In honor of our Eurovisitor, we have stepped up our cheese game. And found ourselves explaining some of the more outre aspects of American politics. I think he’s still a few steps away from being able to withstand exposure to SugarFree. But we did manage to down a few Irish whiskeys last night while sitting in my lab, playing some odd assortments of music. I suspect, though, that anything involving us would be classified as “odd.” And I’ll confess to us getting into a deep discussion about stochastic processes and how they relate to measurement theory. Geeks. We’re up at the crack of dawn today (and Dawn hasn’t protested, so I claim consensuality) to hike up some mountainsides during what is sadly likely to be our last cool weather before Hell again descends on Arizona.
Speaking of geeks, more than a few of them were born today, including a guy whose spirit always gives me a lift; a guy who knew what Atlanta was good for; a guy who was on his period; my favorite economist; and an actor whose career was too short.
Enough lollygagging, let’s hop off Dawn and get to the news.
Team Blue’s clown car rolls on.
And some reality is beginning to take hold.
He seems nice. CNN, of course, has to CNN and try to justify him by saying, “Well, he’s not wrong…”
Fortunately, SP and I have a live-in Dutch Pronunciation Guide.
Buried in the morass of derangement, there’s a few nuggets of actual insight.
Wait, I though jerking off did this?
Old Guy Music continues a Euro theme. It’s a terrific song, great swing and feel to it, and if you understand the lyrics, they’re pretty powerful in a lesbian sort of way.
I was getting an error on login.
Guten Morgen OMWC.
Oops – Here is the link to the song’s translation.
Off to work I am. Have a “Glib” day all (but only if you want to).
You know who ELSE said “Guten Morgen” to the Jews?
Christopher Plummer ?
The Daniel Bernoulli link says he was born on January 29th. I want my money back!
Mornin.
Democrats are grappling with a new realization of just how close November’s election could be.
Not close at all?
A rout?
A slaughterhouse?
Depends on how many ballots can be found in the trunks of cars.
*The statement above has received a seal of approval from a young trans person as per DNC requirements.
Outside of a few states, I don’t think they could flip a state because their best voter fraud opportunities are in Deep Blue states.
But – AZ, WI, PA are probably vulnerable to being flipped. So it’s possible they could steal another Presidential election with fraud.
And MI.
Minnesota was far closer than anyone expected in 2016. Ohio is in the crosshairs too.
Be sure to include Nevada on the list of states that are often flipped by fraud.
As others pointed out, or states with large blue enclaves (like MI and OH). The local papers are complaining mightily about the attempts to clean up the voter rolls.
Sanders made his own case for electability. He argued that his brand of left-wing populism could be effective because “the way you bring people together is by presenting an agenda that works for the working people of this country, not for the billionaire class.”
Find an enemy and sic the mob on them. Where have I seen that before?
Young Frankenstein?
IT COULD WORK!!!
“We’re up at the crack of dawn today”
Fake news.
It’s still pitch black outside in AZ.
Light enough the shoot in MN, if one is so inclined.
Speaking of shooting at first light, Mrs. Dean reports that yesterday afternoon a Very Significant mule deer buck wandered down our driveway and into the wash behind Casa Dean. Ear-wide antlers (which on a mulie is pretty damn wide), 5×5. Sadly, her phone was not in reach, so no pix, but she grew up in Northern WI, so she knows a big deer when she sees one.
I gotta get my ass in gear to go hunting in the National Park near the Casa this year.
“Sanders at one point expressed a wish that he and 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton could come together”
At their ages they would be happy/lucky of that event.
Only if you’re into gerontophilia….
You should warn people before you say things like that.
And we continue to learn that we are all a product of SF’s imagination…
I just went looking for the right snapshot of Mom and Professor Farnsworth that shows this in action and got treated to the wonderful world of Futurama porn. I’m going to stop looking now, and stick a fork in each eyeball.
To shreds, you say?
“Eighteen percent of the population controls 52 Senate seats,” Carville said.
Which has fuck-all to do with anything.
Nothing. But they are pushing the popular vote narrative in every aspect of govt. I used to respect (with a little ‘r’) Carville. Not anymore.
Leftists/Dems have shown their hand. They intend to destroy the republic just to gain and maintain power.
Oddly, Sanders winning the pop vote in Iowa doesn’t mean anything. Allofasudden, it’s the arcane delegate count that matters.
Sure, tear it all down and hope you manage to come out on top, never mind that a certain degree of disproportionate representation is what prevents another civil war in this country.
One day the Dems will regain control of the Senate. And I’ll love to throw this site
Shit back in their faces.
Kind of surprised that there hasn’t been some huge push to split up CA or TX or to give Puerto Rico or Guam statehood only to push the Democrats senate numbers up.
That would entail acknowledging State boundaries and States as independent political entities. We can’t have that.
The effort in California was quashed by the courts because FYTW.
The political class of California did everything in their power to stop the state from splitting up. That tells you how much they really care about representation.
“Which has fuck-all to do with anything.”
No, I read his message clearly ; it means that this small slice of the electorate – which they currently have no expectation to win over – will hold control of the senate. He, quite wisely, understands that it’s long past time for the (D) party to shut down the smug and at least start pretending to GAF what the rest of America needs to hear right now.
The house skews way more towards California than Wyoming so California has a much larger veto voting block on the house than Wyoming, who only controls 2% of the votes in the Senate
Carville was in charge of the Hillary campaign? I know he was Bill’s manager.
If so he suffered from the same problems in 2018.
Sorry he referenced the 2018 elections in the article not the 2016 prez election. I wonder why that is?
Van Gawfkhg
TheBern! is still going with billionaire* hate and the lie that the average person is not better off economically now as opposed to the last admin. I have to imagine the average person rolls their eyes when he speaks. But there are a lot of envious idiots out there.
*I wonder why no hate for millionaires anymore…
Inflation has devalued that level.
Dawn: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/n0r40d1
I always a Mary Ann guy. Ginger, who was hot and all, just never did it for me.
Dawn
Dawn, on their yeast infection.
I’ll just say it this way: The fate of the world depends on the Democrats getting their shit together and winning in November.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
+1 Most Important Election EVER!
Not yet, but give them time.
“Bernie’s labeled himself — not me — a democratic socialist. I think that’s the label the president’s going to lay on everyone running with Bernie if he’s the nominee.”
Creepy Joe is correct. But the label fits them as well.
“Eighty-six people die of coronavirus in a DAY in China as Beijing begins mass arrest of sufferers and videos shows hazmat suit-clad goons dragging people from their homes as the death toll hits 724”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7980883/Video-shows-officials-protective-suits-dragging-suspected-coronavirus-carriers-homes.html
This doesn’t look good.
Just think of it as a bad case of the flu, a really really deadly flu.
I don’t trust the Chinese numbers on how many and why they are dying
The flu is deadly enough to begin with.
Saw some of that yesterday. I am under the impression that it is worse than they are admitting.
It is absolutely worse than the Chinese Government admits. The signs are potentially orders of magnitude worse than the official numbers.
*adjusts tin foil chapeau*
I also believe this and the idea that this is not a naturally occurring virus.
This is going to be bad for the Chinese. It’s also going to have an impact on the world economy.
We haven’t seen the worst of it yet.
That’s lower than the numbers from the crematoria.
Caveat – The numbers I’ve seen from the crematoria were gathered by anti-communist chinese surveying the crematoria workers about their workload. Can’t vouch for the accuracy, but I also can’t believe any official numbers.
Getting sick of seeing the 2% bullshit number. Not only is % pretty fucking significant it appears to be about 15x worse than that. I think the US will be just fine, but the 3rd world is going to see a pretty big reduction in population. I can’t imagine how bad it would be if this got loose in India or Africa.
I haven’t been keeping up with the latest tracking, but I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t given Chinese business concerns in both areas. Travelers and flights must have gotten out to some of those regions before the clamp down…
They’re already in trouble and no manufacturer is immune. Supply chain are already disrupted to the point that Hyundai had to shut down in Korea from lack of parts.
This has all the markers of a bio-weapon which slipped out.
One question which I pose to people who try to play down that idea – so if this is just the normal, expected outcome of a huge, densely populated country with low levels of hygiene and sanitation then why don’t we see similar epidemics sprouting out of India every 5 to 10 years?
Because the transportation infrastructure of India compared to China is exponentially lower in sophistication, so the miasma stays relatively put.
Now answer my question. Why would a reasonable actor, as opposed to a doomsday cult, create a bioweapon and choose the most uncontrollable vector of transmission?
I think your question assumes that there’s a rational approach to developing bioweapons and not just a get me something that works attitude.
The Chinese have a very “get it done, I don’t really care how” approach to things.
But I get what you’re saying.
But that’s the thing. If you can’t control the transmission, it doesn’t “work”. You don’t want your soldiers catching it and bringing it back home.
I get it, but my observations from working in Chinese manufacturing indicate that the very obvious long term implications of an operational decision are often completely ignored in favor of a short term result. It appeared to be a completely cultural phenomenon.
Only if your troops are close enough to catch the virus. You release the virus way behind the lines and then the enemy has to spend resources containing and eliminating the virus. Those are resources they can’t use in other areas.
This (if it was a weapon) is not a precision weapon but an area of effect weapon. That can be useful. And if you don’t care about your troops or the people back home then it can be useful at the front as well.
For the record I don’t think it was designed as a weapon.
And that’s the thinking behind the BW that infect water supplies and livestock. Airborne and/or droplet transmission would be highly irresponsible as wind doesn’t care about borders or areas of control.
Now of course, BWs are aerosolized as part of the weaponization process. They couldn’t be delivered as easily otherwise, but after the initial infection, the routes or vectors of transmission are not airborne for the reasons I stated above. Look at the list of known biological agents, every single one of them is transmitted through water, insects, or direct contact with body fluid.
Considering they put their bioweapons lab in a heavily populated area, I’m not sure we can assume “rational actor”.
And yes, we did it too. So?
Note: I regard “escaped bioweapon” as a lower probablity than “bat soup”, but I’m not ruling it out, either. That report about how the genetics show 4 HIV markers is disturbing, to say the least.
Current “reports” are showing the virus has a 99% match to ones found in pangolins.
Of course, that’s a Chinese study so take it with a grain of ChiCom government approved salt.
Sure, anything is possible. I just find it highly improbable.
As far as that report, it’s basically the genetic version of the Bible Code. Simple combinatorics will tell you that there are only so many ways to combine A G T and C, in a long stream of code, like the genome of a virus, a certainty that you’re going to find a sequence that matches the RNA of another virus. There are other naturally-occurring viri that share markers with HIV. Indeed, it would make sense that both the Wuhan virus and HIV share markers as they both share the characteristic of being zoonotic.
This is why it is irresponsible and unethical to publish drafts of research on a topic like this before the peer review process.
There are other naturally-occurring viri that share markers with HIV.
Any other coronavirus with more than one?
Indeed, it would make sense that both the Wuhan virus and HIV share markers as they both share the characteristic of being zoonotic.
Plausible.
I’m just not ruling out that the ChiComs were experimenting with making HIV more transmissible. Stupid? Certainly. But if our military is stupid enough to do what Ozy has described to its own troops, I think the ChiComs are stupid enough to experiment with weaponizing HIV.
Airborne and/or droplet transmission would be highly irresponsible as wind doesn’t care about borders or areas of control.
Probably the strongest argument against this being an escaped bioweapon.
Peer review is horseshit; it has nothing to do with science. It is socialism infecting the scientific method. Consensus isn’t science – it is anti-science.
You seem to be suggesting that information should be controlled unless Top Men say it’s okay to be released. Maybe it isn’t a weapon – maybe it is. Maybe the Chinese have their own version of Bruce Ivins who wanted to “make the case” for some vaccine that the ChiComs wouldn’t.
You have the roughly the same understanding we do, which is to say, something just slightly above “none.” A variety of competing theories is the best way to eventually figure it out; not control over information that you disagree with by pointing to “peer review” as a justification for throttling it.
I wish this had gotten a reply.
Normally I roll my eyes when it comes to this sort of thing, but there have been some concerning leaks about the severity of this one.
Here’s another leak out of China. It could be dismissed if not for other similar data points.
Worth keeping an eye on, if nothing else.
“The candidates also sparred over issues related to race, with Steyer calling for reparations for African-Americans”
Feel free to open your own wallet, asshole. This whole narrative is historically ignorant. This and the 1619 project d-bags want to pretend that slavery wasn’t practiced in every culture all over the planet all throughout human history. There is still slavery in Africa. Maybe you could do something about that instead of fomenting racial animosity in the US. It would be immoral to steal from people who never owned slaves to give to people who were never enslaved.
Look, if you call it “buying votes using taxpayer money,” it would sound like it was illegal.
Impeach Steyer!
Abuse of power in an attempt to steal the 2020 election?
“Limbaugh has frequently referred to some feminists as “feminazis,” compared an adolescent Chelsea Clinton to a dog and said feminism “was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.””
And?
Racist, straight up.
No, wait – Hitler.
Hold on, I’ll get it…
Shorter version of last statement that I remember; feminism was established so ugly women could get dates.
Here’s another stupid thing: Democrats talking about free college tuition or debt forgiveness. I’m not here to debate the idea. What I can tell you is that people all over this country worked their way through school, sent their kids to school, paid off student loans. They don’t want to hear this shit. And you saw Warren confronted by an angry voter over this. It’s just not a winning message.
Listen, Carville, objective reality is too old fashioned. You can’t go around pointing out obviously true things. You’ll get booted out of the Party.
I’m paying mine now. The monthly bill is more than my mortgage, which is why I live in a modest house in a less than good but not bad neighborhood. Lying Liz can fuck off on giving freebies to degreed sjw’s.
Ditto.
Speaking of Democrat salvationists, the Bozeman teevee news ran a little thing about the Montana governor’s race, the other night. Bullock has timed out, so it’s wide open. They talked about Team D; I can only assume they had, or will, cover the Republicans on another show.
Anyway, I guess the Ds have whittled themselves down to two candidates, one of whom is a young-ish (40s, probably) woman who has that intensely sincere activist look (I haven’t washed or combed my hair in a week, because I’m so concerned about the future of the people of Montana that I just can’t find the time) down to a tee.
When they shove the microphone in her face, she immediately starts yelping breathlessly about how desperately we need to fully fund preschool and begin the mightily important job of educating our state’s four year olds.
And that’s when I threw my shoe at the teevee and yelled, “You stupid useless fucks can’t even educate fourTEEN year olds, and that’s actually part of your job now!”
It’s all about getting their tentacles into children as early as possible and addicting them to government.
That’s creepy.
It’s a jobs program first and foremost. Education of any kind is a secondary effect.
+1 “protestantization”
It’s also disguised free child care for “working parents.”
The sooner you get them the more effective the indoctrination will be.
I wish my state had term limits for governor.
No matter how bad the coronavirus gets, just count yourself lucky you aren’t on the cruise ship from hell:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-61-passengers-test-positive-quarantined-cruise-ship-japan/
Talk about a fucked up vacation.
I’ve never understood the appeal of cruise ships.
What? No appeal of being trapped on a giant apartment block in the water with a bunch of entitled people?
I want to travel where I want to go, and get away from people.
As an introvert, I’d rather be shot than go on a cruise, even one of the nice coronavirus free ones.
I always referred to it as “a crowded, mediocre hotel that you can’t leave.” Emphasis on “crowded,” which the promo shots never seem to indicate.
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/cruise-ship-sex-stories
So they’re floating chlamydia incubators. That’s about what I figured.
I thought the same until I went on one. Hell, my ideal vacation would be to be kidnapped at night, and dropped off in a strange country with only the clothes on my back, a canteen of water, and twenty dollars. That said, a week of being pampered, laying around, drinking, and occasionally wandering off the boat to explore some new place is pretty swell.
I did the all-expenses-included stay in a Caribbean resort, and I enjoyed the hakuna matata and free flowing tropical beverages.
However, I flew there and back. I just couldn’t do a cruise. Feels too trapped.
I have a friend who is supposed to be on that ship in the next few weeks. I was trying to convince her to cancel her cruise. Not for fear of contacting the virus from the ship itself, but because of the risk of contacting it from other passengers.
The boat will also Smell like a bleach bucket.
Oh hell no
They’re lucky the ship is anchored in the port of a major, industrialized nation with a health care system which should be able to provide the best care they could hope for. I can imagine a number of other ports in Asia where that wouldn’t be the case.
Shanghai?
You come in to be treated for coronavirus and leave as a labor camp prisoner.
Lol.
As an introvert, I’d rather be shot than go on a cruise, even one of the nice coronavirus free ones.
#METOO
So introverted you can’t even thread with other people!
OMWC, was your hike done with a destination in mind or was it simply a random walk?
TBH, we’re just now leaving. Usery Mountains, no real destination, we’re just going to do a trail for fun, exercise, scenery, and conversation. We were on one of the trails last weekend and were huffing and puffing by the time we reached the summit, so clearly we need to get out more.
Why am I not surprised (((you))) are up in the Usury Mountains? :-p
They’re really going there to set up a fake toll booth to fleece the tourists.
+1 LePetomaine Thruway
It’s a great time of the year to get out there and huff and puff. Us poor bastards in the NE are struggling to walk between the snow and rain.
Summer is a different story as you know.
Shot out of a cannon, that is.
How is Klobuchar still in this and is she the more ‘sane’ among them despite being one mean boss? What do the Minny boys think of her?
Maybe she’s vying for a VP gig.
I just know there’s a joke to be made with her and her name but I haven’t figured it out. I’m not a talented person but this is a toughie.
Clit Butcher?
Ow.
She’s a “funny” lady.
You know, “funny”
Klobuchar’s claim to fame in Minnesoooda is that her father was a beloved sports writer for the Star Tribune, the state’s leading newspaper. So when she ran for US Senate, of course she got the Star Tribune’s full-throated endorsement. And thus she won.
Since taking office, all she has done is rubber stamp every Dem initiative that crosses her desk. I don’t think she has a mind of her own.
Feature, not bug.
“Facebook=Fake News. They are is telling people that the accurate information in my news report about vote flipping in Iowa is false.
My news report was flagged by a guy name Ryan Cooper who works for CNN and supports Buttigieg.
This is how the Establishment rigs elections.”
https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1225879292157939712
Dore’s a good egg even though most of his politics and economics are shit.
Everything is done by individuals. We like to use organizations as shorthand. Time after Time I see how that shorthand fails to capture some of the important nuances in politics. All individuals have their biases, so if you give more credence to some class of people ( e.g journalists) don’t be surprised when the things you give them power over start to bear out their biases.
Weren’t they just saying the other day that Facebook is “right wing” because they won’t take down “false” advertising?
What a difference a week makes.
National guard tank flies anarchist flag:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32102/the-crew-of-this-army-national-guard-m1-abrams-tank-flies-an-anarchist-flag-in-kuwait
The person who wrote this Hasn’t got a clue. Anarchy is a common callsign for A Company/Troop/Battery. This becomes clear when he doesn’t get the joke behind naming one tank “Circled X”.
So someone does an article on it so now they have to change it. F’g bullshit.
I have a Dutch friend. Buys into the whole Democrat and left-wing narratives hook, line and sinker. There’s no real way to explain to him what’s going on in not just the USA but Canada. To him, Trump is the devil racist incarnate period. Try and tell me ‘controlling the narrative’ in media doesn’t exist. Mind you, Europe has its growing share of ‘Trumps’ now.
What’s perplexing though is it’s not like there aren’t great political news services and youtube channels offering different perspectives and better journalism than the crap we consider ‘reliable, respectable, objective’ etc. There’s really no excuse to at least read, for example, the Charlottesville speech for yourself to see they lie to you about it. There’s no excuse to keep pimping the ‘racist’ canon with the policies in place. There’s no excuse to believe the Russian investigation and impeachment fabrications and hysterics.
None. Zero. Zilch.
At this point, the truth (whatever it is) will never out. The system will always protect itself. The Republicans are ultimately no more concerned with being honest and transparent than the Democrats are. They’ve continued to fund and empower, at increasing levels no less, all of the elements of government that are at fault. When people have been held accountable and terminated, they’ve nevertheless been allowed to land elsewhere in the periphery of government courtiers and evade actual responsibility.
Don’t they become consultants or become partners in law firms?
Its comments like this that solidify my apathy.
Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Mate have been the two most effective wreckers of the Muh Russia narrative. Maybe he should check them out.
I pointed to them. It’s like they don’t want to hear or believe there’s another side.
Orange Man Bad is all the excuse people need. He’s their Hitler. He is the perfect straw man. They can put all of the fault, all of their misery and pain on one person. He’d better be responsible for their reality, because it sure can’t be their fault.
Trump as Hitler gives an easy moral standard to a generation that has no ethical foundation.
So. Much. This.
Here in Quebec, they got rid of religion in classes. No more Catholic instruction. It was replaced by a secular ‘ethics and religious culture’ obviously written by god-less bureaucrats and probably ‘ethicists’ (who I would never let through my door).
And now they’re talking about removing that.
Do they not realize they’re producing people with no moral and spiritual compass?
Why do you think people replace their religion with another? Today, they traded it for stuff like the secular climate change religion.
Not saying you can’t build an ethical without religion but whatever we replaced it with isn’t working. It’s actually worse.
They want to include ’21st century themes’ to replace the ERC course.
How’s that for a ‘what can go wrong’ chilling phrase?
She’s right.
Everton proving me right again…
You were wrong, but the rest of the EPL is making you right.
Although we have to wait a week, to see if we made up any ground. Accept Sheff U plays tomorrow.
Except, also dont tell me how quickly to post.
And then, there’s this, from the little Vox dweeb:
I take all your points about power and the Senate and the need to be a majoritarian party. I just wonder where the limits are, especially in this media ecosystem where even the best Democratic messaging gets deformed and bastardized in right-wing media and thus never reaches the people Democrats need to reach, or at least doesn’t reach enough of them.
“How are we ever going to dupe the rubes into voting for us, if the vast right wing media machine keeps telling them them what we’re really up to? That’s, like, not fair!”
Yeah, that was the line that got me, too. The Left so thoroughly dominate Media that it’s laughable. FFS, in the 1990’s a survey found that something like 90+% of media members identified themselves as “liberal,” but yeah, it’s totally all of the right wing indoctrination that’s keeping D’s from winning. And these people can’t understand why a huge swath of the electorate have tuned them out.
To a commie, the mere existence of an alternative point of view ruins their perfect system.
These are the people who seriously truly believe that Ukranian peasants selling chicken eggs to their neighbors broke their perfect economic system.
Like, capitalism can survive communist academics, communist labor union heads, communist senior government officials, but somehow communism, the perfect superior system, is laid low by Ivan selling chicken eggs to Gregoriy.
Presuppositional apologetics isn’t just for Christians and Hoppeans.
“Ilhan Omar Accused Of Appropriating Alabama Culture By Marrying Relative
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Ilhan Omar has been accused of marrying her brother, a serious allegation. But even more serious is the allegation that by so doing, she may have appropriated Alabama culture.
“Ilhan Omar is a disgrace to our country since she married her—hey, wait a minute, that’s our thing!” said one man in Alabama. “Stop appropriating Southern culture!”
“Appropriating ? Alabama ? culture ? is ? not ? OK ?!” wrote one social justice advocacy group on Twitter. “Not only do Southerners have to contend with non-Southerners saying ‘y’all’ and drinking sweet tea, but now their marital practices are being colonialized by cis POC women.”
Omar was also spotted driving a 1969 Dodge Charger with a confederate flag on the top.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-omar-accused-of-appropriating-southern-culture-by-marrying-relative
Damn, I love the Bee.
Hey! Whoever our Bee lurker is – I’m looking for work!! I give TPTB my permission to give our Bee lurker my email addy – and a writing sample of something approaching funny that I’ve written here.
As a proud southerner, my cousin-wife and I find that offensive.
If a man and a woman get married in Tennessee and later divorce in Oregon, are they still brother and sister?
Lol
Trump as Hitler gives an easy moral standard to a generation that has no ethical foundation.
Intellectual laziness is not merely tolerated, it is essential to them. They have been educated(!) to reduce everything to the simplest, handiest, lowest common denominator. Black or white, no greys permitted. That’s why they exhibit such an intense visceral rage at statements like “Good people on both sides.”
There can be no good people on the other side. People used to accuse Booooosh of being an anti-intellectual Manichean simpleton. They derived a sort of autoerotic ecstasy from saying that, but simpleminded Manicheanism seems to be the unassailable foundation of thought in the DemocraticSocialist/Progressive mind.
Remember “Dissent is not Treason”? Now it’s “Hate Speech is not Free Speech” wherein Dissent = Hate Speech, always and everywhere.
Get out! Are you telling me that certain letter combinations have different pronunciations in not-English than in English?! I’m glad there are Van Gogh experts around to set us straight!
It’s clearly Van Joe
I thought it was Van Ho.
Fan Goff
She’s a “funny” lady.
You know, “funny”
She’s a mom. She can do stuff. Are you trying to belittle the lived experience of moms who can do stuff?
She’s gonna make you sorry you said that. Real sorry.
Preemptive strike.
https://youtu.be/LvB2MnIIdMw
Getting into wife’s Beaver. Lol.
https://youtu.be/TRozAbaKs9M
Related.
Snow. Big fat spring snowflakes. The kind so wet they stick to the windows.
And that’s the weather. Back to you, Suzy.
Shit, just looked outside. Coming down here too. Have had a little accumulation. I think I’ll just stay in cook up some bacon and eggs and get my drink on. Hopefully we won’t get enough that I have to shovel the driveway.
New Paul Harrell video on the Ruger 5.7 pistol:
https://youtu.be/FH0Xhh6XOI0
I’m jonesing for one of these pretty bad for some reason.
Paul Harrell/Meat Target 2020!
Never change, CNN:
The elite group also includes Sam Walton, Paul Harvey, Bill Cosby, and Gloria and Emilio Estefan.
And don’t forget the pederast and Jim Jones fan that Obama gave it to.
Good morning Old Man!
It’s cool here, too. As in -2 degrees (in freedom units, naturally). Happily, the sun is out and the wind is calm, so it’s actually quite pleasant.
Enjoy your hike!
9 above here!
*Nelson laugh*
To be sure, due process sounds like a good idea…
“Due process,” used in this way, suggests rationality at work in the face of hysterical excess. It suggests objectivity. And it outsources justice, that broad aim, to the criminal trial. (Many cases of sexual misconduct will not, because they cannot, be decided in the courts.) Due process would seem innocuous and inarguable—a constitutional affordance, a claim of equality, a testament to the rule of law. Used as a talking point, though, it often does something else: It argues that some claims to justice are worthier than others. It makes a case for the status quo. That is why you see it invoked by Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer; that is also why you might have seen it invoked over the past few months, in the service of arguments that impeachment had been unfairly dismissive of Donald Trump’s interests. This is not due process used as a tool of justice. This is due process wielded as a weapon.
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No person shall be deprived “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Due process suggests the comforts of idealized thinking, summoning notions of equality and fairness and the sanctity of facts. It may be rooted in reason; in practice, though, it can look like what it has during Weinstein’s trial: a perpetuation of harm.
tl;dr- Due process is just patriarchal tricknology to make the victim re-live her pain and shame. It’s not fair to the accuser to allow big meanie defense lawyers (some of whom are gender traitors, obviously willing to whore themselves out for a few pieces of silver) cross examine them.
The Sixth Amendment should probably be repealed.
The only acceptable due process is a summary guilty verdict. Plus, have you seen what an uggmo Weinstein is? Why should he get a fair shake?
That, my friends, is how you know that leftists would have zero problem putting you against a wall to achieve their political ends and to destroy opposition to their power.
“Free speech suggests the comforts of idealized thinking, summoning notions of equality and fairness and the sanctity of facts. It may be rooted in reason; in practice, though, it can look like what it has during Trump’s presidency: a perpetuation of harm.”
“The right to bear arms suggests the comforts of idealized thinking, summoning notions of equality and fairness and the sanctity of facts. It may be rooted in reason; in practice, though, it can look like what it has during America’s epidemic of mass shootings: a perpetuation of harm.”
“Freedom of religion suggests the comforts of idealized thinking, summoning notions of equality and fairness and the sanctity of facts. It may be rooted in reason; in practice, though, it can look like what it has during America’s clash with Islamic extremism: a perpetuation of harm.”
“The right to peaceful assembly suggests the comforts of idealized thinking, summoning notions of equality and fairness and the sanctity of facts. It may be rooted in reason; in practice, though, it can look like what it has during America’s infatuation with nationalistic Trump rallies: a perpetuation of harm.”
And?
/Vox
Virginia state government, anyone?
Climate Change Activists Begin Licking Doorknobs To Contract Coronavirus And Reduce Human Population
*unzips*
I don’t care if it’s the Bee. That’s fap worthy.
So… Van Cock?
It actually kind of sounds like that in Dutch, just harder.
Goebbels in the social media age
The story that unfurled in my Facebook feed over the next several weeks was, at times, disorienting. There were days when I would watch, live on TV, an impeachment hearing filled with damning testimony about the president’s conduct, only to look at my phone later and find a slickly edited video—served up by the Trump campaign—that used out-of-context clips to recast the same testimony as an exoneration. Wait, I caught myself wondering more than once, is that what happened today?
As I swiped at my phone, a stream of pro-Trump propaganda filled the screen: “That’s right, the whistleblower’s own lawyer said, ‘The coup has started …’ ” Swipe. “Democrats are doing Putin’s bidding …” Swipe. “The only message these radical socialists and extremists will understand is a crushing …” Swipe. “Only one man can stop this chaos …” Swipe, swipe, swipe.
I was surprised by the effect it had on me. I’d assumed that my skepticism and media literacy would inoculate me against such distortions. But I soon found myself reflexively questioning every headline. It wasn’t that I believed Trump and his boosters were telling the truth. It was that, in this state of heightened suspicion, truth itself—about Ukraine, impeachment, or anything else—felt more and more difficult to locate. With each swipe, the notion of observable reality drifted further out of reach.
What I was seeing was a strategy that has been deployed by illiberal political leaders around the world. Rather than shutting down dissenting voices, these leaders have learned to harness the democratizing power of social media for their own purposes—jamming the signals, sowing confusion. They no longer need to silence the dissident shouting in the streets; they can use a megaphone to drown him out. Scholars have a name for this: censorship through noise.
They’re using their propaganda mills to drown out our propaganda mills. That’s a war crime.
I’d assumed that my skepticism and media literacy would inoculate me against such distortions.
*slaps knee, guffaws*
“the notion of observable reality drifted further out of reach”
I feel the same way watching/reading CNN.
Nobody said I had to think!
I would watch, live on TV, an impeachment hearing filled with damning testimony about the president’s conduct,
Weren’t most of the actual impeachment hearings in the House closed-door affairs?
a slickly edited video—served up by the Trump campaign—that used out-of-context clips to recast the same testimony as an exoneration
Whycome OrangeManBad defend himself?
You can have a gun, but it won’t be operable when you need it.
A bill that would create a series of gun storage requirements drew hundreds of gun control activists to the Capitol Wednesday as lawmakers prepared for a public hearing on the bill later this week.
“Secure storage is a simple and common-sense way for gun owners to be responsible with their firearms,” said Hilary Uhlig, leader of the Oregon chapter of Moms Demand Action. “This bill will encourage responsible behavior and make sure people are held accountable.”
House Bill 4005 would require that when a gun is not being carried, it is secured with either a trigger or cable lock or in a locked container.
Firearms must be secured in a similar manner while being transferred.
If a gun is not stored in the manner described and later stolen and used to injure a person or property within two years, the gun owner is liable for that injury.
Nothing says “encourage” like the mandate of the law. (ironically, with the implied gun to your head) And you get to be responsible for someone else’s crime. I wonder if these people also think a vehicle owner should be liable for someone who steals his/her car and drives it through a crowd…
My hypothetical firearm is secured with a restraining order. That magic piece of paper is sitting right under it in the nightstand. It can’t possibly harm anyone now!
Common sense!
I said I was sorry!
If someone steals a gun with a trigger lock on it and can defeat the lock at their leisure it’ll be a small matter to do so. At least they’ll get to throw some innocent burglary victims in jail.
throw some innocent burglary victims in jail
Governor Klansman, you are wanted at the courtesy phone!
I wonder if these people also think a vehicle owner should be liable for someone who steals his/her car and drives it through a crowd…
They don’t think. They lie and their only aim is to make gun ownership as difficult and painful as possible until they can outright ban all firearms.
This
Van Gogh
…to-the-polls.
Howdy! another cold but beautiful day in BhC! OMWC complains to much about the Weather, today we play Riverview, then off to Kingman to play Firefighters park,
after I wake up,
Trump’s Power Doubles After Absorbing Impeachment Attack
‘Everything Is Fine,’ Dems Report
As usual, the Bee is on a roll.
I can picture Schiff on the phone being interviewed, running out of excuses, and firing away at the phone with his blaster while muttering “Boring conversation anyway.”
*snort*
Online is forever, people forget that….
Went out for some drinks with a friend and his Japanese sports agent buddy. Get a few beverages in us and he goes on a spiel about how Japanese athletes like Ichiro make up for their physical deficits by embracing the 道 or “do” way of practicing. After a few minutes, I just couldn’t take any more of it. According to this guy, the only reason athletes like Ichiro could succeed is because of their superior training methods. IOW the Japanese martial way of training or “do”. I point out that East Asians actually have on average a faster reaction time and that this end of the bell curve would be an advantage for Japanese players that hit for average instead of power. Just blind stare back in response and push back from the other white guy at the table. “You’re saying that all Japanese people have faster reaction times than white people?!” It was a dumb argument from all angles.
UFC.
Right? Weight classes mean something.
Yet, Africans and Europeans have a higher percentage of fast-twitch muscle fiber over slow-twitch muscle fiber compared to Asians.
we have Florida Man! to make up the difference..
Sounds legit to me. Let’s have that discussion rather than, “The Japanese have all the genetic dice against their favor, yet through their cunning they are able to beat the big, bad gaijin.”
Blame Confucianism. There are a lot of studies that look at how East Asian cultures attribute efficacy compared to the West. Sometimes it works in their favor, sometimes it doesn’t. Still, performance is a multivariate phenomenon. Culture, as well as genetics, matters. With their slow-twitch muscle fiber, you would expect Asians to dominate endurance sports, yet Kenyans keep winning marathons. Likewise, I’ve never heard of the Jamaican Olympic Table Tennis team winning any medals, despite the advantage fast-twitch muscle fiber would give for power swings.
“yet Kenyans keep winning marathons”
I remember when I was kid that this was attributed to the Kenyans training at high altitude. I have no idea whether that is accurate or not but 12 yo me thought it was very scientific.
. Still, performance is a multivariate phenomenon.
That was exactly my point. I brought up the table tennis angle just to see how he’d address it. I wasn’t even dismissing his argument that “do” is a good way to approach athletics. It’s a lot more complicated than saying we are the physically less gifted, but smarter.
Culture, as well as genetics, matters.
I would argue it matters the most. Why are there so many successful Canadian hockey players? It sure ain’t their superior genetic makeup!
Depends on the sport and do cultures create sports that magnify their genetic abilities or do cultures excel at sports because they focus on those sports? I don’t know the answer, but I do know that Japanese aren’t the genetic weaklings of the world.
Poutine and Tim Horton’s?
Yes, and cigarettes.
“You’re saying that all Japanese people have faster reaction times than white people?!”
“No, but I’m starting think they understand math better than white people.”
Never talk averages with the below average.
Do or Don’t, to Try is to invite failure, maybe that’s what they mean,
/My Dad, Not a fucking puppet on a screen,
Do or do not, there is no try – Master Yoda
Fucking Puppet on a screen,
My Dad’s advice,
I’ll take Pops
They definitely have better queueing skills.
So yesterday, youtube, via the roku, gakked up a video from some guy about building a workbench. I decided to watch it. I watch lots of weird interesting videos about the stuff people build. Ordinarily, these sorts of projects will elicit, at best, a half-hearted “That’s nice” at their conclusion. This one got a
“Holy shit.
I
want
that.”
You could rebuild the V12 Merlin out of your Spitfire on it. You could take the drawers out, and use it as a bomb shelter.
The frame is steel, and it has about two dozen shallow drawers for tools and what not. The top looks like it was made out of two-by-twelves, run through the planer and edge glued. It is a serious piece of work. I might have to build one (as soon as I teach myself to build drawers). The only thing I’d do differently is put wheels on it.
* I’d link to it, but I couldn’t conjure it up on the computer.
Ya damn tease!!!!
YouTube has an odd mix of sometimes giving you exactly what you want and other times making it almost impossible to find what you’re looking for, even if what you’re looking for is a video you just watched.
I went looking for it, found this, and forgot what I was looking for.
Wood.
What were we talking about, again?
State park lodge weekend getaway, Day Deux: After yesterday’s sunny drive here, this morning we’re getting light and pretty snow. Went out for a bit of a walk in it, and now we’re lake-gazing again from the lobby rocking chairs. With all due respect to those forced to drive in this weather, it’s worked out very well for us, and that’s what’s important, now isn’t it?
Hey OWMC, you should ask your Dutchie buddy about my favorite Dutch expression, “voor het zingen, de kerk uit.” It literally means “get out of church before the singing starts”. When the singing starts there in church the collection plate gets passed around. It has another meaning though and he will be guaranteed to laugh if you bust it out.
OMWC and his friend are livestreaming, you know.
Heh,heh. You’re going to massacre my YouTube feed.
https://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/
Ja! Dank je wel. Fun website.
Q: What’s the difference between Epstein and the Democrat Party?
A: Epstein didn’t kill himself
ALOL
*sensible chuckle*
I went looking for it, found this, and forgot what I was looking for.
I, erm, what were we talking about?
The New Yank-it Workshop
Talk about pushing all the right buttons
She said ‘pocket screw’,. heh heh
Found it!
Had to go back to roku youtube channel and hunt.
The Killer workbench.
It’s a Mimic?!
Robertson, Phillips, and the History of the Screwdriver
Actually very interesting.
Actually very interesting.
That one has floated by a few times, but I haven’t watched it, yet. One of these days.
Left over ziti with marinara, ricotta, and Italian sausage may not have been the best breakfast choice after a night of drinking.
*runs to bathroom*