It’s Bible Story time again, kids. And this week’s Torah reading is from a section called Behar-Bekhukosai, which has some of the dumbest laws ever handed down from Sinai. Judging from contemporary news, you might then assume that “Behar” means “stunningly stupid,” but boringly, it means “on the mountain.” One interesting bit that the Torah leaves out- Moses was up there for 40 days. What did he do about pissing and shitting? I mean, c’mon, trying to take a piss when someone is watching is difficult at the best of times, but try doing it with YAHWEH watching. “Sorry, Dude, but when you gotta go, you gotta go.”
The whole name thing is odd here, anyway. Behar is a sedra (weekly Torah portion) and so is Bekhukosai. But because (((we))) want things to come out even over the course of the year, and because Behar is the shortest sedra in Vayikrah (that’s Leviticus to you foreskinned heathens), and Vayikrah is all about detailed regulation, there’s an elaborate formula to see if it can be shoved together with the somewhat longer Bekhukosai to form the hyphenated Behar-Bekhukosai. Some years, it is, some years, it isn’t. It seems like poor planning, but it’s all part of the weird Lunar calendar thing (((we))) do, where there’s shit like leap months because the timekeeping is so sloppy. And lucky us, this is the year for the Biblical portmanteau!
In the Behar part, there’s two basic concepts involved here: sabbatical and jubilee. And both are based on the notion of the number seven being somehow magic. After six years of planting and harvest, you’re supposed to let everything go for the seventh year. Anything that grows can be picked and eaten by anyone else, but YOU can’t plant and YOU can’t pick. Now, you might ask, how the fuck am I going to eat during this year? Well, the suggestion in the sedra is that in Year Six, Yahweh will make sure you grow three years worth of food, so you can live off that. Now, with no fresh fruit or vegetables, it would seem like a pretty dull diet, but this brings in my idea: go grab fruit and vegetables from your neighbors. I mean, they can’t pick it, so it may as well be you. Of course, the concept of everyone living off volunteer growth is questionable and likely to lead to some lean and hungry Jews, if that Year Six deal doesn’t pan out. But (((we))) never said that (((our))) lives were easy. As a wine geek, I don’t favor letting a potentially great vintage go to waste if that’s where the weather falls in Sabbatical, but presumably Yahweh saves the rain and hail for just such occasions.
Goofier yet is the Jubilee, which is seven sevens of years. All debts are canceled, showing that Yahweh is indeed a Democrat. Good luck getting a loan in Year 48. Worse yet, all property reverts to whoever’s ancestral land it is, which certainly works to preserve wealth inequality. And depress real estate sales. Hmmm, maybe Yahweh is a Republican.
Now here’s the best part, and really the point of this Jewsday: Bekhukosai assigns values to human lives. There IS precedent to the “Negroes are worth 3/5 of a white man” and “Woman are paid 70 cents to a man’s dollar.” And the precedent is right here. (((We))) invented it.
Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When a man expresses a vow of lives to Yahweh, the value of a male shall be as follows: From twenty years old until sixty years old, the value is fifty silver shekels, according to the holy shekel; And if she is a female, the value is thirty shekels;
Three fifths! That’s only 60 cents to the dollar! Women here in the US have it good.
And from five years old until twenty years old, the value of a male shall be twenty shekels, while that of a female shall be ten shekels;
50 cents on the dollar! This is someone who clearly has had to deal with teenage girls. And comparing it to the previous valuations, MILFs must have been much more prized than the young stuff.
And from one month old until five years old, the value of a male shall be five silver shekels, while the value of a female shall be three silver shekels;
They clearly didn’t much care for kids back then. Dime a dozen.
And for sixty years old or over, if it is a male, the value shall be fifteen shekels, while for a female, it shall be ten shekels.
I feel… worthless now. But at least the women my age are even more worthless.
There’s no mention of racial differences, but I suppose that the value of goyim was essentially zero, regardless of their color or gender.
And because I always try to leave you with a song, here’s a Rammstein cover. In Yiddish.
I almost want to not be first out of pity for the rest of you. I mean, how does it feel to be so not first?
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
I don’t mind having your back bro – and no, of course I don’t have a gun barrel pointed center of your torso. No don’t turn around, you can trust me.
Somebody refresh my memory about TOS. Wasn’t there a commenter that seemed to be 1st an inordinate amount of time? Who was that?
Fist of Etiquette. Likely a staffer.
That’s the one. I seem to remember he/she being accused of having inside info. Thanks OMWC
At some point it was confirmed that Fist is Tim Cavanaugh.
That’s the fuckwad who banned me.
Maybe Brochettaward is also Tim Cavanaugh. Has anyone ever seen the two of them together?
You deserved it.
Wait, what? When? Why? How did I miss that?
Probably before your time (I used a different handle then), 2006.
2006? that was like the wild west. How would one go about getting banned when you could actively change your name on every post?
I had to change my IP address, clear cookies, and adopt another handle to get past the Ban screen. Which I did, then outlasted Kavanaugh.
We’re all just glad we’re not Broktard.
I’m sorry, but who are you again? Did I rebuff your homosexual advances at one point or something?
Don’t worry, bro, we all respect your homosexuality, ain’t nothing wrong with that.
Amen. Butt sex is one of the 3 Pillars of Libertarianism.
Ass, grass, or Mexicans, nobody rides for free!
ain’t nothing wrong with that.
And now we’re movin’ on up!
Awesome! Yiddish Polka!
I love Polka…
An acquaintance of mine plays in the Jimmy Sturr Orchestra.
Cool!
And comparing it to the previous valuations, MILFs must have been much more prized than the young stuff.
I’m conflicted. A part wants to argue but another part wants to go with it.
Some women are more understanding than others
Everyone in that story is cracked.
Not this?
That was lovely.
Du bist
So, I can’t take my own crops. Neither can my neighbors because they’re all (((them))). But they can take mine and I can take theirs?
Yahweh has a sense of humor.
It surpasseth all understanding… or something does, anyway.
If you let it go fallow it’s not really a ‘crop’. They are basically stealing your weeds.
I’m actually going to be entertained if the re-opening states have less deaths than the cower-in-place ones as the summer passes.
It’s all a fake numbers game. Expect to be entertained. Expect to be lied to, by everyone.
*Adjusts tinfoil*
What I’m wondering is what to think the day our governor actually speaks the truth.
*If* that happens, prepare for the rapture…
Bring bacon and bourbon. ?
As long as you’re comparing states with similar death rates. As it stands, the sure-to-cower states tend to have higher death rates anyway.
Im gonna OT real quick. Trying to explain qualified immunity to someone who doesn’t know what it is. I can quote law or supreme ccourt cases, but someone have a synopsis of why it is bad? or good?
It’s good because some people should be above the law.
You’re a dangerous man.
You got that right.
People that are subject to no consequences for bad behavior have no reason to not behave badly. All gain and no pain.
It’s horrific because it insulates government officials whom WE, The People, pay with our tax dollars from being accountable to their bosses. It’s like paying all of the bills associated with owning a company – the initial startup capital, the taxes, the licenses, the monthly nut, payroll, all of it – except that the employees can light the building on fire, rape other employees, shoot them, shoot their dogs, etc. and there’s nothing you can do to stop them. You can’t fire them or hold them accountable. Oh, and you have to pay the damages for their misbehavior, too. Because they’re special and you’re just there to foot the bills.
That’s what “sovereign immunity” is, in a nutshell. It’s a legal holdover from the time of the British monarchy that we fought a war to abolish, but the lawyers forgot about, so it’s been enshrined in our law. It’s just this side of the Dred Scott decision for legal abominations, yet it persists among serious lawyers and the entire academic legal community.
Like most of the worst doctrines, sovereign immunity has a little bit of a nugget of truth that its built around.
Government, at its most basic, exists in the middle of conflicts. Often those conflicts involve the collision of rights and/or ambiguity about rights. If the government were liable for every abridgement of rights it causes, it would quickly cease to function. Ancaps may cheer, but minarchists should pause. If the nightwatchman ends up having to defend himself in court every time he shoots a ruffian, he’s gonna become less effective.
That said, I concur that sovereign immunity is an abomination. If the government is “us”, then it can’t do anything that “we” cant.
QI would be a decent compromise if in fact that Q was enforced. Insulate the police from the second guessing over reasonable errors in judgment, while allowing the prosecution of the cop when he acts unreasonably. The problem is that between prosecutors, judges, and ordinary citizen copsucking we have stretched the definition of reasonable past all recognition. The standard for what makes a right ‘clearly established’ is insane.
Talk about surpasseth all understanding…
I’m getting blasted in the local online paper over this one because I’m not a copsucker
but there’s no way our neighbors want to take responsibility for the overreaches by police directly brought on by their insistence that government solve every little problem. They don’t want to look in the mirror, see that the War on X has terrible residues everywhere.
People cling to things they need emotionally, even when they don’t work, even when they prove to be dangerous and self-dealing. Add the benefit of putting punks in their place, stomping on minorities, or owning the libs and everyone goes full wood for Team Barney.
Pretty much this.^^^
Trashy and Atty Flax are both correct, of course, although I used to be of that mind (and having served as a prosecutor, I can remember being able to articulate the need for it quite well when I needed to), HOWEVER, having spent a significant amount of time since then as a defense attorney and ordinary citizen, I have to say that given what I’ve seen now, no fucking way. My default is now to zero compromise. Fuck you – you don’t get magic rights because you don a robe or a tacticool uniform. YOU’RE ONE OF US, YOU FUCKING MARTINET. The productive class pays your fucking salary. Of course, the fact that the cops have a union and it’s one of the most important political endorsements there is for a politician (especially governor) and then that same governor (we’re supposed to believe) then negotiates at arm’s length (LOL) with the
taxpayers’serfs’ money with the same union that he publicly fellated. And wouldn’t ya know, the cops have a better retirement than a guy who does 7 tours in Iraq and is missing a foot! Quelle surprise.So yeah, now my default is fuck them – all of them. We would see a lot fewer people killed by our overlords – and chucked in jail – if they actually had to think of the consequences of their actions. Par exemple, I was once reading comments on a very informative Youtube video about types of ammo, specifically conerns by citizens about round penetration in home defense scenarios. i.e. Kids’ room is north of where bad guy is in a hallway and you have to give some consideration to geometry and what precisely that drywall will stop if you’re firing hydrashocks and kids may be moving around. Anyway, one of the first things I notice is the guy in the comments who’s pooh-pooing concerns and his diction and tone is completely LEO. I notice he’s also got one of those “lawdog212” usernames. Maybe an impostor? Not so sure – I’ve heard guys on SWAT teams also dismiss such concerns because they just don’t fucking care; they know they’ll never get called on it. I’m aware of information that they executed a guy – a dirtbag, absolutely no question about it – but what was reported in the news was not what happened. I can’t say how I know, but I KNOW they executed that guy.
Finally, Albert J. Nock has a great story in “Our Enemy the State” and the crux of it philosophically is “From whence do the police’s powers come? Where do they acquire the ability to arrest, to detain, to use lethal force against other citizens? What is the source of their authority?” Nock’s story was his assertion that any citizen has the same powers of arrest that the police do. Again, they’re just people working for an organization, that We, the People, created. It goes against everything in the Constitution to suggest that they have some super-citizen authority, but that’s where we are now. Govt officials have arrogated to themselves the idea that they are super-citizens and we are lessers, tax cattle, who are obligated to follow their rules.
We’re seeing this play out in real time right now. If they believed differently, they would behave differently.
Harlow v. Fitzgerald
It’s a short circuit so some judge doesn’t have a convoluted arm-wavey reason and can go strait to FYTW
Say “Diplomatic Immunity” with a South African accent.
How’d that crusty, old red-headed dude whip Martin’s ass? Seriously–Martin ‘Special Forces’ Riggs got his ass stomped by some quasi-geriatric SA freak? That’s what they went with?
Maybe they thought the audience was still trippin’ over Patsy Kensit…
Well, Lethal Weapon 2 was back in the old days, when action stars actually had injuries at the end of the movie when they fought the big bad.
Ehh, I don’t recall him being so injured that Hoppy McVanderSloot’s stunt double could get the drop on him like he did. Yeah, he got the knife in the leg, but, that doesn’t seem like it would be a fight equalizer for Riggs.
Then again, I’m not Shane Black. There; I said it.
Agree to disagree. He looks pretty worse for the wear after the fight. And of course the famous line my dad and I used to shout at each other occurs.
Thanks all!
There ain’t no value on a man, and if you don’t agree, I’ll shoot you in the face.
Buzzards gotta eat..
Did I just agree with Hyperbole? the end is nigh, sheep and kittens lying together, frogs leaving the pond.
No. I’m saying a man has value as buzzard food, so it’s all good, we still disagree and you are still wrong.
Of course, I was expecting you to say that before you said it. And so was everyone else.
*spits on dog*
Hudson River angler lands huge striped bass: ‘It’s a day I’ll never forget’
The best part?
Legend.
21ft so they could social distance, right? Or at least that’s what he told the wifey.
Lots of room for that gun collection that, unfortunately, fell overboard when they were reeling in the bass.
Was he running for office?
Love this feature. Thanks, OM.
Just wondering – is there any rite to make your (((Russian ex))) suck your dick? Because that bitch owes me.
Titties to make Q (and every other guy crazy. Worthless bitch as a human.
When I first saw them, the first thought I had was a lyric from an NWA rap – (Nobody Move)
“Biggest titties a n****** ever saw.”
Okay, have I offended everyone yet? I’m not supposed to leave until everyone’s offended.
California can’t fall into the sea fast enough.
Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.
That is down right insane.
Musk needs to leave now. Of course they aren’t going to arrest you. Get the fuck out of there and you’re a national hero.
Meh, no one is forced to live in California or LA county, if that’s the way they want to govern themselves, that’s on them. I see no reason to wish them to be wiped of the face of the earth.
Love it Leave it!
More or less…or change it if you live there. My beef is with people who don’t live in a state, country, township , etc…but wish death on the people that do live there because of how they choose to self govern.
Literally wishing death.
I believe it is shorthand for “please don’t let them come here and turn my place into their shitshow.”
If that’s the case you’d want California to be there forever so those ‘People’ would have somewhere to live. If California falls into the sea and doesn’t take all it’s assholes with it, they will be infecting someone else’s state. the only rational explanation is kinneth wants California and all the people that chose to live there to sink and die.
That’s exactly what I want. Death and destruction. Purge the virus from the planet.
The Gene Hackman version of Lex Luthor had a proper plan.
Yeah, Jim Crow was awesome! Mind your own fucking business!
They wouldn’t be wiped off the face of the earth. They would just slip silently into the Pacific which is still earth. It’s not like Kenneth said aliens are going to take the whole state to another planet or something. Get real.
Headline: “California slips on sidewalk shit and falls into the Pacific”
Fair enough, he just wants them to slowly asphyxiate as the salt water fills their lungs, screaming if they could but mostly just making gargling sounds til the bubbles coming up. Bubbles…bubbles.
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion.
Eh. I see what you are getting at, but I would guess that towns/cities that fall within the very vast area that is Los Angeles County probably were not expecting a county commissioner to dictate their lives or towns.
Wait a minute, Ima hafta call bullshit. What if there is a minority of people there getting their rights trampled on by the majority? That’s too fucking bad? So Jim Crow was all totes okay with you, too? You think that other people should just have minded their own business?
Please explain this seeming contradiction because that’s what I get from your high-minded principle.
Was the Japanese internment strictly a local matter, too? If not, please explain why anyone should be concerned given your stance.
Fair enough there are limitations to self governance, human rights abuses and what not shouldn’t be tolerated just because 50% +1 are cool with it. And self governance should be done as locally as possible but unless you go full anarchy there are going to be rules and laws that some number of people aren’t going to like. Where is the line, we have dry counties and townships in Ohio, should people in Texas have a say in that? Should cities and towns be allowed to keep out strip clubs, or whore houses, or tattoo parlors? Is it any of my concern if some communities in Oregon have noise ordinances or food service codes and regulations that I think are too strict?
“Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months,”
Why not three years? There’s no rational explanation as to the fixed three month period stated here.
Thanks, OMWC, that’s the most religion I’ve had since Tuesday Bible School when I was a tad. I tried following the charts. The Volcker Years of high interest rates are what captured my attention. Mrs Fourscore and I jumped into some money market accounts for our first IRA exposure, as I remember the S and L we were using was paying something like 16% or more interest. In today’s world 16 % and guaranteed is not bad. Of course many failed but were made whole again and John McCain’s AZ buddy was OK when the dust finally settled.
Excellent. Jewsday Tuesday is back! But WTF I was told there would be no math here.
Those people can’t help themselves.
(((We))) have a talent for counting.
But, Thicc Thurday is not back. Some of us haz a sad.
The libs and cons face off in the street
The libs take it.
That was a pretty cheap shot at the end.
It was a street fight and he had a wallet chain.
That kick would have exploded my liver.
There’s no cheap shot in a street fight. Maybe if he kicked him in the balls? No, street fight. Balls are absolutely fair game.
Dude conceded and was turned away. I’m calling foul, but then again that’s why you don’t fight idiots in street fights.
Seems like chain wallet is the local bully, and nerd glasses put him in his place.
Chain wallet came back later with a 2×4 and Broke nerd glasses arm.
Nerd glasses should have knocked chain wallet out cold the first time.
Staff wears a chain wallet.
While he rides his wife’s bike around Tokyo and drinks single beers in vacant parking lots. I seen it.
My bad. I didn’t see that part. #hottakes
Whoever starts something doesn’t get to say when it ends.
I hope wallet chain is in jail for coming back with a 2×4.
And then came back with a 2×4. Queensberry rules in a street fight will get you killed. Not only was it not a cheap shot, he made a mistake by not continuing to disable his opponent.
Exactly. Not a cheap shot in the least. Glasses was well within his right to take down Walletchain. One more of those sweet ass round house kicks to the knee would have rendered Walletchain useless for a while. It would have saved him a broken arm.
I hate to invoke this, so, don’t hate on me too much…but, if we’re talking an assault here by Mr. Skins, disable him, then get him arrested. Let him be in custody, while Glasses finishes up with whatever and leaves.
If dude wants revenge, it can wait for a later time.
I don’t see the part where he came back with a 2 x 4. Is that in the comments?
You know, I figured it was, but, I didn’t see it. So, excellent question.
Well, we’ve been through this before. I don’t think you get to beat someone unconscious in a street fight. There may be exceptions, but in general, no.
Honest question–do you think a choke-out is an acceptable technique in that situation? I think it’s a far more ‘technical’ way to make someone unconscious, which may be needed if someone is trying to injure ‘you’. I’m just curious, since we’re back on the topic.
I don’t know that situation and it’s specs. If someone is trying to kill you, you can take extreme measures. I’m just saying that once the person gives up and turns away, you normally should stop. If you bust some unarmed guy’s kneecap and he’s writhing on the ground, you better stop. Beating on incapacitated people is disgusting to me.
Gotcha. Always interested in peoples’ takes on self defense and their cautions. And, I do concur.
Seen here.
Yes. Further down the twitter thread there is more video taken by the original poster.
Asshole. Now all I can hear is “You’re the best around”
Don’t fuck with Goldblum.
Titty Jewsday.
http://archive.li/jjEVc
now that would be great band name
I’ll take #14 and #30.
#20, #31
I’ll also point out that most of these nice ladies are not Jewesses.
I would support a Tuesday link consisting of all Jewesses.
And a meircoles link consisting of all nice Latin American ladies.
I’m so glad Jewsdaytuesday has been resurrected, err…I mean I’m glad it’s back.
“California State University campuses to remain closed through fall semester, online instruction to continue
Chancellor Timothy White made the announcement Tuesday, which will affect all 23 of its universities.”
https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1260306956255817729
Insane.
What does this mean for all the people over here on student visas?
A wild guess as to what is going through the Chancellor’s mind: They can go fuck themselves?
I have no idea, and they obviously haven’t thought things through.
Strange, everything else they have proposed seems to have been thought through to the smallest detail and it all makes so much sense.
Probably nothing. They’ll probably continue to take online courses as they have for the present term.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/03/20/covid-19-disrupts-international-student-exchange-both-directions
God I am glad The Boy has allready graduated. And my dad retired from that now shitty system.
I’ve never met a Jewish farmer. Now I know why.
I assume the ones in Israel ignore this.
We all know its because Jews don’t do honest work.
I always viewed the “seven sevens” as meaning there should be a statute of limitations and also there should be an allowance for bankruptcy (debt is forgiven, but he still has to start from scratch and not screw up the next 7 years.
^dingdingdingdingding!^
“Mitch McConnell Moves to Expand Bill Barr’s Surveillance Powers
Under cover of redressing what President Donald Trump and his allies call the FBI’s “witch hunt” over collusion with the Kremlin, McConnell, via an amendment to the PATRIOT Act, will expressly permit the FBI to warrantlessly collect records on Americans’ web browsing and search histories. In a different amendment, McConnell also proposes giving the attorney general visibility into the “accuracy and completeness” of FBI surveillance submissions to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court. Versions of the amendments circulating Monday were shared with The Daily Beast. ”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-moves-to-expand-bill-barrs-surveillance-powers
Bad, if true.
Team Red cannot help but score own-goals.
This election is theirs to lose, and they’re determined to do just that.
Rand seems to be fully recovered from his Jap Tackle and ready to go, fully bearded. Hopefully, he can reign in Turtle Head.
Rand seems able to recognize and adapt to the various politicians he deals with, from Turtle to Orangeman.
STEVE SMITH OWN GOAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q24w0OaXfa0
So the answer to abuse of the unconstitutional surveillance rules is to expand the unconstitutional surveillance rules? Le ca ira
The answer to 9/11 intel failures by 17 intel agencies was to give Tenant a medal of Freedom and create 3 more agencies.
So at a time the assholes should be drafting legislation to disband the FBI and a complete reworking of the Justice dept they want to expand their powers? FFS I want off this ride.
I hope nobody is still thinking the FBI/DOJ will suffer any consequences, institutionally or personally.
Ya, no, I am a tin foiled hat adorned delusional but not that delusional. I am however clinging to a hope someone would re-organize that whole shit show though.
“expressly permit the FBI to warrantlessly collect records on Americans’ web browsing and search histories.”
Sounds like it’s time to move…I’ll bet land in Russia is pretty cheap.
America’s greatest rock star is Bruce Springsteen.
Think about that.
You misspelled folk singer.
You misspelled
singersquawker.The greatest American folk singer was Townes Van Zandt.
Troll harder.
The Beach Boys suck Balls!!!
And if anyone knows anything about sucking balls, it’s you.
First!
He knows more about it than anyone. OMG, I just agreed with Broktard the fag.
Write a song about this, Captain America!
The greatest band of the 90s was right – it is a shit town.
The Weavers/live up the street/from me…
I can’t because… you’re not even wrong.
He has a handful of good songs. And his singing is shit. He might be among the most overrated musical acts ever.
He was pretty good up until 1983. I can still listen to”Greetings from Asbury Park” over and over, and “Born to Run” was a damn good album, though the title song has been way overplayed.
He’s no David Lee Roth.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX1mUACXgAANg6o.jpg
Best Error Page Ever
Lol
If not real…needs to be.
Front line caregivers are in the trenches battling the invisible killer as we save lives by sheltering at home.
/2020
It looks like the judge in the Flynn case is going to allow amicus filings regarding his case dismissal:
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-05-12/judge-puts-off-approving-us-request-to-dismiss-flynn-case
That’s not anywhere near normal is it?
Eddie Van Halen is the greatest musician of all time. Fight me!
Cover, but…
There are too many “greatest”s. Bruce Springsteen is not one of them.
LOL. Really, Springsteen? I mean, I’m not questioning his talent, but he’s not a musician.
Someone referenced Springsteen above as a “greatest.” I am disputing that he has any greatness at all.
I won’t debate you tonight about ‘the greatest’ musically. Springsteen is a great vocalist. He’s not a musician, let alone in the class of Eddie Van Halen.
It was Crusty.
Sure it was, let’s blame Crusty!
Isn’t that standard operating procedure?
No, I thought it was Tulpae. But I’m good with blaming Crusty by default.
WAIT! You’re saying Crusty is NOT Tulpa??
I haz confuz.
Telling you again, Eddie is the undisputed greatest musician of all time.
Another cover, but…
Eddie Little Guitars Cover
Hyp gets it. He’s on fire!
https://youtu.be/Z6z-nxAYhGw
Buddy Rich sits behind his heavenly drum set and laughs at your guitarist.
Link?
I lived through the 50’s, the 60’s, the 70’s, the 80’s, the 90’s, the oughts and the teens and the greatest musician of our time is
Neil Diamond
Prove me wrong.
Credit when it’s due. This one is pretty good.
https://twitter.com/guycecil/status/1260378467281051650
Yes minus the lies they spew through out the video.
Of course. Just talking about the concept.
Are you flyover hicks laughing at the coastal losers paying extreme rents/mortgages while not being able to pay a person to cut their hair?
there’s nothing special about today: head-shaking continues at the usual pace
Speaking of haircuts, one of the editors of the local rag had a posting on the “Nextdoor” bulletin asking where he could get a haircut which he desperately needed. Hypocrite helps write the editorials that have, all along, boosted Gauleiter von Wolf’s cower at home orders and shutdown of barber shops as non-essential. I felt like telling him to take a bowl and scissors and do it himself.
Learn to c…ut
Heard something today from a coworker whose buddy works at a grocery store. His buddy said he was doing his job stocking the produce away and a shopper snapped at a fellow shopper that he was not “social distancing”. “Get back six feet it is the rule!” Dude reaching for something snapped back, ” Quite being a pussy!” Ha. When I shop I wait for the old folks to stare at everything in the case and stand back until they meander on. This thing has increased my shopping time from 5-10 min’s in the morning on my way to work to 20 min’s on my way home from work.
My go-to line is to call those types of people busy-bodied cunts. Calling another man a cunt really gets the point across. Usually leads to stunned silence, though hysterical shrieking from females.
Dude, have some decorum.
Spell it with an E.
Cunte.
I’m from America where we speak American. No cunt is going to tell me how to spell cunt.
It’s easy to be an asshole on the internet unlike in real life where somebody’s likely to smack you for it.
I’m pretty sure I could take Mojeaux.
Somebody might not let you.
Brochettaward stuck up for me the other day. He gets a pass this time.
Man, Tuesday around here….
I’m practically Jesus.
Costco was a shitshow over the weekend. About 30 people were lined up for meat case. The line made no sense because 90% of the meat cases were unoccupied because the bottleneck in the line was at the first stop in the meat case (ground beef). I just walked up to a giant gap and quickly grabbed some steaks. Karen and her husband started yelling obscenities at me. It was bizarre. I bit my tongue on asking if he eats his wife’s pussy with that my mouth and smiled instead (no engaging while carrying).
People are morons. They also started self-forming their own feeder lines at either end of the checkout row. I pushed my through these massive lines to the center checkouts that had no one. Dealt with a lot of Karens to get there. While checking out, it was a little satisfying to hear the cashier yell at the idiots in their lines to quit it and move inwards.
Also, strong undercurrent of fear and anger in the crowd. Very on edge and not pleasant.
I keep hearing these stories but so far I have yet to wear a mask, have yet to have anyone say a word, and have not modified my behavior in stores except to hang back a bit at the checkout to not crowd someone who is worried about it.
I hear these stories… only about Costco and the like. Nothing like this going on at my usual markets.
Can’t really compare D’Agostino’s to Costco.
Guess not since I’ve never been in one.
*either one
I thoihht you were in NYC? Isn’t D’Ag a big chain there?
Not really. Just good at getting in the media.
At Fry’s (a middle-of-the-road grocery), the parking lot was packed. Possibly 10% of shoppers had masks on, to be generous. Over to Sprouts, a tonier place, 90% of the shoppers had masks and were all studiously keeping their distance. I went for a stroll on our neighborhood walking trails (this is a VERY white bread upper middle class neighborhood) at 6 am yesterday and it was packed with groups of women chatting and exercising, none with masks, all in 4-8 person clusters, and all with “Thank god I got out of the house, my WFH husband and the kids are driving me nuts” expressions.
Basically, except for Scottsdale (deep Blue), people here have been largely ignoring the decrees.
Somehow I have a feeling it’s been the women driving the husbands and kids nuts.
Were they enforcing the mask rule at your Costco?
And I might have missed it, any baby news?
Costco was enforcing masks. Very strict about the entrance.
I took a bit of a hiatus from online, school, and work but I’m very proud to announce another female libertarian has joined the world. Birth went very well. My wife and I figured it would be another few hours at least, doc comes in and yells for the nurse. Tells my wife to stop laughing followed by “seriously, stop laughing or this baby’s coming out this second”. Everyone is doing great. Hospital was a little crazy, but we didn’t have to wear masks in the room at least and i was allowed to be there.
We now have even battle lines at 2 vs 2 for the kids. My wife asks every day if I’ve scheduled the snip yet. Places are opening up so I can’t keep milking that unessential procedure card much longer.
Mazel tov! And yay!! Another (G)libertarian chick!
Congratulations!
Glad everyone is doing well.
Congratulations! Very glad to hear that your wife and new daughter are doing well.
I’m not going to lie like the rest of these people. I really don’t care.
Look, if I can’t live vicariously through strangers on the internet, then why am I even here.
Avatar check out.
Nice legs?
Don’t fear the snip. Just make sure to bring earbuds.
Frozen peas. Weekend Couch time.
The worst thing was the smell of cauterized flesh.
And before you go for the follow up in the snip when they test to check that the procedure was effective get the doctor to go along with the idea that your “specimen” is better if there is some female saliva in the mix. (Make sure you are holding the test tube before the doc tells this to your wife – she might just spit in it and hand it to you like my buddy’s wife did)
Good suggestions here, thanks. Earbuds, couch, and keep the test tube from my wife.
Awesome, dude. Glad everyone is well.
Baby! Yeah!
Thanks everyone for your well wishes!
w00t!
I shall hold her for about 3 minutes, then happily give her back.
Get the snip, man. She carries, bears, nurses them … the least you can do is get your garden hose crimped. (No, don’t do that one; it has a high failure rate.)
Otherwise, ‘grats!
Congratulations!
My husband went to one of the bigger grocery stores Monday. He is a fast shopper; no dawdling.
A man, fellow shopper, decided to call out my husband for not wearing a mask. That did not go well for the MaleKaren.
Shopping today was surprisingly quick. No bread line. The store had an employee counting people going in and out, but there were so few people in the store there was no bread line.
Lots of toilet paper. Dairy case was full. Produce section was full.
I didn’t look at rice, beans, or canned soup.
I noticed that several meat cases had no meat in them. Instead, the store was using them to display bottled water and Gatorade.
I was one of the few people not wearing a Fear Mask. I got one or two strange looks.
Oh… I forgot.
Lots of new signs around the store reminding people to keep Leper Length, about the one-way aisles, and to not cross the black line at the register until the next customer leaves.
There was a line today to get into Trader Joe’s. It moved quickly enough, but still annoying. There wasn’t a line last week when I went, but three weeks ago there was.
Safeway in our little town today was fully stocked with TP, but wait, Kleenex brand toilet paper? When did that become a thing? And why is the label 100% in Spanish? Singelo plyo?
My Kroger usually has at least a few cases of TP nowadays. Back at the beginning when it was really scarce, I had to take what I could get, and I ended up with something that I’m pretty sure is less than one ply. It doesn’t even feel like half ply. I’m really wondering if each sheet is just a single layer of paper molecules.
Kudos to Kroger, btw–for the most part, they seem to have stock/supply issues taken care of.
Well, other than the TP: It’s got MOLECULES!
My trip to one of the larger US military commissaries in this area was relatively uneventful. Masks and social distancing are the new normal here. The only product I noted which still is out of stock is most types of dry beans. (I was told that is because it is a WIC item) I use a lot of beans but I also keep a good stock of them as an emergency ration so I’m not close to running out yet. Beans are one of the items which I somewhat depend on the base for. In Japan beans are not a staple and are almost always sold pre-soaked (wet) in plastic and based on wet weight cost about 25 to 30 times as much as dry beans in the US.
Tell me more about you. *Leans in, rests chin on hands*
I have a fabulous penis.
I keep a masturbation schedule where I carefully log all ejaculations.
I have a solution to the Mexican problem, and it isn’t a wall.
My favorite color is magenta.
Hi
For You.
???
No way I got the URL wrong.
“I’m 22 now and I got a nice cock.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBOuU8r_uw
Mexican problem
Kinky Friedmann has proposed that the border be divvied up betwixt a few federale generalisimos, each of whom is guaranteed a few million dollars each years minus some penalty for each Mexican who gets across
Marry one of them and turn them ‘Murican?
/sister’s solution
Swipe left! SWIPE LEFT!
I worked 12.5 hours today. I had a structural test to perform at 7:30am and another at 6:30pm. Both were successful. The second one was tested to failure.
I like breaking things.
I am good at breaking things.
People pay me to break things
My favorite color is orange.
I am a genetic mutant.
I sometimes like to ride motorcycle for long distances.
I am good at eating, breathing, and sleeping.
I have a collection of hideous ties.
I haven’t worn a tie since high school. I find them silly.
My favorite color is orange
insane by any measure
I’ve always been crazy, but its kept me from going insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VO6bI-xrj8
a favorite: I might go so far as to say the best Waylon tune that wasn’t written by Billy Joe Shaver
/ drinking Shiner right now
/ don’t own a Telecaster . . . . . . yet
I do own a Fender (acoustic). I have been trying to make myself learn how to play it for over 30 years.
The only thing I know is the intro to “More Than Words”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIiLvg58SY
::melts::
his Amanda might be the best
also: pretty sure that was recorded a few blocks from where I sit
and the awesome Tele work was Tony Joe White
If you ever go crazy – look me up when you get there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-Z5L-cJhA
Let’s see.
College professors with class.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article242616536.html
(NSFW salty langauge. Argh)
“I’ve got a masters!”
“In Science!!”
I hate everyone in that vid.
“He works down there…at the University…..Of Science…”
Im gonna bawl when Norm passes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oseqh7SMIvo
Fuckin Norm lol
Yes!
I met Dr Science years ago when he was on tour and he signed my compilation tape liner packaging.
She needs a bra, but as much as I hate to sound like Q (or Mr Skin), at 1:30 her nips get hard. Raging is gettin her hot.
::Checks link::
Dammit….
Google translate the title.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PH7dyKBQPmk
Let me give you a hand. Search this:
パパの手が気持ち悪い 英語
Just got done watching Kelley’s Heros for the (n!) time. Always better with a solid buzz.
Never seen it. Finally watching Silicon Valley. ?
Get bent on Saki and Sapporo, clear a couple hours, and watch Clint Eastwood, Don RIckles, Telly Savalas, and Uncle Leo from Seinfeld.
And worship with the Mike Curb Congregation.
So many classic lines in that movie.
What about Donald Sutherland as the hippie tank guy?
Haha awesome.
I went on a kick many years ago where I watched classic WW2 movies… Kelley’s Heroes, Stalag 17, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape, and so on. Also the entire series run of Hogan’s Heroes and Secret Army (an excellent fucking show if you can find it somewhere).
Good times.
Computer case arrived today, main HDD and PSU arrived previously. Waiting on the rest that will make it all, you know, compute.
Exciting! Did your birthday present arrive?
No. It got routed to Mississippi (I think I erred yesterday and wrote Missouri) on it’s way from Michigan to Wisconsin. I guess USPS doesn’t have a hub in say Chicago, Indianapolis or Milwaukee. Efficiency
FTWFTL!If they were better funded, this wouldn’t happen.
Can you not afford to buy a whole computer? Going for one piece at a time?
One piece at a time. But seriously, if you buy a pre-built computer you’re losing value for your money. Most pre-built rigs are vastly over-priced and under-powered.
under-powered – how much power does one need for youtube and internet browsing?
Pie! I didn’t know you could troll like that!
I don’t think that qualifies as trolling. I am well aware most people use home computers differently than me.
As he points out below, I was going on what C gets done on his computer. And, I didn’t mean to imply you were being a troll, so much as snarking/making a joke that had a foot in ‘troll territory’.
No, you’re far too classy to be a troll.
Need for speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpwLhZh66A
I don’t know, but for gaming, video editing and cartooning, while browsing the internet and youtube and pornhub at the same time? Quite a bit.
Short article on Covid that confirms my confirmation bias.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31035-7/fulltext
He just wants my dead grandmas to die!
Your grandmas are awful. Who wouldn’t want to see them die again?
I suppose you’re half right, only one was catholic.
I guffawed.
Jokes of Orange vs Green aren’t just for Irish drunkards.
The author is a IYI who does not understand tail risk of multiplicative processes.
Also the old need to be the first priority of any society.
Ergodic.
He’s moved on to ergodic.
My ergodic is ribbed for her pleasure
I was told there would be no math.
On a more whining note. One of the few possessions of my dad’s that I kept was his Hoveround which came in handy a year after he passed when I somehow managed to injure both knees at the same time and couldn’t walk for almost 6 months. I kept it around in case something like that happened again and because it reminded me of my dad. My nieces and nephews liked playing with it and killed the batteries. My mom asked to barrow it for someone who was missing a leg and injured the existing one, she replaced the batteries. Turns out the guy didn’t want to use it. Now my mom either wants me to pay for the cost of replacing the batteries or she’s going to sell it. I don’t know what to do, besides this making me upset with her, now I’ve got to weigh utility vs sentimental value when I’ve gotten paid for two of the last 7 weeks.
Who actually owns it, in the legal sense? Was it left to you, her, or, someone else?
How much are the batteries?
It wasn’t ‘left’ to anyone. There was no will. So, in that sense I suppose legally it’s hers. She didn’t say how much they paid, prices online are between $40 and $150.
But it’s just sad that she would do this.
She may not understand that it has sentimental value to you.
Can you leave her the batteries to sell and take the Hoveround?
She knows, that’s why she asked If I would pay to keep it.
That is the most fakakta logic. If she had someone else in mind that she wanted to see have it (someone she knows who has trouble walking that wants to use it), that would make sense to me.
Then again, maybe she feels like it’s yours, but, she fronted the money for the batteries, and is thinking that it’s your responsibility…? I dunno.
Find out how much she paid–we’ll talk.
That is, well that is…difficult on so many levels.
How about claiming recurrent pain in your knees as a reason to have it back? That is, if the discussion of it’s value to you isn’t an option, or, it fails?
To even have to have this discussion is upsetting to me. For 12 years it was me and her against the world to make my dad’s life was as good as possible. Now 5 years after his death she has become someone so distant as to ask me to pay for something I had for 4 of those years after she asked to barrow it for a purpose it never got put to.
I hear you. Like I said, find out the amount she wants.
Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When a man expresses a vow of lives to Yahweh, the value of a male shall be as follows: From twenty years old until sixty years old, the value is fifty silver shekels, according to the holy shekel; And if she is a female, the value is thirty shekels; – I’d pay 30 shekels for a Jewish chick the looks like a young Gal Gadot.
Good morning glibbies.
good morning
God, i would love tho watch this interview with the glibs…
This is what Zoom chats were made for! The free Zoom chat lasts an hour I think. We could even record our snark Best of the Worst style!
Hmmm….tempting.
Hmmm. Is that part of Wisconsin (I’ll assume you in or near it) normally +%15 team red?
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1260420909124521984
You = CPRM.
Northern Wisconsin has traditionally been blue due to unionized labor, but sparsely populated. It was a big GOP win when former Real World ‘star’ Sean Duffy won his seat. But he’s ‘retiring’, no way there was any dirt found on him.
He’s my mom’s rep. She loved him and would send me stuff on FB about his work. Seemed like a typical Republican to me.
Nine kids. Dude’s prolific.
Well, his seat was the one up for grabs. Wikipedia already changed it to list the Dem as the successor. Funny how the dems were the ones complaining about voting during Covid-Panic! but they’ve won every state election held during it, despite polls showing Rethuglicans are the ones who don’t care about the lockdown. Mail-in ballots FTW!
Oops, They list the Republican as winning. I’m drunk, sorry.
IDK about Wisconsin, but in CA I expect juuuuust enough mail-in ballots to arrive in the next few days to tip the scales back to blue.
Baaaaaahhahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahagahahahahahahaha
*gasp*
Haaaaaaaahjahahahahahahahahahahahababaahahahaa
A late night random question that came into my head: Has the Libertarian Party been a negative for liberty in the US? I know they have been ridiculed and derided by many commenters, and of course, they richly deserve that. I’d say that they, in their small way, made our (heh, heh, heh) cause more easily rejected.
I don’t think they’ve made much difference either way.
It’s politics, so it’s a losing game all around. That is, of course, unless you play. Or, are a close family member of one who does.
They did however lead us all here…
Personal bias, but I think it perhaps has attracted the attention of those searching for what libertarianism represents even if they don’t know what it really is yet. I will always owe a debt of gratitude to Harry Browne, even if he was a bit of a grifter.
Harry Browne did write a very good treatise. I wish I had read it earlier in my life. I didn’t figure some of that out till my 30’s. That spoke to me in a way that Ayn Rand never did. It was the economists that I read last, but they finally flipped the coin for me, reading Sowell, Friedman, Hayek, Mises was the final push. I’ve been a civil libertarian since I’ve ever remembered.
I’m confused about who I owe for me learning about libertarianism. I found out about it through a HS civics/law/philosophy teacher. But he had been a liberal before my oldest sister got him to read a Rush Limbaugh book which lead him to libertarianism. My sister was influenced by my dad to read said Limbaugh book. So is it my dad who influenced me? He was at best a yokeltarian when he died despite my attempts to make him go minarchist…
I got called a libertarian one time in my early 20’s and I looked it up and said, yeah that definitely fits. I’d considered myself liberal until I went to college in my mid 20’s. Then I learned the far left was a real threat.
I was a pretty hard Lefty when I was younger… I literally joined the CPUSA when I was 17.
At some point, I just kind of forgot about politics. But when I started buying guns, I got back into gun politics and took a very strong view on that. In the 2008 election, I heard about Ron Paul from somewhere or another and learned that many of my views lined up with his.
I think my socialist/communist phase didn’t come about because I deeply believed in those principles, but rather because I perceived that the whole system in the US was fucked and in need of a radical overhaul, and I desperately grasped at the ideology that promised the biggest overhaul. That, and I was a teenager (always in search of edginess) who had no idea what it was like to actually support yourself, pay your bills, and try to save for your future.
I think most libertarians are negative for liberty in that they don’t know how to phrase their views for the average normie.
Yusef travels the universe, content with trying to add a verse. Ignoring his decades of of life on earth. Trying to impress the retards with moron verse. Writing with the quality of a child, delusions added less than mild. Sad additions despite his delusions, desert burned and sun burned mind. Sad attempts at writing fiction, lacking quality and defying taxation. Keep acting like adults play frisbee, come at me and try and and nix me
Dude… Give it a rest.
Shorter version – I don’t like it so he shouldn’t be allowed to do it.
This has gathered my interest. How do you think this will turn out?
TNT and YDAK become besties and travel the country solving mysteries and helping people out of hard spots. And maybe, just maybe, learning a little about themselves along the way.
Multiple universe theory, eh? *Nods*
that does not really rhyme. You can do better.
He should add some alliteration.
Pie ponders poetry pertaining to pushy PM posts
Right?! What a bunch of garbage. I can’t believe I’m reading this here.
I don’t understand the point of the valuation. Does that mean if I kill someone, that’s the fine? Or is that the price of a slave?
is that the price of a slave – and are chive links marketing material?
are we talking shekel as in about 15 grams of silver? say 250 US bucks per slave girl. I think it was a pretty accurate price for a yazdi in the glory days of ISIS. Although most of those were under 20 so a third price.
The right can meme.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3pX1QXYAAquCp?format=jpg&name=large
Heh, that’s pretty good.
Hehe
“Facebook reportedly agreed to pay $52 million to moderators who developed PTSD while helping the company police toxic content on its platform”
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-pay-52-million-content-moderators-ptsd-settlement-report-2020-5
If I ever have any legal issues I’m calling that law firm.
I hate to use rightwing memes but this feel a bit clown world to me…
Maybe I can sue YouTube for not sufficiently policing their content. I’ve seen things, man…*stares off into distance*
We should find out who employs sugar free and sue them
I would gave thought an NBA fan would be familiar with his employer.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-speeding-191-mph-fathers-car/
Never have I ever driven that fast.
Nope. 140 on bias ply tires. I was 17. That will never happen again. Dodge Challenger, 318 Hemi. Not my car. It was probably what sky -diving feels like and so very dumb but 17, so…
117 before I hit the speed governor.
off course in twitter replies we have cars should not be able to go so fast. which brings the debate: does anyone really need more than 100 mph?
I think the fastest I have driven is 190 kph. you ca mile it yourself if you wish.
37mph
I took Wifey’s new car up to that in “sport mode” the day after she bought it but pussied out. Consequences. It felt like there was a lot more there, there but I was more afraid of the impound and financial hit than I was the physical danger. I’ve never been much of a speed demon, anyway.
It would have been funnier if the car had been something like a Yugo.
“How did you get a Yguo to a hundred and ninety?”
“Well, we replaced the passenger compartment with a V8 engine, and put a seat where the ‘engine’ used to be. Would have gone faster, but the frame was starting to shed bolts.”
When I grow up, I want to be a contact tracer.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/05/nj-needs-1000-coronavirus-contact-tracers-for-reopening-strategy-murphy-says.html
I hope I get a badge and a gun.
That right there is below “Census Worker” on my personal list of dream jobs. Maybe if I grow my hair out and get a “Karen-cut” my attitude will change.
I hope they get a good medical plan.
https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/cape-may-county-social-distance-ambassadors-coming-community/
Mornin’ Breakfast Club! Is it just me or are comments here getting a mite “sandy”? Could outside pressures be influencing the way that we interact? Sometimes it feels like we’re stuck in the back seat with our siblings on a road trip. Just my 2 Trillion…
Good morning.
Good morning, gentlemen! I’m on “staycation,” so I slept in a bit today. Fes, I’m not sure what you mean by “sandy.” Is that one o’ them Canajun expressions?
Yup. Youngest of three girls here, so always had to be in the middle with my feet on the “hump.” : (
Younger of two “Irish Twins”. I was Jan.
Sand up or down the orifice. See Star Wars prequel for confirmation. Makes people bitchy and whiny.
If I have to watch the Star Wars prequel, I’m likely to become bitchy and whiny.
Behold! https://youtu.be/ICSNhMSaVgk
I’m not too good with bullies even if it’s supposed to be somehow good natured – which in some cases I don’t believe it is. I will accept correction where it’s warranted.
You’re a good dude and you’re entirely correct.
Yup, I see it happening everywhere. People are just pissy right now, myself included.
two words. morning scotch.
All my liquor is packed up for the move. ?
Ah, I’d give it a pass. Late at night, people are drinking and typing, things can get a little snarky on occasion. It’s not like we’ve ever had a shortage of disagreement on this site.
For whatever reason, Yusef’s prose attracts disagreement. I haven’t seen this much disagreement about the content of an article since the LH/EF v. HM incident.
I just want peace in our time. A respite.
Get it now, before the Troubles start
To be honest, I’m not really a fan. But the way I see it that’s my problem. Enough others here seem to appreciate it so it’s all good. Nobody’s holding a gun to my head and forcing me to hang out here. Particularly in a supposedly libertarian group there should be a wide range of tastes and styles and all should be accepted.
Besides, I hate rude behavior in a man. I won’t tolerate it.
Bob’s an outlier but that’s his style. He’s one of us. I think poetry is either silly or more likely above my pay grade. He makes posts which is far and away better than anything that I’ve ever added to the site. I’ve already copped to “The Dumbest Glib” label.