Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful day it always is!
I’d say it’s a tie between this and the complete destruction of the dollar.
Joe Biden Meets with Top CEOs: Global Catastrophes Present ‘Opportunities’ to Lead ‘New World Order’
GOP senators draw contrast between civil Jackson hearing, ‘spectacle’ of Kavanaugh confirmation
White House Warns of Global Food Shortages After Ukraine Invasion
Mother of transgender teenager: Los Angeles County killed my daughter
‘We are just guinea pigs’: Women describe trauma of transitioning as teenagers
That’s all I for for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh’
I think I slept 15 hours straight thru.
I wish I could get eight hours solid.
When I had my LASIK back in the ’90s, they needed your corneas to heal undisturbed, so they taped clear plastic shields over your eyesockets and sent you home with two pills. You took the first one and slept for 12 hours. Then you woke up, peed, and took the second one and slept for another 12.
It. Was. GLORIOUS!
I wish I new a doc that could let me do that again.
Due to my overnight schedule, I seem to run sleep-deprived for around 10 days then I try to make it up all at once.
The last time I slept more than 8 hours straight, I had drank almost a whole fifth of bourbon in about two hours time.
Comatose for 13.5 hrs.
Morning, Banjos.
Hey all, I’m collecting can lids for SP.
1) Take a lid, rusty or not (preferably a canning lid, but whatever you can get), write your glibs handle on it along with a message of appreciation for her immense contributions to this site. NOTE: you may get better results using a fineliner permanent marker.
2) email me at trashy-glibs [at] disengage [dot] co (and let me know what your glibs handle is) to get the destination address for the lid.
3) shove the lid in an envelope and get it in the mail by April 1st.
Once I get all the lids, I’ll assemble them in a way that only a trash monster can, and I’ll send it up to SP to replenish her stock and keep OMWC in check.
I’ll continue posting this in the links threads this week.
NOTE: Athena has graciously offered to put messages on lids for those who, for whatever reason, can’t. (athenaofprogtown at the gmail)
Did you get my email?
Yep got it and responded (10:49 central yesterday morning) . Let me know if you didn’t get the response, and I’ll resend it. Sometimes Abine Blur hiccups and forgets to forward the message through the alias email address.
Nope. Nothing in my inbox, spam folder, or trash folder.
Ok, I’ll send direct.
Who is Athena?
A commenter here whose real name is Minerva.
A virgin deity, goddess of wisdom and war.
I thought she was a a young lieutenant who had her broken by a Devil-may-care fighter pilot when he started dating a former socialator.
“Her _____broken?”
“What is a hymen, Alex?”
Just a girl
“Blinks sad eyes at you”
Me.
*feels shame*
Please don’t kill me. I didn’t know you were the true one.
Trashy, sent you an email yesterday. If you’re just backlogged, that’s cool, but I wanted to make sure it hadn’t gotten lost.
Negative. I haven’t received it. Did you send it to disengage.com instead of disengage.co?
Actually, now that I’m looking, abine blur appears to be falling down on the job. There are a few in the queue that haven’t hit my inbox yet.
I’ve responded to all of the messages that were hung up in the Blur queue. I didn’t see one from you, Grummun.
Since Grummun is having trouble with this, I’m taking the liberty (!) of sending Grummun’s email address (the one registered with his Glibs account) to Trashy. LMK anyone else who has trouble and I can facilitate.
I have received an email from Trashy (thanks, Tonio) and responded. I’m curious if he gets the response, or if it too gets … trashed … somewhere along the way.
Considering all the silliness with emails not getting where they need to go, I’ll just plant this here: Trashy, please email me at:
moriah at moriahjovan dot com.
Sent message. Abine Blur is really letting me down today. Hopefully it’s just a temporary thing, because I don’t know of any alternative that does email masking like they do.
I got it on my phone, but not in my email client. I knew to look for it in spam, and it was there.
“Joe Biden Meets with Top CEOs: Global Catastrophes Present ‘Opportunities’ to Lead ‘New World Order’”
When they say shit like this out loud, why are the people that say people that think this shit is good are actually inclined to cause catastrophes to take advantage of, the ones that are looked down upon?
Never let a crisis go to waste!
When you believe that is the best way to deal with any crisis, it is not a big leap to go to “Lets create a crisis we can use”..
+1 Reichstag fire
“My mother had an expression, ‘Out of everything terrible something good will come if you look hard enough for it,’” Biden recalled.
Dear President Biden:
Your mother was full of shit and it’s genetic.
I wonder who his mother plagiarized that from?
Imagine what they’re plotting behind closed doors. I don’t think we will like it.
I’m not evil enough to begin to contemplate that.
Most assuredly.
Oh, we know. Forcibly transitioning a once-robust, energy independent, economy to bullshit “renewables.” The transition will not go as well or as quickly as promised, leading to rolling blackouts and people living in cold, dark hovels as our ancestors did hundreds of years ago. They’ll say it’s to save the planet, but it’s really to control the population, and punish perceived enemies.
To us, America is the place we grew up, the people we care about, the lives we’ve built here.
To them, America is just an economic zone, one of many, which can be discarded when used up.
^This.
They are “global citizens”, and proudly proclaim it. They couldn’t care less about the little people and their little problems.
It helps to think of them like this.
*clicks*
*not disappointed.*
Something something omelet something eggs
Morally decrepit ghouls
The US was already an economic powerhouse and would’ve lead the world even without those two enormous wars.
The destruction of European and East Asian industry provide an advantage to the US until those areas rebuilt.
Nah the US was per capita the richest place in the world before either world war and would’ve been EVEN RICHER with a freer and richer world to trade with.
Only the British empire was overall richer, which included India and the wealthiest parts of Asia. And their inability to hold that was inevitable.
Don’t let anyone pretend that war made us great. The pie is not fixed.
The war didn’t make us great, but having our full industrial capacity and no need to rebuild our cities gave us an advantage after the war.
This, the Wars made us a Super-Power.
JFC.
People need to stop calling them “elite” because that sounds good. Aristocracy? Eloi? US oligarchs?
It’s the rhetorical difference between “mainstream media” and “corporate media”. Michael Malice finally seems to have influenced the turn toward corporate, but “elite” needs to be changed too.
Demons.
Pigs, some animals are more equal than others.
Assholes?
I think aristocracy is an equally bad choice. Though maligned in liberal histories, it originally meant “rule by the best”. Obviously late-stage aristocrats were not sending their best, but the feudal system didn’t start in 1790.
I’ll think on the alternatives. You’re right that calling them elite gives them too much credit, and moreover the term has entered the bugman’s vocabulary and he has begun to develop an immunity to it.
“ruling caste” “Caste” has connotations of obsolescence, rule by priests, all of that good stuff.
Global supervillains? Cause it ain’t just the US.
+1000
These supervillians just do not have the average person’s best interests in mind when they craft these schemes.
I also think that America as a beacon of freedom (what we have left) cannot survive since that will give other peoples hope to resist.
“GOP senators draw contrast between civil Jackson hearing, ‘spectacle’ of Kavanaugh confirmation”
Cause they are idiots. They should have come out and accused her falsely of something everyone would now was ridiculous, then pointed at how the corrupt leftist media would respond to that in contrast with what they do to democrats doing this to the other side to make an even bigger point. Instead, they keep fighting with Marquis of Queensbury rules in a ring where their opponent is fighting prison rules and looking to shank their asses and then sell them to the rapists for a pack of cigarettes and a some candy bars.
The most charitable interpretation of the Republican Party’s actions is that they only care to offer a political alternative for the professional-managerial class, for when they periodically get disillusioned with their natural party (the Democrats). The idea of offering a political outlet to people who don’t send emails for a living is extremely declassé and they’re glad to be rid of that baggage now that Trump is (kind of) out of the picture.
That is spot on.
kbolino, you have some really good insights. I’d be happy to publish those if you care to write them up. Our target submission is 800 – 1,400 words.
Alright, I’ll keep that in mind. Some of my comments end up that long anyway.
Second that. You and cyto regularly have mini screeds that I think could be standalone/starting point posts, and are worth reading in their own right.
Thirded.
I’ve been referring to those jobs as internet jobs or email jobs basically since corona virus shutdowns started, partially to annoy my wife, and partially because the derisive “burger flippers” has always gotten under my skin.
You know you’re problem with the analogy about prison rules – that’s what you think all of civil society is. All civil society can ever be. Because that represents a race to the bottom. You really want to live like that?
blech – your/you’re
I tend to go with observation and facts. Ignoring reality because you want things to be better has shown not to work. I would love for society to be better, but I am not going to live in the clouds when reality proves that the people that want to pretend everyone can and should play nice, constantly are taken down by the people that demand civility only from these idiots they then fuck over – brutally – as soon as the opportunity presents itself. If there is no mechanism to punish those that abuse civility, or worse, they control the mechanism, and you subject yourself to it, you are not trying to make things better: you are a fucking idiot.
I don’t observe our civil society to resemble the common behavior found in prisons.
I’ll agree that our civilization is only a veneer, and that primitive violent behavior can arise given the right (or wrong as it were) conditions. But that isn’t where we live on a day to day basis, nor is it where we would aspire to live.
“I don’t observe our civil society to resemble the common behavior found in prisons.”
Then you have not been paying close enough attention….
I lack your imagination.
Just look at the pile of bullshit lies that the deep state made up, bullshit that basically was what they were up of all things, to then blame Trump for. That mountain of fucking shit alone should dissuade anyone that we have a civil society. We have a bunch of cutthroat crooks running things and they are willing to go to any and all lengths to destroy anyone that gets in their way. It requires no imagination.
Trump was and is no tribune of civil society. He lacks the spine to be a true caudillo, but he loves acting like one.
Trump was and is no tribune of civil society. He lacks the spine to be a true caudillo, but he loves acting like one.
I think your second point negates your first. This is what muscular American populism looks like, and has looked like, since Teddy Roosevelt got off his horse and ran for office. Trump is no TR, but none of our leaders today would hold a candle to the men of back then, so that is hardly surprising.
The original tribunes were no less contradictory.
The American presidency was not devised as a plebian institution, if you want to really argue the literal aspect of tribune and not the figurative. The system never required a popular vote at all.
Yes, absolutely correct, but much has changed since then. The modern Presidency is to the early Presidency what Queen Elizabeth II is to Queen Elizabeth I. The original American democracy was also essentially Athenian democracy (composed of prominent, free, male citizens) with some added institutions (I’m not sure who ran the post office in ancient Athens), whereas today it is based on “universal suffrage” and “human rights”.
Nevertheless, President-as-tribune was already tried early on, in the form of Andrew Jackson.
The civil society you see reflects your environment, but the U.S. is not a homogeneous place. Perhaps if the U.S. consisted only of its top 20% then this version of civil society would be holistically accurate (i.e., the Scandinavia effect). But it doesn’t, and our political leaders know this. The country’s major cities, for example, can be classified as “special administrative regions” in which much of the law that applies elsewhere is effectively suspended (the occasional attempts to stop-and-frisk or shoot-on-sight one’s way around it notwithstanding) and the political machines are openly far more ruthless than their national counterparts would ever allow themselves to be depicted in mainstream media. This element of society, while most of us are well insulated from it (the occasional activist-NGO spillover again notwithstanding), is absolutely essential to the power base of our cultural and political betters. This issue, for what it’s worth, is not an ethnic or racial one, per se, though many people on various sides like to reduce it as such. Rather, it is a question of culture, and of the interplay (or, often, lack thereof) of many cultures.
There is a vast difference in urban societies and rural communities.
No way!
“‘We are just guinea pigs’: Women describe trauma of transitioning as teenagers”
The problem with these people is that that movement is spearheaded by academia. Remember that academia is one of the few institutions where you can not just believe horribly stupid and evil shit and tell people to do that stuff, and never have to deal with the consequences of foisting that evil on humanity. Academics, especially those that go into the big government bureaucracy, keep giving us the worst and most destructive directives possible, but they never have to pay for the body count their ideas and experiments cause.
This is a new phenomena that didn’t exist when I was a kid. Certainly there were tomboys and effeminate boys and maybe they got teased a little. The only ones I remember grew up, got married and had kids of their own. Somehow this trans thing and accompanying guilt has crept in and suddenly every boy that carried a doll around at five needs a surgical fix. It’s plain appalling and criminal.
It’s an ACTION FIGURE!
It’s a European carry-all!
Dolls don’t have kung-fu grip!
False!
Ha!
It didn’t work this time. Lesson not learned. We’ll try again at the next opportunity.
The universities have endured every even somewhat reactionary moment in this country’s history unscathed. Indeed, they are far more riven by revolutionary forces of their own creation than they are by counter-revolutionary forces. They have convinced the American people that success is to be had only through obtaining a “college education” and they have manipulated the bourgeoisie so thoroughly as to get them to champion the enactment of political policies and cultural mores which ensure the economic viability of this approach at the expense of others. Indeed, one may note that “canceling student loan debt”, i.e. covering up the marginal failures of this socioeconomic model, is far more politically and culturally palatable than imposing tariffs upon products that are produced with child labor, sweatshops, pollution, etc.
I’m imagining a remake of The Island of Doctor Moreau but he’s doing trans experimentation.
Didn’t Southpark essentially do that? Just absent Dr. Moreau.
They had the episode with NAMBLA (National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes).
I was thinking the one on plastic surgeries.
Ah, the one with Mr. Garrison becoming Mrs. Garrison, Kyle becoming a tall black kid, and Kyle’s dad becoming a dolphin.
Not so funny now, is it?
Oh man that was icky. But hilarious.
juris imprudent:
Did you see the Strong Woman episode? A Randy Macho Man-esque character has identified as a woman and is winning all the competitions.
Parker and Stone are the only true prophets of the age. [No I didn’t see that one. I’ve always been pretty sporadic in my viewing.]
Every liberation movement becomes a grievance movement. It’s a matter of organizational survival. When you’ve won all the battles you gathered together to fight, you don’t retire, you find and/or create new enemies to battle.
“My mother had an expression, ‘Out of everything terrible something good will come if you look hard enough for it,’” Biden recalled.
There has to be a pony here somewhere!
Nope, no pony, just the same ol’ stuff
/Farm boy
Well there is plenty of horseshit about.
Keep shoveling serf.
Only lying dog-faced pony soldiers!
+1 Augean stable
Nice Pull! I’ve used that reference a few times and it usually met with ? Don’t ever mention Sisyphus amongst the non-cognizant.
What a sad decline our education system has been in, for decades.
I wonder where his Mom plagiarized that from?
Those Washington Examiner articles on “transitioning” teams are a total nut punches. As difficult as they are too read, I recommend those to everyone who has any doubts that the QUILTBAG organizations who encourage this are totally evil.
when i was 15, lonely, and hated my body, i got sucked into gender ideology online.
I understand that body hatred is very common among young girls, and those people are taking advantage of that to exploit those kids for political gain.
Is there even political gain? It doesn’t look that way. Maybe I just don’t understand why an adult would make encouraging transition their life goal.
Victimology
And a big heaping helping of moral preening.
Everyone involved is patting themselves on the back and telling themselves how “tolerant” and “accepting” they are.
Exactly, they can’t be properly oppressed in their cis- state.
The political gain comes from increasing the number of trans people in society and forcing the rest of us to accommodate them. Remember, it’s not just enough that we let those people live their lives in peace, we must allow declared-trans men to compete in women’s sports complete with swinging their dicks around in the locker room. Anyone who pushes back against that is identified as the enemy. As with many other things they really don’t give a shit about trans people, but use them as pawns.
Chinese history is useful here. Westerners don’t understand the point as well because their history is of frontiers, glorious last stands, fighting and dying for freedom, leaving bad situations and homesteading elsewhere, etc. Easterners, whose populations were much larger and whose civilizations are even older, have been through all of this already. The “trans movement” is like the Manchu Queue (though it is neither the first nor the only example). The point is to get you to submit, to do something you would never have done otherwise, and to have you feel as though you had no choice in the matter and ultimately it was a trivial thing to oppose anyway.
The point is to get you to submit, to do something you would never have done otherwise, and to have you feel as though you had no choice in the matter and ultimately it was a trivial thing to oppose anyway.
This seems familiar…
They use them as moral bludgeons to enforce intellectual compliance.
The answer is always the same: it’s about control.
Maybe they genuinely believe that what they are doing is for the best and as difficult and damaging as it can be, it needs to be done for the long term good?
They’re painfully wrong and deluded. To go all Godwin (I sometimes try to substitute Gulag guards or Khmer, but Nazi’s are just so convenient!), do you think, with a few exceptions, the average Nazi woke up twirling their Snidely Whiplash mustache and with an evil cackle contemplated what an evil person they were and what evil deeds they were going to accomplish that day? No – they woke up thinking, this is hard work that needs to be done for the long term good of humanity. It’s the hardest – and most common I think – type of evil to combat, that which comes from a conviction of moral certitude (insert cs lewis). Once a given manifestation takes hold in a society, your institutions and moral foundation have already failed and it only gets solved ‘peacefully’ in the long term. If you want to fix it in the short term, it will be much more messy, because the opposition is completely sincere in their moral and ethical position.
At the word certitude, I was reaching for the reply button to quote Lewis, but I read on to your parenthetical first, so nevermind.
Then again, you did ask for it to be inserted, so here you go:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
This is where the quote normally ends, but I think the next part if very appropriate:
“They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
That latter part ties quite nicely to yesterday’s post on Toxic Masculinity, doesn’t it.
I missed a toxic masculinity post?!? Was very wrapped up all day yesterday, I’ll have to go back and read.
It’s a bit of double whammy too. Not only are the purveyors of said evil much more likely to be zealous in pursuing it, but the opposition is likely to be more deferential in their response. Any well adjusted person, if they see genuine belief in the goodness of someones position and a sort of general social structure encourages it, is going to wonder a bit “maybe I have it wrong”. Or, very common, “well they mean well” “They’re a good person, just misguided”. As true as those last two may be, it will not blunt the damage caused. But it will blunt the response and opposition to it.
Maybe in a smaller system, a social organization with a shared, common background, that sort of interplay provides an evolutionary advantage and hence why it seems very common in humans. Perhaps the modern development and structures that where enabled by that advantage turn it into a disadvantage and we get the apparent natural cycle of the rise and fall of human societies from it.
All good points. I keep betting the normie middle is going to stop putting up with this crap, and I keep being wrong.
They haven’t put a stop to any of the shenanigans of the left for decades, why would they start now?
When they do, we aren’t going to end up back where we were. The backlash will from our perspective over-correct. This will happen because it always happens with humans. We may not live to see it, but it will come.
The polls I see always indicate there is a solid 30 to 40%of the country that eats up all this nonsense and think everything os fantastic. How anyone can become such damaged goods is beyond me. This is such a sizable group that unorganized, independent thought people have no chance until a party emerges that addresses their concerns.
I suspect actual support is less. There is a difference between how people will answer a poll and how they will vote in the privacy of the voting booth. A not-insignificant number of people view those polls as social compliance monitoring and will either give the expected answer (progs), or hang the fuck up on the pollster (paranoid liberty types).
…or give intentionally incorrect answers (libertarians)
Oh come on! What’s a little Babi Yar between friends? This is what it has come to. The illiterate and the ahistorical in a fight to the finish.
But I need someway of getting adoration. My children aren’t going to stand out like star athletes or such so forcing them to transition will have to do.
Everyone has to be a victim it gets the likes.
There is a huge opportunity for analyzing the reasons why this happened, but it won’t be conducted anywhere “respectable”, because the same ideology has conquered every major institution.
It was a nut punch for sure. So sad. The one good thing I took away from that article is the pushback is happening sooner than I thought it would. I hope these poor souls keep having the courage to speak up and speak loudly. Time is of the essence.
These are the same kids who were Goths, punks, skaters, and stoners when I was a teen. Goths dressed in black, listened to depressing music, smoked clove cigarettes, and usually broke out of it after a few years. Some moved on with physiological help/drugs, and others with the passage of time. Some never changed but are still whole, others were just different.
After they grow up some and their body’s hormones stabilize they might as well.
Why are there so many parents willing to let their kids cut stuff off their bodies?
The same parents would flip if the kids took up smoking.
Obligatory
I forgot to add the actual gay kids that everyone knew were gay, the ones that only their friends knew were gay, and the ones that didn’t know they were gay yet.
They were not usually able to be themselves in HS and that is a shame.
That is one positive today. Gay kids are much more open and able to be themselves today compared to 20 or 30 years ago.
When I was in high school they were closeted but nobody bothered them. Everyone knew but nobody really gave a shit. No bullying, no ostracizing. That was 40 years ago. What’s changed?
Pretty much the same for me 30 years ago. The difference is today or at least 5-10years ago gay kids could be more open and able to show affection for BF or GF’s without having to hide.
I guess the ewwww factor has gone by the wayside. That’s good, one supposes. What’s led to all of this lopping and chopping?
Post-modernist drivel leaking out of higher education? Seems to be common refrain for a lot of the current madness inflicting the “western world”.
Millions of parents already pay a doctor to amputate their infant’s foreskin, and an infant is even more incapable of giving consent than a teenager.
Ah, the eternal struggle between nuanced distinctions and the slippery slope.
‘We are just guinea pigs’: Women describe trauma of transitioning as teenagers”
Unpopular opinion. Therapy is a waste of time if you’re depressed or anxious go to a medical doctor.
You need someone with analyst and therapist skill sets.
From personal experience $150 an hour for them to provide me with advice that I found in a quick Google search. My doctor provided me with the same advice and meds that helped me.
You may have missed the joke.
On the other hand, I’m happy to hear you got help.
Woosh right over my head. I’ll see myself out.
Yup. Useless. Someone that might gravitate toward that is probably more fucked up than you are. The people that enter those fields are attempting to understand their own foibles and missteps. I’ve lived through the proof!
“My mother had an expression, ‘Out of everything terrible something good will come if you look hard enough for it,’” Biden recalled.
He’s going to find Ronald Reagan’s pony so he can kill and eat it.
At this point the best he might do is walk up and sniff the mane.
It was nice of the Reps to wax their assholes before they got Rammsteined. “Clean-up is a Breeze!” Supertramp was the top selling band in 1979. I got to see that particular tour. I didn’t care for them overmuch but it was an awesome experience for a 14 year-old. Still have the ticket stub. I want all the new breed of “trannies” to die in a fire. When I was young, people meant it, now it’s more akin to trying on a new coat before winter hits.
Maybe I just don’t understand why an adult would make encouraging transition their life goal.
Munchausen by proxy.
Autism is no longer the fashion.
The issue being that autism was an actual phenomenon.
Notwithstanding those who adopted the moniker of neuro-atypical for social points.
I’ve been thinking about this. Perhaps the adolescent’s seeking to be not only different or abnormal, but actually to be *less* than those around them, is rooted in what Joseph Campbell identified as part of the Hero’s Journey, a narrative that is innate in our social biology. Having humble beginnings is essential to the hero as is breaking from the norm. The flavors of what constitutes the humble beginning and normality change with time; being trans is just another form of the vision quest, but without the benefit of transforming into a productive adult.
Hmm. Makes me think of what crazy Uncle Ted had to say about liberals in prosperous societies and surrogate activities.
There are a lot of people who need their Culture War bs. They need to feel good about themselves by being on the “right side” of these issues.
Those people were really upset when the country flipped on gay rights so quickly. They were expecting to be an exciting gay ally for years and then the rubes decided that yep, we should be nice to our neighbors who are gay.
So they switched to trans as the next group that they could ally with. And they didn’t make the same mistake of only demanding that trans people be treated with dignity and allowed to live their lives. Nope, they went all out. Have to let them compete in women’s sports, get to use bathrooms, etc.
My guess is that if there was a major switch on trans rights and everyone agreed, these people would switch to some other crazy subgroup to champion. Pedophiles? And they would completely forget about how utterly crucial trans rights were.
Zelensky says Ukrainian political parties linked to Russia to be banned
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that 11 political parties in his nation that are linked to Russia will be banned, The Washington Post reported.”
Fight authoritarianism with authoritarianism. Not mentioned, he nationalized the media.
The two major parties in the USA wish they could do that.
14th AMENDMENT!
They don’t need to.
Yes. Outlawing opposition parties and/or opposition media would be a sign of weakness in our regime. Not that it won’t happen, only that they’ve been far more successful wielding “soft power”. State-run media would be reactionary compared to our media-run state.
Single team basketball results in some high scoring games.
Why would the Dems want that?
It would mean that if the GOP won a few elections they might get their hands on the levers of the nationalized media.
The way it works now, the MSM works for the Dems win or lose.
zelensky is a fucking fascist. He also tightened control of the media.
oh, you said that.
Tightened? He put it into a vise. There are no good actors. No side to root for. Everyone is Asshoe!
He’s a Western puppet. He’s a good representation of our own government’s desires.
I do feel a bit bad at all the bribes Ukrainian gave to the Biden’s only to get shafted.
I mean, we have to pay taxes to these leeches and they continue to shaft us.
It’s not just Zelensky. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has units not far removed from einsatzgruppen and the senior leaders seem to be using Slobodan Milosevic as a role model.
The Ukraine is never getting their eastern provinces back from Russia. Probably a good thing considering what they were doing there.
This shit really seemed to take off after that 2014 coup the west engineered took place.
That already happened in Canada yesterday.
We now have no effective opposition to the Boy King for the next three years. Put that on your poop knives and rub it.
Tucker was fun last night. He blasted the idea that Ukraine is a free and democratic country. Then he had a glorious interview with Kid Rock.
Watched that. He didn’t even seem that upset that Kid swore like a logger.
I was wondering who, exactly, qualifies as a “top business leader” in these troublesome times. The Business Roundtable? Why the hell not?
Also, youtube puked up some sort of Ray Dalio “how the world works” video for me last night. I did not watch it. Maybe I should. All the secrets of the universe might be there, waiting to be revealed.
Lucky Gunner guy gets appointed to education board, predictable reeeeing ensues.
Psaki said the White House could continue to work with global organizations to “do everything we can” to “mitigate” food shortages around the world.
“There are active discussions now,” she said, describing the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle the problem.”We’re certainly mindful that even if we’re not seeing an impact at this moment that sometimes supply chain impacts can have a lagging impact.”
How can we make this worse?
Begs the question.
Put Kamala in charge?
“Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are set to grill Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Tuesday over what they say is her record of leniency in sentencing people who pleaded guilty to possession or distribution of child pornography — a politically loaded charge. ”
Let me know when they ask her about what she did in high school.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/599123-republicans-to-roll-dice-by-grilling-jackson-over-child-pornography
This is the wrong tact. Her child pornography record is pretty ordinary, regardless of the spin Republicans are trying to create.
Maybe point out that she hates the United States and the constitution instead.
This – Does she intend to protect and enforce the Constitution as a member of the Supreme Court?
We already know the answer to that.
This is correct but it would be pretty fucking funny if they called some dude with a grill to testify. “Fuck! Bitch be sucking white cock like Monica Lewinsky!” Turnabout/Fair play etc.
They don’t see hating America and the republic as bad things, just like a large swath of idiots that want to replace what we have with a new predatory marxist state where the unproductive can plunder the protective’s creations.
Nobody who matters cares about that, least of all the republicans.
The
People’sPeaceful Democratic Republic of UkraineThe number of teenagers identifying as transgender has exploded. Advocates say it protects young people from marginalization.
Not everybody gets to be prom queen.
It doesn’t seem to protect them from medical malpractice and mutilation.
It does seem to protect them from admitting that they are homosexual. At what cost, though?
High-waisted jeans were a thing for a few years. Maybe this will fade the same way. I wore them. Uncomfortable and silly. Fashion trends come and go.
What are these “pants” you speak of?
I don’t even think that’s true for most of them. They’re middle school age kids who feel out of place like most middle school age kids. Instead of teaching them that it is a transitional phase and that they’ll get through it like every other kid before them, they’re encouraging them to make up sexual identities instead so they feel special.
And they’re encouraging them to develop their personae around their sexuality instead of helping them develop a moral framework for social interaction that doesn’t always come down to what you like to do with your junk or in other cases, skin color and various immutable characteristics. It’s shallow at best and exceedingly destructive at worst.
I think it’s true for a good number of them and the elites seem to think that turning them into caricatures of “straight” people is better than dealing with the whole “gay” thing.
Turning a gay kid straight is evil conversion therapy, right? But it’s totally fine if they are transgender, got it.
It’s something I never thought about, 1 kid got trucks, 1 kid got dolls. Occasionally they might cross play but both were protective of their own territories. Seems to have worked out.
I suppose it’s possible, but the social contagion phenomenon among teenage girls is startling. One of them starts getting attention for being “different” and then another adopts it to show solidarity and it steamrolls from there. I’ve watched it with my own daughters and their friends. There’s a reason you don’t put two anorexic girls near each other in psychiatric facilities, they reinforce each others’ behavior.
Boys are a different story. They don’t have the same groupthink tendencies.
I’ve been clear with my kids from the beginning. Homosexuality is a description of behavior and ultimately, if that’s what they decide who they are, I will accept it and them, but only after they’re through puberty and the associated confusion. Transgenderism, on the other hand, is a delusion and I’m not going to participate in a lie, nor will I tolerate self-harm.
I generally try to remain non-judgmental, and encourage them to not be in a hurry about any of it. Their acquaintances all seem to be in a rush to stake out a persona that confers special treatment. The hard part is teaching my daughters to not be resentful when literally half their friends decide they’re transgender and want attention for it. I just tell them to not offer their opinions and ignore it.
My wife and I had that discussion the other day and I made clear that I view teenager’s and kids taking puberty blockers and having surgery for a sex change to be immoral and unethical. My daughters are 2 years old and 5 months, so it won’t be an issue for a long time but I remember the power of peer pressure especially in junior high and high school. And when you mix that in with teachers and administrators who has an agenda, you have your work cut out for you.
A small (and anecdotal) counterpoint:
Ex-wife and I were foster parents in Wichita. We had two early teenage sisters live with us for about a year and a half. The younger one was a girlie girl (heavy of the perfume, heavy on the makeup, PINK everything), the other was so butch she could pass as a boy. The older one always knew she liked girls, always felt (and still feels 20-some years later) she was in the wrong body.
The girlie girl now has 3 different kids with 3 different men. The butch girl (after getting sober) has a successful career, is married to her girlfriend, and still passes (to most) as a guy.
I would contend that the butch girl is better adjusted mentally than the girlie girl.
I still miss them and wish we could have better helped them break out of the poverty culture they grew up in.
Ed, the time passes so quickly. I know at this stage in your life each day is a new beginning. I’ve seen my neighbor kids playing the dirt in their yard, the following week I get a graduation invitation or so it seems.
I visited my grand daughters in the hospital yesterday when they were born, all are college graduates now and well into their new careers.
I was talking with our CEO and somehow this topic came up. Apparently her daughter (11? somewhere around there) announced she was pansexual. When asked what that meant, she said “I love everybody”. She wisely (I think) let it pass. Apparently, its the fashion.
She also said she had to look it up. I said my understanding was that it meant you would have sex with everybody. You know, basically a guy. She larfed.
“Suck it up”.
No, wait, not like that….
The chosen few
The list of CEOs, obtained by NPR’s Asma Khalid, included:
Oil: Marathon Petroleum’s Michael Hennigan, ConocoPhillips’ Ryan Lance and Exxon Mobil’s Darren Woods
Renewable energy: Pattern Energy’s Michael Garland and Invenergy’s Michael Polsky
Agriculture: Cargill’s David MacLennan and Land O’Lakes’ Beth Ford
Banking: JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan and Visa Inc.’s Alfred Kelly
Manufacturing: General Motors’ Mary Barra, Dow’s Jim Fitterling, Cummins’ Tom Linebarger, Johnson Controls’ George Oliver and U.S. Steel’s David Burritt
Shipping: FedEx’s Fred Smith
No boat-rockers allowed.
LOL
Heavyweights like Jamie Dimon and Fred Smith combined with the CEO of Land O’Lakes.
It’s the finance guys that scare the shit out of me, particularly that shitheel from Visa.
Maybe Ukraine has a lot of cow infrastructure to plunder.
Cmon now. Land o Lakes carried out the largest Indian removal since the end of the Plains Wars. That’s not nothing.
Every time I see a Land o’ Lakes package these days I think, “They kept the land and the lakes and got rid of the Indian”. I’ll bet I’m not the only one with that idea.
I saw this the other day.
…and the Indians got the casinos.
Nope, I think the same thing when I see it on the shelf every week.
Land o Lakes got invited to the club because they relocated their mascot to the res
I wonder what you’d find if you cross referenced that list of CEOs with the Biden/DNC donor hall of fame.
Pattern Energy and Invenergy are rent-seeking parasites. The amount of graft going on behind the scenes with those guys must be enormous.
Same people?
Checking in from tornado alley. We had a warning at my location yesterday, no damage as the storm seemed to dissipate on approach, but we sheltered at work by the interior cinderblock wall. Thirty miles north of here they were not so lucky, Jacksboro took a pretty bad hit from what I’m seeing. Have am grateful for the rain, we were having a lot of brush fires and a friend who lives south of me about 30 miles had to evacuate due to wild fires. Life on the southern plains can be exciting at times. Hope all Glibs are fairing as well.
Good to hear.
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Is it just me or is everything aimed at depopulation these days? Every story in the links has a depopulation angle. Whether it be Biden talking about a new world order and 60 million lost in the 2 world wars (with the unsaid words being “a good start”) starvation due to Ukraine invasion or in the gender transitioning, which to me has always seemed about depopulation and weeding out undesirables. I read these articles and know that is what they want for us, to kill us and prevent us from reproducing and it’s never been clearer than in their actions, despite the words coming out of their mouths, the last 2 years.
The elites believe that the greatest threat to the new world order they want – them on top and the rest of us sucking their dicks – are the large number of people they feel are just moochers or unnecessary baggage. Their new world order, when the ratio of them to the dregs is more than 1:3, will collapse. so their solution isn’t to accept their idea in addition to being evil is also unworkable, but to look for ways to cull the masses to bring that ratio into compliance.
Yeah. There is some real demonic stuff going on right now. Destroying and sterilizing kids is celebrated. Someday we may find out what covid vaccinations did to kids’ fertility rates. There seems to be “biolabs” all over the place doing evil things for the hell of it.
And nobody in charge these days seems the least bit worried about the possibility of WWIII. They don’t seem to mind the idea of a long giant meat grinder of a conventional war, or a nice quick nuclear exchange.
It’s not just you. Our elites speak in egalitarian language, partly as cover, partly reflecting their susceptibility to their own propaganda, partly out of guilt, and partly out of self-delusion, but at heart they are social darwinists. They have believed, since the early 20th century if not sooner, that there are too many people. At least some of this projection: there are, after all, far too many of them than strictly necessary, so it must be the case that there are far too many of us too. And if you had to pick a side, wouldn’t you pick the side you’re on?
These ideas all seem to be the product of focus groups, A-B testing, and other mechanisms designed to identify the maximally effective wedge issues, which then get iterated over and over again, sweeping up a larger percentage of the population each time. Even at a high level, the narrative slide from Trump to COVID to BLM to Ukraine has been very effective so far.
No matter what road my driver takes, we still get stuck in traffic and it takes forever to get to my cocktail party!
Obviously there are too many people.
The limousine liberal contingent is certainly a big part of this, but they aren’t the only element.
And we haven’t even touched on inflation, supply chains, “climate change”, or energy this morning.
Yes, every single obsession seems to lead towards death if you carry their “solutions” out to the letter.
I love the “Improvements” made in the name of “Security”. There is one application where I have to grant users access and have had this responsibility for ages.
Originally, the process involved me logging on an adding the user to a particular group. Then the powers that be decided that administrative tasks shouldn’t be able to be performed by regular user accounts. They issued me a second administrator account with its own password. Okay, I still just log in and add the user to the group, but I do it with this other account. No big deal. Next they decided that the admin accounts needed fourteen character passwords that changed every sixty days. I grumbled, but fine. Then they moved group management from the server to an AD web interface. Not a great change, but it centralized things. Then they decided that letting the users set their own passwords for the admin accounts might result in weak passwords so they implemented a piece of software that changed the passwords on admin accounts every three days. I would have to log into the software, get my randomly generated admin password, log into the web interface and add the user to the group. Annoying, but managable. Then they made it so that you could only log into the AD web interface as the user you were logged into the computer as. So, in order to add somebody to the application, I now have to log into the password management software, get my randomly generated admin password write it down on paper switch users on the desktop, log into the AD web interface, and add the user to the group – assuming I didn’t forget the user’s name while jumping through the hoops.
So, now, in the name of security, there are little slips of paper lying around with admin passwords on them.
The memo instructing you to eat those little slips of paper is being drafted.
“Next they decided that the admin accounts needed fourteen character passwords that changed every sixty days.”
The password rotation security idea was one of the dumbest things I remember from bac when. I pointed out humans would end up creating a password pattern that would make it far easier for them to remember and for hackers to figure out how to break, only to be dismissed. If you want security, you are better off teaching the usual idiot drones to treat all emails, social media, and websites as potential phishing entities than making them rotate passwords.
Academics, especially those that go into the big government bureaucracy, keep giving us the worst and most destructive directives possible, but they never have to pay for the body count their ideas and experiments cause.
I’m a strong believer in the marketplace of ideas. The problem is that we don’t have a marketplace of ideas. The “commanding heights” of our culture – the universities, the media, the bureaucracies (including NGOs) are all wildly subsidized by the state. In addition to the direct subsidies, the government affords them power over the public in the role of gatekeepers. As such, their ideas, no matter how execrable, are fundamentally protected from failure. And, no, some vague idea about just the popularity of a particular idea over time isn’t what I’m talking about and it isn’t what is required in a marketplace of ideas. I’m talking real, concrete, material, failure. I’m talking the people pushing failed ideas are disgraced and have to bow out of the public conversation of ideas and find a different line of work. But, that latter part doesn’t happen. And, as a result, the former part doesn’t happen either. The advocates of terrible ideas still get their subsidies and still live a charmed life. So why would their terrible ideas lose popularity? Hell, their capture of those commanding heights and subsidies means they get to exclude advocates of good ideas from the conversation. What ideas does anyone think will become popular?
I correlate this problem with the incidental rise of the “blameless” and “no idea is bad” culture that was adopted a decade or two ago. There are absolutely real bad ideas that should be called out so that the morons that come up with them will be forced to think twice about proposing stupid shit and more importantly, will not think or make the case that the solution to their idea failing is to actually double down on doing the stupid shit they tried (at higher cost and collateral damage). And the system that assigned blame is necessary to weed out bad things. But credentialed elite fucks don’t want that older model where there were consequences and one had to be competent, because that is hard work, so we have the stupid shit we do these days and a pile of bodies to show for it (except for the bodies of the people giving us hell on earth).
I correlate it with the Federal Reserve.
Give any government unlimited funds and they will do all sorts of heinous things with it. At least with a constrained money supply, they are limited in their evil.
The market place is constantly grinding away at all the ideas and tossing out the bad ones. In government the bad ideas are never cleansed. See Fauci and his gang of fraudsters as the result.
Exactly this
Another reason we need to cut govt spending. Make those institutions earn their bread from voluntary contributions.
Exactly. Or payment for services rendered. With those services not de facto required by the state.
The Breitbartian “Politics is downstream from culture.” is absolutely true. But, it’s more complex than that. The culture itself is shaped by subsidies and political supports.
What a shithole
Nearly 52 million workers — or almost one-third of the nation’s labor force — earn less than $15 an hour, according to a study released Tuesday by Oxfam America, an anti-poverty advocacy group.
These workers, whose annual income is less than $31,200, are disproportionately women and people of color, the study found.
Some 47% of Black workers and 46% of Hispanic workers make less than $15 an hour, compared with 26% of White workers. Some 40% of female workers earn less than that threshold, compared with 25% of male workers.
Half of the women of color in the workforce make less than $15 an hour, as do nearly 58% of single parents.
“It’s shameful that at a time when many US companies are boasting record profits, some of the hardest working people in this country — especially people who keep our economy and society functioning — are struggling to get by and falling behind,” said Kaitlyn Henderson, the study’s author and senior research adviser at Oxfam America.
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Soaring inflation, which has pushed up the prices of food, housing, gasoline and other necessities, has made it even more difficult for lower-income families to survive on their wages, Oxfam America said.
!5 bucks won’t be enough. Better make it 20. Better yet, 80.
Maybe we should get Janet Yellin’s opinion on automatic cost of living wage adjustments for private companies.
The people that believe all labor is equal – you should pay a doctor, airline pilot, PhD ed engineer, and turd polisher the same – will never let go of this agenda. They also tend to be the people that cheer an open border so they can get a slew of unskilled labor into the country to keep labor compensations depressed.
Is there really some tiny little group that argues that – that all labor is equal?
What do you think the economic basis for the people that demand a living wage comes from?
It doesn’t come from any economic basis, but from an overdeveloped sense of morality coupled with ignorance. But I have not seen a “living wage” argued to be a single wage for all labor.
Freddie deBoer?
From that garbage article, it’s impossible to tell how much that study is garbage or not. I noticed that the article has no reference whatsoever to “full-time”, which, given they backed out the $15 per hour figure from annual earnings, would be kind of important.
“This. Is CNN.”
J.K. Rowling has a thoughtful and well-written letter describing her views on trans cultural and being “cancelled” for speaking her mind.
Whether you give a dang about Harry Potter or not, it’s well worth the read.
https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/
The attacks against her has been deranged and steeped in ignorance. She’s rightfully identifying that women are being erased when you use terms such as birthing person, or person who bleeds. And what irks her opponents is the fact that she has fuck you money, so she can say what she wants without little to no consequences and that her books (post Harry Potter) are still best sellers.
Give any government unlimited funds and they will do all sorts of heinous things with it. At least with a constrained money supply, they are limited in their evil.
Oddly enough, the Deep Thinkers who occupy the commanding heights of bureaucratic laptop class society whip themselves into a frenzy of outrage at the merest suggestion of constraints on government power and reach.
People who imagine themselves the Brain but in reality bear a greater resemblance to Pinky.
“Ve bring ze vorld new order.” https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2oq54k
(Yes, I know there’s a term for what I’m doing. What was that again?)
You know who else had a term for what they were doing?
Mel Brooks?
I have never seen the original, only the Nathan Lane remake, which I thought was hilarious.
Is the original better, or different enough to be worth watching?
The remake was a pale comparison of the original.
The original is my fave. I thought it was B&W, but my memory ain’t too good these days.
Nope, Young Frankenstein was deliberately shot in black and white as part of the homage.
One of my favorites.
“What knockers!”
Can you imagine being on the set and having to keep a straight face?
Just mentioned that to my wife the other day since spring started Sunday.
The Biden administration hiked the minimum wage for federal civilian workers stationed in the US and for federal contractors to $15 an hour earlier this year. Several Republican attorneys general have challenged President Joe Biden’s authority to lift the threshold for federal contractors.
The President also sought to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, which he signed into law in March 2021. However, the Senate parliamentarian ruled against including it in the Covid-19 relief bill, saying it did not meet a strict set of guidelines needed to move forward in the Senate’s reconciliation process.
“High, and outside.”
Is one of those guidelines “not destroying small business across America”…?
Doesn’t matter. Republicans can’t hit the curve.
The federal minimum wage is also an exercise in stupidity in so far as making $15/hour working for the USDA in Scott City, KS most likely means you’re a lot better off than making $15/hour working at a federal courthouse in SF or LA.
The left likes national solutions. Every American is an interchangeable cog in the machine and who has time ponder what conditions are like in East Bumfuck anyway.
I think now is a good time to remind ourselves that a person being rich and powerful does not make them morally superior. In fact the opposite is most likely true.
Update on
EuroUSvision:First round:
Artists featured on the first episode:
Wonderland – AleXa (OK)
Wonder – Alisabeth Von Presley (IA)
LOKO – Christian Pagán (PR)
Held On Too Long – Hueston (RI)
Feel Your Love – Jake’O (WI)
Never Like This – Kelsey Lamb (AR)
Fire – Keyone Starr (MS)
Beautiful World – Michael Bolton (CT)
New Boot Goofin’ – Ryan Charles (WY)
Love In My City – UG skywalkin (IN)
Ready To Go – Yam Haus (MN)
Effective range of various shotgun loads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnAi2R3Iv8Y
“Shotguns are versatile platforms, used by militaries, duck hunters and sad musicians alike.”
Wow, that host is really annoying.
Millennials. Whatchagonnado?
Is anyone else seeing a big increase in spam calls? I used to get maybe one a day. Now I’m getting 4 or 5 a day on my land line, and 4 or 5 a day on my mobile phone. This just started a few days ago.
What is a land line?
I still keep my VOIP line at home, which was a port from an actual landline.
That’s how mine is too. When we switched to cable Internet we switched our phone number to VOIP. I kind of wish we had that land line, though. There are more points of failure for VOIP.
Most likely the land line was VOIP past the first hop anyways.
Same here – we have had spam calls galore for the past three years…
No but somebody sold my number to a spam texter. I didn’t know it but there are at least two banks where I do not have an account who are keen on letting me know my accounts are in DANGER OF CLOSING. ?
“Close and be damned!”
They ramp up a bunch during tax season
Effective range of various shotgun loads:
I was watching some gun nut show a long time ago, and they were doing shotguns with slugs; it might have been something about deer hunting back east.
I think they were shooting targets at 100 yards or so (maybe a bit less). I was amazed by how accurate they were.
In Minnesoda, you can only use shotguns for deer in the south half of the state. Not 100% sure why, but those are the rules.
I grew up in the rifle zone, but still brought a shotgun and slugs along for when we would go on drives. Much easier (to me) to hit a running deer with your shotgun than a rifle.
The accuracy is even better if you get a rifled barrel for your shotgun.
Same in Wisconsin. The reason given (and its not bad) is that shotgun slugs will hit the ground after maybe a quarter mile, but rifle bullets can go 2 miles (something like that). There’s just too many people in farm/dairy country, especially during deer season, so its a safety measure. I never minded, really – most of the shooting was close enough that you didn’t need the extra range. I don’t think I ever passed up a shot because the deer was out of range.
My combat shotgun (18.5″ smoothbore) will ping the steel every time at 50 yards, shooting slugs offhand. I haven’t tried any further than that.
My deer shotgun (rifled barrel) will print 3 – 4″ groups at 100 yards, with the right load. Its crazy variable on what loads it likes. I’d have to redo it (try a bunch of different loads) to get it back to that level of accuracy.
The effective range of shotshells varies by weapon (and load), depending on the spread you get. I can get all 9 00 pellets on a torso at 20, maybe 25 yards, shooting Federal LE. Shooting regular 00, its more like 15 yards. If I could gte my mitts on the 8 pellet Federal LE 00, I could probably stretch that to 25+ yards.
The distance from my barricade location to the bedroom door is four yards. All the tests I’ve seen indicate birdshot will work just fine.
Hell, that’s headshot range (if need be).
Buckshot patterning.
I’m a little foggy now on the distance. I think the torso was 15 yards, the head was 10 yards, upper left was 7 yards, and upper right was 5 yards.
Also, 10 slugs from 50 yards.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Kids and dogs love one another, Thanks PJ
Wonderful!
We had a St. Bernard when I was a kid and my younger brother used to ride her like a horse.
Tragic
The European Union wants the United States’ help in kicking its addiction to Russian natural gas. But President Joe Biden faces big limits in what he can promise when he visits the continent this week.
Europe’s main request is more liquefied natural gas from the U.S., whose output of the fuel has surged over the past five years. But American gas exporters are already shipping their LNG overseas nearly as fast as they can, with little new capacity due to come online during the next two years. And Biden cannot command the activities of private oil and gas companies — who will typically sell their product wherever in the world they can fetch the highest price.
“Governments don’t make deals” when it comes to directing U.S. oil and gas resources to specific nations, said Amy Myers Jaffe, managing director of the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. “You don’t have government-to-government oil companies.”
They’re trying to find a way to rectify that, you can be certain of it.
“addiction”
We need to be weaned off of energy. Turn off the lights and stay home.
On this day in 1985.
+1 Vanity 6
Thought it was going to be one of these kinds of videos where you get pissed at what has been taken from us.
I am sure I was cutting class on this day in ’85.
I am also sure that I was not cutting it to go watch that. Not because I wouldn’t have dug that movie back then, but because it wouldn’t make it out to our movie theaters on the edge of the prairie until at least ’86.
Same. Senior year in the ’80s meant lots of fun and very little school.
My kids are still amazed that my HS had a smoking area for students and that we could leave for lunch.
Senior year in the 70s. Halter tops were in vogue. It was impossible to concentrate when spring arrived.
Ah, the joy of tube-tops and elephant flares.
1976!
I grew up in tourist trap (412 lakes within 25 miles). The reason we cut class was to go chase girls on the beaches.
Unfortunately the fashion in our school was bulky sweaters and wearing 2 or 3 izod polo shirts at once.
I fondly remember those skimpy, silky running shorts from the late 80s.
Boy howdy, do I remember those all too well.
No separate room for nursing mothers? TX was cutting edge
Also in 1985, the average mortgage interest rate was 12.96% which was down 4+ points since 1981.
Like buying a house on a credit card. I absolutely remember those days.
It was a great time to be stoking IRAs and savings accounts though.
The energy crisis for America’s cross-Atlantic allies is still forcing a shift in policies for the Biden administration, which had come into office pledging to drive a transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy. Republicans and European leaders alike are pushing the White House to use U.S. energy production as a way to help Germany and other countries reduce their dependency on Moscow.
Stick to your guns, Joe. You want to be on the right side of History, don’t you? Tell them suffering is necessary for the good of humanity.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx, but especially for the wonderful song. I wore out that record back in the day. A masterpiece.
Have a fantastic day, peeps!
So this is an interesting approach to reinstating some sense of accountability. Better than my fictional take.
Another person familiar with the conversations between the EU and the Biden administration agreed that Europe’s requests are vague. EU officials have pressed the Biden administration to ramp up U.S. production and exports, but the Biden administration contends there’s little it can do immediately since the government does not run the oil and gas sector.
“Europe’s big problem is the inability to articulate a realistic short-term energy security strategy within the boundaries of its decarbonization agenda,” said Nikos Tsafos, energy and geopolitics chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in an email. “The end result is that despite the enormous political will for change, there is no real roadmap to realize this change yet.”
Oh, come on. Wishful thinking is a time honored strategy.
“Europe’s big problem is that unicorn farts do not, in fact, exist.”
Gobbledygook bureaucratese adjusted for clarity.
The clue, its right there under your nose.
I’m prepping my sea shanties…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-bring-back-pirates-seize-russian-yachts
“Look at me, I am the captain now.”
Have fun, just remember, the captain goes down with the ship.
*leaps overboard before engine explodes*
In this day and age, I think the Captain goes down on the ship.
Good Ship Venus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU7NE-eh82I
Tamny nails some people squarely in the forehead.
There’s a solution to that problem, it’s called a “tariff”.
I have an uncle who worked at a Koch refinery for most of his career. He knows a LOT about oil. Not only how it is refined, but also how it is transported and the economics of it.
Very interesting to get his take on all this stuff. About 70% of what he says aligns with the general consensus stuff, but there are some interesting nuances he brings to the table.
For example, he was talking about how hard it was to refine (and transport via pipeline) the Canadian tar sands oil. It takes a lot to retrofit a refinery to handle that oil. Obviously the evil Koch brothers aren’t going to shell out a ton of money until they are sure that oil can be delivered.
Snow like hell here now but supposed to be short lived. Ins adjuster coming tomorrow, not sure what they can see or what the expertise in my damage is
The federal minimum wage is also an exercise in stupidity in so far as making $15/hour working for the USDA in Scott City, KS most likely means you’re a lot better off than making $15/hour working at a federal courthouse in SF or LA.
As a college dropout in Colorado, I got on a construction job which was subject to the Davis-Bacon rules. I was raking it in, for a while.
you’re a lot better off than making $15/hour working at a federal courthouse in SF or LA.
And not just because of the cost of living. Less likely to be assaulted, blinded, or burned. Or step in shit getting to work.
Well, the obvious problem to fix there is to not make it so expensive to live in SF or LA, duh. Why should a “living wage” change just because of location, the costs are all wrong!
“”We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Andrew M., as well as to the LGBTQIA community which advocates relentlessly to protect its youngest and most vulnerable members from such tragedies”
Jeebus, if I were an old skool gay activist from the 70s and 80s fighting to not be treated like shit by the genpop, I would be livid that the LGBTQ++++++ activist mafia has started proving every Religious Right conspiracy theory correct. I can’t imagine older gay, and even transgender, people are remotely supportive of this nightmare.
If anyone in the “LGB drop the T” crowd existed, you wouldn’t know about it since they’d be banned from mainstream discourse.
I still like “QUILTBAG”.
Interestingly, QUILTBAG is easy to get google results for. PANZIES… not so much. I’m sure there’s a perfectly algorithmic reason for this.
That’s the point though. LGBs are so integrated into society already that there would be no relevancy for the whole advocacy circus if the T was dropped.
To expand upon a comment in the dead thread. The BBC show This Country, has been remade into the Fox show Welcome To Flatch. Both shows are funny. The remake suffers from being remade by Paul Feig; casting is too pretty, and the camera angles are far too reminiscent of The Office. Also, a superfluous Jim & Pam type romance situation has been added. Overall both are worth checking out.
Newly Proposed Experiment Could Confirm that Information is Fifth State of Matter
The test he proposes is using particle-antiparticle collision and looking at the energy produced from the annihilation of the particles. Information should generate low energy photons, in addition to the expected gamma photons.
This really reminds me of the fictional physics described in Greg Bears’ “Quantum Logic” novels (Queen of Angels, Moving Mars).
the fifth element
So, he went there.
I didnt realize Queen on Angels was in same “universe”. Moving Mars is excellent. I think I started QoA 2 or 3 times but could never get into it.
Of his novels, Blood Music seems appropriate for last 2 years.
Canada’s Trudeau strikes surprise deal to keep power until 2025
Canada getting der Fuhrer Trudeau good and hard.
Evidently Trudeau has been in charge since 2015?
“The deal does not create a formal coalition and the New Democrats will not be part of Trudeau’s cabinet.”