for this 15-minute city, peasant.
Garland is such a spineless piece of shit. Constantly “I don’t recall”, “That’s not what the memo said”, “Nobody acted on that.” He spent 100% of the time covering his own ass. When asked about targeting parents at school board meetings, he could have said “That’s not acceptable, and the person who wrote that memo has been fired.” But of course he wouldn’t say that because he’s in on it. We have the absolute worst people in charge right now. It’s depressing.
I don’t think he is spineless, it takes a certain amount of balls to lie to everyone *constantly*.
I think one of my consultants is gaslighting me.
Me: sends 2 emails reminding him to schedule meeting for today at 1000- nothing happens.
Him at 1005 (via email): Where are you?
Me at 1006(via email): send me a link bro
Me at 1020: *calls, no answer*
You may be correct on your assessment…
It’s not just Mustangs. Although this wasn’t a Cars and Coffee.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16o1a5d/oc_trying_to_drift_a_uturn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
This can qualify as a Ray of Sunshine as nobody but the idiot was harmed.
Lol.
Just get it aligned. I’m sure it will be fine.
Someone forwards tis on to HM if he doesn’t already have it:
https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/scientists-working-in-antarctica-unknowingly-started-to-develop-a-new-accent.html
I speed read the thing looking for any mention of the joys of ass eating to read over and over, and found nothing… HM would have a disappoint…
I’m having trouble hearing these mispronounciations from the text.
Wow, I can’t spel.
Interesting, but, especially the convergence isn’t too surprising.
I don’t know if I’m unusually susceptible to this but my accent will change within a few weeks of arriving somewhere foreign.
I have an Irish expatriate friend who has made note of the same.
He finds his brogue returns when he goes back to Ireland and that he quickly picks up southern euphemisms when visiting the south.
My Texas accent comes back when I visit Texas. Apparently, it takes a few days to fade away again when I leave.
I’ve caught myself starting to mirror accents on a regular basis. I had one director over me at one company who had a stutter, and I was always worried that my old stutter would come back when talking to him.
Supposedly a weakness of the musically inclined.
That’s really funny since I have no known musical ability. Even the girlfriend was shocked that I somehow went through my schooling the couple of years that they didn’t force everyone to at least learn the recorder. I know how to play zero instruments, I think I can sing decently enough (the girlfriend disagrees), and find loud/angry/discordant music relaxing (why yes, I do find Combichrist relaxing).
https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-witnessed-the-birth-of-a-new-accent-in-antarctica-70287
They were predominately Brits.
“This included eight people born and raised in England (five in the south and three in the north), one person from the northwest US, another from Germany, and lastly an Icelandic person. “
Apparently someone in the DoJ bet big on the Washinton/Chicago game.
Sound on.
I’m probably going to hell for laughing so hard.
That is painful. You’re going to hell, but not for laughing at it.
Damn good thing my dogs were outside – they hate that sound.
Looks around nervously – “ha, yep that was funny!”
Hopes no-one notices that he has no idea what the joke is….
Just got a (hand-drawn) map of the private range where the “Blue Line Top Shot” match is this sunday. According to this, there are twelve pistol pits. If they’re reasonable size, that would make it bigger than Watervilet and Saraspa combined.
Must be good money in running a gun store.
We just got a 10 year DoD contract.
Now I need to buy some Lava soap and take a shower.
Crumbling
Poland has said it will no longer supply its neighbor Ukraine with weapons, as a rift over agricultural exports deepens.
“We no longer transfer weapons to [Ukraine], because we are now arming Poland,” Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s prime minister, said Wednesday on the X social media platform, previously known as Twitter, according to a Google translation.
“Ukraine is defending itself against the brutal Russian attack and I understand this situation, but as I said, we will protect our country,” he added.
Poland is helping Ukraine to fight what Morawiecki called the “Russian barbarian,” but cannot agree to any destabilization of the Polish market by Ukrainian grain imports, he said, in further Google-translated comments carried by Polish news agency Polska Agencja Prasowa.
The comments followed a dramatic deterioration of relations between Kyiv and Warsaw this week.
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A recent dispute over Ukraine’s agricultural exports — which have had to be transferred via Eastern European countries while Russia has effectively blockaded grain ships leaving the country’s ports — has threatened to break the alliance, however.
The high-profile falling-out came to a head Monday, as Ukraine filed lawsuits against a number of countries, including Poland, at the World Trade Organization over the bans on Ukrainian grain imports.
The boys in the NATO back room have some deals to make.
Truly a clown show.
The propagandists are getting worse.
A photo of the receipt, taken at the Cupertino location of Pho Ha Noi, was then posted to Reddit’s “mildly infuriating” thread showing the policy. It reads: “18.00% Service Charge Included. For parties of 1 or larger, a 18.00% gratuity is applied automatically. If you have any questions, please speak with a manager.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/restaurant-requires-18-service-charge-parties-1-larger-prompting-outrage
I saw that on reddit. It is pretty clearly the POS system has a setting where you can set the minimum party size.
Yeah, been that way for a long time. Usually the party size is >=5 in my experience.
Thanks a fun way to torpedo your business.
It would have probably worked better if they had just raised their menu prices 18%.
Absolutely. Most people wouldn’t have even noticed.
Oh well, creative destruction FTW.
Also, get the fuck out of CA.
Imperious leader will save us from ourselves
President Biden is creating a new office for gun violence prevention to coordinate his administration’s efforts to reduce gun violence and elevate an issue that — while stalled in Congress — remains important to Democratic activists and young voters.
The plan was confirmed by three people with knowledge of the details who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of the announcement, which is expected on Friday. The news was first reported in the Washington Post. The White House declined comment.
It’s a move long sought by gun-control activists, who have been privately advocating for such an office for years and it comes as hopes of additional gun reform legislation seem unlikely.
Just dissolve the goddam Congress and get it over with.
Offense is the best defense…
n the first 7 months of 2023, German exports to Kyrgyzstan are up 1400% from the same period in 2019 (black), i.e. before COVID & Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That’s powered by an eye-watering 6000% rise in cars and parts exports to Kyrgyzstan (blue).
https://twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF/status/1704521368501379158
So sending there to sell in Russia?
Germany would not do a thing like that why do you hate kyrgiz prosperity?
Seems legit –
Kyrgyzstan was the ninth poorest country in the former Soviet Union, and is today the second poorest country in Central Asia after Tajikistan. 22.4% of the country’s population lives below the poverty line.
The new office is expected to be led by Stefanie Feldman, currently White House staff secretary, who has worked on policy issues with Biden for more than a decade. Activists hope the office will enable Biden to make more use of his presidential bully pulpit to push for more gun safety measures.
Reports about the announcement were praised by advocates like David Hogg, who co-founded March For Our Lives after a mass shooting at his high school in Parkland, Fla., five years ago.
“There’s been a paradigm shift, I think, in American politics around guns,” Hogg told NPR. “[Democrats are] no longer running from this issue. They’re running on it and proudly,” he added.
Drive the wedge deeper.
Survey sez
“Young people are more connected to problem solvers who can address real issues in their lives than they are tied to a political party allegiance,” he said. “I think that’s going to shift how we do politics in the country. So people are going to reward problem solvers instead of finger pointers. And ultimately, I think that will lead to better results in our politics.”
You know who got things done?
“The survey of 1,568 adults between 18 and 34 found that young people are optimistic about their futures and envision becoming more successful than their parents. But they express more negativity when thinking about the effect the government and political system will have on their lives in the coming decades.”
Libertarian moment!
Does this make you go back to college?
Stupid is as stupid does….
I can’t hear accents very well. I can’t hear my own accent. I can’t distinguish British (various flavors, e.g., RP v anything else) from Scottish (various flavors) from Irish (various flavors) from Australian (various flavors). My cousin from Utah came to visit and she was squeeing over my accent (nostalgia thing) and I swear I don’t hear it.
I’m musically inclined, but I can’t distinguish some “stolen” songs (e.g., “Blurred Lines” v “Got to Give It Up”), unless it’s blatant (“Ice Ice Baby” v “Under Pressure”) (and anything David Bennett Piano posts as being samples or similars).
That said, I can sometimes notice when I’m slipping into pure redneck, because I’m just being lazy, and IF I notice, I pull myself out of it quickly.