It’s Pesach tonight! Fittingly, SP and I are having dinner at our favorite PHX-area restaurant with some old friends who, like us, are a Jewish guy married to a shiksa. Much chametz will be eaten, much wine will be drunk, and very little in the way of praying will happen. Maybe I can get her to ask the Four Questions, the problem being that her Four Questions start with, “What the fuck was I thinking when I married you???”
Birthdays today, by the goy calendar, include a guy who wrote one of the best and most important books of the last 200 years; a guy who inspired a Beatles song; a man who managed true evil; a guy who designed the boxes that buildings came in; a guy who didn’t give a fock (but should have won a Nobel); a piece of shit who capped a career of failure by leaving us his idiot son; a brilliant singer of the most American of genres; a guy whose opponent was disarmed; my favorite football player to watch- and here’s why; a guy whose films leave me in a state of wonder- at why people think they’re any good; and a delightfully named baseball player who was damn fun to watch.
Let’s look at the news.
“Looka meeeee! I can be just as mendacious as Ted Lieu!”
“Let’s copy the Left’s stupidest anti-Trump tactic. Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
Just a reminder that the Kennedys are the scummiest family in America.
Team Blue thinks that the problem with the Surveillance State is that it needs even more snooping power. Oh, and thank you, Bush, for creating this agency. It’s a pity that tar and feathers is out of style.
Old Guy Music, of course, is a lineup rich with (((us))). SP and I have seen Corky live, and Harvey was a guitar student and later bandmate of the (((guy))) who introduced us. Some excellent fast electric blues.
Good morning
*reads links *
I need a drink already
Are the last two clauses related? Or do you just start drinking this early anyway?
Any excuse will do
who needs an excuse? you’re a Big Boy,
Not me, I’m probably above the legal limit.
QUESTION AUTHORITY
and wind up in jail.
To look at the links is to bring on a depression I don’t need,
Good Mornin’
I’m trying to offset them by laughing at myself.
I really am a simple, silly motherfucker.
*shrugs*
Aren’t we all?
DHS plans to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, as well as to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects about Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components.
The children are en route to Grandma’s house. They are bringing their new toys.
The officials stressed that the trigger for scrutiny would be plans for violence, not political ideology.
Phew. I was kinda worried for a minute.
Words are violence, haven’t you heard?
Enjoy the silence?
This is all I ever wanted.
But is it all you ever needed?
But I think that God has a sick sense of humor – and when I die, I expect to find him laughing.
Pull the other one.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for the 2022 GOP landslide to dial down Joe’s enhanced Stasi, either.
Yeah, banking on the GOP to not only win in 2022 but also “restore sanity” is a leap of faith at best.
Antifa: HA HA HA HA
I’m beginning to think that in addition to a vaccination card, we’re also going to need a card stating that we have participated in our mandatory diversity, inclusion and equity classes (every six months).
Racism is a worse public health issue than the coronaviris
You are the PKD of your generation.
If you work for a
modernwoke corporation, it will be assumed you have received all the required browbeating.That Ronny Jackson feller worked for my dad for a short time at his walk-in clinic. I think someone looked up my dad to ask about the guy when he was being considered for White House physician.
You don’t need to be a doctor to see that Biden has been declining for a while. Between that and Trump’s shenanigans, at least the shine is coming off the throne.
Who is the Valerie Jarrett of the Biden administration?
Rice
Ok, did some DDGing and while the Chief of Staff is this Ron Klain guy who had the same role for Biden as VP, Susan Rice is leader of the White House Domestic Policy Council and speculation is she is very powerful.
And apparently the Center for American Progress is supplying lots of “wonks”.
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-staff-center-for-american-progress-podesta-tanden-think-tank-2021-3
The 2019 Brennan Center report examined how ICE, CBP, the Transportation Security Administration and other components monitor social media. The report, written by civil liberties activists, concluded that “wholesale monitoring of social media creates serious risks to privacy and free speech. Moreover, despite the rush to implement these programs, there is scant evidence that they actually meet the goals for which they are deployed.”
Fucking civil liberties fetishists. They’d let 99 domestic terrorists run free to protect the “rights” of a single innocent man. What a warped and dangerous philosophy. Round them up, too.
Ah, Passover. Or as I like to call it , Charles Heston Day. I think we watched The Ten Commandments every year it was available.
I imagine that if it is available to stream, they will add some Gone with the Wind style disclaimer explaining how the Jews use the story to oppress the real owners of the land.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-ten-commandments-1956
“Let My People Go!” Charlton was an icky right winger.
“Soylent Mana is made from Canaanites!”
…I’m stoned.
I like to call it “why do we get this holiday? oh yeah”.
As a child, I was once grounded from TV for nearly a year straight, the only exception being the required viewing of The Ten Commandments by my father…
In retrospect, that wasn’t the worst thing in the world. It got me into the habit of reading books.
“Awww, mom! Can I at least watch Ben-Hur or The Greatest Story Ever Told too?”
The Robe is pretty good.
(((Charlton Heston)))?
Paul Rosenzweig, who was DHS’ deputy assistant secretary for policy in the George W. Bush administration, said that in the fight against international terrorism, the intelligence community has long targeted money, travel and communications. Doing that in the domestic context poses thorny constitutional issues, he said.
He said the Trump presidency shattered his confidence that the government can be trusted with intrusive surveillance authorities.
Yup. Just look at all the journalists disappeared by Former President Cartoon Villain and his henchmen. He turned Nixon’s bowling alley into a torture chamber, just for journalists.
But we’re totally safe now. Democrats only use their powers for good.
I’d say that the Trump presidency shattered my confidence that intrusive surveillance authorities should be anywhere near government, much less trusted.
Doing that in the domestic context poses thorny constitutional issues, he said.
It should in the international context, too. In spirit, if not in letter, the BOR is universal.
The gaslighting is incredible. Stunning, actually.
Outstanding music link, Old Man. I can’t feature why the only people playing Rock Music are a bunch of fossils like us? All the new music sounds the same and isn’t being young part of being counter-culture? It’s like the younger generation have just bought into whatever they’ve been told to believe. Heartbreaking.
It’s not.
Rock is alive and thriving. It’s just not “popular” in the sense it isn’t what’s on the radio anymore.
You have to look to find it, which is fine by me. It just means it’s less likely to be molested by corporate label hands.
Much of what is popular these days contains everything I hate in music.
I mean did rappers secure a deal where they are required to supply some garbage bridge in every song?
It also appears (to me at least) to be much more fragmented. The internet has allowed various subcultures and fans of subgenres to link up, and help artists that would be local/regional novelty acts get worldwide exposure.
Sad, isn’t it? It’s like people are closed-minded or something. I know people who only listen to 80’s music; some only 90’s. When I look at my wife’s Spotify playlist, I just shake my head. She’s only four years younger than me.
Yeah; I get the impression that many rock aficionados are close-minded about non-rock genres.
I like variety in music. That’s a polite way of saying that my feed is a horrible mish mash.
Music is like food to me. If I don’t like something, I’ll give a rest and try again later. Many things will be disliked, but at least I tried.
I was in my car and said, “OK Google,
you rotten spying bastardsplay Jangle Favorites.”This came up instead. I thought, well okay then, and listened all the way home.
I keep trying to persuade my son (and thus, hopefully his generation) that Polka is the music of rebellion now…. 🙂
So… you’ve never heard any Punk Polka?
I find something to enjoy in every decade going back to the 50s. My Spotify list ranges from Buddy Holiday to Tupac. My wife used to give me shit about being an old man when Sinatra or the Drifters came on, but now she’s hooked.
I am partial to the 80s though and my wife played the 80s music tv channel for ~48 hours nonstop while I was in a coma. I think the nurse was more relieved about getting to stop the music than my coming back.
Haha, I’m on the other side of the spectrum. My playlist starts at about 1890 (there are a few things surviving from this era of listenable quality), peaks in the ’20s-’30s, and drops off when the ’50s end. There are a scant few items I like from after that but not many.
I’ve been working on a project where I listen to the top songs of 1971, 1991 and 2021. What quickly becomes apparent (and will be the title of my podcast, is that it was never any good. For every Marvin Gaye you got yourself a dozen Donny Osmands or Karen Carpenters.
Genres seem to come and go. Rock isn’t great, but Metal is undergoing a new renaissance. Country has some amazing acts once you get away from the radio. The singer/songwriters style acts of the 70s that produced your Jim Croce’s or your Tom Waits is going strong. Hip Hop, of course, is the predominate sound with some of the best albums being released over the past few years. (Check out Rugged Man and Immortal Technique from, what I consider to be the best hip hop album of 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqgIKOXykHo )
I think there are two things going on when people say that music is dead. First is that the best music will always be whatever the hell we liked when we first got laid. Music is about emotions, and there are few stronger emotions than nostalgia.
Next, as has been mentioned, the music cultures are more fragmented. Back in the day, if you liked metal you hated R and B. If you liked pop, you hated punk/ Today’s generation is much more diverse in their influences.
Like in any art form, 00% of everything is complete bullshit…..it’s only as the years go by do we see the top 1%, and the furthur you are from the time you first got laid, the harder it is to see it.
Yep, the survivor bias is real, and why so many people seem to think everything was better in the past.
Then you start looking at some of the stuff that survived, but didn’t really get released until the internet came to make it easier to disseminate information… and there’s garbage from all eras.
The length and width and depth of the Swamp is truly staggering. The hive mind’s mendacity is incredible.
One of the worst aspects of Twitter is that if gives the impression that the mindless progressives are insurmountably large.
Baseball is not meant to be played at 8am. Especially not baseball that needs to be played over an hour from home.
Ugh.
I see you’ve played tournament ball before. Anybody puke on the field yet?
Not yet.
who’s your MLB team ?
Marlins.
I watched Richard III last night (the one with Ian McKellan). Much excellence. Annette Benning is kind of a weak link, but…
I wish Titus was on Amazon Prime. I haven’t seen it in a long time.
The modern adaptation of R3 with Ian McKellen is awesome.
Those are both great movies! Highly recommended! I even like her Beatles movie. The part where Robert Downey get stabbed through the chest from under the bed. Even the start when they have a swing band. Of course nobody can top Anthony Hopkins in a chef’s hat.
https://youtu.be/x2l-zjYnSnA
‘The attending nurse, who was fully capable of delivering the baby, ordered Rose to keep her legs closed until the doctor arrived. When this didn’t work, the nurse pushed the baby’s head back into the birth canal and held it there for two hours. The effects of this decision only became clear as Rosemary grew older.’
WTF
‘Both parents believed that Rosemary could be “cured” through a combination of holding her to the same standard as her siblings, specialized education and experimental injections.’
WTF?
‘Despite this compassion for his sister, Joe Jr. would later become radicalized on a trip to Germany in 1934 and adopt less than tender attitudes towards “undesirables,” including people with disabilities. He wrote home to his father: “[Hitler] has passed the sterilization law which I think is a great thing. I don’t know how the Church feels about it, but it will do away with many of the disgusting specimens of men which inhabit this earth.” His father seemed to agree in his reply: “I think your conclusions are very sound.”‘
WTF?!
Not even done reading the article, just pausing to say:
WTF?!!!
They are a despicable Family, this is known,
It gets worse, somehow.
*reads the rest*
People like Joe Sr. make want to believe in Hell again.
*reads the rest*
People like Joe Sr. make me want to believe in Hell again.
Heh, I like that I thought my comment didn’t go through, then thought: “Okay, I guess this is my chance to edit this post.”, then ended up looking like an even bigger asshole.
Ha!
I thought the horrific saga of Rosemary Kennedy was commonly known?
You guys are spoiling my wiki-boner for tomorrow afternoon.
First I’ve heard of it. Not saying it hasn’t been documented before but the slime trails left by the Kennedys are far and wide.
I’d heard of it but not in that much detail.
Just… sickening.
Prissy from GWTW would have been of more use.
The only good-looking one too; shame.
For cardboard tube biscuits, unidentified cheese, and generic breakfast sausage patties, my breakfast sandwiches turned out pretty well.
Missing: hot sauce. ?
No.
It’s missing egg.
I recently went through a (gifted) bottle of a Chipotle sauce. It was low heat, with a smokey and slightly sweet taste. It would have sent that sandwich to the next level.
Good call, I’ll be putting some Sriracha on my Chic Fil A bagel when it arrives.
In the photo, Kemp and the Republican lawmakers surrounding him are wearing face masks because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Republicans rushed the bill through both chambers of the legislature within a few hours, allowing Kemp to sign it into law that night.
But the optics and timing of the signing — under cover of darkness, with White men wearing masks — will only fuel suspicion among voting rights advocates and Black Americans that what Georgia Republicans did Thursday wasn’t lawmaking.
It was the 21st-century political equivalent of strongarm Jim Crow tactics to prevent Black citizens from voting.
It’s a Ku Klux Klan LYNCH MOB!
That is the epitome of media mendacity. Fuck off and take your race baiting to hell.
Translation: the legislation is effective at stopping the more egregious forms of fraud.
Those poor simple-mided Negroes. Too lazy and dumb to show proof of residency or have a free government issued ID.
Seriously, how are black people not offended by this shit?
I’m sure plenty of them are, but if they voice it publicly and it gains too much traction, they will be subjected to actual racism by mostly white activists who will openly call them an “Uncle Tom”, “Sambo”, “sellout”, and “house nigger”.
Look at what they said about Colion Noir when he started getting famous for making pro-gun videos. Democrats truly view black people (and their minds) as property.
FFS! Up here the complaint is that the rural hick knuckle dragging Republicans refuse to wear the masks (and are the reason that the sooper dooper contagious ‘vid is spreading).
“Masks are racist now” seems like an opportunity for some of us to rid ourselves of the fucking things for good.
I have a feeling that our new cell phones, which were supposed to arrive yesterday (WTF, FedEx??) are not going to be delivered today. They’re at the local sorting facility, but delivery is “Pending,” and I think I saw something about weekday delivery. Tom T. will not be pleased.
When SOMEONE found out the hard way that his phone wasn’t machine-washable, we decided to take the opportunity to switch providers in hopes of saving money.
The transition is not going smoothly.
Can you at least tumble dry the phone?
It might be worth a try at this point. We tried the rice trick, but it didn’t work. I found some regular rice, but he used Minute Rice instead. Maybe he thought it would work faster.
??
The laundry chemicals probably did a number on it. I’ve seen the rice trick work, but only for brief immersion in fairly pure water.
That is the epitome of media mendacity. Fuck off and take your race baiting to hell.
What rock do you have to turn over to find somebody capable of writing that hysterical nonsense?
It’s CNN. And judging from the link ( im not going to click) it’s not even in their opinion section.
It Says Opinion in the piece, and what a piece it is……
That story took a while to get where I knew it was going to go, but it got there.
“Faith” in humanity, restored.
Shiksa. At least I learned a new word today.
Help! (((They))) are coming for our [[[women]]].
Not that I know the symbology for goy girls.
A common debate among the (fairly numerous) Jewish guys at my high school were the relative….um…”merits” of shikses versus Jewish girls.
Seems more of an expression of Mediterranean genes generally than an ecumenical matter.
(Busts, that is. If your classmates were talking about something else then I cannot comment.)
It was more their respective “talents” than their physical features.
Ah, so I got it right the second time.
“Shiksas are for practice.” -Moishe Maisel
I think [[[]]] is already reserved.
If I may remind everyone, I believe I suggested the preferred brackets for }}women{{.
Heh.
Mythological Glib-ladies?
For whom?
Mormons, I think?
Mormons.
I want a horny little Jewish Princess! Turnabout is fair play.
“She can even be poor…”
Sure, as long as tush fits in nice pair of
Dammit!
Jeans!
I’ve always held the theory that SP meant: Shiksa Princess
Oh My…
DEMOCRACY!
“This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” Biden said, referring to laws of the last century that enforced heavy-handed racial segregation in the South.
“It must end. We have a moral and Constitutional obligation to act,” he said. He told reporters the Georgia law is an “atrocity” and the Justice Department is looking into it.
Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, lashed back, accusing Biden of attempting to “destroy the sanctity and security of the ballot box” by supporting what the governor sees as federal intrusion into state responsibilities.
Behind the chorus of outrage, Democrats are also wrestling with the limits on their power in Washington, as long as Senate filibuster rules allow Republicans to block major legislation, including H.R. 1, a sweeping elections bill now pending in the Senate.
Yes, yes, of course. A tiny minority of Republican legislators, representing a few dozen depraved antediluvian voters who want to bring back slavery and the gold standard, have completely thwarted what we know to be the universally agreed upon wishes of the American People.
Send in the troops, before it’s too late.
He would get upset that Georgia tightened up it’s election laws.
The poor dears.
That Constitution thing-y is a real bitch.
What’s the deal with Crispy Gnome? I watched an awkward squawking heads zoom conference thing featuring four or five contributors at The Federalist which was focusing specifically on how terrible it was that Gov. Norm hadn’t immediately signed the women’s sports bill, and how she is a turncoat and a traitor. None of them seemed particularly interested in what’s in the bill, or what grift she might be trying to fight to get to a point where the bill she would sign isn’t going to make too much compromise elsewhere. Maybe she is “squishy”. I haven’t read the bill, either, but I’d be more interested in just what the issues are with it before I start lashing Noem to the stake. I know she’s recently offended libertarian types because “MUH
WEEDPRINCIPLES!”, but I would like to understand a bit more afore I start chopping kindling.As an aside, The Federalist publishes some good content, and some not so great content, and I’m not the sort to throw my toys around just because a publication isn’t 100% on message in line with my principles ?♂️
I saw that the other day. Noem did a good job on coronavirus. I get wanting to avoid squishes, and I’m pissed at my Gov for vetoing a bill that did the same thing. But the Federalist seems rabid about it. I went over the other day and about half their articles were egregious.
She’s playing to win because the 9th circuit will overturn it. Noem wants to win, not scrabble at the side of a sinking ship.
Her state isn’t in the 9th circuit.
That matters now?
If the NY AG can go after a GA law, I’m sure the 9th Circus will look for a way to weigh in on the SD gov.
Surely the courts will state that the NY AG has no standing…
If it gets up to Roberts, all bets are off.
“Crispy Gnome” – typo or brilliant comedy? Not that crispy since she hates MJ.
I’ve been thinking her name as that for a while. I like funky malapropisms. She’s definitely not baked to a crisp, though. You’re right about that.
I dunno but I saw Tucker ripping into her on this. He was accusing her of vetoing the bill because Big Tech threatened to take their ball elsewhere because virtue signaling is and she was denying that without clearly explaining herself.
I couldn’t make head or tails of the whole thing.
I watched an awkward squawking heads zoom conference thing featuring four or five contributors at The Federalist which was focusing specifically on how terrible it was that Gov. Norm hadn’t immediately signed the women’s sports bill, and how she is a turncoat and a traitor. None of them seemed particularly interested in what’s in the bill, or what grift she might be trying to fight to get to a point where the bill she would sign isn’t going to make too much compromise elsewhere.
If you’re not a knee jerk culture warrior, you’re against us.
See comment above.
I keep trying to persuade my son (and thus, hopefully his generation) that Polka is the music of rebellion now….
Hop on the bandwagon
It’s the new Disco – https://youtu.be/_qixMnBDaw4
? They said “No, he don’t work here”
We should protest Mexicans for appropriating the genre.
Nope, it’s just European Peasant music, every country over there has a variation of “Polka”
go here at Noon EDT,
https://kspc.org/listen/
best Polka show around,
Was it Imported by the Spanish during their reign over much of the Americas?
I could be way off here but I thought the Mexican music genre with a heavy polka influence didn’t really gain steam until the latter half of the twentieth century.
so many sad fates have befallen this brood that even Murphy’s Law is like, Ok, we get it. Damn!
I hate this style of writing.
Because it’s garbage.
Sad/Cosmic Retribution
Tomato/Tomahto
For the elder scrolls fans. https://youtu.be/j4nUrx2CRwQ
That made my day. And the comments were pretty funny too.
The comments are great.
Wagons were circled
Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN he believes the coronavirus originally escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. But a team of experts from the World Health Organization, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and a number of virology experts have said the evidence to support such a claim just isn’t there.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci addressed Redfield’s comments at Friday’s COVID-19 response briefing and suggested that most public health officials disagree. He noted that if the virus had escaped from a lab, that would mean that “it essentially entered the outside human population already well-adapted to humans.”
“However, the alternative explanation which most public health individuals go by, is that this virus was actually circulating in China, likely in Wuhan, for a month or more before they were clinically recognized at the end of December of 2019,” Fauci said.
——-
“It is highly probable that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in Hubei province at low levels in early-November 2019 and possibly as early as October 2019, but not earlier,” reads the study. But for weeks or months, its prevalence was low enough to escape notice. “By the time COVID-19 was first identified, the virus had firmly established itself in Wuhan.”
Kristian G. Andersen, director of the infectious disease genomics, translational research institute at Scripps Research, told CBS News that “none of (Redfield’s) comments” on the lab theory are “backed by available evidence.”
“It is clear that not only was he the most disastrous CDC director in U.S. history where he utterly failed in his sworn mission to keep the country safe, but via his comments, he also shows a complete lack of basic evolutionary virology,” Andersen said.
Lashes out like a cornered rat, she does. Attacking the man leads me to believe she is afeared of the man’s argument.
So the virus mutated in the wild to became more focused and lethal? Isn’t that the exact opposite of what we (used to) believe?
We believe what is beneficial for the DNC for us to believe.
‘But a team of experts from the World Health Organization, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and a number of virology experts have said the evidence to support such a claim just isn’t there.’
Who you gonna believe? An organization that has become a propaganda wing for the CCP and a hack with financial interests in the Wuhan lab, or you own cynicism?
Here’s a peer-reviewed white paper/artucle from Environmental Chemistry Letters (2021), published on SpringerLink and downloadable as a PDF, arguing that due to a number of hard-to-explain features of CoV2, the lab escape hypothesis should not be ignored or downplayed:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10311-021-01211-0
Drinking the 15th and last beer for tonight. I am in a terrible rut. All that I do is work and I have very little control over the rest of my life. If Judi went away I would be fucked. She controls the finances and I haven’t a single friend left in the entire world. At least that drop-foot went away. I’m a well-groomed servant.
You got many friends here Festus
^ This.
Aw, Festy.
https://youtu.be/kzoN-CvH0qU
Hang in there Festus. You still have us.
Thanks, guys. I get morose from time to time. Sometimes I need someone, anyone to slap me the hell out of it and you fit the bill. It lives in my head and will not be dislodged. 56 years and counting.
Yes, this very much. The LOA I was on last year really messed me up. Not having any friends in meat space is bad. It has been like this for too long.
Buck up little camper.
Seriously, we’re here for you man. Or at least I am, I can’t really speak for the rest of the degenerates here. 🙂
I love that movie beyond all reason. “Uneven but funny”.
I really wish that Savage Steve Holland made some more theatrical release movies. I love Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer.
Sounds as if he went into kids’ TV.
Yeah… but those two movies are near perfection!
I also seem to remember he carried his grudge against Siskel and Ebert into the cartoons as well. IIRC, there were two critics that were constantly getting eaten in one of the bits on Eek! the Cat.
Dumped over a beer on my desk. No worries, it just adds to the patina.
Uh oh, man the pumps! And see the forum within the next half hour or so, if desired.
I twied. I weawwy , weawwy twied! Saw nothing there.
Twy again now. I did give a half-hour buffer.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/WnbQ0S5KSnmYHsUEAWR9zA.Ae8S6oAMtVyqxXgBxXYfE3
First batch of hot pepper plants sprouted. Genghis Khan brain and chocolate bhutlah so far.
There’s 4 more varieties to go.
My peppers (bell, jalapeno, habanero,Anaheim) have finally sprouted. I plan to make more hot sauce this year. Nice looking seedlings Sean.
?
I dunno but I saw Tucker ripping into her on this. He was accusing her of vetoing the bill because Big Tech threatened to take their ball elsewhere because virtue signaling is and she was denying that without clearly explaining herself.
I think there was something in that Federalist screed (I tapped out early) about an Amazon fulfillment center, and how she sold those of the True Faith out for a few pieces of silver.
The lefties are not the only ones who have made politics their god.
It’s quite possible she f-ed up but I haven’t read the bill to know how sound it is.
Hang in there Festus. Soon the bears will return to entertain you.
Tonio is already here, man.
OMWC, the Haggadah my MIL sent is the ’60 Minute Seder’ variety and not some social justice nonsense.
I have dodged a bullet, at least for this year.
The bad news is that it’s my wife who would like a social justice version used. In the words of your people, “Oy.”
We’re having trouble with using even the traditional version this year. The moral of being meek slaves until fleeing from your masters is not something the wife and I want to instill in our children. The Haggadahs I’ve seen even include the Holocaust as a modern repeat. No lessons of courage, strength, or fighting for your freedom.
There’s an interesting alternative Passover version on BC Battles which portrays Moses as a general and frames Passover as a bloody fight where the Jews fought for their freedom from the Egyptians and continued to fight anyone blocking their path on the exodus to Israel. Fictional tv of course, but their version is heavily cited throughout with quotes from the Old Testament. I don’t know that it’s any less a valid interpretation than the Haggadah version. Mundane and mortal fighting seems more realistic to me than divine intervention from the heavens.
I think we’re going to use some combination of both plus Passover at Bubbe’s since the kids are all under 7.
Under 8. I can’t ever seem to get it right anymore.
My wife’s family is Reformed – e.g., her mom’s rabbi is a married lesbian, the cantor is a single lesbian. I don’t see a “muscular Judaism” Haggadah on offer anytime soon, sadly.
Time to go shopping. *waves bye*
I wonder what pistol and cut of steak he will return with this time.
Gone to an estate sale to buy vintage plates.
Just returned from shopping with a couple rib-eyes. Nothing like the beauties he will probably return with and holy crap the price made my eyes water but I wanted to try my hand and these.
Elegant in its simplemindedness
When U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy laid out plans Tuesday for the future of the post office, he pointed to higher postage rates and slower first class mail as a means of stemming postal service losses he says could reach $160 billion.
But missing from his new 10-year plan were two ideas economists, members of Congress and consumer advocates say could generate billions of dollars for the beleaguered service and bring the post office into the 21st century: a return to postal banking and the post office’s entry into the lucrative alcohol delivery business.
“We don’t expect the post office of the 21st century will be the same as the post office of the 20th century,” said Rakim Brooks, senior campaign strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union. “People are using the mail less, and we think that the institution has to provide new services.”
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McConnell said postal banking could help raise critical revenue and serve the public, noting consumer advocates would find it particularly appealing to have a post office that’s able to provide consumers with digital wallets, low-fee ATM machines and an ability to cash checks without paying the often-exorbitant fees that check-cashing establishments charge.
Also in favor of postal banking: a growing number of economists, including Melanie Long, an assistant professor of economics at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
“Postal banking has been used in other parts of the world to democratize services,” she said, noting that postal services in 139 countries around the world offer some form of financial services.
Long said it makes sense for post offices to double as banks, especially given the growing number of “bank deserts” in the U.S., communities in which there are no commercial banks.
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Congress is taking notice of postal banking. Last year, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced the Postal Banking Act, aimed at providing consumers with bank accounts and mobile banking services.
In a statement, Gillibrand noted, “Postal banking is an elegant solution that would provide the USPS upwards of $9 billion a year in revenue and would address the high cost of being poor in America by eliminating payday loans, check cashing, and other predatory financial products.
If Senator Sorority Girl is in favor, that’s good enough for me.
We cannot allow banking deserts to exist. Maybe the Post Office should get into the lottery business, too.
Sounds lucrative.
low-fee ATM machines
So much better than those no fee credit unions.
People don’t use check cashing and payday loan places as their first stop in the banking world. It’s usually the last one after burning through accounts in overdrafts or other shenanigans. The post office bank wouldn’t be any different.
And rather than mere alcohol delivery, repeal all of prohibitions against non hazardous items in us mail: firearms, ammunition, vaping products, etc.
Schwab checking has no minimums, no fees, no ATM feeds and pays you back any ATM fees other banks pay.
I’m sure I could find similar offers.
Clearly, there’s some sort of market failure and the government needs to step in.
*ATM fees
*banks charge
(need moar caffeine)
No foreign exchange fees either. Schwab is my account for pulling money out overseas. Their interest rates are decent (in world where savings interest is essentially zero).
That, too. It was pretty sweet to be able to just take some euros out of an ATM when I was in Italy.
Only this time you get to subsidize other people poor choices (again).
the growing number of “bank deserts” in the U.S., communities in which there are no commercial banks
Branches are closing because there is less and less of a need for physical locations. Something the post office is going to be doing shortly as well.
“postal banking”
Yes, let’s be more like Japan.
Except for limiting the lottery to New Years.
Newest productivity killer: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1W8ShdwtfgjRHdbl1Lctcw/videos
Ill-considered imagery is murder
Michigan GOP Chair Calls Gretchen Whitmer, Female Democrats ‘Witches,’ Suggests ‘Assassination’
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The chair of the Michigan Republican Party referred to three of the state’s top female lawmakers as “witches” as part of an effort to summon voter support ahead of next year’s midterm election.
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“Our job now is to soften up those three witches and make sure we have good candidates to run against them, that they are ready for the burning at the stake,” he told the gathering. Weiser went on to specify that there were three statewide elected positions on which he was focused: the seats held by the governor, secretary of state and attorney general.
Horrific.
Horrifically dumb.
Stupid party is stupid.
The Party of Stupid, Exhibit #43,297.
*Rolls eyes*
Hey, I can see my brain!
Old guy music…………Double ?
Housing desert
Echo Park Lake is hardly the first place where L.A. has sought to clear a homeless encampment, but it became a flashpoint for many reasons. Homeless activists defined the camp as a community and mobilized others — including Echo Park residents who aren’t homeless — to rally to their cause. Angelenos troubled by the encampment, in turn, were emotionally invested in a beloved park that had undergone tens of millions of dollars in renovations years earlier.
“I’m not sure how many privileged residents on Nextdoor badly want to reclaim an alley in South L.A.,” said Bill Przylucki, executive director of the progressive group Ground Game LA. “Caving to that pressure is part of how we got to the response we saw.”
Another factor is who leads the council district: O’Farrell, who represents the area, drove the decision to temporarily close the park, arguing that it had become a chaotic and dangerous place where assaults and other criminal activity flourished. The closure would allow for repairs, he said.
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Others on the council have criticized the move. “The sudden closure of the park, the massive LAPD presence, the use of force against protesters, the enclosure of unhoused people who were in the process of placement into hotel shelters … none of it needed to happen,” said Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who visited Echo Park amid the furor.
Meanwhile, some residents in her district said they were frustrated that Raman had not taken similar action to eliminate an encampment along Berendo Street in Hollywood, which has spurred complaints about illegal activity.
“She has time to show up for a photo op in Echo Park, but she cannot come down and meet with the neighbors who have been asking for months to meet her face to face,” said Charlie Collins, who said he is part of a committee concerned about encampments in Los Feliz and Hollywood.
Trump should offer to build affordable housing in L A.
“Privileged” is quickly becoming the new “racist”.
Don’t want to live surrounded by bums and squalor? You’re “privileged”.
There are several unfriendly folks in my sub who are quite unhappy about my privilege.
goddammit, we are drowning in an ocean of stupid. This is not going to end well.
Finally set up camp at Tranquility Base (back porch futon.) Pleasant weather, but the weekend yard work has begun. Leaf blowers are of the devil in spring and summer.
? We are supposed to get warm this coming week. I can’t wait! Yard work is non existent on plot de westernsloper because it is mostly sagebrush. I might wash out the pool for the upcoming season if it is warm enough tomorrow though.
That sounds nice. And yes, yard noise is evil.
We are in what call I dodge the pollen days her. I have to bring my outdoor cushions back inside when I’m not sitting on them. Also, need to keep an eye out for wasp nests.
So, last night after Tulip nuked us all in the Zoom I put a few pieces of pizza from the joint up the road in the oven to reheat and then woke up on the floor (from what I can tell) an hour later. The pizza was still warm so I ate it and went to bed. This morning I had the worst sciatic attack I have ever had. I think last week caught up with me. A nerve blocker and a few White Claws have eased me into wanting to have a good day. Fuck me though, I almost pissed myself from the pain. Not very fun. Thank the lord on this pre-passover for pharmaceuticals and sorority girl drinks.
You sound like a sorority girl.
Achievement unlocked!
So the new Carhartts and a shirt with buttons. Got it.
I haven’t been around for a day or two. Has anyone got any news on Fourscore? How is the guy doing?
trending positive
Looks like the last update in the forum was March 25.
“Dear Glibs Forum, I never thought this would happen to me but…”
Completely unexpected
The percentage of adults under age 30 with recent symptoms of an anxiety or a depressive disorder rose significantly about five months after the U.S. imposed COVID-19 related lockdowns, and reported rising deaths from the fast-spreading virus.
Between August 2020 and February 2021, this number went up to 41.5% from 36.4%, as did the percentage of such people reporting that they needed, but did not receive, mental health counseling.
The study suggests that the rise in anxiety or depressive disorder symptoms reported correspond with the weekly number of reported COVID-19 cases.
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Even with more vaccines gaining authorization beginning late 2020, the effects of the pandemic on mental health continued into 2021.
Months and months of panicmongering has an adverse effect on mental health? Who could have seen that coming?
“One of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s accusers claims he ‘made her memorize the words to the song Danny Boy’ and wanted her to sing it to top aides in a bizarre ‘hazing’ incident.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9408855/Gov-Cuomo-accuser-claims-memorize-Danny-Boy-wanted-sing-it.html
During which, Cuomo reportedly drank whiskey, vodka, lager, and cider.
Yer never gonna keep him down!
I laughed
but I’m an awful human being
? https://fox5sandiego.com/news/politics/romney-to-receive-profile-in-courage-award-for-vote-in-trumps-first-impeachment-trial/
(sorry if rectal narcotics)
Just like the Nobel prizes. Good work on devaluing your brand.
In one-hit wonder news, on this date in 1982 everyone’s favorite Canucks reached #16 on the pop charts.
They were seven spots behind a little ditty about a guy with an insatiable appetite, the only song from the supergroup Buckner & Garcia to hit the Top 40.
You’re treading on Ted S’s schtick. Be forewarned.
s’chtick
Question: If something is labeled lesbian pr0n, but it features a trans woman and a cis woman, would you consider that straight pr0n, since a penis and a vagina are in use?
Assuming no surgical mutilation, how would you know the difference once you’ve cropped out the credits?
It’s a woman’s penis
I cant’ (and will not try to) understand any of that. WOW
Puppy dog playing with butterfly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFhQP6yDT-8
after Tulip nuked us all in the Zoom
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When you’re a four-eyes and you get drunk like I did last night, the next morning tryna find your glasses be like
https://pasteboard.co/JUzDJIX.jpg
Oh good gravy. XX and Mr. Mojeaux are involved in a not-friendly disagreement about calling people by their preferred pronouns.
I like to stick with “hey, asshole” – covers all the bases.
She tried to claim “they/them” MUST BE grammatically correct for a single person. When she said it was, because I used it that way, I told her I’d just say “it” so as to be grammatically correct.
Sorry. Get to work on some needed deprogramming, I guess.
Too late now. I’ll depend on life to beat her down a little and see what happens.
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I tell people are me/you. That tends to confound them.
Prof. Plum does not get to dictate to Miss Scarlett how she talks about him with Col. and Mrs. Mustard.