After dinner last night with New NPR, WebDom pulled me aside. “There’s something wrong.”
“Oh?”
“She’s sane. And really nice.”
Apparently we’ve gotten past the first filter.
Mere socializing will not stop birthday parties, and we really should have them for people like a guy whose reputation as a stripper will go on forever; a guy who always had madness in his method; one of the most fascinating guys with fascinating ideas; a punchline for a Jim Nabors joke; yet one more superannuated careerist leech; a guy who put on the absolute drunkest show I’ve ever attended; a guy who made perhaps my favorite movie ever; the finest comic actor of our generation; a superb guitarist whom I admired greatly when I was a teen; YEEEEEEAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!; a prolific actor who will always be Milton; and an antisemitic and incompetent war-pig who in a just world would be an input for a woodchipper.
Links are still alive.
Imagine the outrage! Jesus as a Jew, c’mon, who’s gonna believe that?
I’m still not clear on how the fuck this became a cult.
“Blame Obama” is really not a bad default position.
Concerted concern with a “D” after each name.
So they’ll pull this because “it doesn’t work” but happily sell homeopathic shit.
It’s not exactly a cover, since that’s Jack Bruce singing and playing bass. But still. It’s terrific. Gary Moore does a better solo than Clapton- there, I said it.
OK someone has to say it – New NPR must be some kind of deep fake, just in the flesh. Or, is it a promising sign that the NPR programming is starting to fail?
If things don’t work out, he should at least get a tote bag out of it.
“OMWC, we need to talk…”
“Wait, wait…. don’t tell me!”
C’mon – WebDom is right – “something is wrong”.
** thunderous applause **
I thought Tote Bag was a euphemism for an NPR lady.
Happy birthday Robert Carlyle?
Happy birthday Steven Spielberg?
Happy birthday Pauly Shore?
OMWC’s first filter, before even WebDom, is taking his date to a porn movie.
Happy birthday David Rose!
She’s adept at hiding the crazy. Hide the sharp knives.
antisemitic and incompetent war-pig
I was wondering if WaPo had turned Boot to the Palestinian cause.
a guy who put on the absolute drunkest show I’ve ever attended
Happy Birthday Joe Namath
I was thinking Dean Martin
I was thinking Richard Harris or Peter O’Toole.
*Dana Andrew’s has entered the chat*
Ugh… gut reaction 1: You realize there were no “Palestinians” other than Jews in the time of Herod, right morons?
Gut Reaction 2: Oh no… “a cast mostly of White Europeans and one biracial guy”! It is almost like they’re a bunch of actors and it is all playing pretend instead of a historical document. Do you go “Those poor people…” when Gilligan’s Island is brought up too?
Gut Reaction 3: Hey… wait a minute — on that note — aren’t you the same annoying assholes who bitch and whine unless the BBC makes all of Shakespeare look like Harlem in the 1970s? Where’s your evolved sensibility then? Oh, I know… the ratchet only goes one way to assuage your white guilt and internalized colonizer loathing or something. Just be honest “We hate Western Culture and want to erase Europe and Europeans from the globe. Because we’re useful self-loatihing idiots trained like the dumbest seals at SeaWorld by our indoctrinated teachers!” You’ll feel better for admitting it.
Glad the initial filter didn’t clog up, OMWC. Best of luck to you. Morning, all.
I mean, fer cryin’ out loud! The first (::DDGs online Bible stuff::) 17 verses of the Gospel of Matthew painstakingly lay out Jesus of Nazareth’s bona fides as directly descended from David (all those “begats” in the KJV.) But I don’t think this is the first time someone has wanted to…desemitize(?) him. Weren’t there claims back in the ’60s or early ’70s that he was really African?
Technically aren’t Palestinians semites also, just not the right semites?
I’m calling it: we have officially reached peak derp.
However… this sounds like yet another in the long line of manufactured, click-bait “controversies”. There is an “online backlash” zOMG! With several posts!!
Or an organized social media campaign to bring to attention a show that probably didn’t really have much traction?
It seems all parties involved completely missed the point of the Jesus story.
Doesn’t it boil down to:
Old Testament – God “Fuck around and find out.”
New Testament – Romans and Jewish Establishment “Fuck Around and Find Out.”
Revelation: God “Fuck around and find out.”
They aren’t going to let their historical ignorance get in the way of making unfounded demands.
So….a tiny experiment in a tiny location of a massive planet with multiple bio-zones may potentially have killed a rare [on earth] form of bacterial life that we have no current evidence actually exists on said planet….
Don’t slow down SpaceX. The sooner we terraform the hell outta the solar system, the better. Step on the gas!
Seems Carlin’s bit about humans and destroying the Earth can be expanded to Mars.
The problem is we will transport the problem right off the home world.
Wherever you go, there you are?
That is what worries me about US migration, both internal and from without. Mars? I am not really concerned about Mars.Transplanting to Mars is not a viable option.
If God didn’t want Mars to get screwed up He wouldn’t have put it so close to Earth.
The word ‘potentially’ is doing some very heavy lifting here.
I’m all for preserving biodiversity, it’s literally what I do for a living these days, but JFC, can you actually ‘prove’ the existence of whatever it is you’re trying to ‘save?’ Using that argument one could claim that everyone should stop breathing on the chance that you might actually suck in and destroy the last living spore of some genus of fungus in existence. What’s next, demanding the extermination of humanity to save Mother Gaia?
Oh, wait . . .
If Jesus has blue eyes, light brown hair, and an English accent, how could his mother have been Palestinian, much less Jewish?
His father’s genes were dominant.
“became a cult”
Not a cult any more than 49ers or Browns fans (heh, as if), just people buying gear from the winning championship team.
Yeah — that was what I was going to say too. I think it is more signalling for your team, especially after the other team has denigrated you for so long. Heh… maybe OMB should hold a pre-inauguration Philadelphia rally in the same spot as Biden, in the daytime with bright lighting just to juxtapose the mental outlook of the two sides.
But running out and buying blue bracelets is just resistance. Humans are herd animals that do herd shit. We are just a broken splinter group.
*takes a sip from a Glibertarian mug while wearing a Glibertarian shirt*
You didn’t get the thong?
^ this explains the look on Sean’s avatar
He did, he just goes full Donald Duck at home.
(enjoy that mental image, everyone)
Coffee stays warm in a personalized cup holder
/Thanks, NoDak Glib
I thought a Donald Duck was a gay dude who was kicked out of the navy?
“How do you know so many gay things?”
“My grandfather just came out of the closet. Beautiful. Very inspiring.”
Difference is that if I wear my Ravens hat to school, no problem. Wear a MAGA hat and my career is over.
You might not want to try that if you ever end up at Case Western.
I wore my Ravens gear to the stadium there twice- once in the Dawg Pound and once in the Club area (courtesy of Neph’s generosity). Both times, there was a lot of fun trash-talk and real camaraderie. I have nothing but good things to say about the long-suffering Cleveland fans.
That says less about the “cult” of MAGA than the response from another totally-not-a-cult group of people.
Hey now! We’re not a cult, more like an abused spouse.
Oof!
Browns fans just have a loser husband. Raiders fans are the real abused spouses, but they are enablers.
What a click-bait headline. “May have killed any signs of life in the tested sample” I was wondering how the probes were the modern conquistadors, spreading plague through the entire Martian globe.
And it is all speculation anyway — so forgive me if I notch this into my “Meh… don’t really care.” category even if true. If he’s right, design the next probe to check it as a theory first just in case or something. Done deal. In the long run, I don’t expect it will matter — within our own Solar System, I’m not going to hold Humanity to some crazy Prime Directive that we have to sidestep salt-environment microbes because they might evolve into something we care about. If they’re here, they’re almost certainly equivalent in other Solar Systems we aren’t getting to anytime soon — and we need to exploit what we can reach and all. If we stumbled upon actual sentience, sure — try not to kill it. But this stage? Do. Not. Care. On the plus side – Martian colonies if we ever get them are almost certainly going to be domed due to the atmosphere and radiation issues, so it should be easy enough to minimize our impact on where we aren’t for quite some time.
Rambling rant off.
Yeah…takes me back to the KSR’s Mars books. We’re going to be terraforming and improving lives for millions and there’ll be stupid commie hippies committing terrorist acts to “restore mars” to it’s “natural” [non-life sustaining] environment.
Gotta nip that shit in the bud.
“We have met the enemy…”
To continue with my earlier ill-formed rant: Any life on Mars is likely to be much better adapted to the uber-extremely hostile conditions present on the planet than any coddled micro-organism from Earth, no matter how many times it’s baked, irradiated, and poisoned before being sent up into space and experiencing several years of hard cosmic radiation before landing on the Red Planet.
Worth mentioning: the reason they switched to phenylephrine is because the FDA disallowed the use of ingredients that actually fuck work because people might turn them into drugs in clandestine labs.
What, you got a problem with decongestants that don’t decongest? But seriously, all phenylephrine ever did for me was give me cottonmouth and a mild case of the shakes and you’re better off taking sugar pills.
Be careful to keep track how much of the real stuff you buy if you suffer from chronic congestion.
the reason they switched to phenylephrine is because the FDA disallowed the use of ingredients that actually fuck[ing] work
Yeah, pearl clutching here is a little silly. I like how “use pseudophedrine” is not the very top alternative. “Eat spicy food!”
Wasn’t there consideration at some point of pulling one of the main active ingredients of Midol (pamabrom?) off the market until someone pointed out the…well…public safety implications of taking that away from PMSing women?
That’d be a bad idea
I’ll just stick to the bleach, horse wormer, and aquarium cleaner recommended by our once and future president.
a guy who always had madness in his method;
Happy birthday Chris Foreman!
When it comes to cold/flu medicines and to a lesser extent things like glue, spray paint, etc…. my motto is “If people want to be idiots and abuse products, let them.” I’m so tired of the Fed jerking everyone around because “It might be used to make meth!” and the states/local with “The kids will huff it! Lock it up!” In the meth case — I strongly suspect at this point that like the mysterious ozone / greenhouse impact of refridgerants every few years, this is all to avoid allowing generics and force recycling of the market for the drug companies. Just seen the cycle too often, I suppose.
You mean you don’t think it’s just coincidence that DuPont discovers the bad things freon (R12 – “hurts ozone layer” R134A “100 times worse than CO2 for global warming”) does just prior to patent expiration and introduction of a new freon that isn’t environmentally harmful?
greenhouse impact of refridgerants every few years,
I have an inside view of that one. The driving force for this change is almost exclusively expiring patent rights by a couple very well-placed companies.
“…well placed companies.”
So, fascism. Regulatory capture. Whatever you want to call it.
Perhaps someone will eventually think to use propane.
Everything within the state…
They’re already pushing propane for the next gen of home AC. But since it’s flammable, if a leak is detected, the system will shut down till repaired by a pro till properly fixed. Think of it as a check engine light for your attic.
Flammable…there is that. Given our past dabbling with flammable gases in buildings it seems we should be able to come up with a solution.
In my opinion a serious design flaw in building is having air conditioners and water heaters in attics or on roofs. I have recently discovered that the reason for that is a disconnect between floor space on the ground and floor space in bank loans. The loans are calculated using ‘livable floor space’ and space to put such appliances does not count as ‘livable’. Rather than create a place to put them the builders put them in already existing non-livable space – the attic or roof.
This creates some serious problems but ones that seem to me easily solvable.
Speaking of solvable problems in building, what is with building bathroom and kitchen structures out of water soluble material?
What genius came up with that?
There are logistics issues with water heaters you’re not accounting for. Cooling.
I have 2 water heaters. One is in an upstairs closet (for the upstairs bathroom – primary water heater is in the basement). The water from a water heater cools pretty quickly if it has to travel too far. If we had to use a water heater from the basement to heat water in the upstairs bathroom we’d have to set the temperature too high to be efficient.
DuPont/Chemours always discovers the cause of the expiring freon and has the solution waiting in the wings. Just need the right regulations to push it on the consumer.
They are one of two…
I know someone who worked at Dupont at the time, and management (who earned nice bonuses) were quite put out that their profitable freon product was being outlawed.
Yeah, that is pretty well known in the HVAC world.
Dupont still sells R12 and R22 to the entire world, except the US
Whats up guys. Was never much of a commenter but used to come here every day to read what some of the smartest, funniest group of people had to say about what was going on in the world. Got so black pilled i stayed away from any type of discussions or news for a few years. With the new cabinet picks i have gotten back a small sliver of hope that the animals that put us through hell during covid and weaponized the government against good people will be held accountable. I understand it might be false hope but its been a long time since i felt anything but disgust for what was happening in this country and there is no place where i will get the insights and laughs getting back into the news than right here.
I hope every one of you have been well over the last few years. Grateful to see that this place is still here and thanks to everyone who is responsible for keeping it alive. God bless.
Nice to see you, homie! Drop in more.
Yeah, and this is what is going to lead to a lot of disappointment. Expectations board the hype train headed for nirvana!
Welcome back!
Stay around as we all enjoy the exciting, new causes for disgust provided by the next term.
Same as the old disgusts. At least I won’t have to learn anything new.
There will be new names to associate with your disappointment.
Stock up on popcorn.
Should be a fun ride.
Welcome back. I too am feeling a sliver of hope, but I temper that by thinking “we already gave him four years to drain the swamp and that turned out to be bupkus.” I can at least enjoy that the correct heads are currently exploding. He needs to put Tim Macy in charge of the ATF to keep the good times rolling.
https://discourse.nomineesforthepeople.com/t/brandon-herrera/13235
Trump never had much of a chance to drain the swamp, considering the investigations, impeachments, and all the other distracting bullshit they threw at him during his first term. And still got a lot done before COVID. He couldn’t even fire a guy who was blackmailing him without the Swamp going batshit crazy. I’m hopeful, but expectations are tempered by past experience.
One of my concerns is that no one around him seems to be advising him to get rid of FISA and the other Fourth Amendment destroying practices that have been standard practice ever since the Patriot Act was pushed through.
They have given so much power to the head of HHS over the last decade and if Kennedy actually tries to do half the things he says he wants to—then that will be more than any government has done since ive been alive.
One man, even if president, cannot turn this ship around. To do that takes a vibe shift in the country, which, considering the election results we just saw, this might be the start of.
Whatever OMB does in his first two years will be so distorted, spun, and Hitlerized by the fourth estate branch of the DNC that the Dems will have a blue wave in 2026 that will undo everything OMB attempts to accomplish.
Welcome back
To paraphrese the great Bruce Willis from Die Hard: “Welcome back, come on in, we’ll have a few laughs…”
Welcome!! Always great to see and hear a new face and voice
Four more hours on the plasma center floor. Hope to see more of you and y’all later. Today’s been nuts, a coworker said. She is correct. Onward upward always.
If someone stays away long enough are they re-Tulpa’d?
Kamala should try selling MAGA hats to shore up her debt.
You’d think she would be down on her knees begging…
“$20, same as downtown”
“$20, same as downtown”
It’s now $25; haven’t you heard of inflation?
Got a kick out of this post yesterday.
https://x.com/daniel_c_roth/status/1857760267783790784?t=34AFA0LetRQ_CZA2aHuV0Q&s=19
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
I love it.
Hi Jerms, good to see you again.
Black pilled? I wouldn’t know anything about that.
I find sometimes it is useful to try and blow away all of the smoke, ignore all of the shit-flinging howler monkey troop that is humanity and see what the problem is. The first step to solving problems is to identifying them.
It would appear to me the problem we have is that we as a culture have become accustomed to living beyond our means.
Back in the Stone Age when I learned Econ we used a term ‘bank money’. That was money printed up representing future wealth. Banks lent it out to productive people gambling that those productive people would produce enough wealth to cover the money printed. Great idea both in principle and practice. Then some politicians got the idea that they could buy votes by printing up money that represented wealth that does not exist and instead of giving it to productive people give it to non-productive people (voters). Everyone going along with this is what I would characterize as ‘a mistake’.
If I have correctly identified the problem the solution is self-evident. Before anyone says ‘But no one wants to do that’ I want to point out that what people want means less than a mosquitos fart. Reality is going to win. What we have to decide is when and how much can we mitigate the pain.
So, too many paper dollars chasing too few goods. Strange that we can produce unlimited dollars but not enough goods.
“We need more dollars so we can pay people a liveable wage”
Interesting observation about regulation stifling innovation. I’m not a fan of current cell phones and their lack of ease in repair or battery replacement, but not to the degree that government step in.
Why does the Pixel 9 look so much like an iPhone? You can blame the EU
That is a repeat of the mechanic’s lament from the 1980s regarding car repairability as computer chips and complex vacuum lone systems debuted.
Vacuum line. Line! Aaaah!
It’s funny how they mandated maps of vacuum lines then and they had to color code them there were so many. The maps are still a requirement and it typically consists of one line to the brake booster and one line to the evap system.
COP chaos. Your heart-warming story of the day
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/15/climate/cop29-azerbaijan-ilham-aliyev-chaos
That put a smile on my face.
Angela from CNN actually used the term ‘climate denier’ earnestly. You can safely ignore anything she has to say.
Where is Neph?
The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest Princess
Paywalled.
Swedes? Probably didn’t taste half bad after eating lutefisk.
I have had Malort (and even have a bottle on hand). It’s distributed in Ohio now thanks to the work of the owner of a Cleveland Tiki bar. I’ve been noticing lots of news stories about it, as well as flavored variants being released. Seems to me that there was a change in marketing, and a push for Malort to replace Fernet as a bartender’s handshake.
The original producer/family sold it a couple of years ago. I assume the new owners are trying to capitalize on it.
Sugar and wormwood? Sounds like absinthe. Is it required to be thujone-free like absinthe is?
That description is more favorable than others I’ve heard.
It’s in the state liquor stores here. I assumed it’s a frat party dare drink.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-carolina-senator-danny-britt-abortion-comments-rcna180475
I remain unclear on how restrictive abortion laws prevent someone from expanding her family.
Another person claiming they want to expand their family through abortion. I don’t think any of these morons know what abortion is or what it actually does.
What every two-bit Team Red person says is crazy (not that I think this is) AND something the rest of Team Red believes and must disown.
Team Blue is never held to that standard, however.
The constituent told NBC News that she is a carrier for a very rare genetic condition with a 50% chance of being passed on to a child.
Ah, that at least makes a bit of sense. Go with IVF then, since you can preselect an egg without this trait. Problem solved. Unless you want to just fuck around and kill off any fetus based on carrying whatever this undesired genetic disorder is, which seems highly reckless and irresponsible.
Under North Carolina law, abortions are legal in the following circumstances: during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy; when a qualified physician determines a medical emergency exists; through the 20th week of pregnancy when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest; and during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if a doctor determines there exists a life-limiting anomaly in the fetus. If a life-limiting anomaly is detected, the patient must fill out a consent form before seeking an abortion.
The woman argued that the law was not clear enough, and because of that, it is “forcing people to get care out of state.”
That’s hardly a restrictive law. Plus, the law is clear enough to be summarized in a brief paragraph, dipshit.
“through the 20th week of pregnancy when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest”
False rape and incest claims skyrocket.
But Republicans want to ban IVF!
“Masked neo-Nazis march through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags
Cops were then dispatched for an investigation. No arrests have been made thus far.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14092923/nazis-swastika-flag-march-ohio-columbus.html
Always with the matching outfits.
“White supremacy is on the rise! ”
Narrative set.
“Welcome, fellow neo-Nazi!”
“Donald Trump did not immediately reply when asked to comment.”
More likely that it’s antifa/progs rather than actual white supremacists.
There’s something about those nazi flags, they seem … inauthenic. You know, false.
They always dress up as the cartoon version of the enemy in their heads. I am guessing antifa. This isn’t the same bunch sending out the cotton pickin’ texts is it?
Having all these old folkx as neighbors is gonna challenge my very meager people skills.
But you’ll have all the licorice candy you can ever want!
Not with these old folkx! They’re attempting their famous Boomer passive-aggression on me. I am delighted at the prospect that my not playing into their hands could be causing them much gnashing of teeth!
(it’s nothing serious – just Boomers & older folk tryna get me to confirm gossip they heard about how my camper got washed. Ain’t gonna happen. I should mention they are seasonal people that live in FL for the winter, so they’re not physically here. But no doubt they heard from other neighbors that live here all year.)
“my camper got washed.”
The euphemisms just get more and more clever.
“how my camper got washed”
bow chicka wow-wow
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk spotted drinking beverage that’s banned in multiple countries”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-14092845/Donald-Trump-Elon-Musk-beverage-water.html
Fake news.
Banned for children, although as far as I can tell, neither Trump nor Musk is a child.
It’s a different drink from the same company.
I wonder who owns The Daily Mail.
*DDG
“The 4th Viscount Rothermere is the chair and controlling shareholder of the company.”
“Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere”
Oddly enough Mr. Harmsworth appears to be conservative leaning at least by Euro standards.
After dinner last night with New NPR, WebDom pulled me aside. “There’s something wrong.”
“Oh?”
“She’s sane. And really nice.”
Apparently we’ve gotten past the first filter.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
Yes, I too have seen The Thing.
McKnight, 39, victimized nine women between September 2023 and Aug. 19, his indictment said. Typically, according to the indictment, he would pull over a woman for a traffic violation and tell her he needed to look at her phone to either verify identity or confirm insurance coverage.
McKnight searched the phones and used his own phone to photograph nude pictures he found, the indictment said.
Without the right fringe benefits, who would be a police officer?
That is a good way to put it.
We had one here…the deputy confiscating cell phones from people entering the courthouse. He was getting women’s numbers and then calling them later asking for dates.
Muh consensus!
President-elect Donald Trump won farm country by wide margins in this month’s election, with rural voters helping fuel his return to the White House.
But some farmers, economists, analysts and others in the agriculture industry are voicing alarm over Trump plans that could disrupt America’s $1.5 trillion food industry.
Trump moved this past week to put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the Food and Drug Administration. A nomination requires confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
In a column published on Friday, soybean farmer Amanda Zaluckyj called the choice “a literal middle finger to agriculture, which constituted a key piece of Trump’s base.”
Writing in the trade journal Ag Daily, she described Kennedy as “an absolute danger” to the American farm industry.
“He has gone as far as saying he would ‘weaponize’ regulatory agencies to eliminate the use of pesticides,” Zaluckyj said, adding that Kennedy has “voiced strong opposition to the scientific consensus” on farm industry practices.
OH
MY
GOD!
I thought the NPR crowd was into organic farming.
They don’t know what the fuck they’re into. They just wait for the upload and react.
Regenerative ag is the way to go. This is gonna be fun.
Not if a Trump appointee supports it. See also the Covid Vax.
Kennedy has long condemned industrial food corporations as well as Big Ag trade groups, which he says have driven an obesity epidemic in the U.S. while polluting farmland and bankrupting smaller family farms.
“America’s current ag policy is destroying America’s health on every level,” Kennedy said in a video posted on social media last month.
“Corporate interests have hijacked the USDA’s dietary guidelines to make natural, unprocessed foods an afterthought.”
Kennedy is calling for restrictions on a host of food additives and dyes. He wants to reduce the dominance of ultra-processed foods; he’s called for reforming the SNAP food assistance program — formerly known as food stamps.
In naming Kennedy to head one of the nation’s most powerful food regulatory agencies, Trump appeared to embrace that vision: “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex,” Trump said on the social media platform X.
The horror. The HORROR.
Good. $10 billion of the SNAP funds go right to Coca Cola and other beverage companies. It’s obscene.
Also, government needs to get the fuck out of nutrition guidance altogether.
An idea about food stamps
Good rant.
@DonEscaped from dedthred
You were saying men are largely more spatial. This isn’t a NAWALT. This is an “I’m proud of my XX.”
She loads trucks at FedEx. She says her supervisors say she’s really good at it. She likens it to playing Tetris with freight and she absolutely loves being able to look at the load and just know how to pack it to put in one or two more pallets than should have gone in there. I’ve always been pretty good at packing trunks for road trips, and now I’m just lazy and two people don’t have as much shit as four, but this girl—she’s something else.
Ecotourist-in-Chief
Joe Biden will put a bow on his environmental legacy Sunday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon — a gesture of solidarity with global efforts to confront the looming catastrophe of climate change.
——-
Biden will touch down for just a few hours in Manaus, one of Brazil’s largest cities situated along the confluence of the Negro and Amazon rivers. (Theodore Roosevelt made his mark on the region, but only after he left office.)
White House officials said Biden will meet with local and Indigenous leaders working to preserve the Amazon ecosystem. U.S. officials have previously met with Brazilian counterparts to support a multibillion-dollar effort to pay for forest protection.
His visit Sunday, sandwiched between global summits in Lima and Rio de Janeiro, comes as the nation and world prepares to move past Biden’s climate agenda.
President-elect Donald Trump, who continues to call global warming a hoax, is stacking his Cabinet with officials who hope to dismantle federal programs to reduce climate pollution and expand clean energy. Half a world away in Azerbaijan, where U.N. climate talks are underway, global leaders are charting a future in which the world’s second-largest polluter is poised to withdraw from international negotiations to arrest rising temperatures.
Poor Joe. Soon he will be a minor footnote in the history books.
No way he walks around there. He will trip and fall over the first root in his path.
This. And if he tries, he’ll have someone holding both arms as a brace.
It’s pretty disgusting to send him around like this in his condition. Those responsible are cruel.
The idea that Trump’s administration might focus on actual environmental pollutants and and harmful chemicals instead of made up scary stories about global warming is truly terrifying (to some people).
Yeah, environmentalism jumped the shark when they switched from shit that actually pollutes the environment to calling the 4th most abundant element in the universe, and the primary element essential for life, a pollutant.
If it’s not carbon, they DGAF.
“Why do you want to starve trees? Don’t you know they eat CO2?”
I’ve also been mulling over the idea that global warming is another one of those things dictated by projection from city dwelling progressives.
Cities are cesspools of filth. They’re absolutely disgusting, causing concentrated pollution that ramps on an exponential curve. This is unavoidable with large masses of people in finite space.
So rather than focus on the sorts of pollution cities obviously produce, they project their environmental woes on carbon, which can be minimized on a square footage basis. New York lives to claim itself as the most environmental city in the world. I mean, it’s a fucking shithole of epic proportions, but they have the lowest carbon footprint per capita on the planet! Because their living spaces are the size of closets and they cram people in like cattle. Then they project their fears of carbon usage onto the communities that are cleanest, blaming suburban and rural folk for our horrible carbon spewing.
I have a much larger carbon footprint than your average New Yorker. But I also have a community that’s clean with very clean air. I’m surrounded by nature in its glory. But I’m a terrible person because I have to drive far and heat a big house.
Imagine the outrage! Jesus as a Jew, c’mon, who’s gonna believe that?
George Kennedy?
Adding onto Mojo’s rant- go back to food stamps instead of EBT. There is not enough stigma attached to using that state debit card with snazzy graphics*. And the fuckers treat it like a prepaid gift card without knowing/budgeting** what’s left on it.
*the state’s Oregon Trail EBT is an insult to the men and women who risked their lives to come here, mostly on foot
**another requirement for receiving food stamps***
***people in this country largely remain poor through their own choices, not circumstances
Back in the ’60s a local store would exchange some kind of stamps for pipe tobacco and household products. There was also some program my mother called “Commodities”, sort of a government food shelf.
My elderly parents were good at finding free (taxpayer paid) stuff.
There were some programs for fixing up houses too, but later, in the ’80s-’90s. Those may still exist, I dunno.
America is one of the very few places on earth that a person born poor can become a billionaire.
Progressives hate that more than anything.
Gary Moore does a better solo than Clapton
Friends and Glibertarians, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Clapton, not to praise him.
The tropes guitar gods play live after them;
But the covers and critics drone on and on.
So let it be with Clapton.
I keed; I keed: it’s a matter of taste, and I loved most of what Moore did.
But even as a wee tot, I loved White Room the day it came out, and I still do. As a child I was mesmerized by the entire thing, mostly shocked and thrilled by Ginger Baker. That’s still where I am if I rank that tune as an achievement.
Clapton was a tot, too, barely 20, maybe ten years’ playing experience if you count all the way back to his first pluck. His blues are my blues: a bushel of tropes we’ve all lived off…wired to 110VAC; I spent my childhood stealing back the licks from Clapton that he had stolen from my Delta neighbors; there is a goodly army of us living the same progressions, modes, and runs.
Moore is crowding 50 in this cover, three full decades down the pike. He has achieved a taste and perspective that is an order of magnitude stronger than the child Clapton had when arranging the parts, conceiving the lines, and playing those licks. I find Moore’s approach both solid and respectful, mindful (notice he chooses the Gibson SG, for example) of what was achieved twenty years before. But this really is like being subbed in to play the final minutes after the first string has already salted away the game; it’s first tier professional, but it’s not an achievement.