Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful morning it always is!
Democrats
McConnell says Trump’s nominee will be voted on before the next election.
And Graham says they have the votes.
Isn’t this where we feign outrage and call him Xi’s Puppet?
State of Emergency declared by Louisville police ahead of Breonna Taylor decision.
Sweden hasn’t had a second wave, because they are smarter than the rest of the fucking world.
Ammo sales up 139% compared to last year, gun sales up 95%.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with the rest of my day.
Hoes Mad. – blow it up blow it up ….
It is important for the future of mobocracy. You can’t have restraints. Because from now on only the good guy will get elected.
Permanent majority! The demographics are on our side! No retreat! No Surrender!
US could be just like civilized Venezuela in no time
Civilized Venezuela happened in the 80s and 90s..
It was all downhill after Chavez won in 1998. Ask the Venezuelans that had to eat their pets and now might have to eat their neighbors…
But this time they’ll bring us true Socialism!
Venezuela is true socialism. So was the disasters that played out in the USSR, under Mao in China (and are still going on with government disapproved groups), in North Korea, Cuba, and a range of other shitholes. One of the best implementations was done by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Those fuckers did some real house cleaning when they murdered 2 million out of the 6 million citizens, those that were educated and thus not likely to fall for communist bullshit, and created hell on earth.
Of course, today it is the fucking intelligentsia in academia peddling the marxist evil, which hopefully will result in most of them being burned at the stake, if it is foisted on us because of their efforts.
No, socialism is Denmark and Sweden, the happiest places on earth! And we could be just like them, but mean Republicans won’t let us!
There was someone claiming Venezuelans had run out of gas and had to ride donkeys.
My reaction was “Fake news, they already ate the donkeys.”
Those must have been the donkeys at this place. NSFW…
That is what they really believe.
So do spoiled children that throw a tantrum when their parents will not give them desert for breakfast…
Here’s a heaping helping of sand and sagebrush.
Mmmmm. Sage-y.
Honestly though, tuna is my favorite desert food.
Smells like fish, but it tastes like chicken?
nah, much fruitier.
There’s only one side that’s constantly whinging to change the system to suit their interests and remove restraints on their power: abolish the electoral college, eliminate the filibuster, pack the courts. It’s the same here in Canada: electoral “reform”, “Parliament, what’s that?”
Hey, numbnuts, the system works as designed, to protect against authoritarians like you.
“Lemon told fellow anchor Chris Cuomo that they would have to be ready to “blow up the entire system,” get rid of the Electoral College and appoint additional justices to the Supreme Court.”
They are telling you their intentions for after the election. People should take heed of this when voting.
There are now enough sound bites of people saying “blow it all up” to make a damn good campaign ad.
Blow’d up?
Blowed up real good! – https://youtu.be/uHkvD7-u7y8
Sweden hasn’t had a second wave, because they are smarter than the rest of the fucking world. – but they still have more deaths per million than Finland and Norway. Less than Belgium and Spain, but it is more identical to Finland and Norway than those countries so only that comparison is to be made / standard internet comment
Everyone in the medical profession that had not sold their soul to the government masters would have told you that without herd immunity developing all the shit we were doing was for naught.
Fer gawdsakes – vaccinations are nothing but a shortcut to herd immunity. And these dumbasses keep going on about how you lose your immunity.
keep going on about how you lose your immunity.
Which means a vaccine would not work.
The operative word there is “so far”. And the second question is “and how is the economy?”
Everyone has completely forgotten the initial problem – hospitals overwhelmed and a resulting wave of excess deaths due to an inability to care for patients. So we lock down to “flatten the curve”. Not to “save everyone from catching covid”. That was always impossible once it was circulating widely. If you wanted to do that, you had to seal off the country and track, trace and quarantine every single case and exposure. You can do that if you are New Zealand. But not if you are the US or Europe. It just is not possible… not in the long term. Or even the medium term.
So we had a strategy which would have the same overall number of cases…. but no huge excess fatalities because we spread them out over time. Everywhere except New York (and surrounding areas) did that successfully. Even New York was mostly successful.
Now we have shifted to “everyone who catches it is a failure of the Trump”. That ain’t it.
Sweden has filled in their “area under the curve” by letting people catch it. They did not protect the old folks, so they didn’t do that great on that part either. But they are beyond the peak, and with minimal cost. Everyone else will keep having the same cost they have been paying, until they also fill in the area under their curve.
The fact that some people over-reacted is not a problem. It is to be expected. The problem is that everyone is doubling down on their mistakes and refusing to even examine other possibilities.
In Q2 Sweden did not fare better economically adn this is what the lockdownistas say. GDP wise. YTD probably better. But it will be seen in a few years. Also plenty econ stuff is not caught by GDP in the short term.
“In Q2 Sweden did not fare better economically”
Sweden’s GDP fell more than Finland and Denmark, but was markedly better than Germany, Spain, France, Belgium- essentially most of the rest of the country.
Additionally, Sweden’s unemployment rose by less than most of Europe. Finland, Denmark all had way worse unemployment, which makes you wonder how their GDP stayed so high. I would be curious to see if it is due to government intervention (since gov’t spending is part of GDP).
In the minds of governments, printing money and shoveling it to their citizenry is indistinguishable from people working and creating value. An honest accounting of GDP would exclude any government spending that was just redistribution of wealth.
Exports are something like 50% of Sweden’s GDP. Their economy was going to get hit hard regardless, because their trading partners shut down.
That’s pretty much the bureaucratic class in a nutshell.
The best touchstone for determining the worth of an expert? What price do they pay for being wrong?
Yep. Absolutely.
I’d also add “how broad is the topic they’re an expert on?”, and “how often has the issue arisen before?”. But accountability is the main one.
No metros on the planet have had a second wave.
If true, that would mean that this is not a second wave, but a continuation of the first wave. Cities caught it early and transmitted it quickly through a dense population. Now everywhere else is catching it and the wave builds slower as the cases increase in the more sparsely populated countryside.
Actually, in “dry tinder” Sweden is more similar to Belgium and Spain.
People use Tindr while sober?
I used it while sober.
Maybe that’s what I was doing wrong.
I finally deleted my tinder account and the app. What a wasteland.
More like Karenesia, amirite? – physical exercise boosts immunity donchaknow
Are you gonna give anybody else a chance to comment, Pie?
Nein. Nein! NEIN!
I did. Not by choice though, the site forced me.
Better Pie than Brochetta.
But just barely…
I keed, I keed.
Morning Banjos.
Mornin’, UnCiv
Hi Banjos! I’m often unable to get on the morning links because the time is so early for us on the west coast, so I don’t get to tell you. But I wanted you to know how much I always enjoy your wacky animal cover photos and gifs when you do the links. Poor lizard today! I still have the one you posted where Shaq and the cat wiggle their heads at each other, always makes me laugh.
“Sweden hasn’t had a second wave, because they are smarter than the rest of the fucking world.”
I don’t know about smarter, I think they’re just not the that excitable. It’s hard to get a Swede hysterical, unless you mention aquavit.
Tell a Swede that he has to go into the corner to get the puck, and he’ll get the vapours.
Daaammmmnnn.
I was surprised to learn Victor Hedman was a Swede because dude’s a mean, nasty git.
Svedes ounly get ixceeted vhee-a cuokeeng. Bork Bork Bork!
I read this as “the men only get sexually aroused for cuckolding, then do it thrice”
What if you criticize Swedish meatballs?
What kind of monster would criticize Swedish meatballs?
Just trying to get a Swede to be hysterical is all.
“Chinese State Media Chief Confirms CCP ‘Wants Biden’”
Chinks chuck Chump !
“Eight angry hoes ready to pack the Supreme Court”.
I’d rather 10 freaky girls on a yacht.
“ESPN’s Rachel Nichols slams NBA for lack of Ruth Bader Ginsburg tribute”
This was in my news feed. I didn’t know RBG was a baller!? Did she play in the NBA?
And no link because I don’t care that much.
And mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
She did sit on the bench for a long time, that was good enough for Brian Scalabrine 😉
Rachel Nichols is getting woke in her old age
She was on broomstick duty underneath the peach basket, it was a crucial team role.
Hey, IBM. Rutherford county mayor lifted the mask mandate. How’s Wilson?
Ask Compaq too while you’re at it.
Know any good mediums?
I do, but they’re still at large.
So it ghost.
RBG replaced Byron “Whizzer” White, who was once the highest paid player in the NFL.
That is the closest connection I can come up with.
Thought you were talking about the other Whizzer White there for a second, Danny White’s dad. Was about to say I had no idea he was a judge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_White
Ask her if she slammed the NBA for a lack of an Antonin Scalia tribute…
Good morning, Banjos!
So nice to see you again!
Same plan, people: scroll down, start the song and then read the lynx. Absolutely does the trick (great fucking song, too)!
How about a goddamn trigger warning foe the Lemon/Cuomo pic? Disgusting. Also, retarded ideas, Don.
Of course China wants Gropin’ Joe. Sorry, though, Pooh Bear. You ain’t getting him.
Sweden better get the border walls going right now. A lot of people are gonna want to be there soon.
Have a fantastic day, people! Tell someone you love them.
Live dangerously and make it a stranger! 😉
Mornin’ Tundra!
It’s always implied but I don’t say it enough… good morning, Banjos!
She deserves it. She’s got Moxy!
It’s a little thing but that should make it easier for me to do, and she so deserves it!
Mornin’
Lyndsey is such an amusing homosexual. Mornin’ Banjos! How is “school” working out for your kids? Hopefully not too weird.
When I was working on the nephews’ computer this past weekend, I asked my sister how the schooling is going. To say she was less then happy would be an understatement. One boy is in middle school, the other in grade school, and they have wildly different schedules through the week. She did not appreciate me laughing at her pain.
Is this the relative who wanted the lockdowns?
No. Younger sister who works as a nurse, her husband is a fireman, so they’ve both been working through this (and are used to some messed up schedules already). My immediate family is pretty much done with the bullshit, even my parents (both high risk with multiple comorbidities) DGAF. I don’t really keep in touch with my extended family, but have the feeling more of them are on the lockdown forever route.
Mornin’, I live in saneville where the schools are opened. They gave parents the option to allow their kids to have school from home or in-school. So all is well.
Good to hear. There is so little positive news lately.
More covid BS
Broward county is looking to open schools. Governor DeSantis forced their hand by threatening the cash – only students attending an actual school the week of Oct 5 will count toward state funding. So they want to open…. Oct 5.
Yesterday the teacher’s union met to discuss their strategy ahead of today’s school board meeting. They intended to have a zoom meeting among themselves, but somehow it got live streamed on facebook so all the moms could watch.
It was quite the Sh*t-show.
They are going to demand that opening be put off until February.
They are super worried about their safety, apparently.
Now, if you follow them on facebook (which a lot of the moms do), you’d see that these same teachers are posting pictures of themselves at bars, out for “girl’s night out”, etc. Plus, as the wife points out, you don’t see the cashier at publix who makes $12 per hour whining about the risk – and she’s facing hundreds of customers every day.
Watching how much confirmation bias is at work in everything everyone is believing at the moment, I can’t help suspect that electoral politics is playing a huge role in all of this. These union leaders are hard left democrats. They all uniformly hat Trump like he is Hitler reincarnated. That has to play a role in trying to force as much chaos on the country as they can.
The cost of keeping all of these kids at home is staggering. All of the child care, lost wages because 1 parent must stay home, the computers and software required for all of this…
On crazy number that came up yesterday: The Broward school system paid $400,000 for social distancing signs for all of their buildings. Now, there’s probably 350 buildings in the system (327 schools, plus various admin facilities). But still … Over a grand per school for signs? Couldn’t you just print something out and laminate it? They must have bought professional signs for every door and every classroom…. and paid a rush fee to get it done right away.
They have all of the buildings open even though there are no students in them… so no savings on electricity, custodial staff, kitchen staff, etc. Then they have extra expenses for cameras in every classroom (I think I heard $6 million) that they are not using.
And when they go back? Some genius had the plan that they would still be virtual while in school for phase 1. So the kids that want to go back to school, but they sit in a classroom and take all of their classes online anyway, just like they are now. Not sure what the point of that is.
In elementary it will just be goofy. The teacher sitting at her desk talking to her computer, most of the class at their desks listening to her on their computer, and some at home. But middle and high school is going to be a cluster you-know-what. They are going to stay in their first period class and attend virtually. So the english teacher will have a class full of kids that have to sit there all day, they are all in different classes trying to talk to different teachers …. while the english teacher tries to teach her class on her computer at her desk. Brilliant!
so all the moms could watch. – not the dads? discriminatory
Dads don’t do facebook. At least not those of us who are men.
But my wife calls Glibs “fake facebook” and says I do the same thing. She’s not totally wrong…. but I don’t post pictures of my 8 year old playing with the cat, and then post pictures of me in my new pair of shorts going complement fishing by asking if they make me look old.
but I don’t post pictures of my 8 year old – you email them directly to OMWC?
Now that’s funny right there.
Meh… he pays good.
There is an important set of differences – Glibs doesn’t siphon up loads of personal information, nor does it go in for the viewpoint censorship and shadowbanning.
Nope! We’ll cat-butt you right in the face!
You just think they aren’t siphoning up your persona information. SP has files that J Edgar Hoover would return from hell to have.
Why do you keep sending her transvestite porn?
Sorry I mistyped fursona. I identify as a probably rabid, and definitely mangy, raccoon with half a tail and notched ear, named cuddles.
Not a three legged dog, that is blind & deaf, missing his balls, has cancer, and answers to Lucky?
How does a blind and deaf dog answer to anything?
Often a blind and deaf dog will have a seeing/hearing companion dog.
/wellackshually
Hearing aids, DUH!
Dead-threaded a few minutes ago – Sorry for your troubles, Cyto.
Thanks… but they are not really “my troubles”. It was more to put a face on the whole idea of the harm the lockdowns are causing. Because the media has taken sides and they think Trump is on the “no lockdown” side, they are hiding these stories, by and large. They’ll toss it in if they have a good story about someone who died of covid that they can use to make the point that Trump is super-Hitler. But there is no drumbeat of stories about depressed seniors living out their final months in isolation. No “national narrative” about the families who don’t get to see their loved ones for months at a time.
Just like we are memory-holing the violence from Antifa and DNC supporters in real time, we are pretending that the only cost of this pandemic is things that Trump did – like kill everyone who caught covid. Nobody is doing the story about the young couple who are living on mom’s couch because they got laid off. Or the story of the guy who was born-again in prison, got his life together and started a business, eventually getting his own storefront and employing 12 other people… only to go under permanently because of the lockdowns.
I can guarantee that if we had a national mandate from Trump closing things down, this is the only type of story you would be seeing.
And I think that is what really scares me the most. … the fact that there is such a large group who are working so hard to manipulate our view of reality… all for power. It makes me wonder just how far removed we are from the people of Hitler’s Germany, or Stalin’s USSR, or Mao’s China. How much could we be manipulated? What would we not just tolerate, but actually demand?
I fear that the answer to that is “a lot more than we should”.
We’ve been manipulated since the founding of the country. The only thing that enables a government to exist is manipulation. Until recently, there were so few outlets for information it was much simpler for them. I actually see the anger and contention as a real positive. The fact that there are so many people calling out the manipulation and the obvious bullshit in the press means that it isn’t working like they want it too.
Fucking local news last night had an example-free story about “Think of the countless children orphaned by coronavirus”.
Because 35 year old parents are right in the kill zone?
Technically, as long as nobody bothers to count them…
That’s hilarious.
Doing the math – a skill no journalists have (which is why they chose that major) – shows roughly two children on earth orphaned by coronavirus.
This is what hysteria looks like.
“The cost of keeping all of these kids at home is staggering.”
I worry less about the money side of it. Psychologically it’s traumatizing. I hear a guy on the radio explain his story about his two sons. In one case, two teachers didn’t show up for their Zoom class. In other, the zoom connection failed. Anxiety for both kids and father – who missed two meetings tending to this – increased.
Politicians and teacher’s unions. Complete incompetent cowards and abusers.
I can confirm that the psychological toll on the kids is massive.
My youngest absolutely thrived last spring. She had a bond with her teacher, so she wanted her to be proud. So she got up every morning and was done with school by 9:30. She did great.
But 6 months of very few play dates and no school or church have taken their toll. She’s …well, I was going to say “crabby” but that’s putting it too mildly. She’s become quite the beee-atch. And she’s really struggling with school, because even though her teacher is fantastic, they don’t have a personal bond. And my little girl works on personal relationships. That’s what moves her.
The other two kids are pretty short-tempered as well. That’s not their norm.
We try to find things that they can do safely…. beach trips, etc. But they are beat down. They don’t want to do any of it most of the time. The older ones have more options because older parents are not as scared (or are more beaten into submission). But more of the younger kids’ parents are younger or have only the one kid – so they are more cautious. So less options for play dates, etc.
Last weekend I offered to grab a couple of friends and take them to the water park. Nobody wanted to go. They’d rather sit in the house playing video games – the one place where they still get to socialize in groups.
It really sucks.
They are suffering academically.
And they are suffering socially and psychologically.
So, future Democrats then.
“last spring”
You keep saying that.
Yes, our kids go back this week. Prior to this, my kids walked to school each morning, across the campus, to the after-school care classrooms. There they would sit down and open their chrome books (that I had to buy) and dial into a Zoom call with their teacher, who was 150 feet away in the actual classroom. They have done this for about a month. Note that none of the staff at the after-school care gave 1 shit about COVID safety- they just wanted to work, since they are hourly and don’t get paid to sit at home in their PJs. And all this cost me was the cost of chrome books and $400/mo per kid. And ridiculous property taxes.
Yeah, a huge number of the parents in my area are doing “pods”. They cost more than the top private schools.
Our much maligned public schools are actually better than the private schools – if you know how to navigate them. So people with means still put their kids in the public school. (some do, anyway).
And this “back to school” moment feels like they are trying hard to make it as painful as possible. I have a feeling that we will go back for a short time, and then they will have some teacher get sick and that will be that. But all of the pods will be screwed up because they all quit for a few weeks.
I am not sure how much more screwed up the response could be. But at least our governor understands that local needs are local and he has done a good job of guiding the state through that level of the crisis.
Our kids have been going to the After School club for months- including part of summer vacation. There have been exactly 0 COVID cases, despite them being grubby little kids and even not wearing masks until the week before school “started” in order to get them ready for in school work.
You are right that the media is doing everything in their power to play up every COVID outbreak. But it remains the case that with a little bit of responsibility (c.f. I came down with a bad cold last week and kept the kids home until I tested negative), countless numbers of kids will go to school with no impact to kids or teachers.
“they sit in a classroom and take all of their classes online anyway, just like they are now. Not sure what the point of that is. ”
The students get to interact like normal human beings and the pants-shitting whack-job teachers stay away from the students. Quite possibly the finest solution.
Some old school Minneapolis punk:
Burn It Down
They were prescient.
Awesome.
Love it, The lead singer looks like a 45 year old accountant.
The great thing about Minneapolis punk is that some of it’s biggest stars were the least hip looking people on the planet. Balding, pasty white, overweight dudes with names like Bob, Grant and Carl.
I had a nice chat with him at a local gig a couple of years ago. He’s a great dude and funny as hell.
Louisville is going to be ugly if we get the standard cops aren’t accountable response.
True.
Democrats are angry hoes? Or is it angry hos? 🙂
My company tried to phish me this morning. Did not work as I ignore/delete most mails if they don’t seem directly linked to my work.
Usually the phishing attempts my IT department does are blatantly obvious. They got me once because I was dealing with an insurance issue at the time and they were acting like the insurance company needed me to contact them.
they got me once with saying something about my internet activity and I feared I clicked one to many links on glibs
Well that oughta learn ya.
Ours are really obvious when you view them as source (which is my default if I even vaguely don’t recognize an email thread). Lots of things like “X-Thread-Sim-Header:” with “avoidphishing” and “speartraining” and what not.
They are looking for an excuse to tell you you need to take a lame security class?
Oh I have to take lame security classes anyway. They are still better than the diversity / anti bullying classes.
At my company they spam people for months and then when the spam fails, they tell me in December I still need to take the fucking idiot class, too. All that other shit is for them to grandstand and tell lawyers they did their due diligence when a breach occurs and people’s info is stolen and used to send threatening emails demanding money or some video of the person wanking their crank will be shared on their social media.
More productive and worthwhile than a DIE (Diversity Inclusion Equity)class
Those are, at least for now, still things I was able to avoid at work..
I am sure they are keeping a list and I will be asked why I don’t participate…
My answer will be because I have real work to do unlike practically all of senior leadership and most other people at the company….
I am sure they will love that truth being told…
They’re looking for an excuse to keep their insurance company from requiring an outside security audit.
we already have those
Yup. Wasting time and money is a favorite hobby of the managerial class.
The Kentucky lawmaker noted that there were 43 days until the presidential election and 104 days until the end of this Congress, rebuking claims from Democrats that a Supreme Court vacancy couldn’t be filled in such a short period of time.
But that doesn’t matter because mu-election year.
Barrett was just confirmed for a federal appellate court in 2017. Not hard to justify a quick hearing and vote for her. They’ve already approved her for federal judging, so a pro forma appearance, no need for other witnesses, hold a vote.
But how are we going to find out who she allegedly raped or if she ever uttered the ‘n’-word or something?
They already know what they hate about her – she is a conservative Catholic. The Dems are falling back on that good ol’ timey anti-Catholic bigotry they used to know and love. Just slightly updated.
She has ruled in favor of a lot of lockdown stuff IIRC. Better than a Biden pick, but I’d rather have someone else.
Yeah, she appears to be another Kavanaugh/Alito clone with tits.
Yay
Did you really think it was gonna be a good one? They need a milquetoast ‘centrist’ who will make it through the confirmation hearings.
I was hoping that because it’s so close to the election that no squishies in the Senate would be able to vote against whoever Trump put up.
No way. A strict constitutionalist would give them perfect cover. Can’t confirm a ‘radical’ after all.
Supposedly the Cubana started becoming politically active as a result of the seizure of Elian Gonzales.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/09/if-barbara-lagoa-is-trumps-pick-for.html
He needs the Cuban chick and Amy needs to sit this one out. I am being serious. Coney-Barrett can have her turn when Thomas retires. Cuban votes matter in Florida. Florida is “Uge”.
Blow it out your ass donkeys.
Elections have consequences.
-BHO
You don’t stop being president in your final year.
-RBG
“But since then I’ve said RHEEEEEE any number of times. What part of me not getting my way do you not understand? I reiterate. Rheeeee!”
It the stupid party actually learned a lesson from the Kavanaugh debacle and just rams through a new SC without allowing it to turn into a clown show, I’ll vote straight Republican this election.
Edit; I forgot I’m voting for Orlando’s Democrats sheriff, because he handled our BLM protest really well.
Disney doesn’t put up with the actual bullshit, whether or not they promote it thru their media.
FM – was that Mina?
Yes sir.
130) Fraternity chapter succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome, votes to disband
It seems like this fraternity chapter at American University voted to disband itself, allegedly because of the supposed complicity of fraternities in sexual assault and racial exclusivity on college campuses. I’m skeptical the Washington Post’s account of how this played out is accurate, but in any case, the newspaper sees this chapter’s decision as a harbinger for fraternities across the country.
So, I was in a fraternity, in fact the same one that voted to disband itself (different chapter, of course). Let’s see how this article compares to my experiences.
“’ there is nothing more traditional and White and elitist than fraternities on a college campus,’ said Alan Desantis, author of the 2007 book “Inside Greek U” and a longtime fraternity adviser.
Elitist and traditional possibly, but exclusively white? Our chapter had a couple black dudes, and we weren’t the only fraternity on campus to be racially mixed either. And this was at a small, conservative Southern college. I have to imagine many fraternities at large state schools are quite ethnically diverse.
“The current movement against Greek life singularly targets organizations built on a history of Whiteness, as opposed to other facets of the system such as historically Black sororities and fraternities that formed in the 20th century.”
Got it. Black-only fraternities are great, white-only fraternities are terrible.
“They shared anonymous stories of racism and sexual assault experienced on campuses, many of them allegedly involving members of Greek letter organizations.”
Look, fraternities are groups of 18-22 year old guys trying to figure things out. Some chapters are going to end up going bad. This does not reflect my personal experiences, nor I think, most of those in the fraternity system. Like I said, we were a racially-mixed group, and to my knowledge there was no sexual assault going on. We did drink a lot and encourage our members to engage with the opposite sex. For me, this was a godsend, as I was so awkward at 18 that I might never have met chicks if I hadn’t had older brothers showing my how to comport myself, and provided parties where girls and guys could met.
“Since June, all nine sororities at Washington University in St. Louis have talked about whether they should permanently disband. They have also begun to discuss a new social system that could replace Greek life, suggesting fraternity houses could transform into cultural spaces for marginalized groups on campus.”
Sounds to me like that paragraph should read, “At Washington University, progressive organizations are pressuring sororities to disband because they covet their real estate.”
“When Payne-Reichert and his brothers voted to disband the Delta Tau Delta chapter at American University, they thought they had effectively ended its campus presence. But that was not the case. As they learned, a national Greek letter organization can decide to preserve a chapter by sending one of its own representatives to campus to recruit a fresh class of brothers.”
Hahaha, these assholes discovered they don’t own the organization, but are chartered by the national organization. Like most martyrs, they may have presented themselves as being some kind of selfless heroes, but they were actually being quite selfish. Generations of previous chapter members, and (hopefully) generations of members to come, have a stake in the continued existence of the organization. These guys can’t just decide on a whim to do away with it—it doesn’t belong only to them. They are the current custodians, and they are not performing their duty of preserving the organization.
In my experience, here’s what fraternities do: They take confused, soft, inexperienced teenage boys, and in a fun and supportive environment, turn them into confident, masculine men ready for the adult social and work world. My fraternity was far from a model chapter, and they still managed to do this for me. Yes, they are traditional, because the traditional ways of molding masculinity are most effective. And I think it’s this, not the (alleged) exclusivity and racism and sexism, that campus progressives hate.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests – we did. [winks at Dean Wormer] But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society?
Holy cow, Animal House perfectly predicted American society in 2020.
Entryism has enraged me ever since I was a wee chile and the UMC told me we needed to change all the hymns because referring to God with masculine pronouns was un-Christian and hypocritical.
Then later in my own fraternity career, we had a group of people actively try and take over the joint, bring in people like themselves and kick out/make things unpleasant enough to get the old timers to leave. They vastly underestimated the depths of my spite.
I had a “spat” with the younger members of our chapter, leading to the downfall/dissolution of the branch after I entered grad school. From my perspective, they were conniving little shits that were more interested in their own social pecking order and resume building than the welfare of their fraternity brothers. They were almost uniformly passive-aggressive beta males, the kind that would go behind your back and lie about it later out of fear of being caught.
True to form, most of them are die-hard Democrats now, constantly posting to Facebook about how true they are to the cause.
Anyone with a grasp of human history knows that these outbursts of ostentatious “piety” have occurred many times before – and then simmered down again. It annoys me so much that the tantrums of what are basically still children are taken as if they were what everyone will think in twenty years time.
It’s not just a case of accommodating former members of these sorts of institutions; it’s also about making sure that they’re protected for future generations. There may be piecemeal reforms you can do to improve fraternities and so on, but just giving into over-excited impressionable kids is incredibly stupid.
Needs an article, Friend.
Happy equinox people. Enjoy your symmetrical day.
Everything’s lopsided.
The Ones Who Take The Nope Train out of Omelas
The Ones Who Don’t Found Omelas in the First Place
The Ones Who Burn Omelas to the Ground
The Ones Who Drink to Forget About Omelas
The Ones Who Think “Omelas Is A Nice Place But I Wouldn’t Want To Live There”
https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1308099331577327616
LA Times: wHY cOMMe sWEDin dO nO ViruSH?
Fucken idiots.
“We’re going to have to blow up the entire system,” Lemon shrugged. “You know what we’re going to have to do? Honestly? From what your closing argument is, you have to get rid of the Electoral College. The people —”
Dems can’t win by the rules so they have to change them.
I remember telling a bunch of children back in 2001 that “This changes everything!”. How wrong I was. November 9th, 2016 changed everything.
2001 primed the system.
The groundwork was laid for everything we are experiencing now.
Anti-communists in the John Birch Society were predicting this kind of commie revolution in the 50’s. Historians will see it as a process that led up to this point.
Katrina! I cut many a rug to that tune back in the 80’s. Pretty damn upbeat in these trying times. Thank You!
Tard Tuesday: Scores Are Out, Whining Is In
(no link because it’s behind the impenetrable WSJ paywall)
I don’t get why they bothered with the standardized testing in the first place. If a dumbass like me can get a 1350 on the SAT and a 35 on the ACT, they’re not that difficult.
Yes, I took both tests, why do you ask?
Oh, wait, I forgot. I’m a freak who tests well.
Never took the ACT, took the SAT once, and was in the upper 90’s percentile, so I wasn’t too worried.
Then I went for a year of community college and dropped out.
It’s because clever fellows like you and I can coast and that’s just not fair!
Same SAT composite, don’t remember my ACT score, but not quite as good as the SAT. At the school where I took the ACT, they were giving the start & stop commands over the PA system. They’d switch on the mic about 30 seconds before time would be called, and you could hear it humming. Sent me into mild panic mode at the end of each section.
Out of 1600, right? I hate them for introducing the 2400 score boondoggle that makes it sound like I did awful.
Yup. My next older sister had the same composite, too, but hers were 750 Verbal, 600 Math, and mine were 680V, 670M.
I don’t remember my breakdown, but I had a significantly higher math than verbal score. The worthless guidance councillor at the school called it an Engineering Split.
Now I’m a writer.
Favorite memory of the SAT: As my classmates & I were waiting outside the building beforehand, one gal announced, “Don’t worry. If all else fails, there’s always Ohio State.”
I only took the ACT. The SAT wasn’t even offered anywhere.
i would think colleges would want the test scores more than ever, because with the Zoom classes and whatnot, I don’t think grades nowadays necessarily reflect a student’s true performance. I guess that would only be the case if colleges were interested in students for their academic potential, though.
It seems colleges have turned into federal loan mills.
“Morphed into” seems more appropriate.
Empty Shelves: Ammunition Sales Surge 139%
And (hopefully…) with an upcoming pro 2A scotus I declare gun-control and arguments for it to be dead.
I still hope Trump wins and the Republicans hold the Senate. That buys 4 years and gets gun and ammo prices back to normal next year.
You may call me a dreamer.
But I’m not the only one.
[ducks and runs like hell for alluding to THAT asshole]
That buys 4 years and gets gun and ammo prices back to normal next year.
Something something burn it all down
Once ammo (and reloading components) get down to normal again, I plan to buy about ten grand worth. I want to lay in enough pistol and .22LR ammo (at least) to support a reasonable level of practice and recreational shooting, for the rest of my life. Or as much as I can fit into my truck, whichever comes first.
That’s why, even in the very best case scenario, things don’t return to any kind of normal for at least a year.
It’s not hoarding if you actually shoot a lot!
I pulled the trigger on that case of M855 yesterday. $.63 per with shipping & tax.
I’m not calling it panic buying.
So it’s addict buying?
Partly. Also, partly all the “burn it all down” rhetoric this week.
The cheapest HV .22LR I could find was $0.13/round. Like 9mm, it’s at least quadrupled.
So apparently the price jump on the M855 isn’t that bad.
Where did you find it. Asking for a friend.
MidwayUSA
Time to start handloading so I can use my AliExpress tungsten armor penetrators
https://twitter.com/TacitMaid/status/1308173837817741312
Get a spare barrel.
Or, maybe, https://hi-performancebulletcoatings.com/hi-tek-supercoat-powder/
Europe wants Biden too.
Duh.
Imagine it sounds like this.
Wrong link, but still cool.
Meant this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtckkGoT2M
Why would those that benefit from assholes that fuck over America and Americans like an American president doing that more, huh? And why would people that want bad things for America and Americans not like a president that does things to help America and Americans?
I just can’t fathom that…..
Cool. They can have him. Is there an address we can ship him to?
How comforting.
Biden also said his 1st choice is to select an African-American woman, but outlined his reasoning for not releasing a list of nominees
Pressed on if the American people should know who he’ll appoint: “No they don’t, but they will if I’m elected. They’ll have plenty of time.”
Because being black and having a vagina are the only legit qualifications. And I see that Dems still care about transparency.
I don’t hear anything about their jurisprudence.
Though knowing Joe’s handlers, it’d be a pro-commie nightmare candidate.
That’s how he’s going to survive Harris! He’ll nominate her for the court (which would be a terrible fucking pick for liberty).
How was Ginsberg different? Was there ever a case that anyone couldn’t easily predict her opinion based on politics, not the Constitution?
Police procedural cases with the weird Gingburg/Scalia team?
Janice Rogers Brown would be okay but I think she doesn’t want the gig.
Because being black and having a vagina are the only legit qualifications
So basically his entire cabinet is going to be Oprah?
Oh great more billionaires ruling over us for their own amusement.
Up here in BC every NDP (soft Commie) seat vacated by a white man must be filled by a candidate who is either a woman or from a minority group. The election is next month and they are way up in the polls. We are well and truly fucked.
Is there really no black, female, semi-experienced conservative judge for Trump to nominate?
Black? no. Brown? Yes, there’s a few.
Janice Rogers Brown is female and black.
She’s not semi-experienced. She’s very, very, very experienced.
Yeah one more condition, not over 70.
I have some hope here in Ohio now. First DeWine got booed and heckled, and now the Lt. Governor got heckled (in an area local to several Glibs).
It is unfortunate that Janice Rogers Brown is too old now, it would have been an interesting SC appointment
Being old might make her more palatable. The opposition may let you pack the court as long as the person has a good chance of dying sooner.
^^^ makes sense in a dark way.
Damn Bush II for choosing Roberts over her
Wut?
Reporter Brittany Schmidt asked, “If Trump’s Supreme Court pick goes through, but you win the election, and let’s say the Democrats then take over the Senate, but maintain the House, would you consider adding more Supreme Court justices to the bench?”
Biden responded, “It’s a legitimate question, but let me tell you why I’m not going to answer that question. Because it will shift the focus. That’s what he wants. He never wants to talk about the issue at hand. He always tries to change the subject. Let’s say I answer that question, then the whole debate’s going to be, what Biden said or didn’t say, Biden said he would or wouldn’t. That’s going to — the discussion should be about why he is moving in a direction that’s totally inconsistent with what the founders wanted. … Voters get to pick the president, who gets to make the pick, and the Senate gets to decide. We’re in the middle of the election right now, remember, you know people are voting now. By the time this Supreme Court hearing would be held, if they hold one…it’s estimated 30 to 40% of the American people will already have voted. It is a fundamental breach of constitutional principle. It must stay on that and it shouldn’t happen.”
0_o
Good of Joe to show he doesn’t understand the constitution.
“There are only three available gravediggers at the moment, so I thought I might as well put these people to work with them,”
Indonesia only has 3 gravediggers?
Available.
The rest are spoken for.
There must be some guys around from Pol Pot’s time. Just ask Cambodia for a solid.
“You know how to operate bulldozer? You hired.”
Union regs.
The casualness that some people can adopt when they’re being complete twats never ceases to amaze me.
There are a lot of people (probably most) who, when they feel they are in the moral right, will abuse their fellow man without a care in the world.
That’s what has been so troubling about “Current Year”.
Intake of ω-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Rich Vegetable Oils and Risk of Lifestyle Diseases
https://academic.oup.com/advances/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/advances/nmaa072/5867525?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Deep-fried foods cooked in ω-6 PUFA-rich vegetable oils such as rapeseed (canola), soybean, sunflower, and corn oils, already contain or intrinsically generate “hydroxynonenal” by peroxidation. As demonstrated previously, hydroxynonenal promotes carbonylation of heat-shock protein 70.1 (Hsp70.1), with the resultant impaired ability of cells to recycle damaged proteins and stabilize the lysosomal membrane.
Here, we describe the molecular implication of ω-6 PUFA-rich vegetable oil-derived hydroxynonenal in lysosomal destabilization leading to cell death. By oxidizing Hsp70.1, both the dietary PUFA- (exogenous) and the membrane phospholipid- (intrinsic) peroxidation product “hydroxynonenal,” when combined, may play crucial roles in the occurrence of diverse lifestyle diseases including Alzheimer’s disease.
Too many syllables so I’m going to ignore it.
fry with butter/lard not with oil would be my takeaway :). Not fry at all should be even better
It’s amazing how high the percentage of Omega 6 fats in the modern diet have gotten. I am not in the camp that thinks PUFAs are the only culprit, but man, they are certainly nasty.
worse that Omega 3 are lower than nee3ded and I thing the body preferentially absorbs O6
It’s the ratio that’s important. It’s actually not that difficult to avoid the high 6 and still get plenty of 3.
Eat your meat. Eat your eggs. Eat your fish.
But I don’t think there can be such a thing as only culprit in the human body
Here, I’ll translate:
If it’s anything other than animal fats, olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, butter or ghee, don’t eat it.
Unless and until the Cola Nut Oil lobby funds a study showing that Cola Nut oil promotes health in some subgroup. Then you can have your Acai berries fried in Cola Nut Oil.
It’s evil, really. Fucking ‘heart healthy’ labels on canola.
I would bet the American Heart Association and other ‘medical’ groups have killed more people than the commies.
Especially since it turns out that the better tasting stuff turns out to be better for you. If it hadn’t been pushed by the experts margarine and the various other tasteless oils wouldn’t be used for anything really.
You can thank Ancel fucking Keys.
The world of Big Food is full of villains, but he deserves a special mention. Oh, and for the soldiers in the group – the ‘K’ in K-ration stood for Keys.
Yep, a fucking psychologist convinced the government that he knew best how to feed the fighting man.
Then he went on to game a bunch of studies to show that saturated fat caused heart disease. Which, when combined with huge surpluses of certain foods (grains, naturally) and lobbyists, we got the lovely food pyramid, which has been killing people ever since.
I hope he’s burning in hell.
Call it by the real name. It’s Rape Oil.
You can’t deep fry with those.
Speaking only culinarily and not related to health:
animal fats: Lard and tallow are excellent deep fry mediums
olive oil: Not at all true. Late press oil has been used by dagos for centuries to fry cookies and vegitables
coconut oil: Probably can, but I’ve never done it.
avocado oil: excellent all purpose fry medium
butter or ghee: Technically, this is deep frying with butter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_butter
What’s that say in English?
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
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2020.
The only people that don’t support ACB’s nomination to the Supreme Court are women haters.
– using the lefts playbook
I don’t think she would be a good pick. I get the impression she’s a squish on key constitutional issues and would end up as unreliable as Roberts.
How about that Cuban broad whose name escapes me?
Don’t know much about her jurisprudence. Or even her name.
I’ve heard a lot of “liberty” types on the conservative side pimping her. Robert Barnes in particular seems to like her as a pick that can get confirmed. He is not a fan of Barret at all. He is kind of a conservative-libertarian hybrid. Big on the bill of rights and does his business at the appeals court and supreme court level… so not a bad touchstone for legal opinions. He liked Gorsuch and was not a big fan of Kavanaugh (but no huge complaints either). Not a fan of Roberts. So his tastes probably align with ours pretty well. Don’t recall him mentioning Thomas.
Lagoa
I thought she was hardcore? But I’m taking others’ word for it.
Definitely not a Janice Rogers-Brown.
And Catholiphobic… Papaphobic… Progressives?
Shipwrecked by Rents
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3693463
The trade route between Manila and Mexico was a monopoly of the Spanish Crown for more than 250 years. The Manila Galleons were “the richest ships in all the oceans”, but much of the wealth sank at sea and remain undiscovered. We introduce a newly constructed dataset of all of the ships that travelled this route. We show formally how monopoly rents that allowed widespread bribe-taking would have led to overloading and late ship departure, thereby increasing the probability of shipwreck. Empirically, we demonstrate not only that these late and overloaded ships were more likely to experience shipwrecks or to return to port, but that such effect is stronger for galleons carrying more valuable, higher-rent, cargo. This sheds new light on the costs of rent-seeking in European colonial empires.
Wait… how does this explain that capitalism is bad? Are you sure this is a legitimate academic paper? Shouldn’t it discuss the effects of diversity as well?
Dude, it reeks of colonialism!
Insufficient Sun Exposure Has Become a Real Public Health Problem
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400257/
Most research on the health effects of sun has focused on skin cancer. Many ecologic studies that show an inverse relationship between vitamin D status and a wide range of diseases have suggested beneficial health effects from solar exposure that have been widely attributed to vitamin D. However, supplementation studies have, in general, not supported vitamin D as causal. This raises the possibility that poor vitamin D status is a proxy for insufficient sun exposure that impacts on health and is therefore a biomarker of other mediators. These are not established but nitric oxide released from skin is a strong candidate that merits further research. It is also possible that sunlight may have direct systemic effects via blood borne cells. The studies discussed in this paper suggest that it would be wise for public health bodies to have a better understanding of the risks and benefits of solar exposure, which will depend on Fitzpatrick skin type and local UVR conditions.
Gee, after nagging everyone for the last 30 years to never set foot outside without slathering yourself in sunblock, we have a Vitamin D problem?
Who would have guessed it?!?
Wait until they discover the link between metabolic health and cancer. That oughta be a fun one.
This seems to me to say positive effects of sun go beyond just vit D
Well placed tan lines definitely improve my mental health.
Oh, for sure. I’m just saying in context of all the follow on heath issues related to D deficiencies.
I mean, come on. People in the northern climes get no shit depression from lack of sunlight. We have a piss-poor understanding of exactly how our hormones work together, but everyone can agree that when you are dialed in on food, sun, sleep and exercise, you are flat-out happier.
steak sun sleep steel (well iron but it is not alliterative)
It’s my elder Brother’s birthday today. I hope he chokes on something before the day is done. Fucking Virgo!
Well, if you go over for a visit he can choke on…
You know what, I’m not even going to finish that joke. I’m classier than that…
Naw he’s an ephebophile cunte that crossed boundaries. I’ll not shed a tear when he’s gone. Sorry for the bring-down but that fucker can burn in a fire. After all is said and done, there can only be one and it will probably be him because he’s just too mean to die. I said the same about Mother but she dropped pretty early.
Yikes!
Mornin’
“President Trump’s nominee for this vacancy will receive a vote on the floor of the Senate,” McConnell (R-Ky.) said in the chamber, warning of a cultural war over filling the influential role.
Good.
Graham also vowed that the nominee to replace Ginsburg on the Supreme Court will be supported by all the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Might be good.
During a brief conversation at the intersection of their respective shows, Lemon told fellow anchor Chris Cuomo that they would have to be ready to “blow up the entire system,” get rid of the Electoral College and appoint additional justices to the Supreme Court.
Not good.
Kinda gotta admire their dedication to getting what they want. Immoral? Sure, but dedicated.
Maybe they’re accelerationists at heart. When the court gets packed the country is over.
They’ve framed the situation as “OMG HITLER LITERALLY TAKING OVER” when the reality is more akin to the third term of Bill Clinton.
The political opposition is racist, sexist, wanting to reinstitute slavery, put Jews in ghettoes, women back in the kitchen as breeders, etc…
In their fevered minds, the stakes are such that failure is not an option to the point that they are willing to tear the system down to save it.
The right, while not much better, is not talking about the elimination or permanent marginalization of their political foes. Although it probably won’t be much longer before a real reactionary movement takes hold and they are doing just that. I don’t have much hope unless the communists in the DNC are marginalized in the near future.
We had to destroy this
villagecountry to save it.They are definitely there.
This isn’t random back-benchers.
Pelosi, Schumer, the freaking Veep nominee… all are calling for eliminating the electoral college, universal mail in voting with no registration, packing the supreme court, packing the federal courts by expanding the number of circuits and judges, packing the senate by adding DC and Puerto Rico, manipulation of the court system by selective prosecution of political enemies and more damaging — promises not to prosecute political allies, plus eliminating the 1st and 2nd amendments and various forms of taking control of “the internet” to control “misinformation”.
If they really win, we are on the precipice. Doing all of that ends the republic.
By ending the electoral college, they provide a huge structural advantage to the DNC, being centered in urban areas. Add in “universal mail in voting” with no registration requirements, and they can harvest enough votes in NY and California to win every presidential election. And once you control the courts, gaming lower level elections becomes easier. Ballot harvesting is suddenly legal… game over.
Even just a couple of those things could end the representative republic. They are working to become a direct democracy, except with full control of what people can vote on.
No election where voter identity and eligability is not established at the time and place of voting can or should be certified.
Any ‘results’ from places without voter verification should be discarded.
UCS promoting identity politics!
Hence the “pack the courts” part of the solution.
It would do more than end the republic, it would end the nation. States would begin peeling off like nobody’s business and they’d be completely justified in doing so.
And they say the violence is fomented by the right…
“Look what you made me do!”
Tard Tuesday: I Get All My Best Ideas From Fiction Writers
LOL!
So now they are trying to create the illusion RBG was murdered by the right wing?
These fuckers parody themselves… You know they would have considered killing someone to keep their power as just business as usual, but it is pure projection to hint that’s what the other side has done. Then again, some other moonbats will soon be angry at RBG because she could have retired under Obama and didn’t (waiting to be replaced by Clinton)
If the right wing were able to give Hugo Chavez cancer, they could do the same to RBG
Like Scalia?
If the death of an 87 year old with pancreatic cancer is suspicious so is sunrise.
The daystar keeps trying to sneak up on me.
JUST LOOK AT EPSTEIN!!!1!!eleventy!
The Clintons should have had an organized campaign to claim the guy had some kind of terminal disease before offing him.
Well, I watched “My Octopus Teacher” on netflix: a flawed but moving documentary about a straight man who has a lifechanging erotic relationship with a female octopus. I cried, then read out loud to my friends the entirety of @amiasrinivasan
‘s 2017 essay
https://twitter.com/reproutopia/status/1307785450766163968
thread
Imagine being so wrapped up in your own ideology that you feel others would want to follow such a word salad of pseudo-intellectual queer-studies tropes cut up awkwardly into tweets.
I can’t follow, are they implying a human and octopus sexual attraction or what’s going on there? So some guy loved an octopus, why does it always have to be made dirty?
Because the entirety of the LGBTQWERTY studies is defined around sexual attraction. It’s literally the focal point of their personality definitions.
As a result, the only way to differentiate yourself from the crowd (unless you play the intersectionality victimhood angle) becomes “I want to fuck this weird thing that nobody else does”
Netflix. Pedophilia isn’t enough, we must also promote bestiality.
Octopodophillia.
The lines are around the block.
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1307197732784934913
Lol. So if it is anarchist does it mean they don;t need to respect government food safety regulations?
Also I wonder how that would work in a 10000 employee corp.
So breadlines bring them closer together?
Yeah, how do they make enough money to pay the people working there? They sell drugs or ass on the side?
If the government doesn’t bake the bread, who will?
Friend sent this after she attended a free Beethoven concert. She thought it funny and it annoyed me. Although I AM jealous that Japan is at least letting folks go about their daily activities even in Kansai unlike here in NJ.
https://i2.wp.com/glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/unnamed-1.jpg?ssl=1
Naturally they’ve borrowed the word “social distance” from the fools here in the west.
(Social Distance, This seat is my seat, Please refrain (from sitting here).)
They didn’t even line up the mask with his facial features properly? Lazy
All the buzzwords covid related are here. If they had Kanji for them, it ‘d be too easy to spot how stupid they are.
Anarchist-Communist?
The Bee had an article about some college roommates that tried this….
Went out yesterday to take XY to a job interview.
Me: WTF are all the flags at half mast?
XY: … Uh, RBG?
Me: Oh. Her. Right.
What was the job? Did he get the job?
Some position at Firehouse Subs.
They have to check and see if their company can hire 14-almost-15-yos. Some places around here are desperate enough that they’re doing that. They get a special dispensation from the state, but it depends on company policy.
Do not assume XYs gender!
That is a germaine response in this case.
So what does he identify as?
My XY identifies as someone who is attending school in an environment where you can get away with not doing anything. (in the short term)
I identify as a dad who is going to strangle his middle school son if he doesn’t get his butt in gear.
Ditto.
He’s sharing my office and I realized I’m going to have to keep a thumb on the pulse of his schoolwork else things will go awry.
I’m not opposed to home schooling for other people, but I can’t do it because I am not a good teacher. I tried to help him with his algebra last night, but he doesn’t learn the way I do, so I can’t teach the way he learns.
My XY has finally figured out how to lie. He has been working the system to get away with not doing stuff…. and now he’s in it deep.
It was kind of nice… all the other parents had kids who could lie.. .but my guy never figured it out. Just not in him. Finally as a newly minted teenager, he’s full of crap.
So I have to go through and check everything. “did you do this? Show me. Did you turn it in? Show me.”
Holy crap, does it piss him off.
But you made your bed, buddy.
(he’s an awesome kid, btw. Just frustrating the crap out of his parents right now. Welcome to 13)
We have two apps that track assignments and grades. My husband signed up to get a notification every time a grade changed, but I’m not that much of a masochist.
XY wants to have a job (if he can get one at 14 or 15[soon]), so if he can’t keep himself caught up, he is prohibited from that.
That said, I have a way to keep on top of him and he’s 6 feet from me, so while it’s a pain in the ass, I can do it. Virtual is really not good for him.
Oh yeah. I have to check up on #1 son every 15 or 20 minutes to make sure he’s not watching idiots play video games on YouTube instead of his schoolwork (such that it is).
I don’t entire blame him though, they’re barely doing anything in these online “classes”.
LOL, wut?
I can’t get laid, so I am gonna do crazy shit for attention?
Can’t argue with that logic….
I like the cut of her jib…
That’s the kind of people we should gladly open our arms to welcome to our nation.
For those of us not not in French speaking places (here’s looking at you Rufus) let’s hope they use the Circle K brand.
Couche-Tard To Build Charging Points In U.S. And Canada
OTH, it would be rather humorous if they did keep that brand in the US.
Is it a high end couch if it ends with an “e”? And that tard sitting on it….
David French: Give Up Without a Fight
PUTZ
Shouldn’t he be writing a concession speech or staring at a globe trying to decide where to invade next?
Too busy spying on his wife.
Armenia. I need to gain control of the holy site on the far side of that kingdom, but can’t attack the owner directly until I share a border. So I have to annex Armenia.
super putz.
“Elections have consequences” was the Obama line… but he warns republicans of using the consequences… because it might inspire the dems to do that again.
What an idiot.
It certainly didn’t stop them with Obama. Niether he nor his congress had any such qualms about norms.
Or with impeachment.
I don’t see how nobody in the media sees the “Russia investigation” as a break with not just norms but with the rule of law in a democratic republic. But they just skip over that. Bork never happened. Thomas never happened. Spying on Trump never happened. The IRS on 503c organizations never happened. Promising to impeach Trump on Nov 4 never happened. “Elections have consequences” never happened. Impeaching Trump for 3 years never happened. Impeaching Trump for asking about an obvious abuse of office for financial gain to his family never happened.
But Merrit happened. And Lindsey Graham made a speech. So he’s bad. And all republicans are destroying society unless they let the democrats have the courts.
This is absolutely the dumbest story ever. The writers are idiots. Nobody could possibly be this dumb. Somebody needs to retcon this whole timeline.
The media has always been biased, but Trump REALLY broke them and good. They really are no more than cheerleaders for the Democrats at this point and are gleefully pushing things towards the edge.
I guess power IS an end unto itself.
it might inspire the dems to do that again.
Dems are vocally intent on changing the system so they never lose again. They intend to rule with an iron fist.
Just popped up in my feed:
Supreme Court Frontrunner Barrett is a Member of Group that Inspired Handmaid’s Tale.
Whites?
Yes, she is a woman, and it was inspired by women.
At the risk of doxxing myself further, while not a member, I’m somewhat familiar with some aspects of the group. The Handmaid’s Tale angle is laughable. It’s definitely different from mainstream Christianity and Catholicism to point where it’s been described as a cult, but it’s not going to take over the country or society.
I have seen the Handmaid’s Tale…is it different from the book? I thought the main premise is fertility rates have dropped and that helps usher in the totalitarian state.
What’s the angle here, Barrett is sterilizing everyone?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Praise
No weird sexual ceremonies? That’s not the same as the TV show!
That show was an amazingly perfect depiction of the ideals of nth wave Feminism.
The protagonist takes no initiative of any kind. She gets led through the plot by other characters.
Her giant act of rebellion is to scratch a message somewhere where nobody will ever see it.
When her ally rebels and takes a stand she literally goes nowhere, just drives around in circles… slowly.
People have no agency. “Social forces” are the actors.
Near me is a Charismatic Episcopal church. I’ve not been able to quite wrap my head around that, and instead just let it sit like military intelligence and jumbo shrimp.
Um…
Lesbian parties?
All I can imagine.
So the campaign to smear is already ramping up?
Is this even a question?
And . . . Newsweek already corrected their story. Turns out it was a different group.
Oopsie. But the lie was well launched, while the truth is still picking out its shoes.
I though handmaiden was inspired by the Iranian revolution in 79. Women literally went from university students to chattel in less than a week.
I had heard the same story. Dunno if its true. Don’t really care.
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: Evidence from Stable Employment in Rural Areas, 1500-1850
https://ehsthelongrun.net/2020/09/15/italy-and-the-little-divergence-in-wages-and-prices-evidence-from-stable-employment-in-rural-areas-1500-1850/
Mornin’ Banjos
(sorry to post like a dozen replies before greeting you, but I start at the top and work through using unreads to keep track so I have to do it in order or it all gets messed up)
Important voter related questions…………………….
*snort*
Sports new from across the pond I: government withdraws plans for limited number of spectators to attend sporting events: https://www.bbc.com/sport/54246745
Sports news from across the pond II: QPR Football director says impact of “taking the knee” has been “diluted”: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54237179
“The message has been lost. It is now not dissimilar to a fancy hashtag or a nice pin badge,” Ferdinand said in a statement on the club website.
“Taking the knee will not bring about change in the game – actions will.”
Polls polls polls. I love how google news just pukes up headlines claiming “Majority of Americans Think/Want/Believe…”
Why do we even bother with all this rigamarole about voting, and representation? And the Constitution! Who pays attention to that old thing?
What we need is instantaneous twattervotes on the issue of the day. Back to school? Twattervote says…
Free unlimited health care? Twattervote says…
House to house seizure of all privately owned firearms? Twattervote says…
Round up everybody with more than a million dollars in liquid assets and rediustribute their stuff? Twattervote says…
Soon enough, we will have the Paradise we deserve.
Paradise we deserve….. nice.
Sure, paradise lost i.e. Hell.
And BTW, they shall see to it that all Twattervotes that disagree with the left are considered hate votes, and are thrown out.
The road, it seems to be paved with… good intentions.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
U.S. District Judge William Conley of the Western District of Wisconsin — an appointee of President Barack Obama — ruled that absentee ballots in the state can be counted until Nov. 9 as long as they are postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3. He cited the state’s difficult experience in the recent primary election, as well as projected difficulties with the U.S. Post Office as it handles an unprecedented number of mailed-in ballots.
In a footnote, Conley added:
Love the way he gets from “postmark requirement is federally mandated” to “count ballots without a postmark“. All in the same sentence, even.
So, if you’re ignoring federally mandated requirements for a valid election, does that mean their results get thrown out and can’t be used for federal elections?
I can’t even follow that. It is as if there is a sentence or two missing in the middle. “since precedent and the law says you can’t do this… you can do this.”
A judge’s logic is very different from that of a square.
I like the production of “nov 9” from out of his butt.
Not that I’m particularly calling BS, just that absent any statutory authority, the court should not be inventing such things.
Yeah, there’s already a date on the books, Nov 3.
I had an employee who was late to work all the time and was about to get fired. He thought it was ridiculous that he get fired for just being a few minutes late everyday. I asked him how much time he should be allowed – 20 minutes, an hour? He scoffed at that and said no, that’s too much time, maybe only 5 minutes. I said, so you agree there there should be a set time after which he’s considered late. He affirmed. I said, good, we already have determined that time.
In Missouri, you have to have your absentee ballot notarized. Other than for people who are out of town, why is this easier than going to the polling place? It’s not like there’s a notary on every block.
Silly state.
Behold the progressive, inclusive process that Minnesoda will be using this year!
They are mass mailing out absentee ballot request forms. The form has a check box that says “I have no driver’s license or state issued ID” and if you select that it doesn’t appear that any verification is needed other than checking the bar code on the application?
Also, we have decided that absentee ballots do not need to be notorized or signed by a witness. Because it is totes racist to not just trust someone.
Minnesoda is going to go for Biden this year and all the post election analysis will agree that a huge amount of absentee ballots from the Twin Cities put him over the top.
There is one man…
Same basic rules as the Orchestrated Election Chaos in Pennsylvania
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said Tuesday he supports holding a Senate vote on President Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, clearing the way for a vote this year despite the election.
Look out Mitt, hell hath no fury like a leftist scorned.
Well, that’s half shocking. I will be the other half shocked if he votes to confirm.
It’s just really silly to lock yourself into voting or not voting.
You could…wait and see who it is and decide then. Lol.
He’s done silly things before.
Why wait? If you like them vote yes if not vote no, but either way you vote.
I guess Mitt decided he didn’t want to get kicked off the Judiciary Committee.
If he doesn’t vote for the nominee, his political career is over as a republican. He could join the dems, but it might be difficult to get elected in Utah as a dem. Or he could become guv of Massholio again if not term limited out there.
Abortion is a big issue in his state. If he passed on a vote to replace the most activist pro-abortion judge in history with an activist anti-abortion* judge, he could lose his seat.
*Fuck activists activating from the bench. Read the law.
Somebody has his nuts in a vise.
Cocaine Mitch sicced his sicarios on Mittens.
President Cartoon Villain says young people have less to fear from the plague
Americans ages 0-17 make up roughly 8.4 percent of positive Covid-19 cases in the U.S., and roughly 107 Americans ages 0-18 have died from the disease, according to CDC data.
But there are likely much more asymptomatic infections among young people than have been detected, and the rate at which children are becoming infected is increasing — probably because of their return to school and other normal activities.
A recent study from the The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association found that more than 513,000 children in the U.S. have caught the coronvairus since the pandemic began, including 70,630 from Aug. 20-Sept. 3.
And a CDC report released last month indicated that weekly hospitalization rates had steadily increased among children.
DEBUNKED!
I wouldn’t be surprised if more than 107 people 0-18 have died from in hospital infections. Or suicide.
It’s clear we need 100% mail in ballots for all elections, forever. And the ballots can be counted forever, because you never can be too sure that a democrat will win. Gotta be sure we can get a few more blue states in and pack that court and end that electoral college, before the count is final.
IDGAF how many are being infected, what’s the damn death rate? The bait and switch we’ve seen with bullshit like this is ridiculous.
Even the death rate isn’t reliable.
unless there is some reason to believe that the ballot was actually placed in the mail after election day.
Like if you checked the postmark?
Postmarks are racist.
Trump’s donorcrony has be replacing mail sorting machines with ones that don’t postmark ballots to disenfranchise LGBTIQ BIPoCs!
#savethepostoffice
lacking a definitive postmark
Sounds like the concern is illegible, smeared, smudged postmarks not missing ones. He’s trying to avoid the Bush/Gore fiasco where fat old dudes are trying to determine if that dimple on the ballot is indicative of intent.
He’s courting that fiasco, by inviting endless persnicketing over whethere a postmark is “definitive”.
He’s flipping the burden of proof. Previously, by statute:
So he rewrote WI law, based on yet another squishy “balancing” test, under which a state’s election security requirements must be balanced against the burden on voters, with the burden of proof on the state.
Not as bad as the PA court:
Now, to challenge a mail-in ballot, you have to prove that it had been mailed after the deadline, which is impossible to do unless its postmarked.
Bottom line: two swing states have now had their election security blown wide open by judges. Throw in Minnesota’s crap election security, and our descent into a banana republic may happen in six weeks.
You keep using the word “reform”. I do not think it means what you think it means.
“This is long overdue court reform as far as I’m concerned, and I have been thinking about court reform and what we can do regarding the Supreme Court to make it so much more objective,” Hirono told host John Berman. “So, this is not something that a lot of us have not thought about. But on the other hand, that’s after the election. We only have a serious discussion about any of these things if the Democrats take back the Senate. But the first danger is what’s going to happen in November when the Supreme Court takes up the Affordable Care Act? That is what everybody should be worried about and concerned.”
Ninth Circuit Court Overturns Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Fisher-Price Releases ‘My First Peaceful Protest’ Playset With House You Can Actually Burn Down
“This is a terrible ruling because we’re racist and we hate women,” said a bunch of Republicans, according to anonymous sources. ”
Too close to real life, that is classic CNN.
CNN should sue the Bee for infringing on their gig…
That is the brilliant thing about the Bee. CNN addicts can read that and go “hell yeah! Those republicans are so stupid and racist! They totally hate women!”
PM Johnson outlines new COVID-19 restrictions for England
Speaking of Putzs (Sputzi? Putzes?)
Johnson sucks. Farage or GTFO.
Where’s our resident Brit been I wonder? I don’t think I’ve seen him in a while.
Pretty sure he was here yesterday, or maybe it was the day before.
Another woe-is-us sob story from NPR
Adding to personal and professional struggles, teachers told us they’re also feeling affected by public frustration and complaints about teachers.
“People are vilifying educators,” says Heather Cline, who teaches high school Spanish in Seattle and is the mother of a 6-year-old who was adopted from Azerbaijan and is an English-language learner. “I’m beyond frustrated and overwhelmed, and I don’t feel as if my district is supporting us educators nearly enough.”
Melanie Goldberg in Brooklyn agrees: “Even though I have friends who know that I’m a teacher, I still end up hearing the negative teacher talk a lot.”
She says some more privileged families have a “client” mentality, expecting personalized service from their children’s teachers. “It’s uninformed, and it’s pretty mean, even though they know personally for me how much of a struggle it is or how unrealistic it would be for them to totally revamp their professional lives with no support.”
Those poor educators. What a hard life they lead. If only the public could be more understanding and generous.
Also, Why is it that so many of these people seem to have children with some sort of “diagnosed mental deficiency”?
God forbid they should be treated as a paid service with customers.
To be fair, they’re hardly the only group of employees that despise their customers that pay the bills, nor are they the only group that things the business is ran for their own benefit first and foremost.
Last year, these same teachers all went to bar after work and ranted about how they wish they could just put all these kids on camera at home and then, they could just mute them whenever they wanted. Wouldn’t that be great, LOL!
It’s my ball, and if you don’t let me win I will take it home!
However, there has been comparatively little attention to the simplest and easiest way to get around potentially tyrannical right-wing justices: just ignore them. The president and Congress do not actually have to obey the Supreme Court.
Unless it is on something Dems care about.
Justice John Marshall, who simply asserted out of nothing in Marbury vs. Madison that the court could overturn legislation — but did it in a way to benefit incoming president Thomas Jefferson politically, so as to neutralize his objection to the principle. – Ok I have a question. Without Judicial Review how is a law tested for constitutionality? And if legislation that is unconstitutional cannot be overturned, what is the point of the constitution? What is a different mechanism by which unconstitutional laws are made invalid? Has any been tried? Most countries have a constitutional court which judges laws based on being according to the constitution or not.
A) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia#Enforcement
B) it can be overturned under that framework by the legislature itself
C) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
C lol, I don’t get B
Legislation can be repealed, either by a legislature that realizes the law is unconstitutional or by a newly composed legislature.
Also case by case nullification as Leap outlines. This was used in several colonial era cases.
Legislation can be repealed, either by a legislature that realizes the law is unconstitutional – never going to happen. it is not like they passed it without realizing.
or by a newly composed legislature. – legislation can be repealed by a new legislature irrespective of a constitution.
In both these situations a constitution is pointless.
A constitution, like a religious scripture, is as followed as people want it to be. If they don’t care, it won’t.
And legislation does get repealed from time to time when a legislature goes “oops”. Having the courts as an immediate remedy takes pressure off the legislature as well.
We need to return to tarring and feathers reps when they pass unconstitutional laws. Or, more realistically, unpopular laws.
well in that case just get rid of the constitution
I vaguely recall that Madison’s argument (in the immediate post-convention climate) was that, since the constitution was – in his mind – a creation of the states, then the states could nullify unconstitutional laws.
This was the initial approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_and_Virginia_Resolutions
Pre MvM, the theory goes, judges would consider the case in front of them and nothing more. So if Smith gets arrested for whatever and then appeals, the court will only hear what he has to say about his own situation. Not ‘that law says I can’t put up a sign, but the first amendment says I can,’ but ‘that guy arrested me for putting up a sign, but the law says I can.’
Then, the saying goes, the law is still presumptively valid, but there is case law that says this thing happened and maybe some future litigant can say that their case is so similar the judge should be bound by it as precedent. But if your case is different (e.g., arrested for handing out fliers) then you need to start over from square one with the presumption that the law is valid.
And, per the theory, this is the proper role of the judiciary. The SC’s job is as the final picker of winners in a case, not making statements about what the law is.
AKA, its stupid.
Congress and the President take an oath to uphold the constitution, so in theory they should be doing it. And the voters should be enforcing it. And without the 17th amendment, we would have the states playing a role in this too.
So, ummm, in reality nothing.
I am surprised the author didnt mention Andrew Jackson, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” It is probably apocryphal, but it sounds like something Jackson would have said.
That was in response to Worcester v Georgia. Things Jackson actually did say about it:
“the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.”
He also suggested calling up the MA state militia to enforce it. Which is very funny.
Congress and the President take an oath to uphold the constitution, so in theory they should be doing it- how did that work so far?
And the voters should be enforcing it. – how did that work so far?
Poorly and even more poorly.
Of course, the Constitution exists precisely because you can’t trust voters to consistently uphold limited government. Fox, meet chicken coop.
And for that reason, you can’t trust legislators or executives to consistently uphold limited government.
Now, the question of whether SCOTUS (or, a different question, lower courts) have the right to strike or (again, different question, rewrite) unconstitutional laws or practices is a different question.
As Franklin may have said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
He was right, and we aren’t.
The issue that was raised was the Fourteenth Amendment had irregularities in its ratification, possibly making it illegitimate, along with other problems for a developed constitutional theory.
Her answer?
Why the fuck are you posting logic when what team blue wants is panic and emotional responses, dude?
Channeling John C. Calhoun now? I thought Black Lives Matter???? *insert little fist emojis here*
Give us fists or we will fist you?
I thought he had been renamed to John C. Bde Maka Ska?
Newest Kentucky Owl Bourbon Targets $1,000 Price Range
https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/bourbon/newest-kentucky-owl-bourbon-targets-1000-price-range/
If this is not an indictment of late stage capitalism I don;t know what is. People are suffering and the rich spend 1k on booze. Not even a proper single malt but some rotgut from Kentucky
People spend more than $2 for wine, that’s a bigger condemnation.
I get the $3 bottles at Walmart. For special occasions I might splurge up to $12.
Remember when “2 buck chuck” got all those rave reviews from Consumer Reports and won wine competitions?
Well, we didn’t have trader joes. So I never got to try it and find out.
Until a couple of years ago when they came to SoFla.
I can tell you true…. either they were full of crap or something changed in the interim. Because I bought a few bottles, eager to try it…. believing that it would be basically the same as Woodbridge or other blend brands.
Nope.
That stuff was basically paint thinner. Holy crap, did that stuff suck. I mean, wow… like worse than the worst glass of wine I’d ever tried. Just terrible.
So that’s my recommendation. Based on a sample size of “I tried two of those wines and I was done… I didn’t even try the third kind”, it isn’t worth the 2 bucks. Have a diet mountain dew or iced tea for your thirst and a snifter of high-end rum instead. Much better experience for your 2 bucks.
I have yet to meet a wine I can drink.
I blame inferior genes
We don’t hold your poor genes against you.
I’m not a big fan either. But the wife likes wine, so I try to take an interest.
I like Rieslings and Gewürztraminers that are on the dry side.
Mm, Alsace.
2 buck chuck costs $3 at our local Trader Joes. It isn’t great, but it isn’t that bad either. It is on par with a number of $8-10 wines.
Target’s discount wine, on the other hand, sucks hard.
This will come as no surprise, but Aldi’s lowest rung wines are pretty bad.
I do like to use them for cooking, though. Much better value than the stuff bottled and marketed for cooking. Those cost three or four bucks for a little bottle instead of three for a big bottle of the Aldi stuff.
This is fantastic advice. Cooking wine is as expensive as the good stuff (per ounce). Might as well get semi-drinkable wine and use that.
2BC varies a lot from year to year. It’s surplus, IIRC, which is why it’s so cheap.
Pay no attention to the Japanese whisky market…
I don’t. Overpriced and mediocre
“For relaxing times make it Suntory time.”
Long before even had a shred of interest in the Japanese language that scene just cracked me up.
And years later it worked to get me to buy kakubin.
The good stuff is definitely worth more. (don’t ever try the good stuff if you can’t afford it. You won’t want to go back. This is one of my rules for a happy life. I loved my Mazda protogee. Until I drove my 328i. Then it sucked. I loved my mid-line pull-out sofa. Until I tried a top of the line stuff from Thomasville and others. Then it felt cheap. And I enjoyed Johnny Walker Black. Until I tried the expensive stuff. Sooooo smooth.)
But I don’t see how you could make a thousand dollar whiskey as a startup. To get that price point, You’d have to age a long time. 12 years ain’t $1,000 bourbon
Counterpoint: good enough for purpose. I’ve been drinking more bottom shelf Scotch- Highland Cream, Duggan’s Dew, Cutty Sark. Never be confused with the high end stuff but at sub $20, it’s not bad at all.
I used to regularly drink Elijah Craig 18 year when it ran $30-35. Now I cant in think of buying it. Stupid fire.
Kentucky Owl is building a new distillery in Bardstown (or rather a Russian firm is building it), but has been sourcing all of that old stuff.
This better come with a woman that fucks the living shit out of me after I got me some Bourbon dick at that price….
“Attention Trump supporters: Trump is an elite. This is how he chose to decorate his home. Gilt,gold,mirrors. He doesn’t see you, he uses you.”
https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/1307689184992395267
Trump is not an elite. He’s a poor person’s idea of a rich person.
Meh. Trump is an elite of his own kind. He’s not of the same class, clade, or caste as the elites of Washington, DC nor anymore of those of New York City, but the average person could not claim his wealth, his media presence, or his connections were similar to their own. He’s the garish nouveau riche to the old money and old power of the brahmins, mandarins, and Alabama hucksters that comprise the elite circles of our federal, state, and municipal government swamps.
I agree with Potato’s assessment. He is gauche. He loves things that he thinks other people will think rich people have. Like all the gold stuff. Way, way, way out of style when he was doing it back in the 90’s. But he loves it because that’s what rich people like the king of France did.
You guys are basically saying the same thing.
Yeah, it’s probably just a definitional quibble over the meaning of “elite”. The best arguments are the pointless ones!
that look hideous though
Thinking of people as ‘rich’ or ‘poor’ is a dumb persons idea of seeing the world.
I almost got lucky. I nearly missed this article in the NY Times where they get the deep thoughts and wisdom of Ilhan Omar.
Uffda
She really is that stupid, but the people that fall for her shit are even dumber…
This is not just her narrative. Every D politician has been using the “Media adopts the Republican narrative” for weeks.
I generally get annoyed with the term “gaslighting”. This is gaslighting writ large.
When they use “gaslighting” they mean, your reference to what was actually said and done does not comport with their perceived experience of the events. Thus, you are “gaslighting” them by calling into question their own perception. It helps to remember that they use words with intentional and specific but incorrect meanings.
One of the things that keeps me going, is the knowledge that no matter how much power the Progs obtain, no matter how brutally they crush their class enemies, no matter how much loot they extract from the corpse of society, they will always and forever be miserable little perpetual victims.
In my mind, that’s far worse than simply being dead.
“….Economic neglect…”
In other words, ‘pay me’.
Fuck off bitch.
Oh shit.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/battlestar-galactica-star-michael-hogan-needs-our-help-1845133658
That sucks.
Why would I help a frakking toaster?
So say we all.
“The U.S. Department of Justice today identified the following three jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities: New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The Department of Justice is continuing to work to identify jurisdictions that meet the criteria set out in the President’s Memorandum and will periodically update the list of selected jurisdictions as required therein.”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-identifies-new-york-city-portland-and-seattle-jurisdictions-permitting
“White supremacist groups, including ones Jake Gardner was in communication with, rely on you thinking that none of this is a big deal so they can organize their support. They have been successful: White supremacist violence now makes up the majority of domestic terror in the US.”
https://twitter.com/NebraskaMegan/status/1307882691950448640
What?
Progjection par excellence
What an utter twat.
I said a few days ago, that I wouldn’t wish pancreatic cancer on my worst enemy. After hearing some of this vile shit, I’m starting to reconsider that particular moral stance.
Using the prestige of her office to slander a deceased crime victim. What a fucking bitch.
I guess the riots, despite having an explicitly political message and targeting specific groups for attack, don’t count as domestic terrorism.
The Trump administration began with national democrats calling on their minions to attack “members of this administration everywhere”.
People were attacking folks for wearing Trump hats in restaurants and school stores. A Bernie supporter actually literally went hunting for Republican lawmakers.
None of that exists.
Trump is violent because he tweeted something that has nothing at all to do with violence. Violence that actually exists and is being aided by D politicians and prosecutors across the country is a myth.
Tell me Orwell didn’t know what he was talking about…. dude undersold it, if anything.
“A group of Spotify staffers are now reportedly pushing to introduce direct editing oversight over The Joe Rogan Experience — before the episodes go live. That includes content flags, trigger warnings, references to fact-checked information, or simply refusing to publish an episode at all.
The demands follow a string of controversial comments by Joe Rogan, who was lured to Spotify in a massive, $100 million deal. Rogan’s appeal to millions of listeners is his unfiltered and irreverent approach, though that style isn’t sitting well with an activist group of Spotify staffers who say he needs to be reined in.
Earlier this month, Digital Music News first reported that multiple podcast episodes were missing following a migration to Spotify’s platform. That included controversial interviews with the likes of Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Gavin McInnes. Also missing are episodes featuring right-wing figures like Owen Benjamin, Stefan Molyneux, and Charles C. Johnson.
But despite the glaring omissions, Spotify staffers are now stepping up their demands to control more of Rogan’s content. Vice first reported that Spotify employees have conducted more than ten meetings to discuss possible changes. Those discussions included proposals for the outright removal of additional podcast episodes.
Of particular focus in an earlier conversation featuring author Abigail Shrier, who wrote Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. Shrier’s opinions on the matter drew howls of protest from certain Spotify staffers, who demanded its removal — though the episode is still available on the Spotify platform.”
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/09/18/joe-rogan-spotify-editorial-oversight/
They just gotsta kill the goose that lays golden eggs.
I surely hope the contract Rogan signed has a clause stating he can walk away with all the money if they try to corral him to their SJW will.
He’ll likely get part of it IF he decides to walk away but 100 million smackaroos can buy a hell of a lot of self-justification for betraying your beliefs.
Eh, how many staffers are we talking about here, a dozen?
Eventually I think cool heads prevail and if they won’t do their actual job, instead of worrying about Rogan, they get tossed out.
Nazi P. has lost the plot.
“A great part of the west is on fire. Our south — the gulf coast is battered by hurricanes,” Pelosi said. “We have a pandemic in the country. We’re fighting for our heroes, our state and local government and federal employees who our health care, our first responders, our teachers, our teachers, our teachers, our sanitation, transportation workers.”
“We want them to test, trace, treat, wear masks, separate and the rest and we need public employees to do that. So we’re not about shutting down government. And it’s not a lever,” Pelosi continued. “By the way, the Republicans don’t believe in governance. It’s a welcome thing for them to shut down government. That’s why they have done it over and over. But in addition to that, you think if we shut down government they would say, ‘okay, now we won’t move forward with the justice?’ No, they won’t. They won’t. Because they are on a path to undo the Affordable Care Act. They’re on a path to undo a woman’s right to choose and there are many more issues that relate to the LGBTQ commu–.”
“Clean air, clean water, pollution. They’re coming after your children,” Pelosi said. “Protect your children from what they are trying to do in this court.”
Um…what?
They’re coming after your children,” Pelosi said. “Protect your children from what they are trying to do in this court.
Protect them from the misery of being born alive and intact?
“Been a few days since I tweeted that if GOP try to jam a SCOTUS thru B4 election we burn the fucking thing down & since the death threats & Breitbart headlines about my tweet have now stopped let me just say that if GOP try to jam SCOTUS through we burn the fucking thing down.”
https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1308056797110915073
No idea how that isn’t against the Twitter rules.
Meanwhile Tucker gets censored for reporting on Soros election spending.
Twitter censored a segment of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” posted to Tucker Carlson’s Twitter account Monday, labeling the clip “potentially sensitive content.” In the clip, Carlson comments on the destruction and violence in the United States and the role Democratic donor Geroge Soros plays in funding candidates who do not prosecute those causing the damage.
Typical, just typical.
Rules are for the little people.
No problem. Falls into the TDS safe harbor.
It’s an exhortation to violence by an individual with a following. He needs to get a knock on his door.
“Seattle pays ex-pimp $150,000 to offer ‘alternatives to policing’
Seattle now has on its payroll a convicted pimp who once vowed to “go to war” with the city — a $150,000 “street czar” whose mission is to come up with “alternatives to policing,” reports said.
Andre Taylor — who appeared in the documentary “American Pimp” about his life as “Gorgeous Dre” — is getting $12,500 per month for a year, along with an office in Seattle’s Municipal Tower, according to the contract published by PubliCola.
It comes just a year after his organization, Not This Time, was paid $100,000 to sponsor a speaker series that was called “Conversations with the Streets.””
https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/seattle-pays-ex-pimp-150000-to-offer-alternatives-to-policing/
A pimp’s alternatives are different than that of a square.
Ammo sales up 139% compared to last year, gun sales up 95%.
My wife and I are finally pulling the trigger on buying guns and getting some training. Lucky for us our new house is near a shooting range. Happy accident!
Your timing is terrible. But not as bad as postponing it yet again.
I have found that 12 gauge ammo has been more available than common handgun or rifle ammo. Something to keep in mind when shopping for guns, especially since shotguns are on everyone’s short list of home defense weapons.
^^ This. Don’t let the hoofbeats get you thinking zebras (armed conflict) . Think horses (home invasion protection, personal protection, hunting, target shooting, etc.)
Thank you both for the advice. We’re thinking shotgun for home defense and handguns for hobby fun. The recent political nonsense was mostly just a reminder that we should get off our butts and get it in gear.
I was leaning towards a 20 gauge just because I suspect my wife would handle it more easily, but obviously we just need to go shoot some of 12 and 20 to see. Also, I know next to nothing about guns, so I’m open to recommendations in regards to just about anything. I know there was a weekly series here awhile ago about guns, which I should probably dig up soon here.
A group of Spotify staffers are now reportedly pushing to introduce direct editing oversight over The Joe Rogan Experience — before the episodes go live. That includes content flags, trigger warnings, references to fact-checked information, or simply refusing to publish an episode at all.
The demands follow a string of controversial comments by Joe Rogan, who was lured to Spotify in a massive, $100 million deal. Rogan’s appeal to millions of listeners is his unfiltered and irreverent approach, though that style isn’t sitting well with an activist group of Spotify staffers who say he needs to be reined in.
The fleas are taking over the circus.
I pledge allegiance to – you know the thing.
Joe Biden completely botches the Pledge of Allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, under God, for real.”
And just when thought the worst possible candidate the Dems could come up with was Hilary…Along comes Joe.
To be fair, that’s not as bad as some of his other rambling, or many of the things Trump says.
https://twitter.com/alec_sears/status/1308408738315931658
Joe Hiden
This represents the zenith of press dishonesty. He’s obviously accelerating into dementia yet they will say nothing about it.
“How Charismatic Catholic Groups Like Amy Coney Barrett’s People of Praise Inspired ‘The Handmaid’s Tale'”
https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293
Then on the bottom of the page:
“Correction: This article’s headline originally stated that People of Praise inspired ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. The book’s author, Margaret Atwood, has never specifically mentioned the group as being the inspiration for her work. A New Yorker profile of the author from 2017 mentions a newspaper clipping as part of her research for the book of a different charismatic Catholic group, People of Hope. Newsweek regrets the error.”
Newsweek regrets the error
The biggest lie in the whole article.
So, I left the TV on ABC after the fussball game and Kimmel came on.
Holy shit, has that guy turned into a raging cuck SJW asshole.
He pissed me off so bad I had trouble getting to sleep.
That douchebag hasn’t been funny or interesting for over a decade. Maybe he needs to hang out with Carolla more to get some perspective.