Nice umping, dumbass.
The Orioles move a step closer to immortality.Pitiful. The Astros won and the A’s lost. Which is good. The Yankees rattled off their 11th straight win, although they may not have actually won the game. In football, the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac12 have joined forces to…something. I can’t quite figure it out. And across the pond, to looks like Ronaldo wants to play for the Man City “Buy whoever we want and fuck FFP rules” All-Stars, who are also trying to get Harry Kane on their side. And PSG will hang on to Mbappe after rejecting Real Madrid’s handsome offer. And that’s sports.
King shit.
Ivan the Terrible was born on this day. The Tsar shares it with such luminaries as Bavarian king Ludwig I, private dick Allan Pinkerton, author Bret Harte, actress Ruby Keeler, Commie Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap, East German sociopath Erich Honecker, racist assclown politician George Wallace, game show host Monty Hall, tennis great Althea Gibson, acting legend Sean Connery, baseball player Darrell Johnson, actor Tom Skerritt, newspaper magnate Conrad Black, pitcher Rollie Fingers, “rocker” Gene Simmons, rocker Rob Halford, musician Elvis Costello, filmmaker Tim Burton, outfielder Albert Belle, tv chef Rachel Ray, outfielders Doug Glanville and Justin Upton.
Hope that was enough baseball names. Because it’s time to move on to…the links!
Herschel Walker is running for the US Senate. He’s running as a republican, so expect the “race traitor” and “black white supremacist” pieces to start in earnest and accelerate over the next 14 months.
CACKLE-CACKLE-CACKLE
I think she should go anyway. Perhaps the solution is heavy exposure to her manic cackling at odd moments. But I’m just spitballing.
This is hilarious. Well, pathetic, actually. But it still made me chuckle.
I’m sorry you have to do your job. Perhaps you should quit if enforcing legitimate contracts stresses you out so much. Also, why does nobody seem to give two shits about the property owners who are getting screwed by the very government that is supposed to enforce the law blindly?
I sure as shit hope these guys win. You know, because the ATF is way out of line and basically anybody who’s used the trigger agrees that their arbitrary decision is a load of bullshit. But also because fuck the NFA.
I’d be surprised if anybody else is willing to take him. I mean, it’s Rutgers anyway, but nobody wants the baggage of having an anti-vaxxer” or whatever they’re calling people who question the efficacy of the piss-poor treatment nowadays.
Nice job, Joe. You dumb bastard.
The shitshow continues. Soon, it’ll be a bloodbath. Then…the media will simply move on to something else.
This is gonna piss off a lot of people. But not anybody in the WH, I can assure you. Now they can just use the “the courts are making us do this” excuse to slow illegal immigration and they can stem the tide of people flooding the camps where they’re housed. Not that the media were giving them nearly as much coverage as they did when the last guy was in charge. It also points out the hypocrisy of the left-wing judges on the court who simply ignored their own precedent from a scant few years ago.
Just in time to beat the recall election. But I’m sure that’s just a coincidence, right? No CA politician or party would ever pay for votes in order to maintain power.
Did they hire a smarmy kid to write this? First off, he completely misses the mark in his opening sentence. And then he goes in deeper with his “I can only imagine the daily dose of religious inspiration in store.” comment. How witty. How clever. How journalismic. Anyway, they own it and are finally doing something with it besides it being used as an RV storage and hobo encampment. But heaven forbid his daily commute view be spoiled by people who want to build something they want. Christ, what an asshole.
I don’t really care about their politics. This song rocked. Enjoy it!
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Sup Sloop & Glibronis??
Glibronis. I like it.
Halford and Simmons? I’m in good company today!
Sounds like you’re going to have to get leather pants for your birthday.
Kind of hard to find around here, Amazon maybe,
I prefer Jean Simmons.
Indeed!
“Herschel Walker is running for the US Senate. He’s running as a republican, so expect the “race traitor” and “black white supremacist” pieces to start in earnest and accelerate over the next 14 months.”
Already been happening. Remember that this guy came out and pointed out that if Trump was a racist then he had to be the dumbest black man ever for being such good family friends with the guy for decades only to be called an Uncle Tom by the asshats peddling the raciss! bullshit.
“Hershel Walker is running”
They’re taking our boys’ Jobs.
“Also, why does nobody seem to give two shits about the property owners who are getting screwed by the very government that is supposed to enforce the law blindly?”
I have it on good authority that 2 of the Donkey Squad members that peddled this “Being a landlord is not a real job” bullshit, themselves are landlords. In fact, one of them collected some $42K a month from rental property. But anyone else doing it are the bad guys…
“not a real job”
Okay, now do ppl on welfare.
HOW DARE YOU!
These people are VITIMS!!!1!!!eleventy!!
/morons
Now I’m gonna lose my home, ’cause some greedy landlord won’t gimme a break!
“Also, why does nobody seem to give two shits about the property owners who are getting screwed by the very government that is supposed to enforce the law blindly?”
Because the narrative is that they are all rolling in piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck. The truth is that it is the usual regulatory capture — destroy competition from small landlords to favor the huge rental companies.
The women with knives theme continues. I hope everything is copasetic sloop.
Those aren’t for me. They’re from me.
The Yankees rattled off their 11th straight win, although they may not have actually won the game
I thought Freeman was safe but that wouldve just tied the game. We won 11 in a row but our closer has a serious case of the yips. Literally cant throw his fastball for a strike. Threw about 12 sliders before getting yanked last night.
I pretend to be Yankees fan just to keep from getting written out of the will. I appreciate the update.
I will root for the Yankees just to drive my wife nuts. She is a fan of the Giants, and I cannot recognize a team that cheats and has a shitty ballpark.
“I sure as shit hope these guys win. You know, because the ATF is way out of line and basically anybody who’s used the trigger agrees that their arbitrary decision is a load of bullshit. But also because fuck the NFA.”
I hope so too, but that’s a dumb article. It doesn’t say what the trigger does.
Forced Reset Trigger.
*pew pew pew pew pew*
By holding my ruger mkIII awkwardly I can bump fire it and get it to rip through the 10 round magazine in under 3 seconds. I assume this is just a less awkward drop-in trigger that more elegantly achieves the same effect. That is turning ammo into smoke and noise.
I’ve bump-fired my Shadow 2 on more than one occasion. Fortunately, it’s so heavy that the second shot wound up almost exactly where the first one went.
With ammo prices in the sky and an impending ban on Russian imports, I would not think innovative ways to waste ammo would be real popular right now.
If it’s going in the direction you wanted it to, is it actually “wasted?”
Nobody tell them that you can slam fire early pump-action shotguns. Winchester 1897, anyone?
Moreover they were designed to slam fire.
And don’t bring up fanning a single action revolver.
I don’t know that it was designed that way, I was under the impression that they omitted the mechanism that resets the sear for ease of manufacture.
If it came from the factory ready to go, I’d call it designed that way.
Pre-1975 Ithacas.
Damn thee assuredly less nimble fingers.
Ithaca 37, the greatest of all pump shotguns, also.
Also, the Model 12 Winchester, the 520 and 520A Stevens, the Remington Model 10 and I’m pretty sure the early Savage Model 30s.
If you had Something Bad Happening at close quarters, you could do a lot worse than a bayonet-equipped slam-fire Model 97, Model 12 or 520A stuffed with buckshot.
It fires once. on the pull and once on the return, each a single function of the trigger. They are going to try and claim one rotation of the trigger is a single function.
Like Sean said, this one is a forced-reset, not a binary. It could definitely be an advantage in Open division.
so expect the “race traitor” and “black white supremacist” pieces to start in earnest
“Skin folk, not kin folk.”
Yeah, this is the stuff that really should frighten people. That there are people out there that demand racial based conformity (and then, always towards marxism) or they accuse you of being an enemy of those that have sucked Marx’s dick.
Seeing as being capital “B” Black is used to describe an ideology.
By this retarded logic, Walker isn’t black. He isn’t in their idiotic cult of victimhood.
New NY gov mandating masks in all NY schools. I told my kids they can get homeschooled if they want, only one of them likes that idea.
Buffalo is no better than downstate in producing worthwhile politicians.
The local NPR station said that all state workers were going to be on the vax or test plan. Sorry ’bout that.
The brain massage isn’t so bad.
What if the brain swab is not as it seems…
*Monotone* I have no idea what you could possibly be talking about */monotone*
Hypno-toad is pleased.
I think she should go anyway.
Unfortunately we are going to be stuck with her when Bumbling Biden gets 25th’d.
…there are fewer constables to do the emotional and often chaotic job of telling families to leave their homes.
Well, they’re not really “their” homes, are they? They are being forced to leave homes someone else’s home that they failed to pay for.
I would say prevented from paying for in many cases. This debacle is by design and the Fauci virus was the perfect pretense for this debacle.
I am a bit dizzy from having 3 hours sleep in the last three days. I should tell myself “Drop it! Get away from the keyboard!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9925153/Thousands-desperate-Americans-allies-scramble-Kabul.html
The vast majority of the pictures are of peoples backs because they don’t want you to see that they aren’t wearing any masks…
Maybe that’s why the US general in Kabul was told not to help these people? Cause they would endanger the troops with Kung Flu?
NPR said that “we” have evacuated 4000 Americans and 75,000 total.
If you need more proof that the angst from the leadership class about people not doing what they want and endangering humanity with the not-Kung Flu flu, look at yet another example of the rules applying to the rabble but not to them here.
A couple weeks ago the NJ Governor issued an imperial decree that all kids would were masks in school. He then immediately flew to Italy for a family vacation where they posted many pictures of themselves maskless.
Italian air is covid free dude.
“Man photographed as baby on ‘Nevermind’ cover sues Nirvana, alleging child pornography”
What the actual fuck?!!?
Somebody wants a payday and/or to be able to go on the talk show circuit about how traumatized he was.
“LOOK AT ME!”…
Did he give his consent to be photographed naked?
REVENGE PORN!
Every landlord is a criminal extracting unearned wealth
If i had one of these nearby i might have to get the shot. Cant be good for the obese people with the diabetes that got the vax.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/krispy-kreme-free-vaccine-doughnut-deal-just-got-even-sweeter/
There’s one around the corner from me. About two years ago they stopped giving out free donuts when the fresh sign was on. This was something I cheered as it meant I didn’t have to tell the girlfriend I wasn’t stopping every time we went by and the fresh sign was lit up.
Spencer Elden, the man whose unusual baby portrait was used for one of the most recognizable album covers of all time, Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that the nude image constituted child pornography.
Dave Grohl has a sad.
And does that mean that everyone who owns this album is guilty of possession of child pornography?
*Merrick Garland’s ears perk up*
Regarding the picture at the top “That’s the French Mistake!”
She’s concerned for the safety of the troops
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday warned lawmakers not to “unnecessarily divert” U.S. resources by traveling to Afghanistan after a pair of lawmakers — who both previously served tours in the Middle East — traveled to the Taliban-controlled nation.
The two lawmakers are Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), who confirmed their trips in a joint statement later Tuesday. Both are veterans who have been highly critical of the Biden administration’s handling of its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Given the urgency of this situation, the desire of some Members to travel to Afghanistan and the surrounding areas is understandable and reflective of the high priority that we place on the lives of those on the ground,” she wrote in her letter, which was obtained by POLITICO.
But, Pelosi said, officials at the Departments of State and Defense had urged lawmakers not to travel to the highly volatile region “during this time of danger.”
“Member travel to Afghanistan and the surrounding countries would unnecessarily divert needed resources from the priority mission of safely and expeditiously evacuating America and Afghans at risk from Afghanistan,” Pelosi said in the letter Tuesday evening.
Besides, there is important
workpolitical grandstanding to be done right here at home.“the high priority that we place on the lives of those on the ground,”
Assuming facts not in evidence.
Never the less if these two clowns go I hope they lose their next election. No good guys in this story.
???
He is just mad that they only paid him one dollar.
I was in the water! It was COLD!
So that NYP article from the previous thread should have been titled “Eric Adams Robs Prostitute.”
Who pays a hooker with a money order?
Jerry Springer used a check that bounced. (((atypical)))
Which saved us all from Jerry trying to run for governor. But condemned us all to his television show.
Would it have been that much of a downgrade though over the litany of Kasich-clones? At least it would have been entertaining.
He would still be running for office throughout the states. FFS, Kucinich is running for mayor of Cleveland again. And there’s people who support the moronic midget.
Christ. It is the 70s all over again.
Those poor cops. Why do people force them to do the things they do?
It isn’t all bad. Sometimes there is a dog to shoot.
Did they hire a smarmy kid to write this? – that is one ugly piece of architecture, like all grain silos. I don;t know why people fetishize this shit. Like old factories and stuff. Very few have any architectural worth, and even those that do should be torn down should the owner want to rebuild
Very few have any architectural worth, and even those that do should be torn down should the owner want to rebuild.
Yes, “historic preservation” laws are bullshit. You want to preserve it? Fine, buy it.
But I can’t afford it! And I enjoy it in the landscape!
my peeve is people who oppose building over green spaces that are not part of public parks or anything like that. My neighbor has a garden and I like having trees not a house next to me so my neighbor should not be allowed to build because green spaces are insufficient in the cities. I would recommend these people have their house demolished to create green spaces.
My father has a wooded lot adjacent to his house. He doesn’t want anyone to build there. His solution? He’s trying to buy the lot from the current owner.
If you want to keep a plot empty – buy the plot yourself.
But it is cheaper to buy politicians over the long run
We’re trying to buy the vacant lots on either side of us for precisely that reason.
Everybody knows grain silos are high art.
One of these links is not available in Europe. Guess which one.
With regard to “Havana Syndrome,” are there any medical procedures that State Department personnel are required to undergo before traveling/being assigned to the particular locations where it has been reported? Any commonalities to local environmental conditions or health concerns?
“Last December, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a report that concluded that “directed, pulsed radio frequency energy appears to be the most plausible mechanism…”
Shouldn’t that be relatively easy to detect once you know to look for it?
I would think so. If they believe that’s the cause, then they should have a bunch of antennae and receivers set up to scan a wide band of frequencies, and likely triangulation equipment too. If they don’t, then either they don’t care about the cause, or they don’t believe that’s the cause. It’s not magic.
In order to affect humans, it would have to be exceedingly high power unless they’ve discovered some mechanism of RF/Neurological interaction I’ve never heard of.
Humans are mostly water and at higher frequencies, the EM just gets absorbed and dissipated into the skin.
In short, the pulses would have to be below 200MHz in order to have any effect. That kind of equipment is not particularly easy to hide at the power levels we’re talking about.
“Possible case of ‘Havana syndrome’ in Vietnam delays Vice President Harris’ visit”
How furiously is Pelosi pinching & pulling on her bean, thinking of both of them knocked-out at once ?
ewwwwwww
Seconded
No stealing Sug’s thunder!
after the agency said they determined the trigger to be a machine gun,
Unsurprising given that they consider a piece of steel to be a “firearm” just because it is shaped like a receiver.
From my days skipping class to play Panzer General I learned that having infantry on an airfield was a great way to get them wiped out. What are the odds that the Tollybahn are positioning all the artillery they own to shell KBL?
I doubt it, I would assume they wouldn’t want to do something likely to provoke a serious response now that they have complete control of the country.
Yeah, I still think they just want us to get gone–it’ll be harder for Biden and the military leadership to sell a return invasion than a reaction to a Taliban attack while we’re still there.
I would agree, but would they think it’s worth the risk to wipe out whatever remains on September 1 counting on Biden to respond like Carter? If it worked, they’d be the greatest jihadis since Saladin.
Nah, they already have everything they want, why take the chance on fucking it up? They are not stupid, and are likely aware of the maxim that when your enemy is screwing up, don’t interfere.
We’ll find out in a week.
I kinda doubt that the command and control structure is established well enough for the Taliban to have that kind of control yet.
Right now I suspect the leadership is fighting a battle to keep “rogue elements” from shooting down planes or murdering civilians in front of the airport.
I understand that, but how “seriously” would this administration take a move like that ? Cry to the UN for more “sanctions” after the goo of our servicemembers is mopped-up off the tarmac ?
3D chess option: US is baiting the Taliban to move all their field pieces to a location where they can be rapidly wiped out.
No, I don’t believe that at all.
Wait, I thought Cuba had the world’s greatest medical system? Why wouldn’t we send any of our patienst needing a “medical center of excellence” to Havana?
Pssst. It’s a lie.
? My favorite from that album.
Better Midnight Oil.
Truth. Also better Midnight Oil.
ALMOST NAKED SWIMWEAR – 4K Runway Show 2021 by DCSW @ SLS Hotel | Miami Swim Week July 9th – 8:15pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF9Hdbv0Oco
Miss Colà Terme 2021 (PRIMA SELEZIONE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ2-_XQNRsg
There was a big hit piece yesterday on Walker in Politico or the Hill, I think.
He’s crazy. And unqualified. No serious-minded Republican wants him to run. He’ll just ruin everything.
… No serious-minded Republican wants him to run.
If that isn’t a gold-plated endorsement, I don’t know what is.
Soon, it’ll be a bloodbath. Then…the media will simply move on to something else.
I think they want us to go back in there in force.
Afghans cause a STAMPEDE at the airport amid fears of an ISIS-K attack
The fuck is that? I am pretty sure that is just Isis. The “JV squad” is back, baby.
Dude, the kappa variant is 2500x worse than ISIS-D!
ISIS -Khorasan Province
They have been knocking around the Nangahar area since 2014-ish, never really got much traction. Muslim extremism market was pretty crowded and without backing from Pakistan’s ISI they were not going to be a viable organization.
We were trying to get them and the Taliban to kill each other on my last deployment. It didn’t work, the Tallys did not see them as enough of a threat to worry about.
“Masks are back: Oregon becomes first state in US to reimpose OUTDOOR mask mandate, regardless of vaccination status”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9924291/Oregon-state-reintroduce-OUTDOOR-face-mask-mandate.html
SCIENCE!!
I don’t get it. Is this just for state workers?
This is why they have to mandate vaccines, so everyone is protected, but you need to wear masks, because the vaccines don’t protect you…
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/memo-military-threatens-to-revoke-benefits-from-marines-who-decline-covid-vaccine/
is that legal? seems strange
Marines will lose their pensions, tuition assistance, and access to the G.I. bill, along with other military benefits, if they refuse the COVID-19 vaccination, according to internal emails reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Should be a violation of contract unless there is a “the gov’t can inject you with whatever it wants” clause.
Service members are partial wards of the state. Forced vaccination is allowed. There is a battery of shots at BCT. I recall mandatory flu shots every year. I was also ordered to get a yellow fever vaccination for Alaska.
The military has also banned medical procedures. I recall LASIK was prohibited.
But they’re totally paying for bolt on boobs (for guys) these days, right?
How times change. Those were verboten for women.
Not so far.
The requirements for a T to enter the military says they have to be stable in their process for a period of time.
Being stable precludes a significant portion of that population.
Article is not well written. Basically, if troops refuse the vaccine once they are ordered to receive it, they can receive punishment and potentially separated from the military, thus losing their benefits.
That’s pretty well understood throughout the military and is a piece of what Ozy is going after right now.
“A lawyer for the rapper filed a petition to change Kanye’s name from his birth name of Kanye Omari West to Ye, according to The Blast.
Kanye, 44, cited ‘personal’ reasons behind his decision to change his name in legal documents, however did not provide any other details.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9923885/Kanye-West-files-legally-change-YE-amid-divorce-Kim-Kardashian.html
He’s transitioning to Yeezy?
The correct answer is “who gives a shit?”
I see the new album has a good amount of gospel on it. No n-words or foul language, either.
I’m not convinced they ever get divorced. It’s been six months. (I know there’s a lot of money, etc. involved)
The oldest trick in the book
A woman who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan reportedly said militants are searching for sex slaves and having sex with corpses.
The woman was a police officer in Afghanistan before fleeing to India following the group’s insurgence into Kabul, she said.
Women were either taken or shot, she added.
“They rape dead bodies too,” the woman told News 18, according to a report from India’s North-Eastern Chronicle. “They don’t care whether the person is dead or alive. … Can you imagine this?”
Inhuman monsters. Who WOULDN’T slaughter them all? Get back in there and finish the job.
I’d say send them western feminists who scream about Islamophobia in exchange for afghan girls.
There are some amazingly beautiful women from that region. I support making this trade.
I think Pie should be calling the shots. This guy knows how to fix shit…
Naw, he has odd ideas about food, units of measure, and living in cities.
No, I can’t imagine or believe this.
Do you mean that there might be a concerted propaganda effort to get us to use “kinetic action” in Kabul? Fog of war is so thick right now nothing is believable.
I heard they’re killing babies in incubators.
Oh, wait, no, that was other kids.
Meh… all those girls will end up in the Taliban’s famous Kadaververwertungsanstalt, along with all the Kabul babies dumped out of incubators. I hear the Taliban also attacked a US ship in the harbor.
I think this is believable. Widespread rape of women is common in conquest and sex slaves are part of the culture over there. Rape of dead bodies maybe not so much, but I could see a few instances of the Taliban getting carried away.
We’ve had a extremely sanitized view of humanity in America for several generations now. Dan Carlin paints a much more disturbing basic state of man.
We’ve had a extremely sanitized view of humanity in America for several generations now.
Part of the reason we no longer have the stomach to do what needs to be done to actually win a war.
Extraordinary claims of necrophilia require evidence.
Sounds more like she’s found a gravy train on the human trafficking/neocon circuit.
It’s not like we’re talking about Germans.
Ozy – thank you for the vaccine link last night. When my company starts pressuring me to vax, I’ll insist on the approved vaccine. Not sure if I’d actually get it, but it would buy time.
“OnlyFans’ founder has blamed banks for the company’s ban on sexually explicit content, which stars of the platform say will either force them out of business or else drive them to switch to a new channel.
Company founder Tim Stokely was last week condemned for abandoning sex workers who say they’ve built his fortune, but he has now insisted that banks which process the start-up’s payments were to blame for the ban.
‘The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is banks,’ he told the Financial Times.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9922893/OnlyFans-founder-blames-unfair-banks-ban-explicit-sexual-content.html
Considering how heavily regulated banks are, they shouldn’t be allowed to do things based on moral or political objections.
“The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is government pressure on banks”
FIFH
The puritans will always be with us.
Ass Wednesday will now appear on the cover of Nevermind instead.
https://archive.li/g3HL8
As mentioned on the dead thread, indoor mask mandates started today. Vax mandates started on Monday. If we don’t comply we will soon be destitute. We are both too old to start over and our nest-egg isn’t near the hatch. We’ve been broken. This is an unfair world. I never thought this would happen but here we are.
Ozy’s link last night.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mainstream-media-fda-approval-pfizer-vaccine/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f34e5fbf-195c-4ff7-b4db-8f5b98964da7
Insist on the FDA approved vaccine.
As so happens I am vaccinated with the pfizer
That will work great….in Canada.
All news is incentivized to be catastrophic. Just like the risks of the ‘vid are hyped up, so are the risks of the vack.
It’s a non-zero chance of death. And the long term effects are completely unknown.
I don’t want it or need it, and no one can force me to get it.
I don’t want it or need it, and no one can force me to get it. – do not underestimate karenism
Pretty much what my doc said yesterday. Take it at your own risk. “Here are the facts/unknowns”
^^ Sean nails it.
Sorry to hear that Festus.
Happy Birthday, Bob! I agree with Festus from the last thread; go cook up a nice hunk of meat, maybe some veg, drink a strong beer, and get creative with music/painting/whatever.
Yes.
Happy Birthday Yusef!
People forget that ISIS and the Taliban hate each other almost as much as they hate America. I don’t know what their relative strengths are but I think civil war is almost a certainty as soon as the rest of the Western forces leave.
“leave”
In honor of Halford, my favorite totally-not-gay Priest song. I mean, just cause the album was titled Point of Entry…
Better Priest – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_mpt8xyZVI
Even better cover – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YoJdAzAqUM
A couple of days ago, I was talking to a couple of friends, and of course the topic of “have you been vaxxed?” came up. This one guy started looking over his shoulder to see who was around, before he said no. It was creepy. Exactly as you would expect somebody to behave in the presence of potential Stasi informers.
Yup. Unclean! A snazzy badge would put the curlicue atop the cone.
There are not enough lampposts.
Our neighborhood doesn’t have street lights, but we have plenty of trees and rope.
OK, so I can’t pull for UGA (Tech man and son of one, so Herschel was the enemy growing up), but I did marry one of ’em, so I’m sorta in a truce. But to (I think) quote Larry Munson: “Run Herschel run!”
Had a nice afternoon doing a birthday sail with the wife in Charleston Harbor yesterday, followed by a nice dinner at a steakhouse in town. Now it’s back to work and catching all the flack for having the temerity to take a (scheduled) half day. Oh, well, the nice little bright spots are what make it all worth it.
Sounds damn fine, happy bday Dub!
Happy Birthday!
“opportunistic terrorists” take the opportunity to do what, exactly? Kill a bunch of random people? I mean I get the concept that the Taliban would use terrorism to dissuade Afghans from trying to escape. But the way the media report on terrorism (and this has long been the case) is that they just seem to assume it’s random and done for no cause. That terrorism isn’t a time tested way of attempting to force political or societal change, as brutal, immoral, and evil as it is.
The Taliban will shortly be in total control of Afghanistan, after which terror attacks (if they’re happening at all) will fade into midnight knocks on the door. Once the “terrorists” are in charge, their tactics change from open attacks to police-state business. The terror remains, but it’s generated by a different method–the purpose changes from establishing control to maintaining it.
By definition, Terrorism is for a cause. Otherwise it’s just murder/arson/etc
Thanks for making what I wrote look like too many words.
Solution: have your wife dress up as a clown and then peg you.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15944496/nightmares-about-being-attacked-by-a-clown/
Guaranteed success.
I thought the recommended treatment was to put on a cowl and become a vigilante crime-fighter.
Only if you’re rich enough.
“Crime Clown”
Clowns are the DEVIL!
No we aren’t. Fuck John Wayne Gacy hope he’s rotting in hell.
Do you have a tiny car that can somehow fit 20 of your friends ?
I have a 93 miata, but can only fit 20 friends if I cut them up into little bits.
Everything is the devil to you, Mama.
OK, Col. Sanders….
“I once saw a horse kill a clown. I just don’t really like horses.”
–Parker
Why dont cannibals eat clowns ?
Because they taste funny.
Something for our Brit-tabloid glibs. And HM.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-told-guardian-angel-back-24805166
#ass-eating confirmed
LOLOLOL
“he Man City “Buy whoever we want and fuck FFP rules” All-Stars, who are also trying to get Harry Kane on their side.”
Just announced he’s staying at Spurs (at least through this transfer window): https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/58331546
*pops little champagne bottle*
Although I was actually hoping to sell him at peak value and start rebuilding.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine
“Additionally, the FDA conducted a rigorous evaluation of the post-authorization safety surveillance data pertaining to myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and has determined that the data demonstrate increased risks, particularly within the seven days following the second dose. The observed risk is higher among males under 40 years of age compared to females and older males. The observed risk is highest in males 12 through 17 years of age. Available data from short-term follow-up suggest that most individuals have had resolution of symptoms. However, some individuals required intensive care support. Information is not yet available about potential long-term health outcomes. The Comirnaty Prescribing Information includes a warning about these risks.”
So… it’s approved now. But, the long term effects are still unknown. Which is why people aren’t getting it.
But it’s approved…?
Also, why did we have to choose the booster shot that used a previously un-used method of ‘simulating’ the virus through spike proteins? Does anyone know why this one was approved first?
“Comirnaty contains messenger RNA (mRNA), a kind of genetic material. The mRNA is used by the body to make a mimic of one of the proteins in the virus that causes COVID-19. The result of a person receiving this vaccine is that their immune system will ultimately react defensively to the virus that causes COVID-19. The mRNA in Comirnaty is only present in the body for a short time and is not incorporated into – nor does it alter – an individual’s genetic material. Comirnaty has the same formulation as the EUA vaccine and is administered as a series of two doses, three weeks apart. “
I thought the doses for Comirnaty were scheduled on a five-year plan?
“But it’s approved…?”
It’s “approved” because of a cynical political scheme to allow mandates. It’s disgusting.
I don’t even know what they were arguing about but I remember my friend’s dad lying on the floor with blood all over his face.
“I said twenty bucks, same as downtown.”
It has nothing to do with the ineptitude of the US government and that vast armaments left to be claimed by the Taliban…
Whether from drought or flood-ravaged soil, farmers in the region struggle to maintain productive crops and livestock. When they cannot profitably farm, they’re forced to borrow funds to survive. When Afghans can’t pay off lenders, the Taliban often steps in to sow government resentment.
“If you’ve lost your crop and land or the Afghan government hasn’t paid enough attention [to you] then of course, the Taliban can come and exploit it,” said Kamal Alam, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center.
The Taliban has capitalized on the agricultural stress and distrust in government to recruit supporters. Alam said the group has the means to pay fighters more, $5-$10 per day, than what they can make farming.
“[Farmers] fall into choices. That’s when they become prey to people who would tell them, ‘Look, the government is screwing you over and this land should be productive. They’re not helping you. Come and join us; let’s topple this government,'” said Nadim Farajalla, director of the climate change and environment program at the American University of Beirut.
Climate change, there is nothing it can’t do.
It did not allow the marxists to fuck us all economically in the ass, yesterday, although some people seem to have volunteered for that….
That’s not our plane.
Afghan civilians board @usairforce C-17 Globemasters at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. #HKIA
11 year old daughter returned from Florida vacation all sicky-sicky. Took her to the DR yesterday; no ChiComPox, no Strep, just a real no-foolin’ bout of influenza. The impression I was given by the TV news and our apparatchiks in FedGov was that the flu was beaten to death by the ChiComPox.
You took her to the Dominican Republic ?
Just saw a headline this morning talking about the dreaded double-demic of flu and ‘vid this year, just as it was predicted for last year.
Influenza and Coronavirus fight for the same victims. We’re not going to see any unuaul numbers.
You know this. I know this. Most of the people here know this.
I have this weird contractual clause where I have to report a certain number of known facts.
Just venting a bit, considering it was a news headline.
Unrelated, sent you a message over in the forums if you’ve got a second.
Answered the message. I haven’t been on the forums for a while, so I hadn’t seen the notification
And now an announcement from the Ministry of Truth
“The strategy is to combat mis- and disinformation from any source,” Cameron Webb, White House senior policy adviser for Covid-19 equity, said of the administration’s more forceful engagement with governors flouting federal recommendations. “Ultimately, history’s going to look back at what’s happening in different states. We are going to see and say who used the moment for the short term and who used the moment with the big, much greater goal of keeping people safe.”
senior policy adviser for Covid-19 equity
What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?
It means bend over and get your equity.
The strategy is to combat mis- and disinformation from any source
The US government and it’s media arm seem to be the primary source.
That’s the right kind of misinformation. It’s for your own good too….
So the government employs people who can see into the future. Got it.
You mean a woman who has sex on camera for a living WORE PASTIES TO GO BOWLING?!?!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/fashion-beauty/porn-star-leaves-fans-gobsmacked-24834980
I’m *shocked*, SHOCKED.
If she was bowling in my town, I might have to look into picking up bowling….
You could slap those fake tits together and bowl with them.
“They’re not fake if I can put my mouth on them” – a contactor of mine, while we were out drinking
Whoever that guy is, gets it.
Bowling barefoot seems like a good way to break a toe.
I’ll never forget that time when I was playing Little League and we were up against the powerhouse team. The team that funded the league because Grandpa built the park. The only respected umpire, Mr. Zimmer came over to a dejected dugout and told us to be proud of where we were. A fourth place team playing against the 70’s era Montreal Canadiens. Damned if that didn’t fire us up! We won the trophy. We need more Mr. Zimmer and less teleprompter.
You were Tanner Boyle, weren’t you? https://youtu.be/xSQxtMWJzGQ
I was playing Center Field and I caught a liner off the bat and then nearly threw the ball away because I was so fucking excited. This was before I learned how to be good at baseball. I started studying after we won and got good. Pretty good… I would have made college ball.
I had a conversation with Little Miss “I’m a natural at polo” at hte dog park yesterday. She is, of course, a vegan yogini. She made some comment about “people are” and seemed genuinely taken aback and surprised in a good way when I replied “I find it difficult to generalize about people.”
You go get some some you ratty bastard! Outstanding work!
Good morning, Sloop!
Some good birthdays today to distract from the crazy news.
The Nirvana thing is hilarious, but I wonder how much it’s gonna cost them to settle.
The wheels are coming off the bus. No way we get everyone out by Tuesday. Bloodbath/hostage situation are equally likely, but I suspect holding hostages for more pallets of cash is more sensible for the Taliban. Either way, this is looking more and more sinister. Incompetence alone can’t account for all the bad decisions.
Oh well, onwards and upwards, right? Can’t let these motherfuckers occupy our consciousness and co-opt our positivity. I know you don’t like him, Sloop, but here’s something from the birthday boy.
Have a great day!
Worth a read.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1367470476528934919.html
Excerpt
That was good. Thanks!
“The wheels are coming off the bus. No way we get everyone out by Tuesday. Bloodbath/hostage situation are equally likely, but I suspect holding hostages for more pallets of cash is more sensible for the Taliban. Either way, this is looking more and more sinister. Incompetence alone can’t account for all the bad decisions.”
You are correct. I think the powers that be want a bloodbath, on TeeVee, so they can force the American tax payer to change their minds this adventure of theirs that was lucrative for some connected people, was a waste of time, money, and American lives. They want to keep their cash cow and their opium trade.
I suspect they will collect American civilians, charge them as accessories to unjust warfare and execute them on 9/11/2021.
Not sure how we would respond.
A strongly worded letter, delivered by a non binary tranny wearing three masks.
I’d hate to have to say it, but I’m in the ‘gross incompetence camp.’ The federal government really has become a giant cancer of rent seeking scum. The leeches are finally going to suck the host dry.
Mencius Moldbug refers to this combination of incompetence, malice, greed, and inertia as Sclerotic Brezhnevism.
Malice usually follows incompetence as the incompetent seek to save their own asses.
Meant to post last night but got distracted by Metallica and Weezer arguments:
Ultra-Vaxxed Israel’s Crisis Is a Dire Warning to America
Daily Beast sheepishly admitting things might not be working. Also this:
As of this week, all Israelis over 30 will be eligible to receive booster shots. By the end of the month, they are expected to be universally available to anyone over the age of 12 who received their second vaccine five months or more ago.
Israel will then reconfigure its Green Passports, granting them only to the triple-vaccinated, and limiting their validity to six months. In anticipation of this change, the number of unvaccinated Israelis getting their first shots has tripled since the beginning of August.
Double vaxxed passport will be useless soon.
Yep. It’s beginning to fall apart. The statistics on vaccine injuries from third shots should be “interesting”
But I don’t want no booster shot
I really don’t want the booster shot, especially since I opted for the J&J one and done method. It’s insane how quickly we are sliding into mandatory boosters forever.
Just wait until we’re at the point of daily boosters!
Nirvana: He’s proving them right, he was chasing the elusive dollar then and he’s doing it now. File under meta as fuck.
The gaslighting continues apace.
The Democratic National Committee wants you to know: It’s been a success.
Who are you going to believe, huh? Them and their bullshit or your lying eyes and common sense?
For those with a strong stomach:
Holiday in the Hamptons
Remember, you’ve been warned.
I never listen. Why don’t I listen?
It could have been worse … swimsuits.
WOA!
Is that Bill Clinton and a new inter walking next to “Pizza The Hut”?
Notice how she has to prevent a single ray of sunlight from contacting her skin.
The Dark Ones do not abide the daylight.
Is that Huma with them?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-have-home-all-creators-onlyfans-reverses-planned-porn-ban
We were not done making bazillion of $$$.
Starting to look like it was a free publicity stunt. Well played.
Well…that is scary that I posted here.
Can’t ban porn, too much money in it.
Or they agreed to give the banksters a bigger slice of the pie.
I wonder how many Hunter paintings they had to buy to get the Operation Choke Point banks to relent?
Right out of some SF horror, that is.
sloopy hit all the baseball birthdays, but left out that Fingers is in the baseball (and surely also the mustache) Hall of Fame.
Dick Rudolph had over 23.1 career WAR and you missed him.
Max Muncy is over 15 WAR and in his sixth season. He is also 31 today, but is having his best season (already at 5.6 WAR this year).
Florida Republicans, especially those close to DeSantis, welcome the White House’s focus on the governor, arguing that it is not only boosting him but also shows the opposing party is worried about him.
“It shows the weaknesses of their policies and the great support for what the governor is doing,” said Ferré. And DeSantis’ press secretary, Christina Pushaw, said the Republican governor is making his decision “based on scientific data and empirical evidence, not virtue signaling or political considerations.”
The undercurrent to all comments from Florida Republicans is that Biden, who could run for reelection in 2024, is calling out DeSantis, in part, because he could be his opponent in his bid for a second term.
“The governor has a pulse on what is important in Florida, and that really is a resonating message” beyond just the Sunshine State, Ferré argued.
That argument, said John Anzalone, a longtime Biden political adviser and pollster, shows how DeSantis’ scrap with the White House is “planned out” and the governor is “driving it from a political perspective.”
“When you really cut to the chase, Ron DeSantis isn’t even speaking to his constituents in Florida. He is speaking to Republican primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire,” said Anzalone. “He is the poster child for political rhetoric and irresponsibility on this issue.”
Politics is everything. Nothing else matters to these morons.
…yes?
I love telling dwags when they think they are gonna win a national title that “Herschel ain’t walking thru that door.” Well, now he is. Still won’t help them out any.
Honestly, he could run on the “I am Herschel Walker” party and cruise to victory in Georgia.
Alright. Done saying stupid, irrational things for now. Have a great day, my lovelies! I’ll be back about 4 in the morning, sane time, same station.
Bye Festus! I hope you do something you enjoy in the next 25 hours!
Blue whales returning to Spain’s Atlantic coast after 40-year absence
Some experts fear climate crisis is leading creatures back to area where they were hunted almost to extinction
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/24/blue-whales-returning-to-spains-atlantic-coast-after-40-year-absence
area where they were hunted almost to extinction – so… their natural habitat?
If the climate crisis isn’t stopped, extinct creatures may return.
saber tooth tigers? oh no! think of the children
Im more afraid of the horndogs around here getting yellow fever
Whales… tasty… tasty whales.
*whispers* Fossil fuels saved the whales.
Never miss a chance to blubber about the “climate crisis”.
Agreed, never underestimate the depths the climate warriors will sink to.
Huh
A mistrial was declared Tuesday in the federal case against attorney Michael Avenatti, who is accused of embezzling millions of dollars from his clients for personal use and to pay creditors.
US District Court Judge Michael V. Selna in Orange County, California, granted the motion for mistrial on technical grounds, ruling that prosecutors failed to turn financial evidence over to Avenatti.
Prosecutorial misconduct is a “technicality”?
It wasn’t dismissed with prejudice, as the new trial is scheduled for October, so it might have been a technicality?
Did you really think the machine would take the risk of this guy feeling they had cornered him and him then telling the rubes that the machine is a crime syndicate? I guess they decided that if he was Epsteined/MacAfeed people would know this was bullshit…
Unity, healing, etc.
The Democratic chairman of the committee investigating the January 6th MAGA riot in the Capitol revealed on Monday he’ll seek phone records from several hundred people, including Republican members of Congress, as part of the probe.
Rep. Bennie Thompson declined to identify which lawmakers would be sought but told reporters on Capitol Hill his committee is reaching out to tech and communications companies as well as social media platforms for hundreds of records from that day.
‘We have quite an exhaustive list of people. I won’t tell you who they are, but it’s several hundred people that make up the list of people we are planning to contact,’ he said when asked if the list included family members of former President Donald Trump.
He confirmed it also includes some Republican lawmakers.
While it’s unclear which lawmakers are on Thompson’s list, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Rep. Jim Jordan both have said they spoke to then-President Trump that day.
Q: And do you believe you’ll be running against former President Trump?
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, come on. I don’t even think about — I don’t — I have no idea. I have no idea if there will be a Republican Party. Do you? I know you don’t have to answer my question, but, I mean, you know, do you?
I love how the crowd who worships those brave Hollywood commies and hisses at the evil HUAC, is completely silent on the current generation of congressional overreach and unlawful snooping. At least there actually were ComIntern backed commies trying to destabilize and manipulate the US.
Also, Julius and Ethel were guilty as fuck and deserved every watt they got.
A one party state. That sounds nifty.
Cuomo stripped of Emmy
Not for his actions related to nursing homes.
My boss was ASTONISHED he resigned.
Direct quote”I saw him on TV and I figured he would be our next President.”
The man had no idea about the nursing home deaths until very recently, but didn’t think that was Cuomo’s fault and wasn’t sure what to make of the sex allegations.
I told him he was surprised because he didn’t pay attention and he kind of agreed with me on that point. This whole thing makes my brain hurt.
Do you live in NY? Outside the NY area I think it’s more understandable, otherwise damn we’re doomed.
We are in Virginia, maybe because I hate politicians to begin with and always though the COVID regime was illegitimate, it is easier to not be impressed by him getting on TV.
Problem seems to be too many people see him on TV and agree with my boss.
McAwful will make you a believer in the regime, or at least make you kneel before Zod.
The MSM were universally, furiously fellating him for more than a year.
Everyone knows proggies can’t be sexual abusers and are ALWAYS victims, DUH!
Never let facts get in the way of a good anecdotal sob story
A 77-year-old woman has died from COVID-19 after testing positive while sailing on a Carnival cruise to Belize, marking the first reported death since cruises restarted in the Caribbean and United States in June.
The Carnival Vista cruise ship sailing out of Galveston, Texas, reported 27 people testing positive over two weeks in late July and early August, the highest number of cases since cruises started sailing again.
NBC News was working to confirm the identity of the woman, who died on Aug. 14. The New York Times reported she was a great-grandmother from Oklahoma.
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“We are very sorry to hear about the death of a guest who sailed on Carnival Vista,” Carnival said in a statement. “Regrettably, there is a fair amount of disinformation about the circumstances of this matter.
“The guest almost certainly did not contract COVID on our ship, and she was assisted with expert medical care on board and was ultimately evacuated from Belize after we provided a resource to her family. We have continued to provide support to her family and are not going to add to their sadness by commenting further.”
It’s Greg Abbot’s fault for not requiring vaccines.
She was 77. LIke 80 year-old Charlie Watts, struck down in her prime. Who knows what she could have grown up to be, or what her potential was.
I heard she was thinking about going to stevedore school and turning her life around.
Ultimately, history’s going to look back at what’s happening in different states. We are going to see and say who used the moment for the short term and who used the moment with the big, much greater goal of keeping people safe.
Except we actually have a history to judge by. The states that this guy and his allies said were going to become disease-ridden wastelands turned out to have far, far, better results than the states this guy and his allies were holding out as national exemplars. Going by history, this guy and his allies should be properly seen as discredited. Fortunately for them, they have a media complex incapable of any sort of historical memory or contemporary observation. Ben Rhodes was essentially correct when he observed that the media was too stupid and inexperienced to play any role beyond court stenographer (to the Democrats, whether they’re in power or not).
People don’t remember history. I’ve already started seeing headlines about the piles of bodies that Sturgis has caused “again”.
They’re just drunk. Once they sleep it off, they’ll get on their bikes and ride away.
https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
Control is irrelevant.
Well Romania is finally getting around to banning plastic plates, cups, straws, cutlery, takeaway boxes, q-tips et al
Hopefully not dildoes or rubbers…..
Dildo? That contraption is a dil-DONT
Ugh… Sorry to hear that. I encountered my very first paper straw in the wild a few weeks ago. It was terrible. The thing was flaccid and disintegrating before I was halfway done with my milkshake.
You guys really need to stop throwing that shit in the Pacific Ocean.
Good. *smiles and rubs palms together*
You have to buy my trees. Sealed bids only!
Bummer
The weeknight edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show” will come to an end sometime next year, according to multiple sources with knowledge of her new contract with MSNBC’s parent company NBCUniversal.
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Maddow’s expected departure from her daily time slot is seismic for MSNBC, since she is the highest-rated host by far. “She’s our Oprah,” one senior staffer remarked. Maddow’s expected departure from her daily time slot is seismic for MSNBC, since she is the highest-rated host by far, sometimes doubling the channel’s other shows in key demographics.
CNN Business reported earlier this week that the five-day-a-week version of her show will come to an end in 2022. She will still appear on MSNBC, but far less often.
Maybe Random Drunken Asshole is available.
I bet she misses Trump more than the hardcore MAGAs.
“She’s our Oprah,” Way to appropriate the success of a black woman and equate your pithy show to a media empire. But ya, she is your Oprah.
Also from Romania truck narrowly misses 90 year old woman jaywalking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMptJ-cQgw
Also this week the all time speed record was set on Romanian public roads of 288 kph. This does not mean no one went faster, just no one was registered by the cops going faster
That looks like an attempted suicide.
“Perhaps you should quit if enforcing legitimate contracts stresses you out so much. Also, why does nobody seem to give two shits about the property owners who are getting screwed by the very government that is supposed to enforce the law blindly?”
I haven’t don’t an eviction in more than 18 months. One was scheduled last week but the deadbeat managed to get it put off again. I wasn’t aware that in some locations in the country that the sheriff is the one that takes down the door. Here it is not like that. They consider themselves as only acting in a civil matter, not a criminal matter, and so they will only enter if they have a clear path. Usually that means picking or drilling the locks, but I have had a couple barricade situations and of course many people inside who wouldn’t open the door. Those are obviously highly stressful as I am the first one in the line of potential fire. I’ve done hundreds and out of those maybe 5 or 6 I have felt sorry for the people getting booted. Here it is generally at least six months of non rent payment, usually nine or more. I have seen some true horror stories of absolute nightmare tenants and property destruction.
I’ve always been under the impression that eviction was a last resort measure when reasonable discussion has failed.
Never having been on either side of the matter, I can’t say for certain. But your anecdote seems to bear that out. I suppose some people have the impression that there are landlords who want to throw out their tenants at every excuse because relisting a unit and not getting rent again until it’s filled is a fun process.
I have seen some true horror stories of absolute nightmare tenants and property destruction.
Seems like either paying cash for keys or hiring Tony Soprano would both be better solutions than the eviction process.
I read an article once about a reluctant landlord evicting someone from an inherited property and had to go to court.
His tenant had known this day was coming and did absolutely nothing to prepare. He was struck by how many people in court had a story about the check didn’t show up, or they didn’t get the money they were hoping for and their attitude seemed to be “it happened to me” not I need to figure something out or make plans for this.
I wish I could find it because it was a real good look at a self defeating attitude.
At one point it was surprising to me the number of people who know that day is coming and have still done absolutely nothing. Here it is a serious burden and process for the landlord to get done. The tenant is given every single opportunity to stay. Once the final decree comes down they are very much informed as to exactly when it will go down, and yet still have not packed a damn thing or prepared in any way.
And yes, Semi-Spartan, I have also seen many cases of deadbeats getting handed multiple thousands of dollars (sometimes tens of thousands) to vacate. Shit, on at least two occasions I have seen squatters get sums of more than 20k to get their asses out the door. It is crazy. And then ejit progressives wonder why it is corporations that end up buying up rental property here.
Total financial illiteracy is a very real thing. The girlfriend’s sister buys a Monster Java drink ($3 and change) every single day, smokes 2 packs a day, always has the newest model iPhone, and regularly pays about $60 to get her nails professionally done. This is all while she constantly overdrafts her account, falls behind on rent, and bums money from literally every single person she knows. The only person I have any sympathy for in that situation is her daughter, who is being given horrible lessons by example about money management. Poor girl is going to get a rude awakening when she moves out on her own.
The standard “progressive” belief is that when an industry gets centralized among a few giant corporations, it’s because of “unregulated capitalism”. You can try to explain how it works, but you’ll probably just get an indignant sneer and the reply “But deregulation just benefits the rich. Plus, that’s what caused the financial crash.”
The only person I have any sympathy for in that situation is her daughter, who is being given horrible lessons by example about money management. Poor girl is going to get a rude awakening when she moves out on her own.
Great opportunity for somebody, maybe an Aunt, to step in and show an alternative path. The kid is gonna be steamrolled either way, but planting that seed of “there’s another way” will pay dividends when she’s 24 and sick of being repeatedly plowed over by construction machinery.
I certainly hope so and would gladly help with that. I’m not a fanatical Jordan Peterson devotee or anything, but he hit it on the head when he said “the best way to fix society is to fix individuals”.
I know I sound like an old fucking fogey saying this, but the girl isn’t picking up any good lessons from the hiphop/ghetto culture either, what with the obsession with wealth, glamour, and egotism.
I knew a few suburban white girls steeped in that culture in high school 15 years ago. Usually it was a symptom rather than the cause of dysfunction, but the priorities being taught by that culture didn’t help their situation. The end result was universally unpleasant. One drowned in the canal downtown while on meth. One had a kid at 15 and daddy wasn’t exactly known. She was on every government assistance possible, including ones I had never heard of. Not sure if she ever went back and got her GED. Corrosive is an understatement.
National Review‘s Kevin Williamson in 2017.
That’s the one.
National Review‘s Kevin Williamson in 2021.
CWAA
I had a similar problem a few years ago. I had to evict a guy and his two adult children because he had been a deadbeat on rent payments. He knew the day was coming (PA law makes the process take at least 90 days and makes you go to court and get a judgment against the tenant) and when we showed up the morning of the eviction with the Constable to serve the final notice, they weren’t there, and hadn’t even started to pack their stuff. We had to lock the doors and tell them to get their dogs out (we were not about to do anything to hurt the animals), and had to give them several days to move their stuff out. We could have legally at that point disposed of all their personal property, but chose not to. They had caused significant damage to the property (we documented it photographically in the presence of the Constable) and we didn’t want to have to clear their stuff out on top of repairing the damage.
You’ve probably seen worse, but when I was 16 my mom had rented out a small house on our farm to people who wouldpiss in the corners and let the dog shit anywhere it wanted to.
I can still smeel it from when my Step Dad and I pulled out the drywall, carpet, and some of the wall studs and sub floor.
And the garbage! So. Much. Garbage.
How the hell can people live like that?
I would have used kerosene to clean it up.
If it wasn’t a hundred year old house that my step Dad grew up in, they might have.
After that debacle they ended up letting my youngest brother live there once he got married.
I thought about becoming a landlord, but those stories scare me.
I wonder if commercial real estate is any easier, like owning a strip mall or a small retail building. Seems like it would be harder to get away with that if there’s the whole paper trail of a business.
You probably have to deal with just as much non-payment, but less likely to have tenants who completely trash the place.
My office was once in the same building, on the same floor, as a shady telemarketer. His business “closed down” at regular intervals. The building owners were lawyers, so I figure he kept up on payments to them at least.
Examples of shadiness:
1. When we opened, he came by and asked if we would be working nights regularly and seemed disappointed that we were going to be around after regular business hours (the building mostly shut down at 5).
2. He seemed to disappear on paydays. We had an employee come by our office demanding to be paid. She didn’t seem to grasp that we were a different company.
3. As far as I could tell, he was a telemarketer “offering” “discount” “vacations”.
At the beginning of last year, the girlfriend and I were discussing picking up some property in a nearby college area to rent out. After the past year, that’s no longer even in consideration.
https://imgur.com/8tg8Y0G
Israel has been consistently better than the US (probably healthier on average) until NOW. Apparently fully vaxed isnt better than 1/2 vaxed. UK is doing better but still having an upsurge. And Sweden, well look at that…nothing. I have no idea of the vax rate in Sweden but maybe the herd immunity strategy worked.
Eventually, we’re all going to regress to the mean unless the “vaccines” suddenly start working or a new variant interacts with them in a bad way.
Do to health/age/etc differences, the mean is going to vary with location.
Sweden is at 50%+ with two doses, but you are correct in wondering about their natural immunity since they didn’t lockdown as hard. They still put restrictions in, but from what I recall, really focused on the areas that would impact the most; large gatherings and those that would be affected easily.
And very little masking, at least from photos I saw.
cruise ships dismantled for scrap after pandemic sinks industry
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1430295952846426116
Don’t read the comments (should be standard practice with twitter, but apparently I hate myself)
Can I have just one to live in as a permanently moored houseboat?
You have any idea how much maintenance a ship like that requires just to stay afloat?
It doesn’t need to do so. I only need the galley, and a couple hundred square feet for living space. The rest of the vessel can rust away, so as to discourage
visitorstrespassers.But if that rest of the vessel fills with water, it’s taking your apartment to the seabed with it.
Sigh… A boy can dream – https://youtu.be/UcTQGG3lIF0
Yoda called vaccine mandates a long time ago.
https://twitter.com/vulgadrawings/status/1370091392626737154
Feminists can’t meme
TLDR
According to Natl. Science Foundation https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/sere/2018/ there’s a shortage of MEN in STEM not WOMEN when Life Sciences/Psychology/Social Sciences are included. 141 women earned bachelor’s degrees in Science & Engineering in 2018 for every 100 men
https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/1430279848174489601
Social Sciences should definitely not be fucking included
Separate out engineering and the hard sciences and tell me where we stand.
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Duh. Have a look at the makeup of students in the biosciences. They may not be an exact counter to the ratio of men:women in engineering but in my experience the ratio in biosciences is skewed toward women *just* a bit (292,000 female BS degrees in “Life Sciences” vs. 100,000 men). At the doctroal level, it’s 7100:5600 women to men.
Engineering is skewed harder toward men at 97k:27k (BS) and 7700:2700 (Ph.D) men:women
I’m also gratified to see that they do not include comp sci in with engineering. Not that I have a problem with comp sci people, it’s just not really engineering. Engineering deals with application of principles of the physical world. Comp sci is application of principles of artifacts.
Are you saying i am not a real engineer? Thems are fighting words. I mean my degree is in electronic engineering but i work more software like
I just think it’s a different thing, not necessarily better or worse. Design of computer hardware is real engineering (electrical, or electronic). Design of software depends less on invariate rules of the universe and more on what is possible within a human-devised framework. That’s how I differentiate “engineering” from other disciplines.
Agreed. Computer Engineering is a subset of EE. Despite a degree in engineering, the stuff I do isn’t engineering. I really wouldn’t call it science either, but it is probably closer to that.
At Purdue, our CmpE curriculum was the same as EE through sophomore year, maybe first semester of junior year. Then we focused on processor/ASIC design and algorithmic efficiency and memory handling and operating systems and compilers and the like while the EEs were focused on antennas and power and the like.
I don’t know exactly, but I think it was similar at GT, at least in the 1987-91 era. A friend of mine was a CmpE and that seems like what he was doing.
It was funny, as he was a few years older than me and I was always kidding him that I was going to graduate first. I literally followed him across the stage at graduation.
Within engineering, majors were organized in reverse order by when they were created, so ME went last. CmpE was slightly newer than NE, so they went just before us. His last name was a W, so he was the last CmpE. With a C, I was first of the NukEs.
At the risk of sounding like an asshole, I often refer to “software engineering” as “software lawyering” because it’s based on playing by the rules of an artificial human construct. FWIW, my GF, who works for a major tech firm, agrees with me.
To get accreditted as an engineering degree, we had to have calculus based physics in our software engineering program.
Nevermind that it was never used on the computing side of the degree, it was there, and thats what the accredation authority looked for.
Yes, I was a software engineering student.
I’m not saying that software engineers are dumb or less educated. I’m just saying that they deal entirely within an artificial system, while other disciplines like aerospace, chemical, electrical, mechanical engineering deal with physical principles of the universe. To some degree, some disciplines find themselves mostly implementing artificial standards like building codes and in the case of nuclear engineers, government regulations rather than designing stuff from first principles, but that’s a gray area for me.
As I’ve said before I draw the line between physical principles and human created frameworks.
We had a physics requirement for computer science degrees. Two semesters, the second being electricity and magnetism.
The reason wasn’t accreditation, it was there were a significant number of hardware classes as part of the computer science degree, and the professor might go into details that require the second semester of physics.
I often refer to “software engineering” as “software lawyering”
If I build a machine to do a job, I can build a purely mechanical system to do the work. Or, I can replace part of the mechanics with an analog computer. Or I can replace the analog computer with a digital computer. It’s all engineering. Writing code is not engineering. Solving real-world problems is engineering.
hmm. That’s a decent way of looking at it, but I think it’s too broad a definition.
I started my career writing real-time software for aircraft simulators to test autopilots. I had to code up the aerodynamic and engine performance models and then test the dynamic response of the system to verify it matched the real aircraft so that autopilot testing would be valid.
That’s engineering. The coding was the easy part.
I’d agree that’s engineering. But saying “solving real-world problems is engineering” is too broad, IMO. I’d say that “solving real-world problems using principles of physics and chemistry” is closer to the truth. The other statement opens too many things up to being classified as engineering, like “social engineering” or “waste management engineering.”
Followed a similar path as you discuss in my career, Kinnath. The best software writers are people that can solve problems (what you learn to do if you have a good engineering education) and when you spend time creating software models of real life things, you become real good at software writing. Eventually I quit AE/EE and just went into software writing cause there were better paying options with less work where I was living. These days I am asked not to write my own software anymore but to teach others to solve problems. My biggest problem is the slew of people that couldn’t think their way out of a paper cup half-filled with water that went into software writing. How can you teach people that can’t think to actually do things involving thinking?
That’s the big problem to solve…
The best software writers are people that can solve problems (what you learn to do if you have a good engineering education) and when you spend time creating software models of real life things, you become real good at software writing.
*ding ding ding* We have a winner!
And how are the best software writers able to solve real-life problems? They’re able to understand how the physical components interact and what to expect out of a particular component when you give it certain inputs. Your average 6-week bootcamp code monkey doesn’t know the first thing about that and relies heavily on the efficiencies built into the language they learn and the immense processing power of modern computing systems.
Python is a great language for a variety of tasks, but you can learn python without knowing the first thing about how a computer works. Somebody who learned about software via Fortran or C was forced to understand how memory works, how program flow works, etc. Somebody who did embedded work using some assembly language knows even better.
Two areas of divergence occur between the code monkey and the software engineer. First, the code monkey’s code is going to be massively inefficient, and eventually that will express itself in a slower, less performant, less debuggable application. Second, the code monkey will eventually hit a ceiling. Certain programming tasks will be outside of their proficiency because they don’t know the first thing about how the computer is actually acting on their software.
I learned programming starting with assembler and machine code.
More code monkeys should have to write register level work before being allowed the cool toys.
Solving real-world problems is engineering.
I would say engineering is solving real-world problems, but there are a lot of such problems that can’t be solved with engineering, and must be solved other ways.
I suppose lawyers are necessary — sometimes.
I think he’s talking about hit men.
Basically , many problems that are caused by people can’t be solved by engineering. Take, for example, bad tenants.
The science major — how does this work?
The engineering major — what can I make with this?
The marking major — do you want fries with that?
/dad-joke
Philosophy Major – But why do you want fries with that?
I’m embarrassed I ever went to Reason. Also Pearl Jam sucks.
The Malice-Jacket divide is revealing. Beltway libertarians fucking suck. Cato sucks. Mises is cool.
Yes it is, I have listened to way too may “debates” with Dave Smith and some beltway libertarians and it’s always the same Alt-right, racist, or secret trump lover bullshit.
Serendipitously, I just reread Welch’s review of The Bad News Bears, while looking for a video to show Festus. I agree with your opinion, CPA.
https://reason.com/2013/04/04/the-bad-news-bears-gets-more-disturbinga
Dark humor is best humor.
However, Robert Y. Lewis, Elden’s lawyer, offers an unusual interpretation of the image to argue that it crosses the line into child porn, writing that the inclusion of currency in the shot makes the baby appear “like a sex worker.”
WTF?
In July, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Tampa Field Division issued a cease and desist order to the company to halt production of the FRT15 trigger, after the agency said they determined the trigger to be a machine gun, under the definition in the National Firearms Act.
Fuck the ATF and the NFA.
Rutgers University last March announced its coronavirus vaccine requirement for all students before they return for the fall semester.
Stupid.
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Rep. Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, who underwent a secret trip to Kabul to witness the situation at the airport for themselves, challenged President Biden and claimed that ‘we won’t get everyone out on time’.
A Democrat from Massachusetts who is not Pressly? Whoa.
Screw your freedom.
“I know I respect people’s freedom, but when you’re talking about a health crisis that we’ve been going through for over a year and a half, the time has come. Enough is enough. We’ve just got to get people vaccinated.”
“If we keep lingering without getting those people vaccinated that should be vaccinated, this thing could linger on, leading to the development of another variant which could complicate things.”
“I know I respect people’s freedom” Who even presents it that way…fuck off slaver
He should have been laughed out of town when his “You can catch AIDS from a toilet seat.” and “You can catch AIDS from hugging someone who has AIDS.” claims failed to prove accurate 30+ years ago.
You’ve never heard of the cusomary hug after the childhood knife fights?
But when you’re talking about: flu epidemic/climate change/terror threat/housing crisis/infrastructure improvements/[pick your substitute] enough is enough. We just have to make people get vaccinated/change their energy consumption/allow us to search their personal belongings without a warrant/give up their houses/give us more money/[do whatever we want them to do.
Just delete everything before the “but”.
Why anyone still pays attention to this garden gnome is beyond me.
What’s the worst that could happen?
https://vaersanalysis.info
No.
Nobody ever asks how would unvaccinated people cause a mutation.
Propaganda, all of it.
Brutal.
Good summary, but Trump isn’t the guy to fix it. He had his four years and he fucked up and trusted the people responsible for this, which makes him also responsible. He went in saying “drain the swamp” and then hired the same old people to enact his policies. His policies were inadequate to begin with, and he let people work against them anyway.
Truth is, it could be just about any candidate that could run that ad.
But, yeah, you’re ultimately right about Trump.
Truth is, it could be just about any candidate that could run that ad.
At this point yeah, anyone but Commie-La.
I am no longer calm about the future of USA. The evil elements of our country have fortified themselves to the point where bloodletting will be necessary. Hopefully, it won’t be a full blown civil war. And hopefully we won’t be weakened to the point of outright invasion from our many enemies.
I said it years ago; the first things Trump should have done was clean out the DOJ, FBI, and NSA. I guess I should have added the DOD too.
My thought as well. You could run a brain damaged chimp against him with that ad.
It looks good on paper, but 1 white knight riding into that mess isnt going to save the republic. Any one of us with the same intentions, would be faced with the past 80 years of tribalism, cabals, family connections, Deep State, etc to sort through. Its a hive, or nest, of self-important, self-interested, self-perpetuating, gov’t leeches.
Trump had the arrogance and conceit (being Trump) to think he could run DC like his shitty TV show. And the American voters were naïve enough to think he could pull it off. As an American, Im proud that we briefly had a Commander-in-Chief that not only had the nuke codes, but is also a WWF Hall of Famer. With a hot wife.
Yeah, no single person can fix this mess. The only way it gets fixed is a fundamental shift in perception of government, or failure either self-imposed or caused by an external agent — like a foreign war.
Yes, but couldn’t we have picked a WWF HoFer who didnt also destroy the USFL?
President Joe Anoia works for me. Of course, that is just the GT connection speaking. But he has one of my favorite defensive hits of all time.
Is there anyone who can fix the system without a complete dismantle and rebuild? I’m getting the feeling that we’ve moved past that point.
^^^THIS^^^
The machine will not allow anyone to change it without them first bringing it to its’s knee. It is ludicrous after you saw how they handled Trump to believe anyone can singlehandedly take it on.
We’re past that point. If Trump accomplished anything, it was to make it perfectly clear that the administrative state is not accountable to anyone – Congress, the President or the courts (who are properly viewed, IMO, as a division of the administrative state), and thus cannot be reformed.
Maybe it was worth it to have him to demonstrate that point; however, the argument can be made that it was his incompetence and arrogance that caused the failure to rein in the entrenched bureaucracy. That argument is wrong, but it will and has been made.
This is the lesson that should have been learned from Trump. A populist is elected into office under the guise of fixing the system by “draining the swamp”. Instead, through a combination of concerted attack from the media-corporate-nonprofit complex and self-harming ineptitude, he piddles around for 4 years and accomplishes very little. There are two possibilities. Trump was one of the most incompetent presidents ever or the government is too big to reform sans dismantling.
A little column A, but mostly column B I think.
Trump was the best President of my lifetime, but that’s an incredibly low bar.
I don’t think Ron Paul in his prime would have been able to get much accomplished now.(When he was running, maybe, but not now)
Speaking of Ron, I caught his liberty report a couple nights ago. He’s still got it, despite being an old coot now. I was a bit too young to appreciate him when he was in his prime, but that man speaks truth to power in a way that is unique in a day and age where everybody pretends to speak truth to power.
I think the only people who have a chance of making any effective change at all in this system are people who:
A) have experience dealing with the system (senators, representatives, or members of the exec branch, or perhaps a state governor)
B) really, really, really believe it needs to be changed and are willing to expend incredible energy to make it happen
The intersection of those two groups is vanishingly small. Think Rand Paul, Thomas Massie.
The fact that they must then also amass a staff around them who actually believe the same things and are willing to work toward a solution is another hurdle, one that Trump failed miserably at.
I don’t think deSantis fits B but might accidentally be good, in the sense that “good” involves slowing the descent down the slippery slope.
Yes.
Trump should not run in 2024. But his ego will push him to do so.
He’s going to run for revenge.
I wish someone could talk some sense into him–to step back and be a kingmaker, endorse another ticket heartily. But that ticket would have to work against that in areas where Trump is less popular–see the ads that the D candidate for VA governor is playing against the Trump-endorsed R.
I guess I don’t see the point in all of this. So Trump becomes the next Limbaugh. Then what? Elections continue to be stolen, culture continues to unravel, authoritarians in the media-corporate-nonprofit-government complex continue to crush us with their boots, and we get some shitty in-with-the-beltway-crowd pick that Trump half-assedly makes without bothering to think it through to guide us towards the left’s totalitarian wank fantasy at 55mph instead of 95mph.
IMO, Trump’s value is in galvanizing the masses toward non-political action. Not in becoming Limbaugh 2.0.
To be clear, I don’t think it’s in any way necessary that Trump remain involved at all. I’m suggesting that he believes he needs to be involved, and the safest, most effective way for that to happen is to keep him in a marginal role in which he still feels powerful, but doesn’t have the effect of galvanizing a massive resistance to the reform efforts.
I really hope you are right DEG, but unfortunately I think SW has it nailed. Barring a health issue for him or something unusual I don’t see his ego letting him pass the next one by. It’s a shame because I think a DeSantis/Noem ticket would be a halfway decent one (really the best Team Red presidential ticket in my lifetime) and would wipe the floor with Bidenhertime.
DeSantis would be a good candidate. I’m certain he also has people able to deal with government bureaucracy who are outsiders to DC, unlike Trump.
Noem being the governor of a small state that doesn’t matter might not be a good VP candidate, but I think she would sell well.
I hear somewhere that DeSantis said he won’t run if Trump runs.
And unfortunately, Trump will run. His ego (i.e. revenge as Stinky said) will drive him to run.
He needs to stay a kingmaker, which he’s already doing based on his gab posts. But, the ego.
I tend to believe the story that he ran the first time out of ego, that he was pissed at Obama for insulting him at a White House dinner or somesuch. I think he runs again, unfortunately.
Won’t matter. Until the administrative state is chopped down, nothing will change. And it won’t go down without the equivalent of a revolution.
I was feeling glimmers of optimism several months ago. Not any more.
“He had his four years and he fucked up and trusted the people responsible for this, which makes him also responsible”
What has he learned?
That there are a ton of people out there who can be fooled into thinking he’s capable of learning how to overcome the entrenched bureaucracy despite four years of evidence to the contrary?
I don’t think the system is fixable. By anyone. I’m a burn-it-downer but I don’t even know who the guy with the match is, either.
What was the force that keeps electrons from slamming into the protons? And what generates it?
You’re in the realm of quantum mechanics now with that question.
This might help.
https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2013/08/08/why-dont-electrons-in-the-atom-enter-the-nucleus/
HOLY MACKEREL! The more I read about such things, the dumber I feel. I really understand the attraction of Medieval Scholasticism and the Tudor era.
Dont listen to her. Its a repellant electrical charge.
Or midochlorian.
Next you are gonna tell me that weak attraction isn’t a thing cause you either want to bone or you don’t…
Hey, anyone out there have any news on the threat presented by “Clinton Bigsby” Elder to the mandarinate? I hear that the LA Times is printing daily shitposts based on pure fantasy to scare minorities into thinking if Larry wins California will suddenly stop being a super shithole.
I heard he thinks the minimum wage should be $0. You’d think instead of causing heads to explode, that they would be thrilled to take all the workers – I mean, slaves – and embrace them in the warm hands of government help.
They are really pulling out all the stops, the LA Times is especially in overdrive mode. This is a matter of LIFE AND DEATH! They say that in terms of funding it is 9 to 1 in favor of Greasy Gav. I believe it is even more skewed than that, as I have yet to hear or see a pro recall ad. Even with this all out push it is looking 50/50 although it is really 60/40 in favor of keeping him after you factor in the vote counting bias. I read an interview with Elder the other day in which he said his views on the minimum wage and abortion we’re completely irrelevant as there is a zero chance of him doing anything about them as Governor of a super majority blue state. He said he would try and fix the things that would actually fall under his power. Great disarming answer I thought. I’d be ecstatic to see the Dems get the major major blow of having Gav get tossed. I am prepared for the inevitable disappointment tho.
if Larry wins
The dark knight of “fascism” falls on California.
According to Gavin’s ads this recall is a matter of life and death. If he loses, people will die!
Sounds like a threat, to me.
I never thought of it that way. You may be right.
Some nurse acquaintance on FB posted that she lost a coworker to covid. She used that as a call to action for everyone to be vaxxed.
Some random dude in the comments asked if the coworker had been vaxxed.
Nurse acquaintance responds that she does not know.
Great story.
$5 says the nurse was. Report back with details.
There was no coworker who died of the cooties. I have heard this one.
The version I heard is that some dude’s whole family had been vaxed except for said dude. None of the family got the Fauci virus but the dude did. I then had to listen to a five minute rant about how selfish the dude is for wanting to leave the hospital and go home after his recovery and expose his family.
Me – “Did you hear what you just said?”
Her – “What? I am sick of those selfish people!”
Me – “The family is vaxed so they are immune, right? The dude recovered so he has natural immunity? Where is the problem? Are you sure you arent just frustrated that someone out there somewhere isn’t doing as they are told? I think the story is bunkum. I am still not doing it. I don’t trust the gaggle of liars as far as I can spit.”
Her – *crinkles brow* “What?”
This is what we are dealing with here folks.
Wife and friends go to the beach every year for a week to ten days. The trip this year was already planned and payed for. Friend number 1 called a week ago and said two more women were going to go and wanted to know if Mrs. Suthenboy was vaxed. She answered no. They uninvited Mrs. Suthenboy and sent her money back.
Friends indeed. Who needs the company of such weak-minded, petty, frightened Karens? Screw them.
I’m hearing that we supposedly have patients whose last words before they get put on a vent were “I wish I’d gotten the vax.”
It stinks of urban legend to me.
Every city, every local paper, somehow that line is printed with the exact same words.
Maybe not the exact words, but here’s a good summary: https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/regret-COVID-unvaccinated-hospital-coronavirus-16378317.php
I found a clue!
No comment section.
What do the patients who were fully vaccinated say?
My last words would be, “I wish Truman had let MacArthur bomb China.” Okay, not really. But kinda.
“it would have been worse”
That’s what my mom(a true believer) told me.
Not sure how much worse it could have been compared to dying, but what do I know?
“Patton was right about Stalin”
Fixed it. Agree completely.
Bet we see that story repeated on the socials from various people all claiming the same story in 5, 4, 3, 2,….
First art class down. The teacher is delightfully un-PC but she did have a stumbling, vague mini rant about Hobby Lobby. “Nazi” was the word she used. Someone asked her if all the people who worked there were also evil. That shut her down quick. I also have her for my next class.
There are about 15 people in the class, most of whom just graduated from high school. One just finished basic training.
Bring your supplies in a Hobby Lobby bag for your next class.
HA HA HA HA!!!! Great idea.
If you just finished Basic, and you’re in a Hobby Lobby art class, you’re the type of person our current military is reaching out to. Also, if you just finished Basic and you’re in a civilian art class, you’re AR or NG. Not to take anything away- they get deployed, too. But you’re home. Taking an art class.
Right. NG and she made the point that he could be gone at any moment.
They could be on active duty at their first base taking art classes….just sayin.
AIT before first duty station.
If AF, you can be in and out of basic and tech school in under two months (well, back in ’03). Time it right and knowing where you will be stationed, easy peasy.
The Army is Boy Scouts with artillery. The Air Force is Girl Scouts without camping.
That sounds remarkably similar to my art school experience. I had graduated after 5 years studying computer science, then decided to pay my own way for a few art classes in Chicago. I was always the oldest person in class. I wanted to learn, the kids just wanted to get out early. I was singled out one time during critiques because my work was neat and well presented, and the kids’ projects were all dog-eared, folded, and had peanut butter and jelly stains.
I graduated from college before any of these people were born.
Did she explain the parallels between Hobby Lobby and The National Socialist Worker’s Party of Germany?
Hobby Lobby was founded by, and still owned by, evangelical Christians, and Hitler was an evangelical Christian?
It was more like “they’re awful people, just awful.” “Why?” “Because they’re Nazis. And prejudiced. Just awful people.”
I have long since forgotten what the Hobby Lobby flapdoodle was all about. Was it something about contraceptives…?
…
Oh silly me, their entire Wikipedia page is a list of how horrible they are. Because of course it is.
If you mean the supreme court case – it was that the OCare mandate required coverage of contraceptives, a subset of which were abortifactants. Hobby Lobby objected to covering the abortifactants, but not the regular contraceptives.
FURTHERMORE! Plan B is over the counter so nobody (theoretically) would cover it. Nobody I argued with about it (back in the day) knew that. “What, you want insurance to cover Tylenol now?” “Well of course not. That’s silly.”
She mentioned the artifacts. I thought the question about if the people who worked there were evil was brilliant.
Let’s see, Nevermind was released 30 years ago, so I’m thinking naked baby is going to have a serious statute of limitations problem. If I was Nirvana, I wouldn’t be worried. Probably seeing a bump in album sales, in fact. No publicity is bad publicity, and all that.
Yeah gonna suck when the “kid’s” drug-addled mom and/or dad say they agreed for the photo shoot in exchange for some blow and free concert tickets.
Won’t solve his statute of limitations problem. His window to sue probably closed 7 or 8 years ago.
Probably their best argument:
Love that they make sure to point out that the then-4-month-old baby didn’t sign a release. Still, two major problems:
(1) They took the money, creating an implied agreement.
(2) The parents knew 30 years ago it was used as an album cover, and blew their statute of limitations for suing on the lack of a release. The statute starts running the kid the later of his 18th birthday or the day he knew or should have known about the lack of a release.
What is your retainer, counselor. Id like to give you money.
I imagine Curt Cobian is not too worried.
He won’t lose his head over this
I’m hearing that we supposedly have patients whose last words before they get put on a vent were “I wish I’d gotten the vax.”
They all say that.
And, “I shoulda gone to church more.”
“I should have spent less time at work.”
Don’t forget the part where they say they regretted their vote for Trump. And that white privilege allows them to have a ventilator when so many others go without.
I could have had a V8!
Greenwald is committing journalism again. This must be cancelled!
A voice cries out in the wilderness.
I still think one of the best replies to the “if it saves just one life crowd” is banning swimming pools. Around a thousand children drown every year, after all, in what is a “non-essential” recreational activity. That, by the way, is more than twice as many, nearly three times as many, as the number of children who died “with” COVID last year.
So, if they’re serious, why aren’t they demanding that swimming pools be outlawed? You can’t do away with motor vehicles or even slow them down much without massive downsides, but you can’t say the same about swimming pools.
We never opt for a society-altering policy on the ground that “any lives saved make it imperative to embrace” precisely because such a primitive mindset ignores all the countervailing costs which this life-saving policy would generate
His argument would be much stronger if this didn’t exist
I remember that one. Worst of all, it gave us this
Not saving lives, just gas.
Shockingly it didn’t benefit anybody except the enforcers.
By the time I was old enough to understand what was going on (early to mid 90s), the pro-55 group had long since moved on to safety as the primary reason to keep the law. I had no clue until reading the wiki article that it started because of the oil crap in the 70s.
Yes, it was the oil stuff in the 70s. I remember.
(relatively) New addition to the Gallery of Regrettable Food.
Excellent! Will enjoy later.
That is genuine crazy Florida man right there.