Yes!!!
The Rams knocked the Cardinals out of the NFC top playoff spot. Las Vegas will get a Super Bowl in a couple years (and that’s gonna be a freaking circus). The UCL Round of 16 draw was a fucking fiasco. Max Verstappen is still World Champion (and Hamilton fans are still bitching incessantly, much to my pleasure). And an outbreak of covid cases (amongst vaccinated players, by the way) is starting to have an impact on EPL, NBA, NHL, and other sports games and matches. And that’s sports.
I might still have that jersey in my closet.
Big birthdays today are famous bullshit artist Nostradamus, astronomer Tycho Brahe, the last British King George VI, ballsy flyer James Doolittle, comic actor Morey Amsterdam, pitcher Sam Jones, football great Ernie Davis, actress Patty Duke, tennis great Stan Smith, infielder Bill Buckner, piece of shit loser James Comey, infielder Craig Biggio, soccer great Michael Owen, and actress Vanessa Hudgens.
Right, now moving on to…the links!
Bet you can’t guess what they’re gonna do. Just kidding. We all know they’re gonna kick the can down the road again. Idiots.
But…this contradicts everything the Pharma execs (and their government spokespeople) have been telling us. Not that I’m surprised. This is more about a narrative now than the actual fucking science. Oh, and share value. Let’s not forget how much this is about increasing share value.
Scumbag authoritarian asshole
So much for the First Amendment. What a bunch of fucking assholes.
Holy shit, this is hilarious. This is exactly the type of groveling and scrounging I like to see from government officials. But since so many people are upset about it, I’ll offer an alternative: they can get jobs in the summer.
I would expect no less from Portland government. In fact, I’d have been shocked if they hadn’t done something this stupid.
Is there no rope for sale in New York?
My God, can we start erecting gibbets outside the CNN offices yet? Sadly, I fear this isn’t the last we hear of bad people inside that shitshow of a network.
Never try to understand why some elitist Hollywood piece of shit does something. Your shared skin color doesn’t mean you have anything in common with him or will ever understand why he did something. Just move on and be happy you convicted the piece of shit.
I sure hope the cop checked to make sure there was $950 or more in the register. Otherwise, he could be in serious trouble. I also hope clerks and store owners start doing this themselves. It’s probably the only way this shit ends.
This is a surprising development. I assumed he’d try to push the case back until he’d exhausted his appeals in state court. Either way, this guarantees he’ll spend a bunch of time behind bars even if his state appeal is successful (which I don’t think it will be).
This is actually one of my favorite songs by these guys. I hope y’all enjoy it just a little bit. But just in case you don’t, I’ll go back several years for something else. That one is sure to get the blood pumping.
Anyway, get out there and have a great Tuesday!
“So much for the First Amendment. What a bunch of fucking assholes.”
The reset is not yet completed peasant, so shut your trap and let us fuck you over some more!!
Yeah, when the Governor who removes religious exemptions from the mandate (after the prior Governor originally allowed for them) and says:
The new Governor announced that the decision to eliminate the exemption was ‘intentiona[l]’ and justified because no ‘organized religion’ sought it and individuals who did were not ‘listening to God and what God wants.’
I don’t see how in the hell that passes 1st Amendment muster. “I know better than you how you should believe in God, peons! OBEY!” Flipping Nazgul.
Yup, her comments alone should have scuttled the whole thing, not just authorized a religious exemption.
Police power = police state, duh!
It’s getting worse. Rationally I know that things would always seem to be at their worst before they get better, But sheesh, the lack of leadership and dour news is really weighing on me.
It never got better for some residents of certain states. While the rest of the USA has tried to brush off Democrat tyranny, FYTW:
A list from the National Academy for State Health Policy shows nine states had mask mandates in place as of Nov. 19: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Hawaii, Illinois, New York and Connecticut. The District of Columbia was also listed.
People are shocked when they pass through Georgia. No lockdowns. No state mask requirements. Restaurants are free to demand you wear a mask but most have not in 2021. In person dining is open unless the restaurant is having staffing shortages. AND ALL GEORGIANS HAVE NOT DROPPED DEAD.
Your second and third links currently go to the same story. I don’t think you intended that.
The Jussie Smollet and the $950 register story both go to the Jussie story as well.
I fixed them both. Need coffee, I guess.
Appreciated.
You’re fine, Sloop! If you start trying to amend every post for this batch of autists you’ll wind up writing unhinged screeds from a cabin in the mountains.
I thought that was the bulk of this group.
Yeah, but this wasn’t amending anything. It was correcting a pair of my own fuckups.
‘you’ll wind up writing unhinged screeds from a cabin in the mountains.’
That…. doesn’t sound too terrible, actually.
Where exactly is this cabin? Asking for a friend.
Why in the world would Chauvin plead guilty?
Because the sate wanted him to play along with the fucking racket so they could keep the charade and anger up?
Well, people were floating a federal death penalty. And he hasn’t been able to afford a lawyer (and has been denied a court-appointed one), so he might have just been worn down and given up.
How can you be up for a death sentence and not be appointed a lawyer? Seems like a 5th Amendment violation to me.
The court ruled he didn’t count as indigent so he could clearly just hire his own.
Even if he could afford one, if he can’t find one willing to advocate for his defense, the court still seems like it’s obligated to provide one. But I’m probably using some archaic interpretation of the 5th Amendment.
I had no idea legal representation was means-tested. That is fucked up, but shouldn’t surprise I guess.
and has been denied a court-appointed on … The court ruled he didn’t count as indigent so he could clearly just hire his own.
Still a violation considering you have a right to counsel.
They offered him a deal? Less anal rape and more access to an open window? Maybe he’ll make friends with some birds? I don’t know. The whole world has gone crazy.
Don’t know why, but apparently he is pro se at the moment because he can’t afford an attorney, but has also been deemed not to qualify for a poublic defender.
He wants the whole thing over with. No death penalty, they have denied him a lawyer.
It’s so fucked up, he knows it but cannot do anything to stop the machine grinding him, and us, down.
“Never try to understand why some elitist Hollywood piece of shit does something. ”
I want to give this gentleman a pass cause he is from an older generation and might just not get it yet, but today victimhood is the high currency of the land, and everyone that wants to be someone in the social circles run by the fucking perverts and idiots wants themselves some of that…
You just KNOW that the penciller and author of that comic panel that’s on the home-page knew exactly what he was doing. Fuck you Comics Code and Fuck You Fauchi!
Those are called Featured Images, and are one of the revealed secrets of WordPress.
If I had the time and the talent I would know that. Sadly, I am merely a reactive commenter, not a contributor. Wish that I had something worth sharing more than snark.
I thought this place was mainly about sharing delicious, delicious snark — so keep it up, Festus! 😉
#metoo
Oh well, we can be Statler & Waldorf up in the box seats.
Pastel suits, loafers, a speedboat and our incredible amount of cool. Solving crimes. Lotsa babes.
Don’t forget the alligator!
No mention of the anguished screeching about E Musk?
What happened now?
Because he’s Time’s Person Of The Year, I’m guessing
It should be teachers, who are People magazine’s POTY. When I saw that I wanted to hurl.
What? Why?
Collectively speaking, they’ve done less than ever over the last two years and their entitlement attitude has sent thousands of parents to seek alternatives for their childrens’ education.
I was being sarcastic in the first sentence. I should have stated it more clearly. Still on first cup coffee; I don’t see how Sloopy does links this early.
Oh, I caught the sarcasm. No worries.
Well, the teachers unions may have opened the eyes to a bunch of parents, which is about the only good thing to come out of the teachers union.
The award finally going to an African man.
He did this, for which he will pay 53% percent tax,
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/elon-musk-sells-another-906point5-million-worth-of-tesla-shares.html
What do you mean? I’ll screech if it’s bad for Elon,
so he might have just been worn down and given up.
Like a guy with somebody’s knee on his neck?
That whole ‘extended time kneeling on the chest’ thing is a big red herring, you see. Floyd had lots of Fentanyl in his system, so even if he had been hit by a bus while crossing the street it would have been the drugs that killed him.
/some glibs
He died with Fentanyl, not of Fentanyl?
Dishonest is as dishonest does. Fentanyl Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose. Not a knee on his neck. Not blunt force trauma from a bus.
A statement from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said the officer fired one shot that struck the suspect. The suspect was hospitalized and later pronounced dead.
This is the most surprising part of the story; no mag dump.
You never can tell. He may have fired 10 but only one hit the suspect. The way it was written is ambiguous and the statement came from the cop’s department.
Shit, they got me.
I will be soooo fucking happy when a new musical comes out.
LMAO!!! Because it’s so true!
Ooooh! I have a billion dollar idea!
A remake of Oklahoma! except it will be from Laurie’s point of view as xe (an Ojibwe Two-Spirit) liberates xer indigenous lands from the white settlers! Xe will teach Curly (an escapes person of enslavement of color) that it’s his toxic masculinity that’s preventing him from expressing his true love for Judd Fry (a latinx enby acearo greydemiboy).
Meghan Three Stallion can do the score.
Unfortunately, that wouldn’t be far off the mark. Why am I getting so depressed reading the links and responses?
I hope they take it to CAS and get slapped down again. And then I hope their new car next year sucks ass, although from what I understand they’ve been able to dedicate a lot more resources to it than Red Bull has so far.
Hamilton is just such an unlikeable crybaby whenever anyone dares try to pass him somewhere other than a straight.
Meh — I’ll say it again, Max is just damned lucky everyone gets out of his way because he goes into those turn passes clearly looking to cause a collision otherwise. And I think he’s an asshole for it. Pass where it doesn’t force the other driver to hit you or go off the track. He’s Kvyat with better luck when it comes to those attempts.
That’s not to say he isn’t a talented driver, and I’m no Hamilton fan — but I still think he’s an overly aggressive asshole that is going to wreck people. Lewis does the same shit sometimes (mainly back when he was fighting Rosberg for the championship), but Max makes it a regular habit.
And I’m hoping Haas blows everyone away by focusing exclusively on the 2022 car. Because they sure as hell didn’t do anything for this year’s car — so presumably all that time and money went SOMEWHERE! 😉
Max is the asshole we need, not the one we want. Just anything but watching Hamilton start in pole and put the car on cruise control for 58 laps while Bottas runs interference like we had the last few years.
I’m hoping the top 4 squads can legit duke it out next year. Imagine going into a race weekend not knowing who will be on the podium, and knowing that it could be any combination of 7 or 8 drivers.
Worse than Hitler
“Everything is so f—ing dumb,” Jacobin’s Luke Savage fumed.
“Oh for f—s sake,” former California congresswoman Katie Hill, D., wrote.
Und so weiter.
I thought they liked him.
Simone Biles is the Time’s athlete of the year for…withdrawing from 3 events and not winning gold.
An undeserved award will do wonders for her mental health.
Biles is the type of person we are told to admire in these times: sad sack voluntary loser.
Uffda. That is some extra woke shit considering that her replacement was also a minority. It isn’t like they’d have to give the award to some white oppressor.
I guess when it comes to Asians, Time doesn’t acknowledge that they walk a Hmong us.
*narrows gaze*
She is the GOAT, although she didn’t deserve the award because she quit.
Her quitting is neither heroic nor shameful. It is just sad. We watch things like the Olympics for those moments when people overcome the yips and excel, so she shouldn’t be called a hero. On the other hand, doing what she does with the yips is downright stupid and begging for serious injury.
Those people are fucking evil, Commies every one of them.
This is TMITE spinning up fake controversy to make money for TMITE.
To be fair, if I was flexible enough to suck my own dick, I would probably do it, too…
Yoga.
That Smollette juror is everything wrong with everything, nowadays. Good God, Man! You weighed the evidence, came to the same conclusion as the rest of your peers and STILL think that it would be “fairer” if the jury had more brown people. I don’t understand pretty much of anything anymore. It would be a fair judgement if they reached the same conclusion along racial lines? Thanks, Barack. Thanks a bunch.
Identity is everything now. The left’s propaganda push to erase five decades’ worth of civil rights advances has succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.
Civil rights for our sacred people have advanced far beyond the wildest dreams of their first advocates.
He’s got to say something so he doesn’t get attacked for voting to convict.
I don’t believe that.
Nordstroms should give that cop a $500 gift card, so he’ll come protect their store.
$950.
$951
She has been worse than Andy in every way.
Show us on the doll where she touched you.
Right on the mask!
Regarding the Front page image: Reminds me of my youth. Haha.
Apparently you’re supposed to warn people, which would just ruin the experience if you ask me.
Marvin: Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
It is good etiquette to do that, particularly with less-experienced providers.
Look, if Lack enjoys a surprise pop in the mouth who are we to judge?
Some day, people will realize that it’s always a Fed on the other side of that chat.
Or not.
to find parents
Somehow I don’t think he’d have gotten what he wanted if a father showed up.
TOXIC MASCLUNITYZ IS WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WORLD!!!1!111!!!!!
Dr. In Canada put away for speaking out about ivermectin and still births for vaxxed women. Scary stuff.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/dr-mel-bruchet-did-you-know-he-was?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTYyNjE4MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDU0Mjg4MTQsIl8iOiJuOFlpVyIsImlhdCI6MTYzOTQ4ODU2MywiZXhwIjoxNjM5NDkyMTYzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTE2ODk2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.LSpjl_2_3uX99duzv0XCA8T3oXlXVugj56dLWy43NvA
Ugh… and that’s why crap like “red flag” laws and involuntary psych treatment by the state makes me really, really nervous. Thanks daily news — if I drank, this would drive me to start very early this morning. Elon, get your crap working already so maybe there’s a way off this rock and away from these collectivist assholes for some future generation.
Holy shit
“Ugh… and that’s why crap like “red flag” laws and involuntary psych treatment by the state makes me really, really nervous.”
…Russian, circa 1950.
Whoa.
Canada looks at Australia and says, “Hold my beer.”
If only the makers of Thalidomide had marketed their product as a “morning sickness vaccine”.
One of our original doctor witnesses who did a bunch of testing and analysis on the clot-shot immediately had a complaint filed against his license and his creds pulled for the military clinic he worked at. He is now fighting the complaint against his license with the state medical authorities. Theresa Long was given a gag order for testifying on our behalf about the danger to pilots at Fort Rucker.
I know another medical provider who refused the shot and pointed out that it’s experimental and they took away her pistol (she was living in a sketch area off base while attending college). Then she had to have all of these meetings and get a psych eval.
This is where we are now. This is what it is. Anyone who doesn’t see this or appreciate it doesn’t really want to know.
There are a whole LOT of Sergeant Schultzes out there now. They’ll be shocked, FLABBERGASTED when the trains to the camps begin.
Can we have captain grab-ass back? Sigh. Hochul is a worse tyrant.
She’s trying to match his body count, and forced injections are the only tool she’s got at the moment.
This. Is CNN.
Well there need be people to make Jeffery Epstein look less evil
And CNN producer has the mother to make him look less evil.
Right?! The mothers…what the actual fuck?
Smollett juror: Hope said he thinks Smollett has lost enough and doesn’t deserve prison time. He also said he hopes Smollett gets a second chance in Hollywood.
I’m conflicted on prison time, but no, I don’t hope he gets a second chance in Hollywood (even though he will).
He should serve whatever sentence a perpetrator of the crime he faked would be facing.
It’s my standard for all false accusations and hoaxes.
I’m conflicted on prison time
He deserves prison, but I don’t think he’ll get it.
Our civil society has been ruined by evil morons.
was it ever not ruined?
About 35 years ago it was still okay.
Good shoot for once, of course the guy is on paid leave. So he should be fine.
Barney Fife made good! Sherriff Andy would be proud!
I didn’t think Fife was allowed to have bullets?
He always carried one in his shirt pocket.
In IDPA, the standard required start position is to have your gun with a round in the chamber and the magazine fully loaded. There is also a limit as to how many round you can have on your person. To make both of these things work, you bring a magazine with one cartridge loaded in it.
This magazine is called a “Barney.”
Ha!
So I find the Bourbon Junkies entertaining especially in blind tasting where they are often way off. But this one surprised me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCjScWnI_Rc
I cannot see how one can mistake Octomore for Texas Whiskey
WTF?
Nike just bought a virtual shoe company that makes NFTs and sneakers ‘for the metaverse’
RTFKT makes shoes too, except these only exist digitally
——-
One comparison I’ve heard repeatedly over the last year is that buying NFTs to “flex” on people in the metaverse is just like collecting sneakers, and now Nike is apparently trying to make sure it’s ready for the literal version of that possibility. The apparel giant just announced the acquisition of RTFKT Studios, which it calls “a leading brand that leverages cutting edge innovation to deliver next generation collectibles that merge culture and gaming.”
RTFKT claims that in February, a collaboration with teenage artist FEWOCiOUS to sell real sneakers paired with virtual ones managed to sell some 600 pairs/NFTs in just six minutes, netting over $3.1 million at the time. This was around the same early spring period when most of us were hearing about NFTs for the first time, as Grimes sold some $6 million worth of digital artwork on March 1st. It’s not clear if any of these digital items are worth as much now; looking at OpenSea and Nifty Gateway right now, I see a number of them are either listed for or have recently sold for less than their original prices.
Something something fools and their money…
There is no bubble.
What’s that stupid series of books and films called again? “The Hungry Games” or such what-not?
I know a guy that worked for Nike (and later Under Armour) designing shoes. He said it paid extremely well but it’s an extremely fickle business and design is the least important part of the job. And he said the athletes were all kind of strange and most of them were assholes on top of it. I think he said Bryce Harper was the only one he could stand.
Of course.
I have the best story ever from a meeting GG had at Under Armour (from my days at CF).
He would tell that story every time someone brought up shoe and apparel companies, but it’s too long for here.
I’ll just say that apparel and shoe companies are nothing but complete and utter stupidity and marketing. That’s it.
There is nothing else – there is no “there” there.
Making the Dutch tulip bubble look like an exercise in restraint and common-sense.
This is just fucked up,
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/12/14/everybody-from-the-pope-on-down-another-loss-for-religious-liberty-at-the-supreme-court-n435271
How you holding up, Bob? New job, new adventure? I envy you that.
I am disappoint in the two newbies. ?
Same.
It’s a no-brainer that the governer lacks the authority.
A few days later, it has been reported that Dr. Bruchet has been taken against his will and had a psych diagnosis assigned to him so that he can be ‘medicated’.
“What this patient needs is a good dose of hard work and fresh air. I prescribe a fourteen year vacation on a farm in Siberia, or until such time as he has demonstrated the capacity to rejoin civil society.”
How many fingers, Citizen?
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
Boss Paul : That ditch is Boss Kean’s ditch. And I told him that dirt in it’s your dirt. What’s your dirt doin’ in his ditch?
Luke : I don’t know, Boss.
Boss Paul : You better get in there and get it out, boy.
What is your ditch doing in my dirt?
DeepMind Says Its New AI Has Almost the Reading Comprehension of a High Schooler
A provocative claim!
https://futurism.com/deepmind-ai-reading-comprehension
eh how difficult can that be
Depends upon the high-schooler. They are all dunces but some of them are dangerously smart.
Ah!, high schoolers…. People that practically always have zero real life experience but a head full of ideas they think they are the first to come up with. Those ideas usually involve marxist shit and they all think they can actually make it work this time despite anything they might have heard about how fucking evil these things always turn out to be.
Like Sandy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Are we talking a Baltimore or Beijing high schooler?
Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status. Sex. Status.
I saw a new item about pfizer saying double vaxxed are protected 30% from omicron transmission which I assume can be safely rounded down to 0
So less effective than a flu shot then.
Pfft. Triple or quadruple is the new double. Jabs in arms, people!
I’d laugh at your “joke” except I remember when a similar joke was made to Fauci about double masking and within days it became the new gospel. All right thinkers should double mask.
Can we have captain grab-ass back? Sigh. Hochul is a worse tyrant.
She has that True Believer look. God set her on the throne to raise his people up from ignorance and sin, and by golly she won’t waste her chance for Glory.
Anyone else think that this Omicron scare is the end of it all? If nobody is dying will the populace finally wake the fuck up?
It’s not over so long as one child has the sniffles.
They’ve weeded out the old and the sickly, who’s left? I don’t mean to sound like a crazy person and this is not an original thought but I believe this was engineered for a purpose. Get rid of your aging population, gain control over the lives of the rest and more importantly, train us all to bow to the State for the greater good, starting with the children. Am I insane or are they just picking up the frying pan by the sides?
Compulsory education keeps the populace in a permanent stupor. They will never wake the fuck up.
May newsfeed this morning was full of breathless reports of CONFIRMED OMICRON cases in various locations. Most of the headlines had between 1-5 cases, with the UK reporting their first OMICRON death.
People will keep their fear up.
IIRC, that omicron death was a 92 year old with kidney failure, heart failure and lung cancer. But it were surely the omicron wut did it!
I’m cautiously optimistic. The media and governments keep using all these scare words, but only one person has died from it. It’s been around more than a few weeks now, I think you’d be seeing deaths at this point. I think at least SOME people will notice this.
You are delusional.
FWIW, I am seeing plenty of pushback and from surprising quarters, like that guy in Colorado (Polis?).
Died with it, not from it.
No.
There are still members of the Climate Change Cult. So, there will always be members of the Covid Cult.
I’m not optimistic.
Robert Reich
@RBReich
Elon Musk’s @TIME
debut is a good time to remind you that he illegally threatened to take away stock options if employees unionized, and has had 43 workers’ rights violations filed against his company since 2010.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1470458753732395008
I mena given the size of the companies 43 in 11 years is not that bad
Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarren
Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.
https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1470415896053227522
Not a Musk fanboy by any means but if this guy is a freeloader… He probably payed over a billion in taxes over the years
The only freeloader is in that equation is Warren. She has never produced anything of value, but somehow manages to succeed financially off the taxpayers nickel;.
She let Trump troll her into taking a DNA test which proved she is super white. How does anyone find her to be an impressive person?
Hey! Warren has produced lots of value over the years. But she always takes it back the next day.
Says she can’t help it, it is some sort of genetic disposition.
I am not a fanboy either and I especially dislike the “green energy” favoritism from the IRS that he has profited from over the years.
But that is not his fault.
Shut the fuck up Fauxahantis.
43 is nothing for a company of that size.
Simply being successful and having a positive cash position will attract multiple lawsuits.
You don’t rob the beggar: your rob the bank….
Churn, churn, churn!
Biles is the type of person we are told to admire in these times: sad sack voluntary loser.
The only winning move is not to play.
Of course not! Playing might injure you! Sit on this comfy couch and watch trained, authorized, government-approved professionals play.
You retire gracefully by not entering the Olympic qualifying for your country. You attention whore by going to the Olympics and deciding you aren’t up to it.
That’s more French than American.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/norway-bans-serving-alcohol-covid-omicron/100697718
Science!
Easter eggs:
https://twitter.com/ASoftstar/status/1466565698566512643
They don’t call it “going at it like bunnies” for nothing, man…
I knew a buzzard that used to do the same thing…
Heh.
the chicken was asking for it tbh
She shouldn’t have been wearing her tailfeathers that short.
Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.
Let’s go back to the Sheriff of Nottingham model. Take what your political enemies have, by force.
THIS NEVER HAPPENED!!!
THIS NEVER HAPPENED!!!
Da FUQ is with the double posts?
I HATE SQUIRRELS.
well you are I assume one of those evil Americans with guns just go outside and shoot a few
Tard Tuesday: We’ve Got Him This Time!
Two Jan. 6 Organizers Are Coming Forward and Naming Names: ‘We’re Turning It All Over’
After losing faith in Trump, the pair plan to hand over text messages, Instagram direct messages, and other documents related to the planning of the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse where Trump spoke
Two key organizers of the main Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. are coming in from the cold.
Let your imagination run wild with what may be in those text messages (which the FBI probably already has anyway).
Blockquote fail.
that is why I never bother
“Hey Rep X, my husband and I will be in town for the big Trump rally. We’d like to stop by your office and see you for a bit.”
MSM: Rep X guilty of coordinating with 1/6 Insurrectionists!
the House challenge to certifying Biden’s election…that ultimately contributed to a massive and violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Quite the leap there. And the “attack” was neither massive nor very violent.
Note that there’s no mention of entering the Capitol Building. It’s just about the rally.
This is a huge nothing-burger.
I had no idea that Marx was a calculus truther until now. I just read the first few pages of his essay out of curiosity and this shit is absolutely fascinating. It’s basically calculus denial à la Berkeley meets Hegelian dialectic
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1470083987888611328
Marx was an evil moron that felt the world never accepted the genius he saw in himself. So he foisted that evil shit on humanity out of spite.
Now one can argue who if Marx or the people that believe the shit others claim Marx teaches are dumber, but in my mind they are both dumb while Marx is seriously evil.
It’s been a long while since I’ve done any calculus proofs, but it just looks like he’s tied himself into a rhetorical knot there. Functionally, it looks like he’s identified the difference between performing calculus numerically and classically, but can’t see that a numerical solution can never be exact as it requires an infinite number of iterations.
thicc?
https://twitter.com/CosDestiny/status/1470675278720651264
NSFW and also looks like weeaabo shit
Is that supposed to be real? That mask makes me so orney!
I assume it is some weird cosplay and also the image was post-processed. But hey tits you know. Real animated whatever
I’m pretty sure that’s a dude.
This gives new meaning to the term swift justice…
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Cash isn’t worth someone’s life. Could’ve injured other people irresponsible…
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That was a shit reaction. Everyone is cheering this guy for murdering him but that perp didn’t look armed. The head shot was overkill. This one wasn’t justified and that owner is probably gonna do some time for that one.
It’s going to be a questionable use of force at least and will depend highly on the jurisdiction.
I can’t help it if some people actually believe we should have a system where criminals get sympathy instead of justice. Me, I want to help those in need that deserve it, but only people that don’t feel others have no rights they need to respect cause they want to do what they want.
I’ve got no sympathy for the thief.
But the shooter is probably in for a bad time unless that was a deep red section of Texas.
it looked like the right amount of kill.
Use of deadly force is morally justified to defend your life/livelihood. Don’t want your head turned into a canoe? Don’t try to rob people.
She let Trump troll her into taking a DNA test which proved she is super white. How does anyone find her to be an impressive person?
Listening to Warren speak should be enough to cure any sensible person of that.
My local NPR produces a showette called “The Academic Minute,” wherein profs at various Nth tier schools talk about their “research.”
This one was headlined “studies show homework doesn’t benefit students.” They looked at a class of college students and found that 55% of the students who did well on their homework did NOT do well on in-class exams, and this was vastly up from twenty years ago when a similar study showed only 14% of students
were googling the answersfell into that category.Define homework…
Lots of homework is online now, especially in science and math classes. Students somehow get 100% on their online homework that they do in the dorms, yet when it comes to exam time they still don’t know shit. You’ll note that it says they did not do well on in-class exams; I bet they still gets As on the online tests.
Had one case a couple of years ago where a student was paying some guy in Pakistan to do his online assignments in a math class. The kid tried to stiff the Pakistani on the last payment, and the guy emailed our student dean’s office and spilled the beans.
Anita Sarkeesian
@anitasarkeesian
After you watch Licorice Pizza please have a conversation with your friends about how just showing racism isn’t a critique of racism. It is actually doing racism.
Here are some talking points:
https://twitter.com/anitasarkeesian/status/1470246531131326467
I never understood this left shit about giving people talking points. I am sufficiently secure on my opinions which I spent quite some time thinking about that I don;t need someone else to feed me talking points. Only if you are a feels lefty with no thought you need talking points
Lefties: YOU ARE WRONG!!! You can’t think on your own, you must always consult the left-hive-mind for what is correct, and you must do it daily because it can change, real fast.
Well, there you go. No one on the left, and nearly no one on the right, can really think.
They are collectivists and, as you said, they are very insecure about their ideas, their intelligence and their existence in general. They need to feel like they are part of the “cool kids’ club” and you can’t do that without thinking and acting in lockstep.
Oh man, I remember Licorice Pizza, they were one of the better record store chains until they got supplanted by Peaches, Camelot Music, and Tower Records. Not sure what Sarkeesian’s beef with a defunct record store is though.
Featured in Fast Times, no? with the Debbie Harry standee.
I had to go look it up, and yes you are correct. Now I’m enjoying Jeff Spicoli’s antics.
Would love to read the book again; OOP and .: vertiginously expensive.
Congress needs term limits to fight the lich-lord power takeover….
Holy cow! Arch-conservative Jen Rubin likes Special K!
That is right. Big Pharma is going to be sent to bed without any supper. Because the party of vax mandates is going to take them down.
Just like health insurance companies. They’ll talk a big game and then force every person in the country to use vaccines. Something something briar patch.
$300,000 Bored Ape NFT sold for $3,000 because of misplaced decimal point
50 comments
The seller accidentally listed the price as 0.75 ETH instead of 75 ETH
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832146/bored-ape-nft-accidentally-sold-300000-fat-finger
maybe society is in decline I dunno
That is still more than $3,000 over the value.
I have completely lost interest in Formula One and most forms of racing. I would rather go watch non winged sprint cars in East Shithole Illinois than have an all access trip to the Formula Wank race in Monaco.
That was always a better choice than F1
My brother and I once drove halfway across northern Nevada to watch a local dirt track race night. We sat in the empty, except for family, stands drinking beer out of cans in paper bags as it wasn’t supposed to be that kind of night. The whole thing was a blast.
I swear I think that this story in Politico is complete satire. There just is no way it was written seriously.
The story is a collection of advice from various political consultants on how Kamala can turn things around. Whoa! Settle down, no one suggests she actually change anything. She just needs better messaging.
Why isn’t Kamala loved by all?
The public loved her so much they chose not to burden her with any delegates, even in California.
Why isn’t Kamala loved by all?
Because she doesn’t have The One Ring?
A political party whose strategy for dealing with problems is to do better/moar PR. Not identify the real reason for the problem, and then fix it somehow, because that’s…
Seriously. They spend more effort on PR than any real solutioning.
Definitely. If you start looking for this you’ll suddenly see it everywhere.
“as a former prosecutor who has worked tirelessly to put criminals where they belong, ” which means pot offenders doing extra time because the State needed the Fire lines full,
Fuck off Slaver!
Harris reminds me of Third Rock From the Sun when Dick Solomon(an alien disguised as human) asks a woman”How am I not normal? I try so very hard to appear normal”
Might not be an exact quote, but close enough.
Third Rock is showing on reruns locally when I get home from work.
John Lithgow is a fantastic actor. Him busting his daughter with a bootleg tape in Footloose is awesome
Harris is warm, charismatic and bright.
Good lord…
Her laugh is infectious and her rapport with children heartwarming.
…Oh, it gets worse.
Good morning Gliberviille!
In a bit of personal good news, I’ve found myself with an unexpected (and reasonably substantial) holiday bonus. So, should I be responsible and save it? Put it towards a new kitchens for the condo?
Or, should I drop the hammer on that Staccato C2 at the local arms dealer?
you have several kitchens in a condo?
Or, should I drop the hammer on that Staccato C2 at the local arms dealer? – no you already have to many guns. You should in fact sell some keep no more than 2.
That’s absurd. Two isn’t enough by an order of magnitude. Twenty is the minimum number a free person should own.
Burt Gummer approves this message.
Several kitchens? No, I have a new soft keyboard that I’m still getting used to.
And while most normal people can probably eke out an existence with two guns, you should know by now that I am *not* normal…
He keeps kosher.
I’m guessing there’s not enough for all three?
Certainly not after the Man gets his cut…
my holiday bonus will in fact probably go to new furniture
ALWAYS buy the gun.
Always.
^^
Agreed.
Yes.
Spend it, like any good Weimar citizen would.
In inflationary times, hard assets also appreciate.
Titty Tuesday likes deep dish.
https://archive.md/RnEOA
Whoa! Settle down, no one suggests she actually change anything. She just needs better messaging.
Look, we all know the plebs are just too dumb to comprehend the depth and breadth of her awesomeness.
Oh, the crackas are smart enough to comprehend the depth and breadth of her awesomeness. They are only too aware of it. Their complete and utter racist souls know that they have to keep her down if our country is to stay racist to the core.
Harris is warm, charismatic and bright. Her laugh is infectious and her rapport with children heartwarming.
Now you’re just making shit up!
That was the line that made me pull both optic nerves because my eyeballs rolled so hard.
She’s a radioactive fraudster, spreading disease and cadiac inflammation?
Either that or Kamala’s Secret Service team had the author at gunpoint.
The Senate is on track to vote on Tuesday to raise the national debt limit as lawmakers race to avert a catastrophic default ahead of a critical mid-week deadline.
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
I never understood this left shit about giving people talking points.
Talking points, marching orders, it’s just a lot of semantic quibbling.
Shire and Sharia have the same root
https://twitter.com/GhostofanOldFr1/status/1470453650791165953
Not even close.
Why? They look like they could be part of the new government of New Zealand…
The words are totally unrelated.
Wait a second, meat doesn’t come pre-wrapped from the grocery store?
The Olympic Skier Who Hunts Gold Medals—and Deer
Who were these sponsors so I can boycott them?
Five bucks says they’re outdoor clothing manufacturers.
And yet – meanwhile hipsters are loving Bass Pro Shops.
How a $6 Bass Pro Shops Hat Became a Fashion Trend
OFFS.
Dammit. I’ve been waiting for those stupid fucking things to go back out of style.
That first pic is about as punch-face as it gets.
His matching nail polish is the cherry on top of that punch-face sundae.
Five bucks
Deer me, Swiss is going to get you.
Not him, you!
*narrows gaze*
Omicron appears more resistant to Covid vaccines
It’s almost like you can’t actually vaccinate for a respiratory illness and that has been known for quite some time.
two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine offer reduced protection against it.
I fail to see the need for “doses” if the intent is vaccination.
Wind turbines kill bats. Women-bats and children-bats hardest hit.
But Bat-Boy still lives, right?
He’s Bat-Grandpa now.
Hang it! I need to sleep. Most of this thread has disturbed my humours. See ya later in the Aether! Good Day!
Craig Biggio, even though he wasn’t a Cub, was the player that I tried to…and successfully emulated. But the opposite! I started out as a 2nd baseman and then moved to catcher cuz I was the only one who was willing to do it. I was pretty good at it. Fond memories. Was an all-star at both, but in my own way. Mostly for being a catcher, but I was a solid lead-off hitter. I could make contact with the ball and I wasn’t afraid of it. No power at all. Never hit a home run.
Woolen was the hardest pitcher that I caught. We clocked him at 63mph from 45 feet. No idea if that was accurate, but that kid had the best gas in the league. I played from age 4-14 or so. If you amp that up to 60’6″ that’s borderline 100mph. I was a gymnast for about 8 years but fell in love with baseball and I still am. Also played hockey for two years, and was absolute shit. Didn’t know how to skate, really…first time on the ice with gear and a puck was during my first tryout when I was 15. That…didn’t go well. Scored my first goal in the Championship Game against Memorial High School. We won 4-3. I remember every bit of that. Oddly, for someone who’s 5’7″ and at the time weighed 130lb (was probably shorter then in high school), I was also a powerlifter along with my brother. I won a national deadlifting championship in Denver. I’ve had an odd sports life. But baseball is the one that still always remains with me. It’s a fundamental part of where my enjoyment of the world comes from.
Favorite pitcher (ever): Greg Maddux. Best stat: He has 355 wins. Roger Clemens has 354. OUCH. Completely different pitchers. Slow-throwing, command pitcher out-wins power.
Favorite current pitcher (for obvious reasons): Kyle Hendricks.
Favorite players in my time: Ryne Sandburg and Mark Grace. Duh, I love Gwynn and respect other power hitters.
Most important position in ANY sport: Catcher. The most important (non-pitcher?) defensive position, and then you’re expected to hit. Or at least try. You also have to be the psychologist during the game for all your pitchers, and if you’re a bit of a veteran (and good) you call the game yourself. No other position in any other sport has all of that responsibility.
Biggio played his fucking ass off. Loved his filthy helmet. Hated playing against him but always rooted for the Astros if they weren’t playing the Cubs.
Must add: Javier Baez is otherworldly to watch. The most exciting player right now.
Here he is doing something that I’ve never seen: getting in a pickle between first and home. Just insane. Threw a curveball at the offense, they responded stupidly because they (nor I) have EVER seen anything like this, and he drove in a run and even got to second. Good, hard baserunning by Wilson Contreras. El Mago, indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4h-fH_vu8&ab_channel=MLB
I played second string 3rd base in high school. The first string guy was named Mike Schmidt. Not this Mike Schmidt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Schmidt. Scrawny kid, but he could hit the ball better than I could.
I wrestled, played right and left guard in football, recited poetry on the speech team, and lettered as a Mathlete. I was not spectacular at any of it except for math.
Will we get another vicarious date with the “mousy girl”?
Yeah, you threw me off with Mike Schmidt! God, if you played with him he could hit better than almost anyone could.
Mousy Girl and I have not been in touch. See sought me out and we had a great time with the eclipse. I think I made it better with my access to weed. I’ll get some more soon. I don’t think she’s interested in anything occurring. For shame. This weekend I should score again and will use that to blatantly encourage another meet. I won’t be too worried if it doesn’t happen, but DAMN I had teenage heart-flutters with her that night, and she had a great time as well.
So it goes.
So much for the First Amendment.
That was written by a white calve-owner. It has no place in the woke (pretend…) republic.
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place New York’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, turning away a challenge by a group of medical providers who sued because it does not include a religious exemption.
This is farcical reasoning anyway. My “exemption” is my choice to refuse because my body, my choice.
Former Chris Cuomo producer trained girls as young as 7 in ‘sexual subservience’: court docs
So that idea that the world is dominated by a class of pedophile elites…
Funny how every time these fuckers tell us that some shit that is insane is just a conspiracy theory we end up finding facts that actually prove there might be a nugget of truth to that conspiracy theory, huh?
It isn’t a good conspiracy theory if it doesn’t have some believable element. Usually about the size of a mustard seed in relation to the overall theory.
I am going to go out on a limb and point out I would be totally unsurprised that our intelligentsia class is rife with pedophiles and other deviants. Like roaches, we might occasionally see one of them in the open, but there are hundreds more that go unseen (uncaught). BTW, this shit is all over the place. We have it going on at the CIA where they say they can’t prosecute the fucks for fear of violating national security (the most convenient excuse for scoundrels that need to hide how criminal and evil they really are). We had some fucking college TA telling us we should call pedos MAPS cause they have a right to get kid ass. Its not accidental that more than 50% of traffic to porn sites is from government computers (during work hours too). I wouldn’t be surprised to find these government employees spend most of their time on snuff, bestiality ,and pedo sites as well.
Five bucks says they’re outdoor clothing manufacturers.
Speaking of “outdoor lifestyle” brands- I walked past the front door of REI in Bozeman a few weeks ago, and there was a big MASKS REWQUIRED TO ENTER
“Walked by” is always the best choice when confronted with REI. Prices in there are crazy, masks or not.
True, but they sell high-quality shit. I have backpacks that are 18 years old that look like new after countless adventures. Same goes for just about everything I’ve gotten there – jackets, cookware, hiking gear.
Except tents – the rainfly on the backbpack tent lost its waterproofing WAY too soon.
REI is one of those companies I hate for being woke because I like their stuff.
Meh. I went to the one in Boulder. I was the only non-masked person in the store, but they happily took my money.
He called the entire case “sad” and said while the evidence against the actor was overwhelming, he’s still left with one unanswered question.
“I still have not figured out a motive for why he did, why this had to even happen,” Hope said. “He was a star.”
He’s a woke liar that thought he could increase his notoriety and income by faking a
hatecrime.He is not caught up on victimhood culture…
OK, but he’s the same age as me. Does he only read the sports page? [And even there…]
Because he was colluding with politicians to spread a narrative about racist Trumpaloes?
It’s probably the only way this shit ends.
Unfortunately self-defense will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the unjust law.
WTF? Srlf-posting comments? Premature expostulation?
I blame wordpress.
Anyway…
Speaking of “outdoor lifestyle” brands- I walked past the front door of REI in Bozeman a few weeks ago, and there was a big MASKS REQUIRED TO ENTER sign out front.
Nothing says healthy freewheeling grab-life-by-the-balls adventurism like superstitious terror and slavish obedience and devotion to government “experts”.
They should focus their product line on footie pajamas and sippy cups.
I stand by my previous statement. It is overpriced lifestyle accessories. And the probably do focus on footie pajamas by now. They also have $5,000 electric bicycles.
I’ve been an REI member since I was five – my pop opened an account for me, to get my first pair of hiking boots. This was back when Eddie Bauer was still a legit wilderness outfitter, and REI was the new kid on the block. Watching them slide into risk-adverse eco-wokeism has been depressing as hell.
Abercrombie still might have been one too (dunno your generational cohort).
Young gen-X or old millenial.
Sigh… Banana Republic was still largely international surplus goods (I miss those Gurkha shorts), Sharper Image sold 3/4 scale working models of firearms, and Land’s End still made sails.
For b0t: https://www.secretfanbase.com/banana (I still have some of this stuff, including a cardboard jeep, because I am old, Father William.)
Also: https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Mame-Life-Patrick-Dennis/dp/0306811006 Goes into their rift.
Woke, like Patagonia.
Bean retains independent thought (by which metric I forget).
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to violating George Floyd ‘s civil rights, according to a notice from the court.
Because he prevented Floyd from ingesting even MORE fentanyl?
He violated his right to go on a stoned driving / counterfeiting bing. It’s right there in the Constitution.
This is farcical reasoning anyway. My “exemption” is my choice to refuse because my body, my choice.
No kidding.
I am not Joe Biden’s nigger.
Period. The End.
They also have $5,000 electric bicycles.
You’ll get a great workout lugging it back to the Range Rover when the battery craps out.
I just bought an ebike for my wife from REI. Not the $5000 one, though. It’s because she can’t keep up with me on a normal bike and we end up bickering. You still have to do some work, because the bike is only pedal assist.
KDW has a good one today.
He makes an interesting observation about our penchant for entrepreneurship and religious fragmentation, and he correctly sees the displacement of church authority with political authority as the binding American principle. He misses that industrialization played a significant part, with the notion of lifetime employment (something we’ve all but completely abandoned now) as a paternalistic forebear to today’s paternalistic government.
And he caps it with: The difference between a Republican who says that he is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and a Republican who says that he’s going to balance the budget is that somebody might believe the first guy.
A first-ever default would spark economic disaster and party leaders on both sides of the aisle have made clear it must be prevented.
I don’t know. A default might be a good thing at this point.
Experts say it’s too early to say whether these findings are good or bad news for the rest of the world.
Of course they would say that.
Loren Paul, president of the South Dakota Education Association, said it showed that the state needs to do better for its teachers and students when it comes to funding education.
Go fuck yourself.
A sergeant with University of California Police Department was dining at the restaurant when he allegedly confronted the robber, NBC Bay Area reported. A statement from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said the officer fired one shot that struck the suspect. The suspect was hospitalized and later pronounced dead.
On the surface, it looks like a good shoot.
Straffinrun, I saw the post on the dead thread. Sorry about your mother. What your in-laws did is good.
Thanks DEG – hadn’t checked that thread.
straff – if you check in here I also think that was wonderfully thoughtful.
Seconded.
And so sorry for your loss, straff.
Bean retains independent thought (by which metric I forget).
Didn’t the lefties swarm Bean because one of the heirs was caught donating money to unwoke causes?
Must have been that; to the Trump campaign? IDK…
It is slightly annoying that once a post is scheduled you can no longer preview it
Yours was made into a single piece, instead of 2 parts. It wasn’t overly long.
A pizza story we can all get behind: Philadelphia pizza shop employee shoots man during robbery
Even better…
https://www.inquirer.com/news/14-year-old-shoots-robbery-suspect-spring-garden-bold-pizza-20211210.html
Good morning, Sloopy!
I agree that the teachers shouldn’t have been crawling on ice for money.
It should have been glass.
Lots of lynx today. What the hell is with Kavanaugh and the new chick?
Both good songs, but I think this is my favorite.
Have a great day, y’all!
Kavanaugh wants to be liked. Not sure about Barret.
All apparel (outdoor or not) is a crock of shit. Maybe if you are buying bespoke suits it is worth the money.
From 6 am to midnight a clothing line in China will be spewing out NorthFace jackets that go for $300/per. From midnight to 6am the label stitcher will be swapped out and the coats will be sent to a wholesaler in the US as a “private label”. The wholesalers sell these to embroiderers/screen printers/etc for $50 each. Same exact jacket only the label is differnt.
I have a
CarhartOuter Boundary jacket that has lasted 16 years and is slowly wearing out at the cuffs.I’m not sure about now, but in the mid-’90s, when I was visiting with my wife you could buy all sorts of top quality knock offs in Korea. You could also get bespoke suits for $70. It was a good deal.
Maybe Evan can tell us if that is still a thing or if the Koreans have gotten prosperous enough that no one wants to work in those sweat shops anymore.
North Face has been owned by Vanity Fair for years. I remember when it and Jansport were also legit outdoor companies.
Besides, real outdoor brands have their sweatshops in Vietnam or Cambodia these days.
Madagascar.
Meh.
My L.L. Bean Snow Sneakers(tm) are on their eleventh winter (though they definitely show significant wear). None of my other footwear makes it through a year of regular use. I’ve got some dress shoes that are older, but they’re rarely worn. My running around outdoor Boombahs work great, but considering I’ve worn them for maybe twenty hours total and spent less than ten minutes total sprinting in them, their deterioration is alarming.
US gov’t is asshoe.
The FDA is working with the post office to hold packages containing ivermectin. The FDA could better use its resources to, I don’t know, publicly release the docs submitted by Pfizer to license its mandated liability-free V earlier than 75 years from now!
Jesus Christ, they really do want us dead.
Who would have guessed that medical tyranny was the solution to a heavily armed society?
They really really do. Not a joke or an exaggeration.
If there was ever an argument against people that told you any government that took over healthcare would never use that power to oppress the victims of that racket, just point out to how this Kung Flu shit is playing out.
There is a lot of ink spilled here regarding stocking up on guns and ammo. I think people are missing an even bigger self defense measure: good health. One way to opt out of the insanity is to stay completely out of the system. There are alternatives to check-box docs, ridiculous insurance and big pharma scumbags.
2022 should be the year of getting really fucking healthy.
Average American: Is there a pill for that?
Oh, perhaps its the fever Ive been running the past week, but Ive told myself that if this Mao-Bug doesnt kill me Im making some lifestyle changes.
The FDA is primarily concerned with protecting its own collective ass.
If that means people die so they can enjoy immunity from accountability, then so be it.
Scope creep by the FDA. What a surprise.
People like this lefty TA I am told are the good people because they really care about their fellow (wo)man that are oppressed….
One more bit (as if we needed more) of evidence that Alec Baldwin is a colossal asshole:
Hilaria Baldwin recalls Alec Baldwin ‘shushing’ her during birth of son: ‘He sounded like an a– and cowered’
But the really interesting part is the closing paragraph. This is Babylon Bee level of silliness. It’s is so bad you couldn’t’ even satirize it. And it is on Fox News. I can’t imagine what MSNBC would type to beat this:
It is a Scientology belief that mothers should be silent during delivery.
He was on the phone and couldn’t hear.
If that voice was any more passive it would be deceased.
But not when they made literally Hitler person of the year…
And with that @time has lost all remaining credibility … what an absolute disgrace.
The Musk hate from these morons only makes me wonder if I should like him more.
He’s the Ayn Rand villain the left has been longing to direct their white-hot rage at for all these years. And I don’t even know specifically why – it’s not always easy to discern what sets them off. The non-union thing? Being rich? I guess that’s enough but why him specifically?
He doesn’t kowtow to their mandarins.
Somebody in the comments suggested that celebrity chef for POTY.
The Oscar nominee was holding a revolver that was discharged. A projectile from the gun hit and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while director Joel Souza is recovering from injuries obtained from the projectile.
it was a dark and stormy night…
See, this is the kind of deep reporting that we need. People were so quick to blame the gun for the death of that person. But now – because of this intrepid reporter who isn’t afraid to speak Truth to Power – I have to wonder if the gun isn’t just as much a victim of the projectile as the cinematographer.
How was the gun supposed to know what that evil projectile would do? All of its cop gun friends have let thousands of projectiles loose without anyone being hit. Why would it think that this particular projectile would be so misogynistic that it would kill the fierce woman in the room?
@EvilSheldon: Sneakers is a bad movie? Um….it’s the most prescient movie of the last 30 years. It should literally be the anthemic film of Glibs. And what a great cast. Redford, Poitier, Ackroyd, Rivers Phoenix, Kingsley…it utterly shows exactly how corporatism fueled the State’s infiltration of society. It’s an absolutely glorious film.
I mean that. It’s one of my favorites. I think it’s one of the rare, perfect films. And it saw through the looking glass and got it exactly right. And it’s such a fun film. I am having a difficult time understanding any comprehension that it is a “Bad Movie.” It’s fucking perfect.
This is a tip-the-table-over-in-confusion moment.
I love that movie, but the plot is absurd. A prime number factoring chip that wouldn’t work on Soviet cryptography is nonsense.
“Our cryptography is based on socialist math. It ends up so secure that not even we can decrypt it.”
I don’t understand what ‘prime number factoring chip’ means without looking it up. It’s a lovely bit of sci-tech/fantasy that draws the movie together. It’s a mathematical technique, a counter-encryption, that breaks codes. That’s like arguing that Lord of the Rings is stupid because magic doesn’t exist. It has to be simple enough for audiences to understand and work in ~100 minutes.
It’s a tool that breaks codes. I don’t see why that is absurd for it to not be completely accurate.
However, ain’t trying to yum your personal reason for yucking my yum when we both agree that we yum that movie. (Don’t yuck another person’s yum, and don’t try to yum another’s yuck.) It’s a fucking perfect film and gets its ideas across in a very understandable way for the audience to grok and also fully enjoy the brilliance of that flick. Which is, again, the most prescient film that I can think of in the past 30 years.
…With the exception of Idiocracy, of course.
Which I, with shame, have never seen. *weeps*
*Shame.* *Shame.* *Shame.*
/Rings bell in front of Evan
Shame, indeed.
If a movie could be a spirit-animal, Idiocracy would be the spirit-animal of this site.
I deserve that. I need to add it to my must-watch list.
Odd thing that I was just re-reading about another flick that also gives me pride/shame. Joker with Joaquin Phoenix. I watched it on the flight home after The Incident. I think it’s a fantastically perfect movie, but don’t know if I can watch it again to give it its due. On the flight, while still being in the depths of hallucinations, watching someone else lose their mind in that manner was just utterly convincing and REAL. I think I’ve mentioned it before, but I had to go to the bathroom several times to cry in front of the mirror because it felt like I was watching an evil version of myself or what I might become.
No one saw me cry or lose face on the plane, but I lost it several times on my own. That was a fairly harrowing 12-hour-flight. I did finish the movie and really respected it. It’s one of those movies that I must watch in private if I am to view it again. Another example is what used to be my favorite movie, Memento. I tried watching it again and I couldn’t finish it. Watching someone lose their memory on film, in that manner, just resounded far too harshly with where I was. I openly cried repeatedly. I was unable to finish that one. It was too much. I will have to conquer both of those, because I love both of them so much, especially Memento. That was my favorite movie for a very long time. (LA Confidential has long-been #1, Good, Bad, and the Ugly #2 and Memento probably still holds third, or tied with Back to the Future. (Clue is also up there.))
Memento is one of my all-time faves, too. Just brilliant, IMO. And it’s tough for me to watch, as well – and I don’t have anything like what you’ve been through.
Cast is amazing in it, too: Guy Pearce, Joey Pants, the absolutely smokin’ Carrie Ann Moss – and my god, there’s one scene with her that is absolutely gut-wrenching.
I could see why Joker would be tough. That’s another award-worthy performance by Joaquin Phoenix.
Now I need to go watch something uplifting… time for “Miracle.”
The under-broadcast “Breaking Away” is also a good choice.
@Ozy: Memento is just utterly brilliant. Gorgeously written, acted, and directed. The one that always gets me where Guy Pierce goes on about losing his memory and how “You just fake it.” Pretty much to simply avoid going into detail about why you forget things constantly, cuz that’s not what you want to focus upon. So you lie! Not really “lie.” Act. Perform. Beautifully done in-time and reverse. Really groundbreaking considering the detail of the story and how that is how it needed to be told and kept the audience as ‘forgetful’ (unknowing) as the protagonist.
Not at all to compare it to this, but it’s like a Jew watching Schindler’s List. It was a pure and cathartic response to a trauma that I could/can directly relate to. Felt bad and good at the same time. Something to relate to, and happiness that someone SOMEHOW was able to put it on screen in a way that really hit home. I don’t know how Nolan (and his brother) were able to write that and get it across so vividly. Ya fake it. Yikes.
Miracle on Ice would be a good uplifting movie/story! I had a dream the other night about Field of Dreams, actually. The ballplayer, who later becomes a doctor, going across the lines and turning into an old man to save Costner’s daughter gets to me every single time. He might be remembered as an old ball-player, but now that he sacrificed that to do something immediately helpful…he has a longer-lasting legacy than anything he did on the diamond. That uplifts his soul in a way the Hall of Fame couldn’t ever do. I’m a sucker for shit like that. Also, a good movie. Hall of Great, not Hall of Fame.
Major League is the best baseball movie. Bull Durham is great but second best.
Believe it or not, that part of the movie was close to true. Soviet military crypto (at the time) was all based on elliptic curve equations.
Yep, if you suddenly had a way to factor large primes, ECC would still be secure – assuming that “way” wasn’t “I have a quantum computer”.
Sneakers is one of my favorite movies, too. It was ‘bad’ only in the sense that it flopped at the box office.
I can’t believe it flopped with that cast. And structure/technique/performance.
To me: A perfect movie is one in which no line of dialogue or action is wasted. It goes back to that Vonnegut quote about short stories. Along the lines of: “Every sentence should do one of two things: Advance action or reveal character.”
Sneakers nails that. Even the jokes and whimsy perfectly fit each character and their desires/intentions.
I have to say….”elliptic curve equations” is well-beyond my pay-grade. It works for the story and I’m glad that you find it had a scope of reality to it. Helps fortify (THE ELECTION@1!@!`@!) the film.
I waste a lot of sentences on painting the backdrop and worldbuilding.
I don’t think that’s wasteful when it comes to your story-building. You are very specifically creating/establishing the environment that the story evolves in. Those are important details. They set up the world the characters exist in. In your stories, the backdrop is fundamental to understanding the actions of the characters. What you do with chapters, directors/screenwriters have to deal with in a page of script.
In film, they have a ~specific time-limit to deal with to set that up. You do, too, but you have a longer time frame for your audience than others have with a ~2 hour movie. It’s storytelling, but in a different medium than film. Furthering that idea, musicians and songwriters have a far shorter time frame to establish their melodies/verses. They require far more brevity than a film does. A novel has the flexibility to be much more expansive, and the style in which you articulate/create that universe has more space to expand and explore.
That’s the fun of it all. It takes all types to create.
It’s just about the art for art’s sake.
Hunter claims about 95 per cent of the people at his recent opening in New York City were people he knew rather than art speculators. They included such celebrities as Moby, graphic artist Shepard Fairey – who designed the Obama ‘Hope’ poster – and Sugar Ray Leonard.
“I wasn’t there to sell my art. I wasn’t there to talk about my art. I wasn’t there to explain myself, or explain what my art represented. All I had to do was watch people go, ‘Wow,’” the 51-year-old said.
“And I knew that that’s what they would do, not because I was overly confident about it. I’m sure some people didn’t like some paintings, or some people thought that that was too abstract, or some people thought that that was too figurative. But I didn’t care. I truly didn’t care.”
He called putting paint on canvas “the most true thing that I’ve ever done,” after previously saluting himself for his “courageous” work and business model.
That is right up there with the statement about Kamala’s infection laugh and winning ways with kids.
“Infection laugh.” Not sure if that was intentional, but I like it.
Since I am not writing and currently not cross stitching either because reasons, I am back to reading a bunch of paranormal women’s fiction and urban fantasy. The last two books I have read are woke. One even references its characters as woke. ALL of the good guys. There are feminist rants coming from a 70-year-old fisherman like he reads Jezebel. The villain is, of course, the dude who is NOT woke.
None of this would bother me in the least if it were seamless and more believable, but I really shouldn’t judge. My characters go on uncomfortable rants too.
I find myself unable to put up with those sorts of characters in any work. Even more so than if they’re not appropriate for the character. It makes me drop the book faster than you can say “No thanks, I’ve got other options.”
It really bugs me when it’s supposed to be a historical novel. It’s like reading some universitry dress-up party where people ad-lib their characters.
I don’t mind mildly rambling soliloquys if it’s in character. I don’t believe a 70yo fisherman spouting feminist tenets in bullet-point fashion.
As a fisherman I have to disagree. The only time we ever stop discussing the foundations of feminism is when we decide to get freaky and explore the intersection of feminism and racism.
obligatory, since you all keep writing “fisherman”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmnPerZBSsY
I was binge-reading Jennifer Crusie’s stuff before I started in on your books. Her later ones were getting pretty paranormal.
I stopped visiting her blog when it got TDS-y. Probably full-blown woke by now.
Oh, that’s too bad. I like her contemporary stuff.
Not “women’s fiction” but the Odd series by Dean Kuntz is a good paranormal read.
I remember liking the first one or two but didn’t keep up.
I generally like anything by him.
Sold. May I recommend the “fat vampire” series by (I think) Johnny B Truant.
I have so little time for reading lately, but I will definitely check it out and add it to my Kindle wish list.
I thought that name was familiar. I’ve read some stuff he wrote with Sean Platt. And Sean Platt paired with some other guy whose name I forget on a bunch of other good stuff.
Mostly thrillers and various genre stuff.
I may have asked this question before, but what would a ‘non-genre’ book even be?
Boring?
In addition to Kinnath’s excellent answer, I would guess anything labeled with generic terms like “drama” or “comedy”.
Probably something high-falutin like “literary fiction.”
In America it would be a non-gener book. Not that sissy Euro ‘centre’ spelling.
Anyone have a wallet they really like? I prefer front pocket, minimalist ones, but I do carry cash. I currently use this one. It’s fine, bit since the cards are on the outside, as it wears they tend to fall out.
USA made, preferably.
https://www.superiortitanium.com/
They used to have a fiberglass option which I’ve been using for years because they go through metal detectors without issue.
I suppose the rapey-scans have made that irrelevant now.
“I keep the big bills on the outside.” – Kramer
“It’s a twenty!” – Jerry
I keep the little bills on the outside so everyone know I don’t have any money.
I have a cheap-ass version of something similar. So, probably not made in the USA.
I’ve heard of at least one place on Etsy (name unknown) that will make one to your specs or duplicate an old one.
I love my Saddleback Leather wallet, but it was made in Mexico. Check the company out though before you pass them by.
+1 I have a saddleback demo they made with CF’s trademark etched in the leather. A couple of card holders and the like, as well.
Love those guys. Good peeps, too.
Secrid has been a great wallet for me. I have a grey one and a brown one. I like the flip switch. I have a mini wallet for front pocket. I swore off back pocket a long time ago, they cause nerve issues. I have had each wallet for over 5 years with no issues.
https://www.mukama.com/en/secrid?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=B.%20Secrid&utm_term=secrid&utm_content=Secrid
Those look nice. Yeah, front pocket all the way. Safer, was my reasoning.
I split the difference – money clip w/ cash up front, small card case in back. Small enough so no posture issues.
I have the same one you do, might have bought on your recommendation.
I’ve had it for many years with no issues, but I only keep about 4 cards in each side and it’s not stretched out yet.
The villain is, of course, the dude who is NOT woke.
No way.
Way.
Needs more impromptu speed surgeries performed by a lady pirate with a cutlass.
Hawaii 5-0 used to have all the good guys driving clean, shiny Chevy’s. The bad guys all drove beat up dirty non-Chevy’s.
I noticed it and I have ZERO interest in cars. But the good guys’ cars would come screeching up to the camera with the Chevy logo right in the middle of the TV screen.
Jugsy posited a theory that I have yet to test- in (current) movies, bad guys drive Ford and good guys drive Chevy.
Cuz Found on Road Dead?
I think Ford vs. Ferrari breaks that.
Does it? Protagonists are bad guys now.
Lets hope Greta and a whole bunch of crazy Climate Clowns go to the edge of that volcano and yell at Gaia to stop contributing to Global Warming.
Volcano spewing lava over Canary Island of La Palma goes quiet
So this article caught my eye. Its The Atlantic, so expect Lefty spin and they dont disappoint. “Today’s messaging on social media about child sex trafficking is impervious to gatekeepers who would knock down its most outlandish claims.” Of course, only Gatekeepers can find the truth.
The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic
The article cites only 100 typical kidnapping per year in the USA. I suspect this includes parental “kidnapping” which is not kidnapping. It might be something but you cant steal your own kid.
Additionally, as we know the War on Sex Trafficking has claimed legal aged prostitutes are all victims of sex trafficking to boost the numbers.
It is funny that some people think average Americans cant see the truth thru the bullshit. I know that I can. I tune out NBC, CNN, NYT, WaPO… exactly because they are mostly full of shit.
That is some cynical shit right there.