In dispiriting cultural news:
Avril Lavigne is turning “Sk8er Boi” into a movie
Avril Lavigne has soundtracked many movies (“I’m With You” and “Happy Ending,” in particular, got plenty of mileage from those early 2000s flicks), but now she wants to make a movie of her own based on one of her biggest hits. While appearing on the iHeartRadio podcast She Is The Voice, the musician talked about her plans to make a feature film about “Sk8er Boi.”
“Recently with it being almost the 20th anniversary, a lot of people have been asking me to play [”Sk8er Boi”] on some TV shows, so it keeps getting brought back up and people will always reference it to me. And so, I’m actually going to turn this song into a film… and take it to the next level,” she said.
Let us review the riveting lyrics that will form the plot of this cinematic masterpiece:
He was a boy.
She was a girl.
Can I make it anymore obvious?
He was a punk.
She did ballet.
What more can I say?
He wanted her.
She’d never tell.
Secretly she wanted him as well.
And all of her friends stuck up their nose.
They had a problem with his baggy clothes.He was a skater boy.
She said, “See ya later, boy.”
He wasn’t good enough for her.
She had a pretty face but her head was up in space.
She needed to come back down to earth.Five years from now, she sits at home feeding the baby.
She’s all alone.
She turns on TV and guess who she sees?
Skater boy rockin’ up MTV.
She calls up her friends.
They already know.
And they’ve all got tickets to see his show.
She tags along,
Stands in the crowd,
Looks up at the man that she turned down.He was a skater boy.
She said, “See ya later, boy.”
He wasn’t good enough for her.
Now he’s a superstar
Slammin’ on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he’s worth?He was a skater boy.
She said, “See ya later, boy.”
He wasn’t good enough for her.
Now he’s a superstar
Slammin’ on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he’s worth?Sorry, girl, but you missed out.
Well, tough luck, that boy’s mine now.
We are more than just good friends.
This is how the story ends.
Too bad that you couldn’t see…
See the man that boy could be.
There is more than meets the eye,
I see the soul that is inside.He’s just a boy, and I’m just a girl.
Can I make it anymore obvious?
We are in love.
Haven’t you heard how we rock each other’s world?I’m with the skater boy.
I said, “See ya later, boy.”
I’ll be backstage after the show.
I’ll be at the studio singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know.I’m with the skater boy.
I said, “See ya later, boy.”
I’ll be backstage after the show.
I’ll be at the studio singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know.
Take that, Shakespeare!
Karens Angry That Rich Man Bad Insulted Karen Prime
A matter of hours after being named TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year, Elon Musk is making the news for hurling a string of sexist tweets at Sen. Elizabeth Warren for calling on him to pay taxes. In response to Warren’s pretty reasonable demand, the richest man in the world told her she reminded him of “when I was a kid and my friend’s angry mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason,” and told her to “please don’t call the manager Senator Karen.”
It’s hard to know where to start with this one, between the 101-level sexism of comparing a woman who says something you don’t like to a shrill, naggy mom, or Musk’s authoritatively disproven lie that he had friends growing up—and all of this tweeted from behind the avatar of a phallic rocket ship. Let’s not overlook, too, the truly bizarre insinuation that in any interaction with Warren, Musk, whose net worth stands at $240 billion, would be the overworked customer service representative, and Warren, the racist and entitled patron.
“Boo-hoo-hoo,” sobbed Cindy-Lou Who.
CURSED IMAGE
From the director of the fantastic Raw (2016), this is the next logical step past J. G. Ballard’s Crash and its 1996 film adaptation by David Cronenberg. It would be pretty spoilery to say much more, but the keywords are deviant sex, cars, monstrous pregnancy, and body horror in a neon stew.
You have a hard time knowing where it is going next, but there is a terrible inevitability to the narrative that drives the film. The sort of nightmare Gaspar Noé wants to make and always falls short of because he’s getting high on his own farts.
Raw (2016) is available on Netflix; Titane (2021) is out in theaters.
Speaking of J. G. Ballard, here is his thesis distilled into song:
Duante Wright: “Here in my car, I feel safest of all”
They showed his crying mother on the stand and all I could think was, bitch, you had just one job.
Nice avatar.
What’s with that avatar? Would you associate yourself with either of the ideologies implied?
(irony? like the drinking water at summer camp)
EXACTLY!
The evul, racist cop had lured him out of his safe space and all he was trying to do is get back.
Did the cop’s defense attorney ask Crying Mom about her son’s armed robbery?
SENPAKU EYES
Thanks for the cursed image.
Lots of eye makeup up there…
So, Avril will be Gleaning the Cute?
That comment was a thrashin’ success.
Here comes the string of half-piped comments.
You guys just keep trucking along, doesn’t it make you board?
If they keep it up with the goofy comments, Swiss will come over here and put his foot down.
I think he’ll let this thread skate.
When Avril sticks a safety pin through her ear, pogo-dances all night and throws up seven beers and a handful of uppers in the gutter outside the club, then she’s got a downpayment on punk. But only if the ear gets infected tomorrow.
What is everyone board now?
Elon
Gary
/Tall Cans!
great linkage!
Actually, those are relatively good lyrics.
For example, apparently it took six people to write this:
https://genius.com/Beyonce-run-the-world-girls-lyrics
Five years from now, she sits at home feeding the baby.
She’s all alone.
Her friends let her turn down a Sk8er Boi for a colored? That’s pretty low of them.
Sounds like she would have been a single mother either way.
“Elon Musk is making the news for hurling a string of sexist tweets at Sen. Elizabeth Warren”
That’s not why it’s making the news.
Were his Bernie tweets antisemtic?
“It’s hard to know where to start with this one”
Well I guess when you got nothin…
That is one of the most maddening phrases of modern public discourse, along with “public service announcement” (invariably, preachy blather), and “I don’t know who needs to hear this” (nobody, you just need to virtue-signal).
BTW, FUCK THE CCP.
^ This times infinity!
I’m going to disagree and say that’s a better plot than most movies that have come out recently.
But by the time they reverse the genders, add in the trans best friend, make the ballerina a hulking steroid case, add in a few cop shootings, a BLM march and explain to the audience that MTV used to play something called music videos, it’s going to be three hours long.
Consider me convinced.
Yeah, she starts off with a big problem in the first two lines:
Genders and pronouns assumed. Can’t even, shaking, etc.
[hugs]
SEXUAL ASSAULT!!!!!!!
Me, after [hugs].
Also the “Can I make it anymore obvious?” line directly following implies a frightening degree of heteronormativity.
“explain to the audience that MTV used to play something called music videos”
Kids today know what music videos are. The difference is that they are played on YouTube.
Titane top Review.
The Most Absurd, French, and Depraved Feel-Good Family Film of the Year.
Sounds better than the sk8ter boi.
That’s Sartre of funny. Camus do one about Crash?
Actually, they only listen to 15 second snippets of songs on TikTok
Huh. You must have watched Amazon’s Wheel of Time shows with that list of PC characters.
My biggest gripe with the show so far is the blatant pandering to the Gayz. Had to have two swishy warders sitting around the fire canoodling. Had to make Moraine and Siuan gay as fuck for each other. (In the books they were good friends who had gone through training together).
We were
talkingranting about it last weekend and decided that in Hollywood Land no one could ever be just friends. That according to the rules if you really like someone of the same sex you have to fuck them.Funny, my wife was commenting about how few movies we see.
If you click on a Jezebel post, I mean, if you really do it, May God Himself have mercy on your damned soul. Because I sure will not. Here’s an archived link http://archive.today/cXfGs
Thank you. I wasn’t going to give those harpies (misogynist alert!) the satisfaction.
Good lord. There is an unlimited supply of stupid.
“Hoarding all the wealth”.
Hooo-boy. That is dumb enough that I have a hard time processing it.
Pkus, I really want to go shitpost them about being racist against an African American businessman, and aren’t we supposed to support minority owned businesses and aren’t we pushing for more African American CEOs?
Avril Lavigne
Is that the chick that married Sum41?
Let us review the riveting lyrics
There is no need to make things so complicated.
And the lead singer of Nickelback.
So if you subtract Sum41 and add an Nickelback, what do you get?
Every Canadian STD.
Is that when your ejaculate looks like a poutine topping?
Whoa, you grossed even me out with that one. Write more fiction, dammit.
And tastes better.
Yeah, I said it. Deal.
*tastes*
Almost as good as lutefisk
Nice.
In too deep a bad girlfriend?
Oops. Bad girlfriend wasn’t a NB song.
I thought she was dead.
She was dead to you?
Well yeah, she never got damn near naked like Christina Aguilera.
Here you go:
https://celebjihad.com/avril-lavigne/avril-lavigne-nude-photo-leaked
NSFW
Musk’s marketing strategy is brilliant. He’s already cornered the market on fart-sniffing liberals, so why not shift gears and pique the interest of people who wouldn’t otherwise consider his cars? I never considered a Tesla until he started telling everyone to fuck off. Now I’m kinda curious…
They are Hella fun to drive, pedal down, hold on! and the owner was quite the Conservative/Libertarian
I’m not sure how much of it is marketing strategy and how much of it is that his involvement with the government reflects the idiom that “familiarity breeds contempt”.
How long before Newsome and CA try to seize his manufacturing plants there?
3… 2… 1…
CURSED IMAGE
Dude…
“the 101-level sexism of comparing a woman who says something you don’t like to a shrill, naggy mom”
Yeah, but she is shrill and naggy.
Of course, being Jezebel, they get the basics wrong. a “Karen” isn’t a shrill, naggy mom. Its a bossy, entitled woman.
Elon called her “Senator Karen” in a separate tweet. Which is so accurate it’s like an ice cream headache.
They completely ignored the tweet where he pointed out that he’ll pay more taxes this year than anyone has ever done in our history.
With the follow-on: “Don’t spend it all at once…oh wait, you already did.”
“the 101-level sexism of comparing a woman who says something you don’t like to a bossy, entitled woman”
That Elon Musk tweet was totally awesome. He wisely avoided “crazy,” but apparently even “angry” is now, somehow, sexist. Get not-stuffed, Jezebel.
Get not-stuffed, Jezebel.
LOL.
Or perhaps [golf clap].
V.g l
My stupid dog jumped on my tablet, and then I pushed “Post Comment”
WTH?
LOL. I was wondering what that meant. I’m assuming since your dog did it, it means “I’d like some food, please”.
Was it in your lap? He might be mad at you.
She’s just confused why I won’t let her lay down on my legs and stomach anymore.
The writers for Jezz probably do get stuffed on the regular. Until they are done riding the cock carousel at age 35 and then they wonder whycome no one sees them as marriage material.
Slate does an entire article discussing Elon’s new haircut.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/12/elon-musk-new-haircut-transplant-analysis.html
Maybe we deserve everything that’s happening…
I mean, Slate certainly deserves everything happening to them…
Wow, that’s some serious journalism there. Much impactful, so deep.
And hilarious when you consider it is their fairly butch lesbian covering that particular haircut.
Wait… Slate only has one? I’m shocked…
The rest are unfairly butch.
I Googled a picture of her. I don’t know if butch lesbian, but damn, pretty much exactly what I’d expect the Slate writer to look like.
So 750 words to say “possibly to cover a hair transplant”. Good to know.
Its not too far beyond Zorg in Fifth Element.
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22000000/The-Fifth-Element-gary-oldman-22009604-458-320.jpg
“Fire one million.”
Nice.
Niiiiiice.
He looks like the washed-up front-man of a B-list new-wave act.
I believe you’ve nailed it.
In keeping with the theme, may I present:
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
The Japanese isn’t much better.
やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている
やはり – yapari – as expected
俺の – ore no – my
青春 -seishun – youth, adolescence
ラブコメは – rabucom – romantic comedy
まちがっている – machgatteiru – without a doubt.
As expected, without a doubt my adolescence is a romantic comedy.
Wow, talk about living in a fantasy-land (although, it is Jezebel, so what should I expect). The person more likely to be able to get away with stealing from the other is obviously the more powerful, and the person more likely to feel entitled to is obviously the more “Karen”. Warren is both.
Bonus stupid…. Musk is such a workaholic that he sometimes sleeps on the factory floor, working around the clock solving problems. Dude puts in 100 hours on a short week…. While Warren? Remind me how she got all that wealth again?
Lieawatha, the last of the Fauxhicans speaks wisdom from the great spirit.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday called for the US Supreme Court to be expanded with more justices and said that the current court “threatens the democratic foundations of our nation.”
“With each move, the court shows why it’s important to restore America’s faith in an independent judiciary committed to the rule of law,” Warren wrote in an opinion article published by The Boston Globe. “To do that, I believe it’s time for Congress to yet again use its constitutional authority to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court.”
The Democrat wrote that she did not “come to this conclusion lightly” or because she disagreed with a particular decision but that she came to the conclusion because she believes “the current court threatens the democratic foundations of our nation.”
We will restore faith in the judiciary…by stacking it with partisan leftists…
Congress and the bureaucracy do far more to undermine faith in the rule of law (by violating it, repeatedly and unashamedly) than the courts, although they do their part when they rubber-stamp the others’ transgresses.
Also, the foundation of our nation was much less “democracy” and much more “FAFO”.
If she is sincere, then I want to know how long her head has been up her ass.
To be fair, they do mean “what I want” when they say “democracy”. They don’t even mean governance by voting.
“Could it be Hillary vs Trump AGAIN? Clinton’s belief that the presidency is her ‘birthright’ and deep unpopularity of Biden and Harris could see the former First Lady run in 2024, politics insider warns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10313663/Could-Hillary-vs-Trump-Former-Lady-run-2024-politics-insider-warns.html
No.
It’s like they want to give Sug a year of material.
Harris vs Clinton would be a lulzfest.
Harris vs Clinton would be a lulzfest
Right up until one of them won.
The screeching if she tried to primary Biden or Harris will be epic. She will burn the last of her goodwill with the ever-leftening D party power brokers.
I had a brief fantasy of a world where anyone referring to a political office as their “birthright” would instantly become unelectable.
“I had a brief fantasy of a world where anyone referring to a political office as their “birthright” would instantly become unelectable.”
…because of decapitation.
Daily Mail’s comment section is bearish on Clinton.
Local contribution to the “woke” olympics. A well-respected community group here is conducting a series of public “conversations” on a “taboo” topic: racism.
I’m struggling to come up with how anodyne your world must be if you still think racism is a “taboo” subject for public discussion.
Yeah, I can see regular people lining up around the corner to get into that “conversation.” They’re standing all along the wall of the building.
It is taboo to have an honest discussion, not if you want a lecture from racists.
Well, let’s see if Rat is correct:
“We can use history to begin to understand,” said the author and speaker. “White supremacy is actually a driving factor in our society that we can just name. If we can start with that naming and start with that place of understanding, rather than confrontation and using it as a wedge, then we can work with it and begin to see its role…White supremacy has driven our schools, our political system, our law enforcement, it has driven so many parts of our society for so long, history shows it in a very factual, real and practical way. By naming it and seeing that we can begin to change that. It is the change that we are most interested in with this project,”
rather than … using it as a wedge,
She said, while pounding it with a 12lb sledge…
Virtue, signaled. Here’s your gold star.
That’s pretty much an explicit admission that it is simply a label intended to facilitate a political outcome.
What an enormous, odoriferous, steaming pile of utter horseshit.
That sounds exactly like the intro to my company’s DEI training.
I haven’t heard anything about my feedback which was 100% honest on how big of an insult that training was.
Like the “1619” project. It isn’t even like the Jamestown colonists had ordered up an Uber of slaves. A English/Dutch privateer had ‘liberated’ some slaves from a Portugese ship bound for New Spain. Instead of ending up in a Carribean port as intended, they came up the North American coast and swapped their cargo for food. The Africans were treated like other indentured servants and freed at the end of their terms of service and granted land of their own. So was Anthony Johnson – the guy who brought the court case that resulted in the first true chattel slavery, in 1655.
Of course nothing in the 1619 Project touched on that.
If it wasn’t taboo then it’d be boring and not worth talking about. These people just want to feel important somehow, and discussing “taboo” topics that clearly aren’t gives them just enough of a thrill to cover over their depression at leading dull, uninteresting lives.
Is there “sedation” involved?
Louisiana Judge on Footage of Racial Slurs in Home Video: Sorry, I Was Sedated
The Ramones had no comment.
The local magazine in my mom’s town had a section encouraging people to have a diverse, inclusive, equitable and belonging Christmas. It suggested resources for reading about racism, for example “White Tears, Black Oppression” about how white feminists have oppressed women of color. Then in the very next section it said “Don’t call people out, call them in”. Given the number of “In this house we believe in….” and BLM signs in the town that’s 90% white (the other 10% is Asian), I’m sure it will be well received.
It was the first time I’d see the B added to DIE, and already they’ve added a J.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Blow Jobs?
I strongly suspect that like other musical artist’s movies, this will have the high quality of the Pet Shop Boys or The Monkees.
I had no idea the Pet Shop Boys did a movie. And now I am going to forget it.
If you’ve seen the video for Always on my mind, you’ve seen the Cliff’s Notes version of the movie.
That’s rich coming from a member of the Clinton administration.
James Carville: “Brian, I have the equivalent of a PhD in WhiteTrashology, and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert could be the subject of a dissertation.”
He saw them as a goodie basket of deplorables…
More shit from mister “drag a twenty through a trailer park”.
Yep, only Republicans are sexist. Fuck off skeletor
Warren’s definitely going all out on her Mussolini fascism lately, I don’t think I’ve read a tweet of hers lately that wasn’t some strain of “greedy capitalists need central control!”
The thing that’s amazing was during her early career she was a moderate. She made a conscious decision to be a fascist.
From a poll released today:
Us purebloods are not scared at all.
On one hand, it makes sense, as those who are more concerned about something are more likely to do something about it. On the other hand, if the doing something doesn’t allay your concerns, was it worth doing?
More likely it’s simply buyer’s remorse
Superhero powers:
Super strength
Super speed
Flying
Telekinesis
Energy blasts
Telepathy
Mind control
X-ray vision
Energy blast/laser eyes
Shape shifting
Sorcery
Ability to change size
Manipulate time
Manipulate space/reality
Mechanical enhancements/cyborg
Pass through walls/solid objects
Teleportation
Survive in space without special equipment
Invincibility/high yield against extreme forces
Maintaining principled libertarian values while circulating in cosmopolitan journalistic cocktail parties
No but really though, what did I miss? I was just thinking about the trailer for that Shang Chi film thinking “wow this man has powers based on a set of magic bangles”.
Atomic reconstruction — one of my favorites.
Don’t know about the cocktail party thing. 😉
Dammit, reconstructed the link. http://www.firestormfan.com
Susanna Hoffs had her own set of powers.
Anecdotal observation: for about a year when there was no vacks, I only knew one person who had the ‘Vid (very few mild symptoms, but tested positive). Now that we have a vacks, I know a shitton of people who have had it (none serious, but all vacksed)
Same here. I knew six people who got it pre-vax. Now I know at least ten who got it post-vaccination.
But, of course, “the vaccines prevent serious cases; they were never intended to prevent widespread or individual infections.”
Currently the two people that sit closest to me at work are out with positive COVID tests. The first one had a cough all last week and must have gotten a positive over the weekend. HR contacted us on Monday afternoon and offered us rapid tests. I declined but the other coworker hurried over and got tested. It must have been positive because now he’s off work as well. And he is one that has been wearing a mask again when he moves away from his desk. I’ve been taking my temperature but don’t plan on getting tested unless symptoms show up.
Well, so XY just turned 16 and is right now at Walmart interviewing for a job. I hope he gets it. Bored 16yo boys are dangerous to my equilibrium.
Well if it’s anything like here, all it takes to get hired is to show up for the interview.
I was busy typing “That’s what I’m counting on” when he came back with the parental permission slip for me to sign.
“It wasn’t an interview. It was a ‘When can you start?'”
Well then, congratulations to him for not saying anything super dumb and ruining it.
Excellent.
That’s awesome.
Congrats to XY!
Seconded. I made both my kids work retail, as it is by far the most difficult – and therefore useful – job a kid can have.
Congrats to the boy!
Well, my kids aren’t college-bound by any stretch and neither of them was interested in a trade. 18yo XX is driving a forklift for FedEx Freight, and now 16yo XY starts being a working stiff 6 days after his birthday. I honestly don’t know whether that’s good or bad. I was college-bound, but I was also working for my dad and making pretty good money, so…
They’ll figure it out.
You are a good mom and a good role model. The chips will fall in the proper place.
What Tundra said.
And if I could survive multiple years working in retail, anyone can.
I survived multiple years in retail but I hated every single second of it with the heat of a thousand suns and it made me miserable and bitter. Yay.
My first “real” job (I had to get a Social Security card) was doing waiter/busser for banquets at the local University. Hard work with bad hours. Minimum wage at the time was $1.15 per hour but it kept me in gasoline for my motorcycle.
Gave me an appreciation for food-slingers, however. I am a very good tipper.
Good for him.
Bored 16yo boys are dangerous to my equilibrium.
And dangerous to many other things as well.
And don’t even touch his dirty socks.
My kids have been doing their own laundry since they could reach the controls.
Not only do I treat women as objects, sometimes I treat objects like….women
Let me assure you that it doesn’t get better when they are 17.
“I hereby give my permission for XY to work 12 hours a day, no breaks.”
“…and to sleep on a camping cot in the Sporting Goods department.”
“…but only if no girls work in Sporting Goods.”
Dick Morris is asshoe.
Fox News’ lead host Tucker Carlson is behaving like the discredited appeasers of Adolf Hitler in the prelude to World War II.
The lesson of 1930s appeasement is that it does not work, does not gain peace, and leads to even greater tragedy.
Today, Carlson is making excuses for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and his increasing threats against Ukraine.
That’s really, really rich given https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/12/09/the-biden-administration-is-urging-ukraine-to-appease-russia-n2600369 and all.
Pot, kettle, Democrat.
At least they’re showing some sense and trying to back it down.
Our idiotic departments of State, Defense, and Spook are probably trying to instigate.
Fuck that fat little fucking fucker with rusty fucking chainsaw
We are screwing around on Russia’s border just hundreds of miles from their capital and pretending Russia’s the aggressor. Thank God Putin is as patient as he is, because if the situations were reversed we’d be nuking them.
Obligatory
Sure. That’s copacetic for the left, because they’re acting an awful lot like the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler in the prelude to World War II.
You know you’re old when you’re inordinately excited to get a shipping notification for your new glasses.
I hate to break it to you, but those X-ray glasses adbvertised in the back of Popular Science are a scam.
No, they were from Astounding Science Fiction!
Worse, you’ll find out the were from “They Live”.
Who knew that when the totalitarianism arrived for real, it’d be right in our faces instead of us needing glasses to see it.
But… but… they worked in the game!!!!
You know you are old when you can’t read the shipping notification without your glasses.
I keep mentioning to the wife that I will be perfectly happy to buy her one of those things that you can hang your glasses around your neck with.
The looks she gives are priceless.
I have to take mine off and hold the thing right in front of my face.
/old and near-sighted
OMG they may even be here in time for festive Friday Zoom!
A matter of hours after being named TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year, Elon Musk is making the news for hurling a string of sexist tweets at Sen. Elizabeth Warren for calling on him to pay taxes. In response to Warren’s pretty reasonable demand, the richest man in the world told her she reminded him of “when I was a kid and my friend’s angry mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason,” and told her to “please don’t call the manager Senator Karen.”
It wasn’t a reasonable demand. Musk is right. The Jezebel writers and Warren can go fuck themselves.
NH State Senate committee passes watered down version of bill protecting civil liberties during states of emergency.
The Republican majority on the state Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to ensure the protection of Granite Staters’ civil liberties if a governor declares a state of emergency in the future.
But in a move that drew criticism from the bill’s sponsor, the committee replaced a comprehensive House Bill 440 as passed by the House in April of this year with a short, pointed amendment, and then voted 3-2 along party lines to recommend passage by the full Senate in 2022.
NH Exit bill starts moving through the legislative process
On Tuesday, the legislation that would place state independence on the ballot for the voters was given a number and assigned a committee. The legislation will henceforth be known as ‘CACR 32‘, and its first stop will be in the ‘State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee‘.
The legislation is unlikely to be supported by the leadership of either major party in Concord. Entrenched interests of establishment Republicans and Democrats have already displayed hostility to the legislation, but its sponsors and supporters are undeterred in letting the people have an opportunity to express their view on the matter. The most likely scenario is that party leaders tell the Representatives to vote ‘inexpedient to legislate’ and to send that recommendation to the full House. Even if the House passes the legislation, it could be sent to another Committee in the House, and that Committee and the full House would have another opportunity to stop the legislation. If nobody on the Committee objects to the ITL recommendation, the legislation will likely be placed on the ‘consent calendar’, meaning that the House would likely choose to concur with the Committee recommendation as part of a large and generally uncontroversial package of bills. The Committee could also decide to ‘retain’ or ‘interim study’ the legislation. This would prevent it from going to the House floor for a vote, essentially ending its chances of passing this term. The first battle for this historic legislation will be in this committee.
‘Men Aren’t Women,’ Says Dangerous Far-Right Extremist
KKK Disbands As Progressive Left Accomplishing All Their Goals
The second one is too accurate to be truly funny, but has to be applauded.
I remember when the Bee used to be a satire site.
You mean before the world became so absurd that satire lost all meaning?
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1470465431299407878
Should I feel bad for laughing at this?
Nah. Feel bad for the comments full of “I EXPECTED FREE MONIES AGLEBLAGLE!”
Bloody depressing, the public voting itself monies from the treasury and all. Sigh.
It’s Twitter, and Shoe is a left-wing populist, so the comments on her tweet don’t necessarily reflect reality.
Remember before she met Bernie and was a conservative? ‘Member how she used to own feminists?
I ‘member.
I don’t feel bad for laughing at that.
Yes. I should too.
I don’t, but I should.
Avril Lavigne is turning “Sk8er Boi” into a movie
Who?
The Cursed Image is perfect!
…but the keywords are deviant sex, cars, monstrous pregnancy, and body horror in a neon stew.
I’m sold. And that’s a fantastic song.
The Avril Lavigne song isn’t bad. Tells a story. More than 2 verses and a chorus. Could be a cute movie.
See: A quarter od the rom-coms ever made.
See: Toby Keith “How do you like me now?”
I’m off the hook to go to Portlandia for my friend’s 50th birthday, thanks to “omicron”. These are people that think the dystopian nightmare UK is too lax with its COVID mitigations.
Sounds like you dodged a key party
Omicron is spreading ‘every place at once,’ experts say. What it could mean for holiday plans.
FEAR! Everyone live in fear of the variant that has yet to kill anyone!
Time for Omicron Parties!
Light flu, then I’m immune to covid… I’ll bring chips & dip.
Right now I know 5 people who are sick with Covid. One is vaxxed. They all have either no, mild, or short-lived symptoms. I would imagine some of them have Omicron, but they don’t test for that.
With all due respect to your friends, fuck them. Ive been dealing with this shit for the past week. Most of the severe torso/rib cage aches are gone, but it been nonstop 101-102º fever.
Also, during a fevered dream I was thinking about your sport. I dont know if you field a women’s team, but a great name would be ‘Sister Sledge’.
My kid had the high fever with fever dreams for about 3 days. She still has a cough but not much else. Hopefully yours lets up soon.
That is a good name for a team. We are coed, but there is a national women’s team.
theme song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVe_HcyP9Y
“Personally, I’m reevaluating plans for the holidays,” Bronwyn MacInnis, director of pathogen genomic surveillance at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, said on a call with reporters Tuesday. “It’s the responsible thing to do and what feels right given the risk.”
Go fuck yourself.
On the Lil Rona Panic: I found out today that the Nashua, NH Board of Health, in the space of a week, flip-flopped on recommending the Board of Aldermen reinstate the city mask ordinance. The BoH went from not going to recommend reinstating the ordinance to recommending reinstating the ordinance. Word is the BoA will have an emergency meeting to consider the ordinance. I have no information on when that emergency meeting will be.
I’ll be attending a wedding with 150 guests this weekend. Mostly the “sophisticated, vaccinated” crowd. Actually, all the people at our table will be vaccinated except for my partner and me. These people can infect me with omicron. That wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have plans to fly to Key West next week. I definitely don’t want to cancel that.
Ive upped my game.
1 part Robitussin AC
1 part Skyy vodka
drop in 5 mg crushed melatonin
Garnish with a rag soaked in starting fluid
The Cosby Colada.
No codeine? Amateur.
Robo AC is the high-test stuff with codeine.
Honestly, its like you dont even sizzurp.
Sadly, I do not.
Ill mix us up a batch of lean and mail it out.
You can review it.
Do you need a script for that?
What are you? A cop?
I didn’t think you could buy codeine OTC in the U.S., like you can in Mexico and Russia.
Looks like Russia changed their law. It’s OTC in a bunch of countries, but not the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeine#Legal_status
Are you tussin?
PURPLE DRANK
Tessalon Perles if you want a scrip for something that actually works.
Currently 71 deg. Will drop to 29 degs by dawn tomorrow.
In between, thunderstorms and tornados possible.
Must be Brandon’s fault.
-18 here this morning.
You really don’t have a future in promotion.
Winter temperatures, regardless of how low, didn’t used to bother me until we got our first dog. Poor things don’t do well at -20 wearing their ridonkulous booties and coats. They’d rather “hold it” until March or so. **HEAVY SIGH**
Yesterday it was 64 and sunny. I wore shorts all day.
Today we had a windstorm. 80+ mph on the plains.
The goat’s shelters blew away and broke up, the plastic igloo ended up in pieces in the creek.
And about an hour ago, the wind died.
Enjoy!
Ouch. Sounds like you have some work to do, hope everything works out.
Not my goats, but I’ve helped since I got here. I’ve gotten kind of attached to the weird little fuckers!
Yesterday, I was in the paddock dumping leaves for them and a couple of them were just plastered to me the while time. Honestly, they are like pets!
Surprisingly good thread here:
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1470470447582126081
I’m generally inclined to disregard whatever she says, but in this case she brought the evidence.
Why? She’s right an awful lot.
Given that it’s Twitter, that’s setting the bar awfully low.
The question remains as to how someone who is so thoroughly unprofessional and most likely unhinged got to be in charge of human lives.
One wonders why the rest of the GOP isn’t lifting a finger to find out WTF is going on there.
Because they’re gutless wonders.
Reminds me of the “Conservative” Party of Canada, not to mention the United “Conservatives” of Alberta . . .
Because they don’t give a shit.
My Dr had nothing to say about COVID wrt my Florida plans.
Florida is fine. Come on down!
Good news everybody! It turns out that The Mob can spur the cops into charging someone for a trivial confrontation.
What a bunch of pussies to not charge her with a
thoughthate crime.Yesterday the cops were a bit more mellow
Blaine is a fairly white Trump Country suburb so it doesn’t surprise me that they’ve decided that charges are warranted. Too bad. The driver was a complete asshole, but I don’t know why it had to become a criminal matter. The couple were reimbursed by InstaCart.
Coon Rapids? Now you’re just making shit up.
A local radio show had a black guy call in once to tell about the time he had won the an award for being the best teacher at the Coon Rapid’s high school which was named “Coon of the Month”.
He was laughing about it and went into detail about having to call his mom back in Mississippi and explain to her that it was a good thing.
L-oh-L
Right?! ?
ran over an elderly couple’s groceries
Need more information. Seems to me the groceries are the victims here, what kind of groceries were they? Hispanic? Asian? Beans, perhaps. Black beans or white? Any pastries? Ladyfingers (protected) or Napoleons (clearly not). How will I know what to think if journalists can’t do their jobs?
I don’t even think she did it.
I’ll bet it was the car.
So Jen Psaki is blaming meat conglomerates for inflation. I wonder if she supports a crackdown on Big Meat.
Because Big Meat didn’t get greedy until just this year.
Amazing how everybody suddenly got greedy at the same time.
Wierd.
Or weird, whatever.
Hoarders everywhere
crackdown on Big Meat
Big Meat will cave, the last thing they want is to get tied up in the courts.
the last thing they want is to get tied up in the courts.
Or get roasted by the media
If they are slick, they can get out of it.
They know how to mince words and should be able to grind this out without too much fat off their bottom end.
Well being processed is the punishment.
Please stop spamming this thread.
That was total cheese, Whiz.
Now you’re just hamming it up.
They need to lasso themselves some legal representation.
crackdown on Big Meat.
These euphemisms.
And earlier, she was sucking up to Big Meat like the rest of the Biden admin.
Lighting the Tonio Signal
*snort*
So, so problematic.
Can you say “Cultural Appropriation”? Stealing the white eye’s writing system? Hello?!
Also, I wonder if the Ojibwe administrators at the current Red Lake campus start every meeting by acknowledging that they are on “stolen lands” and offer lip service to the Dakota tribes they stole the land from?
Dan King is lucky he’s an Indian. He’d get scalped by the Woke if he wasn’t for saying shit like:
“Get out of bed and go to class”? “We need more tribal members educated”? I can’t even.
So, if you want a BA in Casino Management, I guess this is the place.
(Is that racist?)
(Is that racist?)
How?
Isn’t everything?
Good for him. I hope he’s wildly successful.
Working on the Rez in my formative years was incredibly interesting. Pretty much every program originating outside the rez was a fucking disaster.
“Twitter to Penalize Users Who Claim Vaccinated People Can Spread Covid-19”
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1471131585860849669
OFFS!!
Twitter banning the CDC? Um this might be a positive turn of events.
Damn your nimble fingers!
I guess I was fashionably late to this party.
Guess they’ll be banning the CDC?
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html
“People who get vaccine breakthrough infections can be contagious.”
Well, then.
Factcheck: It is our opinion that the CDC didn’t mean what they said
Update:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1471194226612449281
Am I not seeing a change in language?
“shed the virus” -> “shed the vaccine”
So yeah, you can’t really shed the vaccine near as I can tell, though I wouldn’t prevent anyone from claiming that and twitter shouldn’t either. So was the first instance a typo? Or CYA after being called on it? I would guess the former, but I’m not really aware of any sort of widespread idea that the ‘vaccine’ can be shed?
That is sneaky and yet…who has ever made a claim of shedding the vaccine? Maybe the true hardcores that claim they are shedding spike proteins?
You can and will absolutely shed the spike protein that is generated as a result of the vaccine by respiration, perspiration, urination, and defecation.
Pfizer has admitted as much in their trial documents. It was a violation of protocol to allow a recently vaccinated person to be in a closed room with a pregnant person. They called for monitoring of the pregnancy and the child if it did occur,
So…the CDC?
“As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power + contributes to the normalization of antisemitism. This needs to be removed.”
https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1471195179117809664
The purpose of identity politics is to protect the elite.
The ADL can fuck right off. Being a Jew is a rationale neither for nor against criticism of character and motive.
I don’t see any obvious reference to him being Jewish. Am I missing something?
Oh, it’s ADL.
Thou shalt not criticize Soros.
I bet I can criticize Netanyahu and the ADL won’t say a word.
I bet you can criticize Jesus Christ and the ADL won’t say a word.
“Casting”?
And it is always interesting to watch the left claim antisemitism is bad while supporting antisemitism.
Case in point: I bet I can criticize Netanyahu and the ADL won’t say a word.
Criticize him as Illhan Omar would and see what happens. (Nothing..)
While I have two from Jan 3 to answer these, I was able to obtain the questions for my religious exemption:
First, this little disclaimer:
I guess I could have bolded the whole statement. The last part is interesting to me. They can say I acted inconsistent with my professed beliefs (that they don’t hold and are not deeply held by them), but beliefs can change over time and can be newly adopted or inconsistently be observed.
Question #1 Please describe the nature of your objection to the COVID-19 vaccine requirement
Question #2 Would complying with the COVID-19 vaccination requirement substantially burden your religious exercise or conflict with your sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, or observances? If so, please explain how.
Question #3 Please provide any additional information that you think may be helpful in reviewing your request. For example:
•How long you have held the religious belief underlying your objection
•Whether your religious objection is to the use of all vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines, a specific type ofCOVID-19 vaccine, or some other subset of vaccines
•Whether you have received vaccines as an adult against any other diseases (such as a flu vaccine or a tetanus vaccine)
They also give an opportunity to upload a document, which I will – H/T Trashy for that one!
As I have stated before, the requirement to respond with anything beyond “No” is bullshit.
The religious exception should not be a governing factor. The exception is that I have done a cost/benefit analysis for myself and I choose not to.
It’s Wednesday, so for those interested in a zoom, it starts at 8pm Eastern.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89199883017?pwd=bW0wamFPamVSd05MMmU4R3pGZ0U2QT09
“Socialism: Not just a Florida issue. The socialism line resonates w Hispanics, including some who still voted Democratic. And it’s not about Cuban immigrants — the line is more potent among Hispanics who’ve been in the US for multiple generations.”
https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi/status/1470777783974612997
Oh look, Schiff is still a lying little shit.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/house-jan-6-committee-confirms-it-altered-text-message-between-meadows-and-jordan_4159470.html
This is my shocked face.
A person known to lie every time he opens his mouth is shown to be a liar?
0_o
So I’m trying to read an article in Chronicles out in the common area of the house when the middle child and the wife start arguing. I can’t think so I get up and leave.
Of course the wife follows me and wants to know why I’m not participating in the family time.
“Because the kid’s right, but I don’t want to sleep on the sofa.”
Heh. Time for us to downsize soon now that the kids are grown (and soon to be on their own, praise Allah), but having seven bedrooms came in handy over the years.
1-800-GOT-JUNK
Also, I will come do the needful for a set rate, per diem, and travel.
do the needful
Gah! A South Asian Mormon is among us!
Nah, overpriced.
I may be easy but I ain’t cheap.
Brings up an annoyance that I have notice over the years.
There is a new subdivision going up in the bedroom community next to Los Alamos. Every single house is a McMansion, pushing 4000 ft^2 on tiny lots.
Our first house was 1k sqft, two bedrooms and a bath. Perfect for the two of us. When the kids came along we moved to a larger house with 4 BR and 3 baths.
Now that the kids are gone we don’t need all of this space. We’re ready to move back to a 2-3 BR 2 bath place.
Which brings me back to the comment above. It seems prudent to me that over a person’s life they would go starter home > family home > home the size of a starter home. Half of those 4ksft mansions should have been 1.8ksft one-story homes for the folks on either end.
Our current home is a nice compromise. 1380 sqft on the main level, 2 BR, 2 bath. Downstair we have 2 more bedrooms and another bath with two rooms that can be turned into sleeping space if needed.
Yes.
When I was in about the 7th grade, my parents bought a second TV and placed it in our living room, in view of the dining room. They would watch it during dinner. I began eating as fast as I could, then retiring to my room to read. After a couple of weeks, they asked my why I wasn’t participating “family time” any more. I told them “family time” had been supplanted by TV time, and I wasn’t interested in the TV.
Super Genius
https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/ex-marines-implicated-in-nashville-contracting-killing
Guy hires hitman, leaves positive review on google.
“We got 2,000 likes!”
Smart!
According to the indictment, Maund paid Peled’s Speartip Security over $150,000 prior to the planned killing.
So affordable! But then…
Maund then wired $750,000 dollars to Peled and wrote a positive review of Speartip’s services on their Google profile under his own name, stating: “They get the job done in an expedited time. Couldn’t imagine using anyone else!!”
Need a bigger card.
There is some good stuff in that subreddit, and it’s not a porn subreddit either!
I think that sums up reddit perfectly
COOL LINK BRO!!!
Linky no worky.
I laughed out loud at this.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ConspiracyMemesII/comments/rgyibz/alex_jones_calls_lightning_to_protect_the_last/
There’s some gold in that subreddit
https://i.imgur.com/cfbJYZp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/AtujnwN.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nc5wDlc.jpg
Day off today, spent most of the day driving around aimlessly listening to tunes. When I got back, checked in with Mrs. Patzer to see how her (work) day went. Oh no, seems they had an outbreak in her office!
Mrs. Patzer: “Positive case here so a lot of people sent home.”
Me: “Not you? Why do they want you to die?”
Mrs. Patzer: “I guess they don’t like me. But I got two gifts! Looks like wine and candy.”
Me: “At least you will die happy.”
Might have to use one of those extra bedrooms tonight.
Gougers! Price-gougers, everywhere! A coffee shop in New Jersey is gouging the price of coffee because coffee bean and disposable cup wholesalers are gouging! They blame manufacturers for gouging—and they’d know, being so good at gouging themselves! And don’t you dare think of asking for a raise, wage-gouger!
Not Starbucks, I’m sure. Unionization will solve all their problems.
Senior union members would gleefully throw their junior “brothers” under the bus if it cut costs and saved their jobs. Saw it at the NYPD a few years back.
That’s every union I’ve ever belonged to, with the exception of CLAC (the Christian Labour Association of Canada).
“You don’t have seniority? Tant pis pour toi! “
Yep. Happens in industry, too. The despondency of young/junior union members when they find out how the leadership has screwed them in favor of the more senior members in contract negotiations is palpable.
Hey Spitty!
/OT
You like Tobes and Delingpole too? I liked both versions of Alienate from what I can remember. “Limpy pig”.
Good peeps, even if Toby is a total sellout shill for lefty globalism, little better than a Corbynite!
I think James may be losing his mind, but maybe I haven’t lost mine enough.