I was sorely tempted to post a Self Service Links for this afternoon, but because I am a wonderful person, I’ll provide a couple links to get you started.
“Shooting someone in order to steal dogs is wrong.”
You know Who Else shared these pictures
How is this news to anyone anywhere?
OK, I’m out. Have a good one, kids!
Sup Bro’
I approve of this First.
The Tony Romo of commenters?
No reward for information on the person who shot the dog walker?
Dog walkers are easy to come by.
I have never managed to find any.
You’re not Lady Gaga.
Or are you…….
I’m no lady.
Neither is Gaga, so you’re evading the question.
I am also only a microbillionaire.
I have never been mistaken for a musician.
Dog walkers are easy to come by
Really? I would think it would be easier to splooge near a dog stander but I’m just a theoretical guy here. I’ll defer to your obvious wealth of practical knowledge on the subject.
Without info they’re gonna be hard to fido apprehend.
Swiss’s hackles just went up.
He’s gonna send out the hounds!
Should we really rough him up about this?
She should have kept that dog walker on a short leash.
You guys are dogged in your determination to get a gaze.
Swissy is gonna bitch, bitch, bitch about any puns.
Sounds like someone
*dons sunglasses*
Barked up the wrong tree.
Paws for a minute and think about what you all have done.
“You know who else shared these pictures?”
Mrs. Poindexter?
*boing*
Arresting people for possessing pics of Hitler is beyond stupid but I’d expect the Germans to be totalitarian in their fight against totalitarianism. Also, Eva Braun?
The article mentioned a swastika, which are illegal in Germany.
I can’t remember Hitchen’s actual quote on Holocaust Denial laws, but it was something along the lines of “nothing says more about your opposition to fascism than adopting fascist tactics.”
If he were alive today he’d be rolling over in his grave.
“Lady Gaga offering $500G award after singer’s dog walker shot, two dogs stolen”
G? For grand?
yes, half a million for the two doggos. Not a dime for the walker.
“Lee told Fox News the department is treating the case as an “assault with a deadly weapon,” noting that the weapon used was a semi-automatic handgun.”
How would they know?
Found the spent casings?
There are weirdos that buy 9mm revolvers out there.
Revolvers don’t leave spent casings unless you dump the cylinder.
BUT IT COULD HAPPEN
Could’ve been a PCC, too.
Security footage shows a handgun.
I think if I’m stealing from Gaga, I want too be armed with at least a carbine.
And when you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras. the preponderence of any given round will be either one format or the other.
“9mm revolvers”
Want, but haven’t found one locally.
Fuck moon clips.
The holes are a little too small for me, but knock yourself out.
They’re not small, they’re tight.
Well, the dog walker wasn’t dead last I heard, and there would have been spent shell casings.
Yes. All the cool gangsters and celebrities talked about G’s when I was growing up.
It was much classier than talking about kilobucks.
But if you don’t have kilobucks, you’ll never have megabucks.
Yeah, but we’re talking gagabucks here, right?
Soo… the Zimbabwe dollars I have are worth more?
While a Gagabuck is obviously worth less that a BTScoin, she still has more than enough fans who will take them in trade.
Maybe she’s offering grams of whatever it is that makes her act that way?
I was wondering the same thing. Usually it’s K for thousand (which, now that I think about it, is weird – maybe it’s from Kilo).
“G” was the common term for $1,000 until PCs became ubiquitous and people became familiar with kilobytes and megabytes,
Interesting. PCs have been ubiquitous my whole life, so that makes sense why I would think K was standard.
Just watch the old gangster movies.
People talked about prices and salaries in “Gs” well into the 80s.
Once the inflation hits, it will be gigadollars.
I still use “K” in writing, but say “grand” if I’m speaking.
I think “large” sounds way cooler.
500 Clevelands
That it does, but a bit too melodramatic in regular conversation.
That said, I do use the word “vig” a lot. The fact that I have reason to use the word “vig” is a topic for a different time.
Who you like tonight?
Pictures and stuff:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9299591/Lady-Gagas-dogwalker-shot-four-times-chest-two-men-stole-two-gods.html
Did they…notice the URL of the article before they published?
ha!
They probably just shot him because his outfit frightened them.
I’d have though she’d offer some Dogecoin.
Lee told Fox News the department is treating the case as an “assault with a deadly weapon,” noting that the weapon used was a semi-automatic handgun.
So shooting someone to steal dogs is wrong, but double wrong if it’s with a semi-automatic.
Glad that’s been cleared up.
It’s the same reason why every news item and Wikipedia article has a paragraph about how the topic is affected by climate change.
Or racism.
We have guns, climate change, and racism. Any other cause of all of our problems I’m forgetting?
The Patriarchy?
The root cause is white people.
Duh.
Lady Gaga and her doggone privilege.
One should use a revolver like the classy dog stealers do.
Semi-autos are the new autos. Then it will be revolvers…then caplocks…then well of course you can keep your flintlock. Actually that uses black powder witch could be used for a bomb so that is out too. And don’t even think about having a Girandoni Air Rifle.
BUT CAPLOCKS MAKE YOU SEEM DUMB
[wild applause]
Add kitchen knives to the list after they through firearms and you’ll pretty much have Great Britain.
Self Service Links,
These euphemisms…
“Shooting someone in order to steal dogs is wrong.”
Even if the dogs belong to Cruella de Vil?
They could have just shot Lady GaGa and been done with it….
German prosecutors said on Thursday they had filed sedition and hate speech charges against a police commissioner suspected of sharing pictures of Adolf Hitler and images showing hostility towards Muslims, and possessing illegal weapons and explosives. …
German police and security agencies have faced accusations of not doing enough to unearth potentially violent nationalists in their ranks.
I did nazi that coming.
The press just goebbels this stuff up.
[holds nose as if encountering bad smell]
It’s nice to see that the emphasis in the report was circulating verboten pictures, with the “illegal weapons” charges being but a footnote.
Two pun threads? Swiss is goering to be angry.
He’ll be führious.
Boo!
Missed opportunity?:
He’llHeilHmm… I would expect him to be neutral on the whole thing… or at least to V-1 of the pun thread….
It’s not my fault he’s sour at the krauts.
I’d think he’d be neutral on this subject?
The Swiss do tend to be above all of that.
He has mastered the race to denounce these puns.
Got some good news today.
Our diversity and inclusion training has been restarted (no, that’s not the good news).
The next session is scheduled for a day that I’m on vacation! And yes, I scheduled the vacation before I heard there would be a D & I session that day.
Forgot the punchline:
The vacation is a trip with Mrs. Dean for two days of handgun training at Front Sight in Nevada.
Does she know?
It was her idea.
Wait, is that the homebase of the Gunstock Reviews guy? Awesome.
We’re just getting into that at my work. We’ll see how it goes.
We have neither diversity nor inclusion. Monochrome exclusion policies. It’s a good place to work.
Our D&I training had a scene where there was a group of 3 colleagues that had a regular happy hour together, outside work, after hours. One of the three couldn’t make it, but they were doing trivia, so they wanted an extra person. They invited another close mutual friend of theirs that they hadn’t seen in a while.
* cue whomp whomp music *
The narrator interrupts the scene to say that perhaps they should have invited their hijab-wearing, non-native-English speaking colleague whom they barely know instead of their close mutual friend. To trivia night
Jeezus, that made me angry. I’ll invite whomever I fucking please to my fucking after-hours, off-site trivia night. And I ain’t gonna invite someone who can barely understand the fucking questions. Fuck!
And the Muslim lady is probably a non-drinker, too. Way to invite her to happy hour at a bar.
Yup. And they should invite their kippah wearing coworker to the hog roast.
All offensive foods are banned now.
Bread and water for everyone.
Those are banned also. Bread could be white and water doesn’t have a color.
True, we are supposed to “see color” now, aren’t we.
Maybe the trainers have a sense of humor.
Maybe the trainers
have a sense of humorare flaming morons.That’s where I was going, anyways.
Inviting a woman who is a religous enough Muslim that she wears a hijab, to trivia night. At the bar. For gambling.
Did the narrator suggest inviting your vegan cow-orker out for the friday night Surf & Turf special at the local steakhouse?
“You have to try this Dogfish Head Breakfast Stout: It has Scrapple in it!”
You can’t invite more than one person to trivia night?
It’s called a *threesome* for a reason.
It was made clear that it was meant to be a three-person team.
Never done a team trivia night, huh? There’s usually a team size limit. Three or four is typical around here.
That also doesn’t change the fact that inviting someone to an activity that goes directly against their expressed faith? It’s not necessarily insulting, but it is more than a little tone deaf.
Not to mention they have a close friend that they wanted to see. Why the fuck would they choose a virtual stranger, no matter what race/religion, over a close friend? Fuckin-a.
The DI narrator is not just an asshole but a fractal asshole.
goes directly against their expressed faith?
Done plenty of trivia nights, kicked ass if you must know, and none of the places I went to had a teams limit. Me and the Milo Boys always enjoyed winning , even more so when we knew we had defeated the ten top in the back corner filled with doctors and lawyers and such.
with doctors and lawyers and such
Mamas don’t let your babies
grow up to be Hyperboles…
Pros: Non-drinker, so won’t slow as the evening progresses. Also, designated driver.
Con: Non-native speaker of English on a team competing in a time-scored event in which quick response to questions asked in English is important.
And people wonder why Im the consummate professional and don’t really fraternize with my colleagues. This isn’t Kindergarten. HR doesn’t get to tell me who to be friends with.
Oh I know how to fuck with that scenario – just change trivia night from at my bar to my church.
*100 diversity consultants get a weird crotch itch*
“This is a sensitive issue in a country where awareness of the World War Two genocide of millions of Jews by the Nazis under Hitler is strong.”
Good for Germany, but I’m pretty sure everyone is aware of it.
There is a vein of Holocaust denialism alive and well in the so called “pro-Palestinian” crowd.
I have a strong suspicion that many members of the pro Palestinian groups have never lived or have the intention to live in Palestine.
I don’t know if they so much deny it happened as think it’s a good idea.
Yes, some amusing wag once described a Holocaust denier as, “Someone who thinks the Holocaust didn’t happen, but wishes that it had…”
“How is this news to anyone anywhere?”
I remember reading about it a long time ago…
Better stock up on candles and blankets
The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee for energy secretary, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The final vote was 64-35.
I can’t wait to see what she has planned for us.
Lots of schoolmarming and scolding most likely.
Well first of all she identifies as a woman, so any criticism means you are a misogynist.
I feel like I just discovered someone’s fetish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1NR8s6d6-M
Oddly specific.
Why, do you suppose?
The Biden administration is expected to release a report soon that addresses the key question in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: What role, if any, did Saudi Arabia’s crown prince have in the death?
If the report by the U.S. intelligence community implicates Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in any way, it would damage the already complicated relations between the traditional allies.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “is a wrecking ball. I think he is complicit in the murder of Khashoggi in the highest possible level,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican.
Speaking to NPR, Gregory Gause, a Saudi watcher who heads the international affairs department at Texas A&M University, said he “would assume that any release would confirm what almost everyone assumes. Operations like this don’t happen without approval from the top.”
In a 2019 report, U.N. human rights investigator Agnes Callamard said Khashoggi “has been the victim of a deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under international human rights law.”
Is Joe planning to extradite him and put him on trial?
“Squirrel!” *points finger emphatically*
WTF are they really up to?
Hmm… does China have lucrative contracts with Iran as part of the Middle East / Africa push? Maybe they’d prefer Iran hegemony there instead of the Saudis… it would fit with the eagerness to hand over the pallets o cash of the “nuclear deal”. /end total speculation-out-of-my-hind-end…
Drawing attention to Saudi Arabia, yep, I’d say they don’t want us paying attention to Iran.
What role, if any, does the US have in this? Neither murderer nor victim were US citizens and it didn’t occur on US soil.
Don’t you know, our sovereignty spans the entire globe, when we want it to. /neo-con empire
But he had a green card!
When I lived overseas I generally felt that our embassies had our backs if something went wrong or if we needed some service at the embassy (e.g. passport renewal or getting a birth certificate for my son promptly and without a bribe), and that was a good thing. But I don’t necessarily think that should extend to green card holders.
“The president’s intention, as is the intention of this government, is to recalibrate our engagement with Saudi Arabia,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday.
Well, there you are.
I get it. $6.00/gal gasoline by the end of the summer.
Go Green New Deal!
Nothing like halting oil drilling in the US in order to exert pressure on the Saudis.
Or not making a big deal out of a dead journalist to gain a chit for establishing peace in the Middle East. Or at least that’s one theory.
Oil drilling in the US is going to be run by this gal, so everything is just fine.
“Why is gas $6/gal?”
“I’ll circle back on that, but President Biden has nominated the first woman of Pueblo descent to run the Interior”
It really puts Putin in his place too.
Oh, making the Saudis even richer helps us, how?
This story confuses me greatly.
It makes me happy, it creeps me out and it scares me because I can only think of the Woke storm that would descend on me if I made even one of the jokes that Jr. High me wants to blurt out.
Seriously, good luck to her.
Imagine being one of the judges and finding her unworthy of the grand prize.
You’d have to go into hiding.
Your only hope would be if there was a trans muslim in a burkha also in the competition.
Then you might have a chance to keep her from winning the grand prize.
On the other hand, imagine the fun watching her meet Joe if she won the Miss USA title. The clips of them hooting and hollering at each other as Joe tries to sniff her hair would be epic.
Progressives don’t give a shit about those with Downs. They want them eliminated before birth. Also, she’s white, so that’s a no-go for them.
Swiss is not here to cover the Armenia-Nagorno-Karabakh matters. So, I’ll post about it.
Thousands rally behind Armenia’s PM after he accuses army of coup attempt
How is this news to anyone anywhere?
“Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies say gangs targeting ‘young Latinos’ operate within department”
Gangs in a police department? Who could have seen that coming.
Also, it’s interesting that they point out “targeting young Latinos”, as if that’s somehow news in a city that’s 50% Latino.
Get in, get trained, get out.
“Mr and Mrs Potato Head go gender neutral – to just ‘Potato Head’ after makers Hasbro says 70-year toy needed to break from gender norms”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9300391/A-mister-no-Mr-Potato-Head-goes-gender-neutral.html
OFFS!!
It’s time to post your pronouns on your profile Count.
I don’t care about the gender. I do care that Mr. Potato Head is a vile stereotype against the Irish.
I was going to post this if no one else had. The whole world has gone bananas.
Signed: Chiquita
Toy Story 5 will be fun.
Maybe not.
https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1365038178814590995
“Blondie announce their first-ever graphic novel Against The Odds written by team who created DC Comics character Harley Quinn”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9300669/Blondie-announce-graphic-novel-Against-Odds.html
To be fair, potato plants are both male and female.
That’s just brilliantly Gilmore’d.
Take a look at them now.
I’m glad I refreshed before making a similar joke.
Ugh… not to be the ACK-shualy guy.. but that headline bugs me. Paul f’ing Dini created Harley Quinn. Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti headed one of the more recent titles headlining her. Very different.
There is already a Blondie graphic novel!
I’m disappointed that doesn’t point to a Tijuana bible.
8 pages isn’t enough, graphic though, for teenagers
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress has no further plans to punish former President Donald Trump after he was acquitted on impeachment charges by the Senate earlier this month.
‘He’s gone,’ she told reporters Thursday at her weekly press conference. ‘What we need is the truth. And that’s what we want to find out.’
She then lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said Wednesday that an investigation into the January 6 insurrection should include a look at broader political violence, which would allow Republicans to point fingers at Black Lives Matter and Antifa.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9300491/Pelosi-rules-Congressional-action-against-Trump-saying-hes-gone.html
I would be interested in a truthful answer from the House and Senate Sgt at Arms as to why Sund’s request for backup was denied on Jan. 6 – or am I asking the wrong question?
Too local #1: Researchers identify historic structure dedicated to education of Black children
Researchers have identified the structure of an 18th-century institution called the Williamsburg Bray School, which was used to the educate enslaved and free Black children.
Located on the William & Mary campus, the school is believed to be the oldest extant building in the U.S. dedicated to the education of Black children. …
Officials say the road to rediscovery of the historic building first began with Terry Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus, at William & Mary. He was reading a memoir by a local resident when he came across a reference to an 18th-century cottage that in 1930 had been moved down Prince George Street from the corner of Prince George and North Boundary streets. He visited Colonial Williamsburg’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, where there was a file on the building.
“From that, I was able to go back and look at what is now 524 Prince George St.,” Meyers said. “And I realized that if you look at that structure and erase the two additions on the right and the left and change the roofline from a Dutch colonial roof to a proper cottage roof, you actually do have an 18th-century cottage.”
My gf looks like Elisha Cuthbert except her face and body are different.
That is really interesting because the conventional wisdom is that slaves were not educated because they might get ideas. However the Free Black Community in Williamsburg is interesting. It is now an historical site within Freedom Park.
“EXCLUSIVE: Killer Lamborghini teen DIDN’T have a license: Family of secretary, 32, killed by teen driver who lost control of $400K super car while LA street racing at 120mph ask ‘who gives a kid a Lambo?'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9299627/Teen-Lamborghini-driver-killed-secretary-did-NOT-drivers-license.html
An asshole with deep pockets?
All aboard the crazy train
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is facing criticism for his questioning of one of President Biden’s health nominees, Rachel Levine, a former state health official who would be the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate.
Paul characterized gender-affirming care, including surgical treatments for transgender individuals, as “genital mutilation,” a description not supported by mainstream health care experts.
“It is really critical to me that our nominees be treated with respect and that our questions focus on their qualifications and the work ahead of us, rather than ideological and harmful misrepresentations like those we heard from Senator Paul earlier,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the chairwoman of the Senate Health Committee, which considered Levine’s nomination Thursday.
Mainstream health care experts like the people who believe inciting mass panic-stricken hypochondria is a legitimate goal of public policy? The ones who think death is a social construct, and may be wished away with placebos and voodoo charms? Those mainstream health care experts?
We will now witness the fury of the trans-left in full bloom.
Should be entertaining.
Mr Levine needs treatment for his mental issues, not a government job.
It does make you wonder what will be the next mental illness to be redefined and mainstreamed.
That’s easy, pedophilia.
You’re probably right. There are some pointers in that direction.
Mr Levine wants us all to eat more oats.
What’s with all the hate, bub?
“Gender-affirming care.”
WTAF.
Coming soon to a nuthouse near you, “psychosis-affirming care”
Didn’t you catch the re-definition of hypochondria?
Please enlighten me (because I’m a masochist)
Health anxiety disorder and something else.
With the obvious point being neither are fundamentally neuroses.
You do “care”, don’t you? Caring is good. Love trumps hate.
“Trump had blasted the ruling on Monday, saying: ‘This investigation is a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of our Country.’
In a nearly-400 word statement, clearly dictated by Trump himself, he recited a litany of past complaints by the former president: calling the investigation a ‘witch hunt,’ blasting former special counsel Robert Mueller, and falsely claiming he won the election.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9299891/Manhattan-district-attorney-millions-pages-Donald-Trumps-tax-returns.html
I assume Two-Scoops has accountants and lawyers do his taxes for him and they have liability and insurance. What do these fucking nuts think they are going to accomplish?
Keeping the attention off of them and their base deranged.
Who gets it?
Scruffy gets it! Everything they do regarding Trump is to keep the base enraged, all else is secondary.
But it also incites the Trumpistas. They have to be careful, they may get more of what they wish for…
No worries, Beta is coming to get all the guns of all the wingnuts soon.
“Prove it.”
“AP said so!”
“So, show your work.”
“No.”
“Fischer is seen on TV news footage lying bleeding on the floor and cradling Miss Asia as medics attend to him”
“Officers were seen swaddling the pup in a blanket and placing her in the back of a police vehicle ”
There sure is a lot of attention on the dogs and not the guy who was almost murdered.
Paywalled, so excerpted:
Surprising no one…
Leaked emails prove that, contrary to United Nations denials, UN human-rights officials did in fact give the names of Chinese dissidents to the communist regime in Beijing before those activists were set to testify in Geneva against the Communist Chinese Party’s abuses.
In fact, it appears from the leaked documents that the practice of handing over names of Chinese dissidents to the dictatorship was viewed as a “usual practice” by all involved. The whistleblower told The Epoch Times that it continues to this day, despite UN denials.
Chinese communist authorities used the names received from the UN to prevent the dissidents from leaving China. At least one dissident identified by the UN and detained by the CCP before leaving for Geneva, Cao Shunli, died while in detention.
Why does the UN play along?
Just welcoming their new overlords or what?
Money. Does anyone doubt China is engaging in direct payments to UN officials to get what they want?
My guess: if the witnesses can’t get to the UN, they can’t present their case. The UN can just say “well, they didn’t show up. Can’t be that big a deal if they can’t be assed to talk to us in person.” If they can’t present their case, the UN never hears it, and doesn’t have to do anything about it.
Same reason why the Pope won’t touch China’s genocide with a ten foot poll and refuses to meet with the former Cardinal of Hong Kong: money and fashion.
Opposing the PRC has no upside, appeasing them has no downside.
I will just go with because the UN is evil.
Damn. Something I never thought about until Trump came into office is how our universities and corporations are entangled with the CCP. I get loving that abundant Chinese money but fuck, how did we let it go this far where our foreign establishment in DC are scared to call the CCP out on their terrible shit?
Our culture is fundamentally broken and our leaders reflect that reality. The Chinese are just exploiting it. The fault lies with ourselves.
We are in the midst of a cultural rot. A lot of my friends who are Left and have kids when they talk about values is acceptance, diversity, and realizing your privilege. Fine, but I never anyone say that they will teach their children the values of individuality, perseverance, hard work, and not having this belief that you’re entitled to anything just because you’re breathing.
To wit, my mother was speaking to a woman whose kids haven’t been in school for the last year. They don’t have remote learning capabilities at home (but they do have iPhones).
My mother asked “That’s horrible. How are they learning anything?”
The response “I’m not worried. The school will pass them.”
70% of the country is on welfare. It’s hard to talk about values like individuality, perseverance, and hard work when dad is campaigning against the local congressman because he voted for eliminating SALT subsidies.
The things that one generation takes for granted, the next generation doesn’t even realize ever existed.
Read that book “We Have Been Harmonized”.
Scary sh1t, and we can’t even function without them at this point.
Even if we tried not to buy “made in China” it’s almost impossible these days.
UN nothing but a lap dog
Too local #2: NAACP applauds joint resolution declaring racism as public health crisis in Virginia
“When the Virginia NAACP released our legislative agenda for the General Assembly session, we made the declaration of Racism as a Public Health Crisis our number one priority this year. We know that Systemic Racism manifests itself as a determinant to public health through persistent Racial Disparities in all areas of our lives.
We commend Delegate Lashrecse Aird for championing this NAACP priority legislation, and applaud members of the General Assembly who voted in favor of this important resolution. When signed into law, Virginia will become the first state in the south to declare Racism as a Public Health Crisis.
The Virginia NAACP expects nothing less than Governor Ralph Northam’s approval of this resolution. Virginians of color, especially Black Virginians, deserve no further delay of the Commonwealth’s public recognition of this centuries-old Crisis.”
But they have yet to declare ailurophobia a public health crisis.
“ his centuries-old Crisis”
How can something that slow-moving and stable be a crisis?
Just like this?
lol. I knew what was coming and watched the whole thing anyway!
Nihilist Anti-American Communist Party
Of course they do, it opens new avenues for grants and money to them.
Not at all. The insanity is nation-wide.
To-wit:
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2021/02/24/ny-times-covers-jodi-shaws-story-smith-college/
The NYT accidently did a journalism (after getting the story horrendously wrong in 2018). The NYT remains a cancer on America.
Anyways, this is the most fucked up story I have ever heard and it truly underscores how Wokery is a religion reserved for the rich meant to excuse away their terrible actions by labeling the poors as inherently oppressors for insignificant physical factors.
TL/DR: A black college student accused three cafeteria employees and a school security guard of racism for asking why she was in a restricted area during the summer. Except that it’s even worse than that: two employees weren’t even working when the supposed incident occurred. They were literally just randomly accused by the student and the college took the student’s side despite physical evidence disproving that two employees were even at the college when the supposed racial incident occurred. For reference, the yearly tuition paid to attend this college (Smith College) is nearly double the salary of all four employees that were tarnished “racists” and driven from the college.
The money quote:
“He recalled going through one training session after another in race and intersectionality at Smith. He said it left workers cynical. “I don’t know if I believe in white privilege,” he said. “I believe in money privilege.”
The working class is becoming based
And then drugs fell out of her ass….
I have a lot of black acquaintances who has embraced being a victim as an identity and what’s worse is that no one is able to tell them to chill their shit and throw off that victim mind frame. If anything else, people feed into their delusions about being a victim to the point where if anything they don’t like happens, it’s because of racism. It’s a fucking disease that is setting up young black people to fail.
So what you’re saying is some of your best friends are black?
*chortle*
Have you noticed a difference between college educated and non-college educated acquaintances? In my experience the difference has been stark between the two groups, but I wonder if that’s true across races.
It is but in different ways. It’s not race, it’s culture. It is not different in the same way for all blacks or whites or whatever.
The divide is between urban nd rural mostly but there are of course individual differences.
Oh yeah. My parents didn’t finish college and are both union Democrats and they love Trump, so take that as you will.
And there is a huuuuuuge disparity of thought between educated and non-educated Blacks. Most uneducated Blacks have deal with the grind and struggle of life, so they don’t really have the time or luxury to worry about the woke shit. They know that the system is fucking them over but at the same time understand that there are some cultural factors in play and one of the many reasons why we struggle. I remember my pastor saying that if every Father got up and grabbed their children from the streets, things would probably get somewhat better.
I haven’t seen a big difference.
One of the saddest things I see when I go back to the Southside to see friends or visit my parents is this perpetuation of failure. For one thing, there is no support at home along of the lines of being successful is seen as being white. And when you add in the woke indoctrination of victimhood and constantly being told that even if you tried, white supremacy is so prevalent, you won’t ever do much with life, these fucking kids don’t have a chance.
Yep. The whole point is to get people not to even try to be better, thus enshackling them forever. It’s very sad.
Crabs, buckets.
The dividing line I’ve observed has less to do with college and more to do with targeted socioeconomic stratum. My friends and family are middle class and content being there (mix of “didn’t finish college” and “got a degree to get a job”). Whereas, my coworkers want to be upper-middle/upper class (very few w/o college degrees, more than one got an Master’s for no appreciable benefit). The woke is strong with the latter.
“In fact, it’s instructive to look back at how the Times covered this in 2018. The story was titled, “All I Did Was Be Black’: Police Are Called on College Student Eating Lunch.” There is literally not a word of doubt in the piece that this is anything other than a clear example of someone being unfairly targeted because of their race.”
The outside investigation (not by the Times but by a law firm hired by Smith) issued its report later in 2018, finding the accusations unsubstantiated.
Did the Times really wait until 2021 to say “oops, never mind”? If so, what’s the significance of the timing?
“Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed,” Levine said to Paul, though she didn’t specifically answer his question.
If she is confirmed, she added, she would be happy to discuss the standard of care for transgender individuals and minors.
“I won’t say what I think. You’ll have to confirm me to find out.”
NEXT!
I don’t recall the Irish being colonizers.
Trinity College Dublin is embarking on an extensive project to examine, interrogate and reflect on its complex colonial legacies.
An open competition will be held for a new 24-month postdoctoral research position based in the School of Histories and Humanities and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. The search for the right candidate begins today.
The principal investigators for Trinity’s Colonial Legacies Project are Dr Ciaran O’Neill and Dr Patrick Walsh, School of Histories and Humanities.
But they seem to be Dublin down on the woke.
Irish you hadn’t started another pun thread.
Oh, I’m expecting Gaels of laughter.
You really are the Erse.
Eire call you are always making these jokes.
Seriously, the Dork of Cork.
Who founded Trinity College?
The Gaels? The Angles? The Vikings? The Normans? The English?
Three of the five, I suppose?
You need to drop two.
The Irish are everywhere.
Who knew the Irish disapora was actually sneaky colonization?
If not for alcohol …
OMG I just got on some sinister phone list, I’m sure of it. I just called my bank, but I misread their phone number on the site, and ended up dialing some horrible “promotional offers” operation. * sobs *
Nice knowing ya…
That’s happened to me a couple of times. I’m guessing the buy numbers one digit different than popular numbers.
Today, in insufferable horseshit:
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1365029422127005698
Welcome to the schools of education.
Just looking at her is enough to be cautious. Those are not the eyeballs of a stable personality.
She needs to lace up her Nikes and catch a ride on a passing comet.
Nope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_bwKW6V1lw
Looks reasonably safe if the ice is thick enough.
This is more my speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3wnoQfLEs
Now that’s how you fun.
Try this on for size. I think many glibs would get a kick out of this dude.
Yip yip! *swig* Ahhh ?
I….what?
He drinks a lot of vodka
The propaganda machine clanks and clatters into a higher gear
As it starts to roll out a massive Covid-19 vaccine education campaign, the Ad Council wants Americans to know that it’s OK to have questions about the vaccines. And it wants to point to vetted, accurate answers to those questions.
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“I think it’s fair to say that this is the biggest issue of our lifetime. And we really felt that it required the most significant public education effort we’ve ever undertaken,” Lisa Sherman, president and CEO of the Ad Council, said in an interview with CNBC. “We started to get hopeful that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel with these vaccines being available, and the extraordinary and heroic efforts of the scientific community to make that happen. But we also simultaneously were very aware that there are high levels of vaccine hesitancy, especially in communities of color.”
I think it’s fair to say you people are a bunch of liars and thieves.
They can point to whoever they want but people are rightly skeptical and the institutions that would have effectively shored up the government’s position in the past have about as much credibility amongst the general public as QAnon Shaman.
Well, I mean there is a reason why Congress is working on a bill to censor news organizations that disagree with their official approved opinion.
https://babylonbee.com/news/dangerous-conspiracy-theorist-doesnt-believe-vaccines-work
Man, that dude truly has a face that a mother couldn’t even love.
“The suspect’s brother, who was also a police commissioner and left the force voluntarily, is due to go on trial in April on charges of sharing illegal symbols, possessing illegal weapons and sharing SECRET POLICE information with civilians, the prosecutor said.”
You know who else had a secret police ?
António de Oliveira Salazar?
Sting in an invisibility cloak?
So at this COVID Town Hall during work today, they were spouting off the usual shit about telework and the prospects of coming back to the office and how everyone is depressed and burned out. I sent a DM to my boss, and I said “you’re probably aware that because I’m selling my house next year, I’m hoping to make some major changes and I’ll want to have a discussion with you and [other boss] about my options sometime soon”
The wheels are in motion…
I’m not asking. Just sayin…
Good for you! I am planning the same kind of escape in two years. My boss already knows.
11 Theses that should be nailed to every Capitol door in the land.
The 11 points he makes about Rona are very good and more measured than that opening. I just like ‘Osterheimlich’ too much to not quote it.
North Dakota, the Murder State
One academic expert had a similar read on the measure, calling it overly broad. “As it is now, it prohibits anybody to require masks be worn,” said Robert Wood, a professor at the University of North Dakota.
Hoverson’s proposal “precludes any business from operating within the state from requiring face coverings as a criteria for entry,” said Wood, a professor of political science and public administration. Such a law would go against “the whole rationale behind ‘no shoes, no shirt, no service,’ where as a matter of public safety a business is allowed to discriminate based on reasonable public health accommodations,” Wood said.
Nobody has a God given right to buy groceries. What about Freedom of Association, and property rights? Except for the icky kind we disapprove of.
Such a law would go against “the whole rationale behind ‘no shoes, no shirt, no service,’ where as a matter of public safety a business is
allowedrequired to discriminate based onreasonableostensible public health accommodations,” Wood said.Try it that way.
I was watching a few minutes of Globo News with wifey earlier today and all it was showing was the EUs authoritahs checking people for their Covid Pass papers. All I could think of was ‘Papers Please’, because this was modern day video reenactment of 1941 Nazi Germany if I’ve ever seen one.
It’s a bleak prospect.
Now we are starting to glimpses of “how did ordinary Germans allow/go along with the Holocaust?”
I can’t remember the name of the documentary, but there is a very good documentary explaining that on Youtube. Basically, it was sort of reflective of the modern day wokeness. A combination of fear of the mobs and the belief that it would never effect them. That sort of thinking of course can result in being in Berlin when it’s carpet bombed into ashes.
That’s why they’re trying to destroy history, so no one can learn from it.
China Denies Forcing US Diplomats To Do Anal COVID-19 Tests
It’s coming here, it’s coming.
You can bet that if it’s in effect in China, Chiney Jo will be on the job to get it done here.
Clearly a tit-for-tat payback for Swalwell’s probing of China’s employee.
“It’s coming here, it’s coming.”
Well only if they swab the right spot repeatedly.
Total alpha move on China’s part. I hope Biden doesn’t take it lying down.
It’s not even possible to make a move that’s not alpha when you’re dealing with Chiney Jo.
No wonder Kushner and Co went around the State Dept to get the Israel treaties done. China should have our BEST, nor the most moronic. good lord.
My friend who is a DC swamp creature hates Kushner with a thousand suns because he went around the bureaucrats to get shit done.
I hovered over that really expecting a Bee link.
It’s not.
China Gave US Diplomats Anal COVID Tests ‘In Error,’ American Officials Say
The U.S. State Department says it is committed to preserving the “dignity” of American diplomats.
Error, sure.
#metoo
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1364746065111580675
Wokeness jingle.
So this is apparently some new trend on the left? Woke jingles?
There is no god.
You apparently missed this:
Obama mm mm mm
We were just told that due to caution, the earliest we will be back in the office is mid-May.
On the other hand, the Biden administration told states that their will be no waivers for year end student testing, which is fantastic news for my company.
Is that real “back in the office” or back in office in tents, face shields, masks, and you can’t touch, talk to, or even approach anybody?
Today, in even more insufferable horseshit:
https://twitter.com/wilderfortruth/status/1364661011404496906
Woops! Should have refreshed first.
I wonder if she has drugs in her ass.
Apparently, the consensus is ‘shut up and show us your tits’.
It’s just insufferable horseshit all the way down.
Want.
What? No quad rail?
$1,581?!?!?!?
I’m out.
Flew to Vegas and back this week. I saw double maskers today, ugh.
When loading the aircraft, they were very clear that we had to stand 6′ apart when lining up, so that we could load on a almost full flight.
Do you expect the airline industry to be opposed to pointless compliance theater?
The airline industry mandated wearing masks on its own. Long before the feds mandated it. I’ll never forget it.
Grasping at straws. The money they lost in 2020 makes 2008 look like a minor dip. I live near a major international airport in the path of the runway. I remember early in COVID lockdown craziness watching commercial jet planes in a literal line in the sky coming in to land. After that, the sky above my house was unusually quiet for a while. There still don’t seem to be as many planes coming or going as I remember before March.
We here in Vegas used to do about 2000 operations a day and probably at about 750-1000 right now.
And their aggressive theater has successfully kept them from getting shut down. Meanwhile cruise ships were under a no sail order until October, still haven’t resumed any sailings, and looks like they won’t until summer at the soonest.
Nope, I just found it humorous.
I did see a few people not wearing masks when walking around the airport.
I had been planning to fly out next week but now I can’t because we don’t know when my husband will be released, and he will need help at home.
But my friend told me that the chiffon masks I favor were turned down by the airline.
Grrrr…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu26h9uXEAIqs4X.jpg
Is this true?
The misspelling, pointless Photoshop filter, and JPEGification don’t engender confidence.
Searching on it led to a Reuters “fact check” here which you are free not to trust but is worth the reading for how they reveal all the connections these politicians’ children actually do have (favorite: Pelosi’s son is on the board of “San Francisco – Shanghai Sister City Committee”).
Yes, but the “fact checkers” find it mostly false because the children aren’t members of the board or are former members etc.
Paul Pelosi Jr. 2 stepsons of John Kerry, Hunter Biden, and Romney’s investment fund running kids.
Personally, I’d be more concerned that most of them have connections to China than whatever they had going on in Ukraine. Petty corruption in the third world is U.S. politicians’ bread and butter. Being owned by an emerging superpower, on the other hand…
Mostly false because they aren’t currently working for them? Wow
Pretty sure Kerry’s kid opted out of Hunters Ukraine deals because too shady. The Chinese ones though? All in and they banked a few bucks from what I read. Peter Schweitzer wrote a whole book about this sort of bullshit.
“Hold that Tot – your main spud, MR. POTATO HEAD isn’t going anywhere! While it was announced today that the POTATO HEAD brand name & logo are dropping the ‘MR.’ I yam proud to confirm that MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD aren’t going anywhere and will remain MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD”
https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1365038178814590995
Everyone knows it should be Dr. Potato Head.
Senator and Dr. Potato Head
Not even Mr Potato Head is safe from being smacked around by virtue signaling.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/business/mr-potato-head-hasbro-gender-neutral/index.html
Revised Toy Story movies are going to be weird.
They backed off from this later. He stays Mr Potato head for now.
“At a moment in history when the American conversation seems to be obsessed with bringing attention to women in the workplace (check out “The End of Men,” or Google “gender paygap” for a primer), it seems a remarkable chasm between what we’d like to see (more women in the corporate ranks) and what we’d like for ourselves (getting out of Dodge). But it’s true: according to our survey, 84% of working women told ForbesWoman and TheBump that staying home to raise children is a financial luxury they aspire to.
What’s more, more than one in three resent their partner for not earning enough to make that dream a reality.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/09/12/is-opting-out-the-new-american-dream-for-working-women/
“Opting out” is what they call it?
Well, it’s Forbes.
Fuck Thineself off,
and Hello fellow traveler,
Ooh, I get the sophisticated insults. But the joke’s on you, I never heard of this Tulpa person.
A tulpa is someone who only lives in your head. Such as Harvey in that Jimmy Stewart movie. So a sockpuppet account would be a tulpa of the irl person typing.
Kinda like Tony/rotating members of TOS staff.
That’s my belief, anyways.
Now Bo…that guy was real…a really, really mendacious cunte.
Author should have used the pen name “James Damore”
Scratch a little deeper and see how much of that dream is staying home not working, hold the children.
*points to teachers unions*
This.
I have a saying around here (usually directed at the pets, when we had them) : Everybody has a job in this household. You don’t work, you don’t stay.
Making income isn’t the only way somebody can work. With enough effort and the right circumstances, a family of four can live on $50k. Usually the second income is because people don’t like the inconvenience of living frugally.
Different strokes and all that, but I have zero sympathy for people who choose one path and whine about the opportunity costs. The fact that they don’t resent the party of the policies that made two income households standard is quite telling.
The fact that they don’t resent the party of the policies that made two income households standard is quite telling.
And tax is one of the biggest parts of the budget even for those of us on the low end of the financial ladder making less than $15/hr. I did my taxes today, and income taxes (fed and state) took up about 8% of my gross, with FICA and a couple of other state taxes taking slightly more than that. I don’t have an exact number for how much I’m paying in sales and excise taxes, and I’m lucky to more or less avoid property tax since I live with my father.
I couldn’t care less, and I bet a lot of folks couldn’t.
Egged on by the media. Like, say, Forbes.
Ha! I knew it. Gustave named himself after one of Lady Gaga’s dogs.
At least it wasn’t the one named for a mold culture.
?
I got CRS and CSS, I’m fucked,
Hell, I have CHS as well, might as well be Tommy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTe3K7BllM
can you hear me?
what?
Exactly….
Your Yummy with Butter and Garlic Salt, Just Say’n,
CRS Infection of the fetus early in a pregnancy, caused by transplacental transmission of the rubella virus
Agile? is that you?
Consider yourself Clouted, with prejudice,
Bravo!
Wait, I thought we had laws against race based discrimination?
Apparently Not
That ship sailed decades ago.
From what I hear. The reason people get the vid is because they don’t follow the rules. So therefore the communities who get it more are the most non compliant. Why are they putting the most non compliant at the front of the line? I also heard the reason there is no flu this year is because everybody is wearing a mask and social distancing. I heard this right after I heard the reason Covid is rampant because people won’t wear their masks and social distance.
*puts on tinfoil covered wide brimmed cowboy hat* Convince me this thing was not engineered in a lab to kill certain sectors of society and now we have a vaccine that does not stop you from getting the disease yet everyone who wants to participate in society will eventually have to get. A vaccine that will be paid for by governments leading to the raking in of quadzzilions by multi-national pharmaceutical companies. This all stinks. Unless you have the vid then you can’t smell shit.
“Why are they putting the most non compliant at the front of the line?”
They’re complaint in the way they vote.
Can’t imagine Tulip or Kristen acting like this.
https://twitter.com/LostSoul_76/status/1364772275187294209
Oh, and Biden is bombing Syria. Shocker.
Wow. Faster than I expected.
US carries out airstrike against Iranian-backed militia target in Syria
US installs Shia dominated govt in Iraq and then wonders why Iran is flexing there.
Did you get Horton’s book yet?
Not yet. Gotta love him, but it makes my head spin.
It’s fucking ridiculous. I keep having to re-read.
Still, highly recommended.
Give the next post a try. Re-read twice and I still think there was an oil spill.
I’m on read three.
No oil spill, sorry.
The article makes it sound like it’s all Trump’s fault.
*rummages for shocked face*
Huh. Outside the last paragraph, I didn’t get that. Lots of supposition with random American foreign policy acts sprinkled in is how I read it.
Wonderful…
Biden’s handlers are bombing Syria.
Ya! I was hoping we would continue this. I really enjoy bombing countries year after year.
I need more beer, Boddingtons is on tap tonight but it might turn to Glenfiddich 15 yr…
Faster than expected. Go pudding cup!
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How many DFW glibs can see the smoke from Richland Hills? Apparently there’s a big dump on fire?
I cannot as it’s dark and rainy.
Ditto. I’m also 50 miles away or more.
I’m reading Haltom City
potato / brussel sprout