“Guido, we paid you good shekels, and yet everyone has been seeing the guy still walking around. And (((we))) are still getting blamed.” My Christian friends are all saying, “He is risen!” which means that Jesus is chametz.
Easter egg hunts are a bit different here than other places we’ve lived- it’s Arizona spring, equivalent to everywhere else’s height of summer, so chocolate eggs would be puddles. Instead, we use raw eggs, which are naturally poached by the time the kids find them. Eggs Benedict seem to be popular for Easter breakfast. I think this is not a coincidence.
Neither are birthdays, today’s including a guy legendary for being a triple killer; a guy whose writing career resembled a supernova; a wonderful actress who also voiced every great female cartoon character until June Foray came along; a guy who took a licking; a woman who was so stereotypical as a haughty French filmmaker that I couldn’t make up a better character; a woman whose views on guns are memory-holed by her numerous Progressive admirers; a woman who caught George jerking; Pete Buttchug’s spirit animal; my favorite hotel clerk; my favorite playwright; a woman who never let facts get in the way of the best-seller list; a guy who never learned from other people’s fuckups; a mediocre magician with a perfect sense of self-promotion; the inspiration for a Muppet; and a woman who is a running joke in my research group.
Let’s see what’s in the news, other than the botched hit.
This is certainly Trump’s fault.
I’m sure this is Trump’s fault, too.
Team Blue quietly admits that Biden is an authoritarian and hypocritical idiot.
I’d recommend a prostate exam.
Amongst all the fake outrage and moral preening here, all I can think is, “How do you do all that weird capitalization and punctuation?” Seems like you have to go out of your way on the keyboard.
Old Guy Music today seemed kind of appropriate. Besides all the obvious stuff, this is a cut I’d play to argue that Freddie Green was the Charlie Christian of chords and comp. And that Charlie Christian was the Freddie Green of lead guitar.
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter, Count! It’s finally warm enough for me to be out here at Tranquility Base (back porch,) listening to birdies and Old Man’s musical selection. After it plays, it’s SiriusXM’s classical channel, Symphony Hall for Vox Choral. I’m sure they’re featuring something fine today.
I never got into the satelite radio thing because you can only use it for one radio. So if you want to have it in more than one car, and at home, it gets expensive.
Although, right now, my home stereo doesn’t even have a tuner.
I had a portable receiver that I could use anywhere. I’m sure they are still available.
Did it work in the car?
Yep.
But I use Spotify these days.
I have a little portable model, now discontinued, that I could move between docking stations – one at home, one at work – or use by itself with headphones. Looks like a first-gen iPod but with a stump of an antenna. Sadly, a tiny plastic piece holding the dial onto the face has broken, so now I can only operate it if it’s lying flat so the dial doesn’t fall off. I keep it at work, and on the weekends, I listen online (included with subscription.)
It’s also a streaming music app now. No receiver needed; just a phone and connectivity.
Streaming is 2021. Once we went Amazon HD, we never looked back. And it’s good for 5 devices.
I have a cradle in each car and on our back patio. The receiver comes off and goes from car to car with me. One subscription, 8 cars and a patio. Also, almost never use the patio one anymore, just bluetooth to speaker from phone.
::blinks:: You have eight cars?? For how many people?
“My name is Otto. It means eight.”
I’m a mechanic, and a car enthusiast. I have 3 station wagons in which my Roadmaster pictured in my avatar is the slowest and least powerful and it has an LT-1 Corvette engine. I also have an Audi S4 avant and a Magnum SRT8 wagon. Then I have my daily driver and a work truck. Also, my wife has her vehicle. And 2 kids each have there own. Almost forgot about the Trans Am at the body shop. I stand corrected, 9 vehicles. All of them start and run except the TA which is allegedly being restored (it’s been 2 years).
Yup! Car guy confirmed. 🙂 And a radio cradle in each. That’s dedication!
I have 3 station wagons in which my Roadmaster pictured in my avatar is the slowest and least powerful and it has an LT-1 Corvette engine
Not a station wagon, but apropos.
God Bless America!
Audi S4.
Clearly, you are a gentleman of great taste and refinement.
I had a lot of favorite stations on SiriusXM to listen to in the truck, but it seems now in the Great Land we’re too far north, west or both, to get a reliable signal. Looks like we’ll be cancelling our service.
Today Cher learned, never stick your dick in crazy.
Her twitter typing has always been nuts.
It’s possible that she’s not very bright.
Sonny was the brains of that outfit, she was the looks.
They made lots of money
So which did Chaz-titty inherit from each?
“people had freedom to do what they wanted to do, as long as they weren’t hurting other people. That’s part of what America is about. ”
Now do every other policy, monkey tits.
“Rocinske and Jason were able to capture the turkey using a blanket and a recycling bin and take it outside, where it was released.”
Dumbass. You could have had a free turkey.
Noah Green, the 25-year-old who rammed his vehicle into a U.S. Capitol barricade, killing an officer, had declining mental health in the years leading up to the attack, his friends and family said.
His declining mental health will of course be considered a result of rampant white supremacy.
If those asshole rednecks had just voted in favor of universal health care this wouldn’t have happened.
“His declining mental health will of course be considered a result of rampant white supremacy.”
…and a solid reason for banning any and all forms of firearms!
Especially those concealable ones.
Well, he didn’t use a gun that they could focus on and he’s not an evil white guy. The Boulder shooter was totes OK in the membrane I’m sure. Twas the gun that did it there I’ve been assured.
Happy Easter!
Something to bring our hunters and our vegans together: hunting and cooking chocolate bunnies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMnEztjPS3U
TL;DW: 12 ga not recommended.
I always used a 22
12 ga not recommended?
“But that’s not stopping people from enjoying Roadrunner Park.”
meep meep
Isn’t a sign of excessive MJ use growing moobs?
I’m a libertarian and all but I firmly believe that people who write entire articles about stupid Twitter threads should be thrown in prison without trial and put on a permanent bread and water regimen. Cher was and always will be a dipshit but the disproportionate outrage for silly tweets is just getting old.
Malice handled it perfectly.
You aren’t alone. Media regurgitating Twitter is a sure sign that the author has no business writing.
The news is no longer about what happens, it’s about how people feel about what happens. And society is much worse for it.
Good morning and Happy Easter, peeps!
I miss the old days of advertising.
“See, we don’t think just black people are stupid.”
/the left
Now do every other truck driver.
Phrasing?
Yeah, I thought that was relatively common. You can buy portable urinals or whatever they’re called on eBay all day.
AKA “trucker bombs”. But yeah, Amazon invented it.
“COVID-19 pandemic is pushing increasing numbers of Orthodox Jews in New York to leave behind the strict confines of their community”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9434133/In-New-York-pandemic-pushes-Orthodox-Jews-leave-community.html
OFFS!
Repeat after me: there is neither any danger from, nor any command to refrain from, “walking while maskless”.
TMITE.
I think Luke has the best account of the resurrection.
On the Road to Emmaus
It would have been better if he live-tweeted it.
So maybe Jesus Christ Superstar needs to be re-imagined from a musical to a social media frenzy?
He did, but none of us were there at the time to see it, and nobody’d invented the Wayback Machine yet.
Ain’t modern life grand?
Luke’s gospel (and the book of Acts) was the result of investigative journalism. He interviewed witnesses to the different events–his account of the nativity is clearly from Mary’s perspective.
His goal was possibly to provide background material for Paul’s trial before Nero.
I read that as “insurrection”, and I was trying to find the parallels.
Remember when SP asked about handedness?
“Ambidexterity And Cognitive Closure
Are ambidextrous people really less authoritarian? Or just less conformist?”
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ambidexterity-and-cognitive-closure
“First, a question asking respondents to rank their support for Donald Trump on a 1 – 5 scale. Previous studies have linked support for Trump to “right-wing authoritarianism”, and although I have concerns about that exact construct, I thought it was in the spirit of the original research.”
The other items are just as bad…a garbage study.
The author of the article was trying to replicate the original research by looking at survey results (the Trump question, etc.) and applying his ideas on what certain answers indicate. His work was truly garbage, but I’m not sure about the original study.
“Charles Barkley speaking the truth”
https://twitter.com/runBMC57/status/1378435984707133445
Nailed it.
That’s problematic today.
(((You))) should have used screws.
Barkley’s mostly a good guy with mostly good sense. Definitely smarter than your average basketball playing bear.
Now do San Antonio women.
First Easter without the kids. Each year we would hide plastic eggs with clues in them leading to the next one. The final egg held cold, hard cash. It was fun to increase the difficulty of the clues as they got older. My daughter was always amazing at it. No matter how devious/obscure the clue, she would figure it out.
Do or did you do the easter egg hunt with your kids?
When I was a kid, we hard-boiled and dyed the eggs, and my mom hid them in the back yard. One year, before we got up Easter morning, she was looking out the kitchen window and saw a neighbor’s Irish Setter find one and carry it off. Another year, we failed to find one of them…until several weeks later when she was mowing the lawn… 🙁
For most Japanese Easter is an obscure holiday which very few are even aware of so, in addition to being Buddhist, we don’t celebrate it here. Not to mention that we don’t have a yard. In addition I don’t remember my own parents doing anything other than the candy basket thing when I was little so the egg hunt doesn’t really hold any significance for me.
Yes. We had a lot of fun with this. My sister has two kids who are close in age to the heir, and we’d hide money (coins mostly) in the eggs. Lord H likes to be “That uncle” so he’d tell the nephew that _one_ of the eggs had a $50 in it. We also used to tell that nephew that the banks of the Grand River had a pirate ship buried under the sand.
I make up a basket of candy for the kids to find. I never stump XY more than 5 minutes. Today I got him. He’s been looking for 1/2 hour and he’s not even close. #winning
*calls MDSS*
Child abuse! 🙂
It took him an hour and I gave him 3 very vague clues.
This is the first Easter I’ve stumped him to frustration. *puffs on fingernails* *buffs on shirt*
“So what you’re saying is, a year of lockdowns and social distancing is making him dumber?” /Cathy Newman mode off
Just don’t put it on Twitter or the outrage crowd will come for you.
https://www.thewrap.com/bean-dad-9-year-old-open-can-6-hours-infuriates-twitter/
The hyperbole and false equivalencies in the tweets are maddening.
In this story, I hate everybody but the kid.
#BeanDad was an asshole. So are the tweeters.
We had a cousin over and did a hunt this year. This house/backyard sucks for hiding eggs, but they’re each a few weeks on either side of 4 years old, so we found a few hiding spots that stumped them. Not surprising given how many times kiddo says “I cant find it” only to have me find the object in question with a simple glance into the drawer or bucket she just looked through.
I look forward to doing something more creative in the next couple years as they get older.
I watched The Passion of The Christ for the first time ever last night. What an exhausting movie… I think I could go a few years without watching it again. It was a humbling experience to say the least.
We are setting up our egg hunt now. Mine are older but we have nieces and nephews. Everyone has a specific color of eggs, to avoid crying, and there is one golden egg with $25.
Not combat ready
The chairman of the union for US Capitol Police officers said the department is “struggling to meet existing mission requirements” and is calling on Congress to hire hundreds of new police officers to ensure the safety of the Capitol following the death of a Capitol Police officer in an attack on Friday.
Capitol Police Union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement Saturday that the Capitol Police is staffed below its authorized level by 233 officers and could face larger staffing shortages as officers retire in the coming years. Papathanasiou noted the shortage is exacerbated by the continued injuries of several officers in the January 6 attack.
The department is reeling after losing several officers this year. Officer William “Billy” Evans, an 18-year veteran of the force and a member of its “First Responders Unit,” died after Friday’s attack, while the officer who was injured Friday has been released from the hospital, according to a law enforcement source.
Officer Brian Sicknick died after the January insurrection due to injuries he sustained during the incident and another officer died by suicide after responding to the riot.
Where’s the fucking autopsy report, CNN?
Capitol Police used to be a sweet gig, man. Stand around all day, make fun of the tourists, and flirt with those starry eyed Congressional aides and lobbyists. Nobody said i was going to have to actually do something.
One New Years Day, a group of us got into the Capitol Bldg. using a photocopied permission slip from a Congressman. We walked through the tunnel from the House office building, and were wandering around the empty building and the Rotunda gawking at everything before three capitol cops showed up and asked us what we were up to. Unbelievably, they let us stay.
Papathanasiou endorsed the recommendations of the task force headed by retired Army Lt. General Russel Honoré, who called for increased Capitol Police staffing among several changes, and said in the task force’s report that Capitol Police “were understaffed, insufficiently equipped and inadequately trained to secure the Capitol and Members” on January 6.
“We’ve got to accept the fact that 24/7 the Capitol is at threat to domestic, foreign and criminals who might want to attack the center of our leadership of the United States,” Honoré told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” following Friday’s attack. “The Capitol is a target. We need to adjust to that.”
Yes, yes, of course.
The answer is always MILITARIZE. Automatic weapons. Tactical gear. Tanks. Banana republic or bust. Why is the Capitol a target? Because Trump’s robot army hates DEMOCRACY!
Land of the Free.
Home of the Brave.
Maybe we should lock DC down. No one in or out. Wall it off and let them fend for themselves. That would fix it.
Where’s Snake Plisskin?
“The president is trapped inside. You have 8 hours until his Aricept wears off and he says something incoherent on CSPAN.”
Agreed. And then focus on the real enemy. CNN needs to go out of business. Wolf should be sucking Anderson’s dick in Piedmont Park for $20 a pop.
Funny, in my head, I see Anderson catching and Wolf pitching.
“I Used to Think the Remedy for Bad Speech Was More Speech. Not Anymore.
How kids, lawsuits and legislation can save democracy.
I used to believe that the remedy for bad speech is more speech. Now that seems archaic. Just as the founders never envisioned how the right of a well-regulated militia to own slow-loading muskets could apply to mass murderers with bullet-spewing military-style semiautomatic rifles, they could not have foreseen speech so twisted to malevolent intent as it is now.
Cyber-libertarianism, the ethos of the internet with roots in 18th-century debate about the free market of ideas, has failed us miserably. Well after the pandemic is over, the infodemic will rage on — so long as it pays to lie, distort and misinform.
Just recently, we saw the malignancies of our premier freedoms on display in the mass shooting in Boulder, Colo. At the center of the horror was a deeply disturbed man with a gun created for war, with the capacity to kill large numbers of humans, quickly. Within hours of the slaughter at the supermarket, a Facebook account with about 60,000 followers wrote that the shooting was fake — a so-called false flag, meant to cast blame on the wrong person.
So it goes. Toxic misinformation, like AR-15-style weapons in the hands of men bent on murder, is just something we’re supposed to live with in a free society…”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/opinion/misinformation-disinformation-solutions.html
CWAA
The king of the un-self-aware.
“I used to support free speech …” herp-a-derp
Spoiler: you never actually supported free speech.
And, of course, I’ll ask the silly pointless rhetorical question.
What would CNN have said if Trump had put sandbagged machine gun nests around government buildings?
What DID they say, when he suggested a May Day style military parade through the streets of D C?
That was THEIR banana republic proposal, not OURS!
“In Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia, a shady nonprofit backed by Republicans is behind a stealth effort to build Facebook pages to reach millions of voters. It plans to expand to AZ, IA, MN, PA, TX and WI, reports ”
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1378468772114276352
It’s different when they do it.
Pulitzer-worthy journalisming
Phoenix Police Sgt. Andy Williams says the suspect had allegedly to have attempted multiple armed robberies of citizens.
They ran after the suspect, who went inside a nearby restaurant. Officers gave commands for the suspect to drop the gun but he ignored the commands. That’s when investigators said the suspect pointed a gun at the officer, who then shot the suspect.
The victim was taken to the hospital where they later died. The officer was not hurt. The suspect’s identity has not been released. The officer is assigned to the Maryvale precinct and has been an officer for two years.
The investigation is ongoing.
I thought, from the headline, it was going to be a dispute about condiments.
It got the pronouns right, and that’s what matters.
Always be politicizing
Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices.
They currently exist in only one state — a limited government partnership in New York with a private company — but that hasn’t stopped GOP lawmakers in a handful of states from rushing out legislative proposals to ban their use.
The argument over whether passports are a sensible response to the pandemic or governmental overreach echoes the bitter disputes over the past year about masks, shutdown orders and even the vaccines themselves.
Those despicable Republicans, always hiding behind bogus concerns about “freedom” when they really just hate DEMOCRACY!
It’s even worse than that. Republicans hate your Grandma.
What tickles me most is that it seems many people who want vaccine passports are the same people who insist showing proof of residency to vote is racist somehow.
Proof of identity for a vaccine passport= good common sense
Proof of identity to vote= evil racism
Circle: Squared
I’m amused at them stamping their feet over the GOP politicizing everything.
Never change, AP News.
We’ve got good news, and we’ve got bad news
She’s the queen of Twitter — but less successful at lawmaking.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was among the least effective members of the last Congress, according to a new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking — a joint project of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.
Ocasio-Cortez introduced a total of 21 bills that the center defined as “substantive” — but that is where the story ends. Her legislation received no action in committees, no floor votes, and none ever became law, according to the center, which takes its data from Congress.gov.
She’s a no-kidding Member of Congress. That’s the bad news.
The good news is, she’s completely ineffectual at her job, making laws. Maybe we need more like her. Cocktail Party Communism, FTW!
The good news is I’m bound in an alliance with the people of New York.
The bad news is I’m bound in an alliance with the people of New York.
“I tried” – what “1863” on a family tombstone really means.
We just weren’t ready for her genius during the last Congress. Now that Marxism is new hotness I’m sure she can push through a lot of fresh, new ideas now.
https://twitter.com/sbg1/status/1378346230007394305
The comments are retarded.
Isn’t Twitter the playground of the mentally deficient?
There are some very smart people on there as well.
OK, yet it very rarely seems to be what gets put on here.
There’s a lot of links to Michael Malice tweets who is far more snark than smart, but he has about a 50% success rate with *mild chuckle* at my end. Smart and sincere people, and good faith just can’t survive the shear weight of crap on twitter, it seems.
There are some very smart people on there as well.
*shrug* the SNR isn’t high enough for me to bother. If I have to wade through 50 tweets from people who should have their phones taken away to find that one gem, I may as well just go to a different medium more conducive to thoughtfulness.
deficient
The word you’re looking for is “defective.” It’s a subtle, but important, difference.
I stand corrected.
We’re doing our part. GF is collecting parts for her next build. ??
I think everything has been acquired or at least ordered, except optics and a mount.
I posted the dates for the Kayaderosseras shoots on the forum. Just say’n — the P7s are completely NYS legal.
I have done dumb things before and will continue to, but taking firearms into NY will not be one of them. I appreciate the offer though. ?
Only 20 million? Shit. We need to do better.
Today, on Meet the Press:
FOURTH WAVE!
We’re all gonna die.
Is that steaming pile of poo still on?
They need a new show — Beat the Press.
Eat the Press? I’m sure the Japanese would be game. That sounds like their televisual forté.
Kanibaru!
Jornolists; Now tenderized in America. We beat ’em, you eat ’em. Try the SJW sushi!
Errr, “ganbaru”?
I lost count of waves. Hasn’t the COMINTERN synced them up globally yet? I think we’re on the third or maybe the fifth looming wave of covid.
Great! He’s safe from (((vampires))) then.
Pretty sure humans aren’t kosher.
Is it the cloven hooves or what? I thought that’s what the circumstition was fer, eh?
-1 eucharist
Long pig = long pork
Biden declared the era of small government over.
Don’t worry, we’ve still got plenty of checks!
‘Biden declared the era of small government over.’
Pretty sure that shipped sailed nearly a century ago.
Let’s all chant the magic incantation together.
“INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE”
We can’t let politics stand in the way of DEMOCRACY!
Get on board, or get run over.
“Will there be deficit spending?”
You’re a funny guy, Chuck. I’ll kill you last.
“Israel. Huge rally against V passports”
https://twitter.com/Jen70717630/status/1378020026410807302
Good. This is line-in-the-sand stuff.
Yep. This is something that would probably cause me to move to a free state.
/my body, my choice
Shouldn’t evil kkkorporashunz pay for roadz? They pay NOTHING.
Not shown: fuel taxes.
CoRpOrAtIoNs aReN’t PeOpLe
https://twitter.com/drdavidsamadi/status/1378289828417114113
WTF, Belgium?
News travels slowly apparently. Water cannons, attack dogs, much violence unleashed on Belgians for being in a public park.
SMDH
I can’t understand why those stoopid Brexit chavs didn’t want to be ruled by Brussels.
The one that got away, huh?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex92wqtW8AM5SQB.jpg
OFFS!
“Please don’t hurt me”
Melinda is AMAB?
Happy Easter all!
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter!
Mrs. T. woke up late, didn’t realize it was Easter. Poor woman has lost all her faith. She’s not disrespectful or anything, she just doesn’t have any faith anymore. I don’t know what to say to her.
It’s been two years since we made baskets for the “kids”, and probably about seven years since we hid plastic eggs with candy and $$$ in them. 🙁
Thanks. I slept late, did Jesus see his shadow?
Yeah… I think it means six more weeks of lockdowns.
Only six more weeks?
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Dammit!
If roads are racist, shouldn’t we be tearing them up, instead of building more?
Very carefully/yes/no
Happy Easter!
I saw hayeksplosives posted about her husband on last night’s thread. This is good news. Hopefully he pulls through.
Old Guy Music is good.
Jesus, how in the hell is ANYTHING that someone says on Twitter in any way news worthy? Oh, right. Celebrity. Well, let’s just hang on her every geriatric word then.
Maybe Moobs can apply that logic to AR platforms and concealed / constitutional carry.
Easter is second of may goddamnit
Just because you’re a splitter doesn’t make you right.
hey we are the one true church. all the priests say so.
Marjorie Taylor Green vs AOC wrestling nekkid in a kiddie pool filled with vanilla pudding.
Who wins?
everyone looses
Marjorie starts out strong until Ilmar comes in with the steel chair and slaps the camel clutch on her, setting up a rematch in time for wrestlemania.
I purchased a bottle of this on a good discount
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/dom+de+la+commanderie+elegance+blanc+chinon+touraine+loire+france
Loire valley white but neither sauv blanc or muscaded. Barique chenin blanc. never had something like this.
I am sure OMWC will say true chenin blanc is only made in South Africa
Workers of the world, unite!
The enthusiasm comes as a pivotal moment for US unions. Joe Biden was elected on a pro-union platform and only this week told a crowd in Pittsburgh: “I’m a union guy. I support unions. Unions built the middle class, and it’s about time they start to get a piece of the action.”
The huge publicity the Amazon vote is attracting is a chance to inform a younger generations that have not received a lot of education on the history of the US labor movement about the role unions have played in Alabama, said Uhatafe.
“I really wanted to show them that there’s a new generation that’s coming up that wants to bring this movement into this generation, and show people that we really do fight for their jobs and for their livelihoods,” he added. “There’s going to be a whole lot of organizing going on if this is successful – even if it isn’t, the fuse has been lit.”
Organize yourselves right out of a job.
Happy Easter! It’s a beautiful sunny day in Indiana. The sun is glinting off the gun barrels and fireworks, a sure sign of spring.