Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful day it always is!
No one gives a shit about the Democrat’s public group therapy session.
Reality not going to well for Democrats.
Pelosi and Schumer re-introduced legislation that would kill the gig economy.
I’m rooting for the little guy.
Former congressional candidate caught using shower curtain as a fake bookcase backdrop.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
It is currently 12 degrees in Cleveland area. I have to work open to close today. Going to be so slow and no one there. I’m going to be so board. If it too cold people don’t come out to buy something.
I’m a bit too far away to stop in.
This should make you feel better about your temperature situation, lass:
Currently -28° Celsius (approx. -18° Fahrenheit) on the back deck (I’m in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada).
Went out yesterday to Home Depot for some painting supplies. Very little traffic, the store was almost empty, and the car really didn’t want to start (and its block heater was plugged in!). Just a few more days and then temps are forecast to rise to around normal values.
Speedo weather! ;-)
nd what an absolutely wonderful day it always is!
Meh.
Yeah, that’s some Mr. Rogers sounding bullshit right there. Lol
Nah. My gramps always said any day above ground is a pretty good day.
I appreciate Banjos bringing the positivity to us crabby, cynical fucks.
^^^THIS^^^
Yepper. I woke up and I have all my senses. That is always my first win of the day.
I had six senses – then I woke up.
^ I like it.
What’s the old Keith Richards line? Something like, “It’s good to be here! Hell, It’s good to be anywhere!”
Reminded me of that old Southwest commercial with the musician shouting, “HELLO CLEVELAND!” and his bandmate stage whispers, “We’re in Cincinatti.”
Mr. Rogers was a national treasure and I bet money he could’ve whooped your ass.
It’s -31 American here before the windchill. Meh. Meh indeed.
It’s a dry cold so it’s not that bad.
I guess ice is dry, on the inside.
It’s not terribly cold here, just below freezing, but we’re in the midst of an ice storm that’s supposed to last for the next 36 hours or so.
Fucking great.
Same here, but supposed to be significant snow Thursday night into Friday.
10F – high of 19. It’s been like this for almost a week. And I’m getting sick of it.
It’s been below zero for more than a fucking week. And looks to stay that way for another.
Even the dogs are getting sick of it.
Thank god I have my kids to send me pics of warm and sunny CO…
My daughter is here, cooped up in the house with me. Fish/relatives/three days
I really dug your story, 4X20!
Good Morning Banjos. Thank you for posting the links this morning.
I like that. It’s kinda surreal.
Mornin’ Banjos.
I think it’s a clever solution to having a good back drop
Yup.
Plus, no hidden virtue signaling by placing specific “good think” books.
Also, no dildos.
The dildo was pushing on the back of the curtain.
That wasn’t a dildo.
“Those aren’t pillows!”
Heh, my wife once went to my office to use as a Zoom conference room and realized that I had dozens of Gunsmithing books on the shelves. Not exactly what a university looks for in its members these days, sadly, so she had to turn them around.
Back when I was on active duty in the Marines one of the dark green Marines picked up a book from my locker with a quizzical look on his face – I had to clarify the title for him – “Dude, it says ‘Black PowDer handbook”
I find it ironic and hilarious. Does anyone actually think those people read any of the books behind them? I’m sure a few make out with their Che & Mao statues but I wouldn’t give them the credit of reading any of those nicely stacked and posed books.
I’ve read most of the books on my bookshelf.
And those scattered around the bookshelf.
And those stacked on the miniatures shelves.
And those in boxes in the front room.
I haven’t read the TekWar books I found cheap.
I was referring to the people with the nicely staged bookshelves on zoom. Not like Westernsloper with the dingy, darkly lit, packed, serial killer basement closet. It’s like he’s begging to get caught by his sub conscious. At least he’s honest!
“I. Can’t believe. That you wouldn’t. Read my books!”
Why am I not surprised that this crowd knows who the author of that series is?
Because we know all sorts of supposedly obscure shit?
Cheap-ass mofo. He should have gotten one of these.
Their dwelling doesn’t smell like rich mahogany- https://youtu.be/Hzx8KHjQD6c
Only if you refer to yourself as “Esquire”
As a studio photographer, my first instinct was to wonder if it was a shower curtain or a photo backdrop. And I approve of the photo backdrop.
Hiya, Banjos!
SO, job destruction, empty signaling and blatant stupidity. 2021 is shaping up nicely!
I wonder how many of the ‘gig economy’ workers are proggies. And what it will take for them to realize how thoroughly they are being fucked. Or will they just whine about UBI and call it good?
Oh, and Debbie is better than Tiffany. Still, a nice blast from the past!
Have a great day, everyone!
But they’re betters promised that the didn’t mean to impact them. It was just a complete accident that keeps happening to them.
Fuck. *their and *they
That’s what I get for posting sans caffeine.
For every person that realizes the Dems are fucking them. There’s 3 people outside the problem looking in that get convinced of the propaganda that it’s the evil capitalism that did it.
We’re just a few more Gulag attendees away from UTOPIA!
I wonder how many exceptions are carved into the bill that allows “retired” teachers (and other government employees) to keep their double-dipping scams going.
Pretty sure that both of them posed for Playboy after their respective 15 minutes were up. Yay for free markets!
Debbie also dated a guy from the Circle Jerks, and did a song with them.
That is obscure info that I wanted to know! The 80’s were so rad!
The U.S. budget deficit soared in January as Congress approved another massive coronavirus relief bill that sent direct aid to Americans still reeling from the pandemic, the Congressional Budget Office said this week.
Bills that are unnecessary if not for the government in the first place. Virus theater tyranny is the culprit. And the bills are so pork laden that they are practically dripping with bacon grease.
I just love how the media always blames the pandemic for our cratered economy, but they always seem to either minimize government closures and completely failed attempt at central planning, or leave it out altogether.
It’s actually worse than my cynical mind can process:
How a Virus Was Used To Transform a Free Country
It should probably say “Free”, but that’s a quibble. There is some amazing shit in these bills.
Enjoy!
I’ll have to read that later, after a few alcoholic drinks.
A welfare check in every pot.
Ugh.
“Root…Hogg.” Really, Banjos? Really?
I doubt there’s a morel to the story.
Don’t be truffling.
Don’t give me any of your shiitake.
You’re all fungi to be around.
He has his finger on the button!
The best part is when he wanted to build a company and the first question he asked was “What does a company do?” Harvard College material, right there.
He assumes there is a federal trough he needs to saunter up to.
It’s not an assumption. Just change “Federal” to “NGO”. He’ll sell them by the millions, just like every grifter that pretends to write a book or a screenplay. This is all playing out in real time and we have no reset button.
Maybe he’ll build a firearms company by accident.
Rednecks always say “On Accident”. Turn in your card immediately!
He’s not that crazy, just young.
He grew up when people are starting tech companies and making a fortune on websites by essentially starting a website and getting fellow travelers to click on your blog/Youtube channel/onlyfans etc. In the tech industry, you don’t need business plans.
In manufacturing and businesses that sell products rather than just web adspace, you actually need the things you are talking about – like how to make the product, its cost and price, a business plan, etc.
Is Mypillow even a top 10 pillow company?
We’ve always been at war with Mypillow!
Does it matter?
They must be destroyed!
No idea but I challenge anyone to name another pillow company.
The Senate begins its impeachment trial of former President Trump this week, but most voters don’t believe Trump will be convicted and few expect to watch the entire trial on TV.
I’ll be following it the best I can out of sheer curiosity. But I follow the Crowder coverage so at least he tells jokes and shit.
Who the fuck are these people? Why on earth would anyone watch this fucking donkey show? What kind of person do you have to be?
There are people who leave CNN on in their house 24/7.
All the networks are covering it, a fact bemoaned even by my TDS infected spouse.
“Isn’t cable news enough? Can’t people who want to watch this go to CNN or Fox? Why do we have to have it on every channel?”
Because it is a political advertisement, not news, that is why.
Lots of people’s Moms left AM radio on all day long. Do you want a bunch of Ted’s and Festuses? This is how you get a bunch of Ted’S and FeStuses”’
There’s a lot of Trump-hate still flowing in some people.
I wonder how many of them can see that there won’t be so many opportunities to exercise that hate in the near future? I can’t wait until even their hate suppliers start winding down the whole circus and stop feeding that crowd.
Maybe as a society we should come together and experience a catharsis of sorts by all watching the Orange Man and yelling at him on our Government approved monitors. Maybe it will be such a uniting force that we can do it indefinitely. Maybe for a couple minutes each day.
And we can all keep an eye on our neighbors to make sure they are enthusiastically participating as well. We must all share in the great unity of purpose.
It is irrational hate too…
“All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.“
They’ve already turned it on us. There must be some Dragon to slay. They want Trump’s scalp hanging off the tee-pee but what they really desire is subjugation of his 74 millions of backers and especially those voters that didn’t give a shit. They have one chance at the brass ring.
In the before years, I recall when the Iran Contra hearings preempted daytime tv for much of summer. Yes, I did watch some of it.
I can’t imagine caring less about a national news item. Show trials aren’t something i care to support with my viewership.
Just the thought of the image of Trump wearing a dunce cap in the Chamber does make me giggle like a little girl, though.
I wouldn’t even call it a show trial. You do show trials when you have people you need to shoot and bury, but have to extract confessions first. Donkey show might be the best term for this (thanks Muzzled), it’s titillation for a certain sort of degenerate.
My coworkers are certain he’s guilty and will be convicted.
Hello Banjos. I like to think that your links show the actual middle-of-the-road of the current state of political affairs in the USA. It’s nice to think that all the rabid, barking at the moon prog-mania and gaslighting which passes for reality in most media outlets are just their pathetic fantasies.
I wish it were so.
As Trump impeachment trial starts, the Biden Democrat agenda crashes into reality
Union anger over job losses, inflation worries, likely acquittal undercut new president’s clout.
Reality tends to thwart most leftism in time. Unfortunately there is a lot of destruction and death in the meantime.
ZARDOZ approves.
Need to print more money, not the people’s fault they aren’t ready for high tech manufacturing. A billion here, a b…well, you get the idea. You know it’s serious when Ms Yellen recognizes the problem.
We just totally abandoned the “billion here, billion there” trope last year… We have had to adjust that upward by 3 orders of magnitude twice in my lifetime. From millions to billions and now to trillions.
We are now at the point where we borrow a trillion dollars without even a committee hearing, let alone a detailed budgetary process.
The Democrats Just Reintroduced a Labor Law that Would Destroy Uber—And It Could Actually Pass This Time
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s PRO Act is a case study in unintended consequences.
Dems are for the little guy, such as Apple/Amazon/Alphabet/Walmart/etc.
Don’t apple, amazon, google, etc rely on shitloads of freelancers?
not in the same manner.
SCIENCE!!!!!
Habari za asubuhi Glibertariat!
Hakuna matata to you too.
Indeed.
Gunga galunga
So, you got that going for you too.
Which is nice.
For the morning links, I give you my alma-mater, doing us proud with an editorial by the board of editors of the illustrious Daily Tar Heel, one of the most venerated student publications in the US.
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/02/opinion-franklin-street-rush
Writing about a spontaneous and traditional celebration by students following a win over the rival school down the road, they spew forth this gem:
“”It should not go unnoticed that the vast majority of students rushing were white. Openly flouting COVID-19 restrictions, the group started a fire and left the street littered with foam from a crowd-surfing mattress — yet the chaos continued for about 45 minutes before Chapel Hill Police finally dispersed the group.
If these students were Black and brown, would they have been treated the same?”
Yes. They go there.
“It’s no coincidence — it’s a classic case of white privilege.”
Bonus props to the DTH and their anti-racism task force came only a couple of days later as they published a video of a couple of black players celebrating with friends in a smaller gathering without masks. They were outraged over this wreckless behavior, of course… And are suitability proud that they were able to force the postponement of the scheduled game with Notre Dame. You know… Because white privilege or something….
When your next alumni fundraising email comes in, you should respond with “I don’t support racist organizations” and attach that article.
Joyless commie shit stains.
Yes. They go there.
Clearly the campus police would have mowed them down with a hail of gunfire had they not been white.
Yep, the new slave patrol.
Gotta keep them in line!
From the “Who could have predicted this” department:
Mayors: Bankruptcy imminent if pandemic income tax lost
It’s the cities complaining about losing worker income tax from WFH people.
“HEY! Who shot my foot?
And where did this pistol come from?”
^^
That one really is genius.
The point of being able to tax income of people who work in a city is that the city provides advantages to the employer and the worker. They have a concentrated workforce. Transportation services, police and fire services, ready access to supplies needed….
if everybody is telecommuting, exactly what services is the city providing?
It might not be worth it if you have a small business to business shop that still kind of needs to be any central location. But if I had a large number of employees that were all telecommuting, I would definitely consider at least relocating their job description. Just open up a office front in some little office park out in the burbs someplace and move all of their jobs there.
Supposing that my telecommuters earn an average of $100,000 a year, saving them 2% income tax is actually a nice little bonus.
The office I went into wasn’t one my company owned or operated, it was another company who contracted the company I work for. Due to that, I’ve only had to pay local taxes for the city I live in since I took this job. That was an unexpected 1.5-2% increase in my salary over my last job (on top of the bump I got for changing jobs).
The paying taxes where I worked has always rubbed me the wrong way. Of course, the whole no taxation without representation thing has kind of been obliterated anyways, but at least for most sales/hotel/rental taxes, I can choose where I’m going.
Maybe people get desensitized to that… Or maybe it is down to “misery loves company”… But you sure don’t see much opposition to this in the northeastern megalopolis where the taxation is the most egregious. They seem eager to have everyone live like that.
City of London is interesting, as they provide voting rights to businesses within the city. Number of votes is determined by number of employees (not proportional, it is kind of a log of number of employees rate, so a small business may get 1 or 2 votes and a big business 5 or so).
When I was in Louisville, there was a 2.2% payroll tax if you worked in the county AND lived in the county. So for those people. like me at the time, telecommuting wouldn’t help. However, the rate was 1.45% for those who worked in the county and lived outside it, as the 0.75% was a school tax. So if you started telecommuting, you would save an additional 1.45%. That is a decent amount.
In addition, the city of Jeffersontown had an additional 1% tax. When office complex advertised “outside of J-town”. They were on the border but outside. We got our office there, as we refused to be in the city of Jeffersontown and pay extra. I know plenty of people who work in J-town, I hope they are getting the bonus 1% now.
Just talked to two friends who work at same company. One has got the 1% savings since last May, the other lives in J-town, so no tax cut.
I know it’s been a while, but I’m glad to know you’re out of that shithole.
If it was up to me, I would move back. My wife agrees with you, however.
Are you still in KY?
No, I am just outside of Charleston, SC.
Wayfair reads your well thought out post and says “because FYTW!”
Don’t worry, the Blue State Bailout will fill that money hole.
Not sure if Ohio would qualify for a Blue State Ballout.
In my state they already passed a 1% tax on everybody to “help out” the corruptocrats in the big cities that lost their opportunity to rip people off…
Woof
Wait till they reassess commercial property in the summer.
Ass Wednesday has got your back.
https://archive.li/DOht0
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Surprised that this hasn’t been here yet.
https://youtu.be/IKFiRKg-9GE?t=28
Sorry I sound a little out of it in this video because I am very tired but I wanted to give you all an update on the pillow company.
We are going to start small and do it right providing you with the best product we possibly can and it may take time.
What is he going to call it? Soy Pillow?
A nice scantily clad Pelosi chan on every one.
Protest Pillows.
Soy Pillow: The Official Pillow Biters Pillow.
One thing we realized is that we’re not gonna start out selling a million pillows instantly, because we want to have a focus on quality. So what that means is that it might take us a month, it might take us two months. Maybe three, even. But we’re going to make a quality pillow that people can sleep on at night and feel good about. That is made here in the United States with union labor and is sustainably sourced…
MONTHS! OHMIGOD! THAT’S LIKE FOREVER!
This is beyond hilarious.
It’d be tough to find a person less knowledgeable about running a business.
It might take 3 months to start selling millions of pillows.
If the banks were not so woke, he would be laughed out of the branch…but I am sure he and his ilk will fund this to death.
Well if he’s only really a reseller of chinese slave labor pillows, and the actual shipping is handled by the manufacturer, he’s got a shot.
Yeah, but the writer – this is the Fyre Festival of pillow companies? ZING!!!
The Blue Pillow?
Fucking wordpress.
Also,
I cannot figure out 4×20. I have this idea of him being a kindly avuncular grandfather, just raising bees — and then he puts out writing like last night…
No, you have it right. He is as you describe – but he’s had 80+ years to watch what horrible shit people do to each other.
He created characters you start to like and then just mercilessly kills them off. I blame that fat fuck GRRM.
Fourscore finished his series.
literally LOL
literarily too
An odd thing came up last night. A buddy and I were discussing the complete destruction of the fourth estate and he mentioned the buyout of drudge. Whether you were of the left or the right, for many years Drudge report was the place to go for your morning links to see what was happening in the world.
Neither of us had been there in months. So we both took a look.
Holy crap! It is a full-on anti-trump propaganda site. I did not do a detailed analysis, but it sure looked like every single link was anti-trump propaganda.
I wonder how much they paid? There had to be a pretty good size premium to buy Matt Drudge’s silence on the matter.
Matt Drudge is too recluse to ever know.
Baseball birthdays are deep today:
Lance Berkman, HoFer Herb Pennock, Lenny Dykstra, Alex Gordon, Jim Barr, and Allie Reynolds all over 25 WAR.
Barr is the only one I am not familiar with. Berkman got only 1.2% of the HoF vote in 2019 and is thus off the ballot. Not arguing he should be in, but he deserved better than that. Did he get caught with ‘roids? Can’t remember, but entirely possible.
Actually, Berkman was pretty openly anti-steroid, which doesn’t mean he wasn’t taking, but he called for blood tests for players to try to weed out steroid users, so I am going to put him in the clean column.
Which is even more reason that his lack of vote was a travesty. If he was clean putting up those numbers in the steroid era, then he really deserved more support.
Berkman never struck me as much of a self-promoter, which explains why I liked him and why sportswriters forgot about him.
Berkman did deserve better but one of the problems with those guys is that once they have been rejected there are kind of a lot of them and nothing tangible to fight for really.
“I don’t want Bobby Abreu in the Hall of Fame, I just want people to respect him!”
“OK, if I say I respect him can I get back to filling out my real ballot?”
I totally get what you are saying and agree with you. I just have trouble believing he wasn’t on the top 10 of more ballots.
I mean, if everyone agreed on valuation and 10 guys were getting 100% of the vote, sure, it would make sense.
But who was getting votes instead of him in 2019?
And, yes, I know everyone doesn’t fill out 10 names every year, which is fine.
For example, Jeff Kent was marginally better (using WAR) than Berkman, and got 18.1% of the vote. Omar Vizquel was marginally worse and got 42.8%. Fred McGriff, was was effectively the same, got 39.8%. It was the crime dogs 10th and final year on the ballot, so he probably got a boost. But he made it 10 years. Berkman was one and done.
Looking at the ballot that year, I easily find 10 people I would vote for instead, I just find it weird he didn’t get more vote. Everyone better than him got at least 7.5% vote. Three players worse than him got more vote, and 2 of them got enough to stay on the ballot.
After Mazeroski got in i stopped caring about the HOF. Mazeroski and Baines in
but Albert Belle isnt? Sorry you lost me.
Maz is in the argument for the best defensive player of all time. No matter how bad the bat, that qualifies you, IMO. It is like putting Mariano Rivera in the hall. Yeah, his total value isn’t that great, but he dominated what he did.
This (rightly or wrongly) probably works against guys like Berkman too. There are a lot of players who were similar to but better than Berkman.
Vizquel has a solid defensive reputation as well, but I don’t believe he’s HoF material.
How to Jump Rope Like A Boxer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGxF1krvurI
Nice form.
I like the stove, too.
They’re running!!
https://youtu.be/nK4ZGXJXvgo
Can’t they just try Trump for being Trump?
That’s the foundation of the the whole dog and pony show.
Me: “Sorry, I couldn’t get the low-chicken carton of chocolate milk this time”
3-year-old: “Nooooo, there’s no chicken”
Me: *shit eating grin*
5 minutes later
3-year-old: “Is there really chicken in my chocolate milk?”
??
Got to get that bullshit meter well adjusted before they hit the real world.
When the kids were young, I regularly told whoppers at the table so they would get used to calling BS on people.
The only problem with mixing in a bunch of untruths is that kids who come over to play and don’t suspect that a sociopath is lying to them get really fooled.
One day I was pitching to the neighborhood kids in one of our backyard ball games and I was throwing some pitches between my legs. I told them that that was what a curve ball really was. Just the pitcher throwing it between his legs, but the major leaguers are so fast, you can’t really tell.
Next day a father came over and said his son had become quite adamant that MLB pitchers threw the ball between their legs. Because of what I had told him. The dad wanted me to explain to the kid I was lying. I laughed and told the guy that was his job. He needed to teach his kid how to think for himself. Also that it wasn’t that hard to prove that I was fibbing.
Fibbing? Lying? There’s another word for that, if the tykes aren’t listening.
“Politicking.”
Are you going to get your chicken sandwiches with beak on the side?
That made me smile. I convinced my boys, when they were wee lil children and we had to go on long road trips when I was stationed in NM and they lived in CA that the car flies but only if they are napping.
I usually had a 4-5 hour drive that was peaceful.
How long ’til wordpress won’t let us in until we admit 2+2=5?
No, Brooksie, it’s 3.
There are 5 lights. There have always been 5 lights
No, mister Cyto, there are as many lights as the party says there are – no more, no less, no always.
Gun news:
Beretta bought Holland & Holland.
https://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/culture/beretta-acquires-holland-holland/
[snark 1] Because they needed to make a more expensive line of shotguns.
[snark 2] Because they were jealous that they weren’t produceing all the beautiful firearms on the market.
Gun makers should all go bankrupt anyways
With this crew in charge?
If they fail on universal registration and psych evaluations, look for soft bans by working to hold manufacturers liable for every shooting.
They have already fired the first shots on this, and they have been working diligently to put a friendly judiciary in place. Look for strict manufacturer liability in all firearms injuries… Even lawfully purchased firearms used in lawful self defense.
I expect a different approach, or at least a multi-pronged approach.
I’m thinking they’ll go the route they took against vaping: shipping. I expect very soon an announcement that the USPS will no longer be shipping any firearms or ammunition, followed up fairly quickly by FedEx and UPS, effectively making it impossible to ship guns, particularly individual guns shipped between FFLs for online gun purchases and individual ammo sales.
It would be shortsighted for them to do that. The online marketplace won’t dry up just because shipping becomes difficult. There would be “GunEx” and “Firearms Parcel Service” and the like that would quickly fill the gap, and it’s not guaranteed that they’ll play as nicely with ATF as UPS, USPS, and FedEx do.
That’s probably true, but remember: it’s not the result that matters. It’s the journey. Even if it doesn’t stop guns from circulating, it will put a temporary damper on it, if not cut out a smaller chunk permanently, and likely cause it to become more expensive to ship guns and ammo.
That said, if I lived in a liberal suburb, I’d make sure to order some ammo weekly so that the big ass GunzPS truck pulls up to the house.
Vaping is already trying to figure things out with shipping, but they don’t have nearly the money and clout the gun industry has to make it beyond individual companies delivering in a pretty small area, as opposed to a VapePS or VapeMail type thing that would essentially be a nationwide shipping service for vaping.
Yeah, Gunbroker has started something like Gunpay now, to take over where PayPal left off. It was just sitting there, waiting for someone to pick it up and run with it. Now, I wouldn’t be surprised that many other groups like vaping start using it, or something like it.
Vive la France?
French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.
Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture…
The publication this month of a book critical of racial studies by two veteran social scientists, Stéphane Beaud and Gérard Noiriel, fueled criticism from younger scholars — and has received extensive news coverage. Mr. Noiriel has said that race had become a “bulldozer’’ crushing other subjects, adding, in an email, that its academic research in France was questionable because race is not recognized by the government and merely “subjective data.’’
race is not recognized by the government
Wow, I envy the French government for something. I’ll be enjoying the icebath in hell.
That is astonishing. The left really has accomplished miracles here in the states.
Even for all their socialist leanings, the French place a high value on their culture and heritage. I’ll bet even Foucault thought French culture was to be maintained as superior to all others.
You know who else put a high value on their culture and heritage…
Everybody except Americans?
BLM?
Letting in a flood of immigration to make yourselves feel better about your elitism and then shoving them into ghettos where you can forget about tehir existance was a bad idea?
How could we have known!!???
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37655777
“The Duc d’Uzes is president of a little-known body called the Association for Mutual Help of the French Nobility (ANF).
According to the story, the ANF was founded in the 1930s after two French nobles realised that the porter who was carrying their luggage at a Paris station was one of their own. They resolved to create and manage a fund to help distressed nobility – a function the ANF carries on to this day.”
The French are scared shitless that LaPen will harness enough votes to pull a Trump out of the Yellow Vest movement, and do not want to give them more ammo.
You know you’re fucked when the French have a better grasp on reality than you.
Of course, they started this shit.
Twice even – Rousseau and Foucault.
The French feel this way? I remember touring France, when Obama was president. The tour guide told me that most French people considered Obama to be a right-wing conservative compared to French politicians. And he didn’t say it in an admiring way.
The French think there’s a big difference between a National Socialist and a National Socialiste.
Audience numbers dropped as the lopsided score increased, and for the most part continued to decline through the rest of the game.
No shit, Shirley?
Wife started fast forwarding the DVR through commercials around halftime. I wanted to watch them to make a list of companies never to patronize. We “watched” to the end, if only because we were both on our phones and didn’t bother to turn the TV off.
Well, the first two beers cracked when I got there were this one and then this one. Thankfully I had some lighter beers to switch over to.
Boring football game is boring. I’d wager many a poker game broke out.
Good news. Less than 20% of students will be able to return to class by the end of the month.
Where the fuck will those students be from the 16-19? And what about after the 26?
And the bigger question, conveniently left out of the article, is whether teachers will be in the classroom, or will they be doing the bullshit where students are in class being supervised by a not teacher, while teacher is safely ensconced in her sweat pants while sitting on the couch and “teaching” via zoom?
Professor Maxwell Headroom
Can we just conclude that public schooling is not that important
We can.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1358814689447333890
*To them*.
The schooling part is not important *to them*.
The payroll part? That is important. Gotta keep paying people who are not doing their jobs.
And the parents? We see first hand just how much this damages kids. They need structure, interaction with other people their age, accountability…
This pandemic is crushing a huge swath of kids. Some thrive in this environment. But most are white ring, learning bad habits as they check out during a minimalist online instruction period.
We have 3 kids. They have all reacted differently. None has reacted as I expected. Some have done well, others have regressed. But I cannot say it has been good for any of them.
Don’t worry. DeWine has tasked the school districts to come up with a plan to address “learning loss” due to the ‘vid by April 1st. One of the options that’s being considered in some of the districts is to not fail students, but enroll them in a “robust summer learning program” (with nothing being said if those would be in person or remote).
Backwards troglodytes. Here in the far more enlightened NYC public school system, it was decreed last March that no student can be failed and all students will be promoted to the next grade regardless of performance or attendance. Worse, all the competitive admission schools (into which we are trying to get daughter) have been switched (by fiat of Chancellor Carranza) into a straight lottery system. At least middle schools are going to full-time open campus instruction in a week. The local YMCA has really shined through all this. They hired back many of their Summer camp staff and put them to work running schoolrooms for kids to do their online classes. The kids get supervision, breaks, lunch, and (most importantly) exercise and play with their peers.
For those in SC, some local history is being dug up:
Booze for Al Capone: archaeologists study SC illegal moonshine sites near Charleston
We have a glib in Moncks Corner. It isn’t THAT close to Charleson. I mean, sure, its probably metro area and people commute from there, but those people are insane.
Berkeley County is pretty big and Moncks Corner is far end of it. I am right on border with it and am probably a good 30-40 minutes from Moncks Corner. Google maps says 39 minutes back roads thru the swamp, 50 minutes if I take the interstate.
Fury over Sadiq Khan’s woke statue taskforce: London mayor unveils monuments commission – including social rights activist who defaced a statue of Sir Robert Geffrye and academic who said white supremacy can be traced back to Britain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9240197/Sadiq-Khan-unveils-taskforce-review-capitals-landmarks-ensure-reflect-diversity.html
Just burn the whole place down and build affordable housing
“Just burn the whole place down and build affordable housing”
We’re going to need at least 4 government commissions for that, 3 planning councils and 8 diversity managers to achieve such noble goals. Call us back in 4 years for our determinations and plans to move forward. Also, attached you’ll find the address to send the $30,000,000 grant to.
Look at the capitalist here.
Housing is a right and should be free.
You’re not doing this right, Pie.
One of the problems with stuff like this is that in opposing it you might make it a cause célèbre. It’s easy enough for the Tories to block Khan from doing anything too stupid, but if they stamp on it too hard then it becomes official Labour policy next time they get in. Cf Trump’s Executive Order on Critical Race Theory.
Whatever you do, do not under any circumstances agree to help clean the oven racks when you visit Grammy Nancy and Gampy Chucks’ house.
*preps vat of acid*
Midwives have been told to say “chestfeeding” instead of “breastfeeding” and to replace the term “mother” with “mother or birthing parent” as part of moves to be more trans-friendly
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1359189243311063046
I assume only people with uterus can chestfeed right?
I believe that with hormones and mechanical “induction” that a male person could produce milk.
I know that non-pregnant women can be “induced.” That’s a big thing in the adult nursing community.
I produced milk with all of our kids. I took a can of powder, some water and a bottle, just like we men have done for generations. Whenever mom wanted a couple of glasses of wine and didn’t have enough frozen away… Time to make a bottle.
I didn’t feel the need to redefine the english language though.
Not it!
The sick thing is that there are people who will go along with this rather than ignoring it and writing off the source of this insanity as a wackadoodle.
Uh… You don’t chest feed with your uterus.
“I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.”
Tommy James did it better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFLUXTEwM
An even better Tommy James song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv3WB2loIA4
My Mom was a big fan.
One of my all-time favorites from that era.
Your mom had good taste, music one could dance to (and did)
Not the first time that Ben Weasel has come off of the top rope for the win 😉
I have a real honest F2F job interview tomorrow. Weirdness.
A manufacturing company that’s moving to a ERP package that I’m very familiar with.
::shrugs:: Part of me just wants to stay “unemployed” and concentrate on the arts/antique/videocast/blogging plan I’ve just started.
Sounds like a no lose situation. Good luck, I guess.
I don’t blame you. Unfortunately the need for health insurance dictates many of my choices.
Try to wear pants, preferably not leather
Pillow manufacturer?
ChuckGrassley
@ChuckGrassley
Can’t fly into USA w/o showing negative test for virus but Pres Biden will let ppl who illegally walked across the border do so w/o testing. Is that protecting our citizens?
Shut-up, bigot!
Rules are for who don’t vote for Democrats.
You got him chucky! I’m sure he’ll feel shame and be held accountable for his hypocrisy by the neutral and fair media!
That was a laugh out loud moment.
Why won’t my abusive husband stop pounding me? I’ve pointed out how imperfect he is.
Glenn Greenwald on a Free Beacon reporter who published leaked screenshots of a closed Facebook group: a “smart, young, careful reporter”
Greenwald on NYT & NBC reporters who cover tech, extremism, and disinformation: “hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance”
https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1359297505901441024
I am starting to warm up the the idea that journalists by and large are enemies of civilization
Also maybe I am old and shit, but since when did saying the word retard in a context that is not directed at someone with disabilities become completely beyond the pale?
What, the R word? Yeah, be careful.
Among the pantheon of unutterable terms, that one is the most retarded.
Because if you are over the age of 45 or so, you were around when ‘retarded’ was being pushed as the politically correct term, having replaced terms like imbecile, idiot, moron….
Then we had to replace retarded (which literally means ‘slowed down’) with a slew of attempts at finding a politically correct term:. Mentally handicapped, mentally challenged, developmentally handicapped, developmentally challenged…
It does not matter what term they settle on. It eventually becomes synonymous with “extremely stupid” and can then be used as an epithet to insult those who have no physical excuse for their idiocy.
So we have a never ending treadmill of offense.
My first wife was ‘tarded. She’s a pilot now
+ Dr. Lexus
Also maybe I am old and shit, but since when did saying the word retard in a context that is not directed at someone with disabilities become completely beyond the pale?
Pretty gay, huh?
Welcome Pie. There is tea, coffee, and cakes on the back table.
Just remember that they are professional gossips, snoops and busybodies. That tells you all you need to know.
They always used to be viewed as degenerates and assholes throughout our history. This notion they are a respectable group of truth seekers is a recent phenomenon.
I don’t mind degenerates and assholes Some of my best friends are degenerates and assholes, no to mention my online acquaintances . Malignant authoritarian sociopaths is the issue
“Malignant authoritarian sociopaths is the issue”
Exactly. Being an asshole used to be in the top 5 of “what makes you an American.” It’s the busy body intellectual authoritarians that are bringing on the next apocalypse. They have voices that must be heard! The have Karens that refuse to be silenced! They have victim egos that must be bought, paid and fed. They are a coalition of evil with western civilizations demise being their only goal and trophy. Truly they think if they burn it all down and make it someone else’s fault that their lives will be better or maybe then their guilt can die.
Fucking commies.
“…or maybe then their guilt can die.”
Or maybe they will even get cake. That would be the best outcome.
This.
Thanks, Boomers!
“Marvel has been forced to apologize for publishing an anti-Semitic image in its new Immortal Hulk comic that featured a ‘Jewery’ shop and the Star of David – as the Brazilian artist responsible insists his spelling error was a ‘terrible mistake’.
The image depicting a Jewish diamond business caused outrage among fans after it appeared in the new Immortal Hulk #43 that was published last week.
Critics accused Marvel and the artist of playing on the ‘anti-Semitic trope of Jews running the diamond business’. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9245175/Marvel-apologizes-anti-Semitic-image-Immortal-Hulk-comic.html
Total bullshit. Everybody knows it’s the Armenians that run the diamond business these days.
“There’s 2 honkeys out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants. One wants 4 fried chickens and a coke. The other wants dry, white, toast”
“The Blues Brothers!”
No Jewish Hollywood moguls are allowed in Marvel Comics either I would assume.
Well at least it wasn’t a banker.
Totally competent:
Behold my righteousness
For four straight years, Trump’s critics made versions of the same normative claim: This shouldn’t be allowed to happen! The president shouldn’t be permitted to lie and cheat, to insult and exaggerate, to denigrate and humiliate anyone and everyone who resists falling in line and bowing down obsequiously before him. And yet it happened, over and over again. He kept doing things he wasn’t supposed to, and he kept getting away with it.
How? By discrediting his accusers — by pulling, dragging, yanking them down to his own level. That’s why Trump’s acolytes in Congress and sycophants in the media so often ended up sounding like automatons stuck in a loop, endlessly hurling the same countercharges of hypocrisy and double standards at the president’s critics.
It was as pathetic as a playground taunt of “I know you are, but what am I?” Yet it was remarkably effective at convincing an overwhelming majority of Republican voters that Trump’s accusers had no business portraying themselves as his moral betters. And if none of his accusers’ judgments could be taken seriously, if their charges could be dismissed as a subterfuge concealing baser, purely self-interested, political motives, then Trump could get away with anything. Then everything was permitted.
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That was the saga — the degrading spectacle — of the past four years, in which expectations for public morals and comportment were continually defined downward by the president’s own gutter-level, mob-boss conduct and his party’s need to excuse it.
What has genuinely surprised me about the political mood of the country since Trump was silenced on social media in the days after the insurrection, and even more since he left office altogether, is how quickly we seem to have rebounded into normalcy. Not that the rottenness Trump revealed has disappeared or been repaired. Far from it. Plenty of politicians and members of the mainstream media remain eager to continue practicing the deranged and sinister Dada politics that dominated the last few years. But without Trump gaslighting the nation day and night from the White House, the maelstrom has settled down somewhat, with a semblance of order returning to Washington and a sense of moral equilibrium beginning to return.
Normalcy has returned. Uh huh. Take your meds, dude.
Tell yourself it was all just a horrible traumatic dream. Soon the nation will be awash in trillions of dollars’ worth of helicopter money and pork, and we can get back to the Path of Righteousness.
Once again we can pursue our lofty political goal of enriching the Right People and crushing the Wrong People.
Yep, Trump got away with everything. Nobody pushed back or called him out on anything. It was a disgrace.
“The president shouldn’t be permitted to lie and cheat”
What world does this motherfucker live in?
Yep. Just think of all of the revolutions that could’ve been prevented if they’d only ostracized, demonized, criminalized and silenced half the country. How are we just now discovering this political tactic!
King George has a sad.
shouldn’t be permitted to lie and cheat, to insult and exaggerate, to denigrate and humiliate anyone and everyone who resists falling in line and bowing down
Has this person never met a politician?
we seem to have rebounded into normalcy
You are going to get that “normalcy” good and hard.
“‘You go woke and become a joke’: Aunt Jemima’s new name Pearl Milling Company is panned as people say it sounds like a gravel mining firm after PepsiCo scrapped the ‘racist’ pancake syrup icon amid BLM protests
Last June, at the height of protests over the death of George Floyd, PepsiCo announced that it would drop the name and brand image of Aunt Jemima from its products, following criticism that the character is a racist caricature.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9243255/Aunt-Jemimas-new-Pearl-Milling-Company.html
I’ve milled some pearls in my time.
I’m assuming they were then fashioned into a necklace?
*plays ZZ Top
* Looks for Aunt Jemima syrup
* Doesn’t find it
* Shrugs, Log Cabin it is
^^ this. Although, I don’t really do the corn sugar syrups anymore. I’ve become spoiled by the real deal.
We don’t buy it either, but I do think they completely torpedoed their brand. You don’t build a brand that recognizable overnight. Prepare for sales to drop like a rock.
We’ll never hear about it again (until they sell off that business unit in 10 years after “a decade of flagging sales”)
Just wait for the news articles in about 10 years to come out about how corporate mascots are all too white, and we need to introduce some mascots of %insert current term here% for some brands to do “throwbacks”.
The could’ve owned the libs by renaming it Blockyoauntjemima.
I think that is more of an indictment of the general population’s education level.
What I am getting at is I would suspect that
A: people have only a general idea that pancake mix comes from wheat and
B: to get it drom wheat you have to mill it.
I would wager people think of it like electricity..its magic and just appears at the wall when I need it.
You just reminded me of something.
Watch until the end.
Lol. And now I weep.
“Where does the electricity come from?”
“The building.”
The DoWP guy really didnt want to answer that questiom either
In fairness it is a really complex question to give an accurate and detailed answer to.
You could say “80% coal, 10% hydro, 5%nuclear and the rest is a mix of natural gas and renewables.” Which is a mouth full, but also does not accurately address the question.
Time of day plays a big role as well, and many sources are also seasonal or weather dependant.
It is probably one of those questions that is harder to answer the more you know.
“We tapped off the building supply” was the depth of her knowledge. After that she was making a guess. Power company dude was trying to distill everything down to a sound bite. He probably could have done 25 minutes on the topic without breaking a sweat.
It wasn’t as bad as you make it sound. In context anyone might have understood the question to be about how charging stations are going to be wired and who pays.
She did finally figure out the thrust and try to claim natural gas…. At least she didn’t try to claim it was wind power because they have a wind farm connected to the grid somewhere.
That brand is now ded. They killed it.
Deception 100
https://twitter.com/txiokatu/status/1359309575787323393
Haircut 100
Powerman5000
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9242251/Amelia-Gray-Hamlin-simply-smolders-slips-lacy-lingerie-white-hot-new-Instagram.html
something lawnmower something eyebrows
No shit. Its like she was born of an unholy biological union between Brooke Shields and Groucho Marx.
Did Harry Hamlin get a sex change?
Unity/healing/etc.
CNN’s Cooper compares Trump & his supporters on Jan. 6 to those that carried out genocides in Bosnia & Rwanda: “[W]e’ve seen it in Bosnia, we’ve seen it in Rwanda where radios was telling people – you know, Hutus were telling the radio listeners that the Tutsi are cockroaches…”
Hutus were telling the radio listeners that the Tutsi are cockroaches
Man, the progjection is strong.
Hey! There was well over an hour of disruption at the capital! This is totally serious!
And anyone trying to compare this violent bloodbath with the mostly peaceful protests over the summer is just a racist liar.
There are people calling for unpersoning and violence against their political foes. It’s just not the ones they think.
If they were wanting to kill people they’d have lit a fire which they could have done no problem and, yeah, all the histrionic comparisons are stupid.
JFC
They’re not going to stop until there is an actual bloodbath.
CNN went on for years with “Russia hacked the election”, “not my President”, #Resist, etc.
Why the use of past tense?
I think CNN has pretty much implied that Tutsi Gabbard is a cockroach for daring to attack Kween Kamala.
“Tutsi Gabbard” Wow!
Aunt Jemima’s new name Pearl Milling Company
“Pearl Milling? That doesn’t conjure up an image of tasty pancakes. Where’s the Betty Crocker?”
Did anyone catch just how grossly incompetent Trump’s lead defense lawyer was? Like, it was baffling how bad it was and 75% of the time you couldn’t tell what relevance anything he was saying had to the proceedings? He made the Democratic presenters look like Cicero?
Have no idea at this point if this is going to backfire, side fire, misfire on team blue. All of it seems pointless which is better than what congress usually does.
No, I did not. But that is simply because I ignored both of them. The writers of this season have completely lost me. None of the story lines make sense, the characters are terrible…
This show is going to be cancelled soon.
I have learned my lesson. I knew that Game of Thrones was limping along and slowly imploding because they didn’t have any more source material to draw on, but I watched to the end anyway.
I ain’t making that mistake again.
Worst ending ever.
What? Have I been totally forgotten?
-Lost
We forget Two Girls and One Cup so soon?
Nancy and Alexandria aren’t done yet!
/Lumberjack Dexter waves hello.
Frak! BSG grumble grumble.
NBC is doing a reboot for “Peacock.”
Hey buddy, stop doing that.
It was widely noted. My guess is most competent lawyers are reading the tea leaves that say “if you dare defend Trump say goodbye to your practice and income and make sure you always know where your kids are”.
Trump’s biggest failing is his inability to spot and hire talent and competence.
“You’re Hired!”
It’s like everything the Dems said about Trump and Russia is true in some way about the Dems and China.
The Biden administration quietly withdrew a rule proposed by the Trump administration that would have required American schools and universities to disclose their partnerships with Confucius Institutes, which some U.S. officials allege are front groups for Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
The Trump administration submitted a proposed rule to the Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 31, 2020, entitled “Establishing Requirement for Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certified Schools to Disclose Agreements with Confucius Institutes and Classrooms.”
Least surprising thing I’ll read all day.
What is most telling isn’t that they changed the rule, but how quickly they moved to change it, showing the importance they place in such things.
Why would anyone even care? And care enough to toss out the rulemaking process and move with such speed… Why?
Weird.
The lack of reporting just seems to confirm my personal beliefs. I’m surprised it wasn’t openly reported as some anti-Trump anti- Racist revelation.
I used to think most of the people shoveling the shit didn’t know what they were doing. This seems to affirm that they know exactly what they’re doing.
DipLoMatic Immmunitee
Tito Mboweni
@tito_mboweni
Increasingly, it seems to me, but maybe obvious, that our non-racial dream is not embraced by the majority of white South Africans. True or not? If true, what is the substitute of non-racialism? Philosophically and politically.
It’s a little hard to accept a non-racial dream when you’re subject to racially motivated assaults, robberies and murders on the regular.
How about reigning in the bloody mob?
“non-racialism” like “anti-racism” is just a euphemism for retaliatory racism
If you’re white and you haven’t left South Africa yet, you’re a fool. They’ve been signaling what they intend to do for quite a while now.
The sick thing is that SA appears to be a morningstar for the American woke movement. Whenever I hear rumblings about the country being built on the backs of slaves, I see SA agitprop shining through the facade.
The numbers don’t work out so well here. And ultimately, when South Africa goes full Mugabe or worse, they won’t work out there either.
No they don’t but they are already using dehumanizing language and seditious talk for their ideological opponents here. They are signaling the same shit here.
It’s super hard for people to leave their homes. I’ve talked to American SA immigrants about it and they basically just assume it’s only a matter of time but their is no convincing their parents.
“If you’re white and you haven’t left South Africa yet, you’re a fool.”
Unfortunately for a lot of the older people there isn’t much of an option. I know a number of South Afrikans who have emigrated to Australia (it was the easiest/cheapest option for them) – but it would cost them a king’s ransom to get their parents out. What one of them paid to get Australian permission for his wife to follow him was the equivalent of about US$80k.
Some of them are descended from people who’ve been there for 350 years. There’s also a sense of bloody-mindedness I think.
Legacy of Voortrekkers and British stiff upper lip.
“It’s just been revoked.”
Well at least it wasn’t a banker.
They could always cast the Jew as a pawnbroker.
I’m ready to admit that I don’t really know what word the “N word” is referring to.
Swiss left for a bit. I think you’re allowed to say “Nugger” around here again.
The only time I ever even think of it is when people lecture me on not using it.
Nitrates
Nie!
Naggers. Niggard. Idk.
You niggardly son-of-a-bitch. How dare you. How fucking dare you! I’ll cut you! I’ll cut you three ways! Deep, wide, and frequently!
Numbskull(s)
North
Nanu-nanu
Ah, at least you guys don’t have to put up with our resident Hobbit coming out of his hole, day in, day out and blatantly lying to his subjects. His dissimilation is spread by his bought and paid for Media but a few hours later some apparatchik goes on to basically say, “Yeah, Justin lied again…” Which part of that gets disseminated to the people?
Wait, what? I was drinking and, besides, those sheep are liars. There was a fire! A flood! I couldn’t get a taxi!
Uffda. Why won’t you rubes in the Dakotas listen to your betters?
Quite a story. All about how sure, the Dakotas might have gotten over the Fall spike in the Rona, but that is only a temporary reprieve if they don’t start listening to Public Health Officials and locking shit down.
Lots of scary stats, but each and every one of them are a percentage or per capita number. Why? Because if you used raw data you’d realize that even with the big spike, their numbers pale in comparison to other areas. The story compares the two Dakotas but failed to note that the same spike that hit this fall also hit WI, MN and Iowa, which all had the recommended lockdowns.
Fucking Sturgis. That is a dead horse that they will not stop beating.
Something, something, the curve looks the same on both sides of the peak.
I’m enjoying my trip to NoDak. Its nice to eat inside a restaurant like normal times. Even the -20F isn’t bad with the proper cold weather gear.
The politicization is obviously just being done by those who oppose lockdowns and mask mandates.
Governor DeSantis needs get back on TV for his regular scheduled “Florida is doing just fine you fucking nanny state assholes. Go back to New York and preach your death and fear there.”
Florida prioritized seniors on the vaccine rollout. NY went with a pile of race based criteria and hundred thousand and million dollar fines.
Who is doing fine with vaccination and who is crapping the bed? Yet who is getting negative coverage and who is enjoying the plaudits of a friendly press?
Florida is not doing so great on vaccine rollout at the moment I’m currently trying to get my 84 year old grandparents vaccinated and it’s been a fucking nightmare. The County health department is prioritizing the first responders and than they have nothing to do with the private rollout in publix and winn dixie both of which have the absolute worst system for seniors ie register online at portals at specific dates and times, no preregistration or call in lists. It’s ridiculous.
How about this howler?
No one knows how long immunity lasts. But it has been three months and we know all those rubes are going to get re-infected!
Greyhounds are such nice dogs – goofy, clumsy, couch potatoes, and yes, loving – but all those years in a kennel give them bad manners. I get jumped on if I put my jacket on – time for a walk?!?!!? And if you have any food in your hands and are sitting on the sofa, the dog will try to sit inches away from your face.
My mixed dachshund/terrier mutt does the same thing. He is about 4.. I think it goes with the age.
He brings me a toy and insists on playtime when I sit. He brings me his leash a few times a day. The kids have trained him to insist on food when we eat.
And… This one is relatively new… He demands to be scratched. He will gently push his nose under your hand, but if he doesn’t get what he wants he will prod harder and eventually escalate to barking at you.
Dude loves to have his ears scratched.
Yep, complete couch potato until I get the leash. Then I suddenly have a 70 lb jack russel.
Are there no less conspicuous ways to get rid of a body?
Chinese Fitness Model ” SONGYUXIN HITOMI ” Full Body Workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxuZrN9y-NQ
thicc?
DQ on ink. And the name sounds like Chinese-Korean-Japanese strung together. Deep fake?
I don’t see the problem.
FTA:
There goes my evening gig. This has been tried once before in the transcription business, using the IRS to classify workers. It sorta worked.
I was hoping the unions would do a little more than scream at Biden for taking away the Keystone pipeline, but I have no sympathy. He said he was going to do it. What did they expect?
In (undeserved) fairness to the unions, my default position is to disbelieve anything a politician says.
I disbelieve any promises they make that would benefit me, and believe their intent if it would hurt me.
Union bosses are politicians.
Union leadership is not the same as unions or rather the rank and file. They aren’t eating any less steak and lobster or missing cocktail parties because some of their members are getting the bum rush. Besides, those are declining industries. There are bigger fish to unionize.
Quite a story. All about how sure, the Dakotas might have gotten over the Fall spike in the Rona, but that is only a temporary reprieve if they don’t start listening to Public Health Officials and locking shit down.
I saw that yesterday. S/he/it leads off with several paragraphs of completely out-of-context and unsubstantiated claims about how completely decimated(!) the Dakotas have been by the snifflecootie plague. Not like that smart feller from New York, who knows how to shut down an economy and stop nature right in her dadgum tracks.
Based only on its reporting…. They did nothing and had one breif spike that was worse than anywhere else at that moment, but overall they have had lower rates than most. All while avoiding the problems of the lockdowns and all the economic consequences.
Sounds like a big win to me.
Since my son lives in Fargo, my wife watches the Rona stats there and she was freaking out this fall. I had to point out that when the report on deaths per million, that means the reported deaths are greater than the actual deaths because NoDak doesn’t even have a million people.
I liked the line about how SoDak was at one point the global leader in deaths! Yeah, sure. Travelers trying to cross it were dying in droves at rest stops along I-90.
They did this same dirty math trick in KY.
Here we use a number of + tests in the rolling 7 day average to determine what category your county falls under.
If it was greater than 25 per 100k, your county was essentially closed.
We have more counties with fewer than 10k than we do counties greater than 100k, and it basically meant that if 2.5 people tested positive per day, those counties are shut down.
TWO AND A HALF FUCKING PEOPLE.
I was hoping the unions would do a little more than scream at Biden for taking away the Keystone pipeline, but I have no sympathy. He said he was going to do it. What did they expect?
I want every single person who thinks Comrade Biden is any less of a narcissistic sociopath than Former President Cartoon Villain to die a painful lingering death. But that won’t happen.
I am pissy today about the lack of warm places to sit (and work) while I’m waiting for XX to do her internship hours. It’s not so bad when it’s 32F and sunny to sit in the car (I can stitch, but can’t work on my computer). It’s another thing entirely for it to be 2F, dreary, and windy to sit in the car. The library, where I used to go to set up shop and work, is closed except for curbside. I’m going to have to depend on the good nature of the Denny’s manager, because I am not making that round trip twice in 3 hours.
allow XX her own vehicle?
I would, if she could drive yet, but that’s a long story. Short version: She has a little bit of a sight issue with peripheral vision and we’ve been a little too preoccupied to spend enough practice time with her. Also, she’s a nervous driver (because of aforementioned sight issue).
get her into cross country skiing.
Granted this is a college town, but most of the Perkins, the McDonalds, Subway, etc. around here allow you to sit and study as long as you like provided it is not lunch or dinner rush.
Twice a week I take my youngest to volleyball. It’s 35 minutes away, and practice takes 2 hours. Seems like that whole town closes early. So I sit in the car and draw or nap, and I just turn the car on every so often to warm up.
They did nothing and had one breif spike that was worse than anywhere else at that moment, but overall they have had lower rates than most. All while avoiding the problems of the lockdowns and all the economic consequences.
And there were squeals of outrage when Governor Noem said in an interview Soth Dakota has gotten through this better than most states, because they refuse to recognize any of the ancillary costs associated with lockdowns and mask hysteria.
Governor Noem catches hell for the same reason Tulsi catches hell. They are afraid of her.
A populist ticket with those two on it would be a Juggernaut.
It would put the “jugs” in “juggernaut”.
I relish the chance to watch Tram Blue squirm as they were forced to call them women hating misogynists.
I’m going to have to depend on the good nature of the Denny’s manager, because I am not making that round trip twice in 3 hours.
Good luck. I have found places like that aren’t too bad about you hanging out, as long as you aren’t obviously a bum, aren’t bothering anybody, and there aren’t people waiting in line for a table.
BREAKING: Taylor Lorenz Is Retarded
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1359324639533563905
Everything is gamergate. It always has been
Absolutely. That article is perfect as well. Calling someone names in a comments section is “criminal harassment”, but doxing someone and working tirelessly to ensure that they cannot work is simply holding people accountable.
That is indeed the world today.
the replies are equally retarded. The wokie lefties are brain dead they truly are. Is that a form of ‘tarded?
Taylor Momsen is hot and she has great, er, pipes. Watch until 2:02 and learn. https://youtu.be/rHBxJCq99jA
oh my!
I’m shocked that the NYT’s, ummm, TikTok reporter is a fucking moron. Who could have seen that coming?
Not retarded. Woke. Much worse.
I’m ready to admit that I don’t really know what word the “N word” is referring to.
Nonessential, in conjunction with government spending.
The naggers won’t stand for it.
Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO that spent millions to get Biden elected, excoriated the new president’s climate policies this past weekend for erasing thousands of well-paying union jobs with the shutdown of the Keystone pipeline from Canada.
Gas prices, which hit the working class hard, are showing signs of creeping up.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office warned Monday that the Democrats’ plan to impose the $15-an-hour minimum wage would cost 1.4 million jobs, adding to an already uncomfortably high unemployment level.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
It’s that racist orang hitler’s fault! Putin’s puppet planned this all along!
-Some asshole on CNN
Maybe Trumka shouldn’t be in that position if he didn’t see that coming.
He. Doesn’t. Care.
He knows the future of unions isn’t with people who get their hands dirty for a living. He is concerned with the union as an institution, not the union members. The union as an institution “needs” strong political support as it colonizes pubsec workers. Those are the future. What’s a few pipeline workers, who probably voted for the wrong side anyway, when you are leaving that market and moving into a bigger more lucrative one?
His problem isn’t taking care of his traditional consitutuents. Its convincing them he’s trying, while he’s fucking them over for the good of Union, Inc.
Mornin’ Banjos! I first read that as “U.S. badger deficit soars”. Badgers are cool critters. Moar badgers, please!
Badgers are cool critters… but the wolverine is the very definition of badass which punches way above its weight.
The Inuit tell a story about a wolverine which was challenging a polar bear for its kill. After the polar bear got a hold of the wolverine, the wolverine was tearing the bear up something fierce – so the bruin hugged the much smaller animal to its chest to crush it to death. The wolverine dug into the bear’s chest and tore out its heart.
I grew up with fables like that but so much crazy shit goes on North of 60 that I wouldn’t discount the tale out of hand. I spent years in the bush and saw one wolverine. Once.
Here’s another little
nugget of wisdomhighly polished turd from political soothsayer Damon Linker at the Week:Now don’t get me wrong: The danger hasn’t passed. Trump was a symptom of a disease that goes far beyond him, even if he personally made things incalculably worse. The stress test of his presidency pushed American democracy to the brink. We have no way of knowing if we’ll continue to back away from the edge over the coming months and years, or end up rushing back to it with the next election or following a traumatic event we can’t begin to contemplate or predict.
I suppose he deserves some small acknowledgement for being able to recognize the fact that Trump is a symptom, and not the disease.
But his recognition of this only matters insofar as it allows him to brand the deplorable counterrevolutionary half (if not more) of the population as Enemies of the People and traitors to DEMOCRACY. Dissent is nothing less than treason.
Sometimes I fear there can be no return to peaceful coexistence. Eventually there will be nothing left to lose.
Trump was a symptom of a disease that goes far beyond him,
This is exactly the kind of language you use to dehumanize your political opposition. These people hate us, and want us broken. Dead, if necessary, but broken is preferred.
“NEW >> @CDCgov partners with @AdCouncil + @WarnerMedia for a new ad where Harry Potter, Wonder Woman, the hobbits, and others urge Americans to mask up and slow the spread. Critical message, especially as we face down variants.”
https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1359508726282149889
Stupidest PSA ever.
A head of its time?
Dammit. I misplaced my vegetable peeler.
I don’t want to use a paring knife on all these veggies.
To clarify, as per my comment last night, the veggies to make borscht arrived, and I’m supposed to peel the beets, potatos, and carrots. But I think I can leave
Looks like you succeeded. 🙂
Work meetings 🙁 They interrupt my thoughts.
” I misplaced my vegetable peeler.”
They manufacture them that way on purpose.
vegetable peelers are the socks of kitchen utensils.
I’m gonna have to circle back.
The question from NBC News’s Kristen Welker comes as Democrats have launched a second impeachment against Trump claiming that he incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6.
“Let me ask you, as millions of people tune in to watch this trial presumably throughout the week, they’re going to see the former president’s lawyers argue based on the briefs that they have filed that some Democrats have used incendiary rhetoric,” Welker said. “They are going to point to Representative Maxine Waters, for example, who in 2018 called on supporters at a rally to confront and at one point harass Trump officials over their support of the child separation policy, the zero tolerance policy. That’s something that Cedric Richmond said she had a constitutional right to express those views, so how does the White House view that as any different?”
“Look, Joe Biden is the president. He’s not a pundit,” Psaki responded. “He’s not going to opine on the back and forth arguments, nor is he watching them that are taking place in the Senate.”
Unity and healing ain’t gonna promote itself.
Have you ever argued with a crazy ex-girlfriend? This is just like that. Walk away.
Just don’t circle back while you’re walking.
That would interfere with his scheduled nap times.
Healing won’t start until they’re done cutting and that might take a while.
“Look, Joe Biden is the president. He’s not a pundit,” Psaki responded.
He’s only the president, not some wise pundit.
so how does the White House view that as any different
“Its different when we do it. Duh.”
https://coinmarketcap.com/
Reading through some of these currency’s descriptions is like reading shitty resumes. Who is buying this junk?
Speculators? Hedge funds? Reddit hordes?
You know it’s cold when you can see steam rising off water that’s probably about 32.7 degrees.
-44 American with the wind chill. Gonna eat some perogies and sausage and hit the hay. God Speed, fellow Glibs!
as millions of people tune in to watch this trial
Stop it. You’re killing me.
I’m not! /guy in the back of the room
Barf.
https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1359508726282149889
Yay! Stoopid is as stupid does.
Count Potato did it better.
Losing to a potato hurts.
Creepy.
It is said sometimes that you’re supposed to take one red pill not the whole bottle, but we need to work on a pithy way of inverting that. This is what happens when you take the whole bottle of blue pills.
Random bitch: I hate it when a service or app updates their email/notification paradigm and decides that I want to be subscribed to all their BS again. No, LinkedIn, I didn’t change my mind about only wanting to receive notifications for connection requests. I don’t want a daily digest. I don’t want event updates. I don’t want your newsletter. I want you to email me when somebody connects with me. Nothing more.
/rant
The “unsubscribe” link on emails seems to be turning into the equivalent of the “close door” button on elevators. It doesn’t do a damn thing, but I guess its supposed to make you feel better. I’ve unsubsribed from multiple email lists that I still get crap from. I’ve noticed some of them are now saying it may take a week for you request to go into effect. Which is utter bullshit, its all electronic, it can and should be instantaneous.
from a technical standpoint, it can be. I managed a listserv long enough to learn a thing or two.
You have to write special programming to delay processing. (assuming you’re not simply discarding the requests) If we start with the assumption that they are in fact processing the requests then the unsubscribe requests are probably getting stored in a database to feed a batch job that gets run once a week. If the page simply sent the request to the listserv, it would be real-time.
I get it from the sense that sometimes they queue up email campaigns in a scheduler, so the recipient list is what it was when the email was dropped in the scheduler. It’s something that could be fixed fairly easily, but especially for smaller companies, probably not cost effective to do so.
That said, the whole not respecting unsubcribe and/or changes to subscription preferences has moved me to a different model. I don’t use my primary email address to sign up for things anymore. I generate a masking address via Abine Blur, and then I shut it off if they don’t respect the preferences I set.
I also get to see who sells my information and shut all that BS down, too.
You assume competence in the people building the systems and scheduling the mailings. I get more annoyed when I flag something that’s an obvious spam message in Gmail, and it prompts me, “Do you want to unsubscribe as well?” No! No, I don’t want to tell them that this is a valid e-mail that someone checks.
You have to go out of your way to change the system from real-time to delayed unsubscribe.
At least with all of the prudicts I’ve supported.
I vaguely recall having issues with MailChimp where unsubs wouldn’t apply to already scheduled messages. I remember having to fix that by hand once or twice.
Granted this was almost 5 years ago.
We didn’t use that one.
Our ‘scheduler’ was Outlook’s “delay delivery” option. The person authorized to post to the list would schedule the delivery on their desktop, so the listserv only got it when it was time to start sending the emails.
Probably because it was easier to train the users to do it that way.
Union leadership is not the same as unions or rather the rank and file. They aren’t eating any less steak and lobster or missing cocktail parties because some of their members are getting the bum rush. Besides, those are declining industries. There are bigger fish to unionize.
It must be comforting to know your “leadership” is shovelling your dues money to the guy you are voting against.
“We got the final results from the last outstanding House race on Monday, with former congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R) returning to Congress after defeating Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D) in New York by 109 votes. The result means the House stands at 222 to 213 in favor of the Democrats. (These numbers include three vacancies for which the seats are very unlikely to change hands.)
The Democrats’ narrow retention of the House is surely one of the biggest surprises of 2020. In an election in which most analysts expected the Democrats to gain seats, they wound up losing 14, including virtually all of the “toss-ups.” While the GOP lost the presidential race and control of the Senate, we very nearly had a much different outcome.
While Democrat Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than four points and the electoral college 306 to 232, the result was much closer to flipping than that would suggest. Biden won the three decisive states — Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin — by 0.6 percentage points or less, which was similar to Trump’s 2016 victory. If you flip fewer than 43,000 votes across those three states, the electoral college is tied 269 to 269. In that case, Trump would probably have won, given that the race would be decided by one vote for each House delegation, of which Republicans control more.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/09/republicans-came-within-90000-votes-controlling-all-washington/
BiDEN HAS A MANDATE!!! /derp
Strange. Maybe we should look into these anomalies?
I tend to think in the “big picture” history terms: any over/unders on how long we go before something like a low to mid-level civil war flares up? Or will we see something like a slow decline; ala the Roman Empire toward the end of its life? ie a slow and painful decline with spasms of violence? Because it sure feels like we are headed toward something bad but I don’t see the rage on the right side of the political divide that I expected.
My thoughts on the topic will be posting in a few days. tl;dr: a few months of calm followed by the left over playing their hand and sparking renewed tensions. Does that end in violence? It’s all about the economy. People still have too much to lose right now. Toss in some stagflation and high unemployment and there will be pissed off trumpalos with an oppression complex.
It’s hard to hear or see the rage when the cameras are only turned one way and only one side has the microphone.
Our enemy wants a violent reaction. It would allow them to further justify turning the apparatus of state violence inward. You should never let your enemy choose the battlefield or set the terms of the fight. The era of American empire is waning and post-war consensus managerial liberalism has been completely spent. What comes next will not be recognizable to the “Greatest Generation” whose asses were cynically kissed right before they died off, but it will not be the same as the collapse of the Roman Empire, either.
Good old politifact, where would we be without them?
The night before the Senate began the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Newsmax TV host Greg Kelly falsely claimed that only one person died Jan. 6 during the U.S. Capitol riot at the center of the push to convict Trump.
“They’ve been lying about so much, including, by the way, that five people died on Jan. 6, 2021,” Kelly said Feb. 8. “It’s not true. Only one person died on that day. You know who it was? The unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt. Unarmed woman shot and killed by Capitol Police.”
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Our ruling
Kelly said, “It’s not true (that five people died on Jan. 6). Only one person died on that day. You know who it was? The unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt.”
That’s inaccurate. Four people died at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, died the following day after he was injured in the violence.
We rate Kelly’s statement False.
At the Capitol riot? How oddly nonspecific.
And, of course, I am compelled to assume the wizards at Politifact edited Kelly to remove context. Because that’s how these things work.
5 may have died but only one by homicide. Context, how does it work?
Speaking of blue pills…
So they had heart attacks? No details, no names, just take our word for it.
If she hadn’t been shot then, would you just guillotine her now?
Anyone else play World of Warships? /crickets
One of the few games where I can play at 8:30 in the morning and there are (old) people on the servers
The only multiplayer game I play is MechWarrior.
I logged back into the other WoW last week. It’s amazing how the muscle memory never goes away. I haven’t decided if I’m going to drop the big bucks on the new x-pac yet. It would be fun to run dungeons and maybe PUG it up every now and then when I’ve got time. But, time isn’t something I have a lot of outside work.
It’s still tempting. Virtual worlds where everything is black and white. You’re just one click away from killing the big bad, no one can truly die and the lootz just keep falling out of the pinatas.
Just checked the Steam library and I don’t have it. I have been playing some Magic the Gathering: Arena as a time waster. Free to play, but of course they’ll sell you card packs and cosmetics. I threw $5 at the welcome package, and have been using winnings to keep rolling that purchase forward.
I logged about 6000 hours of EU 4 during the pandemic.
Thank god this guy saw through these fucker’s real plan!
I guarantee you his claims won’t be censored on Twitter.
Pepe lives?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ReaICosy/status/1359305291767103489
Tried to start watching the second Penny Dreadful series based in1938 LA.
God-awful horrible. Every other white person is a racist, anti-Semitic Nazi caricature. Obviously written by wokesters.
It’s possible to incorporate the racist trends of the era without it being so over the top as to be ridiculous, but current writers can’t seem to pull it off.
I had to stop watching the 1st series when they wouldn’t stop with the gay sex all of the time. What a waste of a genre, great cast and budget.
So many aspects of my life are ruined by constant gay sex.
I heard a *boing* in there somewhere.
IDGAF about gay sex (pun intended.) I just don’t want to watch it. If dudes on dudes is your thing, have it. But my eyes have better things to do.
Also, I wonder if people with different sexual preferences get that absolute revolting feeling when they see their non-preference visually happening or is it more of just a “meh.”
I don’t much care for sex scenes in general. They almost never add anything to the actual story, and are mainly just shoehorned in to appeal to the lowest common denominator horndogs. In the era of ample free internet porn, it seems superfluous.
Internet porn is still declassé. Bring it up in most company and you’re immediately branded a weirdo. Whereas, you could talk about what happened on Game of Thrones the night before around the water cooler.
I’ve never heard anybody bring up the GoT sex scenes around the water cooler. Or if they did, it went over my head since I didn’t watch the show.
Disagree.
Porn is for a quick wank. TV does it much better.
It’s meh. Watching straight sex is just boring, not disgusting. Unfortunately they’ve now decided to mix in important stuff while sex is going on, which means you have to watch it to follow the story.
Just half a generation ago, most people grew up around racism and knew how it actually worked and saw the racists as flawed human beings, often because they were friends or family members. It was a repugnant set of views but it didn’t necessarily define a person.
Now, no one in media has met an actual old-timey racist, they know only caricatures they see on TV or the Internet. Whether it be a “news” freak show presentation (Come See the Amazing
Elephant ManBearded WomanShortest MidgetNeo-Confederate White Supremacist Nazi!) or just other pieces of fiction one-upping each other into further absurdity, their experience of white racists is only self-gratifying and shallow.The goal is not to portray something realistic or truthful anymore, it is to reinforce an archetype and avoid calling into question acceptable prejudices. One might even observe that this is how the “respectable” racism of say the 1920s was created and reinforced, but drawing such parallels would be uncomfortable to The People Who Matter.
I very carefully skirted race in my Prohibition novel.
I will never write a Civil War novel, plus I don’t like that era.
A waste of Natalie Dormer’s talents.
The $100 of Bitcoin I bought way back at the beginning is now worth $2000.
I am such an idiot. If I had just bought a real amount I would be rich right now.
I don’t want to talk about it…
I’m not normally one to complain about a little windfall but this one stings a little.
*wistfully remembers contemplating $250 bitcoin purchase in Fall 2011 ($1.2M-ish at today’s prices) and deciding that it wasn’t worth wasting the money*
*wistfully remembers queuing up a $500 purchase of bitcoin at $10k in mid-2019 ($2200-ish at today’s prices) and deciding I needed the cash before hitting the final buy button*
*wistfully remembers trying to buy Bitcoin at $18 and getting nowhere with setting up an account at Mt Gox.*
But we all know how that turned out.
I had about $150 in Bitcoin that Mr. Mojeaux won. I’m predicting it hits $60k by summer, so I’mma let it ride.
Right there with ya. Then I think: What are the chances I would have held it until now? Slim and none. Sure I still would have made some money, but I would have cashed out years ago and spent the proceeds on a Mustang or Harley. Then I would have crashed and died. So I guess this timeline is better…
Yep! I do that too! I KNOW I would have bailed way early.
I’ve been buying a bunch of LTC. So far… it’s been good to me.
In the beginning beginning $100 worth of Bitcoin would now be worth almost a billion dollars.
Re: the book curtain background…
My pastor is a serious history geek and bibliophile, and his desk is in his library with a wall of real books behind him. He’s kindof a luddite, so when he started having to do video calls for some Session (or other) meetings, he didn’t really get the whole “think about the background” thing. By far the most strikingly noticeable thing behind him was a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, huge and black with a red band and black/white hakenkreuz on it.
Just a quick test – wanted to see how the new avatar pic works 🙂
Looks good on my end.
Thumbnail is a bit small, but I think it comes across – Warning: Florida Man