And I’m still trying to figure out this Cower In Place deal here. SP and I went out for an expedition today, traffic was heavy, parking lots were full, lots of people were walking around. Construction is still going on all around us, with new houses, office buildings, and shopping areas springing up seemingly overnight. We started to feel sorry for the folks in more obedient areas, but we talked ourselves out of that. Arizonans by and large are giving the government a prickly and overly hot middle finger.
Birthdays today include an actor who was big in the #Resist movement; one of my favorite historians; a woman with a really shitty sense of direction; a statesman with a legendary name; and a mediocrity who was the butt of my all-time favorite joke (“Well, stop fookin’ doin’ that!”).
News next. But first… a reminder. The panic has fucked up the lives of millions all over the world. And some of them are trying to run subsistence businesses, create wealth, and provide goods and services to their communities. The greatest support we can give these people is small loans. And the best way to get small loans to the people who need it most is through Kiva. Here’s the link to the Glibertarians’ Kiva Lending Team. Click it and do good.
“Putting a boot on the faces of the citizens is OUR job, Tonto.”
I’ve seen this movie. It sucked.
Amash vs Vermin Supreme. Discuss.
The future of Branson (“The town where everyone you thought was dead has a theater.”).
At first I thought this was the dumbest thing I ever read. Then I saw the writer’s affiliation and changed “dumb” to “mendacious and self-serving.”
Old Guy Music today is a sad one for me. I’ve been a fan of Richie Cole’s for the last 50 years or so, and even got to meet him and chat a bit (OK, he was in the next urinal, but still). Brilliant, high energy, and distinctive playing- you’d never mistake him for someone else. And now he’s gone.
Oh, and check out Bobby Enriquez on this clip. He may be the only pianist who could keep up.
“Birthdays today include an actor who was big in the #Resist movement”
I’m starting to think we need more actors like that.
Not that I have anything against Lincoln. Sure, he did a bunch of un-libertarian things. The Civil War was bad, but it wasn’t so uncivil you couldn’t go to church.
Fuck Lincoln and the hero worship for him. The precedents he set are the basis for all of our rights abuse today
So how would you have proceeded in his shoes?
The same way I would precede today if CA seceeded.
Send out the dont let the door hit your ass proclamation.
Be careful what you wish for. Can you imagine Shia Lebeouf or Chelsea Handler with loaded guns and training in their use?
No, which is why I didn’t bother with that ww2 movie that tried to pass off the former as a 1000 yard stare battle hardened vet.
That woman likes her some freedom, and isn’t afraid to kick the teeth in of any group that threatens it, even a “protected” one.
I’m really starting to like her.
I agree with Shpip. I thought OMWC’s take was off, SD’s governor is pretty decent compared to the rest and is taking a lot of grief for it from the press and other Gauleiters.
Am I the only one who thinks of this Kiva?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457856/
OMG, I haven’t thought of “Up the Down Staircase” in years. That book was one of the first adult books I read. A formative influence as it were.
This was one of the first adult books I read, along with Ian Fleming’s Bond books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh4Wcftmfrg
Adult books = Tijuana 8 pagers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_bible
/Young Fourscore
Never read it. I only know it via the Mad Magazine parody – In The Out Exit; which was quite good.
Yes, it was one of the first adult books I read as well. It was written in an interesting format, most of the story progressed by you reading the school memos, interoffice communications and hall passes that crossed the protagonist teacher’s desk, interspersed with her letters to a friend which helped with exposition. Naive young idealistic woman teacher meets heavily bureaucratic school in a poor urban district.
I specifically remember two things, the first being the teacher not recognizing how her students would respond to the line “a poem is a mighty frigate” (they thought it sounded more like a word for a bundle of sticks). The second, a high school girl with a crush on a dreamy male teacher sends him a love letter, which he returns corrected for spelling and grammar… leading her to suicide.
I’ve been a fan of Richie Cole’s for the last 50 years or so, and even got to meet him and chat a bit (OK, he was in the next urinal, but still).
You tapped your feet, I presume?
OMWC just has a wide stance, that’s all.
“Racist films himself wearing SWASTIKA mask at grocery store in ‘protest over lockdown’ just days after man wore a KKK hood to shop in same California town
A California man sported a Nazi Swastika flag on his mask while grocery shopping in the same town where a man wore a KKK hood in another store, in an apparent jab at Governor Gavin Newsom.
Dustin Hart, who goes by Dusty Shekel on social media, posted a 14-minute clip of his encounter in a Santee Food 4 Less on Bit Chute – a video hosting platform that appeals to the far right and conspiracy theorists.”
It doesn’t sound like he’s racist. It sounds like he is calling the Governor a nazi.
Yep. Mendacious reporting seems to be the theme this morning.
That is what he’s doing and whoever penned that article is a fucking retard.
Or as TH points just a liar although not a particularly good one.
One of them is wearing a Pepe shirt. It’s obvious trolling.
OFFS.
Gotta keep the mommies scared of the boogeyman (who also happens to be the competition).
mommies=normies, damn autocorrect
To be fair, it’s the soccer mom Karen types who are scared of this bogeyman too.
He may not be a racist but he’s still a cunt, he was asked to remove the flag mask or leave and refused.
“Protester Wears Nazi Mask, Refuses to Leave Store” would have been more accurate but that doesn’t rack up the outrage clicks.
^This^
When a property owner asks you to leave the property, leave immediately.
The thing I don’t get is why the protesters adopt the signs of those they’re protesting against. Wouldn’t yellow stars, pink triangles, and other forced identifications of the ‘sub-humans’ get the point across better?
It is odd but I don’t seek attention so what do I know.
If he really wants to put Newsom on the spot as a nazi, doesn’t he wear a mask with a yellow star of David?
[mutters to self, read the WHOLE sub-thread before posting]
Identifying someone by the term “Racist”, as in “Racist films himself” is really bad journalism, unless one has mind reading powers, or the individual self-identifies that way.
We saw this before where the Michigan protests equated the government with Nazis and signs were Photoshopped to make it seem like they were pro-Nazi. It must have gone out on Journalo-List.
Definitely not “accidental”.
Remember Richmond…. I was watching CNN looping a clash of protesters over and over. NBC had the same loop… a group of black-clad faux paramilitary gear wearing punks with a giant wedge-shaped shield made of two sheets of heavy plywood connected by a set of hinges. They were pushing their way into a group of dudes from the local walmart, yelling and threatening them as they pushed into the group.
Both networks repeatedly described them as Nazi white supremacists who are protesting the removal of racist civil war statues. They spent quite a bit of time saying “look at them – dressed like the Nazi SS and attacking peaceful protesters!” Closer inspection showed their shield to have the label ANTIFA in large letters. What the heck is that? I thought. Google told me…. and a media narrative was born.
They really didn’t give a crap at all. They seemed to have the story they were running with before the events had even happened.
It has been the same for every story between then and now. You rarely see the name Balsey-Ford without the word “credible” close by.
They seem to be doing this with the shooting in Georgia. I have not seen much coverage – but the wife has it on CNN 24/7 and she’s convinced that they are Klan members. Which, they might be. But there are next to zero actual Klan members, so that would be pretty amazing. But from the jump they had “black dude” and “white southern dude” and “Klan” was the next word from their lips. So even if they get it right from time to time, it is a broken clock syndrome, not good reporting.
Their command and control structure would make an excellent PhD thesis for some poly-sci major. The level of discipline they exhibit these days is amazing. Not one single story about Reade for 2 weeks…. not until the NYT did their infamous “debunking” story where they only managed to confirm the contemporaneous telling of the tale, the employment retaliation and “other than the women who came forward to complain about being touched in ways that made them uncomfortable, there have been no similar complaints”. Since then… near radio silence, despite the fact that we’ve heard from her dead mom on Larry King Live in the same month that she quit her Senate job, her neighbor who said she heard the story within a year or so, and her ex husband via his court filings a couple of years later. Really? A quick search of CNN shows they have run 709 articles about Christine Blasey-Ford. It took them 2 weeks to mention Reade’s name.. and that was only to report that the NYT had debunked the story. We are currently at 37 for Reade… about 2/3 of which are articles about people announcing that they believe Biden, another 20% are articles about republican plots or conservatives pushing stories and some debunking angle. The remaining bit seem to be think pieces trying to justify the media’s suppression of the story. “She deserves to be heard… but there’s no credible evidence” combined with “the Senate is blocking this, what are ya gonna do??”
Here’s a nice example of CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/politics/tara-reade-1993-joe-biden-complaint/index.htmlhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/politics/tara-reade-1993-joe-biden-complaint/index.html
They go to extensive efforts to “prove” that Reade is lying about filing a complaint about Biden. You see, the people she says she told in Biden’s office deny that they heard any complaint (and by extension, deny that they covered up such complaints on a routine basis). They say that the fact that her friend told her to file a complaint at the time and agreed to be contacted about it – but was not contacted – is proof that no such complaint was made.
Impressive mental gymnastics.
Meanwhile, the first couple of pages of results about Blasey-Ford include several articles about how the FBI investigation of her claims was a sham…. even those written a year after the confirmation was over… still trying to prove that the FBI covered up proof that he gang-raped women on a boat on a regular basis.
Any solution must start with bipartisan support for immediate, urgently-needed aid in the next round of federal stimulus funding.
Ultimately, however, it will take more than just a temporary infusion of cash. One option might be long-term public financing for local journalism. For example, the federal government could establish a fund to support newsrooms and prevent layoffs so that journalists can continue to tell the stories of their communities and hold the powerful to account. The fund would reinforce the existence of private-sector journalism for news deserts (areas without robust local news coverage) in all 50 states.
That’s a long winded “GIMMEE”.
State funded press always gives you the unvarnished truth as well.
Critically, the fund should ensure recipients remain independent from partisan influence, with guidance on journalistic ethics from organizations like the Society of Professional Journalists. Media organizations that receive public funding like PBS and NPR, while still routinely producing coverage critical of the entire political spectrum, show that this nonpartisan approach to journalism can work.
Skeptics will call these kinds of proposals “unprecedented.” If that’s the strongest criticism that can be made, then I invite the cynics to look at everything going on across our nation and ask if now is truly the time to shackle ourselves to precedent. None of us should feel comfortable imagining a world without a strong, healthy, independent local news sector.
Stronger together. You know, like a bundle of sticks.
Media organizations that receive public funding like PBS and NPR, while still routinely producing coverage critical of the entire political spectrum,
Assumes facts not in evidence.
No shit, they’re as biased as they come.
Let a thousand Pravdas bloom.
@GT
I’m pretty sure we have the right Janet identified and she is exactly the demographic we would have guessed. A well off privileged person who has not suffered a bit in the shutdown.
She’s suffering too: that 900,000 dollar house she’s holed up in only has a .29 acre lot so she must be feeling cooped up.
With any luck, the summer home on the lake has more room to spread out and relax.
“Racist films himself wearing SWASTIKA mask at grocery store in ‘protest over lockdown’”
If you’re using a swastika as a pejorative then how the hell is that racist? Maybe it’s in poor taste but the media really should be more careful tossing around accusations.
It’s intentional misdirection on the part of the media.
Even if someone was wearing a swastika mask or Klan hood unironically, ohmygodwhothehellcares.gif
In case you missed it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8303373/Little-Richard-dead-87-Rock-music-legend-Good-Golly-Miss-Molly-passes-away.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8303903/Demi-Moore-pays-tribute-Little-Richard-sharing-wedding-day-photo-Bruce-Willis.html
“We are strongest when we work together; this includes our battle against COVID-19,” Noem said in a statement. “I request that the tribes immediately cease interfering with or regulating traffic on US and State Highways and remove all travel checkpoints.”
Those roads pass through the reservations. There isn’t a readily available alternative. Keep them open.
If some third party attempts to stop me on a state highway….it isn’t going to end well.
It ain’t just NY & NE that are feeling the lingering cold. SW Ohio is feeling it too. Makes me wonder what’s in store for regional fruit and vegetable crops. It may not be just meat that’s in short supply and more expensive in the coming months.
I texted my sisters a photo of the snow squall that passed through yesterday afternoon. Both of them responded with pictures of them out on their patios.
One of them lives in Minnesoda.
I responded to the one living in the Dallas area that I didn’t want to hear her complain when it’s 110 in July.
A blizzard here yesterday, about 3-4 hours of that heavy wet snow that just floated down. Trees and grass were white, looked like November. Fishing season started and the cold and wet fisher folks couldn’t even hit a bar/restaurant/coffee shop for a warm up. My garden is on vacation ’til next week. Only radishes there anyway and they don’t mind.
When it hits 85 here in July I’ll be complaining but not too much
You have the mosquitoes to complain about, too.
And deer flies and wood ticks. Keeps those CA carpetbaggers from coming back though
BREAKING: CHINA IS ASSHOLE
“China’s president Xi Jinping ‘personally asked WHO to hold back information about human-to-human transmission and delayed the global response by four to six WEEKS’ at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, bombshell report claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8304471/Chinas-president-Xi-Jinping-personally-requested-delay-COVID-19-pandemic-warning.html
Looks like we were right to defund the WHO then, for this among other things.
Why are you questioning the abilities of a global organisation that has the mission to stop pandemics and disease, if there’s a pandemic. What were they supposed to do?
It’s funny that if the WHO wasn’t a globalist non profit, I think that it would be ok to criticize it.
Yet the US is wrong and anti-scientific when we don’t want to participate in the WHO shit-show.
Despite the WHO’s apparent deference to traditional Chinese medicine.
+1 bowl of bat soup
Mike Rowe is a national treasure and has done more for the “workers of the world” than Communism ever has or ever will.
Those workers were essential heroes on the front lines until state governors put a gun to the employers’ heads and said no, those workers aren’t essential.
That has chapped my hide too – “non-essential”. What bullshit. Who anointed the governor to deem what is essential and what isn’t? Leaving aside the question of legitimate authority to do so, what exact criteria went into this categorization?
They have to label broad swaths of the economy as “non-essential” in order to claim that re-openers are selfish by wanting to endanger public health. You’ll never see them acknowledge the real pain of former haircutters and restaurant employees.
“Learn to COVID”?
Lest we forget – “‘You want to go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker’” – Cuomo
That was the crowning stupidity IMO. Particularly the “you won’t be killing people”. How the fuck does anyone listen to that and not conclude the man is insane?
no one wants to be told they don’t matter. And that’s what we’re doing when we draw the line between essential and nonessential.
OFFS there are plenty legitimate criticisms of the “lockdown”. Hurting people’s pride isn’t one of them. Truth is no person is essential, everyone can be replaced, and some jobs are more important than others.
Personally, I could do with a whole lot less of the nonstop “hero” worship of those who happen to have chosen those “essential” jobs.
Replaced because you lack the skills or the know how…sure. Told you are non-essential at the behest of the government because of FYTW is a different story.
Certainly the Government shouldn’t be telling anyone that they can’t work, but just because they shouldn’t be making that distinction doesn’t mean that the distinction doesn’t exist. How many of the “Every Job is Essential” crowd would have raised an eyebrow two months ago at the notion that the gender studies major conducting sensitivity training seminars should go do something useful. How many times to we bitch that this politician or that activist has never held a “real job” in his life.
Take away the government incentives, from consequence-free student loans to lawsuits over “discriminatory” hiring practices and “wrongful” terminations, and see if all those jobs continue to exist.
What we are seeing now is the government using “essential” as a designation to forcibly shut down what the market demands.
You are not comparing apples to apples imho. Gender studies sensitivity seminars were and always will be backed by government institutions and is a creation of said institutions. They are not a market created need. They are fabricated out of thin air by the same people who say the waitress who provides a service that people are willing to pay for in a market that has nothing to do with government creating her job now can’t work because she is deemed non essential. Same goes for “community organizers” who get their financial backing from government grants given by people who think some community needs some organizing. If there was a need for said community to organize it would organize organically free of government deciding it is a need.
Fair enough, however even among purely market driven jobs there is a hierarchy of importance, if we consider it important to keep our quality and way of life, that is. Without an agricultural industry we could go back to hunting and gathering, people doing their own sustenance farming and whatnot, so while not essential to human survival agriculture is important*, less so the guy selling blow jobs behind the 7-11.
*and that’s not to say any particular farmer is important or worthy of some kind of hero status just that farmers and farming in general are important to our modern way of life.
We don’t have a 7-11.
Isn’t the importance of a job best measured by what it pays?
Why not just tell everyone making below $X their job is insufficiently important, and will be eliminated?
Something can be important and still be abundant, in which case it won’t pay as much as something less important but far more scarce.
I am glad he jumped in about it. Me ranting at a very local level about the bullshit moniker of non-essential just doesn’t have the same weight.
“Amash debated four other candidates looking to become the Libertarian party’s presidential nominee”
But no need to mention their names.
He’s not going to say things that makes the establishment uncomfortable, so he can be mentioned.
The generation that protested the draft and the Viet Nam War is now content to be muzzled and collect those SS checks. Maybe even more than muzzled, hysterical.
I am disappointed in my unquestioning friends that have totally succumbed to the government. Some (most) of my younger relatives are the biggest adherents and nearly all the older ones are supporters of the edicts.
“Home of the Brave, Land of the Free” ?
There are still some outliers but not many. Government education has been a success…
Grateful for my Glib friends, lends a little dignity to humanity
It looks like many of them are happy to do the muzzling by ratting out their neighbors and whatnot. I can sympathize somewhat because this really is an existential threat for old folks but they should be OK with other people getting on with living.
Are those Staatssicherheitsdienst checks, or Schutzstaffel checks?
It’s a cliche, but nonetheless true: my politics haven’t changed much since 1970. But what were once liberal viewpoints (anti-war, don’t trust the government, 1A absolutism) are now considered far right.
True
So much this. I brought this up in a discussion about our upcoming 50 yr. reunion in October (which I am now informed may be postponed because reasons). It was not well received.
My son was a typical rebellious teenager, (in other words a teenager). He and a few of his classmates had their informal group called “The Outsiders”. Few jocks, few honor rollers. When it came time for the Senior Prom “The Outsiders” rented a private venue and not a school function. Everyone attended.
Maybe, possibly, there was drinking, smoking, going on in the parking lot? Naw, couldn’t be.
Living in Austin, now he’s busy giving me advice. I ignore him, as he ignored me 40 years ago.
Heh. I make it a point to ignore advice – brings out the rebellious teenager in me.
The Durant’s provided my first introduction to history. When my Dad died (years ago), their books were the only items I requested – used to home school our youngest son.
Not taking our advice is genocide
Key health agencies remain relegated to the background. Some congressional requests for health officials’ testimony are being rejected. And though the task force is still intact, it has not held a press briefing for 13 days — the longest the public has gone without having Anthony Fauci or Deborah Birx at the White House podium since the briefings began in late February.
“It’s a blind spot that the federal government doesn’t see this first and foremost as a public health crisis,” said Joshua Sharfstein, a public health professor at Johns Hopkins University. “This is the public health crisis of the century, and we’re sometimes treating it as anything but.”
The broader turn away from the health issues at the core of such an all-encompassing national emergency is just the latest chapter in a communications strategy that’s long confounded and frustrated public health experts.
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Key health agencies remain relegated to the background. Some congressional requests for health officials’ testimony are being rejected. And though the task force is still intact, it has not held a press briefing for 13 days — the longest the public has gone without having Anthony Fauci or Deborah Birx at the White House podium since the briefings began in late February.
“It’s a blind spot that the federal government doesn’t see this first and foremost as a public health crisis,” said Joshua Sharfstein, a public health professor at Johns Hopkins University. “This is the public health crisis of the century, and we’re sometimes treating it as anything but.”
The broader turn away from the health issues at the core of such an all-encompassing national emergency is just the latest chapter in a communications strategy that’s long confounded and frustrated public health experts.
That’s it, then. The government (which means exactly whatever we decide, to suit our purposes)) has decided to not consider this a public health emergency. By not listening to the public health experts, President Cartoon Villain has killed us all, just as surely as if he had launched the entire nuclear arsenal. Millions will die, every week, until he can be removed from office and be replaced with a Democrat. Only then will we be safe and healthy again.
“And though the task force is still intact, it has not held a press briefing for 13 days — the longest the public has gone without having Anthony Fauci or Deborah Birx at the White House podium since the briefings began in late February.”
I’m thinking that’s because they can’t defend their position.
“It’s a blind spot that the federal government doesn’t see this first and foremost as a public health crisis,” said Joshua Sharfstein, a public health professor at Johns Hopkins University. “This is the public health crisis of the century, and we’re sometimes treating it as anything but.”
Public Health nanny public healths some more, cries because the world doesn’t see everything as only about his profession. In other news, water is wet.
This is the public health crisis of the century
Well if this minor, very flu-like pandemic is as bad as it gets, I guess we’re gonna be all right.
If public health crises are anything like extreme weather, we are in for a rough time. We’ve already had
twofiveten storms of the century!Wait ’til the droughts hit! Dust Bowl/desertification/starvation
The real crisis will be the economic destruction wrought up this great land. The solution will be print to those dollars/digits. Works every time.
The press hate the briefings, boycotts, the briefings – where are the briefings!
Media organizations that receive public funding like PBS and NPR, while still routinely producing coverage critical of the entire political spectrum, show that this nonpartisan approach to journalism can work.
Ha! Please show me this “routine” critical coverage of team blue.
I’ve heard it on NPR.
Of course, the criticism is that they’re not far left enough.
You have a point.
UK govt manages to casually commit to spending £2bn on coercing people into riding bikes and crowding onto public transport to commute because…
Because they wanted it all along and the hand holding the purse has let loose its grip.
Gold star for you.
The thing I don’t get is why the protesters adopt the signs of those they’re protesting against. Wouldn’t yellow stars, pink triangles, and other forced identifications of the ‘sub-humans’ get the point across better?
That is a very good question. Maybe we should all put numbers on our forearms with a magic marker.
That’d get the anti defamation league in an uproar.
In other, “too local” news – I GOT A HAIR APPOINTMENT!!! I GOT A HAIR APPOINTMENT!!!
My stylist texted me yesterday, and she set me up for the 21st Only six weeks late. Getting harder & harder to hide those ghastly gray roots.
I intend to tip her VERY generously.
You didn’t like my Krylon suggestion?
While I’m sincerely grateful for your concern….no.
Bristling with rage. Trigger warning: shitty cops – lots of them.
linky no worky
Worked for me.
It does for me 🙁
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/09/in-london-today-the-police-behaved-disgracefully/
Strange that it works for y’all but not me, maybe it’s an iPad thing. Anyway, this is no big deal and the cops are just following orders which is a fine and well established excuse.
It must be a day ending in Y
Disgusting.
Brit finally figures out that the police in his country are fussy Dolores Umbridge types with a penchant for rules and conformity.
O’Neill? I think he’s been pretty anti-cop for a while, generally speaking? Or me?
And a dad playing football with his toddler. ‘Aren’t we allowed to exercise?’, the dad asked. ‘For one hour’, came the reply.
Just like in prison.
The law is what we say it is, based on our emotional state on any given day
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said a state commission has the authority to prohibit firearms in the Capitol, if it chooses to do so.
Nessel said that authority is “consistent with the current state of the law regarding firearms in public buildings” and an informational letter sent to Speaker Chatfield in 2018.
“The Capitol is a place for free expression of thought and debate, but the freedom of civil discourse does not imply the right to threaten others with harm or violence,” Nessel said. “In our current environment and as the chief law enforcement officer in this state, I am gravely concerned for the safety of both our legislative members and the public at large.
“With exceptions to those tasked with protecting our Capitol, the only way to assure that a violent episode does not occur is to act in concert with the many other state legislatures around the nation that have banned firearms in their Capitol facilities. The employees at our Capitol and members of the public who visit are entitled to all the same protections as one would have at a courthouse and many other public venues. Public safety demands no less, and a lawmaker’s desire to speak freely without fear of violence requires action be taken.”
The Commission, which manages the Capitol grounds and building, is made up of the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, two individuals jointly appointed by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House, and two individuals appointed by the governor.
Nessel wrote in her letter to commissioners that they have the legal authority to ensure the “safety of the visiting public, as well as those who carry out the people’s work by prohibiting firearms within the Capitol building.”
Nessel said the regulation of firearms generally stems from state statute, but the prohibition of firearms from public spaces does not need to originate from the Legislature.
MUH FEELZ!
We can’t wait. Who cares what the “people” think?
What if you’re carrying a firearm to prevent being brutalized by the police because that really does seem to be a legitimate concern.
but the prohibition of firearms from public spaces does not need to originate from the Legislature.
That word you keep using [law], I do not think it means what you think it does.
It means “whatever the governor says”, because she’s the governor, duh…
It’s not a law, it’s a ukase.
They are acting like their credibility is bulletproof. At some point they are going to push too far and ‘law’ won’t mean shit. I think they are dangerously close to that point now but they cant see it.
Governors: YOU TOLD US THE WORST CASE SCENARIOS WERE FULL PROOF!
Haha, so crazy
With thousands of cops out sick, cocky criminals on the loose, and people running out of money for food and rent because of COVID-19, the Rosario sisters of Staten Island want to arm themselves for what they fear could be a coming crime surge.
Nicole Rosario, 35, a stay-at-home mother, is angry that she can’t get a gun.
“It’s my constitutional right,” she said. “But that doesn’t seem to matter. I live in New York which means it’s impossible. That’s crazy and unfair.”
The FBI reported a 300 percent increase in gun sales across the country in March, compared to the same period a year ago. But New Yorkers are shut out, with the Empire State one of only five states where gun stores have closed, despite recent guidelines issued by the Department of Homeland Security saying they should be considered essential business.
And forget about even applying for a firearm permit in NYC; the NYPD has closed its licensing office.
Who cares what happens to the little people? We have a public health crisis to capitalize on.
The people are getting what they voted for… STEVE SMITH style.
Mencken, something, something good and hard.
That is the quote I was referring to…updated for Glibs
To be fair, they are getting what their parents voted. I don’t think there has been a pro-gun candidate running for a long time.
This is what my pops would call a ‘teachable moment.’
When they start to say things like ‘we can’t afford to let ‘X’ die’ you know you can safely let it die.
Global Warming link: Am I looking at a photo of a guy outside in his garden by himself wearing a mask?
*facepalm*
There’s some kind of scam going on. They’re lying to people about this SCAMFAKEDEMIC.
A nurse speaks out about hospitals not being overwhelmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQJMhdYN3A
And yet here’s this moron Chris Sununu:
“I guess if you’re asking for the rationale for keeping the order in place, I would challenge you to tell me what’s the rationale for undoing the order?” Sununu responded.”
How’s that for circular logic? It’s not the question you smart-aleck.
“Because when you undo the order, you’re going to potentially create another surge. We put that order in place and had great success with it, given that we’re effectively a suburb of Boston,” Sununu said. “And while one death is too many, We’ve been able to keep our fatalities…at a relatively low level compared to our neighbor to the south.”
Waves!
“…tell me what’s the rationale for undoing the order?”
It’s illegal? You dont have the authority to put it in place to begin with? More people will die with it in place than with it not?
I could keep going….
These anticipated waves are the gift that keep on giving, now to see if they really happen.
They don’t even need it to happen. Just wait for flu season to show up, and attribute flu deaths to COVID like they’re already doing.
It’ll be interesting in the future time when they drill down into the numbers and adjust them downward considerably. Providing a federal financial incentive for a covid diagnosis was an enormous mistake.
That’s my worry. They’re clearly stringing this along. And when flu season hits….TA-DAH! SEE?! WAVES!
At this point, you’re nothing but a complete fucken tool to go along with it. If I see someone in a mask, I see tool. Useful idiot.
A coward even.
Yeh, yeh. Granny must die.
Had you seen someone wearing a mask back in Feb you, your friends and all the neighborhood kids would have pointed and laughed.
Yet, here we are…
I still think that wearing a mask is a good idea in places where high-risk people have to go.
Sure. Not for me though.
And while one death is too many
OK governor, so you are going to disarm all of the law enforcement agents in your state next?
Or do you offer the coronavirus qualified immunity?
““I guess if you’re asking for the rationale for keeping the order in place, I would challenge you to tell me what’s the rationale for undoing the order?” Sununu responded.””
WTF??
Jobs? We don’t need no stinkin jobs
A California Democrat seemed less than upset Saturday night at the news that entrepreneur Elon Musk planned to pull much of his company Tesla – along with an unspecified number of jobs — out of the state over coronavirus shutdown rules that have stalled the automaker’s operations.
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego appeared to be saying something along the lines of “Good riddance” – except she didn’t exactly use those words.
“F— Elon Musk,” was Gonzalez’s brief response on Twitter.
Those people should have good jobs. Government jobs for everyone!
That’s the idiot who came up with that law ruining free lance.
Why would she care?
She’s an evil twat.
I love her. I want her to give the state everything she possibly can. I want those stupid motherfuckers who voted for her to get every last bit they deserve.
The people who work for Musk must vote for republicans/ sour grapes.
Soccer Feminists Oppress Themselves… How To Fix It | Andrew Schulz
Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL2nBJaxjBI
i have to admit, “lasses on grasses, chicks between stick, bitches on pitches” amused me
Saw that the other day.
‘Panama….that’s not a country….it’s a short cut.’
Gold, Jerry. Gold!
LOL!
“Please, steal these jobs!”
They’d rather argue about the last contract than make a deal on a new one.
“I guess if you’re asking for the rationale for keeping the order in place, I would challenge you to tell me what’s the rationale for undoing the order?” Sununu responded.”
“I’m still getting paid. There’s food on my table, and a roof over my head. What are you whining about?”
So the peony thingies in mom’s gsrden are almost done so the flower of the week is i dont know what you americans call these
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nUL7uzaI_6nhBUgBRBVaVFz-e0bvnEnb/view?usp=drivesdk
But is a damn nice day in old Bucharest. Warm sunny but not hot 25 good hinest degrees. Last week of full quarantine, followed by partial quarantine.
Sort of like an iris i suppose…
They look exactly like irises (iri?) to me. Pretty!
Closeup
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ndk0-hWYgYJDXX1rUY73cmPD4UmekUM0/view?usp=drivesdk
Also closeup
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ne9Ayfmy0k3fZiW2n8NqW3B5DVxrpyhU/view?usp=drivesdk
Also the first of what next week will be many, a flower called in romanian, to use a literal translation, lion mouth
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nvvyyrlWxKH3ycQCMedCLPygLsdtvwqM/view?usp=drivesdk
In the US – at least in my neck of the woods (Great Lakes region) – we call them snapdragons. They’re fun to play with (gently) – if you squeeze them from the sides, their little “mouths” open.
snapdragons – I suspected but did not want to presume
So, like Girl Scouts, then.
Re Musk leaving. Where would he go? I’d take it to a Red state that isn’t acting like an idiot. South Dakota for example. Texas went along with the shut down and is keeping it in place so is it an option?
Texas seems to have really shown it’s KQ during the China Crisis. Is it closer to turning blue than previously thought?
What’s Idaho been up to? I haven’t been paying attention.
“What’s Idaho been up to?”
Still free for now, but turning into another suburb of California fairly rapidly.
So shifting hundreds (?) of Tesla employees and potentially shifting workforces adjunct to Tesla’s operation, with potentially for a new mini-SV style concentration of such industry in ID, would potentially accelerate that? How badly do the UAW have his nuts in a vise?
Not sure about the UAW, but Silicon Valley types are a harbinger of destruction. Denver-Boulder, Colorado became a mini-SV about 10 years ago and that, along with richie riches in the resort towns, is what transformed CO from solid red to blue-tinged purple. Boulder and Denver have always been blue, but the massive influx of “young, hip, tech employees”, y’know the type Richard Florida gets all hard for, turned them from sky blue to phthalo blue.
Don’t know, but it’s one of the states Californians are moving to in the greatest numbers. Not sure if their plan is to assimilate or conquer.
Why should they assimilate to the barbarity of Idaho?
I believe it’s another case of unprincipled Karens escaping the taxation-regulation hell they voted for only to stuff the ballot boxes blue and visit that hell on wherever they land. They’re like a plague of locusts.
Texas is has already opened up a lot.
That’s good news, but my buddy in Fort Worth tells me that a lot of places have been gun-shy in re-opening, choosing to play it “safe” instead. His sphere of awareness is mostly in the bluer communities in Tarrant County, though. I don’t know what it’s like further out in the suburbs, or generally in DFW.
Slutty Sunday looks forward to seeing more ladies out and about in such a condition.
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Hey computer geeks. Why do I get a Error 1001 Ray ID when I try to see Q’s links now. This is new.
You’re not gay enough?
Probably DNS problems.
How do I fix it? I have tits to look at here. This is near emergency.
Recreating Leah Chase’s Gumbo from Taste | Bon Appétit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrqxqR4bJo
Now I like the Bon Appétit channel. But what I found strange in this one is that the guy in the beginning thought it may be jambalaya. As a Romanian who never had the real thing and has a limited knowledge of USistanian cuisine, I found that strange, as even I knew jambalaya is not that soupy. And it seems the comments agree.
That is gumbo. Jambalaya is a kind of rice dish and not soupy at all.
Just for everyone’s information my wife makes the best gumbo in Louisiana. Mine is pretty good but she hits it out of the park every damned time. Now if you wanna talk sauce picante mine is the bestest by a long shot.
Just for everyone’s information my wife makes the best gumbo in Louisiana – not the best in the world, which tells me the bets gumbo is made outside Louisiana
Does she ship frozen quarts?
Gooble gobble, gooble gobble
The staggering economic toll of COVID-19 is ramping up pressure on government officials at every level to ease the pain and stop the bleeding. More than 30 states have begun loosening social distancing restrictions and business closures despite warnings from public health officials.
President Trump has been the chief proponent of reopening an economy that was once seen as his strongest argument for reelection.
“People want to come back. I think everybody in this room realizes we have to come back; otherwise, you have a broken country,” Trump said in remarks Friday before a meeting with congressional Republicans at the White House.
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But Democrats, including presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, have blamed Trump’s response to the pandemic for exacerbating the economic damage of COVID-19. In a Friday speech, Biden charged that Trump “utterly failed to prepare us for this pandemic and delayed in taking the necessary steps to safeguard our nation”
“COVID-19 caused massive economic challenges, but this crisis hit harder and will last longer because Donald Trump spent the last three years undermining the core pillars of our economic strength,” Biden said.
What the everloving fuck is that even supposed to mean?
Joe doesn’t know. He’s just trying his best to keep the words he was told to say in proper order.
“spent the last three years undermining the core pillars of our economic strength”
To be sure. Y’know, record low unemployment across multiple demographics, record DJIA, record consumer confidence; sure sounds like undermining to me.
By golly, I bet we’d still have a great economy if the government hadn’t panicked over a flu-bug and manufactured Great Depression II.
He didn’t take us full socialist right away.
Awesome.
You know, the core pillars of our economic strength: Unions, government regulation, illegal immigration, and free stuff. Do you even economics, bro?
“Donald Trump spent the last three years undermining the core pillars of our economic strength”
Uh…wut?
“[Pepe the] frog has become increasingly associated with alt-right imagery and anti-Semitic and racist ideology.”
Ummm… since when? My recollection is that it’s associated with internet shitposters.
since when – ever since vice and buzzfeed wrote the first articles about it.
Re Musk leaving. Where would he go?
In the tweet, he said Nevada or Texas. Let the bidding commence.
Bucharest
Somalia?
With the Casinos in limbo…Nevada should be jumping at the bit for him to come here. But our guv is a proxy to Newsom so probably Texas
Shorter Hill article:
WHER MUH BAILOUT?
More:
Caitlin Rivers, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, warned lawmakers Thursday that not a single state has seen COVID-19 cases decline at the pace needed to pull back on social distancing.
That quandary frightens both economists and public health officials, who broadly agree that a premature loosening of restrictions could fuel a surge in cases that will plunge the country deeper into crisis.
“It’s no longer an option for us to just go about things the way we used to,” Sojourner said, adding that reopening the economy should not depend on “which business owner is most desperate for cash” and “which worker’s family is most desperate for cash and health insurance.”
“If we’re allowing that to drive the decisions, we’re going to end up making the public health crisis worse,” he added.
If it saves one life.
We’ll fight this no matter what it costs you.
…which changes as often as necessary.
You didn’t check with Greta?
“We’ll fight this no matter what it costs you.”
I have been harping on it throughout, I know I get repetitive, but it just continually astounds me how I cannot find a single Lockdownista who as far as I can tell is actually suffering. The people I see in my personal life cheering it are all either professionals who are working from home with no pay cut, government workers who have no pay cut, or retail peon types who are making almost as much or even more money with the federal 600 bucks a week.
I don;t know a single person who is actually financially suffering from the lockdown supporting it. Not a single one. Maybe yall have some in your circles. But to me, its just so insanely starkly divided. No one in my life thats actually making a sacrifice supports the sacrifice, and no one in my life supporting the sacrifice is actually sacrificing anything. I know people who are not suffering (yet……) who oppose it, but I cannot find me one of my friends, family, and acquaintances who are actually watching their paychecks disappear and their business spiral who says “Well, this has to be done to stop COVID. This is necessary, we will have to pick up the pieces as best we can.”
My close friend is a big Lockdownista….he still gets his six figure salary.
He’s coming to ‘accept’ the economy has to open but he doesn’t *understand* why because….EXISTENTIAL THREAT.
Bucharest
Get your checkbook out. I’m sure Musk would be willing to review your offer.
I wonder why there is a shortage of water filters.
Good morning, Old Man!
And Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers.
SD gov, besides being hot, is doing a hell of a job. SD has been a refuge for Minnesota businesses and money for years. Much, much better run than this shithole.
Amish is a joke. Blah, blah, blah, unite, blah, blah, blah. Fuck off Justin. We don’t need another fucking protest vote.
Oh, and check out Bobby Enriquez on this clip.
Dig those crazy threads! Good stuff – the guitarist wasn’t too shabby, either!
Have a great day, peeps. I get to work on a plumbing project – yay?
Good for you for remembering! If I may, I’m happy to provide the appropriate music link.
How I met my mother.
Metal Mothers https://youtu.be/alzzAJjo3No
You mean this isn’t a more appropriate musical link?
How about some Motherly Love?
Tundra, 2 things to remember when plumbing. Shit runs down hill and don’t lick your fingers.
Now, good luck! Plumbing is 2 trips back to Home Depot, electric 1.
” I get to work on a plumbing project – yay?”
Let’s hope you can do it in one trip.
*dons tinfoil hat*
China can see how much self-inflicted damage the West is doing with the absurd lockdowns and now that a few places are cautiously starting to reopen, they’re trying to stoke fear so they flare up again.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-reports-first-coronavirus-case-in-wuhan-since-april-3-14-new-infections-nationwide
*removes tinfoil hat, wraps brisket with it and puts it on smoker*
lolbullshit
Dammit, you don’t wrap the brisket until the internal temperature is 160; also known as the “Texas crutch” (for people that can’t properly cook a brisket).
So far I’ve done ribs and pork butt in my smoker. I need to get a brisket. Going to try to avoid the Texas crutch if possible. My pork butt stalled for a long time though at around 176 to 179. I eventually just cranked the temp up to 275-280 to kick start it back up, than let it drop back down. It turned out great. My first one.
I do the bark/wrap/finish method with everything. Turns out pretty great all the time. I find you really want to let the pork butt rest for like an hour after it comes off, otherwise the juice just runs out everywhere.
I let it rest for probably half hour before pulling. It was fine.
If by now you still believe anything coming out of China, you need to be lobotomized.
I’d say the lobotomy already occurred if you believe China. Euthanization might be the only option left.
I don’t believe half of what’s coming out of the US. Especially now that states are basically getting paid per CV death.
China is #1 lockdownista. They don’t have to look to other countries to see what happens, they did it to themselves. And being a repressive regime, they were relatively far more effective and earlier in the epidemic. As a result, they’re even more vulnerable to the virus and their economy is equally vulnerable if others open up. Their plan apparently is to hunker down and wait for a vaccine to be developed and scaled up so they can be the US after WWII. They’re working through their puppets at WHO to intentionally seed doubt and fear about immunity from recovery and they’re stoking up anti facemask hysteria. The last thing they want is competing countries to be successful with maskwearing and hygiene to move beyond cower in place.
They also wouldn’t have any problem shedding 200-500 million headcount. That just opens up opportunities for a bunch of people they couldn’t weave into the economy until now.
BOOM
My refinance just went through; down to 3.25 muthafuckin’ %. Broker says it’s the lowest he’s seen in a 27 year career.
Gonna save me about $250 bucks a month.
I have an appointment with my bank Tuesday afternoon to refinance. How long did your process take?
They’re getting slammed so it took about 5 weeks. Fortunately, my broker does a lock-in so the rate stayed the same from when I first contacted him. Though I doubt rates are going up anytime soon with the shenanigans our betters are pulling.
Cool thanks. I’ll ask for a rate lock in as well.
There will be some positives coming out of this pandemic.
So Dem/Op-types are busy creaming their collective panties about Obama getting increasingly involved in the election. Considering the guy led to historic losses of Democrats at all levels of government culminating with a court jester being elected President, I’m not sure I’d be so enthusiastic.
Considering that they also believe Trump only won because Russia “helped” him, I wouldn’t expect much of their political savvy.
Chuck Todd:
Some of those governors seem to think the models let them down.
No shit, Shirley?
Now some other hysterical dumbass is on, babbling incoherently. We’re just shooting blindly into the darkness, because we’re terrified.
But we should totes restructure our economy back to the Stone Age over MUH GLOBULL WARMING models.
Repeat after me RESOURCE CLASS (sit straight Sununu. Pay attention Whitmore. Stop talking Mills. Get your finger out of your nose Cuomo. STOP EATING THE CRAYONS NEWSOM):
MODELS ARE NOT DATA.
Uh oh… Sounds like somebody doesn’t fucking love science!!
I’m sure drugs will fall out of my ass but won’t be the first time.
“Despite the armed escort, Anthony said she was “actively working to prohibit open carry” of firearms in the state capitol, which is currently legal.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/07/michigan-lawmaker-armed-escort-rightwing-protest
Now they’re yammering about testing and contract tracing. Sure. That will save us.
Trying to make it last as long as possible. And the tracing can be abused for other purposes, like gun control.
That works if you start with case 1. Too late now.
Apparently being a fundamentalist Muslim also makes you immune to irony.
https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2020/05/08/arizona-muslim-students-threaten-to-kill-prof-for-suggesting-islam-is-violent-n389324
Did they also get shot in the nuts?
I’m glad to see someone using “shot in the nuts” instead of “drugs fell out of ass”.
Drugs have officially fallen out of the ass of “drugs fell out of his ass”.
The death threats are all coming from Internet Tough Guys. I’m not sure the student is even a Muslim. Might be a native born American product of our fantastically well funded public education system.
Blacks and wimmynz hardest hit.
Six TRILLION dollars wasn’t enough.
Our “capillary banking” system has disappeared. I wonder how that happened. We should ask Sheila Bair.
AMERIKKKA IS RACIST!!!!1!1!1
Fuck local media. Our local media has spent the last 2 months with the their heads up the Governers ass. No questions about the massively exaggerated models. No questions about how we went from “flatten the curve” to fuck you, were doing the restrictions anyways. No questioning of any of the restrictions at all. Nothing but cheerleading. Now with all of the businesses yammering to open, their finding wealthy salon, bar, and restaurant owners in the hipster (formally yuppie) parts of town you are saying that no one should be opening up and that no one has received proper “guidance” as to opening procedures. I’m sure is more that they have the cash to hold out, and everyday the state stays closed, another competitor bites the dust. Fuck those guys, and fuck the mendacious local media for trying to spin the reopening has “dangerous” Especially in Franklin County were we were barely hit at all. I apologize in advance for Grammer errors but I’m on my phone and the up down arrows block my text so it is what it is.
I gotta say, credit where credit is due. Polis may be reprehensible on about 95% of issues, but on this, we got it right. Yes, we still have a few pointless restrictions, but he was among the first to start opening shit up and it’s been great.
Also: he has an invincibility shield (gay, Democrat) so he avoided getting slaughtered by the Dem/Op/Media complex despite opening at exactly the same time as Georgia.
Polis is better than most Dem Governors on re-opening but he failed miserably with the long term care facilities. It was May 1 when he got around to addressing how those places were protecting their residents. I am not big on government regulating private industry but if we are going to accept it as a legitimate function of government it damn well should be doing it and not a month and a half after people start dropping like flies in the places. They are keeping the numbers under wraps now, but the last time I saw it reported weeks ago 60% of Covid deaths in CO were from long term care facilities. In the county south of me, all 11 deaths have occurred in them.
Even if local media outlets aren’t as blatantly partisan as national ones, I’m sure that they consider this whole shitshow a ratings/clicks bonanza.
Why you hate Dr. Amy? These questions are really hard hitting!
Their favorite apparatchick.
Turn off the TV, Brooks.
A more serious – and sentimental – Mother’s Day song. (Alison Krauss. What more do you need to know??) If your mother’s still alive and you love her, call her.
When I was working I said there were 2 people you didn’t put on hold on the phone, your mother or your boss. Everyone else was OK
Very nice. Wish I could make that call.
Funny story. When I went to buy my first violin there was a pretty girl in the back of the store quietly playing some beautiful music. Since I couldn’t play a lick then, I asked her to help me choose one of the three in my price range and she kindly obliged. When I was checking out the store owner told me I was lucky to have Alison Krauss’s recommendation for my purchase. LOL.
They’re going to talk about the Ascended One’s comments.
But first! The Plague is in the (White) house!!!! OMGOMGOMG
Apparently post lockdown there’s likely to be some kind of mass-exodus of white-collar Londoners to up here in the country now they’ve all figured out that they can do their jobs from home and they want to flee the central planners’ dream of hyper-dense urban living, especially now more of them have had a taste of what it’s like to be on the end of surly, busybody policing by the cops. I wonder where that will leave the local economy in the big shitty? Less work for blue collar types in cleaning, stocking shelves, etc, so it all just slowly dies and the big shitty just becomes one big shell of it’s former self? No, the central planners wouldn’t let that happen, not with absolute carte blanche to make coercive, plunderous legislation to make the little people do as they ought to. Just funneling more money into endless schemes to keep their high-density dream on life support indefinitely.
Part of me is telling myself:
“Hey, quit whining and braying about your pissant little commie country, faggot! Nobody cares!”
It’s ok. We put up with the Canadians so putting up with you isn’t all that much of a stretch.
Ey buddy that’s uncalled for ey! Be nice, ey!
+1 much appreciation of Festus and the other Kanuckistani Glibs.
Whatever happened to the soul of the Conservative Party in Britain?
I predicted awhile back that they had to pick one side of the Brexit debate and stick to it if they wanted electoral success, and that is exactly what they did. But apparently they have abandoned just about any other principle to get there. I don’t think Boris Johnson can fit any more of the NHS’s dick in his mouth if he tried.
So a return to the London of the 19th century?
Yeah, with various boondoggle trendy lifestyle developments, and possibly a return of the various diseases endemic to C19 London.
See Detroit
Yarp :\ Lessons will never be learned.
Do you think HS2 will still go through?
Am very disappointed in BoJo for that.
No national plan? NOOOOOOO!!
We have abdicated our leadership role.
NEEDZ MOAR VACUOUS PLATITUDES.
When will we finally open the national checkbook and get serious about fighting this thing?
Uffda. That dude who wants govt funded press? He specifically gave props to the Star Tribune for helping blow the lid off the perfidy of SoDak’s meat packing plant?
The same Star Tribune that has done no reporting at all on Ilhan Omar? The same reporters who won’t ask any hard questions from our Governor about why his lockdown isn’t working?
Since they are sooooooo interested in out breaks at meat packing plants, you would think that they’d be all over this story about an outbreak in a pork processing plant in Worthington, MN.
But yeah, no interest because no one wants the NYT to start harping on how Minnesoda’s proggie gov has one of the biggest hot spots outside of New York City. Fuck that story pissed me off.
It looks to me like asymptomatic rates are functions of age. Young and healthy are almost entirely asymptomatic.
Another example, prisons with 96% asymptomatic rates.
Anyone wanna bet on whether the 12 hospitalized skew old?
Here’s my shocked face ?.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2020/05/08/flavor_ban_was_no_deterrent_for_e-cig_use_491070.html
Whycome I no can haz Cheddar Bay biscuits in a booth at Red Lobster?! [insert outrage here]
My God, they are delicious. And the Quick Lunch Shrimp Skewer is a real bargain at $7.99.
Have you seen the boxed mix? But yeah, outrageous.
De Toqueville was one smart cookie (apologies for the long quote):
“I am trying to imagine under what novel features despotism may soon appear in the world. In the first place, I see a multitude of men, alike and equal, constantly circling around the pursuit of petty and banal pleasures with which they glut their souls. Each of them, withdrawn into himself, is almost unaware of the fate of the rest. Mankind, for him, consists in his children and his personal friends. As for the rest of his fellow citizens, they are near enough, but he does not notice them. He touches them but feels nothing. He exists in and for himself, and though he may still have a family, one can say that he no longer has a fatherland. Over this kind of men stands an immense, protective power, which is alone responsible for securing their enjoyment and watching over their fate. That power is absolute, thoughtful in detail, orderly, provident, and gentle. It would resemble paternal authority if, father-like, it tried to prepare its charge for a man’s life, but on the contrary, it only tries to keep them in perpetual childhood. It likes to see citizens enjoy themselves, provided that they think of nothing but enjoyment. It gladly works for their happiness but wants to be the sole agent and judge of it. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures [and] manages their principal concerns. Why should it not entirely relieve them for the trouble of thinking and all the cares of life?”
– From Democracy in America
Excellent.
It would resemble paternal authority if, father-like, it tried to prepare its charge for a man’s life, but on the contrary, it only tries to keep them in perpetual childhood.
Actual parents have trouble with this as well (checks mirror). Mom did me the immense favor of kicking me out of the house when I was 22; I hope I don’t need to face that sort of decision with my own spawn (who TBF don’t have the kinds of issues I had. Yet.)
Bread and circuses.
De Tocqueville, Dostoevsky, Dante, Bastiat. All four had a real impact on me.
” of them, withdrawn into himself, is almost unaware of the fate of the rest. ” Wasn’t De Toqueville particularly taken with the fact that in America this wasn’t so much true because of the multitude of voluntary organizations, fraternal and otherwise, that bound communities together?
This is a non stop hour of propaganda, commercials included.
Be afraid, America. Be very afraid, but put your faith in Big Nanny. Big Nanny will save you, but only if you prove you deserve to be saved.
Do you want to be saved? Do you deserve to be saved?
President Cartoon Villain is GLOATING about Flynn.
NYT and The Atlantic are shitting their pants over that. It’s like Trump just set loose a super villain mass murderer on society. The NYT ran one article screeching that ‘but he plead guilty!’. OK, NYT, so you think some guy being tortured in North Korea and being threatened with the death of his entire family is guilty just because he pleaded guilty?
There are no worse people on earth than those in the media, not anyone, anywhere, ever.
It’s a step in the right direction.
Now, I’ll really believe Barr is serious is if they start going after whomever it was that leaked Flynn’s intercepted communications to the press.
Yes, and I’ll bet all the guilty confessions at Prince Albert Strasse and Lbuyanka were valid too.
THE NEW NORMAL!
I have to agree with this guy. That term ‘the new normal’ is nauseating.
You can just translate ‘the new normal’ to ‘we’ve finally got that glorious global socialist utopia we’ve been pining for’. No, fuck off, you haven’t finally got your pony and you ain’t getting it.
In local news:
A special announcement from Mike Polk Jr. ‘in these trying times’
Alternatives to the overused phrases we’re hearing in this ‘new normal.’
They’re once again predicting doom and soon! I’m betting they’ll never admit they made these predictions when it fails to come true, again.
APOCALYPSE NOW!
YOU REDNECKS ARE GOAN DIE!!!
In these trying times, we must adjust to the new normal. We can get through this together. Because we are one and the same. When you stay home, you save lives. And if we can save every single person we will do it. There will be collateral damage but who are we kidding? We don’t know anyone who has been damaged collaterally. If everyone could just pitch in a nickel a day and enforce social distancing, we can eradicate poverty and Covid. Please buy my home made masks. They offer the psychological protection you need. Just plug it in the base of your neck in the back and you’re ready to save lives.
Don’t forget we’re going to fix the climate too, after we starve 7 billion people to death, mama Gaia will be happy again.
I think the global warming might be a hard sell here in the areas having one of the coldest springs in recent decades.
You obviously missed the memo. It’s not “global warming”, now it’s “climate change”. “Climate Change” works no matter if it gets hotter or colder. If it gets dryer it is climate change. If it rains more it is climate change. If there are more or fewer hurricanes it is climate change.
You know “warming” has been dropped; it’s now “change.” A columnist in today’s paper admitted some will benefit from warming but assured us that the danger is because we can’t adjust to rapid change in any direction in two or three generations, only if the change is over thousands of years. Gosh, how did our grandparents deal with the changes they saw in their lifetimes?
Well, I’ve never seen it this cold in the spring here. It was 35 F here night before last. My pepper plants were all droopy that morning, but they recovered. But you can count on the media to ignore all of that and proclaim 2020 the hottest year on record, for the last 4 billion years.
Happy Mother’s Day.
I am going to do absolutely nothing.
No things.
Happy Mom day Mo.
Thanks! Mr Mojeaux got me a purse. Purses are my kryptonite.
I am going to whip up some sausage and eggs for breakfast.
a href=”https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/05/10/fauci-two-other-task-force-members-in-voluntary-quarantine-after-possible-coronavirus-exposure-n389571″>WE’RE ALL DOOMED!
I hope Fauci is OK, but, send Birx to visit him and then weld the door shut.
geez….
AGAIN
Mother of God https://youtu.be/CNIdjhrf3wE
CNN and NYT, do your job and bury this!
WHO can we trust?
In these arduous times, Apocalyptica has announced a live video concert this Thursday.