Thank you, thank you! After a couple of very serious days, we can take a break from that and have some laughs. SP, WebDom and I all went to our favorite PHX-area restaurant last night, which put us in a jolly mood, notwithstanding the minor kerfuffle regarding the lack of a kids’ menu.
I’m here all week!
Birthdays today include a guy whose reputation got some traction; a writer whose work had a twist; a libertarian pioneer; the answer to most people’s first question about genetics; a guy who was actually hit by Dreiser; the Pride of Baltimore; a guy whose pole was stable; the brilliant man who inspired CPRM; a guy who was a major contributor to the ruination of country music; proof that comedians don’t have to be funny; and the poor man’s Keanu Reeves.
Let’s news, shall we?
Funny, when an actual insurrection happens, they don’t call it an insurrection.
The performance art is wonderful.
Diet Coke addiction is not her mental illness. Her mental illness is her mental illness.
Old Guy Music is at once a delightful cover and a captured moment of an era. If you don’t love this, you have no soul.
“a libertarian pioneer; the answer to most people’s first question about genetics; ”
Same link?
OMWC – to clarify, the Count is pointing out that that “genetics” link also goes to the Wikipedia article on Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Moar coffee needed.
I thought maybe she had a little lab on the prairie.
A little meth lab.
‘suh fam ?
Morning, Tres. Missed having you around on Zoom. How is night shift treating you?
Ive missed the Zoom as well (though my TVs are much more relaxed). I dont possess the discipline of a l0b0t or Festus to get on before work.
Night shift has treated me better than the mornings when I get home- the 0630/5pm beer turns into too many, and Im faded by noon. Que sera, sera.
Investigators say witnesses told them that Wilks and a friend approached a group of people, including Starnes, with butcher knives while participating in a “prank” robbery for a YouTube video, but Starnes was not aware of the prank and shot Wilks.
Joke’s on you.
Knife/Gun fight
The killer joke.
How stupid do you have to be, to think that pulling a ‘prank’ armed robbery is a good idea?
Probably about as stupid as you have to be to expect anyone to believe this bullshit story. This was an armed robbery gone good.
Get a load of this miserable bitch
https://twitter.com/page88/status/1357901068596883456
Even if they were doing it for purely Christian motives, they totally pwned her. And still she’s sullen and resentful.
Cunte? Give your ovaries a tug and march right over and show them the article. Then next time you get a foot of snow, grab a shovel.
Check out one of the replies.
‘They’re nice to you. Might be different if a black family’s car breaks down in front of their house. They didn’t support Trump for nothing.’
People are just miserable and cannot accept that people might just be good people and know there is a time and place for everything.
My firewall beliefs get severely tested as time marches on.
At least they said “might.” But that’s what we’re up against. Even in the face of evidence to the contrary, these people continue to insist that we (non anti-trumpers) are irredeemable. But LES didn’t think that through very well. What do they think the family is going to do? Even if they did hate blacks it would be in their best interest to help those people move along. This is the same line of thinking that people use to justify “bake me a cake” based on the fallacy that rural (and therefore definitionally homophobic) gas station owners would refuse to sell gas to gays passing through town.
I guess I just cannot wrap my head around that mindset. Its victimhood all time.
Woe is fucking me gets old and is why I left my first wife.
If they were really that bad the bodies of black people would be stacking up like cordwood. The only people that buy that nonsense are those who live in segregated neighborhoods, otherwise everyday experience is going to show that to be a lie.
The replies are revealing in an unfortunate way.
Most of the replies seemed reasonable to me, with a couple exceptions
“They’re nice to you. Might be different if a black family’s car breaks down in front of their house. They didn’t support Trump for nothing.”
These assholes are completely deranged.
All they hear on the network news, the View, stand up comics, and favorite sitcoms is how racist and homophobic and hateful Trump is, and thus his supporters are too.
They have been brainwashed into fearing a bogeyman that does not exist in real life.
Hoffer nods knowingly.
Not just fearing the boogeyman that doesn’t exist.
Brainwashed in to believing that a created from scratch by the media boogeyman must be destroyed.
https://twitter.com/page88
Her entire feed is straight up insane.
51 years old, UVA/Harvard, writes for LATimes.
she’s a caricature of privileged white woman desperate for social acceptance among her peers.
I know a couple of these types and they are insufferable. They want for nothing but have an unsatisfiable need to make themselves “special” in some fashion, usually a pathetic one.
In years past, they would have been the scolding church lady that looked down on everyone else for not living up to their moral standards.
“Pandemic escape” says it all.
(and how the fuck does this rude bitch get regular nookie, and here I sit in my incel prison? NOT FAIR, UNIVERSE. Not. Fair.)
That was my first thought too.
We have a white lady with a “pandemic escape” talking about how she just can’t forgive her neighbors for doing something nice.
This is as insufferable a bitch as ever existed.
scolding church lady
Exactly what they are – they don’t really need the church part.
Sure they do. They need the Priests of the Cathedral of Democracy to issues edicts from on high.
*ahwomen*
She is, although I don’t think it’s because of race or gender, but ideology.
If the neighborhood’s too damn lily white for your taste, why the hell are you living there, you hypocritical cunte?
She’d be the first to call the cops if she saw a brown person in the neighborhood
Remember, upper-middle class white progressives support black lives…just not enough to live near them, send their children to predominantly black schools, shop at businesses in poor black neighborhoods and if a group of young black men happened to be walking the streets after dark bear their homes they’d be shitting themselves while peeking out the window with the police on speed dial…but it’s those icky rural people who are the racists.
I recall the old adage – Southern whites let blacks live close as long as they don’t get uppity. Northern whites let blacks get uppity as long as they don’t live close.
The icky Southereners just want easy access to their focus of oppression while the Northerners are just trying to save blacks from the horrors of gentrification.
Geez, GT, didn’t you get the talking points memo?
I used to work with a proggy who would not shut up for 10 seconds about inequality and social justice. His screensaver was that creepy black and white one with Obama on it, hope and change. He had little figurines of Obama on his desk. One day one of the comp tech guys who had admin access to all the computers, at the urging of some of my other co-workers, changed his screensaver to Rush Limbaugh and replaced one of his Obama figurines with one of Darth Vader. He was furious and immediately called everyone racists.
Anyway, he’d rail constantly about everything social justice. One time I distinctly remember him going on a 3- day long rant about how people wouldn’t live in the city and support the multicultural school systems, because of racism. Then he had kids and guess what he did shortly after that? He moved out of the city to a neighborhood that’s 95+% white. I asked him about hat and he says ‘but I have kids, the schools!’. They’re all hypocrites, all of them.
Next time it snows and they don’t plow her driveway, she’s going to bitch at them for not doing it.
Something tells me she’ll bitch about their very existence no matter what they do.
This is very common. Only a cunte from a liberal shithole would not realize that. I bought a place on 25 acres of land and the house was almost right in the middle of the front 6 acres. My driveway was a little over 400 ft. I had just moved in in the first week of Nov. and I did not yet own a tractor and about the first week of December it came a big snow and was blowing and drifting. No way I could shovel my out of there. We had woken up to that and about 10 am I looked out and there was my nearest neighbor on his tractor clearing my driveway.
I should have just ran out there and yelled ‘get out of my driveway, you Trumpet!’. Oh, wait, I should have let him finish first.
That cunte and anyone like her, deserve nothing when they most need up. Just fucking unbelievable arrogance.
“Investigators say witnesses told them that Wilks and a friend approached a group of people, including Starnes, with butcher knives while participating in a “prank” robbery for a YouTube video, but Starnes was not aware of the prank and shot Wilks.”
Fucking LoL!
You can try to take Darwin completely out of the equation, but there’ll always be those guys.
Prank robbery or fake robbery? Prank implies that the pranked aren’t aware so getting ventilated isn’t a big surprise there. There are few places where those kinds of idiotic shenanigans are more likely to have a bad outcome than Tennessee.
Yeah, they might want to do that in a place that doesn’t have guns, like SanFran maybe. Definitely NOT a good idea in TN.
Good morning candy carrying old dude. No baseball birthdays today?
When the top player is Juan Pizarro, one can say, “No, none of note.”
Fine. I perused the list looking for names I recognize from the Tigers. How about Dave Borkowski? Born in Sterling Heights Michigan and drafted by the Tigers. Won 13 and lost 20 in his career with a 5.88 era. Happy birthday Dave.
I’m not a concert junkie by any means, but Ive been to a lot of shows. One of the best ever was the Highwaymen. Those old poops, half of which had been dried out, de-toxed, and rehabbed, a dozen times, played for a solid 3 hours.
Sounds like when I saw Toots and the Maytals or the Skatalites. Old dudes could play. FFS, Toots was dancing and bouncing around on stage the whole show. He brought up his son for one song, and his son was out of breath by the end of it.
I saw The Buzzcocks back in 1992 at some tiny club in Fresno, CA. They were trying to cram their aged fatherly bodies into the same skinny suits they were wearing in the 1970s. They looked terrible but they absolutely rocked! Decades of playing together had their timing perfected and the energy of a packed house of fans who knew all the songs already brought out a great deal of enthusiasm from the band.
That’s like when I saw Duran Duran in 1987 vs. when I saw them 3 years ago – so together & tight. Except 3/4 of them look just as good now as they did in the 80’s. You can tell which one of the 4 was the hardcore cokehead of the group.
I watched a movie yesterday called “The Imitation Game”. About Alan Turing and breaking the Enigma code.
Excellent.
It was…okay.
Cryptonomicon
Have any of his books been made into movies? Anything besides Snow Crash would probably be too long.
None that I’m aware of, although the Big U and Zodiac would probably be the ones I would guess at getting made into films. I don’t think Stephenson would really translate well to the screen (though I’d like to be surprised).
I still have a deck of cards somewhere around here with my Pontifex key…
“Diet Coke addiction is not her mental illness. Her mental illness is her mental illness.”
In love and addicted to Diet coke and it’s someone else’s fault? It’s like the perfect metaphor for being a life long democrat.
Back to bed, or Up & At ‘Em?
KK: Up and at ’em. At least for me because otherwise my sleep and digestion cycles get whacked. No bueno.
Others: It’s a cool, dreary day here in the mid-atlantic. Our promised snow melted in transit and was delivered as rain.
It’s SNERING here in Alexandria!
It’s now snowing big clumps here. Supposed to clear later. I’m supposed to go for a bike ride with one of my cycling students. Maybe we can put some MTB tracks in the snow.
Nope. I generally tap out when it starts getting below 45 or so. Hell, I don’t even like riding when there’s wet leaves all over the place. Now, the crushed limestone trails I’ll ride when they’re damp, even though I get the rooster tail of limestone mud up my back, and my beard gets enough dust and mud in it to look like an ancient Celtic warrior.
We’ve had about 4″ near Mason-Dixon Baltimore County with a couple.more hours to go.
Howdy neighbor, from the York County side.
Heidi ho, neighbor!
Little man woke up wifey at 0400, So, naturally wifey woke up hubby to watch little man. Thankfully he passed out on top of me on the couch and I got another 25mins of sleep. I awoke to a rather alarming amount of drool on my left arm. But it’s always fun to have the baby fall asleep in my arms.
For my 40th, my oldest found a picture of when he was just a few month old that captures exactly what you described.
He gave me that and then, his gag gift which said “Its a girl!”
You dont Glibs ZoomCall enough. That has happened to me, but the drool was mine.
Yeah… I keep meaning to. Last night I went to work on the rental house and then when I got home the teenager, the wife and I got into a rather epic Mario Kart battle. It was glorious! The very last race I slammed into the teenager and drafted around her right at the finish line. The toddler thought the teenager was in some incredible amount of pain when she heard the howls of 2nd place from her bath tub. Toddler came running in to check on us soaking wet in her birthday suit. It was a really fun moment.
You have the most touching, heartwarming anecdotes. It’s a shame they’re all fake memories because everyone knows that libertarians are randroid cyborgs.
The best part was the replay the game has. We got to watch my smooth move twice before the Teenager decided she couldn’t watch it again.
*cough* I mean… *cough*
Tax the poor! Trickle Down economics! I eat babies!
Turn your head when you cough.
Drool? Whatever. I forget how many times I cupped my hands just in time to keep the contents of a child’s stomach from coating the top of their blanket/PJ’s/etc. Each time I got a double handful of vomit as a prize. I’m glad we’re pretty much passed that stage now.
As I mentioned in the dead thread, its something like a whopping 8º F here and we got a bit of snow overnight. The mixed blessing of Jugsy being gone is that I didnt shovel a damn thing- I have a 4WD, pay higher insurance, and have poor gas mileage for a reason. It can get through the snow.
Our precipitation is a very lovely snow now, supposed to turn to rain in a couple of hours.
Ok, I’m up & at ’em, wing man! ?
AND I’m even taking a shower! Will wonders never cease???
Bed.
Up and at em. Im still not adjusted to Devils Time and have been waking up at 3am
It’s never too early to start fortifying democracy.
+1 Control the flow of information.
At the bottom of the Guardian article:
“Since you’re here …… we have a favour to ask. Millions are flocking to the Guardian for open, independent, quality news every day. Readers in all 50 states and in 180 countries around the world now support us financially.
With the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, American democracy has a chance to reset. The new administration has a historic opportunity to address the country’s deepest systemic challenges, and steer it toward a path of fairness, equality and stability.”
Don’t they mean “equity”?
CANCEL!
“Millions are flocking to the Guardian for open, independent, quality news every day.”
They’re in for a disappointment then, independent might apply but open and quality are sorely lacking.
“Millions are flocking to the Guardian…”
Hhmm… what do they call a group of sheep? Freudian slip much there, old chap?
Mother Nature decided to stop flirting with us and lifted her skirt. It’s still too dark to tell how much snow is out there, but the temp is about three degrees.
-21 but no new snow. Coldest day of the winter but still not too bad
-21 is “not too bad?”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/biden-ending-deals-central-america-restricting-asylum-75733772
If anyone thinks we’ll ever see another non-democrat president again, they’re not paying attention. They’ve got millions of voters, just waiting to cross the border.
I mistakenly have Today Sunday on (Tonio reminded me to test my TV). They just mentioned that the dead capitol cop is lying in state in the rotunda, and members of Congress are all going to pay their respects.
Has anyone said what the guy died of yet ?
Nope. He was the last hero on thay fateful day in which people wondered single file as if on a self guided tour of The Bastion of Democracy.
At this point the propaganda press is working harder than the money press.
“So it turns out this was false”
https://youtu.be/_j_ozHc1WlE
He was pushed and shoved around but he didn’t get whanged on the noggin and he collapsed later while doing paperwork. Considering what the guy’s political tendencies were (Trump guy) he’d probably be horrified by all of this if he had any say but he’s been turned into a propaganda centerpiece instead. It’s disgusting.
The coroner said there was definitely no signs of any blunt force trauma. So the fire extinguisher story was a lie.
He’s Officer Pavlik Morozov.
It was…okay.
Since I came into it knowing pretty much nothing about any of what really happened, it was just a story. I thought it was well told.
“Worsening the problem were strict COVID-19 measures, including a 6 p.m. curfew that meant farmers couldn’t tend to their fields at night as is routine, said Kenrick Wallace, 29, who cultivates 2 acres (nearly a hectare) in Accompong with the help of 20 other farmers.
He noted that a lack of roads forces many farmers to walk to reach their fields — and then to get water from wells and springs. Many were unable to do those chores at night due to the curfew.”
The lack of press about the lack of common sense of all these lockdowns is troubling.
Preventing people from supporting themselves is a feature, not a bug.
Has anyone said what the guy died of yet ?
The miasma of hatred and oppression which lies like a lead blanket across this horrible shithole.
As if CoNetNeutralityVid-19 hasnt already torn apart the fabric of this formerly great republic.
Act like a bitch…
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-us-lift-sanctions-nuclear-deal-khamenei-biden
“We will be the leader that the world needs and give into the demands.” – Joe “Building Bombs Back” Biden
We’ll be doing whatever Xi tells his bitch CCP Jo to do. And all of it will be intentionally bad for the USA. Go figure.
https://sportsbookwire.usatoday.com/super-bowl-odds/
Anyone watching this today?
I may check the score before I go into work. In my head I have KC +10.
We boycotted NFL this year, and it’s likely to be permanent.
We stopped watching all sports – even NASCAR after the Bubba fiasco. It was a major change to our weekend activities.
The good news is that I’ve probably done a lot more reading. The bad news is that I’ve done hardly any knitting or crocheting – the activity that justified sitting on my ass on the sofa watching sports.
+ 1 , i just don’t care anymore
Same with me, though I was never a big fan of FB, BB or Tundra’s beloved hockey so was easy for me.
I haven’t watched a hockey game in almost a year.
The woke shit, the lack of fans and the phony arena noise broke me.
Cancelled Dish the day after NHL ‘cancelled’ the season last spring. Learned “Chelsea Dagger” on guitar so I could get my fix of Hawks goals. The playing is probably not as sloppy as their goal scoring. Probably.
NBA – never a big fan, don’t like the game of basketball, especially at the pro level, would watch a bit more college in the past. But not really enough to matter, occasional playoff game/series. But the nonsense with China a year (year.5?) ago just took that off the table.
NFL – Was a big fan, Sundays used to be dedicated to watching NFL all day. Slowly drifting away over the last couple of years with the change in the game. The asymmetric enforcement of the rules in favor of offenses – “you touched the quarterback! 15 yard penalty, loss of down, an extra 21 points to the offense”, “Illegal attempt to prevent receiver from showboating a catch by brushing against his elbow!” – kind of made it frustrating. I’m fine with improving the safety (taking off some of the damn armor would probably help there!), but many of the changes seems focused on simply offensive showboating, WWE-style entertainment rather than player safety. The full woke nonsense sealed the deal and I haven’t watched a full game in about 2 years.
Short of it, I don’t really watch any sports anymore; strangely, I really don’t think I miss it.
Probably. I pretty much skipped the Chiefs season this year but I’ve watched the playoff games.
My Broncos loving friend(who also hates Tom Brady) claims that it was the Chiefs SB victory last year that ushered in the End Times and a Chiefs vs Brady led team this year is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse or something.
Pestilence?
*ponders for a moment*
Good call.
Planning on heading over to a friend’s house to watch it with a small group. There will be beer, bourbon, food, and no Branch Covidians.
I expect it will be a good time.
Is that the fellow you mentioned yesterday? Y’all have a wonderful time and may the spirit of Bucco Bruce wreak his vengeance upon Tampa Bay.
Nah, but I’ll be seeing him there. In years past, he hosted, but his wife has gone full on panic mode about the ‘vid. So he’s not hosting this year.
I’m supposed to go to a colleague’s house. Just a single loser and a divorcing loser* being losers together. And gossiping about work.
*(it’s actually the opposite. This is the guy that has pussy presenting itself to him on a platter on the regular.)
Just the two of you? Hmmmm….. ; )
Colleague = no go zone (not to mention I’m not attracted to him).
Momma likes her job & the money that comes with it.
Yup. Don’t shit where you eat.
Also, I can usually only have one crush at a time, and that slot’s filled right now ?
*blushes*
Thanks for the links, OM. Willie’s fighting the calendar but the calendar is gaining at his point. Great music, even Jimmy Carter liked Ol’ Willie, did the White House roof top together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinTHp5wpHg
Fourscore remembers…
My favorite quote of Willie’s: “My greatest regret about getting old is that I outlived my dick.”
I’m almost looking forward to that. My brain has been at war with Slim Jim and the Twins for awhile now. The frustration is hardly worth the bother anymore.
“Honestly, it’s pretty unprofessional that Phoenix police would commemorate that,” he said.
Some people just don’t know how to be a celebrity.
Speaking of Nixon… a guy I know was telling me, just a few days ago, “You know, Nixon wasn’t all bad, when you really look at what he did.”
No shit. I still don’t know why the liberals haven’t erected an enormous monument to him on the Mall. He did things FDR could only dream of.
It’s always the guy from the opposite party of what’s expected that normalizes formerly unthinkable things. Kind of like Clinton balancing the budget and paying down the national debt and Obama making it OK for the left to openly love war and thank God Romney didn’t win or Sandy Hook would’ve ushered in quite the era of gun control. Hell, Nixon even opened up and legitimized China, seems like they’d still be sucking him off for that.
-1Bush import EO and Reagan machine gun registration
Last night at dinner, SP was reminded of why she always regrets having WebDom and me at the same table.
Because you flirt with WebDom?
/ducking
Too old.
What was the safe word? Asking.. for a friend.
Cacao.
“You’re right, honey.”
Restaurants don’t have rusty can lids as part of the tableware, do they?
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/06/964885419/chicago-teachers-at-odds-with-district-over-school-reopening
It’s funny how an entire class of people can keep pretending as if there aren’t already 10’s of millions of kids going to schools in other states and the media keeps backing them.
That picture is sad/rage inducing.
I’ve said it before but I’d rather Zoom at home than put up with the hysteria of masks and “social distancing” in public all day every day. Those kids are going to be all kinds of messed up.
“Those kids are going to be all kinds of messed up”
Feature, not bug. The masks and distancing are emblematic of the government’s desire to muzzle and dehumanize us. Teach kids early on that other people are not just faceless drones but also diseased filth and you can get them to do anything.
“Mom, how come all the (fill in the blank) kids can go out and play ball and other games without wearing masks? Don’t they know that….”
“Well, son/daughter, they aren’t like us, they don’t know and their parents don’t love them as much as we love you”
I’m predicting a wave a school shootings by physiologically traumatized teens very soon. Which is exactly what some powerful people seem to want. All the more reason for more stringent gun laws and social media monitoring/spying on the public.
Omelets and all…
*psychologically
Blarg…where’s my coffe cup again?
Next month will mark a full year since my children have set foot inside a classroom. The county has offered some pathetic attempts at in-person schooling (you could have two whole days a week, if you’re willing to put up with the mask dance and social distancing rules), but a goodly number of the teachers are still sitting on their asses at home teaching over video anyway. I asked my kids if they wanted to go into school or stay virtual and they were pretty clear that they didn’t see any point of in person schooling when there wasn’t any personal contact. The entire year has been a wash; they’ve learned next to nothing, except for the most valuable lesson of all: “the government is not your friend and will not look out for your best interests.”
One would think that’s a better way, but from experience it is not.
My kids have been in (private) school since August. But they’re adhering to the Cathedral prayers and use of its holy trinkets, the mask, plexiglass, and fucking rubber gloves whenever more than 1 might touch the same object.
As bad as it is, and it was bad enough that I had to take Oldest Chipper out for a couple of weeks to distance him from the ritual nonsense because it was really starting to wear down on him, it’s still better than Zoom. And our school went to great lengths, spending months and about a million dollars, to do remote school about as well as can be done. We had a mandatory shutdown by Governor Useless (D) (despite having zero cases of community spread in 3 months) that forced us to remote learning. It was a 3 week long nightmare for both kids.
On a side note, he’s definitely a good libertarian in training, even learning to take heapings of undeserved ridicule for being whatever -ist his lemming classmates want to call him. He’s learned to really sharpen his argumentation at a young age. I’d put him up against virtually any of the college kids I taught, and he’d very likely bury them intellectually.
I’ll probably watch the Super Bowl. Boredom led me abandon my boycott. I could have missed it, because for some reason (until a day or two ago) I was laboring under the belief it was next weekend.
Do I care who wins? Not much.
Next week is the Nascar Superbowl silly.
Last night at dinner, SP was reminded of why she always regrets having WebDom and me at the same table.
Food fight!
We effectively gang up.
“Fox News is in a race with itself to the bottom’: Lou Dobbs retweets fans attacking network for cancelling his high-rated show after voting firm Smartmatic filed $2.7billion lawsuit, and thanks Trump for his support”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9231483/Lou-Dobbs-retweets-fans-attacking-Fox-News-canceled.html
Still amazed how much Trump hurt Fox News.
Trump didn’t hurt Fox News; it was their abandonment of Trump voters that hurt them.
^This. Trump is just a symptom not the cause. He was perceived as an outsider that tens of millions could use a giant fuck you to both the Left and the Right.
It’s just like the the obsessed hatred the Left focuses on the NRA as their demon while ignoring the NRA is just a vessel for the views of millions of gun owners.
I think there’s also a bit of disillusionment and abandonment after the election results, in addition to the hardcore moving to OAN or Newsmax (before they started shitting the bed also). The constant outrage and slanted framing wears people down as well.
Fox did it to themselves.
OFFS. ?
Without making the slightest effort to RTFA, I say:
I can’t believe that person didn’t quit Diet Coke cold turkey when she found out President Cartoon Villain drank it.
From Cys link about Chitown schools..
NPRs headline about religious freedom
Supreme Court Rules Against Calif., Doubles
Down On Religious Rights Amid Pandemic
*meanwhile at NPR headquarters a senior editor tries to sift through xer emails*
Consta…. Consu… WTF is a Constitution? Don’t these plebs know there’s a pandemic on.
*Immediate goes back to fortifying the Biden administration while watching cat videos*
Wow. Never change etc.
Okay, NPR, now do black rights, gay rights, women’s rights, etc.
They do. Constantly. Ad infinitum.
Happy birthday, LIW – one of the two writers whose works I read over and over as a kid (the other being Louisa May Alcott,) thereby missing lots of other books and writers I didn’t discover until adulthood.
That reminds me – I need to round out my collection of her books in hard copy (preferably hardback) before they get memory-holed for unwokeness/wrong think. Her cancellation has already begun.
I think there are enough scholars of her work to keep that from happening completely.
It’s stuff like this that worries me. How soon until the books are not longer available at your friendly neighborhood B&N and the prices start to skyrocket on eBay, Craigslist, etc?
I like how Pelosi lives out the stereotype of being an elitist cunte. Between the fridge video, the hair salon and the metal detector incidents, she just keeps showing us who is driving the bus and who gets to sit at the front.
Yep and the Capital Police response that basically admits they are only targetting certain members of Congress should scare normal Americans but it won’t. The left knows how to create lightning rods and the media helps galvanize them.
And America shrugs its shoulders and wonders what Kim Kardashian is up to now.
My favorite quote of Willie’s: “My greatest regret about getting old is that I outlived my dick.”
Wasn’t it Willie who said, “Next time I get the temptation to marry somebody, I’ll go find a woman who hates me and buy her a house.”?
Rod Stewart.
Wait- people actually watched Lou Dobbs’ show?
Next week is the Nascar Superbowl silly.
i wish they’d go back to racing ’60s Chevelles and Mopars.
Can’t wait to see what new rules they’ve put in place to continue to ruin the sport
NASCAR – the Calvinball of motor sports.
Calvinball didnt have garage-door pull-ropes that got investigated by the FBI as an alleged noose.
Race Yugos and Le Cars. (Technically, that should probably be Les Cars.)
With our luck, they’ll go with Priuses (Prii?)
Renault Fuego FTW
I want a race league that sets up track on rural american roads and requires that all vehicles be legal in that state. Rope it all off and let them go. But that’d be to American. We have to drive in circles with restrictor plates in supercars.
Actually, it would be European. You basically described GT.
Oh? Where do I find this racing?
Look up street circuit racing.
That doesn’t sound like me. I ALWAYS drive the posted speed limit. ::suppresses a snicker::
There’s a road race in West Texas that is exactly that. Can’t recall the name, though.
Give lemons racing a chance..
https://24hoursoflemons.com/
You want the Silver State Challenge https://www.sscc.us/
Definitely on my bucket list
Or you know, actual stock cars.
“There’s nothing stock about a stock car.”
Redhedz on your Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.li/VsyKw
Mornin Q!
Your day get any better yesterday?
Wine helped.
Nice list. I wonder if there is a correlation between having red hair and not having tattoos?
Anecdotal, but I have no tattoos. Heck, I was over thirty before I got my ears pierced.
I got a W on either asscheek, so when I bend over it spells WOW
Upside-down, its MOM
*wasted joke on you lot
Spoilsport
The disconnect between legal analysis and legal reality matters little in today’s media. Many of the same experts now trumpet the charge of criminal incitement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In their minds — unsurprisingly — it is another open-and-shut case. For four years, they have supplied a stream of allegations, all described as conclusive, to feed readers’ and viewers’ insatiable appetites. The campaign finance charge actually was one of the more credible claims, as former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to it. However, such crimes are notoriously difficult to litigate, as shown by the failed 2012 prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards.
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If criminal incitement is such a strong case, make it — charge him. Of course, such prosecutions could come at a cost. Unless there is evidence of direct intent, Trump is likely to prevail at trial or on appeal. He then could claim not just vindication on a federal charge but also on his second impeachment.
There is no crime of incitement for legal analysts who exaggerate or oversimplify criminal provisions; the public can be whipped into a frenzy with claims of easy prosecutions or slam-dunk charges. Many people are addicted to rage, and these claims, even if illusory, feed that addiction. It is all entertainment until someone actually tries to bring a prosecution — and that is when reality sets in.
But in their hearts, they know they’re right.
What sort of limp dick god will decline to punish those who trespass against them?
Today’s episode of the Media Biden Knob Slob:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jen-psaki-white-house-press-secretary-briefings-2021-2
Psaki, who was not pleased with a question presented about the relationship between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, chided the White House correspondent.
“I don’t appreciate the, like, putting words in my mouth,” Psaki said to Kumar, who was reportedly startled by the encounter.
“People should know that I’m not gonna be a pushover up there,” Psaki told The Daily Beast. “And I’m not going to allow people to put words in my mouth or misconstrue what I said. It’s important to be clear and concrete and very specific, because you’re still speaking on behalf of the government.”
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“You should, ya know, like, kinda, use less teeth next time. Especially if we’re going to do this everyday.”
“And I’m not going to allow people to put words in my mouth…”
That’s literally your job, just like every other WH press secretary we’ve ever had.
Did she answer the question? It’s kind of an important one, given the appearance that he’s giving away the store to China.
No, no, we’re re-engaging to bring China into the world order – it will be different this time!
You don’t say.
LIW in the bdays!!! I don’t know if I can be considered a superfan, but she laid my libertarian foundation early. Rand got nuthin’ on Half Pint.
I don’t think I fried the eggplant enough but it definately works for me as a pinch replacement for english muffins for my Eggs Benedict
Thank you Count for a rabbit hole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Am_Series
STAY smart?
While Covid-19 numbers are trending in the right direction across much of the US, officials nationwide warned against Super Bowl gatherings to avoid another surge of infections.
“While the instinct may be to celebrate together, we cannot get cocky,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Saturday. “We must continue doing the things we know are effective at taming the virus: wear a mask, adhere to social distancing, and avoid gatherings.”
“We can beat this thing, but we must stay smart,” he added.
“We’re having too much fun to take the boot off your necks.”
Odds that Cuomo attends a SB party? I’d say close to 100%
He’ll probably travel to do it too, knowing him.
Yet he probably won’t know the score at halftime.
Yeah, real fucking effective – almost a year later.
Liar.
None of those things have been effective at taming the virus, but sure, let’s keep pretending they were.
There’s a road race in West Texas that is exactly that. Can’t recall the name, though.
I don’t know about Texas, but Nevada has the Silver State race.
-21 is “not too bad?”
Remember- we’re talking about Frostbite Falls, Minnasoda.
Here’s my week. Not close to the coldest we we typically see, but the coldest we’ve had this year.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=47.89907500000004&lon=-91.86402999999996#.YCAMJS1OKhD
Mine. Downright balmy down here!
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Maple+Grove&state=MN&site=MPX&textField1=45.106&textField2=-93.46&e=0
*swoons*
My weather system says it has warmed up to -8. I may go out a lunch and try to start the SUV — not that I have anywhere to go.
The warnings came from all corners of the country ahead of the big game Sunday, with local and state leaders reminding Americans that despite the hopeful signs in declining numbers of new cases and hospitalizations, now is not the time to let their guards down.
That’s because experts have made clear that the US is still not out of the woods. Thousands of Americans continue to lose their lives to the virus every single day. And the detection of several Covid-19 variants now poses new challenges.
“When people get together in private residences in close proximity, that is one of the single most effective ways to spread this disease,” Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Dr. Steven Stack said last week. “We can’t afford to have the disease spread now, with these mutations and these variants.”
The debbil is real! He’s waiting to temp you into sin and damnation.
This is retarded:
https://twitter.com/kmele/status/1358305361560698881
Good morning!
What a huge amount of talent concentrated on one stage. I think I would have enjoyed the after-party.
“Diet Coke addiction is not her mental illness. Her mental illness is her mental illness.”
Still would.
Hey, KromulentKristen!
I’ve been watching all these videos about campers, et al. and I was loving all these stealth vans and class B rigs when I watched this vid and immediately became Mr. Toad from The Wind In The Willows – “Motorcoach! Motorcoach! Gotta have a motorcoach!”
This things is stupendous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBAg4FIXL7M
Proving that I am, in fact, a basic bitch, I went straight to the interior shots ?
just imagine how many illegals you can smuggle on that thing!
After watching a few of Angie’s high-end coach vids, the smaller rigs now look rather chintzy in the build quality. The premium price does seem to get you something.
I think it’s completely different markets (beyond just income, I mean). It would be nice to have a high-quality small rig. I’m champing at the bit to start looking in person.
I think I may have found your next vacation spot. 🙂
Been there! It’s a really fun exhibit, although watch out for some of the entrances on the older trailers; I clocked myself but good on one of the tiny ’20s models.
It was one of the recommended stops one of the times the girlfriend and I did Mini Takes the States. We didn’t stop, and just drove on past. The time we went up through the Upper Peninsula, the recommended stop was the Snowmobile Hall of Fame.
We weren’t planning on doing it last year, as it was a southern route. It got postponed anyway, but with the new route we may be able to jump on for a couple of legs.
Exactly. My needs differ enough that I would need something custom. Eliminate the entertainment type spaces and expand kitchen and or bathroom space, or maybe a wee workshop at the back that can be hosed out. The built-in floorboard vacuum cleaner in the video coach makes me squeal with delight though.
That thing is a monster, but I hate the kitchen with a passion. Also, finding the space to park a 43 foot rig, plus a tow-behind vehicle would be a real hassle; pretty much locks you out of the majority of state parks/campgrounds. But it sounds like you should do a little browsing through the Toy Hauler lines; while most of them are severely lacking in decent kitchen space (a deficiency is almost all RVs/trailers), they have some amazing rear-garage/workshop models.
My needs are more modest; decent kitchen and pantry space, bunks for the kids, and small enough I can fit it into the state campgrounds. I was browsing Grand Design’s models the other day, and if I were going to upgrade, I think this would be more my speed.
Yeah, I can’t imagine even taking something that large out on the road; I’ve towed a 23′ foot boat before but only on rural Florida streets. The toy haulers and high-end ice-fishing houses have a strong appeal.
My husband desperately wants a toy hauler so he can bring his motorcycle along with us, but every model we’ve looked at has a terrible kitchen. I dream of a travel trailer designed to not sleep more than four, but with tons of cooking/living space. Most of them are geared towards a weekend out with a crowd that doesn’t mind sleeping on a converted dinette. I don’t need three TVs, but enough counter space to chop and prep veggies would be nice.
My problem has been looking for space for a washer/dryer with compromising storage. I think that will be a difficult ask.
Exactly! I don’t need any “entertaining others” space, but I do want a big kitchen and bathroom. I would also sacrifice the dishwasher for a clothes washer/dryer every time.
My Pa tells me backing up in a motorhome with a tow-behind is PIA. I’m going to need more flexibility than that, so it’s highly likely I’ll go with a 5th wheel
Indeed – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEKdCEYtgOw
That’s why we went with a travel trailer. One way or another, you end up needing to tow something, either the trailer itself, or a car to drive once you’re parked. My husband uses the 3500 as his daily driver anyway, so we’ve got the travel trailer and will probably upgrade to a 5th wheel once the kiddos are out the door. And even as good as he is with backing the trailer, we still make an effort to arrive at campsites before sundown, just to avoid stress and arguments.
Northwood Manufacturing has some really nice couple’s 5th wheels – the Arctic Fox – that I’ve been drooling over, and some of them have the space/hookup for washer/dryer in them too. I could live out of one of those (minus the kids) in a heartbeat.
Hello! https://northwoodmfg.com/5th-wheels/fox-mountain/fox-mountain-235rls-2/
(behind the dinette, next to the TV, one could put a W/D)
Ah – the Winnebago Micro Minnie 5th wheel has full-length wardrobes in the bedroom
The Winnebagos are awfully cute. I’ve done walkthroughs on a lot of them.
Goddammit! I hate companies that are using WordPress for their corporate site and use of the three shitty WordPress “security” companies to block access.
I really want an A-liner. I just have to figure out which model of Subaru can tow one. (Not my Impreza.)
My idle dreaming of luxury on the road.
Same (you’ll want to mute on account of terrible music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYisbim247k
This is my idle dreaming:
https://www.globalxvehicles.com/patagonia.html
Hadn’t seen this one yet (warning: You watch cops execute someone):
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-mayor-calls-fatal-police-shooting-black-man-stunning-disregard-n1252304
Fuck.
Keep brating that tin drum, little wind-up monkey
As millions of Americans struggle to recover from Covid-19 and millions more scramble for the protection offered by vaccines, U.S. health officials may be overlooking an unsettling subgroup of survivors: those who get infected more than once. Identifying how common reinfection is among people who contracted Covid-19 — as well as how quickly they become vulnerable and why — carries important implications for our understanding of immunity and the nation’s efforts to devise an effective vaccination program.
Scientists have confirmed that reinfections after initial illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus are possible, but so far have characterized them as rare. Fewer than 50 cases have been substantiated worldwide, according to a global reinfection tracker. Just five have been substantiated in the U.S., including two detected in California in late January.
That sounds like a rather insignificant number. But scientists’ understanding of reinfection has been constrained by the limited number of U.S. labs that retain Covid-19 testing samples or perform genetic sequencing. A KHN review of surveillance efforts finds that many U.S. states aren’t rigorously tracking or investigating suspected cases of reinfection.
It’s almost as if they are desperate to portray this as some sort of historically unprecedented phenomenon, instead of just another in a series of unfortunate but not inexplicable events.
Of course reinfection is possible but unlikely as with the flu, norovirus, other corona viruses, and etc. There’s nothing magical about the vaccines either and people some people who receive them will contract covid but so what? Living life and forming public policy based upon bad outcomes with an infinitesimal chance of happening is a recipe for disaster.
Yes, the standard now is “conclusive proof of absolute impossibility”, or else it’s a national emergency.
I got a cold one year, and a couple years later I GOT ANOTHER ONE!!1!
They’re also completely glossing over the fact that they’ve been over sampling since the beginning, and that the chances of one or both tests indicating a false positive result are much, much higher than re-infection.
“France found guilty of failing to meet its own Paris climate accord commitments”
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1358243969470246913
Typical, just typical.
They should strike.
Well, Japan missed it’s Kyoto target, along with half of the countries that signed on to that boondoggle.
You know who didn’t miss the target?
Cool:
https://apnews.com/article/museums-europe-coronavirus-pandemic-vatican-city-2c6bb2199e70535fb34a1d5a86d620a1
Crea is the “clavigero” of the Vatican Museums, the chief key-keeper whose job begins each morning at 5 a.m., opening the doors and turning on the lights through 7 kilometers of one of the world’s greatest collections of art and antiquities. The Associated Press followed Crea on his rounds the first day the museum reopened to the public, joining him in the underground “bunker” where the 2,797 keys to the Vatican treasures are kept in wall safes overnight. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Since NA’s horrorscope from last week was pretty spot-on, I’m really hoping for something, like, kind of goodish this week. Please?
“…back-of-the-fags-packet-maths…” – that Diet Coke story is problematic!
You kid, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Brits are evil colonialists, to a man.
Next month will mark a full year since my children have set foot inside a classroom.
I can’t believe anybody could be blind, deaf and dumb enough to believe that moronic “teachers are heroes” nonsense.
Teachers are second only to Single Moms, who are automatically elevated to sainthood as soon as they spread for some loser they have no intention of being with next week, let alone for a lifetime.
“I’m too dumb to use birth control when I sleep around. CELEBRATE ME, and more importantly, SUBSIDIZE ME.”
I know a couple of Single Mom Teachers…the sense of entitlement is a wonder to behold.
My step-brother’s wife (whom we affectionately refer to as “Cunt”) actually got a law degree and works for Bureau of Support over the guy that knocked her up and left her check-less.
I briefly dated one of those back in my mid 20s. A sense of entitlement certainly but a lot of fun if I indulged her and said the right things. With my big sarcastic mouth it was inevitable it would go in the ditch eventually which it most assuredly did.
What? You don’t want to be associated with the dumb-dependent-slut sisterhood? You’re missing out on some sweet, sweet victimhood.
Not only are they heroes, they should be paid more for doing even less than usual!
You know who else was deaf, dumb, and blind ?
I’m amazed the townsfolk haven’t risen up with pitchforks and torches by now. I can suffer through it because I’ve always worked from home, but the majority of my neighbors have to go into work, and how are they going to manage their kids if the kids are stuck at home? I think everyone else has just been beaten down, too, and declared the year a lost year. It’s an impossible situation, if the teachers won’t physically go into the classrooms to teach and the county doesn’t have the guts or the legal means to fire them for non-performance.
Slightly OT, but on the topic of uprisings – where are all the business trade groups, with their supposed power-in-numbers? Where’s the restaurant association lobbying and pressuring the politicians? Isn’t that what they’re for?
Proves their uselessness, I suppose.
Laying low because making a fuss about this will guarantee retaliatory regulations crippling the core businesses.
The Chamber of Commerce was too busy getting Trump out of office.
Oh, the poor parents. They’ll have to take care of their own kids instead of foisting them off on day care they get other people to pay for.
You mean the day care they’re already being taxed for. And they aren’t taking care of their own kids, because they still have to go into work. They’re either leaving them at home unsupervised, or some of them are working *more* hours now, in order to afford the fees they have to pay just to send their kids *somewhere* to sit at a computer and attend classes over video. Not the important people, like teachers, the school made accommodations for them.
The public school system sucks and it’s a scam, but there was an understanding there, that at least they were housing your children as daycare while you were working business hours. They’re not even doing that any more. I could cluck my tongue and say “oh, you should have stayed single income like me, so you’d have a parent at home to watch the kids when this happened” but that’s kicking people when they’re down. The majority of parents in the area depended on the public school system, and it has completely and utterly failed them over the past year.
Yup, agreed. They were paid to do a job and now they are not doing it (or doing a quarter ass job while removing the main parts). I really hope that this shitshow at least nudges us closer towards a voucher system where at least the money follows the kids and some sort of choice enters the equation. It should be plainly obvious that the public school system has largely failed miserably, but people are loathe to give up familiarity even if it is shitty. Our kids have been in full time (Catholic) school since November. They have to wear masks, which I absolutely fucking hate, but they don’t mind much. Since the school offers both online and in person, they only have about half full classes
The watering hole attached to my neighborhood golf course is under new management,
The new manager got a permit for hosting a Superb Owl party/event this afternoon, so we are hoping to attend at least part of it.
It’s way past time to reopen the economy and let it try to stand on its newborn fawn legs.
We will be doing our part today!
I love superb owls. They’re so wise and they stay up all night.
Not sure anybody has posted this yet. If so, I apologize (I’ve been incredibly busy the last week with an auction).
Enjoy the mind of the progressive left:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-05/trumpite-neighbor-unity-capitol-attack
Comment #4
Fuck. Sorry.
LOL no worries mate
Then drugs fell out of her ass.
Yeah, yeah.
Since we’re on the subject again – enjoy Rod Dreher’s takedown.
You just don’t realize that being Trumpites could also mean they are dangerous libertarians. They probably only plowed the driveway because it gave them an opportunity to place landmines around the property.
CWAA
“What do we do about the Trumpites around us? Like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who spoke eloquently this week about her terrifying experience during the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Americans are expected to forgive and forget before we’ve even stitched up our wounds. Or gotten our vaccines against the pandemic that former President Trump utterly failed to mitigate.”
That… that’s not what happened at all!
So how come President Biden hasn’t mitigated it yet?
He’s trying, but you Trumpites won’t let him.
The entire article is so utterly ridiculous that reading it would convince most people that it’s parody. But then you find out it’s not the Bee.
Why don’t you care that poor AOC was dodging bullets from the dangerous libertarians during the coup and desecration…
Wait…. desecration? Wut?
Yeah, when it’s said the left are a religious cult, it’s because they never stop proving it.
Deniers, desecration… Nuff said.
“Wounds”?
Oh, fuck off, you hyper-ventilating Draaaaaaama Queen.
(And of course she’s a “writer.” There are writers, and then there are “writers.” Ugh.)
Things like this are just going to get worse until everyone they don’t like are labeled like the Nazis labeled Jews.
The reason is that the media are telling everyone that not only is this acceptable, but it actually makes you a hero. This will not end well.
Fiction is sill writing.
“You might end up like the upper-middle-class family I stayed with in France as a teenager. They did not attend a citywide celebration for the 100th birthday of Charles de Gaulle, the war hero who orchestrated the liberation of his country from Nazi Germany in 1944. They did have several portraits of Philippe Pétain, Nazi collaborator, on their wall.
When I screwed up the courage to ask how it was for them during the occupation, the lady of the house replied, “We were happy because the Nazis were very polis.” I didn’t know the word, so I excused myself to consult a French-English dictionary. I was in tears when I found the entry: “polite.”
JFC.
How can we break from seriousness?
We just escaped 4 years of our national nightmare of being ruled over by bad orange Hitler+Satan.
There was a coup and some of our fearless leaders were triggered. We barely survived that as well.
We must continue to be seriousness because we have to defeat the plague that was inflicted upon us by bag orange Hitler+Satan.
And now there are boogeymen out there just waiting to pounce, like libertarians and other terrorists.
Not serious? Not even for a second! This is not about you, it’s about supporting your new selfless leaders who are going to save us! Now be afraid and be serious, forever! Muh democracy!
Diet Koke https://youtu.be/GxbzT0plUPc
https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2013-Jayco-SENECA-37TS-5015339628
paired with:
https://www.boattrader.com/boat/2000-grady-white-marlin-300-7656952/
Why are paint jobs on RVs so awful?
Leaving the kids with the wife this afternoon to head down to a friend’s house for a SB get together with the dudes. This will be the first NFL (and really the only sports besides F1) that I have watched all year. The woke shit with the masks and no fans was a deal breaker for me. I’m not even interested in the game although I put down a 100 on the Bucs to keep some rooting interest, but seeing the old buddies is the main draw, especially as that has been limited this past year. Hope all the Glibs enjoy a good Sunday.
Well, as forecasted: woke up to -35° Celsius (-31° Fahrenheit) this A.M., four hours after our pup woke us up in the middle of the night to have a pee outside. Nothing like putting on your clothes, a parka and boots (both for you and the ‘pup) all so she can pee for 15 seconds. The new triple-pane windows are working, sort of, but the seals around the new back door are sucking wind surprisingly badly. Gonna have to look at new, more serious weatherstripping for them once it warms up a little (supposedly Thursday).
Yeeeeesh. Until now, it’s been a pleasantly warm winter.
Like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who spoke eloquently this week about her terrifying experience during the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6
Okay, now you’re just making shit up.