Metal straw? Oh, right.
Hunter Biden Prepares for His First Solo Art Show Amid Ongoing DOJ Investigation
Hunter Biden now has not only a Department of Justice investigation into his taxes to contend with, but also his first solo art show to prepare for next year.
The president-elect’s son is reportedly in the midst of signing a deal to be represented as an artist by Georges Bergès Gallery in New York City with a solo exhibition in the works for next year, according to sources who spoke to Page Six. In February, Biden first revealed his artistic aspirations to The New York Times, confessing during a conversation with the outlet that painting “is literally keeping me sane. For years I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now I feel comfortable saying it.”
The venture capitalist turned artist, whose studio is in the pool house of his Hollywood Hills home, creates his work with a metal straw he uses to blow alcohol ink onto Japanese Yupo paper, creating abstract layers of colors and concentric circles. Painting “puts my energy toward something positive,” Biden explained. “It keeps me away from people and places where I shouldn’t be.” He also added, “The one thing I have left is my art. It’s the one thing they can’t take away from me or conflate with anything else.”
Ink on Yupo paper title: “Herpes Simplex 3, But, Like, In Space”
I don’t expect to like any of the books they would choose, but I was surprised how many of the authors I wanted to hunt for sport.
The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2020
Books that interrogate broad societal concerns like climate change, immigration, and right-wing extremism, and those that examine grief, nostalgia, and personhood within single individuals.
OMG, you suck!
It began as art therapy in rehab, but now it’s a great money-laundering scheme.
A mayor received so many threats after supporting a mask mandate that she resigned
Wrong! Your ears you keep and I’ll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, “Dear God! What is that thing?!?” will echo in your perfect ears. That is what ‘to the pain’ means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
“Hunter Biden Prepares for His First Solo Art Show Amid Ongoing DOJ Investigation”
Not the Bee somehow. The aliens must be drunk.
Have you tried turning off and turning back on again?
Check the thermostat, that’s always the answer….
His first exhibit is entitled ‘Burisma Crackpipe’.
work with a metal straw he uses to blow alcohol
I wonder where he developed his technique? Men’s room of a bus station?
White trash don’t fall far from the tree, they say.
Read the alt-text! Geez!
I wonder if it’s the same straw he used to snort coke off his niece’s ass in the laptop video?
I’m waiting for the Study in Pool Chain collection or maybe the Cornpop exhibition.
That’ll be the special “Dreams from my Father” exhibit.
No!, It’s B-Stea! Boooyz!
Next, a mash-up of Jermaine Jackson and Kid Rock.
Wham + Anthrax has no equal.
Try this
Or this
Those are collaborations, not mashups
OK, Boomer….
I can out-pedant even Ted S.!
Sorry – it was Wham + Slayer
Wham, but it’s classy
Oh thank dog that was a cover and not the original.
I’m still in! Only 8.5 days left!
You like-ah da mashups?
Girl Talk / All Day
“Books that interrogate broad societal concerns like climate change”
Pounded In The Butt By The Sentient Manifestation Of My Own Ignorant Climate Change Denial
https://www.amazon.com/Pounded-Sentient-Manifestation-Ignorant-Climate-ebook/dp/B06XRH69VR
STEVE SMITH HALP!
This is the first, though I fear not the last, time I’ve heard that particularly tortured phrase in which an inanimate object “interrogates” another inanimate and indeed abstract object.
I know that meanings have words and not the other way around in the grand philosophy of language theory, but damn, “interrogating societal concerns” is flat out word rape.
While yours is at it, I’ll have mine go on over and give it a go, too.
The internet:
https://twitter.com/MicahSharon2013/status/1339134966425325568
It is a great money laundering scheme. Even better than political books, since you don’t even need a ghost writer and a publishing house.
Naming a storm “Gail” seems stupid because “gale” is already a weather word.
OK, Boomer.
How about Nora Esther?
Not a parody.
“We just felt like we had to do something so everybody was aware of how important it was for everybody to be responsible for each other’s health and well-being,” Warshaw was quoted in the story, causing backlash from citizens.
What do you call 1 mayor resigning in disgrace under public pressure?
A good start!
Winner winner chicken dinner
Not parody either… from DeWine (Idjit – OH):
Gov. Mike DeWine urges Ohioans to wear a mask for Christmas and not eat with anyone outside their household
It’s paywalled, and fuck that noise.
Non-Paywalled
https://archive.is/LGGK1
There were 35 people at my parents house on Thanksgiving. We all ate, drank, laughed, and played all day and late into the evening. No social distancing, and tons of libations.
No Covid was spread. Fuck you Mike Dewine and the of your ilk.
No such luck for me for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year.
At least I went to a friend of a friend’s house to watch the Browns play hard and lose on Monday, and plan to go there again on Sunday to watch the game against the Giants. As I told the girlfriend, “I didn’t give a shit about curfews when I was a teen, why would I care when I’m in my 40’s?”
Because you’ve developed a healthy respect for authority?
I think it’s healthy. Others disagree.
Oh, something he can carry in a thimble and have room to spare.
“shove it up your ass, you sick , demented Lenin wannabe”
I am not responsible for anyone’s health and well-being other than my own.
Fuck your high-risk Granny, and fuck you too.
Sincerely,
Evil Sheldon
Ditto. I’m sick of fascists telling me I’m responsible for them.
But not wearing a mask and shuttering your business and obeying curfew are LITERALLY the same thing as loading a gun and shooting other people in the face.
Why are you a sociopathic wannabe mass-murderer?
A mayor received so many threats after supporting a mask mandate that she resigned
As the saying goes when the government fears the people…one shitstain pol resigns but the tyranny continues.
See, that’s how you hold government officials accountable.
Now if we can get a few decorating lamp posts or hung by their heels in front of gas stations…
10% goes to the big guy from all art sales.
Little Guy will be lucky if he gets to keep 10%.
Is Big Guy Joe and Little Guy Hunter?
Or Big Guy is Hunter and Little Guy is Hunter’s peepee?
Or Kamala is Big Guy and Dr Jill is Little Guy?
Back when I used to be tall, occasionally smarmy young salesmen would call me “hey big guy” when pitching their wares. Don’t miss it any more than I did when I would feel bad about sitting in front of short women at stadiums or theaters and hearing them murmur their displeasure in my now blocking their view.
Ghostbusters vs. Intergalactic works way better than I would have suspected.
Mariah Manson
In the X-mas spirit.
But no one cares about Left-Wing Extreemism….
But no one cares about Left-Wing Extreemism….
“That’s a myth!”
/President-elect big guy
Has any of these idiots even heard of “Days of Rage?
Meanwhile, in Scotland…
A lovesick man who travelled from Scotland to the Isle of Man on a jet ski to see his girlfriend has been convicted of breaking the island’s coronavirus laws and sentenced to one month in prison.
Dale McLaughlan, 28, had never used a jet ski before but bought the device and set off from the Isle of Whithorn, Scotland, on Friday to Ramsey. Expecting the journey to last only 40 minutes, it took Mr McLaughlan four-and-a-half hours to cover the 25-mile trip across the Irish Sea. He then had a 15-mile trek from the coast to his girlfriend’s home in Douglas, the island’s capital.
The couple had met when Mr McLaughlan worked on the island in September as a roofer. After returning to Britain, the 28-year-old applied to be allowed to come back to Man, which has strict coronavirus rules on who can enter, but both of his applications were denied, according to the BBC.
His girlfriend was apparently unaware of McLaughlan’s intentions and believed he had not left at all, but simply had been working in another part of the island. The following night, the pair went clubbing. Police then arrested McLaughlan, from Irvine, North Ayrshire, on Sunday, charging him with illegal entry.
Gov’t bs aside, that shit is dangerous. Getting in to her Scotch eggs can’t be worth dying in the Irish Sea.
Sounded consensual to me…
Kind of romantic, though.
When he works hard, he wants to be the man who works hard for her.
And I will jet ski 25 miles…
And I will die of Hypo thermia!
..and I will jet-ski 25 more!
…to bring Covid through your door.
Nice!
If it’s not Scottish, IT’S CRAP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbNlMtqrYS0
They take their sheep rustlin’ serious there.
His girlfriend was apparently unaware of McLaughlan’s intentions and when Mr. McLaughlan arrived at her house, she was in the process of getting plowed by three dudes she picked up earlier that evening at a gentleman’s club.
More likely story.
I’ll be petitioning Ron DeSantis to make this guy and honorary Florida Man.
Of course, the Cubans will be scoffing at this fellow. Only 25 miles?
Distance scales with the exponent of water temperature differential below 20 degC, I would argue.
Good musical selection. A different pace of intergalactic, if only because I was listening to this CD earlier and thinking it really would be worth making a movie for this orphan soundtrack.
Ok… Let’s play Stupid, Evil, Arrogant. Who is dumb, who is evil and who is arrogant:
Sports Journalists
News Journalists
Gaming Journalists
News – dumb
Sports – Arrogant
Gaming – evil
Yes
Beat me to it.
Easy.
Sports Journalists… Evil
News Journalists… Evil
Gaming Journalists… Evil
Am I doing this right?
Sports Journalists… Evil, dumb and arrogant
News Journalists… Evil, dumb and arrogant
Gaming Journalists… Evil, dumb and arrogant.
Sports Journalists – Stupid and arrogant
News Journalists – Stupid, arrogant, and evil
Gaming Journalists – Just plain stupid
Sports journalists – you mean like Peter Gammons, the Paul Krugman of baseball writing?
News journalists – I can’t even
Gaming journalists – I am blissfully unaware of this variety but can I safely presume that many virtual column inches consist of discussion about how much RAM is dedicated to rendering BIPOC trans polygons vs racist colonial pixels, critical pathological shut-in theory, serious discussions about being an Ally for non-player characters, and activist spiel about the federal govt recognizing marriage between heavily obese gamers and their in-game avatars?
With brilliance like that you should be writing for Polygon!
Trick question.
Journalists went extinct ca. 2010,
The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2020
Naomi Novik’s novel about the Scholomance looks interesting. That’s about it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpUSjPKVoAEPiWl.jpg
LOL
thunderbirdspuppetszoomlaughing.gif
Who did Biden piss off to get the Media to hate him so much? I mean they lined up to get rid of Trump, but now that that is done, they seem fine with bringing Hunter to light…
(Step 2 in The Plan)
The supreme irony will be that they tried for four years to do it to Trump and Biden will crumble like a Nilla Wafer within two.
It’s just groundwork prep for Harris admin. They want to be able to point to months of “evidence” once the move is made.
Biden is just a stepping stone to getting a bi-racial person with tits into the Oval Office.
Do you remember where those tits were?
Willie Brown isn’t even a good looking Black guy, what was She thinking?
She was thinking about the future. It’s important to have a Presi- oops, uh, Vice President who is forward thinking. Forward, not backward. Upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
That “Upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling” technique is what brought all the politicians to the yard.
Well, I ain’t saying she’s a gold diggah, but she ain’t sleeping with no broke niggahs.
-Scrubs Niggah!
Kanye said it first.
Power is an aphrodisiac.
You forget the arm candy Kissinger used to sport?
Exactly. He had a valuable use: he was palatable (for god knows why) to the suburban gentry types. He got himself elected. That’s the end of his utility. No one ever actually wanted this dolt to be president. So now they’ve begun building the case for jettisoning him in favor of the party’s favorite, who never stood a chance of getting elected on her own because she’s revolting to most voters, even Dem voters.
Also, when this story reaches a certain critical mass, every leftist that cried about how Hunter’s doings have nothing to do with China Joe, will fall in lockstep and scream for Biden’s resignation.
Start archiving those Tweets and Facebook posts now!
If there was any doubt that the media was just a shill for the DNC party heads, it should be gone now.
I still don’t think he wanted to win. He didn’t campaign for shit and would have lost badly if not for the election rigging.
Now he’s screwed – one, maybe two special investigations going to start his term. The media is going to turn on him and use that giant pile of dirt on him they were hiding during the campaign. Not to mention his obvious mental and physical decline. He won’t last a year.
He didn’t even want to run. They forced him. Now he’s going to pay and I’m going to love every fucking second of it.
Sometimes winning is losing. He’ll be lucky to leave with his reputation intact after all the stimulus/inflation that the cronies are bringing/getting. He could have gone in partnership with Hunter (though the Biden name may not have much productivity left in it) and enjoyed his last few years. But Nooooooooooo
Trump didn’t run like he wanted to win either.
Honestly who would want to win, with the extraterrestrial overlords soon to place us all under the control of their Chinese client governors?
I see you’ve read The Three Body Problem
Actually, no, it’s an idea I have been tossing around my head for a while for a story. Looks like I was beaten to the punch?. I have the “forest” one, bought on the recommendation of my boss’s boss, but it turned out to be book 2 or whatever, and I never bought the first one. Haven’t opened the one I have. Something weirds me out about reading a book that’s apparently super popular in China. Is it worth buying the first book?
It’s not necessary. Even though they are direct sequels, all three books are self contained and rather different in tone. I thought the second one was weakest personally. The first was interesting to me because the attitudes were so alien which I guess is part of it being Chinese.
The third was fascinating, in that it was a traditional narrative told backwards. And I don’t mean time reversal or anything.
Those 4 rallies a day sure made it look like he wanted to win.
Well, sex, sex scandals, and fear still sell, and making money is 2nd only to electing progressives on the media agenda.
Thomas Sowell Slams Santa Claus For Plan To Flood Market With Free Toys
Seattle Announces Reverse Purge Where One Night A Year Laws Will Be Enforced
“It keeps me away from people and places where I shouldn’t be.”
Ukraine, China, fixers, drug dealers…Dad, DC.
Underage relatives.
Of course its a fucking slideshow.
“Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder
Two sources tell The Daily Beast that the president has expressed sympathy for the situation of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-considers-clemency-for-ross-ulbricht-silk-road-kingpin-convicted-of-drug-and-money-laundering-charges
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1339008619451457536
?
Snowden will never be allowed back. Even if he does, he won’t be safe here.
It’s sad, someting about defending something against all somebodies, including them Furriners?
/ Free Snowden!
Do it. Then pardon Snowden and de-schedule weed.
I don’t think Trump has it in him. I he has that sort of vision Barr would have never been AG.
de-schedule weed.
You mean add an additional 5% tax on top of all the other taxes? No thanks,
No, I mean remove it completely from the list. IOW, it’s now legal without restrictions at the federal level, period.
That’s not the plan, and they have a plan in place, including 5% off the top, no kidding,
What I’m telling Trump is, there ain’t no fucking plan, except to leave these lefties scrambling around so full of panic that they have no time to do anything.
It’s a fucking weed, there is no way it belongs on any list. In fact, scrap the entire list, all of it.
Something something woodchippers and special place in hell…
What are the odds that Biden hires Preet back?
I’m sure he’ll be back. Here’s how you can know for sure who Biden brings in.
Think of the worst possible people you can. There’s your list.
Preet has a high chance of getting his ass a position in the Bidass admin. He is presently getting sued, hope that goes against his authoritarian ass.
Biden hasn’t named an AG yet has he?
Supposedly Cuomo is on the short-list.
Sorry, America.
You’re shitting me…
No comment.
I don’t like Trump and I never have. But if he pardons Ross Ulbricht, I will personally polish his Cheeto until the end of time. The hat can watch.
Well, I see it like this. Who has run for or been elected to president in the past 20 years that you like better?
Rand Paul?
That’s about it for me.
Rand’s Pappy > Rand
Yeah, but Ron’s crazy you know, he was going to legalize heroin.
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Gary Johnson, Harry Browne…
One of these is not like the other, and I’m not just talking about lady parts or attractiveness.
We didn’t start the fire…
Vermin Supreme, SMOD, John MacAfee, SBBC, None of the Above…
Clinton and W. Urkel was probably a toss-up with Trump.
The Salem Witch Trials called and want their rationality back.
*flouted
/pet peeve
Pardon me Ma’am, I Flout my White privilege Daily as My Pet and I Gambol through the Snows!
Good Day Madam!
Right? It’s the past-perfect-tense of flonted. Why doesn’t anyone get that?
do you mean Flaunted?
Fluted?
Phyluten
Hifalutin
Flautas
Flatten?
From the verb floonle? Illiterate bastards.
Some people like to flaunt their typos. They’re flout and loud.
One local news place has started a list of the restaurants felled by the
pandemicshutdown orders. I have the feeling the list will continue to grow over the next couple of months.When Killer Orchids Attack: How the Deadly Corpse Orchid Is Turning Up in U.S. Backyards
Looks around for backyard,
/no yard, SAFE!
Night of the Triffids?
Night of the Lepus
Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a university president!
Does that art come with a free crack rock? You’d have to be smoking it to appreciate that horrendous shit.
You don’t have to appreciate it, just buy it for millions to help with negotiations for a favorable new trade deal for your government.
I used to work for a guy who had one of his own paintings hanging in the office. It was kind of an abstract painting of three women. I asked him about it one day and he told me the story behind it. “I was at Woodstock taking peyote. The first thing peyote does is it makes you puke. So I was staring into my vomit and I saw the faces of these three women, and that’s what I painted.”
For some reason Hunter’s art reminded me of that.
In February, Biden first revealed his artistic aspirations to The New York Times, confessing during a conversation with the outlet that painting “is literally keeping me sane. For years I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now I feel comfortable saying it.”
Art- for when you’re too lazy to “write” a book.
“Sure, Kid, I’ll buy that art for 200 grand. Oh, by the way, I hear your dad has some sort of government job. That must be nice.”
*wink wink, nudge nudge*
Back in Feb? Gee what was going on then? Couldn’t have anything to do with why Hunter is in the news today.
Hunter has nothing to do with Joe, which is why he gave that speech at the DNC, got that job in Ukraine, or was interviewed by the NYT.
And China is just something he eats his dinner off of.
Hunter is such a trope.
The idiot son ruins the father’s empire is a tale as old as tales.
Books that interrogate broad societal concerns like climate change, immigration, and right-wing extremism, and those that examine grief, nostalgia, and personhood within single individuals.
Egad!
This actually makes sense considering what journalists are these days.
In what seems like an article written by satirical website The Babylon Bee, the University of Texas-Austin’s Moody College of Communications (MCC) has announced a journalism award named after disgraced news anchor Dan Rather.
Rather famously “retired” after reporting on unverified documents purporting to show that President George W. Bush received preferential treatment and served poorly during his time in the Air National Guard. Rather presented the documents as authentic and defended them even as other media outlets noted issues with the memos. The phrase “fake but accurate” was born from this scandal.
Despite this, Rather has enjoyed a pretty decent comeback in the past decade, routinely being brought on as a journalism expert for left-leaning networks. He is also a member of the MCC’s advisory board. In Rather’s biography on its website, the MCC completely ignores the scandal, instead discussing his career before and after it. Bush is only mentioned once in the biography, among a list of presidents that Rather had interviewed.
Now the MCC is naming a journalism award after the company Rather founded in 2006 – two years after the scandal. The company is called News and Guts, and the MCC is calling its new award the Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts.
Unverified documents, forged documents. Potayto, potahto.
Forget for a moment that they were forgeries, think about how bad of forgeries they were.
It’s one of those cases that makes me think that journalists just aren’t that smart.
A lot of them seem evil and arrogant as well.
And see, now we get MSNBC anchors and CNN talking heads spewing lies about the GOP president, and they aren’t even forced to retire. We have come a long way in these last 15 years.
Didn’t Rather say that if his story was fake, he’d like to be the one to break that story? What a nutter.
I have a Mary Mapes Total Bullshit Medal!
Hey all. I think I’m finally ready to be back, if you all will have me back.
Been working on a lot of things with my therapist with regard to being able to control my emotions. I have a lot of trouble processing negative thoughts; 99% of the time it turns inward, but sometimes it turns outward. At least I think I have control over that 1% now.
Welcome back, we missed you.
Good to see you, and good on the 1%, that’s important
Cool! Good to see you around again.
Welcome back JB!
Welcome, Tulpa!
By ‘welcome’ I assume you mean Fuck Off.
The same as my “Welcome” mat at my front door.
You have a “Fuck off, Tulpa” door mat? I’m jealous.
Glad to see you!
Welcome back JB. I hope you’re feeling better.
I mentioned you the other day! Thank you for replying appropriately to my Tweet about my dog!
Welcome Back. Ive been gone a lot myself lately and was wondering what had happed to JB.
What I think you want to say is that “At least I think I have control over that 99% now.”
Welcome back!
Welcome Back!
Welcome back, Mr Kott…, ooops… JB. We’ve been waiting and waiting.
(((JB)))!!!!!! Delighted to “see” you.
I’m all out of fatted calves, but I’ll have a Balvenie in celebration of your return!
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Welcome back!
Cool. Glad to have you and your perspective back.
The prodigal son was my favorite parable when I was a kid. You’re always welcome. Glad to see you again, JB!
Also… *kicks dirt* you owe TPTB an article on the current anime season…
/hypocrisy from guy who can’t write for shit
Well at least we will have a couple years of laughs till Commiela manages to get the old fart booted. Biden calls Bootyjudge’s husband “Kristen” in a speech today announcing the new cabinet position.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/biden-calls-buttigieg-husband-kirsten-snubs-gay-gop-cabinet-member/
Good lord the next
four yearstwo yearssix months? are going to be an interesting mix of hilarious and painful.I still think Harrison is worried about his claim to Presidential fame.
Shorted term post election?
Well. That’s gay.
“REVEALED: Seattle politician who defunded the police called 911 to protect her from a crime she wants to legalize
As first reported by police sources to the neighborhood safety group Safe Seattle, Council Member Lisa Herbold called 911 and requested the police for criminal damage done to her home, a crime that the council member is pushing to legalize.
Allegedly a man threw a rock through Herbold’s window. In a redacted police report, Herbold told responding officers that she “was on the west side of the living room near the kitchen when she heard a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot and dove into the kitchen for cover.”
A witness said he saw an “…unathletic and a bad runner” leaving the scene. The suspect was described as a clean shaven, white male in a black hoodie and jeans. The witnesses told officers that he would recognize the suspect if he saw him again, but declined the officer’s business card to contact him for follow up. Ironically, Herbold is pushing for legislation that would make the alleged crime legal.
In October, Herbold, chair of the Seattle City Council’s Public Safety Committee, introduced legislation to “…excuse and dismiss” almost all misdemeanor crimes committed in Seattle by “…persons with symptoms of addiction or mental disorder.” At the time, Herbold was criticized for trying to sneak the legislation in as part of the budget cycle rather than through the normal legislative process and with no public discussion about the proposal.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-council-member-who-defunded-police-department-calls-911-for-crime-she-wants-to-legalize
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1339313470781571072
“unathletic and a bad runner”. That sounds like a microaggression against white guys.
Be a shame if this was a nightly occurrence
“Portland lets Antifa win big — again
Last week, Portland law enforcers raided a house that had for months been illegally occupied by trespassers affiliated with Black Lives Matter and Antifa. At the barricaded property, officers made arrests and found a stockpile of firearms.
Under normal circumstances, the armed trespassers would be prosecuted, and that would be the end of the story. But in riot-plagued Portland, Oregon, things are very far from normal.
The city’s “progressive” district attorney immediately dropped the charges against the occupiers, and their comrades soon sent in reinforcements to build a sprawling autonomous zone in the middle of a densely populated residential area.”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/portland-lets-antifa-win-big-again/
I can’t comment on the arrest/non-prosecution, but it’s amazing to me how the far left has been able to keep up this narrative when (a) they own another house, (b) I don’t think they’d paid rent since 2018, (c) the homeowner offered to sell the house to them for what he paid for it (don’t blame him there), and (d) there’s more than enough money in the GoFundMe they set up to buy it.
DA i’m guessing is not going anywhere, so is totally fine with removal of civil rights of the people of portland.
Would the DA refuse to prosecute someone who invaded and took over her home?
Fire bomb it. Turnabout is fair play.
Except that they would prosecute.
Masks are required right now
I think I mentioned this, but whatever, I’m going to be a guest on a Podcast tonight at 9EST to talk about Slab City, and Freedom, the guys name is Tommy Salmons, this guy,
https://libertarianinstitute.org/author/tommy-salmons/ , he found us/me through Gordilocks, this might be fun, I’m an Asshole,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
Yufus, you glorious bastard! I happen to have the night(day) off. If I can stay awake….
Nice!
Bookmarked!
I think I’m finally ready to be back, if you all will have me back.
I want my two dollars!
The suspect was described as a clean shaven, white male in a black hoodie and jeans. The witnesses told officers that he would recognize the suspect if he saw him again
Those guys all look alike.
“BREAKING: @Project_Veritas Obtains Recording Of Call Between @Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange & Lawyer In Hillary Clinton’s State Dept.
Warns US Government Trouble Was Coming Their Way With Unredacted Release Of Classified Cables Stolen From Wikileaks”
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1339239283673059329
Pardon!!
I find it hard to believe there is anybody more deserving of a Presidential pardon than Ross Ulbricht.
“It began as art therapy in rehab, but now it’s a great money-laundering scheme.”
That’s the first thing that I thought of. He didn’t make shady deals, it’s just that Chinese and Ukrainian businessmen know good art when they see it, and are willing to pay top dollar for it.
My nightmares tend to feature snakes. But if I had a nightmare about spiders, I’m pretty sure it would look a lot like that “painting” at the top of the page.
That sounds way more plausible than his (and his Dad’s) denial of everything.
Uhh…that was for TOK #40
When I was a freshman in high school we used to blow paint around with a straw. Of course, it was back in the 80’s so we used plastic straws. And then second semester we learned how to actually paint.
Journalisming in action.
Some study looks at in- and out-migration in 3 NYC neighborhoods and somehow that gets extrapolated to half the city moved out, and almost half the city moved in from somewhere else. Does nobody think before they write anymore?!
Read the linked study – it doesn’t say any such thing. It says 3.57 million people emigrated (not “fled”) New York-Newark, without defining what New York-Newark means. If they mean the metro region, that’s out of 19+ million people. Doesn’t say where they emigrated to or if it’s from one neighborhood to another or what.
In fact, the study and the reporting on it are so shoddy it’s impossible to figure out WTF they’re talking about.
Oh, and it’s all based on cell-phone date. GTFO of here.
“About 3.57 million people fled New York City between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7 this year — and they were replaced by some 3.5 million people earning lower average incomes, the findings from Unacast said.”
That doesn’t even sound believable at all to me.
Isn’t it a known fact that all major metro areas are bleeding population now? Who are these lower income folk who can now suddenly just afford to live in Manhattan? Who is employing them?
squatters?
Well, I guess the homeless would be lower income.
SCIENCE
President-elect Joe Biden plans to name Gina McCarthy as his White House climate coordinator, a source familiar with the decision said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect private conversations.
McCarthy has an ambitious assignment: coordinating efforts across the entire federal government aimed at drastically — and quickly — lowering U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. During his campaign, Biden promised to put the U.S. economy on track to being carbon neutral by 2050.
McCarthy led the Environmental Protection Agency under former President Barack Obama and is currently chief executive of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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McCarthy will be at the center of Biden’s expected push to use executive action and rule-making to rein in carbon emissions and reverse Trump’s rollbacks of environmental regulations. Biden has framed climate change as one of the four most important issues his administration will confront when he takes office on Jan. 20.
Biden also is expected to name Ali Zaidi as McCarthy’s deputy at the White House. Zaidi, currently a top climate adviser to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, worked on energy and climate policy in the Obama administration, including at the Office of Management and Budget. He was part of the delegation that negotiated the Paris climate accord.
In her new job as the White House domestic climate chief, McCarthy will drive policies to address climate change beyond the usual federal agencies’ work on it, such as the Interior and Energy departments and the Environmental Protection Agency — and will coordinate the planning across government agencies.
For example, the Department of Housing and Urban Development could make the buildings it oversees more energy-efficient and resilient. The Department of Agriculture could promote soil management to sequester carbon. The Treasury Department could do more to take climate risk into account when banks lend money, encouraging financing for renewable projects over those that rely on fossil fuels. The Pentagon could further integrate into its planning the risks climate change poses to its military installations around the world.
Our best. Our brightest. They’ll reinvent math, in order to prove the benefits of their cargo cult.
Have any of these people figured out yet that when you tank the economy, you run out of pretend jobs like ‘Climate Adviser’?
Giant Meteor 2024!
If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.
Eventually, maybe we’ll be able to launch all the telephone sanitizers to another solar system.
“Amber Heard Now Being Paid $33,000 To Give Talks On Domestic Violence”
https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/pay-amber-heard-33000-give-talk-domestic-violence/
It has been said that fools and their money are soon parted.
Well, she’s an expert!
If you want to learn how to do it right, it’s going to cost you.
She could get a gig as the poster child for “Never Stick It in Crazy” PSAs.
Do attendees get to slap her around a little?
And you’ll pay the fee or else.
Biden and his team share the widely held belief among climate advocates and scientists that the coming decade is the world’s final window to stave off the worst-case scenario of a warming planet. A report issued two years ago by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of devastating changes to weather patterns, sea levels, agricultural ecosystems and much more, if the planet warms by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. To meet that goal, the global community would need to halt the ever-increasing rise of greenhouse gases and then cut emissions by up to 50% in the coming decade, the report said.
The sky is falling!
Spoiler alert: it’s always falling.
They don’t believe that crap. They believe it’s a good opportunity for graft.
It was too late 12 year ago, before it was too late again. Zzzzzzzzz…
Climate disaster is always ten years away.
For straff and anybody who is into watches. The Grand Seiko is a domestic market mechanical watch that is very much the equal of the Swiss, but with a Japanese aesthetic.
https://youtu.be/Lx9s-WgGSq4
Men’s fashion writer? Well, my wife did say she wants me to try and dress a little nicer. Maybe Naomi could help me out… why am I now dressed like a preppy salaryman…?
I’d be OK with her helping me both dress and undress.
(I’m in the middle of my 10 minute break from my online Japanese class.)
Despoiler of the earth
“Today the Trump Administration affirmed its commitment to reducing regulatory burdens and safeguarding consumer choice,” Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said in a statement. “With these rule changes, Americans can choose products that are best suited to meet their individual needs and the needs of their families.”
Some environmental advocates, consumer groups and manufacturers criticized the recent rule changes as both unnecessary and potentially harmful to the environment.
Just wait ’til Gina McCarthy hears about this.
Does anybody have Not Adahn’s email addy they could send to my handle at proton?
I have something IFLA related for him.
Gotcha.
“Pelosi: House Members “Will Not Be Recognized Unless They Are Wearing A Mask””
https://summit.news/2020/12/16/pelosi-house-members-will-not-be-recognized-unless-they-are-wearing-a-mask/
That’s the opposite how masks work.
I couldn’t see what you did there.
I got my mask printed “Placebo” on it yesterday.
As luck would have it, I’m too sick to go out and wear it today.
Black mask, white letters. PLACEBO in large letters, with smaller print underneath, saying “No physiological effect. Purely for psychological effect.”
When I must wear a mask, I was wearing a ratty old N95 dust mask, until one of the straps broke. Then I switched to another N95 until *its* strap broke. Now I switch back and forth between two different disposable surgical masks that are barely holding together.
Clipboard holding bureaucrat: looks at tattered mask on db. Checks box and motions db to proceed.
*barely relaxes grip on holdout in pocket*
*If you can read this, you’re close enough to unzip*
/bows in apology to HE.
“Will Not Be Recognized Unless They Are Wearing A Mask”
I must have missed the mask requirement contingency of the portion of the Constitution that dictates that State delegations must be seated and therefore heard.
Does anyone have any cyberpunk tech noir movie suggestions?
Jaws?
I’ve already seen the greatest movie ever.
Seriously though, I’m looking for something like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Johnny Mnemonic, Strange Days, that I haven’t seen.
Zardoz?
I’ve seen it.
Oh, what’s that movie where Magnum PI fights killer robots let loose by Gene Simmons? You should watch that.
What?
Found it “Runaway”. And it’s a Michael Crichton joint so you know it’s gonna slap.
Thanks, looks like cheesy entertaining action pic.
Dark City?
Oh yes. That’s a good one.
Gattaca
Testuo: The Iron Man
A Scanner Darkly
Looper
Dredd*
Minority Report
Equilibrium
Dark City
Existenz
The Zero Theorem
The asterisk for Dredd is because it’s f-ing amazing.
Thanks, Dredd looks like the only one I haven’t seen.
How about the original “Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within”? 2001 ish release.
And as long as we are on weird animation, there’s the French 1973 “Fantastic Planet”. THC or alcohol might help.
A Scanner Darkly probably isn’t quite what you’re looking for, but it’s in the same vein. Again, Philip K. Dick.
Videodrome and/or Exsitenz, RoboCop 2 for “low life/high tech.”
Tetsuo: The Iron Man for the body horror of tech.
Jackrabbit (2015) for console cowboys.
Hardwire (1990) for a more post-apoc feel.
Ex Machina for AI and Simulation vs. Simulacra
Until the End of the World (1991) for electronic addiction / dreamscape.
Thanks
Real Steel. Not cyberpunk but I’m an edgy semi distopian world. Much better than I thought it would be.
+1 for Ex Machina
Strange Days may work for the restrictions, as could Dark City. Assuming you’ve already watched Blade Runner, and Serial Experiment Lain (if you like anime).
Strange Days was a film that really popped my fuses when I saw it. Haven’t watched it since it first came out on video. As I recall, it was well worth the time.
also +1 for Dark City
+2 on the Dark City.
I saw Dark City in the theater, knowing nothing about it, with no DVD intro spoiling the entire plot twist. Big +3.
That’s why I have the Director’s Edition DVD of Dark City, it cuts out that intro (which was in the theater as well).
I either missed the intro, or else saw it early enough that they hadn’t tacked it on yet. I’ve been luckier, but not by much…
Strange Days really set themselves up for failure by setting it in the far flung future of 2000.
Unrelated, from an earlier post. Lizardville is associated with the Winking Lizard, it’s their whiskey/bottle shop. I believe there’s three of them through the Cleveland area.
Yeah, I watch it for nostalgia now.
Still a good flick.
Aha.
Quest For Fire
LOL
“Philip K. Dick movie adaptations” should have you covered.
Looks like Screamers is the only one I might not have seen.
Good one
“Cyberpunk” is an oxymoron.
I would put in a plug for for both Class Of 1984 and Class Of 1999; they are both terrific badfilms.
I give you the competent steering hand of Democratic governance. The party of the little guy.
“Beyond that, Espinoza said he feared how the city’s recently enacted property tax hike would affect his ability to pay future bills. ‘This year was our catchup year,’ he said. ‘It’s been too hard. Opening, closing. Limited eating.'”
Jack up his property taxes and force him to sell to a large developer who can re-purpose the property and collect tax credits while doing so. “Build back better.”
I have no idea how anyone who isn’t rich could vote Democrat.
They have mastered the art of saying exactly the opposite of what they’re doing without blinking an eye.
A simple look at campaign donation should be a hint to any little guys who are interested in whom the real beneficiaries of Dem policy expect to be.
They have the largest messaging apparatus in the history of the world at their beck and call.
True, and many people are too busy to learn more.
New season of The Expanse is out.
Already caught up.
Man the characters are all over the place.
NO SPOILERS.
Can’t believe it was Earth the whole time and Rosebud was his sled and soylent green is made of people.
I’m still seething about that article from days ago in which the enlightened lefties explain through psychology why all us crazies won’t wear masks.
Worst excerpts:
Duh. My body, my choice. Notice the reference to risk taking. Same mindset that makes them fear starting a new business in a free market. Note the claiming of moral/science high ground when they say “appropriate” and “proper”.
-blockquote> And there may also be a further psychological explanation: the phenomenon of “psychological reactance”. This is where people vehemently believe they have freedom to behave how they wish, and experience negative emotions when this freedom is threatened, and so become motivated to reinstate it.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but does this not simply state “People who notice we are taking away their freedom have a pesky tendency to try to keep their freedom.”
If 50% or more of Americans share the author’s dim opinion of freedom, stick a fork in the Great American Experiment.
How To Be Dismissive of Counter-Arguments For Leftists
By Henry T Douchebag
He’s the most prolific writer in journalism.
You actually read that article, huh? I figured that I’d be better off not knowing.
https://fee.org/articles/3-studies-that-show-lockdowns-are-ineffective-at-slowing-covid-19/
I got my mask printed “Placebo” on it yesterday.
Nice. Well done.
Books that interrogate broad societal concerns like climate change, immigration, and right-wing extremism, and those that examine grief, nostalgia, and personhood within single individuals.
I’ll pass.
Back in ‘Nam I was interrogated by books.
At the Hanoi
HotelLibraryBroke my spine.
Missed it by one consonant…
Golly Gee, that’s racist.
Brooks?
Nooks?
and right-wing extremism
‘Extreme’ is a relative term. For instance, if you believe that “hate-speech” should be a punishable offense and I think that makes you a tyrant, those positions are necessarily extreme with regard to each other. And if you are a commie I could not be further to the right of you.
Defiance in Alaska
Shopkeepers, cafes, and other businesses are banding together to open on
Saturday, Dec. 19, in defiance of the Anchorage acting mayor’s lockdown order, EO16, which has kept restaurants closed, and others crippled with 25 percent capacity orders.
The group is calling itself Anchorage Business Coalition and is supporting all businesses. The group is preparing a mass civil disobedience of the shutdown orders that as many as 100 businesses have agreed to join.
The group has been meeting for several weeks to find a way to salvage the Anchorage economy and Christmas in Alaska’s largest city. Many shoppers are either purchasing only online or are traveling to the Mat-Su Valley for their annual gift pursuits, since Anchorage has only allowed the big box stores to remain fully functional.
Order by an acting mayor? Throw his corpse into Cook Inlet.
Imagine that.
The guy who runs brewedco.com coffee and microbrew in Lexington KY figured out, with his lawyers, that the health department can’t legally shut them down for violating Covid “declarations” from the government,
So the county started pulling licenses: liquor license, restaurant license, car dealership (another acquaintance) so that then there are criminal charges to be filed.
The key the owners found is to get the judge to set a high bond. That way if the case goes against the county, the bond money is paid in restitution to the restaurant owner.
The bond must be paid upfront and is held pending the case. With other lawsuits waiting, the government realized it was going to have to cough up tons of cash upfront AND they’re getting no revenue from taxes from closed businesses.
They backed off.
If loose business groups in other states and fair judges can imitate the Bond deal, this can still be a victory for freedom.
We talk a lot about masks, but it’s the shutdown, antisocial, curfew crap that is the worst of it.
Related podcast by Tom Woods.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1796-business-owner-refuses-to-close-confronts-enforcers/
I’ll stop posting for a while, honest. My activity is coming in bursts of being able to function a little between breathing treatments.
I hereby apologize for my walls of text. I feel more sane when I get the disbelief and rage out on “paper.”
DEG, not sure if you saw, but the PA department of agriculture has sent threat letters to the businesses staying open.
We Infiltrated Antifa… And Found All They Needed Was A Little Love
And by love, mean…
Sounds like a job for STEVE SMITH.
…In a federal penitentiary in Idaho. By federal penitentiary in Idaho, mean STEVE SMITH’s lair.
Anyone else get a call from Romania today? I didn’t answer, I figured it was just Pie drunk dialing.
I keep getting calls from some recording of a lady screaming at me in Chinese. Wonder if I’m supposed to activate my Cell.
Probably someone trying to reach Hunter Biden.
Your Cell will be activated for you, Citizen.
Alternatively, “In
Soviet RussiaHarris’s America, Cell activates You!”That’s every wrong number call I get. And my number only has one 8 in it.
It’s Yoko Ono singing.
I keep getting texts on my work phone asking if I’d be willing to “allow [INSERT NATIONAL BRAND NAME HERE] to put a small decal or sticker on your car/truck and get 500 weekly?”
500 what, exactly?
Broken and/or retarded clocks…
During an interview with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill of the Intercepted podcast, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about Biden’s choice to give cabinet positions and transition team spots to Washington, D.C. insiders, McKinsey consultants, Big Tech employees, and Wall Street executives.
Scahill called Biden’s transition team a “corporate revolving door” while Ocasio-Cortez noted Biden’s seemingly total rejection of left-wing populism that has, in some cases, allied with right-wing populists on issues of stimulus checks for Americans and ending foreign wars.
…are right twice a day:Sex work is work.
OFFS. Biden is 100% down with every left-wing fantasy he’s ever been asked about with the one exception I can remember being “defund the police”. This idea that’s some sort of “middle-of-the-road” “pragmatist” is nonsense.
He’s also a total swamp creature.
Biden’s just an unprincipled scumbag who’ll do whatever’s necessary to gain power. Write a crime bill and throw black buys in prison, you got it; let black guys out of prison to pretend to care about black guys, you got it. Whatever he does though, his number one priority is to get richer doing it.
He’s in his late 70s and already rich. I think he’s in it for the ego now.
He has nothing left. He can’t have a fulfilling retirement, or start a second creative career. He’s a complete slave to his ambition, and the final justice is that he will go to his reward a slave to politics.
Ron Paul has talked about what a miserable person LBJ was when he left the White House. Think about Nancy Pelosi: she’s wasted the only life she’s ever gonna have playing power politics for her own self-aggrandizement and looks like she can never stop until she goes into the ground.
No. quiet retirement while spoiling the grandkids and then great grandkids. Nope, just calculating what the next political move needs to be made to further her interests. I almost feel sorry for her. (almost)
See what’s left of Dianne Feinstein; she has to keep going in politics, she has nothing else.
Never give up. Never surrender.
Damn. Pulls no punches. I approve.
The feeble Twitter text underneath saying “the claims in the video about voter fraud are disputed” seems to underscore Trump’s point.
Ok I know I said I’d quit posting a while. I say a lot of things.
Trump was so in tune with the popular feelings in 2016 and his campaign showed it. In 2020, he seemed to be surrounded by incompetence.
What’s more likely: Trump didn’t choose his campaign strategists and lawyers well in 2020, or he was taken down by his staff under direction from RINO lifers?
His campaign strategists crushed it. Trump dominated the EC landscape. So much so that each of these Dem or GOP swampers had to pause counting on election night to buy time for the fraud to catch up.
As for lawyers, it’s not clear to me how much they can do. Philly, Detroit, Atlanta, etc. marched out GOP observers from buildings to applause. Local law enforcement and judges backed removing them. The money trail from Dominion appears to lead to Kemp, Ratcliffe, and even US senators like McConnell. I’m not sure what Trump could have done to prevent this without unleashing the DOJ, FBI, etc… and it’s clear those 3 letter agencies support the swamp and would do nothing.
Trump’s lawyers won’t make those claims in court of course.
Read about the facts stipulated.
I see a bunch of people shoveling the sidewalks outside. Don’t they know they don’t have to do that until it stops snowing? Which ain’t happening until tomorrow morning.
Weirdos.
It’ll be easier for me to do the small deck and steps at bedtime, first thing tomorrow, and then after the storm. Five inches three times rather than 15 inches at once.
Of course, I can use gravity to help move the snow.
My snowblower will cut through 24″ of wet snow in one cut. The problem is that here, it’s supposed to snow until 0300 and then switch to freezing rain and ice. Could be fun tomorrow morning.
Nice Guys Finish Last ?
Often, not always. Also, would.
Art is great for money laundering, influence peddling, etc. I expect Hunter’s work to go for six, seven figures each.
I mean, its no global charity, but not bad.
Speaking of movies:
I’m pretty sure (I was half asleep) I saw “How to Murder your Wife” pop up on Amazon last night.
What a great movie.
Strangers on a Train answers that question too.
“Celebrities react to Tom Cruise COVID-19 rant: ‘I’ve never liked him more’”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/celebrities-react-to-tom-cruise-covid-19-rant-i-ve-never-liked-him-more/ar-BB1bZxW0
I get that he’s concerned about the filming being canceled but still, what a fucking asshole.
Leah Remini weighs in
https://tonyortega.org/2020/12/16/leah-remini-on-tom-cruises-covid-rant-in-its-scientology-context/
I’ve been watching her and Mike Rinder’s interview /expose on Netflix.
This is certainly in keeping with what their guests have said. Tales of people going on about Scientology making them cancer free and then dropping dead 2 months later, all bad things are TOUR fault, etc.
Leah is kind of a ditz (a likeable one), but it’s Mike Rinder who brings most of the weight to the claimed, as he was a high placed Sea Org member and knows all the tactics.
I have been a Scientology watcher for so long, I remember Mike Rinder from when he was the Scientology spokeshole.
Just compared how he looked days before escaping to how he looks now
https://tonyortega.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/TommyMikeJohn.jpg
I’m going to guess that you’re aware of Operation Clambake?
I think I joined OCMB back in aught-three or thereabouts.
I figured you’d be aware. The Scientologists were one group that the Discordians never wanted to start a flamewar with back in the day.
I read “Mission Earth” back when I was in elementary school (yeah, my parents didn’t censor my readings!). Something always seemed off in the way the narrator’s voice changed, and the narrator changed, and then the original narrator ended up imprisoned on the estate of a nymphomaniac, forced to father the children of a geneticist who had replaced the narrator’s testicles with clones of his own.
I have always wondered if some of that weren’t a cry for help from a Hubbard imprisioned by his own organization. The extended story arc of the narrator being led blindly around the seas of Earth to his doom while being caught up in a sexual tryst with an underage whore has to have a parallel in reality. Did Hubbard really see himself as some sort of victim, and try to get his story out through these books? Could the Scientology org have been so blind to allow him to do so?
I remember poring through that site in the early aughts too.
We used to have some of the Sea Org weirdos staying at the hotel I worked at in Buffalo every few weeks. They literally wear full naval regalia around everywhere.
Holy shit. He has crypt keeper circles under the eyes and looks much older with stress lines.
Now he’s much healthier looking. His face shows his deep remorse at having been a part of CoS and bringing kids into it. He’s not asking for absolution; he wants to prevent other people from suffering at the hands of the CoS and people like who he used to be.
He’s barely recognizable…I’m very happy for him and his new life & family. He seems like a kind, sincere guy.
Marty Rathbun, on the other hand…I really need a “where are they now?” on him.
BTW, Leah & Mike have a weekly podcast now
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0mgSVdDLwZrSuYC0W3Gzw
I had never heard of Mike Rinder before, so I Googled him. The first few results were all from CoS apologists accusing Rinder of being a wife-beater. He must be on to something.
You should read the story of how they came to label him a wife-beater. Gist is that MR was taking his wife to the doctor for a pre-natal. Mike is waiting in car, speaking on the phone to the BBC’s John Sweeney, when his Scieno ex-wife and a bunch of others accosted him and started screaming at him. While he was on the phone with the BBC. Classic Scientology Keystone Kops routine.
tonyortega.org is a good place to start.
I dunno if she ever crossed The Bridge, but she’s sure burning the fuck out of it.
I think she reached OT VII on the “Bridge to Total Enslavement”
I think I remember seeing an interview where she was saying they told her about Xenu (I might be misremembering though). Is that the bridge y’all are talking about?
Who the hell knows. We used to get their Celebrity magazine delivered to a previous occupant of my apartment and it was always full of tales of celebs “crossing the bridge”. My roommate always helpfully placed it on my bed when it arrived and I wasn’t home.
Her mother reached one step higher and when Leah asked her if it was everything she’d hoped, said “Leah, not now.”
She’d (mom) basically just learned that all the previous levels weren’t what she was, because she was who she was all along. Or some such post Hubbard stuff they added to get more courses sold.
On the show, Mom jokes with Leah that she knew Leah would flip out if she told her what weak sauce it really was.
I don’t know what you mean. I was listening to Dan LeBetard this morning and he said Tom Cruise was being very brave.
Our cunte of a governor said it’s ok to eat outside.
ReOpen MN had a response.