Random picture.
There’s not a snow ball’s chance in hell that I’m going to try and top a three day installment of “Flowers For Rapernon”. So here are some links while Brett makes some bank.
You know who else used unmarked cars to take people off the streets?
And from the man bites dog category.
Seriously, this has to be the weirdest timeline, ever.
A little one hit wonder for ya.
Howdy! that’s all i got,
/Tall Cans!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nXmtyJgF3XXBjdrs7
Mayor is Asshole!
My first thought, then remembered to take a picture for once…
Hehehe. Trample that sunuvabitch pantywaist excuse for a fence and go right on ahead, citizen.
no, we called the Parks director and the Mayor, they love what we are doing for the Cities Reputation, and grant us full park privileges,
/ Spoiled Brats
Made man!
That’s Comrade Asshole to you, prole! Da?
I’ve got some short cans*?
*330ml/11fl oz
Poor stubby metric cans.
/has a fridge full of 12 oz cans and big bottles.
And some Double knot Ipa, those poor bottles…
At least it means the beer is still cold to the last drop. Anything bigger and it gets a little warm for the last few sips. That’s about all I have in defense of short cans.
12 oz. Required here, things get hot fast,
but ur so cool
Cubbies leave fewer incriminating fingerprints behind, should you ever need to dome some asshole with one…
u wot m8? i just use my fists
You like big bottles and you cannot lie.
They really think they are living in a movie, and that white supremacist have taken over portland. I want to see evidence of the harrasment of “left-leaning” protestors in Portland, that wasn’t coincidental to antifa harassing people.
and they think they will take power? at the point of who’s gun?
/We win by showing up
it’s the same as a no-knock raid in this wise: you couldn’t blame a guy for capping as many of his attackers as possilbe
it’s like this antifa thing: why nobody got shot?
The cops are douches, and i don’t like them running down the street harassing people. But we are supposed to believe that antifa doesn’t exist, and at the same time the Neo Nazis have control of Portland? That’s just leftist propoganda, and i’ll call that out too.
the antifa thing bores me
but I do wonder how it will be civilian’s fault when he shoots an unidentified assailant
I just can’t imagine a world where someone attacks me on the street or in my car and comes away in one nice piece, so I don’t know how this sort of story plays out repeatedly
Cops without body cams swearing they knocked and announced, after getting a no-knock warrant.
As long as the target is dead, the cops version is golden, amirite?
‘fraid so
full mags for those boys, nowhere to run: it’s not exactly High Noon
As does the “Right wing extreemist on every block” bores me.
no doubt
I’m much more interested in the prospect of the honest citizen on the street. Without regard to the narratives, a guy have every right to think he’s being attacked by uncredentialed folk.
Credentials matter now?
You don’t find bike locks to the back of the head being endorsed by elected officials interesting.
I heard similar about “hordes of nazis showing up in pickup trucks, it’s crazy” etc, and how “antifa are actually pretty cool, providing escort to trans people of color downtown where they may be attacked by neo nazis/white supremacists”. That’s from well-off white boys. It’s an absolute lala land. The distance between perception and reality for these clowns is immense.
“far-right extremists, who frequently don militarylike outfits and harass left-leaning protesters in Portland, Ore”
He said, without evidence.
Yeah, if it were really happening it would show up on every local TV news broadcast.
How many stories did they run about the “occupation” of a bunch of open rangeland?
I thought they wore Hawaiian shirts.
Anyone wearing any type of shirt is likely a white supremacist.
Last time there were any serious white supremacist threat to Portland
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-09-mn-2064-story.html
“And Omar made national headlines early last year, apologizing for making comments viewed as anti-Semitic.”
Viewed? And how racist are Democrats in Minnesota to elect this sand nazi in the first place?
“He has a very compelling story, just as congresswoman has a very compelling story.”
He married his sister?
Of course it does.
See, this is why have the Flat Earthers!
Australian sharks are the laughing stocks of Australian animals. They haven’t even developed any venoms or toxins. Pussies.
You’re a scientist, develop a dingo funnel-web great-white.
Cringes at the thought………..
With frickin’ laser beams on their heads!
AOC strikes another one down in a deep blue district.
If New Yorkers want to continue to throw out powerful committee chairpersons and replace them with political novices, that’s fine with me.
Not so fast:
Who controls the vote-counting in that distirct? The machine or the DSA?
“Bowman is a former principal and founder of the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, a public middle school in Eastchester, Bronx. Bowman is a member of the Lower Hudson Valley chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.”
Doomed nation is doomed.
“15 female ex-Redskins employees allege sexual harassment, bombshell report says
Fifteen former female employees who worked for the Redskins told The Washington Post that they were sexually harassed while working for the organization”
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/washington-redskins-15-ex-female-employees-sexual-harassment-allegations
Sure, why not?
Was this on the morning links? Dibs on the ass drugs!
Premium opportunity to skin the ‘skins for some grabass money.
Snyder had previously stated that he would never, never ever never, change the glorious histories name of the Washington Football Franchise.
About one week prior to this meetoo moment, out of the blue, it becomes national news that the Washingto football team is looking for a new name.
Just a coincidence I’m sure.
So when it happens to you, just blame Q.
not Q, he has the Redheads…..
Well, I admit I’m gratified when Q gets the professed redhead aficionados to proclaim their affinity for us Auburn-American chicks.
It’s a test case for something.
If you want a more reliable test, shouldn’t you start somewhere a little more conservative ?
All Progjection, All the time.
It will be an odd Civil war, the bigs are going after the smalls, and will be wiped out, in the end it’s about fire power,the smalls have i, naturally, the Bigs depend
on the State, good luck with that,
Overall, this is just another bad thing the government does.
Yet, I have to admit, the schadenfreude is strong with this one.
^^ Yeah. Feds aren’t going after criminals, most likely harrasing people.
But i do have to make fun of the delusions that he thinks that the article claims are groups rightwing militias patrolling Portland, yet we have to also believe that Antifa isn’t real. That kind of shit pisses me off a bit.
“I was terrified,” Pettibone told The Washington Post. “It seemed like it was out of a horror/sci-fi, like a Philip K. Dick novel. It was like being preyed upon.”
Doomsday LARPer surprised when “reset” button no worky. Just wait ’til the dinosaur really does bite you in half.
I wonder if he needed a fresh pair of pull-ups.
Ever hear the phrase, “Fuck with the bull, get the horns?”
And by ‘bull’, I’m not talking about Pettibone’s wife’s boyfriend…
Name one other then Man in the High Castle you git. Most are about reality, what makes a human, and unreliable narrators.
Does this mean I finally get a Perky Pat™ Playset?
You’ll wind up with Connie Companion and like it.
From the last thread:
National Police Union Endorses Trump
I am both surprised and not surprised by this.
Interestingly, it says they endorsed Obama in ’08 and ’12, but did not endorse anyone in ’16. Although I doubt their endorsement really means anything.
Everyone I know is getting ready, there are 2 camps, Fuck it, let it burn, and #2, get ready, some friends are in the first camp, others in the Second,
I keep 500+ rounds and canned goods,
So you’re in both camps at once? Probably the best place to be.
Which is the camp you get put into when they round us up?
I got my (hopefully) last ammo shipment today. I need some more 9mm and .357, but there is none to be had it seems. The wife is cross with me, as always. “What the hell is in that box? I could barely bring it into the house. It’s like a box of lead!”
And brass too.
She closes her eyes, “Lovely.” As always.
Respeck meeeeee!
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot doesn’t mince her words when it comes to Twitter.
After White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called Lightfoot “the derelict mayor of Chicago” in a press briefing, the mayor hit back, tweeting “Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth.”
McEnany called Lightfoot “derelict” following a question about President Trump’s response to the death of Black people at the hands of police.
Oh. Not “A” derelict.
Carry on.
Words mean things, until they don’t, A means a lot, like is, is……………..
“Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth.”
it’s amazing how fast they turned “Karen” from being a derogatory nickname for bootlickers of authority to being a socially-acceptable racist slur against white women.
I have yet to see a Karen, it wouldn’t end well anyway
You can’t be racist against white people. Didn’t you know that?
I’m not sure they’ve succeeded, but they sure are trying.
Derelict? but i thought black don’t crack.
Are you ready to die in a rice paddy for Uncle Sam, again?
My Dad was in ‘Nam 4 tours, he lived, Hyperbole much?
/China ain’t rice Paddies
So when the missiles fly, you’ll be first in line at the recruiter’s office, right?
Are…are you seriously contending that there are not rice paddies all over the southeastern quarter of China? They have a lot of wet rice cultivation going on there. I seens it!
You only die twice?
Oh come now HM, you certainly can savor the wonderful irony when we start arming and training and resupplying and providing safe havens for the Vietnamese resistance.
True.
Germany was our enemy (twice), but they were our friends before. The became friends again (save us from the USSR!), soon they will be our enemies again.
Germany was at its best when it didn’t exist.
Now you just gave Bismark a sad.
Fucking Hessians.
Not gonna lie, all the action movies being based around the middle east was getting kinda old. It will be good for Hollywood to be able to shake it up. And it will open up a whole lot of roles for minorities in movies.
They will be white-washed with prominent US and English actors playing the role of Chinese people.
Christopher Lee was the best Dr. Fu Manchu.
If you don’t rattle your sabre, how can you expect them to respect you?
From Korea, to Vietnam (and Laos and Cambodia), all Boomers know how to do is throw our blood against the great human wall that is Asia. Like give it a fucking break already. Next, you’ll be telling me that the Beatles are the best pop band in history or some shit.
the Beatles are the best pop band in history
Uh, yeah.
We throw a lot of sperm, too.
Go HM, (not a Beatles fan)
Every time I say that, my musician friends look like I dropped the N word. They know better than I about music, but fuck it.
The only thing more annoying than the Beatles are Beatles fans.
See how that works with our new super diverse and woke volunteer military.
Well the Boomers learned it from the Greatest Generation, and have now passed it on to X and Millenials.
You can blame FDR for his stupid inflation of Chang Kai-shek as part of a Big 4[*]. Then you can blame Tail-gunner Joe for the absolutely idiotic charge that Truman “lost China” (which would echo into SE Asia and drive LBJ into a quagmire he might otherwise have avoided). Next, you can take every fucking pundit who preached engagement and how it would transform China into a modern liberal democracy as a full member of the international community. And of course there is the foreign policy and national security communities who have their vested interests in not dealing with what China really is (but instead conforming to the contours of what those respective establishments want it to be). There really is almost no corner of America that doesn’t deserve some blame for our national stupidity.
* there wasn’t even a Big 3. There was Stalin who played FDR like a fiddle, Churchill and our grand idiot.
So our options are smile and say nothing as China is asshole, or die ina rice paddy? I get the extreme anti-war position. I don’t share it, but I see where it comes from and agree that most of the wars we have had were unnecessary, overlong, and fought more to benefit connected parties than to win, but to extend a desire not to have a war to the point where you cavil at anyone calling out obvious bad behavior by China seems less like a principled anti war position and more like appeasement.
I think the issue with war, because of the unique geographical position of the USA, is that any time the US gets into a war nowadays, it is in fact a war of choice. No one can invade the US. The Russians might have the capability to destroy the US, depending on how well maintained you think their ICBM force is.
If the Philippine people had chosen statehood or territory status decades ago, things would be different. If they were the 51st state, then an invasion of the Phillipines would be just as dire a threat as an invasion of Kansas. But they didn’t. Yes, we never should have colonized them in the first place, no dispute there. But once we did that, then you either move them from territory to state, or they are an independent nation with all that entails.
The United States has lost sight of one of the important things, IMO, over the last 50 or so years. We have, for far too long, extended the benefits of American statehood without the corresponding responsibilities. If you want Team America to come running over the horizon, then you need to be all in on Team America. The American military is for the defense of America.
My point was that the speech wasn’t a call for war. It was at best a “Buy American” speech.
Oh for sure. It’s particularly tiresome when I’m told that I’m a bad libertarian for maybe possibly thinking that outsourcing so many very important production lines to an communist dictatorship might have sub-optimal effects that could possibly even outweigh the impressive amount of wealth gained.
Where’s that quote from? It seems awfully prescient.
However, I would counter that an international hegemon does have interests worth defending beyond its borders, whether that be directly defending trade interests (as the US has been doing since the Barbary Wars) or supporting allies in a system meant to uphold a reasonably acceptable global order. This does not mean that the US should enter into war at the drop of a hat, nor that every war entered should be unlimited or total, but to retreat from all wars on the international stage would be to cede the reins of the rules of the international order to whichever powers would still be willing to make war. I think a lot of people underestimate just how much of the society we value today is only upheld because the US is militaristic: we live in an essentially post-imperialist world, which is highly aberrant in the history of of the world, and it is an order which many other strong powers seem comfortable if not eager to undermine.
John Quincy Adams, 1821.
“However, I would counter that an international hegemon does have interests worth defending beyond its borders, whether that be directly defending trade interests”
Well, the rub here is that defending overseas trade interests with taxpayer dollars is in economic terms, I would argue, a subsidy. In a libertarian America, a company that wanted to manufacture goods overseas would need to ensure the local government left them alone, without having the 900 pound gorilla of a belligerent US Navy looming over it. They’d have to secure their own shipping lanes, either via armed ships, hiring mercenaries, or accepting the losses via insurance.
In fact, this issue was debated in the early republic. The Constitution itself was created, in no small part, by wealthy men with shipping interests, who wished to fund a national Navy that would protect the nation’s shipping (which just so happened to be owned by them.) They were the first Americans to argue that a private cost was in fact a national issue to be covered by the taxpayer.
Well, the rub here is that defending overseas trade interests with taxpayer dollars is in economic terms, I would argue, a subsidy. … The Constitution itself was created, in no small part, by wealthy men with shipping interests, who wished to fund a national Navy that would protect the nation’s shipping (which just so happened to be owned by them.)
In one sense it is, in another it does provide greater benefit to all, since the majority of the country benefits from trade. In the original formulation of the government under the Constitution, most of the funds raised were from tariffs and thus it could be seen more as a user fee than a subsidy, but that of course is not the case now.
They’d have to secure their own shipping lanes, either via armed ships, hiring mercenaries, or accepting the losses via insurance.
I would be interested to know how well this would work, practically. There are large companies that could afford private navies to provide for their own protection, and historically mercenaries and private armies were quite common, but to go toe-to-toe with another government would require the type of militarization that generally leads companies to turn into governments themselves (such as the case with several of the East India Companies), so I don’t know if there is any practical answer that actual precludes government involvement.
“in another it does provide greater benefit to all, since the majority of the country benefits from trade”
Same goes for an educated population, a population with medical care, a massive interstate highway system, etc etc. I don’t find this argument compelling for the same reasons I don’t find public education, public medicine, or public infrastructure to be very compelling.
Oh, and I was speaking of commerce protection from pirates, not governments. Obviously no company could protect themselves from a hostile government short of WMDs. But that’s one the issues with, for lack of a better term, imperial entanglements: you end up conflating the interests of United Fruit or the American sugar growers in Cuba with the interests of the American people as a whole.
Navalism makes sense for countries like the UK or Japan who are resource poor, but as a policy choice for the United States, it inserts pretty massive distortions into the market, IMO.
I think you are so focussed on the trade protection side of naval power that you give short shrift to the role it plays in rendering us immune to invasion. I can see and appreciate your argument on the trade front, although I think it has a a problem because the existence of secure trade directly benefiits everyone in the country via increased prosperity and cheaper goods, but while that is a major justification for a navy it is not the only one.
“give short shrift to the role it plays in rendering us immune to invasion.”
The submarine fleet, on it’s own, would completely secure the United States against even a theoretical mass alliance of Russia and China. They’d absolutely massacre the Chinese and Russian fleets before they even came close to threatening Hawaii, let alone CONUS.
Like, I’m not advocating breaking up the entire fleet for razor blades and going with the Jeffersonian “gunboats are all an agrarian republic needs!!!” type thinking. But right now the stated posture of the United States Navy is to totally control every square mile of salt water on the planet, and a decent chunk of the fresh water.
Keeping the Russians out of the Eastern Med, or the Chinese out of the South China Sea, stretches the meaning of “national defense” really really thin for me.
Baird – one of the top 3 bar concerts I ever saw in my life. That was a Slumpy Boy gig, but he was great with The Yayhoos and Homemade Sin, too. You won’t regret going to a Dan Baird gig.
I remember a review of the first Georgia Satellites album. The reviewer called them the ultimate barroom boogie band.
A little one hit wonder for ya.
Not so fast, buddy.
I remember this one.
And let’s not forget this gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBo8JHYSnJY
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8534999/Demi-Rose-strikes-sultry-pose-eye-popping-white-dress-parties-night-away-Ibiza.html
Oldie but a goodie:
https://nypost.com/2018/12/21/aquarium-says-sorry-for-calling-otter-thicc-girl/
Calling an otter thicc is racist. Also, apparently otters can feel shame for being fat.
“Nick Cannon uses ‘heaven’ as a location to post two concerning messages on social media after receiving backlash from the black community for apologizing for his anti-Semitic remarks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8533465/Nick-Cannon-uses-heaven-location-post-two-concerning-messages-social-media.html
You do have to kinda feel bad for the kid. Says something stupid, and then gets piled on, apologizes, and then gets piled on for apologizing. He’s like the only person to ever go through that.
But what about the hundreds of thousands of people who signed internet petitions supporting masks?
Tensions flared at a public hearing in Utah over the state’s mask mandate for schoolchildren after several parents defied orders by packing the room without face coverings.
The parents, some of whom carried signs condemning face masks, failed to sit in the marked seats and booed at the Utah County officials Wednesday night. The hearing was held over a letter by Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee, which asked Gov. Gary Herbert to waive his requirement kindergarten to 12th grade students wear a mask when schools reopen.
Utah County Commissioner Tanner Ainge has opposed the letter citing safety for the students and admonished the crowd for blatantly putting everyone in the hearing room at risk by not wearing masks or socially distancing.
“This is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing,” Ainge told the crowd before he was booed.
The hearing, held in Provo, Utah, was postponed by a 2-1 vote, which triggered more boos and angry calls from the mask mandate’s opponents.
Some thing something revealed preference. But fuck you, that’s why.
Another Ainge batting .200
Only time I ever came close to hitting a woman was when my ex-wife compared me to Danny Ainge after watching me play some rec-league basketball.
Photo accompanying Utah article shows more than “several” people ignoring the mask rule. A lot closer to “all of them”.
“Black Power Naps Is Addressing Systemic Racism in Sleep
The pair behind Black Power Naps explain how systemic racism impacts sleep.
Fannie Sosa and Navild Acosta were tired, but it wasn’t just any old fatigue. Yes, they experienced a lack of sleep, but they were specifically experiencing a generational fatigue familiar to Black people and people of color. From this sleeplessness, the two created Black Power Naps.
“It came from understanding that the American dream is a sleepless one,” Sosa said. “ We inherited this exhaustion.””
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-power-naps-addressing-systemic-racism-in-sleep
It’s all so tiring.
“A Teen Vogue article argues that Black employees should be given time off for “power naps” as reparations for the sleep deprivation of slaves. Just when you thought you’ve heard it all…”
https://twitter.com/BlazeTV/status/1283940734475931648
At some point I’m going to have to start demanding reparations for all my time that has been wasted by idiots.
Can drugs fall out of a potato’s ass? Because I saw drugs fall out of a potato’s ass.
Wasn’t in this morning’s links.
Eh, I don’t think this one has been relentlessly spammed in the comments.
No need. There a tsunami of fresh derp every day.
For those interested, I’ll kick off the Virtual Happy Hour at 19:00 Eastern tonight.
Thank you.
Thanks Neph. Might swing by if it cools down a bit
Danke schon
Bitte schön
Yay!
Thanks!
OMG will the elusive Tonio make an appearance???
Tonio! Tonio! Tonio!
https://twitter.com/NationalistTV/status/1283274008729968640
Its 105 today, so cold beer, pork shoulder thats been in the smoke for a couple of hours, prepping some brine for some chicken tomorrow.
Its been a nice day
How does everyone feel about Peter Schiff?
I was excited to see he was on Rogan, but Christ if he doesn’t talk a lot and continuously over Rogan. His message was on point, but delivery was very poor.
I didn’t see him on Rogan but that’s consistent with some other appearances I’ve seen. He is obviously very bright. But he has the personality of the typical hedge fund manager. He comes across as self-important and sometimes demeaning.
I really haven’t ever watched him but I read every thing that I see written by him. He makes sense to me. Maybe a little over on the gold bug but that’s the business he’s in. He isn’t wrong but most of us are waiting ’til we lose all our money first before we’ll remember that he was right.
SCIENCE!
Face coverings for COVID-19 protection come in all shapes, sizes, materials and colors.
From bandanas and DIY masks made from handkerchiefs to custom-made cotton masks with your favorite sports team emboldened on the front, health experts say those coverings are crucial for preventing the spread of coronavirus.
But not all face coverings are created equal, according to research from Florida Atlantic University.
Scientists put four common variations of face coverings — a bandana, a handkerchief mask, an over-the-counter cone style mask and a two-layer quilting cotton mask — under tests to see which ones blocked droplets. The quilting cotton masks turned out to be the covering that blocked the most droplets, according to the study.
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Researchers used a mannequin that simulated coughs and sneezes by spraying particles into the air from its mouth. The scientists said particles traveled eight feet from the mannequin’s mouth when it had no face covering.
When the mannequin’s face was covered by a bandana, droplets traveled more than three feet, according to the study. The handkerchief covering made droplets travel more than a foot away from the mannequin’s mouth while the cone-shaped mask allowed particles to travel eight inches away from the mouth, researchers said.
That’s it? That’s where all this bullshit is coming from? That would barely get you a B- in a decent high school science fair.
What a bunch of superstitious cunts.
I just love having those cotton fibers in my mouth.
I’m fairly certain that considering my whiskers poke through my mask, I doubt it’s stopping things smaller then that.
I learned from NYC that the fastest way to recover from COVID19 is to give it to someone else. So I make sure to cough onto the outside of my mask before wearing.
And the aerosolized droplets that aren’t heavy enough to drop to the floor due to gravity (but have more than enough viral material to cause an infection), but instead hover in the air and possibly travel about a room? How well do the various masks do in preventing those from traveling? If this virus couldn’t be transmitted that way, it likely wouldn’t be spreading as well as it does.
And everyone sneezes as far forward as possible, doing nothing to…. say…. cover their mouths? Turn their heads??
It’s almost as if what we now know as “common courtesy” may have had its origins in some distant time… when real city-destroying and/or civilization-altering things called… plagues were not so uncommon as they are now. Their understanding may not have had a basis in what we now call germ-theory, but maybe just simple human observation. We certainly have a much better understanding of disease transmission now, but people in ancient times weren’t stupid. Burning bodies, burying them, and other practices of hygiene seem to me to almost be instinctual.
Cats groom themselves, as do monkeys and many other animals, and they also engage in a whole bunch of other species-preserving behaviors, some quite sophisticated, and no one needed to tell them about cell biology to adapt and evolve to the reality of disease. Sometimes I think “civilization,” in the form of cities, may be the endpoint of civilization, a harbinger of its doom, rather than the apogee of its excellence.
People who live on the land have a completely different sense of these things. I can’t get over those cultural differences and I suspect that’s a small part of what’s going on in the Utah sit in. I imagine trying to tell some friends of mine who had a small working farm of 1800 acres in Kansas that they need to worry about getting “germs” and I can the Old Man just shrugging his shoulders and smiling. “Uh huh.”
I have a somewhat orthogonal observation to that one:
My father grew up on a (very) small farm, what is now the suburbs of Providence, RI, but back in his day was rolling farmland marked by brick walls that populate New England. My dad’s family built their own house, they had chickens, and even pet monkeys(!) as kids. His brothers, my uncles, both live even further out in the sticks towards CT. They had all kinds of wacky animals when I was growing up: ducks (man, there was one mean sonuvabitch that bit and chased us kids!) and geese (one there, too), and all kinds of shit like that.
We used to pick berries off of the bushes, wipe ’em on our shirts, and then spit them out when we tasted how sour they were, try to eat crabapples, run through the woods of poison oak and poison fucking everything in New England, to the apple orchards nearby to try to steal apples from their trees, keep our eyes out for snakes en route – but poke ’em with sticks when we found ’em! And my dad’s childhood was no doubt more dangerous in risks than mine, definitely by multiples, probably by magnitudes (polio, anyone?). And yet….
Now we’re on the phone and he’s all for shutting down Costco if need be because he might get it from someone like me. Or trampling others’ rights on a whim. When I point out that he could just stay home, along with others who might be high risk – we do have Amazon and food delivery, and so many options that allows people the luxury to be shut-ins… but, no. No, everyone has to stay in.
This isn’t about science and I don’t want to place all of the blame on Boomers, but man, generationally it does seem that a much larger percentage of Boomers are selfish than say, for example, their parents, who went through the Depression and then volunteered to fight the Nazis and Japanese. I don’t know, I’m not absolute on this, but I can’t get my head around what’s happened to that guy. He did move to Washington State and lived in Seattle for a long time, and he’s always been an old school Team Blue guy, so maybe it’s just that; he sure does seem to have forgotten a lot about what living was like.
Seems to me that a lot of people have.
At the beginning of the panic, for shits and giggles, I looked up the infection and fatality rates for smallpox. Smallpox was deadly, there’s still no cure, and existed within (most of) our lifetimes.
Instead, we’re all locked down for a disease that appears to have higher contagion, but a much lower fatality rate. Now the focus is all on new cases. The graph included in that article shows cases bouncing up a lot, but the deaths line is pretty flat. Now, if the time between identified case and death is a month or higher, we should start seeing that line move up at least in a relative manner. Based on the earlier peaks, it looks like deaths was lagging about 2-3 weeks after the new cases.
The mortality rate is so low it doesn’t even classify as an epidemic anymore. The only state with a significant increase in mortality rate is Florida – where old people flock and were told not to go to the doctor for four months.
You couldn’t come up with a worse argument for socialized medicine if you tried. But Americans will pull out all the stops to have the absolute wrong takeaway from all this.
Ozy – your comment about the white patriarchal idea about limiting the use of power may just inspire an article out of me.
Noblesse oblige and chivalry get a bad rap! We ought to give the French credit for… something! (?)
We ought to give the French credit for… something! (?)
The French deserve credit for good food and bad ideas.
(yes, they have some of the reverse on both counts, but generalizing is fun)
The scientists said particles traveled eight feet from the mannequin’s mouth when it had no face covering.
And nothing else happened.
Scientists?
Cough Test Dummies.
The scientists, I mean.
[shuffles feet]
More music.
I would be so fucking tasty & delicious if all of the squad lost their seats.
Would you now? ; )
LOL!!!!
(I’m tasty & delicious either way)
Heroic Mulatto makes the same claim!
So you’re like good cake.?
Dayum, girl.
L O L
Cough Test Dummies.
If we want this “experiment” to be meaningful, we need active zombie plague spores in the “sneezing” dummies, and live test subjects. Any random assortment of county commissioners (or school teachers) will do.
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked ???
Dead bodies piled like sacks of potatoes
Texas officials and funeral home directors are ordering extra body bags and refrigerated trucks as they prepare for an increase in deaths from Covid-19, which has already killed 3,657 in the state.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending 14 refrigerated trucks to the state next week — on top of the eight already sent — to serve as temporary mortuaries, while some funeral homes are reserving their own trucks from private companies.
“The directors I’ve talked to in the last week are at capacity or over capacity, thus the reason they had to bring in the trailers,” said Gene Allen, president of the Texas Funeral Directors Association.
A backlog in mortuaries. Is that because they can’t hold funerals?
OT: To Glib writers! I hope all is well and the juices are a-flowin’!
I am starting an official freelance project. I am wondering if you are working on anything new and if you are interested in fresh eyes going over everything. I’d love to get in touch and we can see what the best route forward would be for you. Depending on where you are in the project and what you desire, I can either simply proofread, or I can copyedit or line edit depending on your desire.
I am thrilled to get back in the game, and I’m happy to have an opportunity to help out your creative projects.
Just me know and we can sort something out! I feel comfortable posting my work e-mail so I shall: mathews.evang @ gmail.
Thank you for stepping up. Glad you’re doing better.
Happy you’re mending!!
Thanks! Everything is going smooth as silk! Really the only annoying thing is tinnitus, but I long ago learned to ignore that. Just finished working on two novels and am midway through a play right now. The only concern on my end is that Lady has to do a bizarre visa run in Cambodia before we can reunite!
Soon, soon. I love the work and I’m having fun doing it. You guys are the best.
Palomas tonight unless the 711 doesn’t have grapefruit juice
Beer and potentially mead tonight. I’ve got to get up early tomorrow morning.
“far-right extremists, who frequently don militarylike outfits and harass left-leaning protesters”
“Extremists” “frequently . . . harass” “left-leaning protesters”
Nice framing. I wonder what universe that happens in.
Two descriptors you’ll never see:
“Right leaning”
“Far left extremists”
And-
FEMA sent eight mortuary trucks to Texas in early April when the state was reporting fewer than 1,000 new cases a day, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The case count has climbed dramatically since then to a record 10,791 new cases on Wednesday, according to the state. On Thursday, 10,291 new infections were confirmed.
Deaths and hospitalizations haven’t risen as quickly in recent weeks, but epidemiologists say that’s because it can take a while after someone is diagnosed before they are hospitalized and die. Some patients wage particularly lengthy battles before succumbing to Covid-19, like Broadway actor Nick Cordero who died earlier this month after spending more than three months in the hospital.
Die, damn you. Die! We’ve got to make our numbers.
Meanwhile, the state’s mortality rate is at an all-time-virus low.
“All of the cloth masks and materials had near zero efficiency at 0.3 µm, a particle size that easily penetrates into the lungs.”
CV-19 ranges from .06 to .125 micrometers.
https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/
Honestly,I don’t know who’s right, but as always, the media only reports what they want you to hear, and reports it as a scientific fact with full consensus, “except for a few but jobs”.
Are we talking the plastic surgeon variety, or the “$20 same as downtown” kind?
Do we have any data on how aerosolized particles travel through mask wearer to outside? I’m anti state enforced masks, of course, but I would be curious about actual.data.
Who cares, the pandemic is raging! RAGING I TELL YOU! Now wear your mask and be afraid, and shut up, experts are talking!
Pre COVID-19, the main argument as to hwy the masks seemed not to work (all the studies up until then failed to demonstrate any benefit) was that the aerosolized particles would “vent” through the sides and top of the masks, and escape into the environment and then float about. Only the large droplets would be blocked by the masks, and the aerosolized ones would escape the masks and be free to infect people.
When you see people complain about their glasses “fogging up” when they wear a mask, ask them what they think might be in that “fog” coming up from underneath their mask?
Outside, these areosolized droplets aren’t gonna be viral for very long, but inside they could hover about quite a bit and infect people. So if this was in fact happening, what we’d see is most of the identified cases of transmission happening inside, and very few happening outside. Which, of course, is precisely what has happened with COVID-19.
The problem is we’ve had no time to actually study any of this directly, and the “mask mandates” have essentially steamrolled any debate on the topic. You’re now a “science denier” if you question their efficacy.
Or to put it more succinctly: “JUST WEAR THE DAMNED MASK, AND SHUT UP.” For science
I think if Omar loses there is going to be some jail time. Her party isn’t going to circle the wagons for someone who is no longer useful.
So, Omar. AOC. It would be a hate-filled extravaganza, but I would absolutely love to have sexual relations with both of them. It doesn’t matter what the ‘definition of is’ is. That IS the reality. Or…at least MINE. Maybe the ‘is’ definition is in flux…*shrug.*
Is that seriously the only reason why they were selected to be Team Blue puppets? There’s really no way that everything they say isn’t fed to them and memorized. Woman, brown, minority. Add attractive and you SHOULD have a pretty winning Team Player there. No one dares speak against them!
They are the definition of sexy Useful Idiots. I laughed at how much Omar got out-raised. She seemed (to them) to be so untouchable by her handlers. I love that things are so far gone that they can be easily toppled. I will get my popcorn for the elections.
I can’t think of any hot leftists dudes I would hate-fuck
Not even Pete Booty-gig?
I mean…it’s right there in the name. Take it to the hoop!
Don’t even listen to Evan, Beta is the one. He’s just asking for it. If you’re a real Glib, we want video!
None of the above. Like, ew! Gross!
I just searched for a list of “hot politicians” and my god. If your list has Trudeau, Newsome, Swallwell, Obama, and some hideous looking dudes who were presidents/princes/etc elsewhere, just don’t.
Rather than look for hot politicians just find a bdsm club. You’ll get a better slave master experience, and when you climax you get to go back to self ownership.
Oh, I’ll own.
AOC and Omar are hot. They could use some ‘ownership.’ I bet they’d sidle up to that fantasy and enjoy it. I’m fully willing to be their pony if that’s how they want to ride.
Do sexual fantasies influence people’s votes? They sure did for JFK. I’m guessing for these ladies. Bill Clinton’s charm got him plenty of poon. Power is sexy. But I think these ladies need…a bit of a different touch. Something more exotic. Like me. Especially me. I always make sure to caress the tickly-bits afterwards. I know where they are and how to exploit them for their, and my, appreciation. My ticklish parts spasm and are an after-sex weakness. If they do what I love I’m more likely to stay.
I might have to go to my bunk pretty soon. This is a bit much…but none a lie.
I’m sorry AOC won her primary. I’ve lusted after Michelle Caruso-Cabrera since she was on CNBC twenty years ago.
I had to look her up. When she was 20…I was being born.
However, I still strongly approve.
Is that seriously the only reason why they were selected to be Team Blue puppets?
No. I think it’s been a year since I posted it last, and the man deleted his blog archive, so I’ll repost:
He wrote this in February 2019 and so far his prediction was on the mark.
I believe I recall that from the Rotten Chestnuts blog. Holy crap, no matter how cynical you are about higher education, he, as a longtime academic, is far more cynical.
Meh. I agree with him about HER. But ” AOC is every stupid, lazy, narcissistic college girl I’ve ever met, which is to say, every single American girl I’ve met under the age of 50.”
I’ve met plenty of folk like that, but ‘every single American girl that [he’s] met’ is like that? I wonder where he’s hanging out. And why.
Not every person acts that way, but I do understand that attractive women are treated completely differently than the rest of the populace. There are plenty of takers and they just have to say Yes or No. I’ve also known and been with plenty of women who didn’t behave that way despite being attractive.
It’s something that happens, and I understand why people behave the way they do (as best as I can guess, and there is thought behind it), but to simply lump people together in a box with a hand-made label on it isn’t the best way to judge people, until of course they put themselves into that box. Politicians, with about .002% of outliers, are outright liars and power-hungry mobsters. Professional athletes are also to be put into a box, that of Absolute Competitive Beasts. I even like most of them; they give me entertainment and they’ve earned it. Successful musicians and performers get put into a box: They are gonna get laid hard.
Having said that, casually saying that ‘every woman or man is like this’ is just flat-out wrong. I imagine that he has some Been Burned experience and has convinced himself that everyone is like that to make himself feel better. See also: Actual racists. I’m gonna go with ‘to the Asshole Box’ with him. He’ll find company.
He was a college prof, referring to “every stupid, lazy, narcissistic college girl I’ve ever met, which is to say, every single American girl I’ve met under the age of 50.” I don’t think he was referring to every single American female under 50. I think his point was “AOC is a completely typical product of American higher education”.
A funny, scathing guy. His take on academia was vicious.
AOC is a completely typical product of American higher education
Exactly, but unlike the rest of BLM twatesᵀᴹ running loose, she like the Obama’s, Bushes, Hillary’s, Cuomo’s, etc. ad nauseum, have a criminal support system that allows them to force themselves into our lives. All for the worse.
I may have gotten that wrong, but I think he should have been more clear with his phrasing. It is very well possible that previous paragraphs set up the line more clearly.
“..every single American girl I’ve met under the age of 50..”
I admit that I took that to mean ‘every woman I’ve met under 50’ as opposed to ‘every college student female I’ve met under 50.’
I’d have to get more context, because even that is pretty shockingly off. In my experience at least. To take his word honestly, which is an assumption as it probably is for effect, he has never met anyone under 50 who did NOT go to college.
Not knowing the writer and reading these comments, there is likely a scathing style of writing on academia that I obviously am not familiar with, but can recognize and understand with these clarities. It just didn’t come off in that paragraph from a first-time reader.
His view on AOC is absolutely spot on. And of too many people these days. I still want to bang her. But then leave. She doesn’t get (too much) cuddle afterwards. I’d have to see if there was morning sex awaiting.
He may be exaggerating for effect but he claims to have been a prof for years before he finally had enough and gave up. So yes, he would have met them (” every stupid, lazy, narcissistic college girl “, not “every American girl”) in professional capacity. His anecdotes from (again, no way to verify) teaching years are hilarious, if you like dark humor.
As for “racist”, when I called him My Favorite Fascist, I wasn’t exaggerating. On descriptive front, he’s strong. On prescriptive…well, he doesn’t give suggestions, only hints, but I wouldn’t go where he suggests (he also affects not to be keen on going, but, again, take writing on Internet for what it is).
But, as I said, fuck if he didn’t call it while everyone else was laughingly telling me how Pelosi will whip her into shape and put her in her place. And, to be fair, I agreed with everyone.
It would be a hate-filled extravaganza, but I would absolutely love to have sexual relations with both of them.
But would you really use any “free pass” your lady might give you on them?
If so, I salute you out of dumbfounded respect for your thirstiness.
I have a Hall Pass, thought haven’t thought of using it. I have my own sexual fantasies but I don’t act upon them.
To brag…If I were to give them the Evan Treatment, they’d beg for more and would have an open-ear to anything I said. They might even listen. I doubt it, but I will also take free meals to compensate for my time. I’ll take the poon as well.
Omar shrieking out my name in pleasure would be particularly satisfying. Hopefully AOC would be watching and would want her own time. She’ll get it, too.
I bet they get stupidly laid as often as they want. Sometimes, hopefully, not by one’s brother. Being a bit of an rugged individual, I bet that sways them into happy sex time. I, for the record, Senator, am perfectly on board with this.
Recipe request time
1) red beans and rice
going to try this one https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/58211/authentic-louisiana-red-beans-and-rice/
Better alternative?
2) green beans with hoisin
saw it somewhere here yesterday, but misplaced it
Green beans, hoisin sauce, bacon, garlic,…?
I prefer cooking them in a dutch oven or electric pressure cooker, the pressure cooker requires some tweaks to the recipe. Is this your first time making red beans? I’ve got a guideline recipe that I change up depending on what I’ve got on hand, and what I can find at the store.
Thats a pretty good red beans and rice recipe, although a ham bone should also go in the pot with the beans.
comfort food for me is beans and rice
and then smoked sausage chunks and some refrios as well
serve in a bowl with super cold beer
/ no true Scotsman
No readily available hambone so best I can do.
It’s even easier.
Green beans. Hoisin sauce cut with water and an “appropriate” amount of cornstarch. (Think: 1/4 cup of hoisin, 3/4 cup of water, 1 heaping Tbsp. of cornstarch, several “squirts” of sesame oil to finish.)
Stir fry beans in small amount of oil over insanely high heat in a wok until they go brown and crispy in spots; immediately toss in the hoisin/water mixture, stir-fry until set, turn off heat, add sesame oil). Scoop out and serve.
You may have to adjust amounts of each ingredient. That’s okay. Have fun.
The lead guitar player is a preview of what Dave Grohl will look like in 20 years.
Honestly,I don’t know who’s right, but as always, the media only reports what they want you to hear, and reports it as a scientific fact with full consensus, “except for a few but jobs”.
Studies show.
Experts agree.
President Cartoon Villain asserts, without evidence.
I like the Turnpike Troubadours
“
GlibertariansKarens hardest hit.”I have my very own marshmallow test. The first tomato of the year is almost ripe. But, it needs one more day. It is so hard to war.
Wait
Hah, loser, I just picked my first ripe tomato, and because of my generosity, gave it to my wife! I spot about another 5-6 almost ripe…
There are about 10 that are starting to ripen, but this is the only one that’s close. I really want to eat it.
Don’t do it.
My wife spotted the almost ripe one yesterday and was like ‘I’m going to take that one!’, and I argued with her ‘Why not just keep eating the store bought ones? Because that’s what it will taste like’. She said it was really good. I counted 25 more on that one plant that look like they’ll be ripe soon before too long. We’ll have a lot in a few more days I’m sure.
I’m sort of bummed because I got started late. No one had any seeds in stock and Walmart and Home Depot had no plants at all back in March. I didn’t get my seeds planted until almost May. Should have started them in Jan-Feb, and I’d be on to a 2nd crop by now. I mean the indeterminate ones will just keep producing, but they lose vigor after a few months, so I like to have a secondary crop. I want to grow them all year, but I don’t have room for lights right now, maybe a few. Next year, I plan on having a bigger house and some land.
…and I’m hoping mine will get ripe before the first frost. Lots of small ‘maters but a lot way to harvest. Frost can occur anytime after Sep 10, need that plus a few more helpful days, if possible….
You need LEDs bro, that’s the answer. Put them in your basement and start them in Jan.
And LED grow-strips are absurdly cheap on Amazon or (if you’re okay with it) banggood.com.
Don’t buy ’em from Home Depot. Rip. Off.
Last frost here is typically first week of March and last frost is first week of November, and you still have to start seeds indoors if you want to do well. Problem is like right now when it’s in the mid 90s and all the blooms fall off your maters, again. We can’t all live in high altitude Central America.
Look at Allen Ginsberg over here.
“I don’t play this game often, but this time it’s revealing: Imagine if Obama had done this to Tea Partiers”
https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1284127621803118592
CWAA
Portlandian. Consider the source is my first thought. He probably still thinks CHOP Is a thing and that people have to wear tasseled boggin hats and lama skin boots in summer.
How many Tea Partiers fucked up federal buildings?
First, imagine that the Tea Party had rioted, looted, vandalized, attacked police and federal agents.
Instead of, you know, holding entirely peaceful get togethers and picking up after themselves.
The lesson I am learning from this is that peaceful protests are for suckers.
Peaceful protests are more successful though.
Are they? What did the Tea Party accomplish? What have the 2A protests in VA accomplished? What have the anti lockdown protests accomplished?
BLM and antifa are harvesting vast sums of money, cities and states are acceding to their demands, and Very Serious People are pushing their agendas.
“What did the Tea Party accomplish? ”
I got people elected.
um, It
“What did the Tea Party accomplish?”
It got us the likes of Ryan and Rubio.
That’s why political parties and belief in them, sucks.
Principles, not parties. /the end
The more interesting question is, what could it have accomplished had it not been hijacked?
By what metric?
Changing people’s minds, actually getting things done.
Protests very seldom accomplish anything.
Yep. That’s a dangerous lesson to be teaching people. Some bright guy came up with some sort of law about rewarding things…
The lesson I am learning from this is that peaceful politically unconnected protests are for suckers
You have at all wrong. The current protests are perfectly peaceful until they’re disrupted by racist Nazis who instigate the violence. The Teabagger protests were full of racist Nazis itching for an excuse to break out the violence, but the peaceful left, who only came to peacefully observe with peace, refused to provoke them.
“Ilhan Omar vastly outraised by primary rival ahead of August election”
Yeah, but she’s leading in the polls by 37 percent!
I have my very own marshmallow test.
You kids and your euphemisms.
Wiggled eyebrows. And hips
Jesus H tap-dancing Christ….
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-15/teenage-boy-was-given-estrogen-developed-breast-tissue-while-in-l-a-county-juvenile-hall-lawsuit-alleges
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A 16-year-old boy being held at a Los Angeles County juvenile hall developed enlarged breasts after he was prescribed estrogen to treat a behavioral disorder, a move that baffled doctors who said the treatment defied medical logic, according to a lawsuit filed last month.
The teen, whose identity is being withheld because of his age, was diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, two days after he was arrested and housed at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in June 2019, the lawsuit said. Medical records reviewed by The Times show that the teen’s testosterone levels were “slightly high” when the doctor who diagnosed him prescribed daily doses of estrogen.
***
He should be able to sue them into oblivion. But it’s Cali. Moral of the story is, do not take up residence in Cali, try Venezuela instead.
BTW, glad to see you back here today, Derp.
Thanks. I didn’t mean to get all emo about it. Sometimes I need to hit pause and check out what’s going on in meat space.
Sometimes I need to hit pause and check out what’s going on in meat space.
Everyone does. Especially those that mine for derp.
He would have shot himself in the nuts, otherwise.
Well, hopefully by now most of the estrogen has fallen out of his ass.
I don’t have oppositional defiant disorder, I’m just a Glib.
Shouldn’t they have just brought him some horny teenage girls?
sailing a viking longboat in stormy seas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMVsNEwvX0
After almost 35 years, we have no dogs in the house. It is weird and unsettling.
You are experiencing what the Germans call Hundlosangst*.
*this isn’t a real German word, but it could be (dog-less-fear)
Oh, sorry to hear that Kinnath. Here’s something to cheer you up.
One of my favorites
Married or single, bad relationships or crazy-good (which tended to turn out crazy), Ive never not had dogs.
Oh, howI miss these idiots.
I’m on your side.
Bummer. I had a space of about two years between the death of my last dog and the one in my avatar coming along. I didn’t take a neighborhood walk during that time because it seemed pointless. I don’t think I’ll take as long to re-dog next time around.
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1283731832245231617
WTF??
I don’t understand how people can stand there watching that with the damn phone in their hand. I might get my old ass kicked trying to defend that toddler but I would be going berserk on that coward of a head stomper.
I never get these clips. Why are people standing around filming. Why are people attacking each other?
I have always kept to myself and in my little corner, and so I assume this is rare, but I don’t get these things.
Why are people standing around filming.
Because they are shallow, self-absorbed, broken people who place the highest value on getting a viral video.
Why are people attacking each other?
I didn’t see people attacking each other. I saw a mob attacking a mother and child. Because they are horrible people.
Quibbles aside, I don’t get it still.
There is value in the filming.
Somebody called a mob attacking a car with a disabled person in it “feral”. I think that applies here, too. Who the fuck intentionally kicks a toddler in the head?
He should go to prison for that.
“A melanin advantaged person” – Nick Cannon
More accurately, someone who has been taught that life has no real worth by his peers and his parents
The general scene is fucked up, but I don’t think he was aiming at the toddler.
Does it really matter that he stomped a toddler instead of her mother?
To me it does. He is clearly past the age of reason. He is bully and a coward of the lowest order. He is deranged or savage. He only attacks when he is safe, and uses his legs because he is physically weak. What will he ever amount to. I’ll say jackshit.
He will make some larger, more practiced, savage a nice prison wife.
Nope. I was just quibbling with the “intentionally.”
Also, I’m a few drinks in so may not be completely rational.
Man escapes from being swallowed by whale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcEb6mlEUo
Jonas may want a word or two….
Wiggled eyebrows. And hips
Tingly.
You have no idea
laser chess – uses the mirrors on your pieces to shoot the enemy king
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUGPyvyUxnM
Hey! Which of you miscreants made the #talismask over at RedBubble?:
https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/talismask-with-logo-in-black-by-Glibertarians/51531571.9G0D8
Apparently, you can also get ’em in black with logo in white printing. I approve. But I also want whoever did this to do one that simply says “#ThisMaskDoesNothing” (or its non-hashtag equivalent, natch).
I’d definitely order both at once.
Your wish is my command.
/looking for the new hashtag one now.
Of course, I’m also tempted to order this. It amuses me and would probably piss off a Karen.
And it’s up.
I like it, but . . . is there any way to make the printing a little more . . . in your face?
Seriously. I’m actively trying to piss people off. Plus I got a couple of friends who would gladly wear ’em. Great gifts!
Sure!
But not until later tonight. I am no longer at my computer where my graphics programs reside.
Ordered.
August 12 delivery date!?!?!?
Well, probably will still come in handy
Mine arrived 2 weeks before they promised.
Oh good. I’m planning on wearing it to matches and see if anyone notices it matches my grips.
The one I ordered from TeeFury arrived approximately several Ice Ages after they said it would.
Yes, I’m exaggerating.
No, I’m not exaggerating as much as you might think.
Why the Hell is shipping to Canada from the U.S. always something that approximates the difficulty of shipping something to Alpha Centauri?
And they say art is dead. Gorgeous!
Apparently, you can also get ’em in black with logo in white printing. I approve. But I also want whoever did this to do one that simply says “#ThisMaskDoesNothing” (or its non-hashtag equivalent, natch).
I want
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
on mine.
Additional designs are in the works, since the stupid mask mandates show no signs of going away anytime soon.
I made the joke early on that masks would become a new fashion accessory, like t-shirts.
I hate it when my jokes become reality.
I’ve already ordered the “I Don’t Want To Live On This Planet Anymore” mask and t-shirt from TeeFury (featuring Prof. Farnsworth from Futurama); the T-shirt arrived yesterday, and is okay but not great (printing’s a bit iffy, and the shirt fabric is a little on the light side).
I’ll check back on RedBubble in a few hours and see if my suggestion’s available.
The printing on the masks isn’t as crisp as it would be on a woven fabric, but it’s pretty good. The masks are a soft, washable knit.
“Flowers for Rapernon”?
That just sunk in….you people are the best.
Yo- Im faded af yo
*NSFW
real life Stretch Armstrong has world’s most elastic skin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f46SpiboAew
Would….not
I stopped at the limey saying. “Ill fink dat…..”
Friday Funbags cleans before the maid comes.
http://archive.li/6dtYT
“WATCH: Police in Milan, Italy, discover cocaine smuggled inside coffee beans.”
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1284103581868728322
Best espresso ever
+1
“Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/antiracism-training-white-fragility-robin-diangelo-ibram-kendi.html
Yes.
It’s peddling tribalism and sowing hate.
Eh, close enough.
“And their premise that white people are often unaware of the degree to which racial privilege has enabled their success, which they can mistakenly attribute entirely to merit and effort”
Mistakenly? Fuck off.
Trump is likewise incapable of delayed gratification, planning for the future, and regards “objective rational thinking” with distrust. On the other hand, Barack Obama is deeply devoted to all those values.
BWAHAHAHA
Someone save me from hanging curtains. *flops over*
Don’t change your draperies right now. I mean, unless you already put the floral prints up. Please tell me you didn’t do that.
My spousal unit will be right over. She is The Curtain Goddess™.
(Seriously. She could make major bank building curtains for other people; right now, she just makes ’em for our present domicile [whatever that may be]).
The only time I care about that anymore, will be later this fall when the sun will shine directly on my monitor and I’ll have to close them. Otherwise, what?
Trump is likewise incapable of delayed gratification, planning for the future, and regards “objective rational thinking” with distrust. On the other hand, Barack Obama is deeply devoted to all those values.
Wheeeee!
OK, and the plague is raging, which is also bad orange man’s fault. Got it.
Barry is very rational, future-oriented, and objective about corrupting the bureaucracy and weaponizing it against his political enemies.
“You see active duty military personnel wearing woodland camo in all kinds of situations (riding Metro to the Pentagon, whatever) because it signifies that they’re in the military.
But what are these cops doing? They don’t need forest concealment.”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1284132288813563904
I have to admit, he has a point.
I think it’s called “Intimidation.”
“You’re civilians, we’re not. We have some of the weapons of the real military, but none of the rules of engagement.”
I’m quite annoyed by Canadian LEOs who think they aren’t civilians. I got into it a while ago with one of my friends who was a LEO for 25 years. ”You think you’re not a civilian? Awesome. In Canada, there’s civilians and there’s the military. You wanna be military? AWESOME. They live under the strictures of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. You think the Police Act in the various provinces are hard on you? Wait’ll you see the standards that the UCMJ holds you to. You’ll be begging to be considered a “civilian” after that.
Sadbeard has a point? You mean his pointy head?
A) that’s not woodland camo, not that MattY would know the difference
B) I’m still in the BDUs/ACUs shouldn’t be worn to the office, let alone to the Pentagon camp.
*old timer’s voice*
Back in my day I was only allowed to wear utilities while on duty or on my way work. All travel and any other time in the public, I was expected to wear Class A’s or C’s depending in the season.
+1
Ah, the pre “thank you for your service days”.
No, they don’t need that at all.
extreme domino art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARM42-eorzE
I’ve decided to hunt for neat youtube videos to distract myself from booze.
Yo, Derp. Glad your vacation was short.
Neat Youtube video
fuck you 😉
You are going to push the rest of this over to sloopy’s side in the Great Tosu Ted’s war.