Man, Arsenal suck.
Baseball might have a season after all. But the 16-team playoff sucks. Especially since it’s going to happen next year as well, for no apparent reason. Ditto the NL DH. Arsenal are back to playing like they’ve played all season. And the NBA Florida plan is a hot mess. And that’s sports.
Don’t care.
Mountain climber George Mallory was born on this day. He shares it with basketball great George Mikan, bluesman Ace Wallace, musician Paul McCartney, onetime-sexy actress Isabella Rossellini, baseball player Andres Galarraga, defensive end Bruce Smith, catcher Sandy Alomar, and piece of shit Uday Hussein.
That list was crap. Oh well, on to…the links!
I wonder if the Blue Flu will have as big an impact at The Corona. We should know in a couple of days. The results of this won’t take two weeks to fully show up, after all.
Overcharged?
Speaking of Atlanta. This is a terrible decision of overcharging. Pretty sure regular murder would have sufficed. And it didn’t help that the DA didn’t even wait on the investigation to conclude.
CHAZ gets even weirder. Hey, I didn’t think it could happen either, but apparently they’re going to use wrestling storylines as a mode of policing the place.
Eric Swalwell continues being a loathsome human being. Also, if you actually listen to the response, the man did actually say the words.
::FART NOISE::
The headline writer should be beaten with a rubber hose. Oh well, you can get the facts of what happened down in the story. I guess that being factually true is more important than being factually accurate.
Actor allegedly commits a crime worse than his acting. Also, if he’s a rapist, why is he being arraigned in September? And why couldn’t these have been looked into some time over the last 17 years? IS the backlog that long?
New York City gives up all pretense of respecting private property rights. How this could ever be considered constitutional is beyond me.
The war on syrup is a sticky situation. Sorry, I won’t participate. Its real maple or GTFO in my house. #vermontlivesmatter
This was predictible. I wonder if he feels the same way about any other sports nicknames?
Huh, I guess he doesn’t have a party affiliation. At least not one worthy of mentioning in the actual story of political corruption. Way to go, SFGate.
Euros are pissed at the US’s reluctance to steal more money from people. Oh well, I guess they’ll have to go it alone in trying to screw businesses out of their hard-earned cash.
Here’s another fantastic song. And it deserved more play than it got. Well, I’m fixing that today.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Strong First Amendment supporters.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-news-crew-attacked-as-police-leave-precinct-newly-released-video
Look dude, those guys are always peaceful right up until they open fire on you.
That dude was actually identified as a Democrat at the very end of the article
Canciamilla resigned as Contra Costa elections chief in October 2019. He was the youngest public official in state history when he was elected at age 17 to the Pittsburg school board. He later served on the Pittsburg City Council and Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors before winning three terms in the state Assembly as Democrat in 2000.
Then they added that detail after I’d checked twice while putting this together.
Even with that “correction”, the point still stands.
Tradition is that in any article discussing a politician, you put the (D) right after the first mention of their name – even if you don’t explicitly talk about party affiliation elsewhere.
I cannot think of any precedent for an article about corruption in a public official where the party of the Republican official is not deemed relevant. I can recall having had this discussion several times about coverage of scandals with democrat officials.
Yeah it’s definitely a double standard. I was mostly expressing shock that the word “Democrat” appeared at all.
Republicans are always identified as much. Democrats? Almost never. Presumably because all the reporters are Democrats, so bring a Democrat is the natural state of things as far as they are concerned. Being Republican is an abberation. It’d be like reporting that the person is an air-breather: an obvious truth that need not be mentioned. If he was a water-breather though, clearly that’s worthy of note.
No, it’s because all reporters want to conceal from their readers any hint of corruption by their fellow travelers.
Which would actually be expected…
But papers have standard forms. They say “you use capital ‘B’ when you refer to the Black race”. Or “we do not use the Oxford comma!”
And they have editors that ensure these standards are followed. So one would presume that they have a standard about naming people – you use the full name the first time you identify the person, etc. And for politicians, presumably the (D)/(R) is a standard treatment for the newsroom.
Which would be the editor’s job to ensure was followed.
But it somehow gets missed in many articles about corruption or scandal.
Which points to something a little stronger than “personal bias”.
Right – it’s not “personal bias”. It’s institutional bias. That “D” is missing on purpose.
Don’t fund Vermonsters, they gave us Bernie.
“Don’t go with her! She got the Herpes!”
But, do we really need more than one syrup?
“Its real maple or GTFO in my house.”
I don’t like the ersatz stuff either. But it’s either lets the kids slather on the fake stuff or keep the real stuff in the liquor cabinet so the kids can’t waste it.
In the past, the Grade B stuff was the better stuff (it has stronger maple flavor). But it looks like the grading scale has been updated to help people realize that it’s the good stuff.
Eh. I was raised on Griffin’s and I think I’d still like the stuff if I ever bought it again. It’s the added vanilla that makes it imo. But real maple is pretty cheap here through the wholesale club.
Trader Joe’s usually has a vanilla infused and a barrel aged maple syrup in winter. It’s damned pricey though. If I ate more pancakes/waffles, I would probably play with several different home infusions.
Don’t go for the cyanide flavored one.
Something to try for the cocktail enthusiasts in the audience – use maple syrup in place of simple syrup. It doesn’t do well in every cocktail recipe, but when it works, it tends to really work.
Yup. It goes really well in old fashioned with rye.
You asked a lot of questions that can be answered with one word…scientology.
“I have a notice for you. You’re apparently being sued.”
In reference to the actor, maybe the police are just getting through their backlog of messages…
Remember people. When seconds count, the police are not answering the damned phone.
Apparently the Danny Masterson thing was one of those things that is well known in Hollywood but no one feels the need to make it public or take it to the police. Alos, as I said above…scientology.
The board’s annual vote follows pressure against Gov. Andrew Cuomo to cancel rent for all New Yorkers during the coronavirus outbreak — a measure Cuomo has resisted while expressing sympathy for landlords indebted to banks.
Sympathy for landlords? String him up.
Cuomo appears to have some sense of how insane these proposals are, even if he’s still trying to play to the mob.
He’s always been more self-serving than true believer
Let’s Lynch the Landlords?
Then lord over Lynchland! Lilliputian lessors longingly lurch towards free lunch.
L is a tough alliteration.
Meh. Deblasio has done this a couple times before, because of course.
About 70 years too late.
To show my solidarity with #BLM, I am officially declaring all of the units in my properties are now rent-free. To assist those who may have trouble with the rental application process, I am removing the locks on the doors. And I hereby transfer ownership to [insert head of local BLM chapter here].
Seriously.
I wonder what percentage of New York residents understand the relationship between rent control, “low income housing requirements”, building restrictions and high rent is?
Libertarians believe this could be solved extremely quickly by simply removing rent controls and opening up the city to developers.
Who exactly do the citizens of New York think this stuff is protecting? If I own a high-end rental property in Manhattan that was built 25 years ago – am I more likely to support rules that prevent other developers from building luxury properties in the area, or less likely? So who do you think these politicians are protecting? The guy paying $2500 per month for a dumpy rent-controlled single room apartment, or the guy who owns an $800 million dollar building where there’s a property two blocks away that was built in the 1920’s that would be a prime location for other developers to put a $2 billion building, absent city controls?
So now Texas Rangers are out. Yeah, something tells me that’s not going to fly.
Do we really want more teams named something like the Texans?
Do these idiots not realize that the most badass of the Texas Rangers was a black man and the inspiration for the Lone Ranger?
Being ignorant savages, no. Probably not.
Dame Vera Lynn: Forces’ Sweetheart dies aged 103 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53091856
I sang We’ll Meet Again to my brother in his final hours in hospice.
That’s sad, poignant and touching, I.F. Sorry for your loss.
Aw, shit. I thought she died decades ago. RIP https://youtu.be/Hqtaoz4QFX8
This is a terrible decision of overcharging.
Felony murder? Unlikely. And I saw somewhere charging with multiple counts of assault? Idk how you get charge with assault after having been assaulted. (unless there is information I am lacking)
I know we have a lot of “F the Police” types here. I’ve suffered more than my share of abuse for “hating the cops” over the years as I’ve tried to evangelize the cause with stories like Kelly Thomas.
But this case is ludicrous. The DA flat out lied in that news conference – repeatedly. He said that Brooks was never any threat. He said that he was peaceful throughout… the whole thing was crazy. He said that Atlanta Police procedures dictate that they have to announce that they are arresting you before placing you in handcuffs… and that since they didn’t do so, all of their activities that followed were unlawful. Now, despite the fact that never in the history of the world has any DA ever operated under such a theory, I defy anyone to watch the officer on video looking Brooks in the eyes and saying “I have determined that you are too intoxicated to operate a motor vehicle. Please place your hands behind your back…..” at which point he is cut off by the struggle to resist – and not understand that this is an announcement that Brooks is being placed under arrest for DUI.
Looking for the death penalty on this one? Even pretending that under the rules we have used for police “use of force” since… forever… he could have ever been charged on this one, nobody would even go for the death penalty if this was two dudes in a fight outside a bar.
He brought 11 charges against the 1 officer. 11 felonies for maybe 6 seconds of action.
He played it as if he got his version of events from watching CNN. He pretended that the entire struggle where he was resisting arrest didn’t happen, that he never struck the officers, and to downplay the stealing of the taser and firing it at the officer, he explained that since he missed, there was never any threat. That’s crazy town.
Meanwhile, the officer fired instantly following that moment and also missed, striking a parked car behind Brooks. The DA is charging the officer with felony assault with a deadly weapon for that one because the vehicle was occupied. So one second missing means that there was never any threat at all, and one second later, missing means criminal intent.
This is like something out of the Queen of Heart’s court in Alice in Wonderland.
The guy even made the claim that a taser is not a deadly weapon – therefore no use of force was justified… even though he charged 6 officers for assault with a deadly weapon for using a taser on 2 protesters just 2 weeks ago. I suppose this will bolster their defense…..
DA’s a political office. Politicians gonna pander. And people loooove them some righteous rage.
But this will have bad long term consequences. More and more the law is not being applied equally (see the guy that was chased and eventually opened fire on people openly threatening to kill him). This is not good. And like Cyto, I am in now a copsucker. I am trying to be objective. And as stated, the DA totally fucked this situation. I didn’t even know about that press-conference. But if true it is just all wrong.
As if that matters. Any consequences that result after the next election are irrelevant.
The guy in New Mexico was released, though. Not trying to be argumentative, just sayin’.
I think the cop in Atlanta fucked up, but the charge is a joke and a fairy tale is being spun to support it. It is perfectly right to say that shooting a fleeing suspect in the back is wrong while also acknowledging that Brooks’s actions directly led to his death when he attacked the cop and took his weapon.
True. But the fairy tale will persist. Narrative > Facts.
Long term consequences? All the guy is worried about is winning his next election. If he can score some points by throwing the book at some innocent people he will do it, smiling all the way.
Along with that, he and the mayor may legitimately be afraid that they’ll be the next to be burned out of their homes if they don’t follow this path.
But judging by their public statements, I’d wager that they see this as a political opportunity. By taking the hardline BLM stance, the probably believe that they will vault themselves into national prominence.
And the DA is going to have to explain himself when it comes to tasers. As I posted last night, two weeks ago he was adamant that GA law states that tasers are considered deadly weapons. He’ll have some explaining to do when this gets to court.
In a sane world, he would have just fucked up BOTH cases, as the cops charged in the assault case will say “See, the DA says tasers aren’t deadly weapons”
I’m going to go back to my old whipping boy, the press. Where was the 4th estate? There were what, 20? 30? reporters in that room.
Nobody asked “Why are you claiming that tasers are not a deadly weapon when you just explained that under GA law they are considered deadly weapons as you charged an officer with “assault with a deadly weapon” for merely pointing a taser at someone? (see link Drake provides above)
Nobody asked about the “he kicked him” photo. I watched the video that was released. It did not go on too long after the shooting, so I could not swear to any actions that happened later, but I’m going to assume that he was referring to a moment about 3 or 5 seconds after the shooting where the officer clears the taser and checks Brooks with his foot, obviously exercising extreme caution. He pushes his side with his foot to see if he is moving. It isn’t ambiguous. And while pushing something with your foot might fit the legal definition of “kick”, in this context it is clearly a lie. Yet not one member of the press was competent enough to raise their hand and ask for clarification on that one. If you were at that press conference and had not watched all of the videos, you are incompetent. So there is no excuse for being incapable of connecting those dots and saying “Hey, wait a minute. Why the still photo? Are you really calling that instant from the video “kicking” him?”
And when he says “he was never a threat. He was peaceful and cooperating”, nobody asks “well, what about the part where he punches the officer in the face?”
When he says that because Brooks missed when firing the taser, he never threatened the officer – nobody asked “exactly how is being a bad shot indicative of not being a threat?”
Nobody asked anything. They just passed along the propaganda like stooges.
I have the same contempt for the press when they fail to ask the police these questions when they come out with ridiculous statements like “I’m confident that my officers acted properly at all times. There will be a full investigation, but I’m confident that it will show that they acted appropriately”. Nobody ever asks “well, if you are confident of the outcome of the investigation, why exactly are we allowing you to run the investigation into yourself? Shouldn’t we be bringing in an outside party?
The cop made a simple but MAJOR mistake. He grabbed Brooks before stating he was under arrest. Without communicating he was under arrest, Brooks was defending himself from the cops battery/assault. I don’t know the specifics in Georgia, but generally if you initiate a fight, you cannot then claim self defense when you start losing.
The police officer fired 3 shots. 2 hit the dead guy. One hit a car with multiple people in it. Therefore multiple counts of assault.
So not only did he violate the law about shooting at a fleeing person, he didn’t even consider what was behind his target when he fired at the guy whose information they had?
If they reduce the charges, he might get convicted for murder. He should definitely be convicted for reckless endangerment and a few other things.
Fleeing, yes it’s a bad shoot.
Firing a weapon(I don’t care if it’s non lethal) while fleeing? Not a bad shoot.
Parthians sad 🙁
I’m pretty sure they knew it was legit to shoot a fleeing Parthian.
Yeah.. there’s plenty of “know your line of fire” stuff to talk about…
But this was literally a split second decision moment. I know the Dunphy always says “split second decision” and “totality of circs” , but in this case it is actually both true and relevant.
I usually counter that whole “split second” thing with “what happened before that split second” – because that is where the choices were made. Like Tamir Rice – the split second wasn’t the problem. It was the partner who decides to play Adam-12 and hop the curb, dumping his partner out 10 feet from a potentially armed suspect, requiring a “split second decision” where no split second decision should have been needed. This also explains the shooting in Louisville. The problem wasn’t that an officer executing a warrant returned fire after being shot at from a darkened room – the problem was that he was standing in their bedroom door at 12:30 AM holding a gun.
In this case, this officer was being extremely courteous to the drunk guy who was about to be arrested. Everything was going smoothly – then he suddenly bolts. So he didn’t create the “split second decision”. After being punched a few times and overpowered – he gives chase for maybe 10 feet before Brooks turns and raises the taser and fires from just a couple of steps away. That is by definition a split second decision moment. There’s really no time to scan parked cars for occupants at that moment. Sure, if there had been a crowd of 25 people standing in a group behind him he likely would not have fired his weapon… but in this circumstance? I think being aware of all of the occupants or non-occupants of parked vehicles would be super-human.
Tamir Rice and countless others are bad shoots. I’m not a boot licker. This Rayshard one is not a clear cut “authoritarian pig shot innocent citizen”. I’m more selective on what hill to die on and this ain’t it. It’s a gross miscarriage of justice and I can’t fault all the cops for the blue flu. I see the blue flu going nationally and we all need to hunker down for the shit show that will become.
Which I’m beginning to suspect is part of the plan.
That Seattle story made me woozy.
Just commented on the dead thread about my beer-fueled rage. This post is NOT helping! I’d like to speak to the Manager…
Your complaint is important to us. Please stay on the line. Your estimated wait time is *mechanical monotone* Three hours and seventy-six minutes */monotone*. Thank you for your business.
So just like reading Glibs daily?
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) responded saying “all lives matter.”
Keeping in agreement with Martin O’maley.
I’m waiting for someone to get up and say “I’m here to represent every individual in my district regardless of skin color. Each and every one of their lives and livelihoods matter. We are not a collective nor will I endorse any statement that divides people up by immutable characteristics.”
You’ll be waiting a looong time.
No politician is going to say that.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) responded saying “all lives matter.”
“I think black lives matter. I think all lives matter.”
Somehow this is controversial. ::SMDH::
It’s a rhetorical trick used to shame people into dropping their opposition to the left’s political goals.
No. Not controversial. All lives matter is universally condemned as racist. This is known. There is no controversy about this. Saying “all lives matter” is proof that you should never work again.
All Tax Slaves Matter
Sigh. The EU and their attempts to tax the shit out of Big Tech is never going to end is it?
I think it is about 50/50 as to whether the tax is simply greed or if it envy/anger over the fact that Big Tech seems to be mostly US firms.
The maddening thing is that no one seems to ever ask “Why is this tax justified? What costs is it going to cover?” The answer is that it isn’t justified, it is simply the state grabbing money because they can.
Why the fuck was the US even dickering around that shit instead of telling them to go fuck themselves sooner?
I guess we have another “Day One” priority for the next Dem president.
Because the US is the biggest extraterritorial taxer and they want every other jurisdiction to rat out income earned in those foreign jurisdictions.
I got nuthin’. We’re in Alice In Wonderland territory.
“We were all disappointed, because he was like the face of us, somehow,” Red Ranger’s sidekick, Spirit Fox, added
Is this real life?
Superhero LARPing is one thing. But someone is choosing to LARP as a sidekick.
Hey, betas need to be allowed to cosplay too.
So if you confront xim with a collar and a buttplug, xe’ll immediately submit?
Burt Ward got plenty of pussy too.
What do you mean “too”? Pretty sure he was the only one of that partnership getting poontang.
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/g19520336/adam-west-batman-sex-eight-women/
Well I stand corrected. Fortunately the thread is dead. ?
For the sidekick
It ain’t real until “Power Rangers Assemble!” That’s when you know shit is gonna go down.
But who’ll form the head?
I’ll form the head.
Makes note to find original Voltron on streaming.
Sweet drunken Enkidu…
The lesson I’m talking from this incident is edging uncomfortably close to, “Don’t leave any living witnesses.”
Let the fire investigator prove they didn’t start the fire that burned them all alive.
Deputies kill half-brother of black man found hanged in park
Mhm…sounds bad…
Detectives with the sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit were tracking a man who was wanted for kidnapping, spousal assault and assault with a deadly weapon but when they tried to stop his car, he opened the door and began shooting, authorities said.
Deputies shot and killed the man. A woman in the car was wounded in the chest and was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening while a 7-year-old girl in the car wasn’t hurt, sheriff’s officials said.
Ah. . .
I don’t buy it. Investigating a non-victimless crime? Pull the other leg…
Apparently, Bolton says President Cartoon Villain wanted the ChiComs to make a trade deal which would help him get re-elected.
UNPRECEDENTED!
How dare he politicize a political office!
OMG
TBF: I think you’re supposed to wait until your second term and then come with an international deal for your ‘legacy.’
Bolton is only to be called the Evil Mustache(you all should know who the Good Mustache is).
H… hitler?
Frank Zappa?
There can be only one.
Tom Selleck?
Stalin obviously.
What? No love for our very own libertarian ‘stache (John Stossel)?
^^^
There it is
Trump’s problem is that he doesn’t couch political desire in the right terms. Like “I’ll have more flexibility after the election” – see, nothing wrong with that at all (and PBUH that said it).
Probably the ‘rona. Also, he has apparently been violating social distancing rules.
Wow, so he’s a murderer too?
Creepy, spoiled boy, drunk with money and power. Grabs women by the pussy. Woodwork oozes out some unsubstantiated claims twenty years later. I’ve read this story before.
To be fair, this time there’s the novelty of his “church” playing wing-man.
Yeah, that’s a little salt for the wound.
The Designated HItter thing is probably because they can’t guarantee an even number of interleague games for each team will get played, especially with any realignments. If they can pull off a nearly-full season in 2021, there will be serious talk of expansion afterwards.
It’s here to stay. A Union ploy for over the hill sluggers. Fatsos with a quick bat need lovin’ too!
Nah, I see the owners clawing it back it get expansion through. Just another bargaining chip.
Greg Luzinski FTW!
It’s over.
The timeless balance of everyone having the same risks and issues that require thoughtful management is ruined by Yankee fuckery.
How about just one excellent batsman for each team and three Olympic pinch runners and NONE of the fielders bat?
Who won’t miss the majesty of watching a pitcher feebly wave at pitch after pitch?
Do position players pitch? No, so why should pitchers hit? They suck at it, and don’t come at me with “But Madison Bumgarner!” MadBum gets held up as the gold standard of the “good hitting pitcher” these days, and you know what his career batting numbers are? .177/.228/.303, numbers befitting the worst all-glove/no-hit backup middle infielder you can think of. And he’s the one the purists always name as the best of the best! Hell, Mario Mendoza, whose name became a literal emblem of hitting futility, hit .215/.245/.262 for his career. Bumgarner has some power over him, that’s it.
Do position players pitch?
Yes. A few times per year. Usually they do a surprisingly decent job. The score is generally 18-2 when they come in, so it isn’t like the other team is trying hard, but still, its embarrassing to get struck out by a second basemen.
Yes, I’m well aware that an occasional inning in a blowout gets thrown by a position player.
Okay, instead of Bumgarner, how about Babe Ruth? If that is unfair or too old, how about Brooks Kieschnick?
Taking the other side of the argument, there are more recent examples, Shohei Ohtani being the most obvious and successful, and Rick Ankiel famously worked his way back to the big leagues as an outfielder after his pitching career imploded.
These guys are extremely rare, however, which kind of makes my point.
Baltimore outfielder Stevie Wikerson got a save last year.
Baltimore’s Chris Davis got a win in 2012.
I don’t know what it is with Baltimore and using position players to pitch in close games. May explain their record of late.
Do not speak of Chris Davis.
Wrong Wrong Wrong! You play around the fact that the pitcher is probably a dud hitter (he was probably the best hitter on his Pony League team) and start playing metrics. When you make the pitcher hit It makes the game more akin to Chess rather than Checkers. When do we pull him? He’s knocking them down right and left but we’re down a run. Sub in some guy that on his best day will come through 1/3 of the time? They used to call it the beautiful game for a reason.
Sure he was probably, at one time, the best hitter on his team. Same thing is often true of any major league hitter because you have to be incredibly good to even make MLB at all. I remember watching Brendan Ryan be useless at the plate for the Yankees and reminding myself that, in high school, the guy almost certainly raked like George Brett.
I played organized ball from age 5 through high school, a thirteen year span. The best, most impressive player I ever saw in that time was a kid named TP Waligora. He absolutely fucking dominated Little League, throwing no-hitters. He could hit 80 with his fastball when he was 13 years old. Dominant in high school, was All-Metro for multiple seasons. Starred in college ball. Was drafted by the Cubs and…..never made it past AA.
*Festus cries in his beer…*
Don’t do that, your beer will get watery.
Salty ham tears actually compliment many styles of beer. I dunno if these are the right flavor tears.
I played 2 years of Babe Ruth baseball with this guy:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dixonst01.shtml
He was a 3 time AAA all star. Couldnt find the plate in the majors.
5 IP, 13 BB? Ooof.
Being one of the worst MLB players ever stills means you are damn good.
Oh, absolutely. Out of the millions of boys who grow up playing ball, everyone plays little league. Most of those will end up playing at least a bit of high school ball. A much smaller number will play college ball. Maybe 5% of college players will play at any level of professional ball, and a very small percentage of minor leaguers will ever step onto an MLB field.
He was throwing mid 70s as a 12 year old, which was unhittable at the short little league distance.
At least at full 60′ 6″ when we moved up to Babe Ruth there was a chance. Fortunately, I only had to hit him in practice at that age, as we were teammates.
The DH is something the PA and Manfred has wanted for years. They want the increase in offense on the one end and more higher paid players on the other. It’s dumb especially considering Manfred explaining to us fans that the sport will never be popular again because of game length and yet at every turn increases the length with replay and now this stupid shit.
Sigh. The EU and their attempts to tax the shit out of Big Tech is never going to end is it?
If by “Big Tech”you mean “any profitable business enterprise”.
By “Big Tech” they mean those fucking American companies dominating the global market.
Professional Englee speak goodly writer.
“some have”…..who might those “some” be? Name names.
They’re various experts.
I just hate that particularly weaselly journalistic practice.
Dude, they’re familiar with the matter
“Sources close to the thought process…” It’s right there in black and white! And I Oop.
Mrs. Butterworth is the most realistic portrayal of the female form in the realm of advertising.
This person has never seen an old woman from Hungary.
If professional racial grievance students have time to worry about the racial implications of syrup bottles racism is officially no longer a problem and we can stop talking about it.
Uffda. I’m so disappointed in local reporters for not busting into loud prolonged laughter at our Governor’s response to local businesses telling him he needs to reopen everything by 6/19.
Seriously? You stood by while thousands of people rioted and burned parts of the city. But bars in Dinkytown were too crowded is what you think is scold worthy?
There are a lot of pissed off people out there. This election is going to be intereesting.
Yeah. We’re living in interesting times.
Great.
“Well those heathen Sky Worshippers did start this, didn’t they?” *takes off Al Swearingen Suit coat*
If any enterprising reporter bothered to read the comments on stories like that, they’d realize how mad people are and maybe follow up on that. I was stunned at how vitriolic the comments for that story were.
I’m sure NBC will be along to get them demonitized soon for those unwoke comments.
NBC demonitized for their wokeness? /shivvers with pleasure
“fee…feeeee…feeed-bak? No, doesn’t ring any bells.”
He’d just say the protesters are protesting injustice while the bar attendees just want to get a drink and obviously one thing is more important than the other. BLM is worth getting COVID for essentially.
If the last few months have proved anything, it is just how much more “essential” some people are than others.
Forget it with the reporters. In VA our gov laid out a case for opening the state all at the same time one week and answered questions with reasons and logic behind not opening it piecemeal and the next week decided to open the state up piece meal after telling everyone not 7 days earlier we were not doing it that way with the exact opposite logic and the reporters didn’t laugh him out of the press conference. The chattering class is the enemy of the people.
I was talking to the owner of my diner last weekend and she approved of shutting all of NYS down, because NYC residents are “selfish,” and would have fled the city, spreading the plague if anyplace had been open for them to flee to. While I of course disagree on general principle, I admit there is logic there.
You also have to admire the purely human response of keeping them away from us.
That’s not my problem. My problem is the blatant hypocrisy and signaling to business’s to go head and prepare to open in two weeks and than pulling the football back days before you told them they could with the exact opposite logic and pretending the facts on the ground somehow changed. fuck these hacks.
Google tracking device got an update today. I now have Pride themes I can apply to my phone. This is somehow important enough to send out three emails about.
I never got emails like this when they fixed major security bugs.
Wait, you actually take that thing with you and let it run Google code?
*backs away from Scruffy*
Scruffy has Google cooties.
It’s true.
My next phone is going to be a feature phone for sure. I may even go back to good old T9 given how little I ever send text messages.
Unfortunately, I can’t get away form the smart phones for now. My business pretty much requires it.
Though there have been debates over Mrs. Butterworth’s race, some have associated the shape of the brand’s syrup bottles with the offensive “Mammy” racial caricature of stereotype for Black women.
Who doesn’t like big butt erworths?
Besides me.
“And why couldn’t these have been looked into some time over the last 17 years? IS the backlog that long?”
What evidence possibly exists after this length of time? Unless the victims did rape kits (in which case, they wouldn’t have waited almost 20 years to charge him) I don’t see how the State can make any kind of case here.
Just relax and try not to think about it. Take a break. Have a snack. Here’s a jell-o pudding pop.
A pudding pop?
*drops trousers*
triggered
I can’t see how a prosecution for an alleged rape 17 years ago can boil down to anything other than his word against hers. Just part of a play to get a big civil court settlement?
IIRC they looked into it 17 years ago and decided there was no rape and the charges were bullshit.
But it’s 2020, so they’re taking another bite at the apple
rape kits
According to a former female acquaintance in college these are “humiliating”. Therefor you must #believewomen
Thinking about it now her view of law and prosecution is rather horrifying. She basically thought that you didn’t need and/or shouldn’t have evidence if you accuse someone of rape or sexual assault. I informed her that our entire system is premised on the rights of the accused and left it at that.
Unless the accused is a member of whatever group is currently unpopular. You just need to only
commitbe charged with crimes when you are in the right phase of your group’s popularity. For instance right now it is bad to be a cop, but if you wait a year cops will be back to immunity from charges. We really seem to struggle with the concept that justice is inherently individual.Thot Thursday lives matter.
http://archive.li/yEqeY
Keilah Kang in that numba 2 spot tho…
Cream of Wheat too?!!?!?
Now they’ve gone too far.
White bread is living on borrowed time.
I will no longer be purchasing Wonderbread once they add squid ink.
“Walker, Texas RACIST!” – Possible new syndication title.
Redundant. “Texas” is already in the title, Silly.
Well that’s a glimmer of hope. Tucker Carlson is now the highest rated program in all of television – broadcast and cable.
Like I said upthread, there are a lot of pissed off people out there. Carlson’s economics suck, but at least he has the vocabulary and the gonads to give voice to all those who are ticked off at the leftist march thru the institutions.
They’ll just work harder on defunding him.
“Broadcast and Cable.” How much do these ratings mean anymore?
Among people who actually fill out (their own) ballots?
Ratings don’t matter as much as they used to. Clips on YouTube, retweets, etc. are where a lot of the eyeballs action is.
Question for those of you that have been known to partake in the ingestion of certain components of the cannabis family of plants. My mom suffers from interstitial cystitis, which causes chronic bladder and flank pain. She’s had a bit of a hard time with pain management on account of the harder opioids give her nausea, and thanks to the drug Nazis it’s next to impossible to find a doctor to prescribe them anyway. She had a little success with tramadol, but sometimes it doesn’t quite cut it. Being as the devil’s lettuce is legal in our state and municipality, I’ve been trying to convince her to perhaps give it a try. She won’t smoke or vape it because she tried weed when she was a youngster and hated it, but they’ve got low TCH/high CBD edibles and 1:1 microdose tablets available. Any experience with these? Any recommendations?
I may not be the best to answer since CBD doesnt seem to work for me…that said, others swear by it.
Tolerance is built over time, so anything she takes could lead to the person starting to freak out a bit. My woman, for example, cant take any amount, so if she needed to I would probably start her off with under 1mg in an edible.
The microdose tablets are 1:1 THC/CBD and ~2.5mg a piece, so I think that might be the way to go initially. Not a lot of information or studies on edibles for pain management, unfortunately; most people just toke up.
Most people don’t like waiting and inhalation is faster. If advil came in an inhaler…
Conagra Brands reviewing Mrs. Butterworth’s brand after Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben’s announcements
I still don’t see what is wrong with having a black mascot for syrup. In fact, you probably have to be racist in order to have a problem with it.
“It’s heartbreaking and unacceptable that racism and racial injustices exist around the world,” Conagra’s statement said. “We will be part of the solution. Let’s work together to progress toward change.”
Virtue. Signaled.
The war on syrup is a sticky situation.
Just as long as it doesn’t turn into a hairy situation.
And what the hell is wrong with Uncle Ben? As I understand it, he was an actual person and an entrepreneur.
Apparently black people are like Mohammed; any depiction, regardless of context, is blasphemous to the prog religion.
Your assumption is that these fucking kids throwing a tantrum have any kind of education based on anything other than feelings. They don’t. Everything they want to see as racist will be labeled as racist.
Not a one of them can actually exercise independent thought to reach a conclusion – it is all groupthink.
This same thing happened with the Land o Lakes Indian Princess. The picture was done by a native american from the tribe up in that area, and yet SJWs said it was an exploiting stereotype because anything with red skin and a feather must obviously be exploitation, as no real native person would ever wear a feather, amiright?
Don’t you understand? It’s immoral to eat something that doesn’t have a Caucasian on the front the package.
New boom in imagery of Thurston Howell III and Lovie.
I went shopping next year and this is what I found on the shelves.
“ELBOWS”
I got nuthin’
I can’t wait until they cancel Cap’n Crunch. His cereal is violence!
Look, I can respect both sides of the Mrs. Buttersworth debate. Open discussion is fine with me.
What I won’t stand for though is the fucking assholes who won’t choose a side. Death to the Wafflers!
You must be Belgian.
The whole thing crepes me out.
I think the whole thing should be panned.
Someone is greasing up for a narrowed gaze.
Tis a griddle to me.
*Narrows gaze*
Don’t start waffling now.
Mixed my Aunt Jemima with some Mrs Buttersworth and it tasted like Uncle Tom.
What is a Black woman know about maple syrup? Now sorghum, that’s from the mother country, I’ll tell you anything you want to know.”
What these splendidly and frighteningly clueless people don’t understand is the concept of ‘systemic racism’ dictates that everything and everyone (white) is racist and engages in white supremacy and denying this is an example of white fragility. Straight from the flapping twat of Robin Di Angelo. As such, CONAGRA you f****n retards, YOU’RE racist. You will always be marked for death. Don’t you get it? Wanna be part of the solution….wanna help? Shut the hell up and DO YOUR JOBS. Keep the rice flowing.
Nothing short of complete submission will this end. Hence, you two choices. Submit or simply fight back and take your punches. There’s no way they can keep it up over the long-term. I know they’re insane and can if they want to but there are too many places to destroy. So they’ll move on like internet scam artists do when they get called out. Stand up to bullies.
You’d be surprised how lame they really are.
All that being said, I freely admit we used to make jokes about Aunt Jemima. I mean come on. Get real.
Just buy some “Black People Brand Hot Sauce”
OK.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/11885018/adil-rami-pamela-anderson-sex-twelve-times/
That dude is rocking the facial hair grooming.
You can tell how cool he is with the shaved tracks in the eyebrow thing. That is so cool.
Pamela Anderson is quite possibly the most overrated piece of ass in history.
What about Jackie Kennedy?
Even JFK didn’t want it.
I vote for Julia Roberts. For over two decades I’ve been told that she’s gorgeous, and I’ve never seen it at all. The interesting thing is that women seem to think she’s much better looking than men generally do.
The process is repeating itself with Emma Roberts. Eric Roberts is prettier than she is, IMO. Lantern jaw.
Emma > Julia, I think, but she’s basically the fairly cute girl from down the block. By Hollywood actress standards, she’s quite plain.
Roberts has a mouth straight out of a Lovecraft novel.
https://tenor.com/view/big-mouth-julia-roberts-inception-gif-8607762
She had great gams. That matters to a certain segment of the creeps.
Some men are leg men. Some men are ass men. Some men are boob men. The one thing we can all agree on is that foot fetishists should be gassed.
She looked nice back when she was the Tool Time girl but she got herself overly enhanced.
Marilyn Monroe.
Blasphemy!!
Here’s a headline I bet you never thought you’d read.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/alcoholic-monkey-who-killed-man-22213162
There’s been a lot of headlines I never thought I’d see lately.
Drunken murderous monkeys are just par for the course now.
My spirit animal.
Homer’s monkey.
And what the hell is wrong with Uncle Ben? As I understand it, he was an actual person and an entrepreneur.
I am beginning to think black capitalists are by definition race traitors.
Those companies sure seem hell bent on erasing the representation of old timey black entrepreneurs in this country. What a bunch or racists.
Seems to be a bit of a continuation of the old tension between Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois.
^^Bingo.
You want actual economic mobility and progress for poor black people, and also poor white people, and poor people of any race, you need the education system to follow Booker T’s model. The slave gives birth to a sharecropper, who gives birth to a carpenter, who gives birth to a doctor. Generational wealth and generational culture change.
In modern times, the fatherless son of a trash mother, be it a black kid in the ghetto, a white kid in some trailer park, or a whatever scenario is probably not going to be President, or a CEO. But he can sure as hell learn a trade, or work in an auto plant, or join the military, or teach school. Then his kids can rise higher.
But the way the system is set up, there’s almost no development in the education system toward blue collar work. It’s 12 years of mandatory schooling, and then if you don’t get good SAT scores they kick you out in the world to fend for yourself. Or even worse, they get you to sign up for a bullshit major at a trash tier school and make you a debt peon for 10 years.
The schools by and large aren’t accomplishing a damn thing in the inner cities. The Baltimore City Public School system churns out illiterate, innumerate “graduates” at an impressive(ly horrific) rate. I was once shared a story about how one student from an inner-city DC high school managed to go to college, and I was called heartless for pointing out that her education had cost about $40 million, since apparently nobody else got educated at that school. Of course, that’s not her fault. My grandfather loves to talk about how he went to a “Mechanic Arts” high school in Boston in the 1930s. Well, that school doesn’t teach woodworking, machining, forging, or drafting anymore. It’s also pretty selective, which is totally NOT OKAY when a charter school does it but somehow is okay when a public school does it. Hell, the school I went to in the burbs managed to alright by me but left a lot of the other attendees high and dry, since they or their families were not interested in college (preferring agriculture, trades, or ahem recreational substance manufacture instead).
Not any more.
/NYC
or ahem recreational substance manufacture instead
You already listed agriculture. Or did you mean meth? The Pseudoephedrine still comes from a plant, commercially, doesn’t it?
and make you a debt peon for 10 years.
Only 10years, on a barista’s wages?
If you get a job in certain sectors, there’s loan forgiveness after a decade.
Is Starbucks one of those sectors? Or does it have to be “in your field”, the field they bought a useless degree in?
It’s education or government.
Or counter-examples to their own excuses for failure. Kinda puts a bullet in ‘the white man is keeping me down!’.
It’s over! Bidens up 13 points! Look at the walls now!!
You know who else reported hiding Jews?
https://veltnews.com/1010-wins-reporter-targets-brooklyn-yeshivos/
I said some untoward things about the Orthodox/Hasidic Jews in New York a couple of months ago.
I hereby apologize.
To be frank, I kind of enjoy the closet.
You would think with the many, many similar stories I’ve seen in the past few months that the city would be littered with piles of (((corpses))) by now, and the same people would be gleefully reporting it.
What outdoor space tells us about inequality
So access to balconies, which are maybe 30 sq ft, cure everything, but there’s no guarantee living outside the city, where even the humblest of houses have a yard? How in the green hell does that make the slightest bit of sense?
“As part of his Rent Freeze, NY poli enacts Balcony Sharing initiative. Residents in units adjacent to sunlight must provide unrestricted access to Residents on the rest of the floor.”
People shouldn’t have to deal with their choice to live in the cities.
Cake should be had and eaten.
And now they have free rent in NYC.
And Covid did jack shit. OUR REACTION locked her down. She’s an idiot for not exercising free will and seizing control of her family. Go the fuck outside.
I’ve seen enough of NY TV to say Barbot can go fuck herself. Another incompetent hack. They lock people down, scare the fuck out of them and then wonder ‘why come dey no come to get treatment for diseases?’ and then they take out ads telling people to come. Of course, then they make it one of the most depressing venture you can imagine. And if you’re the sort of person who likes to have someone by your side when talking to doctors, good luck. the sons of bitches don’t allow it.
BUT GO PROTEST! Worse, then they all congratulate each other for a ‘job well done’.
They can all go fuck themselves these liars.
Affordable housing out, green space in.
Steve Sailer (no surprise) has a counter-argument.
An interesting theory, if true.
And also once again an area where libertarians where right on the money decades ago. A lot more people should have paid attention to Kelo v. New London but didn’t because government is good and libertarians are weirdos.
My favorite thing about lockdown has been watching the stress fuck with the cognitive dissonance of my liberal contacts. They aren’t mixing daily, and many aren’t hardcore online readers. So when they do meet up, it is this funny tap dance as they feel out one anothers’ positions before they get their judgy indignation.
One of our neighbors was having people over to sit in their yard, and the California version of that article came up. It’s all about the pools, you see. The public pools are all closed. The housing association pools are closed. And so the only people swimming during the lockdown were people with pools in their backyard. It was fun watching the give and take as they tried to settle on who was privileged ENOUGH to be outright evil. It seemed easily that they would all settle on “the people with pools in their backyard are evil”, but then one of the couples confessed that they were thinking about putting in a pool, so we couldn’t all in polite company brand them evil. It was quite a conundrum.
Everybody’s quoting bible verses at each other.
Witnessing that, I’d have to put in a pool immediately.
Actually been considering what they call a “plunge”, like a cold hottub. Fucking YT DIY vids….
*falls off chair*
I started watering my sidewalk to help break the drought.
My sidewalk already has enough stuff growing through it.
I need more roundup.
I haven’t mown my back yard yet this year, but for some reason the grass didn’t come up after this winter. The front has been mown once. Back in Texas, I’d be mowing twice a week at this point.
I do have legitimate daisies now, and there’s some milkweed I’m going to allow to stand so the Monarchs have something to eat. The peonies and chrysanthemums are back.
“CEO of her own film company”
Do tell.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, speaking on France Inter, called it a “provocation” and said France will still implement the tax regardless of the U.S. change of heart.
You Eurotards can fuck yourselves. I can’t wait until we start making you pay for your own defense*.
*Possibly wishful thinking.
No forcing them to – just pull the hell out.
NATO is obsolete. It was established to “keep the Americans in, the Soviets out and the Germans down”. Done, done and done. Thank you very much, it’s been grand, but this show came to an end 31 fucking years ago. Roll up all of our shit and get it the fuck out of Europe – ya’ll can figure it out from there.
‘Wednesday night massacre’ as Trump appointee takes over at global media agency
I honestly had never heard of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), but first impression, would not be surprised if freedom and democracy are not the only things they spread.
I have no problem shutting down our propaganda departments. I just wish they’d end the domestic ones as well.
NYC. Atlanta. Smallwell, De Blasio, Durkan. Lockdowns. Etc. What do they all have in common?
STOP. VOTING. DEMOCRAT.
They’re the party of CRAZY and socialism now. Period.
NYC is gonna fall if they don’t get rid of De Blasio when is the election? Do they not know this is how you get a Venezuela? Not that I feel too bad. They freely vote for parasites like him and AOC. Now that De Blasio just enslaved 2 million rent payers, he may have cemented those votes?
It was adorable listening to NPR fluffing Bolton on the drive in this morning.
Did you know that according to john Bolton, during a meeting at which Bolton was not present, Trump said concentration camps for Uighurs was a great idea? It’s true!
Remember the good old days when Bolton was a psychopathic war monger cowboy diplomat who GWB personally programmed to kill?
That totally happened!
I cannot tolerate NPR anymore. It’s constant COVID/RACISM/LGBTQWERTY/TRUMPBAD
And the condescending vocal fried 23 year old “reporters” drive mu nuts.
I quit NPR probably 10 years ago.
There’s few choices when driving into work at 5:30AM.
Books on tape, podcasts. And that’s if you don’t feel like listening to music or watching porn.
I always thought it was funny how they put weird accents on distasteful or silly words. Like they need to let everybody know that they’re only saying it because they have to.
Et tu, Patreon?
Much wrongthink. PaleMoon is actually a pretty nice browser, FWIW.
I used to use Pale Moon. Switched to Brave. Do you have an opinion between the two?
Great. Some “public health authority” is on my teevee blabbering about how asymptomatic people are still infectious carriers and must be hunted down and quarantined.
Needz moar testers. Needz moar trackers.
Serious question:
Since Kelo made it effectively legal for a government entity to steal private property (with compensation) to give to other parties, would it be surprising to see some more progressive politicians start proposing that buildings be taken (with compensation) from their white or Asian owners and given to black people?
It would be surprising if that hasn’t already happened. Surely AoC or that commie in Seattle has proposed this.
Zimbabwe, here we come!
Sure seems that way.
I wonder how that’s going to work in a majority white country.
They’re actively floating reparations now. Functionally, it’s no different. You’re taking from one to give to the other.
But at least with reparations they can claim it’s the government giving away the money. They can pretend it’s not being stolen from someone else. A direct transfer of real property is a different animal altogether since there is an actual victim.
I still see land grabs being proposed in the near future. And anybody who speaks out against it will be tarred as a racist by the media.
If they try, that’s when a no-shit armed uprising will start.
Yeah, only the wokest of the woke will just dutifully go along with their own shit being stolen from them.
And how far are they going to get? Cops seem to be happy to “follow orders” to do anything.
When their own property is being appropriated, though?
Same as the many “affirmative action” and “women- and minority-owned business” programs that have been around for decades. This might be dialing it up to 11 but the stage has been set for a long time.
A person? I don’t think so at first.
A “minorities matter org”? Yes.
They’ll have a government “bureau of equality” or some such nonsense name take care of the redistribution. It’ll all be nice and tidy…with a fair level of graft thrown into the mix.
Handicapper General.
So I figure the verdict will black brand representatives are bad till we eliminate them all and than we’ll have the think pieces discussing and decrying the lack of minorities represented in branding.
Aunt Jemima becomes a trans POC dominatrix and the label is her pegging George Washington in a gimp suit. All bases covered.
Go on…
Maybe Inky Racer will make a comeback.
Quebec maple syrup rules. FIGHT ME.
Yeah, but you put it on cheese curds.
Yeah, but you have to interact with Quebecois scum to obtain it.
1. VT
2. NH
3. Canada
4. NY.
5. Any other states stuff.
16. Fake
Quebec scoffs at you saps.
Not so sure Americans have had pure Quebec maple syrup because from what I can tell it’s about as mafiosi a market as they come.
I do like VT syrup a lot. I bathe in it.
Well, I tried, but the stuff they had in the store in Quebec wasn’t even mostly maple. It was maple-flavored corn syrup.
Never heard that. Quebec doesn’t produce ‘fake’ syrup. All pure. Every shelf. No one buys ‘flavoured’ maple here. No one.
Doesn’t exist. I’d like to know the name because it’s literally on NO shelves here.
Head on over to Gatineau, because that’s all I found when syrup shopping there.
I got the feeling that Gatineau is where the servants of Ottawa people live.
A glimpse into that cartel:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39375257
Flannel mafiosi with moose antlers on his wall.
…wait, that a pic of Au Pied de Cochon’s operation?
You know that restaurant here?
Only been once, but yes. It’s very famous.
I’ve never been to any Joe Beef’s though.
We bought some of the local syrup in Maine and I couldn’t tell any difference between it and Vermont syrup.
My palate isn’t so refined as to find even PA maple syrup to be deficient. As long as it isn’t maple-flavored, I’m good.
I don’t think the colder climate further north does anything in particular for syrup quality, the land further south is just put to use for more valuable/acre-efficient crops.
Quebec maple syrup rules.
As opposed to, say, “Queensbury Rules”.
Local EE dept. is just making shit up on their plan reviews now. Not good for my blood pressure this morning.
Go ahead and ask me anything.
Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Cannibal Party?
Yes, but I didn’t find it humorous.
What’s the cube root of pi?
About half a quart if I’m loaded up all week.
pi are not cubes
Obligatory
Cubed root in pie?
Carrot?
Sweet potato.
*double checks* Okay, sweet potatos are root tubers, so I guess they count too.
Turnips are RIGHT OUT.
JAWS?
Sure, if you like bad movies or great Bond villians.
Are we not men?
A man is real, not made of steel.
*paging Swiss*
Let’s swap pics and find out.
Why do we drive on a parkway but park in a driveway?
Because you’re talking about pussy and assholes.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
You’ve never chucked wood, I see.
Am i your friend?
Why?
Good morning, Sloop.
The Specials are a perfect antidote for the soul poisoning of those insane lynx! Especially the Seattle one.
Spirit Fox?
There are some parents out there who have a lot to answer for.
More Specials.
Have a rude day, people!
Fuck you!
Rude people skank.
So two million people won’t pay rent. I wonder how many places/units are owned by mobsters and how they’ll deal with it.
Rent-freeze means no increase this year. It does not mean “won’t pay rent”.
Ah. I misread.
I guess I’ve become paranoid. The regular church flier stuck in the door handle advertized an AR-15 giveaway, and my first thought was it was some sort of sting operation.
…which church is this?
Grace Baptist in Troy.
“An ol’ fashioned church preaching the ol’ time religion”
Hoo boy.
“Egyptian style”??
You know, the songs of exodus.
/sarc
Having grown up in a modern evangelical megachurch, I support this proposition on the grounds that Christians trying to do rock ‘n roll, disco, rap, metal, soft rock, hard rock, or religious contemporary music is embarrassing and sounds like crap.
Our church does a traditional service and a “contemporary” service. My wife insists on attending the contemporary service, which is mostly soft rock Christian songs. It feels like you’re at a dentist’s office.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsL0DO-c1E
Running the sound and video production was a blast, I’ll give it that.
https://babylonbee.com/news/church-sound-guy-admits-no-idea-little-dials
https://babylonbee.com/news/worship-team-replaced-by-animatronic-band-from-chuck-e-cheese
Is that like a personal attack or something?
Slayer Goes To Church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-10c261Vw
I don’t attend, they just regularly stick fliers in door handles.
Obviously not. Sundays are for Steel Challenge.
So…. God only likes people who can read English. Archaic English at that.
Maybe they would tolerate the New Kings James.
In New York? Nice try ATF
That would be my new church. Mine is as far gone from their mission as the ACLU.
Heard on Squawk this morning from Anti-Defamation League CEO – suggesting Soros is funding protests is white nationalist speech and a conspiracy theory – white nationalists are using Facebook to organize protest disruptions – Facebook needs to stop allowing this information on their platform
ADL strayed far from their original purpose years ago. They’re just a weaponized NGO for the DNC now.
Conquest’s law applies – any organization that isn’t explicitly right-wing will, over time, turn left-wing.
Ever notice how there are no “left-wing extremists” any more? If anybody to the right of Marx attacks somebody, it’s the work of “right-wing extremists,” but on the left there are no left-wing extremists, just various well meaning liberal causes, and the occasional misguided individual.
Its been a very long time since there were left wing extremists identified as such. “No enemies on the left”, and all that.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1273522915623841792
HAH!
We’ll see how the police department handles the incoming request for help from the mayor. Should be educational.
And I’m done answering questions. Good night.
Why?
Cuz I’m drunk. But, go ahead if you want. Ooooh, you bastard.
*smirks*
Gottem
The LPVA is trying to get people to rally at the Richmond courthouse for ballot access on June 19th.
Only the loons will show up for that one. Anyone with a modicum of sense is going to be far away from that potential shitshow.
Enough About Palin on June 17, 2020 at 4:02 pm
“Is it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name?”
Of course they should. Chicks is horrifically misogynistic.
I don’t know how many times I’ve told those boys “never call Broads ‘Chicks'”.
SUPPLIES!
While I don’t worship golden calfs, I have always felt Mr. Terry Crews was less about bullshit and more about doing things right. I bet he will pay for standing his ground on not doing what the plantation masters in the dnc want him to do.
He’s crazy. When has a Minority every been in control of power and used it to oppress a majority of the population? I also like the whole “Shutup and listen to black voices… NOT THAT ONE!”
Gotta applaud that – shows some serious cojones, especially considering the business he’s in.
Sly had it figured out 50 years ago.
He would be canceled today.
He didn’t get much support when he claimed some male Hollywood power broker groped him.
More on the Atlanta DA press conference and charges:
https://www.wfxg.com/story/42260904/gbi-was-unaware-of-todays-atlanta-press-conference-regarding-rayshard-brooks-shooting
From the Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
He’s up for reelection in November and actually has competition this time, no need to wait for pesky investigations or chance that they come back with a “good shoot” conclusion.
“CHAZ gets even weirder.”
You know what this reminds me of? It’s like when I was 5-6 years old and me and all the neighborhood kids would go out to play and pretend to be grownups. We’d pretend to run our own businesses and own city, pretend to be cartoon characters, stuff like that. Remember that stuff? But then we all grew up. Some people these days, a lot it seems, keep growing in body, but stop developing mentally and emotionally at around the age of 6. There’s an entire video full of them in that article.
^^^ This. I’d pretend i was the king of my neighborhood and go around beating the neighbor kids who didn’t submit with a stick.
But did you block off the streets?
Oh, wait. We did do that. When it snowed. We rolled a bunch of snowballs into the road to create a wall – under the theory that if the bus couldn’t get through, we didn’t have to go to school. But we were 10 at the time.
Who Wants to head a state agency?
I’m not qualified for the head of a state IT department. I don’t have a degree in grievance studies.
Greivance Studies Majors don’t qualify.
Ha – watch them file a grievance about that!
$175k – $205k?
how much of that do I have to kick back to the people hiring?
*shrug*
I’ve never gotten that far
And it’s only 37.5 hours/week?
Officially.
There is a good chance they get hounded by the governer’s people at all hours.
Is it work from home? Because I am not moving to NY.
They have to do presentations to the legislature and the governer’s people, so no.
skype, zoom, gtm, etc.
And risk having a record the public can see?
Surely you jest.
I’m stuck in Zoom meetings all day. 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Currently I’m wearing a shirt and tie, cargo shorts, and no shoes.
I have to lead the first meeting. I think my article on how the police don’t have to protect you goes up today. Hopefully I can check in, otherwise I’ll answer questions in tomorrow morning’s links.
take the cargo shorts off they are an abomination even when noone can see.
Felony Murder is the easier one to prove. Regular old murder you have to prove intent to kill. Felony murder you just have to prove that the person died as a result of the commission of some other felony.
(speaking of, the common law felonies that used to be the ones that could lead to felony murder charges (now expanded to inherently dangerous felonies in most places) is the one mnemonic I remember from studying from the bar. BARRK. Burglary, Arson, Rape, Robbery, Kidnapping)
What about Felonious womanslaughter?
1. All the memorable mnemonics involve sex
2. BARRK
QED… Juvenile Bluster is into bestiality.
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me.
Didn’t one of our MDs have a nerve mnemonic involving touching a young girl’s boobs or something?
Bad boys rape our young girls buy Violet gives willingly.
I shall never forget resistor color codes.
s/buy/but/
hahaha….learned that one as well back in avionics school, only followed by Get Some Now for the multipliers. That was 2002. Ol’ Mr. Head would get crucified for teaching that today.
That whole thing is a weird one for me. Truth is that America is a pretty violent place relatively speaking and more than a few cops get killed in the course of legitimate stops. Then you got way too many laws which increases the interactions in the first place. Blaming the cops alone for the violence is unfair when the whole system is based on violence. In today’s America and given what is happening between cops and the people, I don’t see how anyone could expect to punch a couple of cops repeatedly and then flee with his taser, point it and not expect to get shot. Taser is empty or not, doesn’t matter. We’ve got a violent society based on violently enforced laws and this is the end result not something that just fell out of the sky.
SAY THAT TO MY FACE!!! I’LL BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOU!
The beatings alone might be on par with some other developed countries, but the murder rate (of both cops and people) isn’t.
^^^
Straffinrun has his finger on the issue….
It isn’t the cop at the point of the spear. It is the environment we place them in. They are humans. They are going to react like humans react.
This is why “racist cop” is anathema to solving the problem. If you diagnose the problem as “racist cop” then the solution is to cure racism or filter out racist cops. Neither is remotely plausible.
But if you diagnose the problem as inherent to the interactions – then you can do something. Ending the war on drugs would be huge. And if shootings at traffic stops is your bugaboo – there’s ways of addressing that specific issue. I can guarantee that not having officers on traffic patrol carrying sidearms would reduce the number of officer involved shootings. They are quite rare as a fraction of interactions, but a large chunk of the “shot someone because of a mistake or misunderstanding” shootings are traffic stops where somebody reaches for a wallet. Changing that policy so that simply handing out tickets isn’t done with a gun would reduce that form of violence. Then you would obviously need other adjustments – greater use of cameras to protect the officers, procedures for calling in armed backup more frequently, etc. Still, it becomes an issue that can actually be addressed, unlike “racist cop”.
The biggest one is obviously the “dynamic entry” raid, usually for drug related warrants. Ending the war on drugs stops most of that. And just some policy changes about when it is permissible to do a dynamic entry would solve the rest of it.
It really isn’t that hard to address most of this problem.
I would disagree somewhat. Incentives matter.
QI has resulted in a profession in which it’s possible to get away with assault, rape, and murder. Therefore policing will attract those who want to get away with assault, rape, and murder.
See also: pedophiles and jobs that require working with kids.
Absolutely…. add in QI and union contracts that allow even people like the guys who beat Kelly Thomas to death to file a grievance and get their jobs back with back pay.
And there is a bit of “what type of person wants to have that job”, for sure.
But I’ll point you to this article about a nerdy, far left reporter from Mother Jones who went under cover as a prison guard. He spent 4 months at a minimum security prison and found that he was losing himself, becoming a sadistic jerk.
This aligns with the famous Stanford Prison Experiment where they randomly assigned students to be prisoners or guards.
As you say.. incentives matter. And by simply providing a safe environment for bad behavior to flourish.. you will get bad behavior. Humans are not actually pure angels.
“It really isn’t that hard to address most of this problem.”
None of those solutions have been used because the problem is a means to an end. This is why they go with ‘racist cop’.
I am living in a world where the crazy conspiracy theory is the sane answer.
Truth is that America is a pretty violent place relatively speaking
Relative to what? Its a lot less violent than it was a generation ago, and less violent than a lot of other countries. Especially outside of some pretty small areas.
I’m talking shootings and other developed countries. I’d arm everybody who wanted arms if it were up to me.
But what is the other felony?
According to the DA, because they did not officially announce that they were placing him under arrest before attempting to handcuff him – every action they took after that moment was unlawful.
Which would be a huge stretch in any event, but it is pretty strongly refuted by the body cam and dash cam videos that clearly show them telling him that they have determined that he is too intoxicated to operate a motor vehicle and to please place his hands behind his back. I’m not sure, but I don’t think this is one of those “Klatu Verata Nictu” moments where you have to get every syllable of the magic incantation right or you’ll awake the army of the dead. I think “you are drunk driving, put your hands behind your back” is pretty much the equivalent content.
Somehow I doubt that this theory he floated at the press conference is going to survive long enough to show up in court.
The press conference was absurd.
That’s patently absurd, and I say that as someone who generally doesn’t cut cops any slack.
Something absurd said by someone who is using the power of the state to seek the execution of this person.
Something I learned in my CCW class: arson is the only property crime where NY says lethal force is permissible to stop it.
Well, the dead guy wasn’t committing property crimes. He had assault and assault with a deadly weapon going on, and was fleeing with a weapon.
We’re being invited to fall into the usual trap here – ignore all those egregious instances of police abuse, and focus on a very marginal one.
Clicked too soon.
Now, because he was fleeing, I think there’s an argument that it wouldn’t be a good self-defense shoot, but even for a subject rather than a king’s man, I think that argument has its difficulties given how fast the exchange of “fire” was.
Now, if the argument is about “should cops ever be allowed to shoot a fleeing, “armed” suspect who they have witnessed committing a violent crime, that’s fine. Its one I struggle with – the idea that somebody should be allowed to shoot at cops, for example, and if he turns and starts running away they have to just let him go if they can’t catch up to him is hard to swallow. The flip side is, why should the cops get to shoot someone that a subject isn’t allowed to shoot.
Malice is too optomistic for you guys, but i did like his take here:
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1273464954226716672
I hope he’s right but even he’s suggesting we’re probably headed for some kind of national breakup. He just thinks it will be peaceful. I don’t think the leftist fanatics will give quarter.
If the current left gets their way they’ll go full Mao with a Red Guard equivalent and everything. The idea that they’ll let a differing population be self deterministic when they’re all about control is naive and, frankly, dumb.
I think it’s pretty funny that less than a couple of weeks after they’ve started their little kingdom, one of their ‘demands’ is that they be able to open carry weapons. You know, I’m talking about those same weapons that they wanted to make illegal for everyone, just a couple of weeks ago.
Next I expect the dems to start writing up legislation to ban all guns, except for oppressed groups, like BLM and antifa, who need protection since the police cannot protect them. But for the white supremacists, that’s you and me, gun confiscation before we go out into the streets lynching folks and shooting up the place, like we’ve always done.
Wait for it.
I don’t know how he did it, but a customer just phoned in with a caller ID of “HIS EXCELLENCY”
Some 20 years ago when we got our PRI lines installed, I learned all about the D channel coding so I could program our system to automatically route calls based on information returned from our database. I basically placed my own routing system ahead of the PBX routing system to enhance customer service.
But the knowledge gained also allowed me to have a little fun.
When I first learned the mail relay protocols back in the 90’s, I used to use open relays to send mail to friends from people like “God@heaven.com”. So I used the D-channel to set up calls from “God” to my coworkers. Even back then (probably 2000, 2001) you had to be circumspect about who you might play such a joke on. Today? Yeah, probably wouldn’t do that.
20+ years ago, when caller ID on landlines first started to be a thing, my uncle didn’t like the idea of people knowing who he was when he called, so he called the phone company about getting his number unlisted. They told him he had to pay a fee for that. Well, he didn’t like that idea either, but something else occurred to him. He asked them if he could alter how his name was displayed, and they said yes. So, from then on, his number was listed as belonging to one Joe Mama.
Depends on the system. Most systems you can set up any outbound ANI (what displays on caller ID) that you want. Some carriers will label you as spoofed/spam, or not accept your call if it’s not a standard though.
Yeah, T-Mobile does that. I find it very convenient… they label stuff suspected spam all the time. I never pick up.
Which is a shame, because it is a nice feature. I programmed the switch at my office to display the name and company by who is logged in at a station — so I could place an outbound call for you from the conference room and have it leave over any PRI with your name and the company name (we had multiple companies). A really nice feature.
The corollary was that inbound calls would route to you via a “find me” function – no matter where you were, even on your cell or at home (your choice).
Phone systems started offering that feature a couple of years after we built that. We only used it in limited situations – it was primarily designed for our sales teams and their rapidly shifting work stations, as well as disaster recovery. The “find me” stuff just kinda came along for the ride once we had all the features in place. Simply building an interface for you to check off your location was pretty easy – the phone system already had a login to station function built in.
New Jersey, which had a law similar to New York’s forcing nursing homes to take in COVID-19 patients, has had a 12(!) percent death toll among its nursing home residents.
Florida, which didn’t, has a 1.7% death toll.
Which one of those governors has been taking the most heat in the media?
I heard something about Chris Christie and a bridge.
“Something something Ron DeSantis’s bloody hands something something.”
-NY Times
People, even in the media, are starting to notice how badly that idiot fucked up. And those were not laws – they were Executive Orders to kill nursing home patients in NJ, NY, and PA.
Of course the media has to attack DeSantis – my god, if people could actually read the facts instead of the narrative? The media would be a total failure as an ally!
Why is Pennsylvania’s nursing home death toll over 65%? There’s got to be something wrong with the statistics somewhere.
Which demographic tends to vote on the conservative side?
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1273433652526034944
It feels like we are so far from this being a thing, but at the same time, it should be a thing. Mass cops walking out because one of their friends gets charged with murder etc. Fuck them. They have no problem chasing after a guy who they know is probably innocent. Let them have some of that Process as punishment, and get back to work you stupid cops. Or get a real job.
I talked with my buddy who is a cop in Miami last night. He described it as “moral is really low right now”. The squad he commands is about evenly mixed between Black, Hispanic and white guys. He said nobody wants to work in “those areas” right now. Too dangerous – and he wasn’t talking about being attacked by residents. He was talking about the risk that something happens and your career being over, even if you do everything by the book.
Even the black guys don’t want to work in minority neighborhoods right now, and they have a “doesn’t fit the narrative” pass.
The democrats will never let this happen, they’ll continue to make it all about race, while the media stirs the pot, and the dems will protect police unions and further militarize them once they have some power back in DC. BLM are being played for suckers by the dems, what the dems have done with blacks for at least half a century now, and have completely gotten away with it.
NJ starting to violently react to Black Leninist Marxists.
Oh dear
White supremacist deer for sure.
Throwback to when everyone knew Biden was Gaffe Prone
I’ve been getting ads for him on YouTube. It’s amazing that they can’t even edit him to sound normal. Do they think that they’re making him seem more palatable by leaving a bunch of verbal tics and mid sentence corrections?
I’ve seen videos where people have cut together clips of Biden from his campaigning in 2008 and 2012 along with current ones, and his deterioration is blindingly obvious.
Everyone still knows that. I’t just that what little bit of competency and honesty the media may have once had, has completely evaporated.
Read the comments and weep
https://old.reddit.com/r/JusticeServed/comments/hb0kv0/probably_shouldnt_be_wearing_identifying_clothing/
You might want to check with some actual Africans before you get too eager to call in the Blue Helmet Boys
George Floyd’s Brother To U.N. Human Rights Council: ‘I Am Asking You To Help Us’
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During a quickly convened session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Floyd asked the group to set up a commission of inquiry into racism and police brutality in the United States — specifically “police killings of black people and America and the violence used against peaceful protesters.”
“I’m asking you to help him. I’m asking you to help me,” he added. “I am asking you to help us: black people in America.”
Sounds legit.
Farcical.
Nigerian and Kenyan troops patrolling our inner cities. That would be fun to watch – from a great distance.
Yeah, and you thought the COVID-related increase in sexual assault/domestic/child abuse was particularly bad?
If this doesn’t get Trump to leave the UN, nothing will.
In retrospect, it was totally worth it.
Is that what Warty’s been up to?
SCOTUS blocks cancellation of DACA.
Por que?
What in the actual fuck?
It was a god-damned EO.
No. IT was a god penned EO. Hence why it can’t be undone.
In Robert’s crusade to remain out of politics, he’s succeeded in creating the role of King of the USA.
Fuck him. He’s the worst fucking justice pick in my lifetime.
“high court says administration didn’t provide sufficient reasons for canceling DACA”
We’re not ruled by elected officials, we’re ruled by the consensus of an elite minority. All of their policy preferences are The Settled Law of the Land.
That doesn’t even make sense. If that is their actual ruling – what possible reason would you have to provide for “we are going to enforce the law as written”.
DACA would seem to be the policy that requires the extraordinary justification, since it is in direct contradiction of existing law.
Seems like we have entered “he made his law, let him enforce it” territory.
But 4 months in the White House with Kushner whispering in his ear means Trump won’t do shit. Because hes a shallow minded fool who goes with the average of the last 3 people to pitch their ideas to him.
DACA is such bullshit anyway, if Obama wanted to actually pardon every person on the DACA list for immigration law violations, he had that power. He just needed to take a stack of pardons to the golf course and sign off on them in between strokes. Would have been 100% constitutional.
I don’t agree that it would have been constitutional. Illegal presence is an ongoing offense. You can be pardoned for what you’ve already done but not for your future actions. So the most Obama could accomplish by pardon is to let everybody here illegally leave, then pardon them for having been here illegally before, then allow them to apply for legal status as blank slate entrants. If, however, they continued to stay they would continue to be in violation and thus the pardon wouldn’t do anything for them.
Deferred action gets around this by saying, in effect, the government won’t immediately take the action that the law allows/requires it to. Instead, it grants forbearance of administrative action against you. Of course, under the Obama administration, this forbearance could be extended indefinitely, thus in effect undermining the INA. However, Congress failed to do anything about this. Roberts’s opinion seems to agree that DHS can forbid the extension of Federal benefits to DACA recipients, since the law explicitly says that such benefits are forbidden, but that it must allow the forbearance to continue until some rule-making hoops are jumped through (though, as Clarence Thomas points out, these hoops weren’t jumped through to institute DACA in the first place). Then for good measure, this is John Roberts after all, he invents hoops out of whole cloth.
DACA was a turd in the punch bowl legally as once created it allowed multiple avenues for recipientsto contest its rescission. However, the courts should never have allowed it in the first place. I don’t know if anyone was able to challenge its creation though, since the courts likely played the standing game with any potential plaintiffs.
John Roberts strikes again, I’m sure
OK, a little digging reveals an interpretation of the ruling that it was issued under procedural grounds:
So then following the correct procedures will result in a different outcome, I’m to assume? Roberts is still a bitch anyway.
It literally takes nothing to implement a new program, even an unconstitutional one, just a pen and a phone.
But don’t you even think about undoing it.
This is insane. There are no limits on government per this decision. None. The Executive branch can hog wild.
As long as they have the politics that John Roberts won’t see as making the SCOTUS look political.
I’ll say this new “Conservative Majority” seems to keep being a boon for Leftist policies and judicial outcomes.
No, they can hog wild as long as the Eastern Elite Consensus agrees with the policy. If Trump decided to declare today that that NFA 34, GCA 68, and the Hughes Amendment were not to be enforced by his executive agencies, do you think SCOTUS would shrug? Do you think the next Democrat would be blocked from rescinding such a policy?
We are not ruled by laws, we aren’t even ruled by men. We are ruled by whatever this tiny group of people who all went to the same fucking schools think is “the right thing”. They have the final word. The final say.
no, the executive branch can only go hog wild in one way expanding the size and scope of gov if it goes the other way or even tries to issue edicts for conservative culture that won’t stand.
The Executive branch can hog wild.
Unless it is Bad Orange Man wanting to rescind and EO.
“Trump administration violated the laws governing federal agencies when it decided to end DACA because the memorandum that Acting Secretary Elaine Duke wrote to recommend termination failed to consider important parts of the problem before the agency”
I would argue that the procedures governing an EO are set by the executive. It’s not the job of the SCOTUS to decide if the President “failed to consider” anything. If 44 can make policy with a penstroke, 45 can erase that same policy with a pen stroke.
Also, which parts of the problem are “Important parts of the problem” would also seem to be an executive branch prerogative. What happened to his famed “judicial deference”?
I cannot fathom how one could possibly need a procedure to follow in order to order your border control agents to enforce the law as written.
But then again, it was hard to fathom that you could issue an executive order that forbid the enforcement of the law as written.
The stakes for the presidential election just went up by an order of magnitude.
I am worried that people don’t see it this way because of “orange man bad”. Sure, Trump has a lot of negatives. But if these people win – the American experiment might just be over.
They already have a lock on the media that has moved from “bias” to “on the team” to “outright propaganda of Soviet proportions”.
They are close to consolidating a lock on internet communications – with an assist from europe and china who have softened up the tech companies to the notion of enforcing speech according to various ideological guidelines.
And they are espousing an ideology that has little respect for private property or freedom of expression.
You could do an entire issue of Reason on “what to expect if the left wins”…. if Reason were staffed by, you know, libertarians.
They’ve been clear that they are for regulating speech – hate speech, political speech they disagree with, stories about things that they don’t like… They also have been clear that they are for confiscation of wealth. They view ownership of large companies as dangerous. They are now for “abolishing the police”, although they’ll angrily tell you that “that isn’t what abolish the police means” when you mention one of the things that BLM folk have claimed they want from abolishing the police. Then of course there is the second amendment. They clearly regard that as a dead letter and a top priority for undermining and obliterating.
The list is long, and the consequences probably irrevocable.
Oh, and just remember… Biden ain’t gonna be the POTUS, so you gotta look to the Veep for your clues as to what kind of executive leadership we will have.
“I am worried that people don’t see it this way because of “orange man bad”.
If Trump is willing to the mat on this, I think he can win the public opinion war.
This is a very simple concept that people can easily follow: if the office of the President can sign EOs, then the next President can rescind them.
Hell, whats that abortion EO that gets ritualistically signed and rescinded every time the Teams change the White House? Something about foreign funding of abortion.
DACA in Ruling Authored by Chief Justice John Roberts
The hardship clause of the Constitution? “No-backsies” on executive orders? WTF is he saying?
He’s saying that he’s a fucking chickenshit that refuses to interpret the law as written because it’s politically sensitive.
This is the same fuckwit that creating the penaltax out of whole cloth in order to preserve a contested law.
Using Robert’s approach, the federal government could dissolve the state governments and he would not vote to undo it because there are just too many consequences.
It doesn’t even do it justice. Roberts basically said “The Governments arguments suck, so i’ll make one for them that doesn’t suck, so that this can stay around”. Now i’m not a lawyer, but if i understand things correctly, in America, Judges don’t make arguments for one side or the other. They are supposed to take what arguments the sides make and judge off of that.
+1 Sullivan
No matter what procedures they follow, they won’t be the correct procedures.
Note that the critical “failure”:
isn’t actually procedural at all. Its substantive.
So will Roberts be esteemed to have 2 decisions be on the top 10 worst decisions by the court?
Obama’s diktats are beyond reproach.
Members of the UN Human Rights Council 2020-2022:
Africa:
– Libya
– Mauritania
– Sudan
– Nambia
Asia-Pacific
– indonesia
– Japan
– Marshal Islands
– South Korea
Eastern Europe
– Armenia
– Poland
Latin America and Carribean
– Brazil
– Venezula
Western Europe
– Germany
– Netherlands
So you have to violate human rights in order to be on the board?
One has to know in pretty good detail what are considered “human rights” so one doesn’t miss any when
abridgingeliminating them.I was reading some stuff wrong so other names that i didn’t include are: Afghanistan, Somalia, DR Congo, Pakistan, Qatar and more.
After you original post, I was going to note “not as bad as I thought it might be.” But these additions make it much, much worse.
Honestly, I never knew Mrs. Butterworth was black. I kind of always assumed she was an old white lady.
Also, are we really at the point where it’s the worst kind of racism to suggest that people might be….good cooks?
I always thought she was a Betty White type.
The old TV commercials from when I was a kid definitely had an old white lady’s voice as the voice of Mrs. Butterworth.
Nope. “Berenstain.”
She definitely sounds white.
Because the actresses doing the voice were all white: Hope Summers, Mary Kay Bergman, and Edie McClurg.
Thicc?
#glasslivesmatter
I moved to Win10. Stuff broke. Stuff I need to do my job.
I had to then upgrade to Office 2016 (license key issues). Stuff broke. Stuff I DESPERATELY need to do my job.
This is exactly what I did not want and why I was dreading it and what is taking so much time.
That sucks. I switched to 10 a couple of weeks after 7 went out of support. It took me weeks to find all the things that don’t work that used to, and fix most. I gave up on MS Office and switched to LibreOffice, which actually is working out well, as I have direct compatibility with my other Linux machines for office stuff.
^^^ I pretty much exclusivly use Linux now. Keep a windows machine for my Wife and kids (got to know how to use the Office suite if you want a job).
Which Linux?
Don’t answer! It’s a trap!
I run Ubuntu 18.04 At home, and on my work machine, though i do a bit of work on Centos 7 at work.
I wish I could switch to Atlantis Word Processor but I actually need Word specifically for my job. My Acrobat add-in no longer works so I have to upgrade and as we all know, Adobe is asshole and I’m praying my workaround will work so I don’t need to purchase a subscription. No, I can’t use a regular PDF driver; PDFs I make from that are not accepted by my book printer.
A couple of things MS did with Word are mere annoyances and I’ll get used to it, but they are important to me.
My Abbyy FineReader add-in to Word isn’t working and I haven’t delved into that yet.
I haven’t even checked if my ancient copies of Photoshop and Illustrator work yet. I’m scared to find out.
This is just what I’ve found on CURSORY inspection. I am in tears right now.
Adobe sucks moose balls.
Why not just run your legacy programs on a virtual machine?
I don’t have any license keys left for Word 2010 and I can’t find a bootleg one that works, so a VM is worthless for my needs.
Your existing key should work. If not, you can grab a new one on eBay for $30-$40. Failing that, just run it unregistered in the VM and disable the network passthrough.
“No update ever goes unpunished” – DeplorableMe
Truer words were never spoken.
The difference is that THIS vandalism will be investigated…
Richmond Police are investigating after someone spray-painted “White Lives Matter” across the Arthur Ashe statue along Monument Avenue in Richmond. Police said they have information on possible suspects.
Ashe, a Richmond-born tennis star and humanitarian, was the first Black man to win U.S Open and Wimbledon titles.
Curiously missing from the article, someone also put BLM over the WLM. I am sure that person will be wanted for prosecution as well.
Well of course! That is not just hate speech but also destroying evidence.
“Supreme Court rules Donald Trump CANNOT end DACA program stopping illegal immigrants who came as children from being deported – in second defeat in a week for president”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8436447/Supreme-Court-rules-Donald-Trump-end-DACA-program.html
Fuck DACA and fuck the Supreme Court.
/remembers the ethics violations seen in one day volunteering in a DACA clinic
I would love to see the response statement being “The agency will now enforce the law as originally written, and disregard any previously issued executive orders.”
*Shocked face*
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against the Trump administration’s effort to end the Obama-era program that offers protections to young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
The court ruled that the administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
In a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberal members to author the opinion, the court said the move to eliminate the program that grants privileges to children who entered the U.S. illegally as minors was “arbitrary and capricious,” although they did not rule on the merits of the program itself.
“We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. ‘The wisdom’ of those decisions ‘is none of our concern,'” Roberts wrote in his opinion. “We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.”
Some executive orders are more executive orderly than others.
I’m for DACA, but that makes no sense.
It’s amazing how much power Roberts has.
If that guy is conservative, then the word has lost all meaning.
In short: Obama’s pen is nicer looking than Trump’s pen.
Executive orders have more force of law than laws now it seems. Unfuckingbelivable.
I’m still intrigued by the importance some people attach to symbolism:
“Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling said it was a “massive step” that players took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement on the opening night of the Premier League’s return.
Players and staff from Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Manchester City and Arsenal knelt as their matches began.
Match officials also took part, on a night players’ names on shirts were replaced with ‘Black Lives Matter’.
“It shows we’re going in the right direction,” Sterling told Sky Sports.
“Little by little we’re seeing change. It was natural, it was organic. We saw the teams do it in the earlier kick-off and thought it was something we had to do as well.”
Of course, Pep had to go a step further: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola added: “White people should say sorry for the way we have treated black people for 400 years. I am ashamed of what we have done to black people around the world. “
I don’t speak for people of my skin color any more than individual blacks speak for theirs.
Collectivist fuckwits, all of them.
I’m still intrigued by the importance some people attach to symbolism
I am still intrigued that people see “bending the knee” as anything other than subservience.
JFC. Eat shit Pep.
Like I said. Sports are dead to me. Went cold turkey.
The lecturing about society and history from a bunch of uneducated illiterates I can’t humor any longer.
I would rather go watch the local high school play football, baseball, whatever, than watch an asshole like that play for $millions.
One thing the internet has done is to make it easier for me to follow the ins and outs of lower league teams in the UK. I know more about how Torquay United runs than I do about any Premier League club.
Exactly where I am.
No more. Done. I’d rather water my grass now than give a second to any of these pricks.
Yeh. Like I need Lebron and Popovich to teach me about history and morals. Fuck off.
I wasn’t watching a lot of live sports anyway so I was already losing interest. And having to listen to all the politics doesn’t make it any more palatable.
Yeah, I was thinking the other day that the Chiefs won last year and the Royals in 2015. So I might be good on elite sports for a while.
I went along the same track as you. It’s the same with entertainment.
I laughed at my wife for watching her shows but now I realize she was onto something when she said, ‘I watch them because they’re light and doesn’t cause stress’.
So Pimple Popper MD it is!
Yeah, my wife watches a lot of reality TV for the same reason: the people are mostly idiots and you can laugh at them with no consequences. And, it doesn’t require a lot of brain engagement. Since she deals with contractors, city inspectors and such like all day, it’s a way for her to decompress.
That’s where I am.
I have to apologize for something I had no connection to except because for the crime of being white?
Do morons like Pep ever think at all? How is this NOT racism? It’s text book racism plus with a massive dose of illiberalism.
And here’s the really weird part. What triggered all this madness was Floyd and from what we’re learning it doesn’t seem to be racially motivated!
But that’s what you get when you actually believe ‘systemic racism’ is real. You get mob rule based on a lie.
And dumbass athletes playing their part as useful idiots.
BLM is a shakedown hate group and you’re a complete tool if you give those shysters money.
“400 years” has turned into the new “500 million straws every day” or “the polar ice caps will all be melted by 2020” (ha); everybody repeats it and nobody knows why
” I am ashamed of what we have done to black people”
Well I guess I might be ashamed of what you have done to them. Me? I didn’t participate in that and have been 180 degrees out from anything that would make me ashamed of my behavior. Y-Fucking-MMV.
Regarding Liverpool, I will read about their victory in the news.
Otherwise I’m done with the EPL until sanity returns.
PS. that prick Sterling can go fuck himself. Asshoe.
“White people should say sorry”
If I mistreat someone, something I try hard every day to not do, I’ll go apologize to them personally. As to you, FUCK RIGHT OFF.
“Trump supporter is removed from American Airlines flight after he refused to wear a mask as airlines crack down on enforcing coronavirus safety measures”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8435857/Trump-supporter-removed-American-Airlines-flight.html
Funny, no mention that he is gay.
Was he wearing a MAGA hat? I’d find out if him being a “Trump supporter” is relevant but I’m not allowing ads on the Daily Fail so I guess I won’t find out.
Queue Bee article about American Airlines not removing peaceful protester from plane, after setting it on fire.
Another Trumpet trying to kill everyone. Now he’s going to go to that rally tomorrow and then everyone is going to die. Maybe I should get drunk or something.
How is being a Trump supporter relevant to anything? It’s become a label to demonize people.
“Alcoholic killer monkey leaves one man dead and 250 injured after going on rampage when his booze supply dried up”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8435243/Alcoholic-killer-monkey-leaves-one-man-dead-250-injured-going-rampage.html
I’m not saying what he did was right, but I understand.
“Alcoholic Killer Monkey”
Band name? Or album ?
Idle thought – the same people who find it unspeakably outrageous for an employer to investigate job applicants for a criminal record believe that it is right and good that people be fired from their jobs for wrongthink.
Yes
It’s wrong for an employer to impose his views on an employee… unless that employee is a “racist”, in which case he or she should be fired from everywhere.
Office prog breathlessly reported that Mike Gundy said the Nword in 1989. Office Prog also thinks Ralph Northam is a swell guy.
Doublethink is an impressive quality.
It’s like you need an ID to buy cold medicine, but not to vote.
The woman who satirically wore blackface to a private party two years ago was recently fired from her job after the Washington Post made it public news. We are officially through the looking glass.
I’m not the only one who gets a laugh anytime a copsucker says “Few Bad Apples”. Isn’t that the whole point of the adage? that a few bad ones will spoil the bunch.
Yeah it literally makes our point for us.
“A few bad apples” need to be ruthlessly ferreted out and thrown away from the barrel.
I’ve had exactly the same thought.
Yep. And worse, they all know who the bad apples are, too. They just refuse to remove them.
NYT HeadInAssLine
The NYT just wants the children to be aborted anyway, so what difference does it make?
That’s a whole lot of Woke crammed into one sentence from different angles.
Yeah, I was surprised they didn’t shoehorn trannies into that somehow.
We are not ruled by laws, we aren’t even ruled by men. We are ruled by whatever this tiny group of people who all went to the same fucking schools think is “the right thing”. They have the final word. The final say.
The other day, the Bloombergers were asking Jeffrey Sachs how to “save” the economy. Jeffrey Fucking Sachs.
Ivy League Egghead Consensus Economics has put us in this mire. Who else would we look to for salvation?
This is just weird by this point.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1273634152433188865
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?
Seems like that, all things considered.
Mrs. Krassenstein
@HKrassenstein
25m
Replying to
@realDonaldTrump
No, but I get the impression that the Supreme Court realizes that you are a danger to America, and they KNOW that you are NOT ABOVE THE RULE OF LAW!
Someone does not know what “rule of law” means.
I honestly get worried about the people who reply to Donald Trumps tweets. Like i feel pity for their mental state that they are hanging on his every word to fire back at him.
They also don’t know humor or how it works.
“Alcoholic killer monkey leaves one man dead and 250 injured after going on rampage when his booze supply dried up”
WTF? Don’t give your alcoholic monkey the keys to the Gatling Gun. It’s just not smart.
Definitely related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU
More from Atlanta:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/lance-lorusso-officer-garrett-rolfe-rayshard-brooks
Short article, worth the read. One new fact:
So I used hyperbole about the DA in his press conference, saying “he lied about everything”.
Turns out, not hyperbole. Even lied about never seeing another officer agree to testify against a bad officer – not only did the other officer in this case not agree to testify against a bad officer, the exact officer accused in this case did testify for this DA against another officer.
There’s lies… and then there’s lies. I mean, holy crap! Between this and the “taser is not a deadly weapon” contradiction, how does this guy ever show his face in court again?
I think an highly atrophied sense of shame is a requirement for becoming a DA
I have not seen enough on this yet, to make a judgement one way or other. But what really concerns me is how we’ve went almost instantly from ‘if you’re black you’re guilty’ to ‘if you’re white you’re guilty’ at light speed. How the hell does that improve anything in any way? The media are trying to completely tear this country apart. If this doesn’t stop, it’s going to get very very ugly, and fast.
My guess is that they try the Floyd case and as many more like this as they can get, right before the election, and all the cops are found innocent, whether they should be, or not, and then the bigger riots start.
So, people love being locked in their homes, losing their jobs, their livelihoods, and then watching lawless rioters burn and loot everything, while the democrats and the media cheer them on and say it’s OK to riot, just not go to wedding or funerals, or anything.
That must be true, because in the RCP polls, dems are up by about 10pts, all across the board. Whatever this clusterfuck is we’re going through right now, revolution or Idiocracy, people must be loving it. I must be one of the true outliers who doesn’t like any of this shit and pretty much blame all of it on the left and their media.
Polls do not tell you what the public’s opinion is, they tell you what the pulbic’s opinion is supposed to be according to whoever commissioned the poll.
As is often the case, Yes Minister explains polling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
Anecdotal observation:
For the last 4 years i have noticed at the end of the year everyone is always talking about “How horrible the previous year was” and how getting to a new one is going to be good. This happened at the end of the year in 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. Memes talking about how awful things have been. Personally these 4 years have been the best in my life. I’ve seen huge career advancements, and stability. Now that is just me and i’m one data point. But i do think that there has been a distinct pessimism over the media for the last 4 years that has been at odds with my personal life, and probably is influencing a lot of people.
I work with a number of (otherwise?) very intelligent and accomplished people who are completely bought into the DemOp narrative on everything. Its frightening. I was just telling Mrs. Dean last night that I keep my yap shut at work no matter how misinformed/misguided my colleagues are, because I believe an honest explanation of my views and the basis for them would get me fired.
How many are true believers and how many are parroting what the true bleievers want to hear to protect their position?
I really think they are true believers. The few who aren’t are doing what I do – keeping their mouths shut.
The last time I spoke up was to say before the last election that Hillary Clinton had clearly committed multiple felonies with her off-the-books email. My CEO bit my head off.
Lesson learned.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Most of those people do not believe in any of that crap. They’re just signaling and going along to get along. I have personally seen this enough times to know. Sure, some of them are true bleevers in all the craziness, but they’ve a very small minority. They just to do think it will personally effect them, which is why they are so shocked when it does.
“effect”
affect, damnit!
I’m not saying they buy into the more extreme versions, but I’ve looked them in the eyes, and they are completely, honestly sold on TDS and that lifting the lockdowns has led to an increased rate of COVID infections. Not sure where they are on the current racial conflict, other than cooing in support of all the “White Coats for Black Lives” signalling. I will not be the least bit surprised if we make a donation to BLM.
I remember when I was a kid and my grandparents talked about ‘the good old days’ all of the time. Now, I completely believe them. We should have never invented the internet, folks. I used to think it was one of the greatest inventions of all time, right up there with antibiotics, refrigeration, fossil fuels, personal computers, the horseless carriage, all of that. Now, I have to seriously rethink that and I keep leaning towards ‘it should have never existed’. It was once a great tool of free speech, until it was taken over by a bunch of mega-corps who’ve decided to give the craziest and worst people among us the biggest megaphones, and silence everyone who has half a brain. All the brainless outrage mob has to do now is screech that something or someone has to be banned or cancelled, and the media companies and corporate bosses trip over themselves to make it happen.
We already have thought crime, enforced by the retard mob and their enablers. No day in court, straight to the execution.
“We should have never invented the internet, folks.”
But then I would never have met any of you fine folks.
Do you really want to know us?
As faceless avatars on a website? Yes.
agreed. I’m doin’ great, personally.
I work a full-time six-figure job. I have now billed in freelance this year alone through June over half of my normal salary. If it keeps up, I am basically doubling my income in one year. Crazy!
I’m also very tired.
I don’t think I can honestly tell you how many normie apolitical people I’ve talked to who are beyond disgusted and pissed off at the current situation. Now this is just anecdotal but counting on young commie retarded white fanatics as your base historically hasn’t been the best electoral strategy.
We are all outliers here. The vast majority of voters pay little to no attention to all the little details of what is going on. They hear a few snatches here or there on the evening news and that’s about it. When “the individual is supreme” lost the media to “the state is supreme” we lost America. Frankly, I don’t see it coming back; at best we are an anchor slowing down the rapid downhill trend.
“So, people love being locked in their homes, losing their jobs, their livelihoods, and then watching lawless rioters burn and loot everything, while the democrats and the media cheer them on and say it’s OK to riot, just not go to wedding or funerals, or anything.”
That sums it up nicely. I dont see how this doesn’t hurt the Dems, but what do I know?
We keep thinking that the DemOp Media will be broken/marginalized by the internet, but that doesn’t seem to be happening. Instead, the public discourse is completely saturated with pro-Dem and anti-Repub messages. Its been bad, but its getting worse. Sure, more people may be tuning out to one degree or another, but its pervasive, and there isn’t really a consistent counter to it broadly available – cancel culture and the socials have proven an effective countermeasure to any fledgling alternative.
I don’t think they can drag Gropey Joe over the finish line. But I think they can damn sure drag a lot of governors, state legislatures, and Congressholes over the finish line, and cripple any Repub who they can’t stop.
That could be why between Carlson and Hannity they have more viewers than the other networks combined.
There is still a silent majority out there and I am very much hoping that many of those governors have stepped on their dicks with their commie cooties power grab. The arbitrary exercise of unconstitutional power has hurt an awful lot of people. How likely are they to lose those governorships?
Hey, a guy can dream!
they have more viewers than the other networks combined
I have come to believe that the other networks now serve primarily as feedstock for YouTube, Twitter, misc. “comedians”, etc. I would bet that their selected clips get a lot more eyeballs than any broadcast.
Old media is dead, in the conventional sense. But it is actually undead, in the sense that certain business models were infused with cash from wealthy “philanthropists”, pension funds, and state-backed corporations, and the old-media institutions that were willing to adopt those business models were given new life. This proved quite a lucrative investment for the backers, as it turns out, because these new business models by and large catered to the lowest common denominator and were kind of fool-proof. Modern media, by which I mean the stuff that makes lots of money on the Internet today, is in some sense a legitimized form of spam. Oh, everyone derides spam because it is so obvious and annoying and only the dolts ever fall for it. But a few clever people realized that spam can be disguised and delivered in tiers based upon the perceived intelligence of the target. They called it A-B testing and all sorts of fancy things, but at the end of the day what they did was find a way to get people who would never click on obvious misspelled emails and pleas from Nigerian princes (while all right-thinkers know Nigeria is a republic) to click on salacious headlines, lists of innate but curious things, etc. Slap a bunch of ads on those pages, get a favorable conversion ratio, and voila you’re making money.
The problem starts when these organizations built on the model of parting fools from their money at industrial scale start deciding that they are really quite virtuous after all and should be deciding who wins and loses at the game of Internet media (which, in turn, is increasingly affecting people’s lives and livelihoods outside of the Internet). The DemOp media complex, as you call it, is a giant money laundering machine. Not in the mafia sense of turning the proceeds of illegal activity into legitimate dollars, but in the sense of taking money from saps and dupes and convincing themselves (or, at least, the saps and dupes) they really made it off of smart people making informed decisions. This model has taken over the Internet because, to a large extent, it is more profitable than the other models.
For what it’s worth, this started to become apparent to me when Thiel helped Hogan sue Gawker into penury. I don’t really think so many publications were actually so hung up about the journalistic freedom to publish sex tapes as they were concerned that one of the progenitors of their funding model was threatened. It’s not that Gawker should be able to publish what they want, it’s that journalists should be able to make a living off of getting clicks at all costs. Some may parlay that into highbrow careers at the New Yorker or wherever, but a man’s got to eat and shit like that pays the bills, at least until you get sued for all your worth.
Their polling numbers are going up like a rocket ship, so expect more of the same.
The only poll that counts is the one on Election Day. All of the others smoke that blows away in the wind. That is why the left is trying so hard to make voter fraud effortless for themselves.
There’s a reason it’s called a Silent Majority.
I keep thinking the same thing but it does seem a little desperate for me to hang my hopes on some Deus Ex Machina to save the day.
The silent majority might have silented themselves into the silent minority. We’ll fins out soon enough if that’s the case.
I am convinced someone has video of Roberts on Pedo island fucking an underage goat while a tranny flogs his naked ass to egg him on.
They do, and then they promised him his own private pedo island. I guess Gorsuch just got one too.
With no baseball on, Id probably watch that.
Go on…
Relinquish my grip on the reins? NEVER!
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) will be extending her state’s coronavirus state of emergency that was scheduled to expire on Friday.
“We will remain in some form of a state of emergency order,” Whitmer said Wednesday during a news conference updating residents on COVID-19 in the state. “All 50 states are in some form of state of emergency and we will have to be as well.”
The state of emergency allows the governor to put orders in place and take actions unilaterally. The designation is not the same as the state’s stay-at-home order, which was lifted earlier this month allowing retailers, bars and restaurants to reopen with some restrictions. The state of emergency will likely remain in place into July.
Democracy is so last century.
Dude, she’s personally responsible for Biden being up in the polls in MI by 9000 pts! She’s a hero, people love her!
Jesus Mary and Joseph, and there are a significant number of people who cheer this bullshit.
I want off of this ride.
Whitmer on Wednesday said new data show Michigan’s “aggressive actions” have significantly lowered the number of coronavirus cases and deaths.
“The data shows that very few states dropped their infection rates as low as Michigan has. Only Michigan and New York are on track to contain COVID-19,” Whitmer said.
Actively kiling off those who are more susceptible to the virus is one way to “contain” it, I suppose.
That and what’s their testing rate?
The disease can’t be contained. It’s a futile effort. Even if you “succeed” at it today, you will fail tomorrow because it doesn’t ask your permission to spread.
Here’s the guts of the SCOTUS decision on DACA:
The legal standard is this:
Incredibly, Roberts applies this legal standard by first, admitting that the AG’s controlling determination that DACA should be rescinded is not sufficient, even though it is controlling, by going behind the AG’s determination (which was not before the Court) to say that the Secretary was required to engage in additional justification for the change in policy. All that precedent about not substituting its judgment and needing a clear error of judgment (how to square those is an exercise for the reader) is tossed aside to demand substantive reasoning that it just said wasn’t required because the AG’s determination is controlling.
What a hack.
Moreover, as I noted above, DACA itself did not follow the rules that its rescission must follow.
History is repeating. We have rampant political violence in the streets. A Court with a majority of R appointees legislating hard left from the bench. And have recreated the conditions for stagflation. We are back in 1968 and have the 70s to look forward to. Just in case anyone is confused about this the 70s flat out sucked. Crime rates were the highest ever, economic growth was effectively 0, we had shortages and high inflation reduced our buying power, large cities were devastated by racial strife, and we still haven’t repaired the cultural damage. The ‘good’ parts of the 70s all centered around sex, and this time around the left have decided to close that down by adopting a neo puritan view on sex.
And, just like then, we have a communist country egging it on.
One other problem:
The Obama executive order was not subject to APA review. The Trump executive order somehow is. The APA applies (or used to, and will again I am sure) to agency rulemaking, not to executive orders.
Forgettaboutit Dean. It’s Robertstown.
And now the administration will write a more detailed memorandum, which will also be tested against the APA, and (assuming the Dems don’t win the White House and revoke Trump’s order without going through the APA) found to have failed to “consider the relevant factors” and be “a clear error of judgment”.
Of course, how an order to enforce the law as written can be “arbitrary and capricious” will not be addressed. As it wasn’t in this opinion.
Oh, no, the new memorandum will be “The Obama Administration’s failure to follow the APA procedure means that the program is null and void from it’s inception and thus will no longer be followed.”
Can’t the administration just use this decision to craft an end to DACA that follows the legal reasoning they laid out?
Probably. But the timeframe that process will require means the President will have to win another election to see it through.
True but the recension (if it stood) will just be rescinded if he doesn’t. Doesn’t this curb the power of the exec to issue EOs all willy nilly? If that’s the case maybe it’s not altogether a bad thing.
Doesn’t this curb the power of the exec to issue EOs all willy nilly?
I see absolutely no reason to believe the Court will apply this decision in a principled fashion.
The left does not obey rules and the courts and agencies do not enforce rules against the left. Witness bars being fined for opening and riots being treated as entirely outside the realm of Covid restrictions.
Yup. The usual suspects in the District Courts will block it immediately, and it will be hung up in the courts until after the election.
Methinks Terry Crews may be (gasp) libertarian. He included it specifically as a choice for white voters in his latest comments. Most people would’ve just said Republican or Democrat.