Eighties dance party music.
EATING THEIR OWN: Allegations of bigotry and calls for impeachment rock College Democrats -Politico.
‘You’re already in the authoritarian state’: Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei criticizes US ‘woke’ culture. Progressives stick fingers in ears, can’t hear him.
BASED AF: Remember Dick Heller whose court case overturned onerous DC gun laws, and resulted in a SCOTUS ruling affirming the RKBA? Well, he’s back and by merely filing suit caused the DC city council to roll back their “ghost gun” prohibition. But, he beat them three times before and they’re still trying this shiznat. Process is punishment, people.
We have always been at war with East Asia.
CENTRAL BANKERS: Does gender diversity in the workplace mitigate climate change? Readers of this column already know the answer.
DOWN the MEMORY HOLE: WaPo corrects some of its reporting about the Steele dossier, “but vaporizes the two original stories.” Hey, WaPo, doesn’t democracy die in darkness? And what about that gaslighting thing we heard so much about?
TEXAS THINK TANK dips a toe into the waters of national divorce, decides it’s too cold to swim, trusts that the water will get warmer.
DAILY NUT-PUNCH: Pentagon fails to support soldiers on covert mission, soldiers die, families lied to. Whatever you think about whether they ought to have been there, it wasn’t their choice and they deserved better.
WaPo, doesn’t democracy die in darkness?
They hope.
If they were real journalists, they would be questioning the sources who leaked all the inside info. Presumably they were talking to Brennan, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, etc.
If I were a journalist and a source used me to lie to the people and attempt a coup, I would like to think I would out them, good and hard. I would reveal everything they said, on and off the record and put it in a timeline.
But that requires pretending that they didn’t know they were being used to lie to the American people and initiate a coup. And I don’t believe that they were ignorant at all. Not for a minute.
It wasn’t really a coup in their minds – they were saving the country!
If there is a ghost gun, you need to figure out what was left unfinished from its life.
“It also defined “ghost guns” in a way that could be construed to include popular commercial polymer-frame handguns, such as Glock pistols. Heller and the other plaintiffs in the case accused the city of effectively outlawing the guns it issues to its police officers.”
NY State did the same thing until they added a carve out for police.
“The police carry weapons for self-defense. You have obviously determined, by issuing these weapons to the police, that they are suitable for self-defense. On what grounds, then, do you ban weapons that you have determined are for self-defense?”
Genius way to get PAs nationwide that their weaponry is REALLY about “killin’ those who don’t RESPEK MAH AUTHOR-A-TIE”
….get PAs nationwide TO ADMIT that their weaponry…. etc etc
Nothing like flubbing the punchline of your snarky comment. Kind of takes some of the sting out of it.
Returning to the Constitution would be a great first step. The surest route to doing that would be to end federal primacy over state power via restoring the original meaning of the Commerce Clause, while forcing Congress to legislate rather than hiding behind unelected bureaucrats by rediscovering the nondelegation doctrine.
Yeah, that’s a good first step, but I don’t see the Feds changing anytime soon.
There’s action at the local and state level which I like, but the folks making change at those levels don’t have the networks necessary to make change at the Federal level. When those folks can get a governor elected, then they might be big enough to influence Federal elections.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they debate you, then you win. At least Texas Policy is treating it as a (somewhat) serious idea, but one whose time is not yet here.
We’re at the ignore stage in NH. No coverage outside of Free Stater/Reopen NH circles about the secession bill.
The clashes over religious bigotry and race within the College Democrats of America (CDA) reflect, to a degree, larger debates happening throughout politics. But the next generation seems poised to escalate them further. Some CDA members argue that the internal frictions constitute a turbulent but morally necessary reckoning with systemic racism. Other Democratic officials see it as a bunch of college-educated, hyper-woke kids trying to play politics in a way that’s off-putting to many voters.
These clashes make me smile.
The good news is, there are many opportunities for them both to lose.
Stephen Bates, a professor of journalism at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, concurs. ‘It’s hard to have a paper of record if the record keeps changing,’
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
“Does gender diversity in the workplace mitigate climate change?”
No.
Women want the thermostat set higher.
[golf clap]
“Governor Ron DeSantis trolls Biden by signing a bill banning his federal vaccine mandates in the city of Brandon, Florida and inspires crowd to chant ‘Let’s Go Brandon'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10218507/Ron-DeSantis-trolls-Biden-signing-bill-banning-federal-vaccine-mandates-city-Brandon.html
LOLOLOLOL
If the meme war was the real war we’d have won long ago.
True, but notice how few memes there were in 2020? That’s because big tech banned most of the makers and distributors.
I noticed. Rip carpe donktum.
Senator Kennedy gets in a good one too.
https://gab.com/PepeLivesMatter17/posts/107299156845334445
I can think of a few other choice terms.
He really is pretty good at this.
From the Ai Weiwei article:
“MSNBC’s Joy Reid sparks fury after calling Kyle Rittenhouse a ‘Karen’ who uses ‘male, white tears to defend himself after getting caught’ and comparing him to Justice Kavanaugh”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10215401/MSNBCs-Joy-Reid-sparks-outrage-saying-Kyle-Rittenhouse-used-male-white-tears-defense.html
“MSNBC News is BANNED from Kenosha Courthouse for the rest of Kyle Rittenhouse trial after a man claiming to be a producer for the network was caught following the jury bus and attempting to take pictures of jurors”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10218025/MSNBC-News-BANNED-Kenosha-Courthouse-rest-Kyle-Rittenhouse-trial.html
Is there a reason MSNBC shouldn’t be burned to the ground?
I’m sure they have insurance.
There might be some innocent rodents in the building, any one of which adds more value to the planet than Joy Reid?
Can you guarantee their worst people will be locked inside?
WTF happened?
I remember being in the Glibs Zoom call last night. I just woke up in my hallway, naked, wrapped in a comforter, with a dildo stuck to my head.
I dont think Im going into work tonight.
It was your night in the barrel. Dunno how you got that thing stuck to your head, though — usually works the other way ’round.
How was the dildo stuck?
Don’t ask questions you really don’t want answered.
suction-cup base
I recall yelling “ITS THE DICK OF TRUTH!” and pointing it at people, while I ranted a drunken soliloquy .
Dongicorns aren’t real.
I’m starting to think some of you people might have a drinking problem.
Only some of them?
That would explain why Im out of beer.
DAMN RIGHT! I GOT 2 HANDS AND ONLY ONE MOUTH!!!!
Seriously though, these Zooms sound so fun. I need to remedy my computing situation and join in.
I dunno but do you remember the stroke you seemed to be having around 7 this morning?
Two nuns were sitting on a park bench when suddenly a streaker ran by them.
One of the nuns had a stroke.
The other nun couldn’t reach that far.
Two nuns were riding their bicycles down a cobblestone lane in a tiny picturesque village.
One nun says, “I don’t believe I’ve ever come this way before.”
The other replies, “Yes, the cobblestones are rather good for that, aren’t they?”
Two cannibals are sitting around the campfire, eating a clown they caught.
One looks at the other and says, “This taste funny to you?”
A clown and a little boy are walking through the woods. The boy keeps crying, eventually the clown turns to the boy and says, “I don’t know what you’re crying about, I’m the one that has to walk back through these dark woods alone.”
Why dont cannibals eat divorced women?
Too bitter.
Two nuns were sitting on a park bench when suddenly a streaker ran by them.
One of the nuns said “I wonder who that is?”
Other nun says, “I don’t know but he’s not from our parish”
Yeah, if you could go take a look at that pre-AM links comment and translate it into English, I’m sure it was quite profound.
You sure he didn’t just pass out on the keyboard?
That is tantalizingly close to making sense. Is that “achieve consciousness” on the right-hand side?
Tres’s computer keyboard is a Ouija board?
Well, he does have spirits over frequently…
I was channeling Agile Cyborg I think.
“San Francisco’s ‘woke’ District Attorney Chesa Boudin has finally charged a ‘prolific’ female shoplifter, 41, who stole $40,000 in merchandise from the same Target in 120 incidents over a one-year period.
Aziza Graves was arrested Tuesday for her alleged shoplifting spree about two weeks after voters forced Boudin into a recall election, with a petition yielding 83,000 signatures – far above the 51,000 required by the city.
The push to hold Graves responsible only came after Target demanded that Boudin launch an investigation, which revealed that the store, at the Stonestown Galleria shopping mall, was hit by the same person more than 100 times between October 2020 and November 2021.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10217037/Prolific-thief-41-stole-40k-items-Target-involving-120-incidents-one-year.html
Damn.
Target should 1099 her.
Then sic the IRS on her.
I like the way you think, Sean.
Genius.
That might actually work. AFAIK, debt forgiveness is
considered income by the IRS. Looks like form 1099-C,
“Cancellation of Debt”. The instructions though seem
to indicate it’s only for debts from some sort of borrowing
situation.
I think a 1099-MISC, for in-kind income.
What’s the problem? She was just redistributing wealth from the fat cats to the needy.
Vials labeled “smallpox” found in a PA lab
Federal health authorities have confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled “smallpox” in a freezer at a Merck facility in Montgomery County.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the vials “were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker” who was cleaning out the freezer.
An official said the vials’ contents appear intact, and there was no indication anyone was exposed.
Now if that started going around I’d be happy to take the vaccine.
It’s not a real vaccine! It’s from cowpox not smallpox.
That’s what all the headlines say. The pictures of the vial itself that I’ve seen with the stories has “vaccine” as well on the label.
Odd that none of them seem more curious about the distinction.
The smallpox vaccine is a live virus.
When did they quit giving the Smallpox vaccination in the US, or did it vary by region? My husband has the scar on his arm where he got it, but I didn’t have to get it. (I’m an early Gen X, and he’s a late Baby Boomer).
I’m an early X and was vaccinated.
77 or 78? I know 79 didn’t have to get it.
Would have to be before that, I’m from 77 and no arm scars that weren’t caused by childhood/teenage/adult recklessness.
I’m a 74 baby and have no Smallpox vaccine.
69 and no scar.
’71 here, no scar. My brother is ’68 and I remember his scar.
Is that the big round scar everyone has there? I don’t have it; also Gen X.
I always wondered what that was.
Interwebs says ’71
70, yet no scar. I’ll have to ask mom next time I call her.
Yup. The big round scar is the smallpox vaxx.
A true life saver.
Smallpox had a 99% survival rate.
OK that’s weird, I’m certainly older than those of you also without the scar.
I got it before deployment in 2003. You know, in case Saddam had smallpox or something. Then again in 2015, not sure why. Small scar the first time, no scar the second.
Got it in 69. Scar faded after about 20-25 years. Can’t see it anymore.
The pediatrician would say, “come here dear boy, have a scar, you’re gonna go far…”
Of vaccinia virus if the CDC is to be believed.
Past your bedtimes, for most of you, but there’s a near-total lunar eclipse tonight visible from North America.
Peak totality is at 4AM on the east coast, 1AM Rufus time.
Beaver moon!!!!!
4am? 🙁
Of course that doesn’t matter so much as the fact that it’s going to be raining.
So, midnight in the One True Time Zone. Got it.
Clouds…….
I’m thinking I might get lucky with a clear sky tonight.
Not much light pollution out here either.
When it’s clearup here, it’s just like the Desert, Ink black and crisp, enjoy the view,
https://www.cleardarksky.com/maps/lp/large_light_pollution_map.html
I used that to find an area ‘close’ to where I can take the kids out and absolutely show them what we are missing.
“might get lucky…”
Go on
Too bad it isn’t a day earlier…I was up at 4 am this morning. Two cats were yowling outside my BR window and I had to go outside and throw rocks at them to make them stop.
White House doesn’t give a crap about the court stay on mandates. Encourages businesses to run full speed into the woodchipper.
https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/107300200416968406
Don’t the businesses have some legal vulnerability for bad effects if it isn’t legally mandated? If they don’t they should.
Probably – not that she cares.
Article’s title:
A National Divorce Wouldn’t Be As Easy Or Worthwhile As Advertised
I’m not sure anyone is saying it would be easy. Seems everyone admits the logistics would be a horrible nightmare.
As far as “Worthwhile As Advertised”? Well…. Ya kind of lost me there. I can’t think of many things more worthwhile. Barring reconciliation, which isn’t happening under any circumstance, divorce is the best case scenario — we’ve tried other ways before and uh…. it didn’t go very well.
When the main goal of one of the parties is to rule the other, they will not willingly let that other leave. The only option at this point is to go double Pinochet, because he apparently didn’t do enough to fix the problem in his country.
The divide is mostly between urban and non-urban areas, so how do you divorce? Bring back the city-state?
That works too. As long as I don’t have to live with that bitch anymore.
Not really necessary. The residents of blue cities in red states are free to move to blue states.
Do cities turn people blue, or do blue people flock to cities?
Yes
This turns one irreconcilably divided country into multiple irreconcilably divided countries. Not only does it leave most states in that uncomfortable 60/40 to 40/60 split between cultures, but it gives some of those blue cities (Chicago, Houston, etc.) more control over their respective new countries.
There would be no stopping a purple state like PA from splitting up. The southeastern corner could join New Jersey.
NJ deserves Philly. ?
The northeast NJ counties would be trying to go to PA in a trade.
That’s the issue, yes? There are no good geographic delineators. Okay, so western PA goes with Ohio. Now the three C’s of Ohio have outsized control over western PA. Maybe that’s progress if you get rid of the Philly influence, but the carving process would have to be very, very well controlled to keep the Chicagos of red America from dominating.
OK fun hypothetical – what parties will represent us in the post-divorce free part of the former United States?
Religious zealots like Santorum will try to legislate “good” behavior, and libertarians will have to say “fuck off, slaver.”
So tell me what we’re gaining? We’re still fighting for liberty. I doubt we’d even get a decent foreign policy.
Immortan Joe & the War Boys, obviously.
OT: Work has denied my appeal for an exemption, so I’m looking for any recommendations for employment lawyers in Ohio. Preferably in the Cleveland area. Work is saying I’m under the Federal contractor mandate, even though I’m not aware of any Federal contracts I work on. Theoretically, they won’t start the disciplinary process until January 4th, but I’d prefer to get everything lined up ahead of time.
That sucks, Neph.
I think I may be “infected” by our Federal contracts since IT is a shared-service.
Before deleting several more… inflammatory requests… I did ask the HR flack what Federal contracts was I considered to be working on.
Shit, sorry Neph. Companies are interpreting federal contractor differently. My company has interpreted this as if there is a single federal contract anywhere in the company, then the company is considered a federal contractor and everyone must get vaccinated. It sounds from other Glibs like their companies are considering person by person rather than company-wide though.
And that’s what kind of bugs me about this one versus the OSHA mandate. I know their are state lawsuits on this pending…. but this one has been in play since October at least — why hasn’t a court issued a ruling that we’ve heard? Very very quiet on this front and the Medicare one…. annoyingly.
That is what I find odd too. How come there is a distinction between FedGov/FedCon mandate and the OSHA mandate. Becoming a FedGov/FedCon doesn’t give your life over to them.
Bet they’re going with the White House pitch on “supporting an employee working on a Federal contract” — which our HR flat out said they were told to interpret so widely that the guy watering the plants in the CEO’s office was considered “supporting”.
If anyone is a contractor, everyone is a contractor.
Oh, we’ve resurrected the one-drop-of-blood rule.
Sorry Neph. I think I’ve said it before but I’ll repeat for others — I was told by head of HR that even though I work either at home, or at our main office, and never visit sites. Plus, the ones who work on federal contracts aren’t just people I have never met, they are in another country (Mexico). However, none of that matters. By virtue of my being employed by a company, even though they are massive and operate worldwide, they di so under the same name in different markets, by that very virtue, I am a federal contractor, and in order to keep my job I’ll be required to get jabbed.
This is the head of HR for my office, who also happens to be the sitting board member for the HR department, not some pencil-pushing lackey. If they have their claws that deep into someone who should be fighting this, what hope do we plebes have?
There’s a reason I’m looking for recommendations for an employment lawyer, and trying to get as much as I can documented.
someone who should be fighting this
HR works for the company, not you. It’s often chock-a-block of Karens, in my experience, as well. They’re the last people I’d expect to fight anything.
However, none of that matters. By virtue of my being employed by a company, even though they are massive and operate worldwide, they di so under the same name in different markets, by that very virtue, I am a federal contractor, and in order to keep my job I’ll be required to get jabbed.
To be clear, they’re not just making this up. Guidance has been issued after the EO and they flesh all this stuff out. In essence, all US employees for a company with any federal contracts are implicated.
Oh I know, the way you can tell this wasn’t a Biden move was, it’s pretty clever and shrewd. It casts a net over tens of millions of workers who (in some cases intentionally) went into the private sector, but treats them as though they belong to the fed. And because they dangle many billions of our own confiscated dollars over our heads, corporations will fall right into line.
I also know, but I make the mistake sometimes, since they are so nice to me, of forgetting that HR serves as a buffer between me and my company wielding a sword of legalese. They look you in the eye and smile as they plunge it into your heart.
I’d ask under what clause of the contract, but I already know, the FYTW clause.
My company’s policy makes no sense. I’m not allowed in the headquarters building where I have a desk assigned. But I can come and go from various lab and IT sites as I please.
Hang tight, Neph.
That piece of shit order isn’t going to hold up in court.
We’re going to see a rash of court decisions in the next 3-4 weeks.
No comment…
Squished Monkey Balls Win 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
10 hours into dog-sitting & I believe ever toy has been removed from the basket and savaged.
This may be a long weekend.
You’re supposed to let the dog play with those.
If it was just one dog, I’d be fine…
https://ibb.co/SyP6yb7
The one still sitting up is giving your the side-eye.
She’s mine – I think that’s “how long until Matilda leaves?”.
TBF, that’s Matilda’s bed my dog is trying to claim.
Take them somewhere they can run.
Both currently passed TF out.
Pattern is shaping up to be – wrestle like lunatics for 45 minutes, pass out for a couple of hours. Really just this morning and this afternoon. In between was just minor toy destruction (which is SOP for both of them).
I can live with that.
Sleeping may be challenging – ours sleeps on our bed, visitor is not allowed on beds. I predict some minor drama.
On the plus side, our friends are cool and have said, basically, “don’t kill yourselves, we’ll work on any bad habits she picks up”, which is nice.
(looking forward to them returning the favor and taking ours next time we go away)
In a bizarre plot twist, the peanut-butter gets licked off the dog.
Because it’s your dog!
Oh sweet release….vacation time starts in 30 minutes. Off through Thanksgiving. Well, you know, my normal job. Gotta practice my dog grooming skills for when my accommodation falls through.
Word on the street for FedGov, at least my agency, is doing directed interviews with the reasonable accommodation requestor’s manager. Not really anything new, just found it interesting they aren’t doing it via memo or letter and will be doing it via Zoom. Also, it is supposed to be back on the manager with guidance. Well I have already made up my mind about my employee, so he is golden.
I’ve got one more day of work left before I’m on vacation until the 30th.
I am looking forward to it. I have another at the end of the year also….much time away from the madness is needed.
I’ve got the week between Christmas and New Year’s off, and I’ve got a little over 16 hours of “wellness time” stored up. You better believe I’m going to use up every minute of PTO I’ve got coming to me before January 4th.
Recent comment threads got me thinking of an idea for a submission I might take a stab at. I checked out the “submissions” tab above, but it doesn’t give any sort of guidance for a few items:
What length of submission should I target my piece being?
Should I wait to send in the form to TPTB until after the piece is written, or should I submit the idea first to see if there’s any interest, prior to even working on the thing?
If I do create an article, do I need to provide my own funny visuals that always accompany, or are those done by the site editors?
Yeah for first-timers I believe you just give them your idea and a PTB will reach out….at least after you call them out on a Zoom and then procrastinate once they get back with you /sorry Tonio…ill get that to you soon!
Find your own visuals, TPTB are busy folks.
There’ probably some interest, so write the article.
Length should be “However much is appropriate” but if it’s too long, think about breaking it into a series.
Yeah. I my single-piece ones have ranged from 1700-2900 words. I had one that was close to 5k and SP graciously allowed me to split it in half.
Visuals are fairly easy to insert once you start working on a piece and there are toggles so you see what it will look like when posted. There’s a little wrinkle for alt-text, which I’ve saved in an e-mail somewhere.
2k is my target, unless there’s some reason not to. TPTB had me condense the IP one for obvious reasons, but that became a 10k article. Usually the off the cuff articles struggle to get to 2k and the planned articles struggle to stay close to 2k.
Not an editor, but I’d say go as long/short as you want. If it’s too long, they may ask to break it up into multiple pieces and schedule it over a couple of days/weeks, too short tell you to pad it up some.
I’ve usually provided my own images to prevent falling into any rights traps.
After the first time – check this: https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/04/working-with-wordpress-a-guide-for-glibs-authors/
10 minutes to read for a lunch time post.
Longer for an evening post.
Great input, each and all, thanks. I haven’t written anything non-technical in a decade at least, I’m going to whip this up and see where it goes.
I cant answer #1, but I would use other submissions as a guide.
#2 – just write it, they will take almost anything, look at some of my submissions.
#3 – you can provide your own, but if you are lazy TPTB will do it for you.
I used to do articles.
I haven’t in a while.
That’s all.
Not enough free time between diapers?
https://twitter.com/AlexKentTN/status/1460782176723783681
Gay?
Media definitely hoping people assume a white good ol’ boy shot a couple of innocent PoC.
Staged
My friend’s husband asked me if I would fly out to PDX for her 50th bday on Jan 3. He said he could spring for the flight, then said “oh, my mother is staying with us so you would have to get a hotel”
Is it just me, or is that poor form?
At any rate, I will only fly nonstop, and that’s $700 (flights w/layover are $600), so he’s balked. How much does he think plane tickets cost over the holidays?
Meh. As long as it was made clear before any bookings were made, seems alright to me. The balking at the price on the other hand, you’d have thought he would have checked that before offering to pay for the flight.
Nothing has been booked. He tendered the invite, I looked it up, and told him the price. Then he said “yikes!”
I’m just thinking he wants to me fly 7 hours (that’s the nonstop) to the west coast and can’t put me up for the night?
Not only holidays but our numbers are above pre-pandemic levels in terms of overall flights. People are wanting to GTFOAINTBABH
So, your friend’s husband offers to pay for you to fly in, but wants you to get a hotel?
Nothing suspicious about that.
bow-chicka-wow-wow
I LOL’d
Pale skinny soy progressive Brit. Oh, baby. ?
Now we know what Omarova tried to steal.
TJ Maxx? If she were going to get caught, at least try for some Louboutins or even outlet Jimmy Choos.
TBF, that’d push it to felony territory. $214 for all that garbage – let’s hear it for TJ Maxx!
29 years old. So not some teenager who made a foolish mistake. Out of 330 million Americans, we are supposed to believe this pinko is the only one qualified to lead the Office of the Comptroller of Currency?
At 29, I’m going to say this just the only time she was caught and charged.
Before yesterday how many people even knew there was an Office of the Comptroller of Currency? I’d wager that right now 90% of the people triggered by this “commie” running the Office of the Comptroller of Currency have any idea what the Comptroller of Currency does. It’s pure outrage theater.
To be fair, literally everything on a national scale is outrage theater. You can’t do anything about it, you don’t know what’s really going on, and the impact on you personally is likely to be minimal.
Day to day politics is a soap opera for nerds.
Whether I knew the exact name of the department that regulates all national banks or not, it is nonetheless of note that someone who thinks the federal reserve should fully replace private bank deposits has been nominated to head it.
She’s a statist of the highest order. I don’t give a fig whether she’s an actual communist or not.
And that may be a reasonable argument (I haven’t read your link, I’m drunk and making Beef stew). But instead we’re stuck on “Pinko shit weasel” and 25 year old shoplifting charges.
It’s worth perusing – it’s her own words, from 2020 (I haven’t read her linked paper).
You seriously think the banking industry is going to let a pipsqueak commie bitch like that run over them? Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Now if your point is, she represents the opening edge of the Overton Window, that might be more plausible.
Okay, how about this: Abolish The Fed.
She’s more “Abolish All But The Fed”
She’s a commie. She was requisitioning perfume for the proletariat. Of which she is a member.
Just wanted to put out a thank-you to everyone who curates links and submits articles. You don’t have to, but you do, and it helps to know there’s others out there even if we may never meet.
Okay, now to read the links…
“We’re at the point in the discourse when colleges have created the highly scientific and totally legitimate racial category of “Students of Color, minus Asian””
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1458563907837038595
It’s forbidden to suggest there are biological differences between the races – but they sure spend a lot of time defining them and deciding which races to favor.
So if you identify as White Hispanic, do you get the special POC standards or the regular “white” standard?
How “of color” do you have to look? Will DNA be used as the tie-breaker?
There used to be a grouping called “Asian or Pacific Islander.” Does that fit in with the new standard exempting Asians from the lower admission standard? So if you’re Samoan, you don’t get the advantage, or do you?
So many questions—it’s almost as if we shouldn’t discriminate in any way based on skin color or national origin…
No discrimination? What are you, some kind of racist?
Sustainably farmed organic cotton NPR totebag test.
I read that as “substantially framed” and thought you were doing some glib non-fit thing.
Yeah, because there’s no difference between the child of Cambodian peasants and the child of Japanese PhD economists.
Been working since 7, cocktail time – mixing it up a bit with a Boulevardier (minus the orange twist, sadly).
I need to make & order these more.
Good choice.
I’m going to have to give one of those a try.
“FDA Wants Until 2076 To Fully Release Pfizer Vaccine Data: Lawsuit”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-wants-until-2076-fully-release-pfizer-vaccine-data-lawsuit
Safe and effective, no doubt.
I can wait.
When I first saw that, I did the math, and it comes to around 20 pages per day, something like that.
What possible justification can there be? Everything requested is undoubtedly sitting in a nice computer file right now, with a bow on it. Zero time needed to locate, collate, and produce. It should all be public information.
“we need to review every page for trade secrets”
Its not their job to protect Pfizer’s trade secrets. I don’t even know if you can claim anything you give the government as a trade secret, but I seriously doubt it.
Ackshually, yes, they can. The govt can be bound to respect/protect proprietary information – I have the NDA collection to prove that. Now, this data on the other hand is govt-required data for pharmaceutical licensing – so likely very, very little proprietary information.
guarantee it will be “covid restrictions don’t allow us to be fully staffed”
Does anyone know if waiting that long is normal?
Thot Thursday is there for a pick-me-up.
https://thechive.com/2021/11/17/red-lips-are-always-a-nice-touch-38-photos-3/
Archive fucked up.
Apropos of nothing, some Marion Hill live. Give it at least until 1:30 or so – such a great voice.
‘Sup, Tonio?
My internet is down. Has Kyle Rittenhouse been sent to prison yet?
for the separation/secession of the US issue, it’s so funny to me how people get tangled up in solvable ‘issues’ that make them think nothing will ever be solved. A few days ago, some dude was complaining how impossible it would be for Texas to be its own country because… they’d miss all that Federal Disaster Relief! And I pointed out that a country with a bigger population than Australia could probably manage its own disaster relief.
I guess it’s two things: most people have little understanding of how big the US is, both in land area and population, so they don’t know that subdividing it into countries would make them the size of most other countries on the planet, and then, 2, getting defeated by little details attitude. Yes, it would be a hard negotiation, all anyone has to do is look at Brexit and see that, but it’s not impossible. It may be impossible for other reasons (war), but having to negotiate water rights or w/e isn’t one of them.
nonsense
it’s impossible to collect taxes and then pay for things
There will be no negotiations, because one side has zero, zip, bupkis, nada interest in allowing a single milimeter of US territory, or a single resident of the US, out from under their thumb. Its a waste of time, other than to be able to say “well, we tried” before the blood begins flow.
The odds are very high that the US will break up only after a brutal shooting war, and only then if the Marxists and their imperial government in DC lose. Offhand, I can think of only one nation-state that broke up without such a war, and that, weirdly enough, was the Soviet Union.
Czechoslovakia would like a word with you.
Nah.
I think the US military is done invading serious things.
They’ll dither and seethe but ultimately those guys are cowards who would do nothing.
I think the two hardest macro issues would be dealing with the national debt and dealing with people “trapped” on the wrong side of the divide.
My current fear is that I’ll be overseas or in slave state without my family when things really really go bad. We’ve started discussing evac plans and logistics if that happens.
FWIW, I doubt there’s anyone who wants the US to crack up more than Putin and Pooh Bear.
(hovers over daily nut-punch link)
RACIST!!!!!!!
I’m getting a brand new ginormous TV mounted to the living room wall this afternoon, mainly for the hubby, whose vision ain’t great.
I was excited that we’d have it up in time for Thursday Night Football. Then I saw it’s Patriots vs Falcons.
Sigh.
Final score, 28-3, Patriots 😀
Who scored the hat trick?
I hate the foozball. My team gets star new reciever, starts winning and then star receiver descides to crash his car at 156 mph resulting in someone burning up in a giant fireball. Did I say fuck foozball?
I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s not as if he misled sports writers about his vaccine status.
Wild/Dallas at 7C
That might be the way to go…and the mister will be able to see the puck!
High definition was the second greatest thing to ever happen to hockey.
I miss the glow puck
Please tell me you’re not gong to mount it up so high that you’re constantly looking up. I hate it when people do that. Like putting them on top of the fireplace mantle. The middle of the screen should be at eye level when you are sitting. So ginormous, the bottm will be inches off the floor.
I bet you’re releived that I cam here to tell you what to do with your TV. Enjoy!
My husband was trying to measure for it from the ceiling down. I told him to get the fuck out of the living room and let me handle it.
Hey, it’s a Superbowl rematch.
The Falcons are coming off an embarrassing loss.
They’re playing at home.
Mac Jones, as good as he’s been, is still a rookie.
It could be interesting.
Yeah, the best I can hope for is a competitive game with decent, minimally invasive refereeing.
BTC is tanking. Just bought a little more at $56k. If it goes to $50k I may buy a lot more.
thanks for the heads up
What wallet do you use…I am completely ignorant to it all even after the slew of articles on here about it.
Coinbase, but I think there are better ones. It’s easy to use, though.
Thanks!
I just got on Gemini in time to lose some money.
Just wait until the day before inflation numbers come out before you buy.
“China could start a military conflict in the Taiwan Strait or other geopolitical hot spots sometime this decade.”
Not with Chinee Joe in charge. They will just take what they want at no cost.
An hour ago I walked into the grocery store to buy salad fixin’s. My iPhone buzzed and Siri reminded me that Basmati rice is on my grocery list. We are living in a giant panopticon run by prison guards that have an agenda. Our best interest does not figure into that agenda. Maybe I need to get rid of that damned thing. Is there any way to disable the geolocation function?
I’ll defer to the iPhone users, but yes, you can turn off location services.
You can turn it off per app.
I wonder which app is sending him that notification. My iPhone doesn’t do that.
I have location services enabled for things that need it like Maps.
Privacy>Location Services>Turn off or allow/disallow certain apps
The phone will still ping towers though.
You could just leave it at home.
So do you want Basmati rice or not?
it is the best long grain rice.
Long Grain is for amateur’s, Carnaroli is a superior rice for any application.
Rice nerds.
Now I’ve seen it all.
It had to happen here, though.
Someone has their eye on the ball…
Baseball is weird, huh? Phillies’ Bryce Harper named MVP of National League…and he wasn’t even on the All Star Team. Team-mate Wheeler came in second for Cy Young (probably should have won it) and their team didn’t even make the NL playoffs.
The Great Divorce has already been solved:
https://www.glibertarians2019.link/2019/01/22/political-daydreams-part-ii-the-great-divorce/
If I provided a link, would anyone click it? Seriously, some things are dumb enough left unclicked.
“Why Are Americans Unhappy With Biden? Robert Reich, The Guardian”
Yeah, I’d pass on that, because “Robert Reich”. I would be dumber for having read it.
Plus “The Guardian”.
Hard pass.
He should go back to Hobbiton and just enjoy their sharing economy.
Oops. Supposed to be a reply to Hyperion.
And I’d pass too, same reasons as slumbrew.
What a joy to see the leftist shitbirds using their mendacious tactics against their own. Have fun motherfuckers.
*puts bag of Pop-Secret in microwave…theater butter flavor*
We are in an authoritarian state and dont know it? Speak for yourself. People around here and myself have been wasting our breath warning everyone for well over a decade. Fat lot of good that did.
No one in the history of the world has wanted to make you unable to defend yourself for your own good. They have plans for you and cannot go ahead with them if you are armed. Joke all you want about the camps but they leftists who are talking about camps for deplorables are not joking one little bit.
“Does gender diversity in the workplace mitigate climate change?”
No. What a steaming pile of gibberish. Their initial premise that women hit hardest by global warming is pure gibberish, along with the premise that that nonsense is based on. The climate change we are seeing is natural and perfectly consistent with the history of ice age/warm period cycles of the past.
Hey WaPo, nothing published on the internet ever goes away. You are paid liars, lied incessantly right up until today and so you deserve anything you get.
We will have a divorce but not until it becomes more painful to stay married. The left sure is pushing us towards that as hard as they can even if they dont know it.
Rule #1 – Never leave our people behind. Always give them support.
Clinton abandoned our embassy (?) in Libya to Al Qaeda. My guess is she was hoping they would all be slaughtered so that no one would find out about her wildly corrupt incompetence in changing the security around the embassy. I think a 12 year old could have come up with a better cover story than an internet video that 4 people watched.
Evil bitch. A noose is too good for her. BTW, no one has ever explained where Obumbles was when that debacle occurred.
Biden botched the Afghanistan withdrawal so badly and had such a callous don’t-give-a-shit attitude about it that I can only conclude he did it that way deliberately. Poopie Joe did not even bother with a cover story. His attitude was and is ‘Meh, whatever’. Leaving family members of servicemen behind at the mercy of the Taliban? A noose is too good for him. Two days after we cut and ran I heard that the Taliban were going door-to-door and machine-gunning people. How many Americans? How many of our allies were shot down in the streets and their own homes?
We should have ended that clusterfuck 18 or 19 years ago. Leave it to the left to give the finger to a demographic they hate by getting them killed.
Yeah, but what kind of flashlight did you get?
Also, ? on the hot pepper vinegar. I put 4 ghosts in some apple cider vinegar. Tasty.
No flashlight yet but going over the recommendations.
Now all you need is any kind of bean, pea or greens dish to splash that on.
And only about 3 people in the press were interested. And then only for about a week or two.
Leaving family members of servicemen behind at the mercy of the Taliban?
Link? I get that the MSM aren’t going to report on that, but I’m not seeing anything on Newsmax or OAN or Gateway Pundit either. Surely if this were the case the right would have their own Cindy Sheehan grabbing every microphone she could.
I’m between a rock and a hard place. That piece of shit Antonio Brown is in hot water for reportedly using a fake vax card. Do I laugh as his career fully ends with another suspension and scandal, or do I scoff at the notion that he should be punished for refusing to be forced to get a vaccine?
I’d imagine you would just go with your first instinct.
I’m gonna got with the latter one on this. Scoff at vaxx card.
(I’ve already seen the other one and it didn’t help me one bit.)
I should’ve used my Photoshop skills to duplicate these for profit. The bad news for me was, living in Florida, the governor foiled my plans by not being a complete statist asshole.
There has been a massive rise in the number of athletes (especially soccer players) either dropping dead, or otherwise suffering from heart conditions this year. Some (I think disingenuous) people have claimed that it’s due to an increased use of marijuana (no, I’m not joking) rather than a variable that might possibly be more closely attributed to 2020-21.
Here’s a video regarding that. It’s a guy talking at the beginning and the end, with a song playing over newspaper stories. If you don’t like the song, feel free to mute it.
I’m looking for something to make for my dad and his wife when they get back from their trip. It needs to be something that I can make ahead and will reheat well. It also can’t be Mediterranean, because they just got back from a 5 star resort in Spain, where they also ate at a 2 Michelin Star restaurant. I ain’t gonna compete with that.
I was thinking maybe short ribs with creamy polenta?
Any other ideers?
Smash burgers.
Your idea is excellent.
I love making chile verde a day or two early. It is better heated up.
Butter chicken with rice.
Butter chicken?
Indian dish
Now, that’s interesting. I am not a fan of butter chicken, but maybe a Madras chicken.
Only problem is I really suck at cooking rice.
Just make a vindaloo.
1.5 cups water
1 cup rice
saucepan
add water and rice
heat on high until it begins to boil
give it a quick stir
cover tightly with foil
reduce heat to low
simmer 17 minutes
remove from heat
fluff and enjoy
“fluff and enjoy”
OK, but what do you do with the rice?