My lawn….get off it!
Mrs. Swiss tore her right meniscus on Friday. Needless to say, the household and yard chores are now almost exclusively mine. So these links will be a chore to get through….for you!
- Huh. I spent a decade there one year. I wonder what it will look like in 6 months?
- Guess he should have submerged. You will see what I mean.
- Looks like Mrs. Obama better get her sad face and hashtags out.
- CWAA
And I am off to figure what to make for dinner, once I water the garden.
Bagram Air Base, hub of U.S. forces in Afghanistan for 20 years until they withdrew last week, buzzed again with activity on Monday as Afghan forces settled into the vast premises, complete with its runways, barracks, control towers and hospital.
Probably more decent infrastructure than the Afghans have been able to build themselves in the last
2050 years.We put a lot of work in there – there was a RoK engineer battalion, SEABEES, lots of civilian contractors, etc. Lots of cement, lots of ROADZ. the airstrip is in waaaay better shape too.
We should have dynamited everything on the way out. Then looked knowingly at Germany and said “you’re next”.
I have no problem leaving them the tools to do well with. But that is it. No more $.
It’s not a problem unless the Taliban invite another nation in to be their air force.
I flew through there once. I had never seen anything like that. Blackhawks taxiing on every piece of concrete and heavily armed planes moving all over the place. I will say it was less hassle to get on my flight there than going through TSA at DIA.
“There appears to have been a fireworks malfunction, which caused a group of people to flee from [a] hot tub, including the deceased, who slipped and hit his head on the concrete,”
So, which do we ban? Fireworks, hot tubs, or Latvians?
Why not
bothall three?^GT gets it.
I was with you until the Latvian part. Then it was “We should think this part over”
I gotta admit, when I first read the headline “NHL Goalie Dead at 24” this morning, I figured it was a Pelle Lindbergh type of deal.
Tragic Hot Tub Accident is a seriously Florida Man way to meet your maker.
Just say no to fireworks bans, hot tub bans, and Latvian bans.
I love how the opposite search is still half-full of hot Latvian women.
Do better, Google.
Did you just assume their genders?
Either that or Google is lying to me.
Huh. I just ran that search. Yeah. Disappointing if that’s what you are into.
Why would anyone ban Latka? I thought he died of cancer and we’re all assholes because we put a man on the moon instead of curing him.
Mmm, I could go for some latkes.
Latvian Firework Hottubs.
I’m thinking second album name.
latest on twitter is the he took a mortar to the chest not the head injury thing, but early timers and what not.
He would have been ok if he’d just stuck to the sauna.
Stupidity?
As a Columbus-dwelling Blue Jackets fan this really sucks. RIP.
Is there any component of WMATA that doesn’t falsify reports?
I’m pretty sure if I tried the “you can’t say for sure if I did my job or not because there is no evidence or paper trail that I did” excuse, my boss would just assume I didn’t. I am pretty positive that the report would not say “inconclusive”.
Never forget that Dan Stessel (WMATA spokesperson) , in response to complaints of sexual harassment on metro tweeted ” one person’s harassment is another person’s flirting” (Feb 21 2012). He’s still there, still a piece of shit.
Also remember that opening the the doors on the side away from the platform, is not a safety issue. I’m never taking metro.
That doesn’t even make sense.
Several incidents where doors were opened not on the platform side, but on the other side (20 ft in the air). These do not show up in the safety incidents reports.
No.
Imagine the kid that LeBron and Serena could pop out. The entitlement factor alone would be insane.
Regression to the mean would likely kick in for the product of those two…probably would be a pretty good athlete in spite of that though and definitely a world class pisser and moaner.
Imagine the kid that LeBron and Serena could pop out.
I’d prefer not to.
The “Love Child”. And then when things didn’t go right, they’d blame Kevin Love for it.
Sorry to hear about the Mrs, Swiss. Wishing her a good recovery.
Swissy should have bought her some knee pads for Christmas.
*narrows gaze*
It saddens me that you would deny your pious wife the protective gear she needs in order to pray for so many hours each day.
Especially since she is probably praying for your immortal soul.
Lol
+1, Swiss. That sucks.
Meniscus tears seem to take forever to heal after surgery.
Yeah, Mdm Zwak tore hers a year or so ago, still not right, still causing problems.
Right medial meniscus complex bucket tear, 2010. Arthroscopic surgery at a private clinic in Vancouver, 3 weeks after the injury (Alberta’s public system said it would be 30 months before I could get surgery there; fuck that noise).
Took me three months to get rid of the cane, almost six before I felt anywhere near normal again. I was seriously pissed to hear from the clinic I went to that there were people who went skiing the weekend after they had their surgery. And an RCMP officer I knew who got the surgery and was back on duty 2.5 weeks afterwards.
I could barely walk 2.5 weeks afterwards.
Quick recovery to Mrs. Swiss. Bring her to NJ, we have all the best orthopaedic surgeons here.
Plus I’m given to understand it’s a settled, civilized place.
+1
Sympathy to Swiss Miss but I don’t wish NJ or her or anyone else. Good luck to her, sometimes cross training isn’t a bad idea, if only from a learning perspective.
Speaking of hard core deadenders
As a fresh wave of infection continues to swell in the UK, concern is growing among health care experts over the impact of a relaxation of pandemic measures.
Deepti Gurdasani, an epidemiologist and senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, said the government’s decision to press forward with England’s unlocking was “unsurprising” and would put significant pressure on hospitals once more, in addition to exposing many more people to “long Covid.”
“The government has consistently ignored the advice and prioritized short-term economic gain,” Gurdasani told CNN. “Even at the current rates, we’re in for trouble, and opening up further of course increases those risks greatly. Not only would I say we need to really pause opening up further until we vaccinate many more people, but also deal with the current wave.”
Gurdasani described the government’s plan as “hugely unethical” and alarming, given “we know that long Covid is common in young and healthy people.”
“This is not the flu, like Sajid Javid seems to suggest,” Gurdasani said. “Please tell me when flu has led to 400,000 people having chronic disability in a period of 16 months … why would we want to expose so much of our population to herd immunity through natural infection when we have safe and effective vaccines that could be given to them in the coming weeks.”
Gurdasani urged the government to adopt smarter policies like continued mask use and investment in ventilation in schools and workplaces, while allowing more time for greater vaccination coverage before lifting measures.
Fight to the death to keep your boot on their necks, oh Mighty Mandarin of Public Health.
If influenza was given magnifying glass treatment that covid is, I have little doubt that you’d find similar side effects and long term issues. The common cold often lingers for weeks or longer after the initial “sick” period. Garden variety pneumonia that puts you in the hospital can take a while to fully recover.
The last time I had “the flu” (2017), I had a residual cough and symptoms of extreme tiredness for almost four months afterwards.
A “flu” I got in my 20s scarred approximately 40% of my lung tissue for life.
Long COVID may not be great, but it ain’t a civilization-ender, either.
I lost at least that much in the ’94 earthquake. Sniffing deeply to try and figure out what that funny smell was. It was Leslie’s Pool Supply which had caught on fire. Muriatic acid steam. Bad news.
I worked adjacent to the WTC after 9/11. I wonder how long I have left to cash in on some of that sweet 9/11 relief $$$. I guess I need to get cancer first. ?
Yeah, that was few weeks when these stupid masks probably made some sense.
I wore mine for a couple weeks. The stink encouraged it.
Funny, I completely forgot about that. Not the stink, the mask.
‘Muriatic acid steam. Bad news.’
Truth. I was exposed to that shit while cleaning mortar off an all brick back patio without a proper respirator. After two days I was walking up the driveway on the job while my forman and the homeowner were walking towards me. All the sudden I had to hock a loogie, so I thought. I spit up a big glob of blood instead. I froze, my forman froze, the homeowner froze…I left work and coughed up blood for three days. I have a permanent thin spot in the back of my throat and no idea what it did to my lungs.
Chronic Disability…
I think she is misplacing the chronic cause of this.
RIP, Richard Donner and Raffaella Carrà. She was a Nazi loving traitor but oh man did teenage, and adult, me think she was hot stuff in Von Ryan’s Express.
The Frank Sinatra grenade? I’d forgotten there was a chick in it. There were none to speak of in the book, which was a fun read.
The movie, though, was execrable. It’s an object lesson in how not to adapt a book to the screen. I suspect someone just showed the book’s dust jacket to the screenwriters and said “it’s about a ragtag gang of Allied POWs escaping the Nazis.”
And the worst part? Casting Frank Sinatra as Colonel Ryan. A big part of the success of the plan in the book was that Joseph Ryan was tall, had a hard-planed Aryan face, blonde hair and blue eyes. When he puts on a German uniform in the book, the British leftenant-colonel that was his 2IC commented “…if the Fuhrer saw you, he’d put you on a bloody postal stamp.”
So they cast Frank Sinatra.
He did it his way…
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love Sinatra – as a singer. As an actor, he was never more than mediocre.
And Frank – uh, I mean Mr. Sinatra – if you’re somehow out there reading this, please don’t send your ghost out to send Guico, Rospo and Scimmione over to rough me up.
Sinatra’s best films are Suddenly, The Tender Trap (although David Wayne and Celeste Holm steal the shit out of the show) and The Man with the Golden Arm.
Suddenly is pretty underrated.
Don’t care. I love the movie. Before war movies became crap like Patton.
So it was right up there with Riddle of the Sands?
‘Oly Chit. Richard Donner died? That guy contributed. R.I.P.
He threw the best parties.
“Mrs. Swiss tore her right meniscus on Friday.”
I hope she is better soon.
Re: the speculation in the earlier links about why Biden hasn’t been shuffled offstage and Harris made POTUS:
My take is the insistence on a black woman POTUS has painted the Dems into a corner, where an “almost weekend at Bernies” POTUS is regarded as a less disasterous choice than the understudy. They’re gonna try to run out the clock for the next 3+ years. Don’t think that’s gonna work – they’re gonna hget the PR disaster they finagled, good and hard.
I think they’d do it IF that “vote fraud bill” passed, because then they could ensure D majorities in spite of it. That’s why all this frothing hysteria about DEMOCRACY! over it. But she’s un-electable on her own, and her as president means zero voting advantage in 2022 (“vote D because of how racist this society is with our Black Woman President!!”), so everyone has to pretend the emperor has clothes until he falls over dead and probably two weeks after that.
If Kamal ascends to the throne two years and a day after Biden’s installation, she can serve out the remaining years of his regency and it will not count against her two-term limit. I expect the plan is for the First Black Woman President to also be the First Black Woman President In Office For Ten Years.
May Freyja spare us.
She won’t even get enough votes to make cheating for her worthwhile. Everybody, and I mean everybody hates her. She will never win any election, even if it’s rigged.
Meh, I still think, even if vote fraud gets enshrined as a constitutional right, that the Dems have too many other people they need to pay off with the top spot to keep her in there for 10 years.
“Afghan looters ransack Bagram Air Base and hawk basketballs, stereo speakers, laptops, and bicycle helmets after US troops bugged out in the dead of night”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758175/US-left-Afghan-airfield-night-didnt-tell-new-commander.html
Those military dune buggies look neat.
What’s Pashto for “hey, hold my beer.”?
I think it’s “hey, hold my 12-year old boy.”
Harsh.
But fair.
Zing!
If they can put it off until after the midterms she can still qualify for two full terms. If twenty fifthing Biden is being considered by anyone I’m sure that’s part of the equation but if you’re a behind the scenes power wielded why get rid of him at all? A senescent and demented oldster is easily manipulated and dominated.
There’s also that Kamala could bring her own or different people in. No one voluntarily looks to get pushed down the greasy pole just when they got to where they are.
Kamala would have no more luck than Trump did if she tried to do anything unauthorized by whoever runs things.
The problem is that “easily manipulated and dominated” also applies to interactions with foreign leaders, who might be looking to slam thru some fait accompli. As in, the way Carter got pushed around, followed by hasty foreign backpedaling when Reagan swept in.
Nobody likes Kamala. Nobody. She will not be serving two terms. No. At worst, she’ll get to finish one for the big guy and that’s it. She won’t get more than a few votes in any contest.
What Democrat would dare try to primary her in 2024? It would have to be Stacey Abrams, Oprah, or Michelle Obama.
I didn’t say they wouldn’t run her. They won’t get enough legit votes to make it appear that they didn’t cheat.
I kind of feel bad for LeBron’s son. Sure, he’s rich and privileged, but the pressure of having his dad at his games must be terrible. No matter how good he might be, he’ll probably never be his dad’s level. I thought I had it bad because my dad came to my games and yelled “Go Bird Legs!”
Jordan’s kids never had to worry about MJ lipping off during their games.
Yeah, one of the best things my dad did was to not squawk when I dumped tennis. He and his brother were great tennis players. I was pretty good, but not great. When I decided that I had had enough during my senior year and told Dad that I was done, he just said that it sounded OK to him.
Sliced roast chicken breast from the deli, on buttermilk bread. Deviled egg potato salad on the side.
Yum.
Awesome. I have a shitload of leftover pulled pork and the ladyfriend’s pasta salad. Whatever pork doesn’t go on sandwiches is going in a soup with pinto beans, peppers, onions, tomatoes, lime juice, corn, and black olives. Kind of a Mexican version of pork and beans, I guess?? Dunno, I’ve never made it before but it sounds good.
“Over or under? Original patent confirms the ‘correct’ way to hang the toilet roll is OVER – as experts warn hanging paper the other way round can increase your risk of coming into contact with bacteria”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9757959/Original-patent-confirms-correct-way-hang-toilet-roll-OVER.html
Toilet paper hanging experts?
In this case I trust the experts.
Hanging toilet paper is a mistake in and of itself.
We don’t all have butt wiping gloves.
Or one of those fancy-shmancy Japanese automated-wash-yer-butt terlets.
Mistake only if it looks like a noose.
Was kind of hoping the original patent would show some wacky original intent. Like you are supposed to position your ass on the roll then spin the roll.
So you are saying that idea is still up for grabs?
Cleverly disguised cats who like the TP hung for greatest ease of unrolling.
What’s the over/under on them being full of shit?
“Transgender woman ‘with a beard and a penis’ got in a hot tub with her daughter, 6, at LA spa more than a YEAR before this weekend’s clashes over child exposure incident in female steam room
It is not clear whether it was the same transgender person involved in both incidents….
When she spoke to staff about asking the woman to cover up she said they told her she had refused, and there was little else they could do.
‘I’m a registered democrat, I’ve been to gay pride, I have no problem with gay people I have no problem with trans people,’ she said.
‘This is different. This is different. My daughter is six years old, and she was nude, and this person wasn’t making any attempt to look like a woman whatsoever.’
In particular, she said she wanted to speak out regarding her experience, saying the narrative surrounding Saturday’s clashes had gotten it wrong.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9756165/Woman-says-person-beard-penis-got-hot-tub-daughter-6-LA-spa.html
Still no description of the allegedly transgender asshole whose behavior lead to the protests.
Yeah, you don’t get a bunch of good liberals in LA protesting over nothing.
It is still crazy to me that this is happening at a Korean spa. Koreans (in my experience) are fairly prudish about nudity and would not be happy with any sort of mixed gender bathing.
Maybe it is because this spa is Korean in name only? Seems like most patrons are non-Korean so maybe the expectations are looser?
When my wife and I visit the Korean spa in Chicago, I know I get watched like a hawk because I’m non-Korean and they want to be sure I am following the protocols correctly.
“‘I’m a registered democrat”
Well, you signed up, if you didn’t know what you’re getting with that membership, it’s your fault. If you still cannot figure it out, you’re extra stupid. I mean they’ve not even pretending any longer.
^This^
“‘I’m a registered democrat, I’ve been to gay pride, I have no problem with gay people I have no problem with trans people,’ she said.”
Yeah. Blah blah blah blow it out of your ass, coward. It is very annoying that the article uses ‘she’ and ‘her’. This person is no such thing. It’s a creepy dude that likes to wag his dick in front of women and children.
yep
“Transgender woman ‘with a beard and a penis’ got in a hot tub with her daughter, 6, at LA spa more than a YEAR before this weekend’s clashes over child exposure incident in female steam room…
What the fuck was a 6-year-old doing in a spa in the first place?
“‘I’m a registered democrat, I’ve been to gay pride, I have no problem with gay people I have no problem with trans people,’ she said.
‘This is different. This is different. My daughter is six years old, and she was nude, and this person wasn’t making any attempt to look like a woman whatsoever.’”
So, have we learned anything from this lesson?
So, have we learned anything from this lesson?
Democrats are willing to subject their kids to clearly inappropriate and abusive situations in order to establish their woke creds?
“I need to do better so my daughter doesn’t grow up to be a transphobic Nazi TERF like me!”
“My daughter is six years old, and she was nude,”
Who the fuck takes their six-year-old to a spa, and then lets them in a hot tub nude anyway?
“Hunter Biden wanted prostitutes to unionize because they need ‘more protection’ and were ‘business savvy like strippers'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758063/Hunter-Biden-wanted-prostitutes-unionize-just-like-job.html
“Hunter Biden paid Joe’s AT&T bill and spent thousands on house repairs for him while he was Vice President, new laptop emails claim”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9757117/Hunter-Biden-complained-half-salary-went-paying-Joes-bills.html
Guessing he spent the other half on cocaine and hookers?
Does anyone really care what Biden’s retarded son is doing? I’m definitely not losing any sleep over it.
No one seems to care that China is directly sending money to Gropey Joe’s “foundation”. Many millions.
Well, it’s Obvious that Biden and the democrats are working for the CCP. Learn to speak Mandarin and try to stay out of trouble. Else I hope you can do something useful in the gulags. That will ensure that most ex American politicians are disappeared first. At least I get to have a giggle out of that.
Biden has a foundation?
/real question
All benevolent leaders have a foundation. Someone has to save the poor children. You greedy capitalists sure are not going to do it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tony-blinken-must-explain-anonymous-221600061.html
And all on the level like every other Dem foundation.
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/11/16/joe-bidens-cancer-foundation-has-spent-millions-on-salaries-and-noting-on-research/
And I’m sure they report all executive perks for tax reporting purposes.
‘Biden and his wife Jill Biden started The Biden Cancer Initiative in 2017 two years after his son beau’s child died from a brain tumor.’
A slush funds built on the back of a dead grandchild, no less. Very classy.
/deadthreadfucking
Apparently. And its appears to like Chinese cash.
What the over/under until they try to indict Trump because of that?
“Foundation”. LOL.
Hear me out here:
With unions, the most senior members get the highest pay. Therefore the young ones would be cheaper than the older ones.
Whatever you’d expect a union to do, ours does the opposite. The literally negotiated pay cuts for us the last time around. About two weeks later, the feds announced the airports were getting bailed out and our airport got more money for that year than they would have if there was no covid. Us workers are still paying for it.
I don’t know how that diverts more money to politicians, but I’m sure it does.
What was really funny (?) was the following week, the city issued a dictate to the supermarkets that said they have to pay an additional 5 bucks an hour to their employees. Separated by two weeks at most. Irony is lost on them.
Yeah, that was something else.
I was flipping channels last night and briefly landed on local news. Apparently we have a new “fast-food workers law” as of today. I didn’t hang around long enough to find out what fresh new Commie horror these assholes have come up with but I assume it means ten-dollar Big Macs or some shit like that.
“Hunter Biden wanted prostitutes to unionize because they need ‘more protection’ and were ‘business savvy like strippers’”
He’s uh, not wrong?
Department of Magical Thinking
If President Joe Biden’s last big science project was a moonshot, his new one has goals that are light years further.
The proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency would deliver breakthrough treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other diseases and reshape the government’s medical research efforts, by adding a nimble new agency modeled on the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which laid the groundwork for the internet.
But the way Biden would make “ARPA-H” and its $6.5 billion budget part of the sprawling National Institutes of Health is raising concern within the research community and in Congress about whether it will bring a new approach to old problems or become a duplicative bureaucracy with a lofty mandate.
If anybody should be rooting for a cure for Alzheimers, it’s Joe.
The best way to do science research is to award prizes for various achievements. Do away with the NSF and other govt research labs entirely.
Simply say you will pay $1B for a treatment of Alzheimer’s. Establish some metrics that define a successful treatment and let people go figure it out.
Similarly, say you will give anyone who establishes a moon colony for 5 years $1B (or whatever you think is the right amount) and fund space travel that way.
Just compare NASA to SpaceX and you have the entire story.
So much this.
Hmm. Government agency. Nimble new agency. I smells some oxymoron in the air.
In reality, a government agency will be made up of lazy ass losers who will accomplish nothing but figuring out how to get a bigger share of tax payer money to waste.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-mark-carney-man-of-destiny-arises-to-revolutionize-society-it-wont-be-pleasant/wcm/7cbd3be5-b3db-483d-98d9-ffd057f11c85/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Mark Carney, former governor both of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, claims that western society is morally rotten, and that it has been corrupted by capitalism, which has brought about a “climate emergency” that threatens life on earth. This, he claims, requires rigid controls on personal freedom, industry and corporate funding.
Conservative appointee natch…
“What Carney ultimately wants is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism”
There seems to be a lot of people who want that lately. And all of them convinced they will be in charge when the cleansing begins.
“Since the advent of the COVID pandemic, Carney has been front and centre in the promotion of a political agenda known as the “Great Reset”
Geez, some people want to build some bike trails and you cons start freaking out.
former governor both of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, claims that western society is morally rotten
He’s right, but not about the cause or the solution. Someone ending up on the boards of two different nominally independent central banks is a conflict of interest, belies true independence of both, and shows the the talent pool of applicants is artificially narrowed to incompetent insiders. None of which is a surprise but to blatantly display it is either incompetence or because there’s no consequences anymore.
Oh, it’s rotten alright because of Marx, Engels, Lenin and their ilk.
“Carney draws inspiration from, among others, Marx, Engels and Lenin”
Gee, what an original thinker. I bet it’s going to be real socialism this time.
I have an idea.
Maybe there should be like an Anti-Christ lotto. Since all of the contestants seem to be overly pompous idiots who are, only in their own minds, intellectuals. We can just have them all pick a number and then spin the wheel of tickets and have the ticket girl choose one. Then it will all be settled and woketopia will finally come to all the lands.
Mrs. Swiss tore her right meniscus on Friday.
Let us know if there is anything she kneeds.
A little dough wouldn’t hurt.
The yeast you could do for her
I’m floured at the lack of sympathy displayed.
This is gonna get a rise out of Swissy, but the rest of us will have a good loaf.
These puns are half baked.
https://unherd.com/2021/07/how-the-democrats-fell-for-mussolini/#en-160702-1
But whereas the old fascism sought greater prosperity, its new form, at least in the West, supports only an expanded welfare state that keeps the beleaguered middle and working classes both quiescent and stripped of aspiration. Worthies such as former Bank of Canada and Bank of England chief Mark Carney even embrace “de-growth,” a conscious slowing of the economy and embrace of declining living standards.
Indeed, the widely hailed Club of Rome report in 1972 — “The Limits to Growth” — was financed not by green activists but by the Agnelli family from Fiat, once a linchpin of Mussolini’s original corporate state.2 The Report predicted massive shortages of natural resources, slower economic growth, less material consumption and ultimately less social mobility.3
Fast forward to today’s new economic order, and it’s clear that not all economic animals are equal. There are opportunities galore for Wall Street investors, Silicon Valley tech oligarchs, cobalt miners, electric car manufacturers and renewable energy producers through the massive subsidies for producing green.
And these woke oligarchs, like their fascist counterparts before them, see little use for democracy. Eric Heymann, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank, suggests that to reach the climate goals of Davos, corporations will have to embrace “a certain degree of eco-dictatorship”.4 After all, it would be difficult to get elected officials to approve limits on such mundane popular pleasures as affordable air travel, cars, freeways and suburbs with single-family houses, unless they were imposed by judicial or executive fiat.
Unsurprisingly, the biggest losers will inevitably be the poor. Wherever the conventional green policies central to the “Great Reset” have been imposed — California, Britain, Canada, Australia, Greece, Germany, France — the result has been to create high levels of “energy poverty”; the Jacques Delors Institute estimated that some thirty million Europeans were not able to adequately heat their homes during the most recent winter.
When our elites declare they want eco-fascism, believe them…
whereas the old fascism sought greater prosperity
Bullshit. The goal then, as now, is to gain power. The spoils from that conquest is just a nice side effect and only right for their hard work.
I think his point is that the authoritarians of the past claimed they wanted more prosperity while the authoritarians of today say that prosperity is bad. Recall that Ayn Rand made similar remarks about Communism.
And he points out that the Chicoms do justify their rule of the basis of prosperity…
They were always about power, it only depended on the BS they could sell to the punters. Then it was prosperity, now its ecology.
Everybody wants to be wealthier and left alone, they will. Fuck with anyone and everyone will be less wealthy. They know this, but only suffering will enable them to take the reins. Hate and suffering is what they need to bring about the sweeping change they crave.
” embrace of declining living standards.”
Guess whose standards won’t be declining?
Shut up and eat your bugs, peasant. Mark Carney is a great man who deserves that Wagyu beef.
ISIS approves.
https://www.thenewstribune.com/article252447903.html
120 year old totem pole is torn down because it’s not “authentic”. Are they going to tear down Stadium HS next? Because it’s not a real French chateau. And the idiot Indian activists don’t get that the end result is rather than be celebrated and accepted, this is just going to lead to them being pushed even further into a closet and ignored entirely. Assholes are going to get what they’re asking for, good and hard.
FTFY
This, so much this. When are these dopes going to realize, when they get that they’re screeching about, they aren’t going to like it?….
You know who else something something Winston’s mom.
Day drinking and watching the woman’s soccer match. I don’t give a damn for most culture war shit, but I’ll be damned if this unlikable bunch of annoying bitches hasn’t managed the impossible….for the first time ever I’m rooting against an American team in any sport.
How many of them are actually women? I mean biologically. If I was watching women’s sports in Murika, I would fully expect to see some 300 lb guy with a beard as the team leader.
I’m surprised Olivia Moultrie isn’t suing to join the Women’s National Team.
The Tomorrow War is getting well into the violence and the time travel paradox.
I’m guessing you have HBO Max. I just watched Black Dynamite. It was laugh out loud funny. Highly recommend.
No, I don’t have HBO max. Just Amazon Prime. The Tomorrow War is an Amazon original, I believe.
Produced by Chris Pratt. Not mind bogglingly awesome but entertaining so far.
My mistake. I like your new avatar.
I like your new avatar.
I just noticed the new avatar.
John Singer Sargent’s “Portrait of Madame X” updated with a cat. Interesting.
Movie verdict: Good. Not overly loaded with action to the point of boredom. Not preachy (I did enjoy the shade the movie threw on the UN’s ability to do anything useful, and to politicians in general.)
I’d say it evokes the same spirit as Independence Day.
I liked it. Probably not going to watch it again.
https://quillette.com/2021/07/03/on-the-dangers-of-big-covid/
Now Quillette complains. Wonder what Robert Higgs would think about being labeled as “conservative-leaning”.
Footage from Blackjack and Chafed’s last party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt-tG6ufH90
So that’s how commies talk now? Good gawd.
Somehow I am mesmerized by this and cannot stop laughing. Damn you.
Where did you hide the camera!?!
CHAAA!!! That’s not far off, but I take the 405 south to the 90 towards the beach and get off at Culver. Then I cut up that small hill and take Pershing right down to World Way West. Going home is the reverse. Of, course I live in the valley, so I’m not repulsed by it like those stuck up westsiders. Chaaa!
Looks like we found us a true Calaforneeite.
My earliest memories come from there. As far as I know, Valley Girl was not a thing. LA, Simi Valley, San Fernando Valley, Thousand Oaks, Santa Monica, Santa Clarita, I remember all of that.
But how do you get to the 405 — the 101 north?
134 to the 101. Post covid, I take the same route home, but it keeps stretching a bit every week and eventually, I’ll have to wind my way through surace streets to Hollywood and cross over up there again, like I used to in the before times.
More relevant
LeBron’s kid is a Bronie?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/31/14/ff/3114ff9f57fcace7a9ff1d4024525aad.png
With some giant Bronie tits?
This is a thing now?
https://www.cbs8.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/okland-zoo-animal-covid-vaccine/507-8b16641f-3e0c-4050-a8af-e12a25fadab7
I only get surprised these days, when I find out that something, anything, is not a thing now.
I only get surprised these days, when I find out that something, anything, is not a thing now.
Vaccinate the squirrels!
Normalize COVID-vaccinating animals in preparation for doing likewise to critters raised for food, to get that magical stuff into the systems of those pesky human holdouts, most of whom are probably not righteous vegans?
::adjusts brim of jaunty aluminum millinery::
Muh steak might be trying to kill me? ?
They should just drive a steak right through your heart.
They are just searching for any new avenue to get another $20 into Pfizers pockets. I really used to be a blind idiot who thought the pharmaceutical companies where going after research to cure health issues to make the world a better place and occasionally make a buck doing it. I have changed my mind over the past year and a half.
If you don’t like it, you can just su… nevermind!
I’m guessing they had a bunch of stock ready to expire and figured what the hell, let’s give it to the zoo on its last day. No eligible person missed out, it would have gone into the trash otherwise.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nationalpost.com/news/world/china-officials-detail-plans-to-strengthen-hong-kong-security-laws/wcm/7ab944fa-3f21-4a55-af29-bb18e15a8a9e/amp/
Free trade will liberate China…
You know, if you can’t get an actor who’s 6’6″, edit the dialog to adjust the character’s height. Episode of Kojak again, the supposedly 6’6″ bounty hunter was played by someone maybe two inches taller than Telly Sevalas (just shy of 5’11”) They stand right next to each other multiple times in the episode, and there’s no way Kojak is 6’4″.
Maybe the bounty hunter slouches. I know a couple of tall people that do that because the are self-conscious about their height.
But that’s not tall.
Maybe the bounty hunter slouches because he has bad posture. Also Telly Sevalas may have been 5’11” but Kojack could have been 6’8″ for all we know, the bounty hunter never stoodsnext to Telly Sevalas, he stood next to Kojack.
In that iteration of NYC that only exists in your hypothetical, everyone would be a giant.
Maybe Kojack slouches when around short people.
And maybe they just cast someone who’s 6’1″ and didn’t fix the dialog.
Maybe all the dialog that “needs fixing” is actually being spoken by characters that are really bad at estimating heights and there is absolutely no discrepancy in the heights of the characters and the actors and actresses portraying them.
It was being read from his army record, where it would have been an actual measurement.
Maybe one of his two jacks went out and he’s sagging?
Ah yes, the infallible government records defense. I cede the point, you win this time.
You were the one going with the more absurd scenarios.
MOAR T&A
https://archive.li/rgEsW
Geez. Look what Bill Gates was married to when he could have had any of these hawties in a New York minute. Surely, one of them has brains to go with the looks.
The current trend among billionaires, seems to be to marry a commie. I have no idea.
How is Melinda Gates a commie?
She married Bill?
I don’t get it but at least that’s an answer, I guess.
Judging from your thread with UCS, there’s a lot you don’t get.
Not getting why made up stories must follow real world rules is a hill I’m willing to die on.
You seem to have a rather low threshold of hill-dying willingness.
Judging by his avatar, he’s willing to stick his neck out for a good laugh.
Any idiot can stand up for noble causes, true character is defined by one’s willingness to go the distance for completely inconsequential reasons.
Slate Star Codes explained that, and how it models George Floyd being more important to the media than Tamir Rice.
Swiss, hope the wife gets better soon.
Chocolate that one up to bad luck! Here’s hoping the Swiss Missus heals quickly!
That’s as bad as the marshmallows,
Mrs. Swiss tore her right meniscus on Friday.
Sorry. I hope her recovery is quick.
“Tactical police teams went after the kidnappers,” he said. “We are still on the rescue mission.”
I’m going out on a limb here, but I think those tactical police teams will have more success rescuing the students than Michelle Obama and her hashtags will.
Probably covered the ESPN white chick that got pushed out for a black chick. She says that she supports diversity but why come it has to be her. Not so subtle “Fire a white dude!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jg_HIP2FVcU
That video gave me eye cancer.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1412095206640455686
That’s a good one.
People look at disparate outcomes for different races and assume they can correct that by going back step by step in history and determine how the metaphorical butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon caused a Typhoon in Tokyo. And, they must assume they have properly accounted for their own bias. And, they’ve properly weighed the cost each individual that is being oppressed today ought to be oppressed. And, they’ve convinced themselves that the heavy handed tactics they’re using won’t lead to a state that will oppress everybody in the future.
This is getting insane. People got away with conflating absence of oppression with being privileged and now we’re at this absurd point.
/preaching to choir rant off
That whole thing is ascribing way too much consideration to these people. They just know that they’ve been told we are racists and there’s a bunch of black people who live in shitty neighborhoods as proof. Really, they’ve just been brainwashed to hate others. Then, they were told that “others” are racists. So they hate others. It’s only because the class warfare thing didn’t work out. It’s plan B.
Sure, the average wokester doesn’t put much thought into it other than “I’m better than you” or “give me something”. I’m trying to address the supposed complete argument than Kendi and D’Angelo are giving.
Even the so called, “intellectuals” don’t think it through anywhere near that far. They just have a vague sense of outrage and this is the thing they’ve decided is the most saleable way to sow division. They bitch because they are bitches. As soon as someone points out an inconsistency, they switch gears and claim we misinterpreted what they said. It’s a load of bullshit and it only works on people who never look closely at it ( which is most voters, sadly.)
They’re grifters. Their arguments don’t have to make sense.
Perhaps I should’ve linked this first. I agree they are grifters. My point is that they have created a theory. A terrible theory, but still a theory that I’m digging into.
https://thechalkboardreview.com/crt-toolkit
CRT is a derivative of Critical Theory, which is plain marxism with some psychology thrown in to help sell it. It’s all class warfare. Race is just the easiest way to foment division and hatred of others. Once they attain a sufficient degree of that, it’s easy to take over everything. They are giddy with the progress they’ve made since Trump got elected. They are just plain commies trying to rule the world.
I’ve seen all this and know all I care to about it.
It’s a complete fucking scam. A power grab. They’re draping fancy language around the pretense that we’re still living in 1955 (or 1855) and holding the country hostage over it.
Weird you’d point that out. Can’t remember who, but I recall hearing Marcuse referred to as an Austrian by someone who I consider a “good” Austrian. I just assumed he misspoke.
Misthread
Regarding that site: on the one hand, they correctly identify Gloria Ladson-Billings as one of the sources of this rot in pedagogy. On the other hand, they falsely ascribe Marcuse to the “Austrian School” when in fact he was a German and a member of the Frankfurt School.
RE: staffs misthreaded comment
There could be an Austrian School of Marxism, maybe it is (or was) a branch of the Frankfurt School, but as far as I can tell “Austrian School” is only really the Hayek/Mises people and ideas.
straff’s*
Could’ve been a libertarian socialist that I heard say tha.
No, they saw what other people had and wanted some. And if they couldn’t have it, nobody else could either.
It’s all envy, all the time.
I don’t really agree with that. There are some out there that are probably genuine. I don’t want to debunk their ideas via mind reading. There’s no need for that given how self defeating they are logically.
The genuine ones are the truly scary ones.
I think it’s worth understanding their motivations and “logic,” as you’re trying to do, but they really are the enemy of the individual and the logical mind. They do a huge amount of “mind reading” themselves–how else can you explain their assertion that everyone else is a racist and motivated at the core by racism?
Because classism didn’t work. The racist bullshit seems to be taking far better. Even China is throwing it back at us.
That assumes an end state or effect as their goal. To assume they have a goal that approximates Marxism implies that they’re all actual Marxists or dupes.
I fall partway between Mojeaux and Straf. There are die hards and useful idiots, and a spectrum in between that might shift back and forth.
For what it’s worth, there’s the same thing (albeit less effective and in smaller numbers overall) on the right.
The end state is authoritative control over, basically everything. They will tell any lie to get it. The left is highly motivated and goal driven. They mean to force it all on us, and that’s all of them from the useful idiots to the live it/breathe it types. POWER.
That most likely is WHY they (at least the leaders) are doing it. I’m interested, for now, in exposing the reasons they give for why they are doing it. People don’t want to be racist and get tempted by miracle cures. The snake oil salesmen is doing it for money, but you can get people to stop drinking it if you explain that it contains cyanide.
There are too many true believers to be a straight-up push for power. If they were all grifters then the whole thing would have folded like a bad poker hand. But, as we see in how the teachers are still pushing this BS even when there is hardcore pushback in liberal areas, far too many of the true believers think this is the correct course of action.
No, the core of it are actual utopians, and like all true believers, you can’t logic them out of it. They believe all the junk they espouse. Privilege, micro-aggressions, systemic racism, all of those concepts are non-falsifiable. They are taken on faith.
From the outside, they all look like Elmer Gantry, but on the inside, it is more like a religion.
FWIW, I think there are way more victims of the propaganda than true believers.
fixed
Hope the wife gets well soon, Swissy.
Second. We’re all on her side and hoping for the best outcome.
Isn’t Swissy retired military? So his wife is being fixed by the VA?
My condolences.
Hmmm, no post, ah well….
So I haven’t posted about the attempts to ban CRT but I must say I’m not too fond of the cosmotarian reaction to these attempts.
First seems to be the attitude of preemptive surrender: everything is fine until it becomes obvious that something is wrong then they say “whoops too late to do anything”.
Second is the snobbery aspect: the real problem isn’t CRT but the peasants getting upset about it.
Then there is the technocratic aspect of “just trust SCOTUS”.
Also liberalism IS a tribal ideology obsessed with culture war. It was a German liberal who coined the term kulturkampf which he supported.
Also the cosmotarians complain about the culture war but how exactly is one supposed to “Rachet down the culture war” in a neutral fashion?
Also isn’t making everything a federal civil rights issue the exact thing that rachets up the culture war?
And isn’t depending the entire existence on a free society on the whims of at least five judges a serious flaw?
You don’t even know what
CommunismSocialismMarxismCRT is.Real CRT has never been tried!
Makes sense. I lurnt myself history and Excel.
No one needs more than 17 billion cells to model a global economy.
https://mises.org/library/origins-nazism
To the masses books and theaters were unknown. They were the poor serfs in the eastern provinces, they were the inhabitants of the Catholic countries, who only slowly succeeded in freeing themselves from the tight grasp of the Counter-Reformation. Even in the more advanced western parts and in the cities there were still many illiterates and semiliterates. These masses were not concerned with any political issue; they obeyed blindly, because they lived in fear of punishment in hell, with which the church threatened them, and in a still greater fear of the police. They were outside the pale of German civilization and German cultural life; they knew only their regional dialects, and could hardly converse with a man who spoke only the German literary language or another dialect. But the number of these backward people was steadily decreasing. Economic prosperity and education spread from year to year. More and more people reached a standard of living which allowed them to care for other things besides food and shelter, and to employ their leisure in something more than drinking. Whoever rose from misery and joined the community of civilized men became a liberal. Except for the small group of princes and their aristocratic retainers practically everyone interested in political issues was liberal. There were in Germany in those days only liberal men and indifferent men; but the ranks of the indifferent continually shrank, while the ranks of the liberals swelled.
Can someone explain to me how this is non-tribal, trusting of institutions and non-culture warring?
Also, hate to tell you this, Winston. But WE are the liberals. Leftists are NOT liberals. Just stop that already.
Exactly. Lefties dont like liberty so they are not “liberals”.
If youre left of Libertarians (democrats, socialists, fascits, communists…) youre not a liberal. In fact, I dont think Liberals exist anymore just like classic liberals (founders who supported/didnt support slavery) dont exist anymore.
Lefties dont support social freedoms either. Lefties lie like they support freedoms but they never do.
Pro-Abortion: to destory america birth rates and reduce nonwhite populations to control americans
Pro-protests: to destroy america constitutional protections using the constitution protections to undermine UsA
Pro-voting: to use illegals and other public school ingrates to destroy american constitutional protections
Pro-court: to complicate US legal system and us law against americans and destroy america from inside out
….
The only problem with the current push to ban CRT in the classroom is it’s going to backfire and it’s going to backfire because it doesn’t go far enough. The enemy is still behind the gates. You can’t just slap a teacher who would poison the minds of children on the wrist. You can’t say, oh well, the NEA and AFT are malicious organizations that use tax money to fund our political opponents, but it’s just dandy if they keep representing our teachers and collecting dues. If you’re not willing to burn the entire public school system to the ground to stop this, then you aren’t willing to go half as far as they are.
Oh, I like that solution.
If you’re not willing to burn the entire public school system to the ground to stop this, then you aren’t willing to go half as far as they are.
I agree.
Burning schoolhouse writ large.
Yuge, even.
That said some libertarians have said something similar: that the real issue is school choice though I don’t think they would phrase it like that since the right going full “abolish public schools” would be a culture war issue of course.
Never-ending that public schools have always been culture war. I mean the advocates were very clear on that and that was a big part of the kulturkampf…
Homeschooling is the real canary in the coal mine. It’s banned in parts of Europe already. Private schools and charter schools can be (and are being) coopted as well, since the curricular standards are set by the bureaucratic state, and the teachers and administrators want to climb similar social hierarchies as their public school counterparts.
Do you see many cosmotarians here?
Do you expect a response to this other than “Yeah! I agree?”
I don’t understand your motivation.
I’m not saying I agree, or that I expect others here to agree with what you post, but I don’t understand the apparent obsession you have with strawman libertarians.
Is it any different than posting girly pics two-three times a day?
Yes – there’s an audience here for the girlie pics. Winston is arguing with nobody.
Exactly. But I suspect zwak knew that. At least I hope so.
He’s a horse?
Of course.
I finished reading No Treason this morning at some ungodly hour. Probably the time that Pie woke up with a pounding head. Anyway, I followed the logic of the first few chapters and I was on board. Then he gets into going after the Rothschilds and I thought that the logic was a bit … sloppy. His assertion that the Civil War was motivated mostly by the industrialized North wanting to control the means of production of the agrarian South? Yeah, maybe. But the whole rant about the Rothschilds and the money lenders seemed a bit, I don’t know, a bit anti-Semitic.
How did others read that?
I thought the Civil War was when they threw tea in the bay in 1619 to make more room for slaves on the ships?
*takes note for future lectures*
Read the states reason for secession. If you believe there are more reasons than listed, I would agree. Sometimes, people only listed some reason, but not all.
As for rothchild power grab being real, I dont think its a jewish thing. Elitists come from all races, religions, and nationalities. Slavery in the South was beseiged from almost every side. Its not that elites controlling people was going to be ended. Its that slavery is hugely inefficient and makes it hard to sleep at night knowing that YOU are a slaver.
Imagine of you convince idiots to work as serfs and thank you for it.
America is an existential threat because americans work out of self interest, become wealthier, and still have the nerve to tell elitists to fuck off. See, every time elitists like Nazis try to get all progressive, America stomps them and they have to start over.
Imagine the world without america as a mostly free nation of individualists.
Hollywood is proof that there is some kind of jewish mafia. There are also Italian mafias, political mafias, and many more criminal syndicates.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/andrew-cuomos-daughter-michaela-declares-herself-demisexual/
LOL @ Western Civilization
For a while there, wasn’t Ashton Kutcher a demisexual too?
Yeah but that’s the good kind.
“always dreamed of a world in which nobody will have to come out, because everybody’s sexuality will be assumed fluid. . . . “
Chicks. I did chicks. Always have. Always will.
“Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo said in an Instagram livestream she has “always dreamed of a world in which nobody will have to come out”
Right now sounds great. STFU, who cares.
Reminds me of the Simpsons:
Gay protestors: We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
Lisa S: We are used to it, you do this every year.
Gay protestors: *Collective sigh of disappointment*
I’m with you. I don’t give a crap about anyone’s sexuality. I don’t want to know. If I make a pass at you and you’re not interested, fine. If you make a pass at me and I’m not interested, fine.
Why does it have to go any further than that?
How are you supposed to prove that you’re more liberal or gayer than anyone else if you don’t tell people?
“I dream of a world in which nobody ever has to do anything even slightly difficult or discomforting.”
Do these losers even realize what losers they sound like?
So, she’s like most women?
Except that her dad saved the world from commie cooties. He’s like the Jeebus of the mob and stuff.
Or to put it another way, it’s a made up tag for normal people who feel like they need a made-up label to virtue signal to other mental retards.
Good analogy, Tulpa.
I always thought I was pretty tolerant, even while thinking I myself chose a conservative lifestyle for me.
But in the last 3-5 years or so, I’ve become less tolerant and more suspicious of “others” because I’m damned tired of being labeled racist, sexist, homophobic, islamaphobic, cisnormstive shitlady, fat cat, white privileged, Crusader, and so forth.
I hate wondering if the new professional I’ve just met is an affirmative action hire or is actually qualified.
Even worse, as a woman in engineering, I wonder if they speculate the same about me…
From the comments of your employees that you relate here, I would say that any speculation in that regard is long since over.
She could be making that up, which is just what a diversity hire would do.
*listens for sound of railgun charging, steps away from Pinker*
Didn’t you get the memo? Railguns are CANX.
Sure, sure. Just like the kinetic orbital strike system.
Say no more. .
Hey, just because the program is canceled doesn’t mean the ones we already built don’t work.
I’m planning to keep my eyes peeled in case they start showing up on eBay.
I saw the headline, rolled my eyes, and moved on.
I miss the “stay out of my bedroom!” days of stating that sex isn’t political and isn’t anybody’s business but the adults involved. And animals if it’s not traumatic for them.
But now it’s all “MY BEDROOM IS EVERYONE’s BUSINESS!! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT MY JUNK! LOOK AT MY FAVORITE SEX ACT! CELEBRATE ME!! VALIDATE MY DELUSION! CELEBRATE MY ABORTION!!!” Etc.
Discretion is not only the better part of valor; it’s polite and dignified.
Talking graphically about all the other stuff is about as appealing as discussing toenail fungus.
We’ve become a nation of narcissists.
It’s pathetic really, isn’t it?
Once a society thrives to the point of having free time, some people create great art, build things, edify others, and make the world a better place.
But some people with too much yime on their hands find things to complain about, to worry about, to envy, or to control.
Is the tendency to one way over the other (creative vs destructive) nurture or nature?
In other words, can we shift the course back toward creation rather than destruction?
Love the avaar.
One of my favorite portraits. And still cool with the cat.
Thank you.
I don’t know if it’s apocryphal, but the story is told that when John Singer Sargent debuted that portrait of “Madame X”, she had only the dress strap on her left shoulder.
People were sufficiently scandalized by the implication that her dress was on the way off, that Sargent was compelled to paint on the right strap (her right, which is left in the painting). But he was annoyed so he kind of slap-dashed it on there. That’s why it is painted without depth and doesn’t quite match the colors of the other strap.
For the new neo-liberal orthodoxy, it’s way more about what someone else can or cannot do, than it is about what they can do. After all, they can totally trust their benevolent right thinking leaders to protect their right to be gay, right to be lazy, and right to be, well… right about everything.
Like I’ve been saying for quite some time, most people care way more about what YOU can do or not than they care about what they themselves can do, or not.
So now, it’s not get out of my bedroom, it’s get into my bedroom, my living room, my kitchen, my den, my basement, my lawn, my wallet, my bank account, my personal life, everything, as long as you do that to everyone else as well. We need a national snitch program to report others for doing stuff we don’t like. See something, say something, we have to fight wrong think, comrades! Nothing could possibly go wrong, because we’re right thinkers, on the right side of history.
At one time, religion and politics were that as well, particularly in inappropriate circumstances such as the workplace.
There is a time and place for everything. Sadly, that is not taught anywhere.
For the 4th
Justin!
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Playing to your own desires tonight, eh?
I think to more than he
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Same old same, hot and sticky, hows the Tall Cans?
Same down here- summer in SW Ohio.
Forecast for 90s and high humidity.
The grass needs cut, but I just developed an acute case of “rectal glaucoma”- I just cant see my ass doing it.
/opens TallCan™ #3
*nods & raises coffee cup*
Good morning, homey, Yu, & Sean! Back to work, of course, and as usually happens, I have to post payroll in a hurry because it’s a day late after the Monday holiday. I usually have to browbeat a few supervisors into getting their folks’ time sheets approved in a timely fashion. Or some supervisor is on vacation, so I have to get THEIR supervisor to approve the vacationing supervisor’s folks’ time sheets. The good news is that the hardest and most urgent of my month-end reports are done, so maybe my boss won’t be bugging me.
And today is my big sister’s birthday. Last we knew, she & her hubby were on the road, but I’ll hunt her down later to warble a chorus of The Song to her.
AND we have a Dragons game tonight, but we won’t be in as much of a hurry to get our asses into our seats in the sun.
I was about to ask “is she single” then I read the rest. Oh well, Im directly supervised for the rest of the week anyhow.
/cancels chlamydia-whores and coke order
Well, she IS rather heavier than I am, so more your type. 😉 Been married since October of ’83.
And she’s turning 65. (Did I mention she’s the oldest, and I’m the baby?)
I dont need to break some married broad’s hip. That would be tough to explain.
She was 65 and full of life ?
*despite her diminutive and petite stature Johnette Napolitano checks all my boxes
https://6abc.com/mount-laurel-new-jersey-man-rant-racial-slurs-gramercy-way/10862711/
NJ, nuff said.
Somebody was mean. STOP THE INTERNATIONAL PRESSES!
Going by the article I smell mental illness. He did vandalize a house, physically intimidate someone and had numerous complaints against him. He sounds like a bit of a menace.
Perhaps. We don’t know the full story. Apparently the mobs surrounding his house do, though.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-voZou1JllY
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https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-fried-chicken-day-july-6/
Happy national fried chicken day!
Hmmm. Time to take those wings and livers out to thaw.
I don’t know if this is supposed to be racist now so I’ll just keep quiet about it.
I do have a fainting couch nearby, just in case.
Neither watermelon nor collards were included, so it may be safe.
And I just remembered I still have leftover brisket & greens. And Church’s Chicken. And watermelon.
Do those stereotypes make me not-racist, culturally appropriative, or just hungry ?
It’s situational. Just to keep you on your toes.
I have almost a full bunch of mustard greens, left over (it was a garnish for a potato salad) and have no idea how to prepare them. How do you rednecks do it? Boil them until it’s a big mushy mass and then drench it with vinegar and pepper flakes?
Looks like work was a shitshow while I was gone.
Management rolled out more “How fucking stupid are you” policies. Stuff broke. More work was dumped on my group. Nothing was resolved. So, business as usual.
Oh, and my fever came back last night, but wandered away again this morning. If I can’t reach my doctor, I’m going to urgent care this evening.
Take that to the office.
JK. Get better.
The problem is likely non-contagious. Besides, today was already scheduled as a telecommute day.
🙁 Please do get yourself to the Doc-in-the-Box just as soon as you can get away from the “festivities.”
Since it was at night I was going to make a “fevered dreams” comment, but I got….nuthin’.
But do take the time to see a medical professional.
I hope you get better soon.
Thank you, everyone.
Mornin’ All! Sorry to hear of your flu-like symptoms, UCS. Just topped up the fish tank. Next task DUN-DUN-DUUUUUNNNNN! The cat box. It’s been three or four days, pray for both Festii! Man that little grey cat voids a lot. Dryer is running, washer loaded soon. Kitchen will wait for tomorrow. Inspection at work happens on Wednesday so that’s more joyful news!
I don’t have flu like symptoms. I have a fever and abdominal pain. I give it a high probability of being a gall bladder infection. The gall of that bacteria…
Ugh. The gall-bladder is attached to the pancreas. My pancreas tried to eat everything around it a couple of years ago. No bueno. Feel better, bud.
I appreciate the sentiment.
The NEA (National Education Association) goes all in on teaching CRT in American schools as well as explicitly funding opposition research for organizations and individuals that oppose it (gotta brainwash them kids early):
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/07/05/nea-goes-all-in-on-critical-race-theory-will-also-tackle-cisheteropatriarchy-capitalism-and-other-forms-of-power-and-oppression/
Sorry about the article consisting of tweets but it’s a decent summary.
The best part is we’re paying for it.
Ain’t it great? This is one of those things that needs to be crushed, if it’s allowed to come to fruition it really is going to be the end.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/7/3/22561910/chicago-weekend-shootings-july-2-5-homicide-gun-violence
I blame climate change.
I blame Illinois Nazis.
You’re supposed to blame Hoosier guns that walked into Illinois.
Over the counter Luger sales have been through the roof!
Yesterday there was some commie city council thing. Xer was pounding that drum like crazy and the ‘journalist’ did not ask Xer to explain why Indiana guns only cause crime in Chicago and not Indiana. He was either a coward, liar, or both.
We both (all?) know why that question is never broached, Friend Suthen.
The fact that so many guns migrate to Chicago is yet more proof of how superior a place it is, with more enlightened leadership and citizenry, than that backward, steel-mill-smelling hole to the southeast.
Probably because they do*.
* I don’t believe that the guns cause the crime whether from Indiana or not but to act like only Chicago has a crime problem is spurious.
Of course it is climate change.
They broke triple triple digits. Impressive…