One more weekend in Idaho helping Spud set up his new ranch. Free-range ass-fed orphans do make the tenderest meat, and I’ve gotten used to the screaming when we brand them. Spud handles the castrations despite his lack of mohel experience.
Birthdays today are a meager lot compared to yesterday, but still, there’s a guy who truly led his best life; the best guitarist I’ve ever seen; an absolute killing machine; one of the most creative and insanely talented woodwind players and barbeque inspirations to ever walk this Earth; a guy who was a better Bela Lugosi than Bela Lugosi; a guy who couldn’t even quarterback for the Browns; an erstwhile hottie with an absolutely perfect voice; a guy with some involvement with Rick James’s penis; and an actor with such an outsized persona that he takes over every film he’s in (in a good way).
We’re still waiting for the pizzas.
“I need to live in Queens” (women and minorities hardest hit)
It may seem extreme, but civilization demands.
How about staying out of it entirely?
Old Guy Music is something I love, mad scientist loves, and you’ll hate.
Biden ran on a campaign platform touting big Social Security changes. Among his proposals is raising the minimum Social Security benefit to 125% of the federal poverty level. He also wants to eliminate rules that reduce benefits for those who also have certain kinds of pension income, known as the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset.
Of course he does.
Free money, FTW!
Totally not a welfare program.
I’m still trying to get past this phrase:
I mean, did he? Did he really?
Is that the reason why you’re running so fast?
Ha!
Even after I clicked and saw what you’d linked, I let it play. I don’t think I’ve heard that in 30+ years.
It sucks as a song, but it was fun time travel.
I was thinking of using A Flock of Seagulls instead.
Iran IS far away…
Bless your heart.
aPple News needs to structure their URLs so that you can get a gist of the headline when you hover over the links.
In fairness, OM’s links are probably safer than HM’s.
Safer, yes, but i try to avoid giving clicks to outfits like NPR and CNN.
Yup. I dislike those.
Me2
Nothing against the birthday boy, but as I’ve (probably) said before, I have it on (pretty) good authority that Jerry Reed is the only man in Nashville who can justifiably call Chet Atkins “son.”
No love for this guitarist?
Well, if you wanna talk “gut-string,” here’s a friend of ours, currently living & playing in “Little Nashville” – the one in Brown County, IN.
Regarding the photo at the top of the page, I found myself thinking of this.
That was hilarious.
“Who figures an immigrant’s gonna have a pony?”
Those online casino commercials he’s doing are freaky.
Don’t think I’ve seen those.
It’s his face superimposed on a giant thumb. Yeah, I don’t get it either.
Are you of the Body?
Athletes who are not vaccinated are not automatically bad people, but they have made a conscious decision to jeopardize themselves, their teammates and coaches, their family and community, and also their own career.
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Professional athletes have access to some of the best medical experts in the world, so the refusal of Darnold and others to get vaccinated isn’t a matter of inadequate information. Earlier this month, Ron Rivera, the coach of the Washington Football Team, brought in the immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett, one of the country’s top coronavirus experts, to answer his players’ concerns about vaccination. How many people who aren’t professional athletes get to question a scientist who helped develop the Moderna vaccine?
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Unless they have a medical reason not to be vaccinated, the players who aren’t getting a shot will undergo more and more scrutiny and criticism. And they should. As much as those who are against vaccination might insist that this is an individual decision, it isn’t. Players who choose not to get vaccinated are making a decision for not just themselves, but everyone they come in contact with.
Some players—the Buffalo Bills, for example—have bristled at what they view as intrusive questions about their vaccination status. But nosy journalists aren’t the source of this controversy. Rather, the vaccine hesitancy that remains in American pro sports, despite the overwhelming evidence of the vaccines’ safety and effectiveness, is merely an outgrowth of the nation’s generally incompetent and unnecessarily politicized handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
If vaccination rates were higher among the general public as well as in pro sports, the NBA might not have needed to sideline Chris Paul. Once a public-health problem turned into a divisive issue, the ability to appeal to common sense, common facts, and common spirit was lost. In this age of rampant misinformation, too many people—including pro athletes—are prone to stay rooted in whatever viewpoint validates their fears, however unfounded and unlikely. At this point, athletes who won’t get vaccinated don’t need more information. Ignorance is just far too alluring.
“How many people who aren’t professional athletes get to question a scientist who helped develop the Moderna vaccine?” What a completely unbiased source of information. Why would anybody decline to accept his advice? Refusing the vaccine is murder.
Jmele Hill, cult proselytizer. One of us! One of us!
Oh go fuck yourself.
Do fans even have the right to know, and do journalists have the right to ask, if a player has been vaccinated against COVID-19?
The short answer is yes.
A slightly longer answer is “Fuck off, slaver!”
s merely an outgrowth of the nation’s generally incompetent and unnecessarily politicized handling of the coronavirus pandemic
The projection is strong here.
Corbett is the loon that was claiming COVID was a genocide conspiracy against blacks.
If only more Jews had been able to question Dr Mengele before participating in his medical trials.
If the player hasn’t been stuck and everyone else has then who gives a flying fuck? Nosy busybody controlling assholes, that’s who.
I went to the local, minor-league sportsball game Friday. Only saw masks on a few spectators. No signs, no questions, and no fealty to BLM. Just crowds and fun.
1. Love the Star Trek reference.
2. Saw Jemele Hill’s byline and knew there was trouble ahead.
Those are some mighty fine links there Lou.
Happy Father’s Day, OMWC!
Before anyone asks, the handsome lad in my avatar pic today is my father, Major Dad, in an army pic from the Vietnam overseas contingency action
RIP, pop!
Gerald McRaney was your father?
In that spirit my avatar is my Pops in Bootcamp,
\Semper Fi Dad!
OORAH!
an outgrowth of the nation’s generally incompetent and unnecessarily politicized handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Anything short of blind unquestioning obedience is murder! How dare you murderers politicize the scariest most lethal threat to humanity ever?
I had to notify my HOA today so they could clear the stack of bodies on the street.
Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened into taking it for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it…
Well said.
the handsome lad in my avatar pic today is my father, Major Dad
Nice.
the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset.
A crusty relic of those quaint olden days when double-dipping was deemed to be somehow not quite proper.
Back when politicians could be embarrassed by the excesses of public employment. Yep, back then cholera was an every day event.
Why does my phone keep reminding me that Google “needs” to know my birthday? Are they going to send me a present? No? Well, if they’re not going to send me a present, why in the hell do they supposedly need to know my birthday? My birthday is none o’ their damn business!
/rant
Needs moar profanity.
Sorry – can’t muster up anything worse unless I’m commuting on the interstate.
I’ll bet they thought they already knew your birthday, but for some reason they now have conflicting info. They just need to get your info correct for marketing and surveillance purposes.
I suspect it’s because I use Gmail on my phone, but I completely ignore @gmail e-mail. I have it set up to get my most-often-used REAL e-mail account.
The longer I live with it the more I despise Android and the evil fucks that created it. Talk about earning every ounce of disrespect that can be thrown their way.
I need a smart phone so I switched to Apple. They suck too, but not quite as hard.
I’ve never had Android. Helped when I de-googled my life a couple years ago.
Amen!
Happy Father’s day to all the glib father’s and glibs with father’s.
Poor Heather.
Should we say “non-birthing parent”
The word “parent” is problematic.
+1
I can’t wait to see what I bought me.
*rolls eyes*
I laughed
I hope it’s a sex toy.
Paging Mojeaux. White courtesy phone, please…
#metoo
It’s only cars!
Also only cars
I hate that jingle.
Gah. You just crossed the line. Your links are now on the “worse than HM” list.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/970727-anythings-a-dildo-if-youre-brave-enough
::winces, crosses legs::
Splosives, I missed your comment on the trinity yesterday morning. I don’t want to rehash a millenia old controversy, but there are a minority of non-trinitarian Christian denominations.
Ah, the old heretics!
I’m just glad the whole burn at the stake phase died out 400 years ago.
Let’s not get into arguing about who killed who …
Lol.
Sure, and look what happened when we gave that up. When you knew you could be burned at the stake, you towed that lion.
In Roman collesium, lion tows YOU.
*lion chews on corpse, thinks to itself*
“This body could use some salt, it’s kinda flavius.”
***GUFFAWS & WILD APPLAUSE!!!***
I think the trinity is overly complicated by a ton of literature that is quite frankly post-biblical and even counter biblical.
There’s no mention of the Trinity; when Christ was preparing his apostles for his pending departure, he explains that he has to leave, but that the Helper, the Holy Spirit, will then come, dwelling in them and around them in ways no human language can explain.
“Christian” self help books try to make it simple, but the wonderful truth is that the relationship of God the Father, Christ the Son, and the Spirit is one of the Mysteries we are not given to understand.
Oversimplification example: the Trinity is one. God=Jesus=Spirit
Nope. The Bible says, for example, regarding the End Times, that No One, not even the Angels or the Son, but only the Father, knows the hour when it will come. Thus proving that God has a distinct set of knowledge from that of his Son.
Also, we are to worship and thank and venerate God and Christ, but the Spirit, our Helper, is never depicted as being worshipped. He helps us worship God, and his presence flows through us as we worship, but it is never to his own glory, but to God.
The Spirit is the one doing the “dirty work” of living with us and helping straighten out the mess we make of our lives. He is our tangible link to God.
Take about 10-15 g of mushrooms and you can make its acquaintance personally.
Im not a trinitarian, so I can’t answer those questions. I believe they are three separate beings, with perfect unity of purpose, that being the human salvation.
LDS, IIRC?
Yes
Oh! Theology! I LOVE this!
Mormons are not trinitarians, which is one reason we are not consodered Christians (never mind we believe in that whole atonement of Christ thing).
So if these Christian denominations can be considered Christians, Mormons should too. Not that I care, because I like letting my freak flag fly.
I note that YouTube has taken down the Robert Malone Dark Horse episode. The man is only the inventor of the mRNA gene therapy technology. Obviously there is nothing he could possibly add to the discussion over the “vaccines”.
Don’t worry in 28 months he’ll be vindicated, and Jon Stewart will bravely make a joke about it.
He’ll still be unpersoned because his real crime was going against the narrative.
True that but he did apparently say (I didn’t see it but heard it was said) that he’s taking ivermectin as a preventative in lieu of vaccination as well as giving it to his kids. Don’t vaccinate, fine, and use the ivermectin if you get it but that advice seems pretty iffy.
Ivermectin is safe to use as a prophylactic, assuming you dose correctly.
It’s not fish tank cleaner?
They’ve given Weinstein two strikes for misinformation and suspended his live-streaming as well as taken down several vids. He’s on borrowed time now.
YouTube really has become The Ministry of Truth.
Apple podcast on my iphone also has this episode mysteriously missing.
Is there more than one? It’s showing up for me.
Not sure. My app looks like a radio signal with a lower case i.
Still available on Spotify. And he moved his latest to Odysee.
This is fucking crazy.
Save them for the next manufactured hysteria
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said he retrofitted 75 percent of the pillow company’s manufacturing line to produce cloth face masks during the pandemic, but lost about $7 million in the failed venture after the market became saturated.
“I can’t give them away,” Lindell said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast. “I tried to. No one wants the things anymore.”
“All of a sudden, there was masks everywhere, almost as if the industry knew it was coming and waited for prices to go up,” he added. “Now I probably got $7 million out of my pocket that we’re just stuck with.”
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Lindell initially intended to donate the masks to frontline workers, but the businessman began to sell them on the MyPillow website, according to the Beast. “We were only gonna donate to VA hospitals, nursing homes, but the [Food and Drug Administration] and [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] made it that you could only use certain masks from certain factories,” he said.
Shocked, I am.
He might as well hold on to them – it’s not like they won’t be needed when the whole circus starts up again after the summer.
Happy Father’s Day, Glibbies!
I’ve been lurking here and there and see some of you using my name in vain a la the vaccines.
I’ll just say, regarding the clotting and massive jump in VAERS death reports, “No shit, huh?!”
Be well because All is Well, despite what the news tells us and the morons and ideologues are trying to do to this country.
Back at ya Ozy! I was surprised with a call from my son and his wife last night, so I’m not forgotten up here, I miss them critters,
Same at ya Ozy
Cheers and thanks, Boys!
One of my older daughters got me a Dave Ayers jersey replica tee-shirt – for those who don’t know, he’s the 42 year-old emergency backup goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes who got pressed into service after injuries to both the starter and backup during a game in 2020. He wound up giving up 2 goals on 8 shots, but held the fort and got the 6-3 win over the Maple Leafs. Great hockey story – he’d never played above Junior B level in his life.
I wouldn’t say I hate the Zappa song, I doubt I’ve ever cued it up intentionally but If it comes up on shuffle I don’t skip it. Also It’s directly responsible for my buying Out to Lunch when I saw it in a used record store, so there’s that.
WaPo headline:
“When anti-vaxxers come to your wedding”
Stone them for their heresy.
It’s going to be difficult to feel any sympathy for these assholes if they suffer long-term effects from the experimental gene therapies.
Don’t worry, your pocket book will pay for you potty, since when it happens, you’ll get to pay for the liability that the company’s guy Congress to exempt then from.
Your pity*
Perhaps this will be the successor to the asbestos/mesothelioma legal industry. The pool of new candidates for compensation in that arena is getting very small.
I was reliably* informed yesterday that the liability exemption was an “anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory”.
*not really
That’s remarkably misinformed, almost willfully so.
Also glad that the stoning died out a while back too.
Hamfisted hate propaganda for the win.
Why are you holding a wedding? It’s still too dangerous out there! Don’t you have any empathy? Don’t you CAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRREEEEEEE?
Patriarchy, misogyny, false consciousness, white privilege…
Am I missing anything from the “marriage is bad, mmkay?” playbook?
Men suck?
/we do
Nobody complains when a woman sucks…
true
Not bad, not bad. Maybe try to work in something about internalized transphobia?
Practicing public health on any *individual* against their informed consent is a crime against humanity. This is why “public health” advocates like Anthony Fauci are no better than Mengele.
50.23’s exception is to IC is for life threatening emergencies to the individual.
Also, notice that even if you interpreted the exception to allow for forced vaccination, a doctor would have to certify #4 is true…
…And NOW you know why Youtube and the Media keep removing anything that tells the public about other effective treatments, such as Ivermectin, or HCQ, or Vitamin D, etc.
Yes, kids, we’ve been watching our government and Media carry out war crimes just like the Nazis in real time, right before our eyes.
…BUT TRUMP is the “NAZI!#@$!!”
I love how today’s socialists are the first ones to jump up and tell you about how they totally would have stood up
towith the National Socialists back then.Yep, #4 is the key. It’s really a travesty.
I love how today’s socialists are the first ones to jump up and tell you about how they totally would have stood up
towith the National Socialists back then.They despise Nazis today just as the Weimar Communists did back then – because they were filled with the same kind of people, and were competing for the same absolute power.
I hadn’t considered separating the commies from the socialists in the modern left, but I suppose we see some of the same when the Bernie Bros. started breaking shit after what Hillary and CNN did to him in 2016.
The squabbles among the like minded are usually the most bitter.
“because they were filled with the same kind of people, and were competing for the same absolute power.”
Exactly. They were also competing with each other for the same kind of people as well.
Thank you for the succinct argument. I will be using this.
It could be a series:
“When pirates/Vikings/cannibals/Visigoths/zombies come to your wedding.”
“When progressives come to your wedding.”
STFU and GTFO.
One more weekend in Idaho helping Spud set up his new ranch.
Potato ranches are a tough build. Better than concentration camps for Japanese Americans, however.
Fun fact: I live in Nampa, four blocks from the former sight of a German POW camp. The building on the site now is, naturally, a public high school.
Dark Blues for a quiet morning,
History heads, check this one out, Carthage, the Roman holocaust,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llkDjDQrCQ8
Bookmarked and thanks. The Romans did do a number on them but that was pretty much SOP back then and not just for the Romans.
Ok, I watched the first few minutes on my phone.
This is good enough to call up on the big screen TV.
Sincere thanks fir the link.
Bookmarked for later, thanks.
The narrator sounds like the guy who does the Fall of Civilizations podcast.
It’s not the Fall of Civ guy (Paul Cooper).
“All you limeys sound alike”.
Racist.
I wonder what happened to Sargon of Akkad? He just vanished,
He rebranded to The Lotus Eaters, also available in limited fashion on YouTube:
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/nDqGErjrlHiH/
Same guy and same viewpoints, just shed the old name because of baggage and hired some cohosts and whatnot.
“All you limeys sound alike”.
Not so! I find the cockney accent particularly irritating.
Does Yorkshire actually count as English? Old episodes of All Creatures Great and Small coulda used some subtitles.
Celtwelshpigdin?
For TH: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lITzhu8raBw
Pig din: the storyline of S2E5. 😉
Damn you!
Ha!
“Ey oop, vet’rin’ry!”
different guy, but it’s a very good show, and lots of sidebar recces that look good as well,
“Fear and greed, Rome’s belligerent twins”
Some decent prose.
the implications are quite interesting if true,
The little female tabby who comes around to eat the food we set out on the front porch and the back patio – and who flirts shamelessly with our boy cats through the front screen door – is getting a little braver about sneaking in the back door to the garage while I’m out here on the patio.,..but she still scurries out and runs away after a few moments.
Is she “fixed@?
She sure doesn’t act like it. They boys both are, though, and they’re not allowed out of the house, so there’s nothing they can do about it anyway. 😉
There are no strays in this neighborhood so far as I can tell, but we wouldn’t feed it anyway. Rule is no more than 2 cats in our house at any given moment. I just now made that up. More than 2 cats leads to more cats and I am not a hoarder.
“Gracie” has been coming around for quite a while, but she’s still too skittish to let us anywhere near her. It would take an extreme turn toward friendliness to us (she’s VERY friendly to the kitty boys!) for her to be in the running to become an Official Cat. And then the cats would outnumber the humans, which can only lead to trouble.
Slutty Sunday celebrates Father’s Day with girls that have daddy issues.
https://archive.li/QZreW
Bonus:
https://archive.li/2keyW/60fcb0fbef6d7d125d9b8856db3651ad2cbb541f.webp
Good morning, people!
And happy father’s day to all the Glibdads!
I prefer to be referred to as Penis Parent.
rekt
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/texas-governor-vetoes-legislatures-funding-over-democrat-walkout_3865285.html
Have to create an account to read the article.
Reader mode works for me
It’s hard to believe, but Fiona Hill is a blithering idiot.
Who?
History heads, here’s a rabbit hole to jump into, Odyssey,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV-yCAXMS-nWrHtORuDfSuQ
Odyssey
So i am in greece it is way to hot and the villa we rented aint got no ac. I am at the beach bar having my sixth wattery greek draft beer of the day. The fried squid was good and a solid portion for 8 euros. How is everyone here doing?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gOkPU_L7RhNtCSJ71tuKRxuhvLpmwGeU/view?usp=drivesdk
Niiiiiiice!
::gets sunburnt just looking at picture::
Opa! I’m doing great, but I daresay you’re doing better, lack of A/C and watery beer notwithstanding. Have a glass of retsina for me! (Or ouzo, if you’re feeling more adventurous!)
I dont much like anise
Ouzo and the various other anise flavored liquors are the worst.
A little anise goes along way.
Ah, retsina, the wine that smells like Pine-Sol.
Haters gonna hate.
*swigs Pine-Sol*
Sounds fun. Looks great. Stay hydrated. Wear a condom.
Looks beautiful! I’m jealous.
Any COVID fuckery getting there?
Not here. Rural untouristy area
At athens airpor they pretended to look at some paperwork for 10 seconds
Have fun, Pie.
Glad to hear you’ve got some time away from lockdowns.
Nice pic too.
Would’ve been nice if the Browns had a QB who could throw to Warfield in the mid/late
60s (Dawson/Unitas)
Fuck off Tulpa!
HEY…I have a contributor page!!!
We are all Tulpae
Amazon.com has stopped working on my tablet when I’m using normal wi-fi. It’s as though a CSS file isn’t loading and the formatting is awful. Didn’t have the problem when I used my phone as a hotspot, don’t have the problem on my PC. Tried emptying the cache, and that didn’t work. I’m having the problem on multiple browsers. Any idea what could be causing this?
A tumor?
Bezos, secure in his monopoly, is letting the place go to seed?
Russian haxors.
How long was the tablet in the toilet before you fished it out? Is it completely dried yet?
It’s different this time
“The case for inflation panic” has “died,” economist Paul Krugman argued in a Saturday morning Twitter thread.
Krugman writes that the fears stemmed in part from a belief that the Federal Reserve’s “intellectual framework,” which includes making a distinction between “volatile commodity prices” and “inertial core inflation,” was wrong and the central bank was failing to consider that soaring lumber prices, for example, were “harbingers” rather than “transitory shocks.” But Krugman pointed to a swift decline in lumber prices since they peaked in May as evidence to dismiss that theory, and highlighted a recent analysis from the White House Council of Economic Advisers that makes a similar case.
The Great and Powerful Krugabe has spoken.
Ahem…
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=EUR
Maybe not the best example, but commodity prices are increasing across the board.
Krugabe is cherry-picking and full of shit as always.
The only thing that keeps the dollar afloat is the relative shittiness of all the other choices.
It would have shorter if he’d posted a pic of Gerald Ford wearing a WIN (Whip Inflation Now) button and said, “Let’s do this!”
I inherited one of those; should I dig it out and wear it?
Paging Winston’s Mom.
Gaze into the Abyss
Solving a problem requires grasping its true character. That can be difficult, especially when those attempting to devise a solution are immersed in the context that produced the problem in the first place.
Thoughts like these came to mind while reading and pondering a stimulating symposium in the Summer 2021 issue of Democracy, the esteemed quarterly journal of progressive ideas edited by Michael Tomasky. The symposium takes the form of a constitutional convention, with more than three-dozen left-leaning legal scholars, led by Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas law school, debating and then drafting a complete alternative constitution. A handful of those invited to participate ended up dissenting from the exercise, and Tomasky also asked a few additional people to provide comment at the end.
Tomasky is right to call the result, in his brief opening remarks to the symposium, “ambitious,” “audacious,” and “unapologetically progressive.” Everyone interested in thinking through the strengths and weaknesses of our current system of government should wrestle with the document’s many proposed institutional adjustments. These include abolishing the Electoral College; making the Constitution easier to amend; weakening and democratizing the Senate; embracing a variety of electoral reforms; and reining-in the Supreme Court in various ways (including setting fixed 16-year terms for justices, encouraging compromise and coalition-building by placing an even number of justices on the high court, and limiting its ability to invalidate laws passed by Congress).
Let’s let a group of progressive “legal scholars” rewrite the Constitution.
What’s the worst that could happen? We eventually wind up invading
PolandCanada?Notice how Progressives NOW want to limit the power of the Supreme Court because they don’t have a perceived majority (i.e. control of it) and ditto for the Senate, but they do have
(barely) perceived control of the House so that’s where they want to concentrate power? I wonder what happens to these ideas if Team Red wins the House and/or Senate. Suddenly they’ll have to “evolve” their suggestions to make it so that a democratic president can’t be “thwarted” by a “do nothing” legislature. Watch.
It won’t be long until they’re simply openly advocating for a dictatorship of “the people” through their “democratically elected head of state.”
Power-hungry cuntes and intellectual frauds, every last one of them.
Yeah, I think their whole spiel is “make it as malleable as possible so we always maintain total power”.
But it is useful look into the fetid minds of these types who are always going on about “we need a new Constitution”. It’s nice to see exactly how they intend to fuck over the country.
“Limiting [SCOTUS’s] ability to invalidate laws passed by Congress.”
Sooo, gutting the checks and balances of having a judiciary that can enforce the Constitution?
The new Constitution is whatever the left says it is on any given day, so a judiciary isn’t really needed anyway.
There is a point to be made here. We’ve turned SCOTUS into the arbiter of all things constitutional, effectively making the government the judge of itself.
No, we end up jealous of Canada’s freedoms.
*shudder*
Likeaso?
So batshit I can’t even.
It truly scares me.
I think I’d prefer Pie’s Constitution over this claptrap.
Ass backwards.
In his lengthy essay laying out the problem the symposium is intended to solve, Levinson asserts that the Constitution of 1787 has become nothing less than “a clear and present danger to our national survival.” The new constitution proposed in the symposium aims to remove this supposed threat to our existence as a nation.
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But the Democracy constitution’s Bill of Rights goes much, much further, following the lead of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights (which came into force in 2009) in treating a wide range of substantive policies as rights that must be provided and cannot be infringed — and therefore ruling broad swaths of potential democratic disagreement and disputation out of bounds.
On the negative side, the new constitution eliminates one of the fundamental rights protected by the original Constitution — a right to keep and bear arms.
As for additions, there are many. The new constitution includes of a blanket right to “reproductive freedom,” which would presumably enshrine abortion on demand, from conception through birth, in the nation’s foundational law. And a total ban on capital punishment. And the declaration of a “right to dignified labor” and to “health, safety, and community,” along with “a right to adequate health care, including preventive and reproductive health care.” And a “right of the people to clean air and water.” And the elevation of anti-discrimination law and affirmative action into explicitly stated constitutional rights.
I’d say this cloud cuckoo fantasy Constitution is explicitly contrived as a stake through the heart of “our national survival”.
I see a smoldering wasteland as the inescapable inevitable outcome of such a thing.
The Eight Freedoms?
Shakespeare was right about lawyers
They don’t call it communism but the outcome will be indistinguishable.
It won’t be long until they’re simply openly advocating for a dictatorship of “the people” through their “democratically elected head of state.”
Power-hungry cuntes and intellectual frauds, every last one of them.
Ruthless means justified by lofty ends are the hallmark of DEMOCRACY!
Placate the mob, or be prepared to suffer the consequences.
And the declaration of a “right to work under equitable and safe conditions” and to receive “equal pay for equal work.” And the right to a “decent standard of living” backed up by “an annualized income amounting to no less than one-fourth of the annual compensation received by members of Congress.” And a “guaranteed freedom from unjustified dismissal.” And the declaration that the country shall have “a federal tax structure that is based on progressive taxation” and that Congress shall have a “duty to impose a tax on income, wealth, and estates,” with the constitutionally mandated wealth tax levied against anyone possessing “wealth in excess of two-hundred times the compensation of members of Congress” and amounting to “an annual tax of no less than 2 percent of that excess wealth.”
Wheeeeeee!
constitutionally mandated wealth tax levied against anyone possessing “wealth in excess of two-hundred times the compensation of members of Congress” and amounting to “an annual tax of no less than 2 percent of that excess wealth
I look forward to [foreseeable] consequences as this is applied to state lottery jackpots.
They’re not fooling me; they just copied the Soviet “constitution” as passed it off as original, didn’t they.
They don’t believe in Rights – they simply believing in having Their Way, at any and all costs.
What’s remarkable is the combination of (a) how fucking stupid they are, PLUS (b) how there is a whole class of sycophantic morons who consider *these* morons with degrees “intellectuals.”
We are a country run by sub-literate morons cheered on by power-hungry illiterates. It’s incredible to watch.
I’ll bet there isn’t a group of 20 of them that could solve three equations for three unknowns, but they’re PERFECTLY certain they can design a constitution, control the US economy, and decide what’s “right” for 350 million people, all while they preen about their superior intelligence.
That’s an arrogance that knows literally no bounds.
It wouldn’t matter if they were literate or knew history. They are in the catbird seat. They don’t have to know or care. All they have to know is their end goal and they are crystal clear on it and utterly dedicated to it and thus far, very successful at getting there.
That’s no slippery slope. It’s a trap door.
Nice one, Brooksy. I may have to break that out an appropriate (argumentative) occasion.
https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/why-were-no-longer-naming-suspects-in-minor-crime-stories
I’m a bit mixed. On the one hand, there’s the continuing past history, sometimes for someone who was merely arrested and the charges dropped. On the other, this is clearly about normalizing criminal behavior both petty and political (as long as they serve the correct cause). I can also see it being used to ignore who was arrested as this country slides further into totalitarianism.
Happy Father’s Day, sperm-effective Glibs!
Made pancakes (don’t get excited; I used a biscuit mix) for Mr. Mojeaux and now am blurgh after one. I’ll let XY have the rest of the batter. Mr. Mojeaux liked them, though, so mission accomplished.
I just ate a can of corned-beef hash. The nutrition label is eye-popping which probably means it’s good for you in reality.
Great start to the day. Does he get a pole dance to Girls Girls Girls?
*puts on list of ideas for future Father’s Days*
I hear pole dancing is good exercise. I mean real exotic dancing you pervs!
My wife bought
meus Hardees for breakfast.But I get beef bourguignon for dinner with a drinkable bottle of wine, so there’s that.
Any cool gifts? I got this.